Day: March 30, 2021

Lenora & Grigore

Lenora

In a photograph in this week’s Radio Times, Maria Schrader’s character Lenora has the detached, intense look of one of a woman in a Stanley Spencer painting. Deutschland 89, a German-American spy drama, is currently showing on More4.

Grigore and Lenora

Emil Hostina is a Securitate agent, hunkered down with her in a safe house in Timisoara, Romania, at the time of the fall of the Ceausescu regime.

I love the theatricality of the production. I wouldn’t want to stay with these two if they opened and bed & breakfast in Scarborough, but they’re wonderful characters to draw. Perhaps Deutschland will be looking for an artist in residence for their next series?

Unforgotten’s Fiona

Liz White

Fiona Grayson, Liz White’s character in Chris Lang’s crime drama Unforgotten looks very much like the bobble-hatted people we’ve been meeting right through the winter on our regular lockdown walks. In the photograph in last week’s Radio Times that I’ve drawn her from she’s on location in the Peak District. Some of the scenes were filmed at Winnat’s Pass. We’re hoping that, before too long, as restrictions slowly ease, we’ll be able to walk there again.

Fiona is described by RT’s Alison Graham a character who ‘has been trapped by her guilt for most of her life and knows time is running out.’