Archive on 4: Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre , BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4: Richard Eyre enjoys telling the story about when he wrote to Joan Littlewood about staging Oh What a Lovely War at the National Theatre. In her reply, the left-wing theatre director and founder of Theatre Workshop said she had no idea what he was doing in "that building", and her advice was to "blow it up". Read the full review