Remembering Helen McCrory
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
After hearing the awful news that Helen McCrory has died from cancer at the age of 52, we wanted to share the interview we recorded with her this time last year.
Helen and her husband, Damian Lewis, were on Newscast to tell us about their scheme to provide free meals to frontline NHS workers. They were such good sports when they came on the podcast. Their kindness, warmth, humour and generosity came is so clear to hear in this interview. They even played along with Adam's rubbish quiz! Everyone at Newscast is thinking about her, Damian her friends and family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're doing something we haven't done before, but we wanted to, just because of the news |
| 0:05.6 | we've received, which is that the actress, Dame Helen Macquarie, has died of cancer aged 52. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, Helen was on the podcast with her husband, Damien Lewis, on the 9th of April last year, |
| 0:20.2 | and she was talking about how they were raising money so that they could send free food to NHS |
| 0:26.1 | workers in the middle of their crazy shifts. And this was in the middle of probably the most |
| 0:31.3 | uncertain period of all for a coronavirus when things were pretty scary and pretty strange, |
| 0:38.0 | and we just didn't know what was happening. Helen's interview was really interesting and she |
| 0:43.6 | just came across as such a generous, funny, warm person. And I don't know if I should say this, |
| 0:51.2 | before the interview, me and Laura were sitting in the studio and because Helen and Damien were |
| 0:56.6 | in their cottage in the middle of nowhere, they had terrible, terrible internet, so they spent ages |
| 1:01.9 | just carrying their laptop through every single room in their house where they were trying to find |
| 1:07.8 | the best Wi-Fi and the strength of their relationship and her humour and character just |
| 1:16.7 | shone through the video call, even though it was very, very patchy, and I will just always remember |
| 1:23.2 | that with a bit of a smile. And I know that loads of you will remember her great work with a smile, |
| 1:31.2 | with a tear, with happiness, because she had so many great roles in so many different things. |
| 1:37.2 | So we thought we'd give you a chance to hear the interview again, and also as a way of saying thank |
| 1:42.5 | you for everything, Helen. |
| 1:46.8 | Laura, you mentioned NHS workers, let's now talk to two top actors who are doing what they can to |
| 1:52.2 | help NHS workers, it's Helen McRory and Damien Lewis. Hello, and they're joining us on the phone |
| 1:58.5 | because like everyone, the Wi-Fi, the broadband situations, not super great where they are, |
| 2:05.6 | but thank you for joining us by hooker by crook. Helen, just explain to us what you're doing |
| 2:09.4 | to help NHS workers. So we've got lots of friends in the NHS and when this outbreak happened, |
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