Antonia Fraser: "Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter" (Doubleday)
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-11-04/antonia-fraser-must-you-go-my-life-harold-pinter-doubleday
Diane talks with Lady Antonia Fraser about her memoir of living and loving through adversity. The best-selling historian recounts her three decades with playwright Harold Pinter -- media hysteria surrounding their affair, his famous temper, and his long struggle with cancer.
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Antonia Fraser
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Have many of her books, re-read and refer to them often. Question: What is the correct pronunciation of Boudicca? Thank you.
We have a mutual friend, Michael Campbell-Johnston. I read that he performed your wedding ceremony. Have you seen him lately now that he is back in England?
Your book on Mary Queen of Scots was my favorite biography of all time - I must have read that over 30 years ago, and I can still remember parts of it.
I have tremendous respect for Lady Fraser's and Harold Pinter's gifts, accomplishments and care for each other in his final days. However I was taken aback by how their first meeting was viewed as a celebration by her and Diane, a meeting that led to the dissolution of two marriages. Are we wrong to view it as a scandal? How would she respond if any of their married children began such a relationship?
I wanted to ask Lady Antonia (one of my uncles was a contemporary at Eton with her father) what she remembers now, and what she feels now about he father, Lord Longford's , support and involvement in the Myra Hindley case. Incidently Lady Antonia sounds just like one of my aunts, am amazing likeness.