That 'modern cockney bloke' is (I think, if I remember the programme right) David Tennant, a Scot, and the new Doctor Who. There's a brilliant little vignette in the first of his Dr Who outings, where he's selecting clothes from the Tardis wardrobe. He picks up a rather splendid piped frock coat and shirt with frills and ruffles that looks strangely familiar to anyone who saw him in 'Casanova'.....

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