on Marr - she has become incredibly infuriating in her old age.

There always was that annoying obstinate streak in her - read 65 My Life So Far for my story about her.

Driving Miss Daisy? I suspect Andrew Marr wanted to call it Driving Me Crazy.

I would've loved to have been there in the 1970s when she kept invading Frankie Howerd's dressing room at the Palladium trying to get him to sign up to the Workers' Revolutionary Party. 'Leave me alone, dear!' She's always been potty. Good actor, but potty.

I'll look forward to this on iplayer.

I always liked her brother Corin because he was always playing right-wing Tory type establishment figures and was a Trotskyite !

In my numerous 'brushes with fame'..I once saw the wonderful Sir Michael Redgrave in a restaurant run by a photographer called Allen Warren (who I think was his pal).

It was the saddest sight as he was at the next table and suffering from that awful Parkinson's disease. The food kept dropping out of his mouth and his hands shook and he would drop his knife and fork.

wonderful family.