Asa magazine editor, I need my finger on the pulse, but sometimes my best efforts to keep up to date with modern culture are scuppered by my Luddite tendencies. So it was with Slow Horses, the brilliant spy series featuring a tour-de-force performance from our cover star Gary Oldman (p22). Everyone I knew was raving about it, but it was on Apple TV+, which I wasn’t tech savvy enough to subscribe to on our smarter-than-me TV. There was no point asking my husband as he was already lobbying hard for cutbacks to our numerous TV subscriptions.
But the prospect of an interview with Oldman made this a work matter, and he reluctantly got busy with registration. Within minutes of the opening credits, we were both hooked and devoured all three series in record time. If you haven’t seen Slow Horses yet, I can’t recommend it more highly, and it’s great to read how much Oldman loves playing Jackson Lamb (below with co-star Kristin Scott Thomas).