Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 20 January 1966, page 19


Australian Rod

Taylor's BBC role

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP). - With the aid of a Donegal tweed suit, a moustache and a little black bag, Australian actor Grant Taylor is being transformed into what television producers hope will be everyone's idea of an English country gentie

man-veterinarian.

The 48-year-old stage star has been chosen for one of the leading roles in a new £500,000 sterling (£A625,000) commercial television serial called Weavers Green.

He plays a senior vet, in a small country town with a wife, a young son and a teenage daughter. His wife is played by veteran English actress Megs Jenkins who visited Australia many years ago for a season with the old Minerva Theatre , in Syd

ney.

"The first of the twiceweekly programmes will be seen in England in April. It's all about a little boy whose dog gets run over - a real tear-jerker," his wife told reporters.

Independent television, the producers, say Weavers Green will be their answer to the marathon BBC radio serial? The Dales and The Archerssoul-mates of the ABC's epic Blue Hills.

It will provide the avid British serial followers with a folksy alternative to the smash success Coronation Street

Taylor told AAP later he thought viewers would "lap it up" if the show was screened in Australia. "They take whatever they are given of the great morass of stuff that comes out of British and American television. No discrimination," the actor said.