had a very tough childhood, his father and his sister died and he always loved the writing of beatrix potteren about but this was taken as a dramatic moment to talk about how the meeting of these great children's writers affected both of them. it happens at a moment in her life, she needs a bit of a kick up the bottom and it works perfectly. it works perfectly, jessica hynes, fantastic as, a who's who of british comedy, jessica plays roald dahl ‘s mother who is norwegian, she does a great norwegian, she does a great norwegian accent, we were discussing earlier. i always think that is hard to get right so you do not sound like you are taking the mickey. to get right so you do not sound like you are taking the mickeym is more than that, she does a norwegian accent but it has wheels in it because they were living in cardiff at the time. jessica pulls offa cardiff at the time. jessica pulls off a norwegian welsh accent. could you give us an example?” off a norwegian welsh accent. could you give us an example? i cannot! that is why she got that part.|j you give us an example? i cannot! that is wh

you are not beatrix potter in this, are you? no, no! book boy, actually even before i auditioned for it, because the script was so lovely, and it has animated, magical mice in it, talking dolls and foxes, and her character was so brilliant. i was so excited that a production was going to happen after lockdown had happened, because it happened in the pa rt happened, because it happened in the part of lockdown where things started to ease. i was so amazed that this production company had created a covid safe set so we could film. and i thought, i really want to be on that team and i want to do that. the script was so brilliant. and sofie was an amazing woman. roald describes her taking them all on holiday, after she had lost her husband and her daughter, that happened within weeks of each other, so she was widowed with five children and she used to take them on holiday to norway on these amazing adventures, kind of on her own, and put them in boats and sail to different norwegian islands. he saysin to different norwegian islands. he says

the strip to try and meet an elderly, i hope dawn french won't mind me saying that, an elderly beatrix potterley. even before he was the champion dancer. we would like to also ask you about gavin and stacey, there are rumours that possibly there are rumours that possibly there might be something, or is it just optimism? no, i read a thing that james had said that yes they would do another special at some point. but there's certainly nothing in the works, and thus they are doing it without me, i certainly haven't heard that. but last year's special, which did so well, it's been repeated this year i think on christmas eve it was so much fun to watch that last year, especially at the end of the proposal, it took people by surprise. it was lovely to be part of that. you're cooking didn't go very well that day, if i remember. i was cooking christmas dinner for 12, remember. i was cooking christmas dinnerfor12, i think, remember. i was cooking christmas dinnerfor12, ithink, i can't remember now. those were the days. what would you be doing now? i'm cooking christmas dinner for myself. have your pla