
Watch out for
Sir Derek Jacobi, reader of the Silksoundbooks classic audiobook
Frankenstein, in the BBC Four production
Margot on Monday evening.
Margot is a drama based on the life of ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn. At the beginning of the 1960s, Fonteyn faces retirement as a prima ballerina until the much younger
Rudolf Nureyev arrives on the scene to transform Margot's professional and personal life in a partnership celebrated around the world.
Sir Derek plays choreographer Frederic Ashton and actually met Fonteyn and Nureyev on several occasions.
'One night I’d seen them performing and I was invited backstage afterwards, there were four or five flunkeys with trays of champagne, Margot and Rudi were taking their bows and the audience was going mad.' he said.
If you are more of a horror fan than a ballet lover, Sir Derek's mesmerising reading of the
Mary Shelley classic
Frankenstein is available only from silksoundbooks.com