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View from The Boundary, well, this week we've got one of this country's leading stage and screen actors.

He's a multiple Olivia Award winner with acclaimed performances and plays like Othello and Hamlet on television.

Well, he's betrayed Dennis Thatcher, Lord Lucan and Frankenstein's Monster.

He's played the British Prime Minister and the diplomat, the campaigning lawyer in Toxic Town,

as well as appearing in hit shows like Black Mirror and Count Arthur Strong in film.

Well, imitation game, Bank of Dave.

He's played Winston Churchill in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. And you've no doubt seen him as the Rye MI6 Chief of Staff Bill Tanner in the last four James Bond films, Quantum of Solis, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die. I'd say welcome to the Oval. I think you spend more time here than I do, Rory Kaneer. It's lovely to meet you. Nice to meet you. One of those people who I just feel that I know from just years of watching telly and films and... Well, it's also so lovely to be interviewed here at the Oval, which, yeah, has definitely over the last 10 or 15 years become, if not my first home, then definitely a second home. Yeah, yeah.

Because you live very local, don't you?

Very locally.

And it's the kind of sport that gets its grips into you.

I mean, I've always loved Cricken.

I've always watched it.

But I guess I never had access to a local ground growing up.

So moving here about 12 years ago and coming here for the first time and feeling there was just something in me that just sort of quietened down and I think walking into the members

pavilion for the first time it just felt oddly because I was probably about 40 years younger than everyone else that I found home

and so now whenever I'm at home and sorry are playing I find it difficult to concentrate or do anything. I sort of feel I have to be there. So inevitably, I'll check the score and if I see, oh, goodness me, Will Jackson is about to get a 50, I'll run down, give them applause, and then go home and do the washing out. That's a lovely thing to be able to do, to treat it just as easily.

Yes, I think the first time was when Ponting's his last match here and he was about to get a century and I thought, I could just go. I could be part of history. And so I remember coming down and I just thought, I think this is going to be the rest of my life. I'm just, I never want to live anywhere too far from the Oval.

And obviously, you know, a lot of it is I think this is going to be the rest of my life. I'm just, I never want to live anywhere too far from the Oval.

And obviously, you know, a lot of it is the peace that you get during a county championship match,

a stadium that holds 30,000 people where you might have 2 to 3,000 if you're lucky.

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