Rory Stewart

I was a bit cross with my mother because she told me to go and see it.

And I was like, where is the health warning?

how can you possibly expect a parent of an eight-year-old to watch a whole film about an eight-year-old dying?

It's not like... Well, it's amazing.

Have you read, for example, Shakespeare and Silver Street?

Yeah.

Where they take a single, two sentences.

Shakespeare's only recorded words are in a small court case in London, which was then discovered in the 19th century in an archive.

But you're absolutely right.

I mean, that film is based on Agnes Hathaway or Anne.

And one of the questions around her is...

based purely on his will.

He leaves her his second best bed.

And there's birth certificate or death certificate stuff.

And we have some idea about how many children they had.

And we know that Hamlet died.

And out of that, Maggie O'Farrell has created this incredible masterpiece.

But yes, certainly if you were doing The Rest is History, it's astonishing given

his stature today, how little was recorded about him.

That was wonderful.