Line of Duty cast interview: 'The first thing you do with the script is check you're not dead'

Actor Adrian Dunbar is recalling walking down the street in north London recently when a police car came shooting past with its blue lights flashing. “They saw me, screeched to a halt, rolled down the window and shouted ‘Oi! Line of Duty!’”, says Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC1 saga about police corruption – a subject that might not automatically endear the series to the constabulary. “I think the police like it because we are so proc