Diana Rigg remembered: ‘Ma didn’t suffer fools: she exploded them at 50 paces’

Rachael Stirling recalls her mother's last months - and remembers her enormous sense of fun, whether pulling pranks on stage or dancing until dawn on her 80th birthday

When Ma found her cancer was malignant, all the theatres went dark.

Normally, when one gets bad news like this, one becomes the focus of attention, but in a pandemic, no one gives a fuck!"