Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar spent three hours drunkenly chatting to the Mersey Ferry pilot while riding across the river during his first trip to Liverpool.
He spent the previous night drinking in the Adelphi Hotel with fellow Northern Irish actors James Ellis, John Hewitt and John Keegan while filming a TV series in the early 1980s. On his second visit to the city, he stayed for £20 a week in a house on Huskisson Street in the Georgian Quarter owned by Beryl Williams, wife of The Beatles' first manager Allan Williams.
This week, the star of upcoming ITV detective drama Ridley was back, promoting a new festival showcasing the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Samuel Beckett. Described as 'one of the 20th century's most celebrated playwrights and authors', Beckett attended the same school as Oscar Wilde in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, where the festival's curator Adrian Dunbar is from.
