What a weekend - on Friday afternoon I travelled down to Wittersham in Kent to deliver the eulogy at my old friend, Donald Sinden's funeral.  Of course it was packed out. Sir Patrick Stewart read a lesson, and Dame Judi Dench's rendering of Prospero's speech from The Tempest, reminded everyone why she is so universally respected as one of the leading actresses in her lifetime.

'Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into t...