Episode 3
Eleanor Bron reads from Michael Holroyd's biography of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. After a triumphant tour of the United States, Henry's relationship with Ellen deepened.
Eleanor Bron reads from Michael Holroyd's biography of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, two greats of the Victorian stage.
Irving's blood-and-thunder melodramas and versions of Shakespeare proved huge hits at the Lyceum Theatre. After a triumphant tour of the United States, his relationship with Ellen deepened and a romance was rumoured. But the course of their relationship was to change with the death of the father of Ellen's two illegitimate children.
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- Thu 18 Sep 200800:30BBC Radio 4
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