Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1994, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is an actress. She was born and brought up in Sweden where she developed

from a podge child into a beautiful teenager. Lured away by a Hollywood contract, her life swept

along in a show business whirlwind. After a ten-day romance, she married Peter Sellers.

She had a passionate affair with Rod Stewart,

and she enjoyed the company of the rich and famous on both sides of the Atlantic.

In between, she made several films, very few of which have stood the test of time.

Now 51, she lives with her small son in London and in Stockholm.

She's written a novel, and last Christmas she appeared in pantomime.

She looks forward, she says, to what happens next.

She is Britt Eklund.

You're obviously very resilient, Britt. I mean someone less strong might have gone under in the face of so many personal

disappointments. I never see myself as going under. But where do you get the

strength from? I mean you're obviously a very determined, very positive person, aren't you?

I think it's inherited.

I got it from my mother.

And also if you have children and you are more or less a single mother then you have to find a strength.

And you found the strength on the whole to fend for them as well because you've always worked to try and keep them.

Oh yes always. Although you've always worked to try and keep them, haven't you? Oh yes, always.

Although you've had some generous liaisons. I've had some very wealthy liaisons, shall

we say, generous, I'm not so sure. I'm never really profited from my liaisons, except for my

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