Witness History
Witness History
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
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24 April 2020
9 minutes
Available for over a year
The great American playwright gave several interviews to the BBC over the years and some of them provide revealing insights into his personal life. He spoke about loneliness, mental illness and even touched on his own homosexuality at a time when very few people were open about those things in public. Vincent Dowd has been delving through the BBC archive.
Photo: Tennessee Williams in London in 1965. Credit: Getty Images