Nettleton and his wife teamed up to take Raymond Briggs’s stage version of his anti-nuclear story When the Wind Blows on tour
. Both CND members themselves, they played the elderly couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs, based on the writer’s own parents, who trust in “the authorities” in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
When he performed in John Hale’s play The Noise Stopped for ITV’s Armchair Theatre series in 1966, one critic remarked on his similarity to Alec Guinness – “the deliberate speech, the apparent under-playing, the suggestion of fire beneath the ice”. Nettleton continued popping up in character roles on TV, and the talent for comedy he demonstrated in Yes Minister led him to be cast in a string of sitcoms.
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