I first met Lisa Westcott at the BBC in 1974 when she was a makeup assistant on Fall of Eagles and I was a novice assistant floor manager. For me it was a vertiginous learning curve – A-list cast, ambitious scripts, period locations – but my overriding memory is Lisa’s infectious energy and never to be forgotten laugh. Plus the way she could reduce a hungover actor’s age by 20 years with just a pot of egg whites.
