Miriam Margolyes Knew She Was Going To Be Searched Naked When She Got Arrested | Graham Norton Show

i was particularly pleased that the first story you ever told on the show about 20 years ago is in the book it's the one where uh you'd park on a double yellow line for a few moments do you know this oh yes yes well that that had its repercussions of course because well i i mean i parked on a double yellow line in shaftesbury avenue it was um the day of the state opening of parliament and i rushed up to give a take a tape and audio tape because you know i do audio tapes to my agent and i came downstairs there was a policeman pasting um a parking ticket on my windscreen and i was just furious because i'd only been there for a minute and so you know i tore it off the windscreen and i said you've got a dick that small because i thought the best thing is to insult him as quickly as possible of course and he took umbrage didn't like it and he arrested me for a breach of the piece and uh parking on a double yellow line and um then he called for help from other policemen and there were lots about because it was the state opening of parliament and you know they're mingling around and so um i was taken in a in a police car to beau street police station and um there i was arraigned and um they said uh empty your handbag and i had a few things in my handbag and one of them was a packet of peppermints but they're wrapped in silver paper you see and that the detective in charge thought that it was drugs and he said um you know what have we got here then that's interesting and i said it's just a packet of peppermint's officer and he said no i think we better check you out matron and he got the um the matron to come and uh put me in a room privately and i knew i knew because i was sharp that she was going to give me an internal examination i just knew that nothing had been said but i knew it so when she locked the door she went out for a bit i took all my clothes off immediately when you would you know you know you're going to be examined and she came back in and she said you've been here before i said i have not been here before she said yes you have how did you know to take your clothes off and i said well i know you're going to examine me aren't you they called you matron so i knew something was afoot so um she said anyway bend down or lie on the couch or something and she examined me my front body and my back and of course they thought i wouldn't like it [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 3min 25sec (205 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 05 2021