Murder she wrote - The life of Angela Lansbury

Recorded in 2013, celebrate the seven-decade long stage and screen career of the remarkable actor (R)

The late Angela Lansbury has taken on a wildly diverse range of roles since she began working as an actor more than 70 years ago.

She played the conniving cockney maid in Gaslight, and a terrifying spy in The Manchurian Candidate.

She was the voice of the singing teapot in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

For many years Angela played a detective novelist in TV series Murder She Wrote.

When she was in Australia to perform the lead in a stage production of Driving Miss Daisy in 2013, Angela opened up to Richard about her childhood in pre-war London, coming to America, and her starring roles in Broadway musicals.

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Further information

Angela Lansbury died in October 2022, aged 96

Originally broadcast in February 2013

Presenter: Richard Fidler

Producer: Michelle Ransom-Hughes

Executive Producer: Carmel Rooney