The dread of small things

Years of struggling to break through made actor and comedian Rob Brydon reluctant to take risks – but, at 60, the TV veteran is flying high

IN PRAISE OF PODS I found the ...

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I would give my younger self a cuddle and tell him it’s going to be OK. I had a very happy, normal childhood, but it’s a tough age, 16, isn’t it? You’re coming out of all that hormonal stuff and into

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Much to his own wife’s relief, author Peter Swanson has just used his imagination — and a love of Hitchcock — to fire his latest thriller about a failing marriage