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Elizabeth Aubrey

Outlander star Caitriona Balfe on why the sexiest show on TV has a duty to face up to its dark side

It’s been called the steamiest show on television, and a ‘time-travelling Game of Thrones’. Yes, Outlander is back for its seventh epic season.

The show, based on the best-selling books by Diana Gabaldon, stars the Irish actress Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser, a 1940s English nurse with front line war experience, who finds herself accidentally travelling back in time (via an innocuous-looking stone circle, so, beware, ramblers) to the 18th century, where life is pretty grim.

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