By Alison Rowat Senior politics and features writer
The Pact with Julie Hesmondhalgh as Nancy, Laura Fraser as Anna Picture: PA Photo/BBC/Little Door (The Pact)/Warren Orchard NOW there’s an idea to run up the flag pole and salute, thought I, reading my copy of the Radio Times (I was on holiday last week but total pro that I am, I like to keep my hand in, even if I did have to visit three Co-ops before finding a copy of the mag. Oh Arran, you will never become a buzzing media capital of the world on that showing. Thank God).
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