so when i go to university, i go to nottingham uni and i do law, and i do a stint in the law review. exhibitionist. yeah. yes. because there's no point being polite and nice and "hi, how are you?" that's all great, and that has a part to play, but we really want to know much more about people. we need... we need to connect, you know, in a sense of humanity, i think. and what this does, yes, it's the name of the documentary, but it's not there completely to be provocative. it's because complete strangers in the street will say to visibly disabled people, "gosh, you know, "if was like you, i think i'd rather be dead." they think they're complimenting you, and they're actually saying death is better than being you. they think that's empathy. yes, absolutely. and so wearing this and the name of the programme and looking at that was, like, real... this is real now. i'm real. i'm a human. i'm a disabled woman. i'm very ok with that. do you really think that my life is so awful that i constantly want to die? sure. and just to bring it back to your life in theatre and acting. i was lucky eno

so when i go to university, i go to nottingham uni and i do law, and i do a stint in the law review.i was an exhibitionist. and, um, and i use humour. i use humour a lot. it's a protection, but also it relaxes people. it's a great help with communication with people. you're in yourface, in your humour. i mean, let's be honest. you're wearing a rather wonderful necklace today which says better off dead, which is the title of a documentary you've made. but i'm just taking from that that you enjoy sort of confronting people. yeah. yes. because there's no point being polite and nice and "hi, how are you?" that's all great, and that has a part to play, but we really want to know much more about people. we need... we need to connect, you know, in a sense of humanity, i think. and what this does, yes, it's the name of the documentary, but it's not there completely to be provocative. it's because complete strangers in the street will say to visibly disabled people, "gosh, you know, "if was like you, i think i'd rather be dead." they think they're complimenting you, and they're actually sayin

uni. the people who go to edinburgh are the posh kids who were too thick to go to oxbridge. that's that's bristol, no, that's edinburgh first, then bristol. okay. i went to nottingham no problems there. no no no. >> yeah yeah yeah nottingham is this is had some fun. >> it's interesting because i would argue that class plays a much greater role in this country than other issues that have traditionally been pushed in this angle. >> well, if they were such a classy place, they wouldn't tell people. it's kind of rude to tell people, don't act so posh. that's true. and number one, number two, my ex—wife went to edinburgh and she was like, she wasn't. she wasn't that posh though. >> she no, she wasn't very choosy, acted posh . choosy, acted posh. >> the truth is, is that this country has like this tier system of universities. if you're not an oxford or cambridge , you're not anywhere. cambridge, you're not anywhere. >> well, no. but then the posh people have to go somewhere else. yeah. which they tend to go to edinburgh or durham and everybody knows they went to a second grade school even though it's a very. >> you think that because of that they should be allowed to be