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    Jenny Agutter: the original railway child still bringing hope to prisoners

    The actress has recorded a reading from the classic film for the Liberty Choir charity, which helps rehabilitate prisoners. Here she tells the choir’s founder why she feels she must help
    by Ginny Dougary Aug 23, 2020 5 minutes
    Jenny Agutter in her south London home in 2015. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

    ‘Daddy, my Daddy!” With these three words at the climax of the drama, Jenny Agutter 50 years ago created one of the best-loved roles in British cinema – as Roberta in Lionel Jeffries’ adaptation of E Nesbit’s 1906 novel The Railway Children. Now Agutter, who is about to start filming the tenth season of the BBC drama Call the Midwife, in which she plays Sister Julienne, has reprised her role in the story of the three children who move from London with their mother to a dilapidated cottage in Yorkshire, suddenly impoverished after their father disappears. This time she is taking part in a remarkable project by a charity set up to help rehabilitate prisoners into society.

    Her involvement – which comes as the 1970 film is enjoying a new lease of life on the BBC iPlayer – reflects her own commitment

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