Sue Lawley's guest this week is Ralph Fiennes. His first Hollywood film role was as the Nazi concentration camp leader in Schindler's List, a part which, he says, had a profoundly disturbing effect on him. His latest project, playing the jaded hero Onegin, is the culmination of a long held desire to bring Pushkin's novel to the big screen.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Pen and limited supplies of ink and paper
Published on Sunday, 31st October 1999.
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