In the Spotlight with Angela Greatley

with Angela Greatley, Chief Executive, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

What’s your first memory?
A yellow privet hedge around the boating lake in the local park where mum and dad used to take me.

What three words best describe you?
Full of life

What’s been your best job?
This one: I feel passionately committed to supporting people with mental health problems to be able to live the lives they want and to working hard for better services.

If you were stuck on a desert island, and you could take one person and one object, who and what would they be?
My husband and a photograph of my children, their partners and my grandson.

Who inspires you and why?
The many people who struggle to change the lives of others for the better.

Where is your favourite place?
A beach with soft sand, sometimes windswept and sometimes warm.

Which celebrity would you want to play you in a film?
Catherine Deneuve (my other self is slender, blonde and enigmatic!)

What was the last CD you bought?
Modern Times by Bob Dylan

What are you reading?
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

What’s your favourite film?
Blade Runner (Director’s cut)

Pets – yes or no?
Two cats.

If you were on Death Row, what would be your final meal?
Dressed crab and a stunning white burgundy.