Flavours of the month: pleasing the crowds or a case of over-exposure? by Ali Bacon
Cross-channel confusion Last autumn I had a disturbing experience. Well it wasn’t too bad because I was only sitting in front of the telly and no blood was spilled, and you know how it is when a character appears and your immediate reaction is ‘oh that’s so-and-so from what’s it’s name,’ because with any actor worth their salt you’re bound to think of them as their most recent persona. But this time it got out of hand. I was watching the dramatisation of Capital by John Lanchester and couldn’t miss the fact that city financier Roger Yount was actor Toby Jones aka Lance from cult BBC4 comedy The Detectorists . But then Roger’s wife Arabella turned out to be Rachel Stirling who happens to be the wife of the other guy in The Detectorists , Lance’s mate Andy. Confused? No, not exactly, but it didn’t help with my suspension of disbelief. Then there was Nicola Walker (great actress, loved her feisty farmer in Last Tango in Halifax ) playing two different d...