Richard Eyre: ‘My biggest disappointment? At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve’

The director on his wife’s illness, the worst thing anyone’s said about him and the age he imagines himself to beBorn in Devon, Richard Eyre, 82, was educated at the University of Cambridge and became an actor. Between 1987 and 1999 he was artistic director of the National Theatr...