Diana Quick
Diana Quick reflects on an actor's role as a storyteller and describes the voice as the most essential instrument.
The actress Diana Quick sees actors as story-tellers, and reflects on how the voice is the most essential of instruments.
Diana Quick was the first woman president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. She is perhaps best known for her role as Julia Flyte in the television production of Brideshead Revisited. Stage credits include: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company), Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre), and Mother Courage & Her Children (Royal Court). She has one daughter with actor Bill Nighy; the actress Mary Nighy. Her autobiography A Tug On The Thread is published by Virago.
Series produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
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- Mon 21 Jun 201023:00BBC Radio 3
- Mon 23 May 201122:45BBC Radio 3
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