Martin Clunes reveals his four-legged love

Comic actor Martin Clunes has told Horse Magazine that he's a keen and accomplished horseman and the love of his life - wife and child aside - is a horse called Chester. The Doc Martin star said: "He is a Shire X Hanoverian X hunter and he is pretty big, so it was quite scary when I first went to see him. "He's a blokey kind of horse I think - he can be quite shovey until you shove him back. But he loves me." Such is his love for all things equine, Martin has recently completed filming a documentary about horses, Horsepower, to be shown on ITV1 later this year. "All the things I got to do, from riding Arab horses in Abu Dhabi to quarter-horses in the Wild West, were amazing," said Martin. "I think the point of this programme is that it's a journey of discovery for people watching, as well as for me. "I'm largely ignorant about a lot of this, but I am finding out along with the viewer and that's what makes for good television - I hope." Read the full interview in this month’s issue of Horse Magazine, out now

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.