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A close friend of the late Richard Attenborough says the actor and director was "frustrated" in the last few years of his life after sustaining a brain injury in a fall.

Anthony Haas, who worked on the feature film Silver Ghost, the last project Lord Attenborough was involved in before his death aged 90, visited him every week in a retirement home.

The producer said, "He said to me that he was in purgatory because he felt he was a prisoner. Mentally he was still okay, physically he wasn't.

"For somebody who was so active... it was driving him crazy. So for him, it's a merciful release."

This clip is originally from Richard Bacon on Monday 25 August 2014.