The private terrors experienced by the late Sir John Gielgud before homosexuality was decriminalised are laid bare in intimate letters to a long-standing lover that are made public here for the first ...

We know what Sir John Gielgud was like as an actor, with all that expressive clarity and laid-back elegance, but what went on in his head? Biographers such as Jonathan Croall and Sheridan Morley have ...