Rupert Everett on voicing Noel Coward and media coverage of Phillip Schofield

After growing up poor in London, Noel Coward sailed to New York aged 20 with £17 in his pocket.

By the age of 30, he was one of highest-paid writers and performers in the Western world – a remarkable rise that is being told in a new documentary voiced by Rupert Everett.

The pressure on prominent gay men to conceal their sexuality – at least publicly – is a theme that connects the two actors, and one that still resonates today.