New role welcome
Roy Marsden—the brutal newspaper-owner John Bennet in “Inside Story,” screening at 9.00 on One tonight—has made a clean break from his previous typecast roles. “Inside Story” is his first bid to distance himself from the Dalgliesh figure of the P. D. James detective dramas with which he feels he has become identified on television. “I wanted to get away from the gentlemanly, middle-class chap, playing everything off the back foot. “I enjoyed playing a character who was neither sympathetic nor
attractive. “There is a glamour and power in the ownership of British papers which doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world,” Marsden says. Britain’s Fleet Street today is changing, the old aristocracy giving way to a brash new ownership, bringing with it circulation wars, new technology, widespread redundancies, personality conflicts and disputes between unions and proprietors on a larger and bloodier scale. Marsden sees “Inside Story” as a series which reflects "the magic and excitement” of the times in the newspaper world.
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