Acting strangely : a funny kind of life

In Acting Strangely, Martin Jarvis -- the genial stage, television, and radio actor -- assumes many different guises and voices as we follow the humorous, though sometimes harrowing, twists and turns of a highly successful career.

Jarvis populates his tales with amusing and deft portraits of fellow actors such as Sir John Gielgud, Dame Judi Dench, and Leonardo DiCaprio, plus many acclaimed directors.

He relates how he nearly lost his precious voice to illness, and he tells us what working in Hollywood can be like, recounting strange adventures on and off the set of director James Cameron's Titanic.