Emily Watson

OK.

I like to jabber away and talk to people.

And, you know, that's sort of very feeding for me.

I'll probably give myself food poisoning pretty quickly.

I think I'm pretty rubbish.

No, no.

I cook a lot because, you know, you just do because of life.

But I'm very sad that my daughter describes her boyfriend's mum as a really good cook, which is always a bit of a hammer blow.

Oh, something balmy, breezy, warm seas, sort of Hawaiian, maybe.

Now you're talking.

That sounds better.

OK, so this is...

a piece by the Citizens of the World Choir, which is a choir that I am a patron of.

And when my kids were young, I had a music teacher who used to come to the house.

And when the Dubs Amendment failed to pass in Parliament, which was an attempt to bring unaccompanied minors into this country, refugees, she'd been working with Lord Roberts and...

He said, let's start a choir.

And they started.

Then she knocked on my door and said, will you be patron?

And I think at the time my mum had recently died and my dad had adopted this principle of just say yes to everything.

So I thought, I'm going to say yes to that.