Digested week: Doctor, doctor it’s OK to joke about my kidneys | Lucy Mangan

Digested week: Doctor, doctor it’s OK to joke about my kidneys | Lucy Mangan

Drama queens, great dames and a moment of horror at my medical appointment Dame Maggie Smith has gone to the great green room in the sky. My dad worked at the National Theatre back in the days when its canteen was run by two women called Rose and Nellie. Rose was zaftig, ebullient and did…