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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).

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Samuel West - current/upcoming radio and narration

The Utter Jazz Quartet will perform on today's episode of In Tune; Sam will narrate their performance (via @BBCInTune).
Summer Lightning is repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra today and tomorrow.
Sam and Maxine Peake are the readers for Words and Music "The Low Countries", which is available on iPlayer until this Sunday.

Sam is doing several performances and readings in the next fortnight. Click the links below for booking details.
29 September. Britten Films, Queen Elizabeth Hall.
1 October. Forward Prize readings, Southbank Centre.
3 October. Britten in Wartime, The Hallé (via Manchester Confidential).
5 October. Purbeck Chamber Music Festival, St Mary's Church Swanage.
10 October. "Look, Stranger", Oxford Playhouse.

Charles Edwards - Downton Abbey and the Power 1000


Screencap from This Morning interview (video source: Baker St Basilisk)

Series 4 of Downton Abbey began last Sunday. Ahead of the premiere, Charles and Laura Carmichael were interviewed on This Morning last Friday. Also, Digital Spy has a gallery of stills from the show.

He is part of the Evening Standard's Power 1000, a list of influential people in London (via Charles' Twitter, @cedwardsactor).

Friday 6 September 2013

Samuel West - Poetry App, Votes for Women, For Your Eyes Only and Look, Stranger


The Poetry App was recently updated with videos of Sam reading poems by Philip Larkin (via @thepoetryapp).

He plays Geoffrey Stonor in the Drama on 3 Votes for Women, which will be broadcast 15 September.

The audiobook For Your Eyes Only will be released 26 September (Audiogo).

Sam has replaced Simon Russell Beale for the 10 October performance of "Look, Stranger" at the Oxford Playhouse (via @GemG1985).

Last Sunday, Scene and Heard shared a picture of Sam hosting a quiz fundraiser.

The Choir of London toured Palestine in late August (Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming). Unfortunately, some of the musicians were unable to perform at one of the concerts because of checkpoint problems (@exitthelemming). Charles Cole's website has some pictures from the tour, including this one of Sam (via @schola_cantorum).

BBC Radio 3 posted a picture of Sam, Ian McMillan, Alexandra Harris and Malcolm Sinclair at Proms Plus Literary (20 August). They discussed the relationship between Britten's words and music.