Samuel West. Radio - Spitfire. Narration - The Wounded Platoon.

• Programme information for Spitfire, starring Sam, Rory Kinnear, Samuel Barnett and Ruth Wilson [link]
• Sam narrated The Wounded Platoon on BBC2 (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

Toronto International Film Festival. BBC Radio.

• Guests attending the Toronto International Film Festival include Andrea Riseborough, Carey Mulligan, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins; Mark Romanek, Mike Leigh, Nigel Cole, Stephen Frears, and Tom Hooper [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Simon Woods, Kevin Eldon and Chris Larkin star in the Saturday Play Boscobel [link]
• Claire Skinner will be interviewed on Woman's Hour [link]
• Evanna Lynch narrates the Afternoon Reading Foster [link]

Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

Source: aco.com.au

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Samuel West star in Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer, written by Laura Wade and featuring arrangements of String Quartet No. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata" (Janácek) and Violin Sonata in A "Kreutzer" (Beethoven) by Richard Tognetti. The production will tour Australia 11-24 November (via Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

Television - Downton Abbey. Television - Boardwalk Empire. Ruth Wilson. Film - Never Let Me Go. Theatre - Deathtrap. BBC Radio.

• Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne Froggatt and Gareth Neame will be on the Q&A panel for the Downton Abbey BFI preview screening on 21 September (via C19 - registration required) [link]
  
  
• Kelly Macdonald is featured in a Vanity Fair slideshow about Boardwalk Empire [link]
  
  
• Two weeks ago, Ruth Wilson attended the TCA tour (via Anglophenia). Pictures:
  Getty [link]
  WireImage [link]
  
  
• Stills from Never Let Me Go [link]
  
  
• Deathtrap
• Simon Russell Beale interview from the Guardian [link]
• Promo picture from Playbill [link]
• Screencaps from the play's extended trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Blake Ritson, Harry Lloyd and Burn Gorman star in the Afternoon Play Unauthorised History: The Killing [link] 
• William Beck, Alison Pettitt and Fenella Woolgar star in the Classic Serial No Highway [link]
• Benjamin Whitrow, Bryan Dick and Christina Cole star in series 2 of the Woman's Hour Drama Dear Mr Spectator [link]

Hayley Atwell. Vanity Fair. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World European premiere.

• Hayley will be profiled in the September 2010 issue of Vanity Fair (via Vanity Fair UK) [link]
  
  
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World European premiere
• Pictures:
  WireImage [link]
  Getty [link]
  Rex Features 1|2|3|4
• Hayley wore a House of Fraser dress [link]

Dan Stevens. Television - Downton Abbey. Audio - Wolf Hall. Audio - War Horse.

• A bit about post-production for Downton Abbey from Dan's Twitter, @thatdanstevens:

  "Just about to do ADR for the final two Eps of Downton Abbey..."

  
  
• Voting has opened for the Audiobooks Awards 2010. Dan has narrated two of the nominated audiobooks: Wolf Hall and War Horse. (via Dan's Twitter, @thatdanstevens) [link]

Samuel West. Arts funding. NCA board. Index on Censorship. Narration - Peer Gynt. Narration - Nocturne. Audio - A Shard of Ice. Radio - The Vanishing. Theatre - Generation Jeans. Television - Garrow's Law. Theatre - A Number.

• An extended version of the arts funding article has been posted at Ning (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]
  
  
• The Arts Desk has made a partial transcript available of a discussion on You and Yours about arts funding, which Sam participated in [link]
  
  
• Board profile for the National Campaign for the Arts [link]
  
  
• Video from Sir Tom Stoppard Presents... Belarus Free Theatre, an event hosted by Index on Censorship [link]
  
  
  
• Sam will narrate Incidental Music to Peer Gynt by Grieg with the Southampton Philharmonic on Saturday 27 November (via City Local) [link]
  
  
• Lucy Parham interview from the Harrogate International Festival's website about Nocturne: The Romantic Life of Chopin, which toured in July. Sam and Harriet Walter were the readers. [link]
  
  
• Sam plays Albert Tiermann in the Doctor Who audio Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice, which will be released in November 1|2|3
  
  
• Sam recently recorded the radio play The Vanishing in Glasgow [link]
  
  
• Sam read from Generation Jeans by Nikolai Khlezin at the HighTide Arts Club in Edinburgh last week (posted earlier at my Twitter, @spiffyjellybean) [link]
  
  
• Some tweets from Sam's Twitter about filming Garrow's Law 1|2|3
  
  
• A Number will be revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory, 29 September-5 November (via Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

BBC Radio

• Blake Ritson, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Toby Jones star in the Classic Serial The Wings of the Dove [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West star in the Afternoon Plays Rumpole and the Family Pride and Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
• Andrew Scott and Aidan McArdle star in the Afternoon Play Stannie and Jim [link]
• Bill Nighy, Emily Woof, and Amanda Root are the readers for the Afternoon Reading The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham [link]
• Rebecca Front and Rafe Spall will be interviewed on Loose Ends [link]
• Series 3 of Fry's English Delight begins next week [link]

UK Film Council letter. Film - Made in Dagenham. Theatre - Twelfth Night. Film - Brighton Rock. Rosamund Pike - Film - Johnny English Reborn.

• Signatories of an open letter to the Telegraph regarding the UK government's recent decision to close the UK Film Council include James McAvoy, Dominic Cooper,
  Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy, Damian Lewis, Ruth Wilson, Georgia King, and Saoirse Ronan (via the Hollywood Reporter) [link]
  
  
• Made in Dagenham
  
  
  • Sally Hawkins interview from the Evening Standard [link]
  • The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Chichester International Film Festival
  
  
• Charles Edwards will play Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the National Theatre's production of Twelfth Night, directed by Peter Hall and starring Rebecca Hall as Viola [link]
  
  
• Brighton Rock
• Stills from Rope of Silicon [link]
• The film will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
  
• Rosamund Pike has been cast in Johnny English Reborn [link]

Dan Stevens - Film - Vamps. Samuel West. Radio - Words and Music. Television - Garrow's Law.

[updated 7 August: updated bullet point about Words and Music]

• Dan will play Joey Van Helsing in Vamps directed by Amy Heckerling 1|2
  
  
• Sam and Nancy Carroll are the readers for this week's episode of Words and Music, "The Old Refrain" [link]
• Sam will play Thomas Erskine in the next series of Garrow's Law [link]