Philip Ziegler at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013

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Biographer and historian Philip Ziegler has turned his eye from kings and prime ministers to the king of theatre, Laurence Olivier...

"I've always been stage-struck" Philip Ziegler told us when we spoke to him today about all things Larry. Yet writing this book has been a challenge like no other, since even by the admission of Olivier's own friends, he was a hard man to truly know...

 

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