Patrick Doyle, the composer for the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire soundtrack, has recently discussed his battle with leukaemia.

“I rang Ken (Branagh). He came to visit twice a week while I was ill. He would help the hospital staff make tea, and bring in tapes and books for me.”

“Emma Thompson rang from Hollywood when she heard the news. She’d just had an MRI for a back problem and had me in stitches when she said the radiologist handed her a script he’d written and asked her to read it, adding that she was too old to play the lead role.”

“Timothy Spall had not long recovered from AML himself, having been diagnosed a year or two before, and he helped me lots with advice and encouragement. He’d say: “How’s the diarrhoea? I know, I know. And he did, because he’d been through it.”