sentences:  Further to his theatre work he received particularly positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Denis Thatcher in "The Long Walk to Finchley" (2008), a BBC dramatisation of the early years of Margaret Thatcher's political career, which also starred Andrea Riseborough and Samuel West.He also starred alongside Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens in the BBC Two series "Vexed".Broadcast on 19 October 2010, he was the co-lead in the BBC4 TV drama, "The First Men in the Moon" written by and co-starring Mark Gatiss.