Episode 4: Pink Clouds

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Elizabeth Taylor received her second Oscar, playing the hard-drinking, blousy, abusive Martha opposite her real-life husband Richard Burton’s George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Years later, after an intervention by her family, Taylor would become the first A-list celebrity publicly to enter rehab. TV and radio presenter (and I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here participant) Iain Lee shares his own relationship to fame and to addiction. With extracts from a 1985 Channel Four interview with the late Mavis Nicholson, in which Taylor revealed details of her time in the Betty Ford Center, and a contribution from Ellis Cashmore, author of ‘Elizabeth Taylor, a Private Life for Public Consumption'. With Louise Gallagher. Produced by Alan Hall with music by Jeremy Warmsley. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four.