I happened to hear part of a BBC radio programme which was a half hour interview with Colin Firth. It was about the books he likes. It turns out that he is not only a rather good (and delectable) actor, but a very well-read and thoughtful man.

He talked interestingly about Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, so much so that he sent me back to it - after many years. Excellent. Such a wonderful piece of self-examination by the 'whisky priest', looping back over itself in layers of probing contradiction.