I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.