Last week's item about the appearance of Charter Chambers' Jerome Lynch QC and its clerk Patrick Duane in the forthcoming film 'The All Together' prompted solicitor Steven Newdall to get in touch with his own moment of celluloid glory. He says that, between 1986 and 1988, the cult BBC drama 'A Very Peculiar Practice' - starring Peter Davison as a doctor at a university health centre - was filmed partly at Keele University, where he was studying. During the course of the last episode of the second series, the producers were looking for a number of students to be extras as rioting students (those were the days!).


Mr Newdall takes up the story: 'It took three days to film 15 minutes' worth of footage and I was luckily picked out to have a five second, non-speaking walk-on part during the height of the riot. Following this appearance on the small screen, I am still awaiting future Hollywood scripts and have regrettably had to fill in time by being the manager partner at Levi Solicitors in Leeds.'



Details of other brushes with film glory should be sent to: gazette-editorial@lawsociety.org.uk.