The late Dame Maggie Smith talks about her formative career ... In her early life her family moved to Oxford, on the eve of World War Two, and she attended the Oxford School for Girls.

Like most people without easy access to the West End and Broadway, I did not get the full measure of Dame Maggie Smith's genius ... that missed out on World War II. And he will stop at nothing ...

Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses ... Shortly before the start of World War II the family moved to Oxford, where her father worked as a pathologist at Oxford University.