Hello, friends. Tonight's guest is none other than Miss Mary Morsten herself,

the incomparable Jenny Seagrove. We chatted with Jenny backstage at the Theatre Royal

Windsor late last year in the middle of her run as Gaev in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, where she played opposite Ian McKellen.

We discussed her time on the sign of four, her fondness for Jeremy, Edward, and the Granada team,

and she even shared a tale or two about her time with another Mr. Holmes, the legendary Christopher Lee.

Jenny is currently hard at work on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest,

a live radio play rendition, which runs from April 12th to 16th at the Theatre Royal Windsor,

outside London.

As always, a very special thanks to our producer, David Ewell, for helping to make this

conversation a reality.

And so, without further ado, we give you Jenny Seagrove.

Jenny, it is wonderful to speak with you today.

Thank you so much for doing this.

My pleasure.

We always like to start at the beginning. So when did you first decide that acting was your passion?

When were you bitten by that bug, so to speak?

Well, when I was at school many, many years ago, I grew up in Malaysia and I did ballet. And then I was sent to boarding school

when I was nine. And the headmistress of the little boarding school I went to in England

introduced me to verse speaking in public. And I loved it. And she inspired me. And I remember writing and directing and starring

in, of course, my own plays. And then I went on to my public school. Now, that would be a,

it's a high school, I think, in your language. And again, I starred in all the house plays and

the school plays. And I knew I was good at it,

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