Audio Interview with Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Alec Guinness, British stage and screen actor, talks with Don Swaim during this 1986 interview about Guinness's autobiography, Blessings in Disguise. Guinness also discusses his lifelong search for his father, his naval career, his friendship with Ernest Hemingway and some of the writers that influenced him. Guinness has starred in movies such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.