This was really just a conversation between four old ladies in their eighties, long-term friends, actresses, in the garden and in the house where they have been having regular get-togethers for years.
But however choreographed it was, it was a joy to be in the company of Dames Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Eileen Atkins, all self-deprecating, indiscreet, and completely open. The chat ranges from beauty to husbands, from the perils of ageing (hearing aids, failing sight - Plowright is now blind) to adrenaline, from bitchy asides about their peers to the lack of boundaries.
Add to this a sprinkling of rare clips from their younger years and you have something rather special: and these ladies were all magnificent, fiery and fantastic back then, as they are now.