Bradley Walsh barely has a day without being on the television somewhere – ‘The Chase’, ‘Beat The Chasers’, ‘Blankety Blank’ and more – recently taking the leading role in the updated version of the TV Series, ‘The Larkins’.

The show was adapted from the books by H. E. Bates, which are about a family who moved from London to a beautiful farm in Kent just after the war .

Pop Larkin, played by Bradley, is a bit of a wheeler dealer and a huge family man. Bradley explained that they tried to stick as close to the original books by H.E. Bates as possible.

‘The scripts were beautifully written and adapted by Simon Nye, ‘ he said.

Being set in a different era, did the show tell us anything about our lives today?

‘This was a big family values show –about caring, worrying and loving all about your nearest and dearest. Which in these strange and worrying times we’ve all had recently seems to be more prevalent and has become more important than ever. I think that brought a lot of people closer together and they’ve realised how much they miss people in their lives and to stop rushing around, stop chasing and spend time, more time with your family.’

Bradley added that the show took the audience back to the days when none of that rushing around existed, there were no mobile phones, there was no internet, when you needed something, you had to go and ask them (face to face).

‘I think we can learn a lot from looking at a family like this, we could learn an awful lot from the Larkin’s.’

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