No sex please, we're actors...

THIS EVENING’S viewing is sorted. We’ll be watching BBC One’s A Very British Scandal with Claire Foy playing Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, whose 1963 divorce case from the Duke (played by Paul Bettany) featured interesting Polaroid photographs of her performing a sex act wearing nothing but a string of pearls in the luxurious mirrored bathroom of her Mayfair house.

- Jennifer Selway

The identity of the gentleman in question remains a mystery as the photo cuts him off above the shoulders.

For this reason he has always been referred to as “the headless man”. Names in the frame include the politician Duncan Sandys and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.

The judge in the case said Marg of Arg was a “highly sexed woman” who was not “satisfied with normal relations and had started to indulge in disgusting sexual activities to gratify a debased sexual appetite”.

So it’s fair to say that this three-part drama will probably contain some sexual activity and will come with a health warning beforehand. But who can resist the philandering upper classes in the 1960s? Not me.