Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Sadly, she couldn't do H is for Hall, but we've done many other things together, including Three Girls, and also including the recent Prisoner 951.

And she, which was about Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, who was abducted in Iran and incarcerated for six years.

And that was a series about her husband and trying to get her out and what the British government had and hadn't done and not admitted to.

And she was stuck there.

So I think it was his way of saying that he's come to terms with this.

I was thinking before we spoke today about the first time that you and I met and it was a very special moment actually involving someone who's right here tonight because I had the privilege of watching you and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe cook together and for BBC Radio and it was she had recently returned from six years as a hostage in Iran and she had said to the program team that she'd cooked one of your recipes in prison and because of that we brought the two of you together and I remember it was quite an extraordinary experience for me certainly watching you both but I guess for you too to think how far your recipes have traveled this extraordinary and unexpected and very difficult setting.

It's nice to have you here, by the way.

I was absolutely shocked that I got an email a year or two earlier from Nazanin, from Iran, telling me about her experience cooking my recipes in prison with her prison mates.

And Iran has been doing this forever.

They constantly target dual nationals, like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

They held her under bogus charges for years just to force the UK to unfreeze hundreds of millions in overseas assets.

They basically used a human being as a receipt.