Bob was a little put out to read a bit in the paper today about "The Archers" which referred to tonight's episode featuring 'good-looking Tom Archer' "How do we KNOW he is good looking? It is a RADIO programme" expostulated Bob.
So here is a picture of Tom Graham, the actor who plays TA. You can decide if he is good looking or not! He is a clever chap, he has a degree in Psychology from Manchester - and his father is a gifted photographer, and friend of Jon's family in Nottinghamshire. Mr G took some splendid pictures of Liz & Jon at a family wedding.
Last night we watched the final part of 'Whitechapel' - it was a little disappointing. The Jack the Ripper story is intriguing. Who was he?
It starred Rupert Penry Jones [as in 'Spooks' and '39 steps']
He is the brother of Laurence Penry Jones, who was in the Bill, and Midsomer Murders
And L&P are the sons of Edward P-J [Colditz, Poirot and other stuff]
EPJ is their father, and their mother is Angela Thorne [To The Manor Born, Anyone for Denis etc]
And of course RPJ is married to Dervla Kirwan - and she is not just an actress [Ballykissangel et al] she is also the voice of those M&S a
dverts.
Whilst she was filming Ballykissangel, DK was briefly engaged to another actor, Stephen Tompkinson.
Perhaps actors work such peculiar hours that the only people they meet up with are other a
ctors!
I don't think we have any actors in our family - just an alarming number of preachers and teachers.
Oh, was I happy to read this post. Amazing connections. I love, love, love Angela Thorne's character in To the Manor Born. I love her clothes, and her personality. Rupert was also in Cambridge Spies, wasn't he? Wow, and he is married to Dervla?! Great to read all this.
ReplyDeletePreachers and teachers are a good thing! My oldest daughter and her husband are teachers. I like Rupert Penry-Jones. I have seen him in
ReplyDeleteSpooks, or here it is MI-5. He's also in the newest version of Persuasion as Captain Wentworth (my favorite JA book, and movie).