Read morePeople who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
Read moreAlso, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
Read moreAnd, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
Read moreI need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it’s what I do.
Read moreI know the crew so well, so I forget I’m being filmed. It’s like cooking with a friend in the kitchen – you’re talking, as you do, and maybe you’re telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops – it’s more natural, more honest.
Read moreIn fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don’t know if I’d like to make myself worse in that respect.