On 24th February 1998 I arrived back at the Nene Valley Railway site behind the Sugar Beet factory in Peterborough for my second day of playing a German soldier in the TV adaptation of " Christabel " starring
Elizabeth Hurley .
This second day involved us travelling backwards and forwards along the length of the Nene Valley while he scenes were being shot form within the train. The Nene Valley Railway has been used many times for filming shots of James Bond films and was used on this occasion because the river Nene at this point is very similar to the Rhine in Germany.
I forgot to mention that on the first day, which was a night shoot, where we filmed the scene depicting us sitting outside of a Berlin station being bombed, we had spent some time learning a German traditional song
" In der Heimat ist sur shoen" which means in our homeland it is beautiful. I can still sing that song today, a very emotional song which one of us began singing and eventually the whole trainload of us had joined in.
" Christabel " must have been one of Elizabeth Hurley's first major roles as the year was 1998.
On the same date in 2000, I arrived at the Central studios in Codner, in the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, to be in another episode of "Peak Practice ".
My first episode had been in Matlock on 19th November 1992, and in the ten years between 1992 and 2002, I appeared in 26 episodes, my final one being on 20th July 2002.
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