Miranda Raison

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.