Daisy May Cooper couldn’t afford to buy a McDonald’s before breakthrough role in This Country

Daisy May Cooper revealed that she was making £100 a month as a cleaner and couldn’t afford to buy a McDonald’s before her breakthrough role in This Country.  The actress, 34, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, won the 2018 Bafta TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for playing Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC Three series, which she … Read more

The Fifth Man was so prickly even the Russians couldn’t stand him

Agent Molière Geoff Andrews IB Taurus £20 Rating: Years ago, Willy Russell wrote a musical called John, Paul, George, Ringo…. & Bert. Among the five Cambridge spies, John Cairncross is very much the ‘& Bert’ figure. There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to … Read more