Martin Clunes
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781 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Martin Clunes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the story my mum told was that somewhere my grandfather, who I never met, met the Duke de Morrow and sort of buttonholed him in a hotel in Austria or something and sort of pretended that he was my father's godfather, which he wasn't, but he gave him the name anyway.
And so he was, yeah, Sheriff de Morrow.
The sheriff thing, there was a few of them were sheriffs.
No, it was in their... Just a family name.
Their name, yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
He took it out of the local library and wrote his... You know this dad's head in that...
one of those famous photographers of the day.
Angus McBain.
Angus McBain.
With your head floating in a black banger.
And he took my dad's face off and put a monkey skull on there.
Because I think my dad passed on one of his plays when he was running the Arts Theatre.
Who was Alec Clunes?
Why was he well-known?
He was well-known because he was an actor, a successful actor in the classical sense, mainly theatre.
He was nervous of cameras, I think, or he just didn't get enough exposure or practice.
He appeared in one of the Olivier films, didn't he?
Yes, he's in Henry V, Last Man to the Wig Basket.
But yes, he was.
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