Lady Antonia Fraser Remembers - The Birthday Party

BBC Four HD

10:00 PM to 10:10 PM

Sunday 9 August

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It was at a 1975 production of his play The Birthday Party that Harold Pinter first met Antonia Fraser, and changed both their lives with the single phrase 'Must you go?'. What followed was a scandal that gripped London's high society, and a marriage that lasted 28 years, until Pinter's death in 2008. in this programme, explains how that original encounter has always meant that the play holds a special meaning for her, despite its unsettling nature, and she looks back fondly on the BBC's 1987 acclaimed adaptation of The Birthday Party, and her husband's performance as mysteriously menacing Goldberg