A few choice extracts…

“My Budapest hotel room neighbour was Anthony Flanagan, who played John Morfin, and because we spent so much time together on set, we became good friends and would spend a lot of time wandering around together taking in the sights.

“I also remember getting an invite to Tobias Menzies’ birthday party in Budapest and thinking how much my life had changed, as Fintry used to be my cut off point for parties!”

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“It was a joy watching Paul Ready play [Goodsir] so compassionately and I loved sharing scenes with him. When you’re playing very emotional roles, you try to break out and have fun between takes to keep yourself sane.

We had a lot of fun between takes. For instance, the costume department would come around and take photos of you for continuity, then the next morning you would have a photo left in your trailer so you could make sure everything was exactly as it was the day before.

One morning I went into my trailer and looked at my continuity photo and Paul was standing in the background making a very rude gesture towards me!”

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“I was invited to a private screening of the first three episodes in London and after helping a very lost Tobias Menzies to find the venue, I sat down and watched the show. Within the first 10 minutes I knew it would be a hit: the writing, the direction, the music, the cinematography, the acting – everything about it was brilliant!”

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Gordon said he has never encountered such a passionate fandom, which he described as being an array of “extremely talented, knowledgeable and just plain lovely people”.