Paul Roberts (musician) studio CDs. Soulsec was in existence as a side-project for some of the later years Paul was still with The Stranglers. Paul played the role of Pop Larkin in the world premiere of "The Darling Buds of May-Perfick". This was a musical based on H. E. Bates' novel "The Darling Buds of May", written by David Burton, formerly a member of the cast of "Only Fools & Horses". The show ran for a week in April 2008 at The Kings Theatre, Southsea as a trial to see whether the company could raise enough interest to finance a West End production.
The Darling (novel) or unwillingness to bring Hannah's African family to life" calling it a "major failure on Banks's part, in a book otherwise reverberating with ideas and startling prose." A film adaptation of The Darling starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Martin Scorsese was planned and later scrapped. In 2011 Jessica Chastain was rumoured to be attached to the role of Hannah with Denis Villeneuve directing. The Darling (novel) The Darling is a historical novel written by Russell Banks, and published on October 12, 2004 by HarperCollins. The novel is narrated by white American liberal Hannah Musgrave, a woman in her fifties