Love her or loathe her, there are no half measures with Miriam Margolyes. To some, she’s an endearingly eccentric English actor, happy to say whatever outlandish thought pops into her mind and, very often, from Graham Norton’s BBC chat show sofa.
To others, she’s something of a show-off, taking delight in using four-letter words and talking about bodily functions, seemingly for the sole purpose of shocking her audience.
Either way, at 82, Miriam has