‘I can’t do a WalesOnline article without mentioning Gavin & Stacey,” laughs actor Steffan Rhodri, who has kindly indulged this writer’s enthusiastic delight of being able to talk about one of Welsh TV’s greatest characters, aka Dave Coaches.
The mustachioed bus driver with an easy tolerance of recreational drugs is Steffan’s most recognised role, despite taking up just a few weeks’ work back in the late 2000s, and is oft-quoted to this day.
But despite Dave being ingrained into UK sitcom folklore, and Steffan warmly talking about Ruth Jones and James Corden’s creation, he’s not why we’re chatting on a grumbly, grey May Friday. Steffan is about to be seen in BBC One’s Steeltown Murders, the telling of a team of south Wales detectives’ persistence and use of brand-new DNA technology to solve murders from 30 years previously.
