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INTERVIEW : The Welsh acting great talks to Patrick Smith about ‘Game of Thrones’, seeing his father’s ghost, the vanity of youth, and his new crime drama ‘Under Salt Marsh’, shot near his boyhood haunts

Morfa Halen means “salt marsh” in Welsh. This tidal island is a delicious invention of Sky Arts’ new detective drama, Under Salt Marsh, although it has very real antecedents in north Wales. Shell Island on the Mochras peninsula, near Harlech, inspired writer and director Claire Oakley.

The adaptation, based on the book series by Richard Osman, follows a crime-busting group of retirees.

The Apple TV+ spy drama will return to screens with a six-episode series starring Sir Gary Oldman as British intelligence officer Jackson Lamb.

Seeing the RSC’s breathtaking 1978 production of The Taming of the Shrew showed how a working-class boy like me could get into theatre

Innovative theatre designer who was one of the outstanding new stars to emerge in the 1970s

The new Pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, from Chicago, became the first North American head of the Catholic Church.

The biggest night in telly is back. So will Richard Gadd’s stalker drama come up trumps? Will Katherine Parkinson triumph for her turn in Rivals? And will Ruth Jones finally get a gong for Gavin & Stacey?

Oscar-winning film Conclave was released last year.