Danny Dyer says Harold Pinter’s death sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

Danny Dyer was a favourite actor of Harold Pinter, starring in one of his later plays, Celebration. Photograph: BBC Studios Audio/PA

The actor Danny Dyer said the death of his mentor, the Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, triggered a “spiral of madness” in his life.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Dyer reflected on how he had stayed at Pinter’s home while performing in his play Celebration. The play opened at London’s Almeida theatre in 2000, before transferring to the Lincoln Center in New York.