Veteran actor David Graham, who spoke recently at the Doctor Who 50th anniversary convention — he voiced Daleks — is set to reprise his most famous character of all. He will be voicing Parker, the cockney butler to Lady Penelope, in ITV’s remake of the classic series Thunderbirds, which is due to air next year.

Many an infant viewer will also have got to hear him in the meantime: Mr Graham is the voice of Grandpa in Peppa Pig