S13 Ep 706: The Inspector Lynley Mark Bonnar Preamble Pt 1
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Big Oval Plate
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It’s recently come to light that the wonderful actor Mark Bonnar appeared alongside David in his infamous Inspector Lynley Mysteries scene. So Joe, being a friend of Marks, has asked him to come on the pod to give his impression of how David behaved on the day. Was he really as nervous, time-waisting and rubbish at acting as David believes? The only problem is that Mark’s suddenly had to cancel and re-schedule the chat. So Joe and David take the opportunity to have a deep-dive into the whole Inspector Lynley experience - so much so that they had to make this episode a 2-parter. Part two coming tomorrow…
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . |
| 0:03.0 | . Hi. |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.6 | It's something dawned on me. |
| 0:44.1 | Well, this is it? |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, it's a bit exhausting this morning to us. |
| 0:48.7 | Should we try and set this up? |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.2 | How did you set this up? |
| 0:53.6 | My first acting job, I was shit. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, no. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah. You have, well, we're about to find out. But so... Actually, no, my second acting job. What's your first one? Extras. I was extras first. So of the back of that, suddenly they all want a piece of my head. This is the Midas Mub, couldn't it? This is part of the Midas Muff, which we need to explain to Mark. |
| 1:14.5 | So Mark Bond is coming on. |
| 1:44.5 | Who is? this is the Midas month, this is part of the Midas month which we need to explain to Mark. So Mark Bond is coming on who's a fantastic actor. Yeah. When I met Mark, when I met Mark, I said to him, God, you're good. I said to him, I said, you're, okay, he's one of those actors, you go, he's in it, it's going to be good. Yeah. But he, someone wrote in, your first, second acting job, partly in my month, where you got everything. Well, I was offered, off the back of extras, I was like, you know, people come forward and go, who's this guy's, could set the world alike. |
| 1:47.0 | So I was offered Inspector Linley, |
| 1:48.1 | didn't know it from Adam. |
| 1:50.7 | And I remember saying, |
| 1:51.7 | should I take it? |
| 1:52.9 | Who do? |
| 1:54.5 | Oh, my bloody agent. |
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