Famed for her unfiltered honesty and big heart, Miriam Margolyes has a huge capacity for kindness, is outrageously funny, and her passion and curiosity cannot be dimmed. Qualities that have propelled her to the position of national treasure.

An award-winning actress, Miriam has featured alongside Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo and Juliet), played the beloved Professor Sprout (Harry Potter), and won a BAFTA for her role in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence. Her stage credits include Dickens’ Women.

She has fronted incisive, award-winning, and humane documentaries, including exploring what it means to be Australian. Her appearances on the Graham Norton Show go viral and, in her eighties, she was on the cover of Vogue.

A life-long Dickens aficionado, her recent Edinburgh Fringe show was Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits. She comes to Whitby at the end of a book tour for her latest memoir.

Join her for a candid interview with her long-time friend: Dickens’ great, great, great granddaughter, the author, art historian and broadcaster, Lucinda Hawksley, as she discusses her latest book: The Little Book of Miriam, an A-Z of wit and wisdom.

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The Little Book of Miriam: Miriam Margolyes