When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

A Very Peculiar Practice (1986) as Professor Furie
The Monocled Mutineer (1986) as Brigadier General Thompson
Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (1985) as Rex Fortescue
The Last Bastion (1984) as Winston Churchill
Brass (three series: 1983 1984 and 1990) as Bradley Hardacre
Masada (1981) as Emperor Vespasian
Churchill and the Generals (1979) as Winston Churchill
Henry VIII (1979) as Cardinal Wolsey. Adapted from the play about the conductor; see above. Daly as 642 1984
Actors or Playing for Real by Lope de Vega as Emperor Diocletian BBC Radio 3 1983
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Saturday Night Theatre BBC Radio 4 1982
Operation Lightning Pegasus by Alick Rowe as Agammemnon Saturday Night Theatre BBC Radio 4 1981
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