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People who get OBEs are people like firefighters and lifesavers – these are real-life heroes.

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Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.

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I get a lot of letters from French lady admirers – and gentlemen. ‘Midsomer’ is a huge hit in France, and it’s all down to the guy dubbing me into French – a middle-aged balding fellow.

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But, in real life, I’m not a sex symbol. I’m popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don’t see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

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I’m flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion – if I’ve had a nice bottle of Beaujolais – I can imagine myself really being one.

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The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.

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Take vicars; there are often village vicars in ‘Midsomer Murders’, but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago.

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Midsomer Murders’ is more about character and atmosphere. It portrays a kind of idealised rural England, just as the French like to imagine it.

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Midsomer’ is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

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I don’t know why ‘Midsomer Murders’ is so popular; I’ve asked this many times and I’ve asked the Germans particularly because I’ve become very fond of them, to be honest. And they say it’s the irony, the sense of humour and so on.

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Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn’t exist in the 1980s.

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You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you’re looking at a very long and lonely old age.

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