1963: Vanessa Redgrave on why she acts
Actress Vanessa Redgrave said that acting for her is "sharing an experience with other people" in a 1963 interview with BBC show The Public Ear.
The daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and stage star, Rachel Kempson, she began attracting attention after joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961.
After rising to prominence as a Shakespearean heroine, she was soon seen as one the fresh-faced icons of the 1960s.
Redgrave said she found it very difficult to talk about or analyse her work and hated talking about acting except with other theatre people. She felt her relationship was with an audience and that the greatest reward was the feeling that she had shared something with another person.
In 1963, The Public Ear became the show young people would tune into to understand the rapid changes in music, film, fashion and culture that the UK was experiencing.
Listen to James Peak and Joan Bakewell talk about some incredible The Public Ear archive in the Radio 4 show A Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties.
