2000 finals. In 2002, Bolam played the serial killer Harold Shipman in Shipman, the ITV adaptation of Brian Masters' book on the case, Prescription for Murder b and Father Leonard Tibbings in Dalziel and Pascoe (Ser. 7, Ep. 1 'Sins of the Fathers'). He portrayed Harold Wilson, the former Prime Minister, in the 2006 BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson. He appeared in Frank Loesser's musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Chichester Festival Theatre during the 2005 summer season. He played the role of Grandpa in the Cbeebies show Grandpa in My Pocket. In 2009 he played Ken Lewis, CEO of the Bank of America, in the television dramatisation The Last Days of Lehman Brothers. His appearances on the London stage include Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse and Ben Elton's play, Gasping. In 1974, he appeared in a novel production of 'Macbeth' at The Young Vic, in which the lead role was shared by Bolam and two other actors. It was announced on 20 September 2011, that Bolam had quit the role of Jack Halford in New Tricks, just days after two more series were commissioned. Bolam continues to work in the theatre as well as on television. During spring 2015, he appeared in the play Bomber's Moon by William Ivory at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London. Personal life Bolam lives in Wisborough Green, West Sussex and Chiswick, London, with his wife, the actress Susan Jameson (who co-starred with him in an early episode of The Likely Lads, the TV series and "New Tricks". Bolam also appeared in When the Boat Comes In, Close and True and Grandpa in My Pocket). They have a daughter. Bolam plays golf and is a member of the Stage Golfing Society. In March 1977, Bolam was Roy Plomley's guest on Desert Island Discs, where he picked as his favourite track, the "Violin Concerto in D" by Ludwig van Beethoven, as his book The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, and as his luxury, "selected cases of French wine". In the show, he expressed an ambition to appear in a Western, and referred to his enjoyment of horses and having been a race-horse owner. Bolam appeared in a 2014 video protesting against oil drilling near Wisborough Green. Bolam sings top tenor in the Wisborough Green barber shop choir. The choir is a small