‘She was supposed to be going travelling in April 2020, which of course she couldn’t, so she did all that saving up and then couldn’t go anywhere. The eldest took a gap year and had worked hard since her A-levels right up until Christmas 2019, doing shifts in pubs. ‘But it’s been hard watching the effect it’s been having on my daughters. ‘I have to be very careful not to sound like I’m bleating, because lockdown is stupidly easy for me really,’ he says. Since then he’s spent more time at home in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire than ever, and admits it’s the longest he’s spent with daughters Isabella, 20, and Willow, 17, in their lifetimes. The Great Escapists was filmed before Covid hit the UK – just before, in fact, with Richard finishing the shoot and landing back in Blighty just three days before the first restrictions came into force back in March. So we argue about that, and that’s a narrative arc that spans the six episodes.’ ‘Equally, if you’re not that into science, there’s a sub-plot that exists where Tory really wants to build something to get him rescued, whereas I’m rather enjoying turning my desert island into a kingdom and I’m happy to stay there. 'So gradually we build a more luxurious place to live and equipment to catch fish or make some nice hooch, and along the way we talk about the science of what we’re doing because that’s what we’d do in real life. ‘We’re clever people so we solve that quite quickly, and then we decide to make a better life for ourselves while waiting to be rescued. ‘First of all, if we were on a desert island we’d need food, shelter and water,’ says Richard.
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