00:00Well, it wasn't all music hall. I did go to school as well. From 1945 to 1959, I went
00:09to the Oxford Girls High School. It was a smashing school, and I loved it. Dame Maggie
00:16Smith was also a pupil at the school, but we never met when we were at school because
00:27she's seven years older than me. Of course, we met much later on when we did Ladies in
00:35Lavender and Harry Potter together. And a few years ago, the current headmistress of
00:40the school contacted me and asked me if I would go and see Maggie Smith and ask her if
00:48she would come back to the Oxford High School, open the new school buildings and have the
00:54Dame Maggie Smith drama studio named after her.
01:01Well, of course, I did. I went to see Maggie.
01:13Miriam, I can't believe you've asked me that. You know, I hated the school. It was horribly
01:40rubbish. If you weren't a professor's daughter, you were dead. Nothing on earth would make
01:47me go back there. You'd like to go there, wouldn't you? I thought so. Well, why don't you tell them?
01:56Say, you'll do it. Because I can tell you from me, the answer is no. Well, of course, I had to go back to the headmistress and tell her what Maggie had said. And so, I had to go back to the headmistress and tell her what Maggie had said.
02:23And so, in the end, it was I who went back to the Oxford High School, opened the new school buildings and had the Miriam Margulies drama studio named after me.
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