The star of Alan Bennett's new film Allelujah - about a Yorkshire hospital battling closure - tells Sky News about her childhood brought up in a doctor's family, while fellow stars Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill draw on their personal experiences of the NHS.
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The 88-year-old actress is one of the stars of Allelujah, a film about a fictionalised Yorkshire hospital battling closure as its staff struggle to find beds for its elderly patients. Bally Gill, director Richard Eyre, writer Alan Bennett and Dame Judi. Pic: Allelujah, Pathe Productions Ltd "There was a wonderful repartee between him and his patients - always a chat on the doorstep. [They'd say] 'Come in', and he'd come out with some eggs, and that was wonderful. And I think that's lost in a way now."
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