Jim Broadbent as Sam Ronstadt

“I couldn’t have a better time than I’m having now.”

Jim Broadbent was nominated for another BAFTA TV Award this week, for his role in Any Human Heart.

I met up with him again back in January to talk about his latest TV project – BBC1’s Exile.

Our round table chat included a look back at his career and his next part, alongside Meryl Streep.

John Simm as Tom Ronstadt

“WHO invented this?”

Tom Ronstadt, played by John Simm, is in a pub, unimpressed with the world of karaoke.

“Have you any Smiths, Leonard Cohen?” he asks his screen sister Nancy (Olivia Colman), perusing the songbook in three-part BBC1 thriller Exile.

Who then proceeds to treat the locals to her version of Britney Spears’ Toxic.

There is much to love about Danny Brocklehurst’s drama, with a script as fresh as the day Morrissey first waved gladioli on Top Of The Pops while singing This Charming Man.