It’s put to Fraser, Leyburn and co-director Lisa Barros D’Sa that the tone was to evoke the absurdity of the period. “I suppose it’s a heightened tone,” Barros D’Sa says, pointing to an invented giant cardboard head of Eanna Hardwicke’s superbly observed Keane, that seems to be following him around. Barros D’Sa was often in her car listening to hours of Ireland’s hysterical radio debates, where Keane biographer Eamon Dunphy was very much a main character. “Obviously, the modern world looks a bit more like Roy's version of how things should be done,” Barros D’Sa says. “And in terms of talking about Englishness, obviously, we have the wider research, Roy’s autobiographies,” Barros D’Sa adds.

Source: Express January 27, 2026 11:53 UTC