The quest is silence: Mark Oakley talks to Judi Dench

‘Meeting is unbelievably important to me.’

'It’s the quietness inside that I love.' | Photo: Judi Dench at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 2021 (Mark Thomas/Alamy)

Do you enjoy giving interviews?
It depends. I don’t mind it like this, because we’re relaxed.
I’m full of cold at the moment – which is very rare for me, because Daddy was a family doctor and the boys and I never had colds when we were children because we were kind of immune. And now suddenly this has hit me.

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