Paul Darrow

If he is a ghost, then it’s very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won’t be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn’t it?

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I’m not in every scene – colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be – I’m not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you’re standing in front of a microphone all day, it’s quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I’d be exhausted by lunch!

He’s psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn’t?

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I’m going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

To tell you the truth, it’s a complex piece, so I can’t really answer your question at present.