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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).

Saturday 31 July 2010

Hayley Atwell. Ruth Wilson. Television - The Prisoner. Dan Stevens. Audio - Wolf Hall. Audio - War Horse. BBC Radio.

  • Hayley Atwell attended the Serpentine Gallery Summer party earlier this month. Pictures:
    Rex Features [link]
    WireImage [link]
    Getty/Zimbio [link]
    PR Photos/Starpulse [link]

  • Ruth Wilson interview from Angel [link]

  • The Prisoner begins on ABC1 tonight at 9.20pm [link]

  • Titles featured in the Reading Agency Best Audiobooks of the Year 2010 List include The Honourable Schoolboy (starring Simon Russell Beale, Hugh Bonneville, Anthony Calf and Anna Chancellor), Doctor Who: Dead Air (narrator David Tennant), Wolf Hall (narrator Dan Stevens), and War Horse (narrator Dan Stevens) [link]

  • BBC Radio
    • Benedict Cumberbatch interviews about Sherlock on Loose Ends and the Daily Bacon (26 July) 1|2
    • Simon Russell Beale participated in a Front Row discussion about Stephen Sondheim [link]

Thursday 22 July 2010

Samuel West. Arts funding. Belarus. Comedy of Errors opening night. Radio - Faust. Radio - With Great Pleasure. Television - Random Quest. Equity.

  • A marvellous article by Sam in the Evening Standard about arts funding (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

  • Internet censorship in Belarus
    • An open letter to David Cameron - as well as Sam, signatories included Sir Tom Stoppard, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade [link]
    • A protest at the Belarussian embassy took place on 1 July
  • Sam attended the opening night for The Comedy of Errors at the Open Air Theatre on 29 June [link]

  • BBC Radio
    • Faust (starring Sam, Toby Jones and Anna Maxwell Martin) press release [link]
    • Sam and Harriet Walter are the readers for an upcoming episode of With Great Pleasure. Readings have been chosen by Joan Bakewell. [link]

  • Random Quest will be screened at the BFI 14 and 20 August [link]

  • Sam has been elected to the Equity General Council (via The Stage) [link]

Thursday 15 July 2010

Samuel West - Eastside Educational Trust charity auction


Photo: screencap by me. Video source: Eastside Educational Trust


The Eastside Educational Trust charity auction has been moved forward to this Friday (16 July). It will take place at the Eastside 16th birthday party at Perseverance Works, which Sam will attend. Sam's contribution to the auction is a morning of birdwatching at Rainham Marshes, and lunch afterwards. Online bids for the auction will close before the party, which begins at 7.30pm. (via tweets from @EastsideLondon: 1|2)

Monday 5 July 2010

Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy. Film - Captain America. Television - Rev. Film - Spiderman prequel. BBC Radio.

  • Lovely pictures of Ben Whishaw and Bill Nighy from Shot By Shooter and the Telegraph, respectively ben|bill

  • Dominic Cooper will play Howard Stark in Captain America: The First Avenger (via the Examiner) [link]

  • Hugh Bonneville will guest star in episode 4 of Rev, a sitcom starring Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman [link]

  • Andrew Garfield has been cast as Peter Parker in the Spiderman prequel [link]

  • BBC Radio
    • David Hyde Pierce and Christopher Nolan will be interviewed on Front Row david|christopher
    • Anthony Flanagan and Guy Henry star in the Saturday Play Going to Ground [link]