This work features a series of interviews by the renowned theatre and film director originally commissioned by the BBC and broadcast as part of their 'Millenium project'. Richard Eyre talks to forty of the 20th century's most important and celebrated practitioners of the performing arts. The interviewees include Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller and Alan Bennett; Cameron Mackintosh, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.