Radio: Chris Campling

Radio 4 is welcoming yet more professional people to talk about themselves — this time TV stars of yesteryear

Actors’ tales

One hesitates to be self-referential, but the other week I wrote about politicians and their desire to have the minutiae of their lives, however dull, captured for posterity. And this week another bout of full-on solipsism begins.

Nothing wrong with that, don’t get me wrong, nobody was a greater fan than I of Hillary Clinton’s recent readings, in her own personal voice, of her own personal memoirs. And anyway, anyone who employs the personal pronoun singular as much as I do (see, there I go again — and again) can hardly complain.

It’s just that this time it is actors, and you may be forgiven for thinking that if there is anything more guaranteed to turn out the attention lights than politicians talking

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