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JANE CAMPION, award winning film director discusses her inspiration for new film Bright Star… her 14-year-old daughter: “I feel dwarfed by her… she’s me, tripled. At her age, I was really stumbling around. But you don’t want to say too much, because it’s hard enough having a famous parent.” “There’s a way in which we …

“I love dressing up aspect of it all, the physical transformation, and I get disappointed when people recognise me. I think I’m looking really big and fat and ugly and then people go ‘Hi Imelda!’ And I’ll go ‘Oh no, surely that can’t be me’”.

“I remember …the steepness of the hill leading from the bus stop to my house. Half a mile at 1:4 is a lot for a schoolboy and may account for the present-day thickness of my thighs. If I was kept late at school I would run up the hill rather than miss a moment of radio programmes such as Journey Into Space or The Goon Show. I associate my enjoyment of these shows with perspiration and a taste of blood in the back of the throat.”

It’s been chanted on football terraces, featured in numerous TV montages of disgraced celebrities and been sung at hapless colleagues by a thousand office wits. So it seems only fair that ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ has been voted the nation’s favourite comedy song.

This month there are special reports from around the world; an extraordinary account of a 16-year old boy living in the Democratic Republic of Congo who had his life saved by a British surgeon with the aid of a mobile phone; an in-depth look at the phenomenal Da Vinci robot which performs surgery with movements that are free of tremor, shake or risk of human error, and a feature on Lewis Gordon Pugh who is the subject of fascination to medical scientists thirsty for data about his extraordinary capabilities swimming in sub zero temperatures.

Plus there’s an interview with actor Tom Felton, who plays Draco in the Harry Potter films, top tips on how to raise children from the Obamas and Victoria Hislop enthusing about why so many British women are captivated by the Greek Islands.