Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave appears in the following:

Vanessa Redgrave on Last Train to Paris

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Vanessa Redgrave on performing a reading of selections from the novel Last Train to Paris. She's joined by the novel's author, Michele Zackheim, and by jazz composer Jimmy Owens.

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Jemma and Vanessa Redgrave

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Jemma Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave discuss their theatrical family and their current roles—Jemma stars in “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” which explores, in three parts, the culture and history of Afghanistan since Western involvement in 1842 to the present day. It’s playing at NYU's Skirball Center through December 19. Vanessa Redgrave stars in “Driving Miss Daisy,” which tells the story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur. It’s playing at Golden Theatre through January 29.

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Vanessa Redgrave on Tony Richardson

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Vanessa Redgrave talks about the life and work of her late husband, filmmaker Tony Richardson. He helped to revolutionize film in 1960s Britain by his work with Woodfall Film Productions. Redgrave will be introducing a screening of Richardson's film The Charge of the Light Brigade as part of the Film ...

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Iraq's Health Care Meltdown

Thursday, July 12, 2007

In Iraq's hospitals, there are not enough medicines to go around, and some patients have even been murdered in their beds. On today's Underreported: how Iraq's health care system is coping with the victims of daily violence there. Then, Vanessa Redgrave talks about the life and work of her late ...

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The Year of Magical Thinking

Thursday, May 17, 2007

In late December, 2003 Joan Didion’s life turned upside down. Her only daughter had unexpectedly fallen into a coma after what seemed like the flu turned into a bad case of pneumonia with serious complications. Then, after returning from the hospital, Joan’s husband of four decades suffered a fatal heart ...

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Love, Dependence, and Loss

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave tell us about bringing Joan Didion's award-winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking to Broadway. Then, on our first Underreported, we examine a new report that claims the US government is illegally delaying the naturalization of Muslim immigrants. And on the second Underreported, we visit ...

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Endangered Environments

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Ted Smith, the founder and senior strategist of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, looks at some of the most harmful things we throw away. Then, Tim Gallagher tells us about his recent sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker, which had long been considered extinct. Next, Paris Review editor Elizabeth Gaffney describes ...

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