Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom talks about her life in theater and film, and working with legends like Vivien Leigh, Julie Harris, Yul Brynner, Rod Steiger, Charlton Heston, Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, George C. Scott, and Sylvester Stallone. Charlie Chaplin cast Bloom as the emotionally crippled ballerina in "Limelight" when she was just 18. She has since starred on stage as Juliet, Cordelia, Ophelia, and most of the other great Shakespeare heroines, as well as in "The Trojan Women," "Hedda Gabler," "A Doll’s House," and "A Streetcar Named Desire." She’s been in such classic films as "Richard III," "Alexander the Great," "Look Back in Anger," "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," and she played Queen Mary in the this year’s, "The King’s Speech."

Actress Claire Bloom shares some of what she's been reading and watching recently after a recent appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show.

April 10, 1957 —

Listen to a young Claire Bloom reading from a selection of letters by Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë in "The Brontë Sisters," a 1957 program submitted for consideration to the Peabody Awards.

This week we 1) expose the myth of the tambourine man, 2) question the viability of veganism when you're eating from a dumpster, 3) encourage marriages to dissolve and, 4) once and for all, explain Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Our first show of the year 2003 CE will change ...