Under the skin of Thomas Becket

Robert Speaight as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons

This Thomas Becket anniversary year (it is 850 years since his martyrdom) is a good moment to remember the Catholic actor who so successfully created the key role in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Robert Speaight

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