
Minister’s Message – Sunday July 4th, 2021
Although the Scottish actor Richard Wilson had done a lot of work on stage and screen – notably as the rock band manager in the drama “Tutti Frutti” – he was relatively unknown to most people until 1990. For that was when the series “One Foot in the Grave” began, starring Wilson as the irascible character Victor Meldrew. Wilson had initially turned down the part, thinking that at 53 he was too young to play the 60-year-old Meldrew; but it brought him national recognition. The series ran for over 40 episodes until Wilson decided that he “was getting a bit fed up of trying to find ways to be angry”. In the poignant final episode, Victor Meldrew is killed in a hit-and-run car accident.
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