Grief, hallucinations, and Poldark: an interview with Jack Farthing

Jack Farthing plays George Warleggan in Poldark. Aficionados of Winston Graham’s rollicking adventure series, set in Cornwall at the turn of the century — 18th that is — will need no explanation, but the uninitiated need to know that George is Captain Ross Poldark’s nemesis in love, business, and politics, a banker and an all-round bad egg. At the end of the last series, when it began to look as though George might have it all, his wife Elizabeth died, shockingly, from puerperal sepsis. As you may have seen, in the early episodes of the current, and final, series of Poldark, George descended into and, eventually, emerged from the depths of grief.