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2. Drama School

Episode 2 of 8

Remembering school days with a Nazi and training for the stage at aged 16. Peter Ustinov reads his autobiography.

"I had a choice", said my parents, who couldn't afford either, "between St Paul's and Westminster Schools".

School days with the son of a Nazi politician, a first proper taste of treading the boards at drama school and meeting his first girlfriend, Isolde.

Multitalented writer, director, actor and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, Sir Peter Ustinov CBE continues his autobiography

Abridged by Jack Singleton.

Producer Rosemary Hart

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1978.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Apr 202101:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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