“I've had claustrophobia pretty well all my life. It started in Durham Cathedral, which seems odd because it is a pretty large space. We went up the tower because, as I often said to my children, these are the kind of things we used to do for laughs in the 1970s. You had to do something on Sundays. Everything was closed.”

English actress, writer and comedian

Rebecca Front is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is known for her work in British comedy, especially for her performance in The Thick of It, for which she won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance. Her credits include several well known comedy projects across radio and television, among them On The Hour, The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, Time Gentlemen Please, Big Train, and Nighty Night. Her work is closely associated with satirical and sketch comedy.