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Woman About Town

It’s a wrap

thermal socks, two thermal jerseys, trousers, cashmere pullover, overcoat, gloves, scarf: standard working outfit for a day’s filming in central London. are so minute that anything which can be shot out of doors will be, hence all those frames of historians wandering moodily round St James’s Park. I’ve spent more time shivering in the streets of Whitehall than the wraith of Boris Johnson’s conscience. The crew get to wear full polar gear, but appearing on camera requires one to look moderately normal — which is not so easy when the “wardrobe” is the wing mirror

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