Emily Watson

And that was kind of the sort of sentence that was hanging over you, that if you didn't embrace the teaching and the way of life, that there was this terrible fear that you would, all religions have it.

It's the way to control people, I guess.

And I was a very, very devotional and loving child, as many, many children are.

And I sort of embraced it all and believed in it all.

And so the journey from there to finding myself, ironically, which is what the whole thing was supposed to be about, was finding yourself.

But just being myself, being my authentic, natural self was a long journey.

And, you know, obviously we're all still on that journey now.

It will always be confusing that because they obviously loved us so much, but they did, I think, unwittingly put us potentially in harm's way.

We were okay because we had them, but other people maybe were not.

Reading, really reading.

My parents always took us to cinema and we went to see amazing films.

i don't know he just kind of chose me in a way i kind of thought i will i'll try and be an actor and then i got a job at the rsc and that was like a you know i always you know that's a tv series that i discovered when my children were little mr ben oh yeah it's like changing you go into the changing room there's a costume and there you're suddenly you're off in this world i often think that on set it's like that it's like and then as if by magic the shopkeeper appeared

What have you got for us?

This is part of the Adagio from Mozart's Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments.

Interestingly, part of the culture of this SES was that music that we were allowed to listen to was Mozart.

Mozart was conscious music.

We did listen to other things, but that was sort of the guidance.

And so we had in our very thin record collection, we had this and my father loved it.

And long before it became a brilliantly used piece in the film Amadeus, which that film I absolutely love.

It also, I connect to it because...