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Professor T review: Frances de la Tour still sparkles like a diamond, 50 years after Rising Damp, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Why does Frances de la Tour not have a damehood? It can't be that she was a Leftie firebrand in her youth. It was practically obligatory in theatreland in the 70s.

This quickly wore thin when he was helping police solve murders from his study at Cambridge University, so the writers have found a way to prise him out of his comfort zone — by sending him to prison This quickly wore thin when he was helping police solve murders from his study at Cambridge University, so the writers have found a way to prise him out of his comfort zone — by sending him to prison. Later, in a brief vignette with Juliet Stevenson (pictured, left), De La Tour picked up a book by Czech novelist Franz Kafka and compared her pooch to the cover photo

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