One lady driver

The women Greta Scacchi played on screen were once in the habit of turning up somewhere warm and causing a bit of bother with the locals. She did that at the start of her career, in 1983’s Heat and Dust, a Merchant Ivory film set in the British Raj. Then again in White Mischief, a 1987 film set among the colonials in 1940s Kenya.

Now, in Darby and Joan, she’s at it again, sort of.

This time, though, the 62-year-old is a widowed English nurse on a perilous adventure into outback Australia, to find why her husband died there when he was meant to be in Spain. Except, well, it’s not all