Luminous

Have you withdrawal symptoms after Strictly Come Dancing and two back-to-back episodes of The Killing, or have you been fixed by a double dose of Borgen on Saturday nights?

What is it about Danish drama that has us all fixated on it? Is it the tight story lines or the suspense? Or is it the weight of Danish design in almost every scene? Just as I started to relax into the subtitles last Saturday the scene shifted to an investigative journalist unravelling a scandal crucial to the development of the story.

I was so taken with figuring out how she, living in a grey, pokey studio flat, could afford or even want a Normann Copenhagen washing up bowl, which is designed to double up as a champagne cooler.