CHATTING TO ... TREVOR EVE

There's a Bank Holiday treat tonight, as Trevor Eve stars in a drama for all the family. Framed (Mon 8.30pm ITV1) is set in a remote Welsh village where art curator, Quentin Lester (Trevor Eve) has fled in order to hide a stash of priceless paintings for protection. Here he ends up making some important discoveries about how life is more priceless than even than art...

The actor, who returns in hit BBC1 drama Waking The Dead next week, tells us about this picture-perfect show.

"Quentin is the senior curator at the National Gallery, someone who has devoted his life to art and the appreciation of art. He is intolerant of people and doesn't find them as fascinating as the canvasses that are in front of him so."

"When he has the opportunity to go into isolation with all of the paintings, he is very excited by this. In the end, though, it's the interaction of the locals in the village which brings him round to an appreciation of people."

"Yes. Angharad (Torchwood's Eve Myles), is responsible for making him realise that beauty lies within people and not necessarily on canvas - and it's been great working with Eve, she's delightful, a really lovely girl."

"It's an adaptation of a children's book by Frank Cottrell Boyce. He's created a wonderful world, which is a blend of fantasy and reality. I think the fascinating thing about him is that he doesn't have any cynicism. He is a very un-cynical writer and I think that is rather charming and something that's exciting to experience in this particular day and age."

"Yes, I have, I've spent time in the National Gallery and it's not an effort believe me - I mean it's just wonderful. I just think the work is just spectacular, you read about it and you read about the lives of the artists and it's amazing."

"It's a spectacular setting. I mean the landscape is so dramatic, it's quite wonderful up there apart from the fact it seems to rain most of the time, but it's breath-taking. I have really enjoyed filming in Wales; my mother was from South Wales so most of my holidays as a child were spent in the Mumbles of Swansea, so it was my home. And part of my family still live in Swansea, so it's familiar environment to me."