CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, there are two sides to Bertie Carvel. One is the coldly respectable, unpleasantly pleasant, family man of Doctor Foster.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: America prepares to decide between the two oldest presidential candidates ever to run for the White House, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
By imagining the future life of a much-loved lad from Liverpool, Anthony Walker, who was murdered in a racist assault aged 18, it gave expression to the appalling grief suffered by his mother, Gee.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Rumpole of the Bailey he is not. Disgraced defence lawyer Andrew Fraser, is a 68-year-old Australian with a face like a squashed peach.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The great disappointment of ageing is that I find myself turning into a character from the Beano and not one of the funsters wielding a catapult.