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Outstanding In His Field

SCI-FACT!

Bill Bailey guest stars in “Calliope Jane”, playing the owner of a travelling fair.

WHEN RED ALERT catches up with actor Mackenzie Crook, he’s on the last lap of post-production work on a bumper crop of Worzel Gummidge specials, which he’s once again written, starred in, and directed while wearing the heavy-duty prosthetics required to transform him into a turnipheaded scarecrow.

“It was brutal this time round,” he admits. “We did three in one go, and so it was a nine-week shoot. I enjoyed the

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