One of our finest and most intelligent actresses, Diana Quick has always been drawn to strong, exotic characters and her compulsively readable memoir explains why. Remembering her dying grandfather’s command to ‘marry a pure-blooded Englishman’, she decided to trace her roots, and A Tug on the Thread is the result. Listen as she unpeels the secrets of her family history in 19th century India and shows how they shaped her own life as a student at Oxford, favourite of Vogue, and her star role as Julia in the classic TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited for which she was nominated Bafta and Emmy awards.

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