Did anyone hear Burn’s actor, James Cartwright, on Front Row?
I do not care for Harrison Burns.
I care even less for Cartwright, who came across as a wart, a blot, a pustule and an ocean-going pillock.
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Presumably not sufficiently ocean-going, though?
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Indeed not, Dunnock.
The words ‘creepy mysogynistic little *%&#er’ are mysteriously absent from my earlier post.
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I had been avoiding it; I dislike both character and actor, the former because he is a nasty bit of work who is completely unfit to be a member of the police, the latter because he is a violent little crim.
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For some reason I put the news on and then I was washing up… I am not an habitual listener to FR, honest.
In a weird way, I find that quite satisfying.
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What, that the actor of a policeman had just got a criminal record for GBH when he was employed? I think he was chosen for the part by Sean O’Connor on that account, myself.
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More that it vindicates my instinctive dislike, really.
I must have known about this at the time, I imagine, but I’d obviously forgotten.
Doubt it counted much with SOCO either way since it wasn’t a woman he punched.
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Very likely. Though there is a sort of person who just likes the idea of random violence, of course.
I see that O’Connor’s most recent work is called The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury and is an account of the life and death of a woman who talked the chauffeur she was screwing into murdering her husband, then killed herself after she was acquitted of the crime.
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I’ll sick with Cause Célèbre, ta.
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Ah, you beat me to it o limpetly one. So now we know O’C thinks he’s a better playwright than Rattigan. (Not that I rate Rattigan, but.)
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stick with, that should have been, dammit!
stick
Word association, I suppose, what with O’Connor and all…
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“O’Connor serves as a trustee of the estate of Sir Terence Rattigan.”
He also produced a film of The Deep Blue Sea.
There seems to be some sort of, well, lack of originality in there somewhere…
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Probably didn’t have as many sharks as the one with Saffron Burrows.
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He came across that way to me too (like you, I didn’t intend listening but was trapped, on the treadmill in my case) and I was equally revolted by the woman interviewing him - simpering and flirting throughout. The whole thing was stomach churning.
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…sounds a bit “Double Indemnity”-ish 
to this OldFart!
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And indeed Thompson/Bywaters, as fictionalised in The Documents in the Case.
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Wish I could have arranged the audition…
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