Is Jim Broadbent Britain's best-loved actor? The slate of screen roles he's accumulated over the years " this Christmas Carol is his return to theatre after a decade away " has surely given him a very special quality in the nation's consciousness, a combination of general benignity with more than a hint of absent-mindedness, an almost madcap bafflement at the world.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:46AM on December 10, 2015