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Excerpt from "Our Debt To Wor Kate" - Jun 26 2001 - Evening Chronicle

 

One actor who has perhaps fonder memories than most of his time on a Cookson drama is southerner Ben Miles, who since appearing in The Round Tower - unusually, for Cookson, set in the 1950s - has become a regular face on our screens.

 

"I loved doing the Cookson in the North East , it's such a great part of the world," recalls Ben, who has been in the likes of Peak Practice and Reach For The Moon .

 

"The Cookson dramas get the ratings. They've set the likes of Sean Bean up for bigger things in the past.

 

"A lot of people knock them, but they are classic stories and they are well made too as a drama.

 

"There's an excellent crew behind the adaptations. I had doubts whether I would be the sort of person they were looking for and when they asked me I just couldn't believe it.

 

"I jumped at the chance. It was a good break for me in terms of TV. It was different to what I'd been doing before, which was mainly classical theatre.

 

"To play a character who wears jeans and a T-shirt was quite refreshing for me.

 

"I was on location in the North East for six weeks, during which I got married, which was quite exciting.

 

"We didn't actually get married there, I got two days off and we wed in the South and then honeymooned in Newcastle.

 

"It wasn't planned, but it was very nice indeed."

 

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Thanks to The Compleat Sean Bean website for letting me borrow this article :)

 

 

 

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