Emily Watson

And why have you chosen it?

I think poetry is in a way the most insightful.

If you were to take philosophy, film, art, everything and boil it down to its essence, poetry would be the most successful way to express it.

It's an expression of the human condition that is very potent.

And in a collection like that, you have very, very different views and expressions of that.

Well, it's a kind of a massive cheat.

No, come on.

I'm going to take the Tate Modern.

Sometimes you go and you think, oh, I don't connect to that at all.

I don't understand it.

And sometimes you have mind blowing sense of the power of creativity and art.

You said that your kids are very creative.

Yeah, my daughter learned to walk.

in the tate actually and this the tate are not going to thank me for this but we have a trick that we do that if you take a coin and you stand at the top of the slope in the main gallery you know in the turbine hall yeah if there's nothing on and you roll the coin from the top of it you started off the top of the slope if you're really lucky it will go all the way down and right up

I think that I would take Fat Freddy's Drop.

Why?