Eleanor Roosevelt was much more than just the wife of the US president – she was a campaigner, activist and politician in her own right, who went on to work for the UN after her husband’s death.

Now her amazing story – from an unhappy childhood to becoming, as President Truman described her, ‘The First Lady of the World – is being brought to the stage in Clapham.

Alison Skilbeck’s award-nominated one-woman play Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London will be performed at Omnibus on April 7.

Skilbeck - an associate teacher at Rada and a former castmember of The Archers and an in-demand actor – was granted special permission to use Roosevelt’s diary and writings for the show recalls her journey from bomb-damaged Buckingham Palace on a dangerous war-time visit to her final days around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and her life from unhappy child to unconventional wife.

Tickets cost £12 or £10 concessions. Go to omnibus-clapham.org

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