Imagine...

BBC1, 10.40pm

Miriam Margolyes (right) may be best known now for the Harry Potter films and Call The Midwife, but at the age of 80 she can look back on a rich life and career stretching over more than half a century.

With the publication of her memoir This Much Is True, Alan Yentob conducts an in-depth interview. Margolyes gives vent to her humour and eyebrow-raising capacity for filthy asides, but also shares incredible showbiz anecdotes and opens up with touching honesty about her family roots.

Among the fellow actors voicing their admiration is Richard E. Grant, her co-star in Martin Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence, who quips: ‘I think her volume button fell off at birth. She is like a five-year-old masquerading as an octogenarian.’ Stellar friends Charles Dance, Eileen Atkins and Patricia Hodge also pay tribute in person. )))))