A new C4 series re-opens the Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees Outback Murder case – but is it justified, asks Ginny Dougary In the summer of 2001, a young English couple, Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees, were in the red heart of Australia, on a backpackers’ trip of a lifetime. Travelling in their bright orange …
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick on the challenges facing the police in London – and the problem with TV crime dramas. There is good news for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service on the morning of our interview, and there is bad news. The highest-ranking police officer in the land – and the first woman …
Idris Elba is renowned for playing tough guys – but he’s happy to show his cuddly side. There’s a sudden quickening in the atmosphere of the hotel lobby when he arrives, tall and striding, surrounded by enough people to form a modest entourage, and soon after I’m in a small room with him and he’s …
The Killing’s Sofie Grabol on her new £25 million drama, battling cancer, that jumper and dropping the F-bomb on Radio 2. Sofie Grabol – the Danish actress much loved for her portrayal of Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (with jumper) in the Scandi-noir thriller, The Killing – is explaining why she has a conflicted relationship with …
Ginny Dougary meets the retired teacher presumed guilty of murder I had encountered a number of different versions of Christopher Jefferies but none of them, not even the most painstakingly observed, is quite like the man I meet in Bristol. First, there was the tabloid transmogrification of the retired schoolteacher when he was arrested on suspicion …
“What really struck me about doing the film is how shocking it is that a line can be crossed in an instant, and a life is ended” I’d worked a lot with Roger Michell at the National and the RSC. He texted me and said, “I’ve got this script – do you think you could …
How are we to bear it? For it is quite insupportable, is it not, to think that “the little grey cells” of Belgium’s best-loved detective will soon cease to fizz. Or to consider that the fastidious patting of his waxed moustache with the corner of a pristine white napkin at the dinner table will become …
What’s with these Danes? They’re so tortured and gloomy on the screen and so very warm and friendly off it; it’s like the depressive comedian syndrome in reverse. Pilou Asbaek, who plays the Prime Minister’s spin doctor, Kasper Juul, in Borgen (horrendous childhood) and the ship’s cook, Mikkel, in A Hijacking (who slowly loses his mind) is …
By Ginny Dougary October 2012 FT MAGAZINE One of a trio of British bankers extradited to the US to face Enron-related charges, Gary Mulgrew talks about prison life and why he still believes he did nothing wrong. Gary Mulgrew, gang leader of the NatWest Three, meets me in his new pub, the Noble House in …
The long wait is over – the surprise TV hit of 2011 is back. Its Danish star Sofie Grabol reveals she’s battling even darker forces. Never act with children or animals, as the old line goes. But now, after the first series of the cult Danish crime thriller, The Killing, we clearly need to coin …