Five Minutes With: Miriam Margolyes

27 July 2012 Last updated at 22:06 ET Help

Actress Miriam Margolyes talks to Matthew Stadlen about the importance of provoking people, what makes a good actor, her love of Charles Dickens and why she has always been a show-off.

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