‘I love a ghost. Who doesn’t love a ghost in things?” says Diane Morgan, the actress who plays TV’s dim-witted documentarian Philomena Cunk, stole all her scenes in Motherland and is back on our screens in the third series of the BBC’s Mandy. She is telling me about the time she thought she saw a genuine spook, a creeping shadow on the wall of her widowed grandmother’s house in Wales, at the age of 12. “It was so weird,” she says from her home in Bloomsbury. “And I’ve never forgotten it.”
There have been quite a few spectres in Mandy, where she plays the feckless, workshy, oddly glamorous titular character with the beehive, boots and near-permanent grimace. In the Dickens-inspired Christmas special from
