The film casts Thomasin McKenzie as lab technician Purdy, with two co-stars playing lightly against type: James Norton is bluff physiologist Edwards, and Bill Nighy a borderline spiky version of ...
His grandfather, Sir John Betjeman, earned a place in the public's heart unequalled by any other Poet Laureate since Lord Tennyson.
While it can be hard to imagine anyone but Nighy playing the part ... "But at the read-through, Bill did it so perfectly he ...
Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...