In this episode, I interview one of those patrons who responded to me recent shout-out for interviewees – and I couldn’t be more delighted to welcome actor and wargamer Nigel Betts onto the show.
Amongst wargamers, military historians and aficionados of the work of novelist Bernard Cornwell, Nigel’s greatest claim to fame is having played the role of Septimus Pyecroft in Sharpe’s Mission, one of the few shows in the Sharpe series not directly based on a novel. Filmed in Turkey, whilst it was certainly one of the highlights of Nigel’s career, it also presented him with some unique challenges, as you’ll hear!
But Nigel has been an actor for 37 years now, and the variety of roles he has played is simply astonishing, so you’re bound to have seen him at least once on screen or stage, if not multiple times. See his online CV here.
But of course, the main reason for Nigel being here is that he is a wargamer through and through, whose first wargame influence was, after his father, The War Game by Charles Grant – indeed, a man after my own heart, with a love of the horse and musket era in particular and for imagi-nations too.
So, sit back, relax and listen to the dulcet tones of this lovely man who, it transpires, spent a decade living within a stonesthrow of my house, but we never met!
You will find a copy of Nigel’s article from Battlegames issue 30 attached to this introduction.
Henry
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