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BAFTA winner Danny Dyer is this week's Radio Times cover star
Leave it out! Danny Dyer on Rivals, rodents, comedy and class - and why he'll never accept a knighthood.
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- Shem Law
Published: Tuesday, 15 July 2025 at 2:00 pm
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the irrepressible Mr Danny Dyer. And can I stop you there? Anyone who watched the episode of ITV1's The Assembly that features neurodiverse people asking him difficult and challenging questions will know that there's a great deal more to Mr Dyer than you perhaps think.
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My view is that he's not far off national treasure status, though to be fair, a more sweary one than perhaps Dame Judi. His interview in this issue isn't for the faint-hearted, but it is a rewarding read - if only to find out why he'll never be called Sir Danny.
Also in this issue we're relaunching the Radio Times Book Club, now sponsored by Dr Oetker Ristorante, and featuring Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page. This month she introduced us to the mesmerising new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere.
And please don't miss Craig McLean's interview with Richard Flanagan, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North, his novel inspired by his father's experience of being an Australian PoW in Burma.
It's a story that will resonate for many of us in Britain whose relatives had to go through that living hell during the Second World War. Flanagan tells us, "In the end, my father forgot the horror and was left with stories of kindness." When synthesised down like that, kindness is really all that matters in this troubled world.
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Danny Dyer photographed exclusively for Radio Times by perou. Styling: Natalie Read. Grooming: Alexis Day.
Also in this week's Radio Times:
- The new drama Narrow Road to the Deep North recalls the horror of Australian PoWs' experiences building the Death Railway during the Second World War.
- Karen Pirie star Lauren Lyle is growing into the role of Val McDermid's no-nonsense cop.
- For her latest role Keeley Hawes had to bond with her estranged son - and master putting together a sniper's rifle.
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Shem Law
Shem Law is the brand editor of Radio Times, and the 20th person to hold that esteemed position in over 100 years. He wasn't allowed a television growing up, but over the years he has rather overcompensated for that fact.
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