![]() ![]() And after all these years, I still remember the lyrics of song I sing before the King and his court (by the way, the banquet that you will descry laid out was fireproofed, so no one was game to pick at it!):- Return, return you happy men/To your own blessed shades again/Lest staying long some new desire/In your cool bosom raise a fire/Like a perfumed gale o'er flowers/Now glide again to your own bowers Saw Polly Maberly in an episode of 'Frost' in early 2001, and she acquitted herself very well indeed. Danny went on to play Snorri the Miserable in Terry Gilliam's hilarious 'Erik the Viking' and also to portray a barrister in the 1992 thriller 'Under Suspicion', which starred Liam Neeson and Laura San Giacomo. Thanks heaps, Heather! Great too to work with the very talented Danny Schiller, who played Gabriel, the manic choirmaster. She noticed that I was reading Stephen King's awesome 1985 short story collection 'Skeleton Crew' during the making of the series, and recommended the work of acclaimed British horror author Ramsey Campbell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also great to work with Heather Ramsay, who played my mother. She was a delightful lady, and I remember that we - myself and the other principal cast members - had our photograph taken with her. Boston, who wrote the novel upon which the four-part series was based, and who also wrote 'The River at Green Knowe'. Perhaps the greatest thing about portraying Alexander Oldknowe in the 1986 BBC Children's Television series 'The Children of Green Knowe' was meeting Lucy M. ![]()
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