Right Face, Right Time ; James Nesbitt has Always Had Perfect Timing When He Was 12 He Escaped a Bomb by Seconds. He Tells Piers Hernu Why His Tv Career has Been Just As Lucky, While On the Following Pages Live Presents Your Guide to the Most Desirable Men's Watches

Summary

---

My dad was driving my sister Andrea and me to Ballymena Town Hall.

I must have been about ten years old. He left us waiting in the car while he went inside to pay his taxes. Suddenly this guy came running up to us shouting, "Get out, get out, there's a bomb!" As we scrambled out of the car I saw my dad running towards us waving frantically.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Right Face, Right Time ; James Nesbitt has Always Had Perfect Timing When He Was 12 He Escaped a Bomb by Seconds. He Tells Piers Hernu Why His Tv Career has Been Just As Lucky, While On the Following Pages Live Presents Your Guide to the Most Desirable Men's Watches

'He hurried us away and the bomb, which turned out to be in the car beside ours, exploded soon after.

When we were allowed back, the whole car had been blown apart. My dad had picked up a dozen eggs that morning and I remember seeing them on what was left of the back seat and thinking how strange it was that somehow eight of the eggs were still perfectly intact. I'll never forget it.' James Nesbitt, one of Britain's most prolific and highest-paid TV actors, best known for his roles in Cold Feet, Murphy's Law and those ubiquitous Yellow Pages ads, was lucky that day in 1974. And, having rarely found himself out of work since the day ...

See the full content of this document

---