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The Crieff woman who has worked on everything from Sunset Song to Midsomer Murders

The Crieff woman who has worked on everything from Sunset Song to Midsomer Murders
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Moira Armstrong has been speaking about spending a life through a lens.
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When Moira Armstrong was growing up in the north-east of Scotland in the 1930s, she quickly realised how important the different aspects of local history, heritage and language were to the people around her.
She went swimming at Stonehaven’s art deco open air pool, learned to speak Doric, cycled from Aberdeen to such sites as Dunnottar Castle, took an interest in the advancing technology of television…and eventually became one of the most highly-regarded figures in the industry, directing a litany of award-winning programmes. ....

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The north-east woman who has worked on everything from Sunset Song to Midsomer Murders

The north-east woman who has worked on everything from Sunset Song to Midsomer Murders
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Moira Armstrong has been speaking about spending a life through a lens.
When Moira Armstrong was growing up in the north-east of Scotland in the 1930s, she quickly realised how important the different aspects of local history, heritage and language were to the people around her.
She went swimming at Stonehaven’s art deco open air pool, learned to speak Doric, cycled from Aberdeen to such sites as Dunnottar Castle, took an interest in the advancing technology of television…and eventually became one of the most highly-regarded figures in the industry, directing a litany of award-winning programmes. ....

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James Cosmo: 'My friend said: They're going to drink beer out of your skull'

Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 09.38 EST
For the most part, actors have now sussed out the art of the Zoom interview. The trick is to do it in front of a completely blank background, so the interviewer cannot possibly glean any personal details from whatever you happen to be in front of.
James Cosmo does not subscribe to this notion. We speak in mid-November and, when his Zoom screen clicked into life, he was vaping up a storm before a massive, illuminated wooden Christmas tree. True, he has played Santa Claus many a time, most memorably for most in the Narnia films, but also annually at his son’s school’s Christmas grotto (he was so good his son didn’t recognise him). Yet who knew he was this excessively festive? ....

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