Some filming actually took place in an Oxford Oxfam shop where one of the crew put down a small video monitor and forgot to pick it up when they left. Realising when they got to the next location someone went back to retrieve it they found it was on sale for £2,99 while it was actually worth £2 1/2 thousand.
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes appeared in The English Patient (1996) and The Invisible Woman (2013).