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My blog has quite a lot of posts about Samuel West (Julius Caesar, On Chesil Beach and Darkest Hour) and Charles Edwards (My Fair Lady Australian tour and Henry IX).

Monday 21 June 2010

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

  • Hayley Atwell and Gemma Arterton portraits by Matt Jones.

  • Unspoilery screencaps of Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough from the Never Let Me Go trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):




  • BBC Radio
    • Tom Hollander will be a guest on Start the Week [link]
    • On the Hour, produced by Armando Iannucci, stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, and Patrick Marber [link]
    • Howard Brenton will be interviewed on Front Row and Night Waves
    • Diana Quick, Simon McBurney, Olivia Williams, Clemency Burton-Hill, and Mat Fraser will present episodes of The Essay Half Shame, Half Glory - Postcards from the Acting Profession [link]
    • Rebecca Hall was interviewed on The Film Programme [link]

Samuel West. Narration - Lines of Flight. Radio - Summer Lightning. Radio - Faust. Bush Theatre gala.

Monday 14 June 2010

Samuel West. Radio - A Brief History of Mathematics. Radio - Faust.

Sam is the reader for A Brief History of Mathematics (formerly Narrative History of Maths), which begins on BBC Radio 4 today. Thanks to Sam for confirming the title:


Sam, Toby Jones, and Derek Jacobi star in a BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Faust, respectively playing Faust, Mephistopheles, and God. It will be broadcast in September. From Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming: 1|2

Sunday 13 June 2010

Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, Laura Wade. British Academy Television Awards. BBC Radio.

  • Interviews with Rebecca Hall (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) and Ruth Wilson from the Guardian rebecca|ruth

  • Laura Wade interview from the Sheffield Telegraph about Alice [link]

  • British Academy Television Awards
    • Selected winners: Julie Walters (leading actress, Mo), Matthew Macfadyen (leading actor, Criminal Justice), and Rebecca Hall (supporting actress, Red Riding 1974). The Thick of It received three awards - female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), and situation comedy.
    • Pictures 1|2|3|4|5|6
    • Article from Instyle [link]
    • Videos from BAFTA, including a red carpet interview with Ruth Wilson, and an interview with the cast and crew of The Thick of It [link]
    • Press release from MAC. Their artists did make up for Romola Garai, Ashley Jensen, and Ruth Wilson. [link]

  • BBC Radio
    • Roger Allam and Alex Jennings star in The Idiot (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
    • Stephen Mangan reads The Dream Travellers for Big Toe Books [link]
    • Juliet Stevenson was interviewed on Loose Ends [link]

Samuel West. Radio - Spitfire. Audio - Brighton Rock.

  • Sam will play RJ Mitchell in Spitfire, which will be broadcast 11 September on BBC Radio 4 (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming: 1|2|3) [link]
  • He has recorded the BBC audiobook Brighton Rock. A release date has not been confirmed. From his Twitter, @exitthelemming: 1|2

Saturday 5 June 2010

Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Film - Jackboots on Whitehall. Film - Made in Dagenham. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Through a Glass Darkly. BBC Radio.

  • Some recently released stills from The Pillars of the Earth [link]

  • Jackboots on Whitehall
    • The film (featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, and Alan Cumming) will have its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (via the Times) [link]
    • Trailer [link]

  • The poster, and some stills from Made in Dagenham.

  • Through A Glass Darkly
  • BBC Radio
    • Thea Sharrock (director of After the Dance, starring Nancy Carroll and Benedict Cumberbatch) will be interviewed on Start the Week [link]
    • David Tennant stars in Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag "The Day Dandini Came to Town"  [link]
    • Big Toe Books: Martin Freeman reads The House of Windjammer, and Sharon Horgan reads Alice Next Door. [link]

Wednesday 2 June 2010

Television - Doctor Who. Dan Stevens - Radio - The Secret Pilgrim.

  • Screencaps from the Doctor Who "Vincent and the Doctor" (series 5 episode 10) trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
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  • Dan Stevens will play Ben Cavendish in The Complete Smiley: The Secret Pilgrim, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, starting on Sunday 13 June.  [link]