Glenda, RIP
RIPThe outstanding English actor and politician Glenda Jackson died today after a short illness, aged 87.
As our MP, she was the best kind of politician – approachable and sympathetic even when one held opposing views.
Often raising her voice in cultural affairs, her only known musical role was as Tchaikovsky’s unfortunate wife, opposite Richard Chamberlain, in Ken Russell’s awful 1970 composer biopic, The Music Lovers (screenplay by Melvyn Bragg).
More will remember her indelibly in Peter Brooks’s Marat/Sade.
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