From Punk Records to Poirot: Bob Barrett’s Belfast Homecoming Takes Centre Stage

There’s a warmth in Bob Barrett’s voice when he talks about Belfast — the kind reserved for places that shape you. Best known to TV audiences as the ever-reliable Sasha Levy in Holby City, Barrett is back in the city this week, treading the boards of the Grand Opera House in Belfast with Death on the Nile. But long before the stage lights and standing ovations, there was a young student finding his feet — and himself — at Queen's University Belfast in the mid-1980s. “I had one of...