Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)

Episode #2.5 (2013)

Derek Jacobi: Alan

Quotes 

• Muriel : What does your daughter do, Alan?

  Alan : Uh, she farms. She's a farmer. She farms sheep.

  Muriel : Oh! All the things you might have said, and I'd been guessing, that would not have been one of them. Is it a special variety? Breed?

  Alan : No, no, no, it's just your bog-standard Swaledales.

  Muriel : Oh, fascinating.

  Alan : It can be.

  Muriel : Lambing.

  Alan : Oh, yes.

• Alan : Where have Raff and Ellie taken Calamity, then?

  Gillian : Oh, just... Robbie. Robbie's. He's got this new girlfriend; it's Cheryl. So, he works with her. She's a copper. She's...

  [sighs] 

  Gillian : blonde, gorgeous, 15 years younger than him, divorced.

  Celia : Is he making a point?

  Gillian : Yeah, course he is. He's always hated her up 'til now. Gone on about how annoying and dippy she is. So... yeah. Men! Transparent. What can you do? Present company excepted, obviously.

  Alan : Yeah.