Samuel West - Mr Selfridge, My Theatre Matters, Art Party Conference

(screencap from series 2 of Mr Selfridge)
Sam appears briefly in the trailer for series 2 of Mr Selfridge (via @Amybhayes).

He made speeches about My Theatre Matters at the Theatre Royal Winchester on 17 November (@SimplerDave), presumably after a performance of Look, Stranger and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough last Saturday (@easternangles and @millingtonbell).

Sam contributed to a discussion, "Why is Art Important?" at the Art Party Conference (via @artfund). Click here for a picture of him from the event (via @jcswindells). Positive responses to his presentation include a tweet from @Iris_Priest and a mention in Sue Gough's blog (via @SueGoughArtist).

Charles Edwards - A Young Doctor's Notebook

(These screencaps are thumbnails; click for full size)
Charles will appear in the next episode of A Young Doctor's Notebook. It will be broadcast this Thursday on Sky Arts 1 at 9pm (Radio Times). Click here for a preview.

Samuel West - Jonathan Strange and Look, Stranger

Sam and Dominic Cooper in Fleming; click thumbnails for full size (video source)

Sam plays Sir Walter Pole in the BBC's upcoming adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming 1|2). It began filming last week (BBC Media Centre).

Ben Hur is being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Episode 1 is now available on iPlayer.

In Inside Croydon, he discusses the challenges of providing live narration for films (via @InsideCroydon). Britten Films will be performed at Fairfield Halls tomorrow.
Sam and the Utter Jazz quartet will perform Look, Stranger at the Theatre Royal Winchester 17 November (via @RuthieCulver).

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Britten in Wartime will be released by NMC on CD 9 December (via @nmcrecordings).
It premiered at the Bridgewater Hall 3 October. The Hallé shared a picture from the performance on Twitter. Northern Soul's review of the performance highlighted the interaction between narrator and orchestra (via @Northern_Soul_)

... this, in the expert hands of the Hallé, was a real treat for the ears and the addition of the accomplished actor Samuel West as guide and narrator lent the whole thing a real sense of atmosphere. At times we were all so drawn in it seemed like we really were sitting in New York’s Radio City Theatre, watching the original live broadcast back in 1942.

Sam narrates Little Red Riding Hood by Paul Patterson at the Southbank Centre on 21 December (via @Orch_of_StPauls).

A video interview with Dominic Cooper on Sky's Fleming site features some footage from the show.

One of Sam's upcoming voiceovers is about MI6 (@exitthelemming).

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Sam attended the National Theatre's 50 years on stage performance last week (Getty Images). His reflections about Arcadia (1993) are featured in the event program:

A memory: of rehearsals for Arcadia, and Tom Stoppard looking for a line. It needed to say that Thomasina couldn't have known about chaos theory because she didn’t have a computer. I'd described chaos as a door that had cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. The line was there, but underwater, waiting to rise. One day Tom came in, beaming. "I've got it", he said.
"You can't open a door till there's a house."
"That's it", I said. "That's what I wanted to say." And I got to, for the very first time.

Recent publicity for My Theatre Matters includes an article by Sam in the Morning Star (via @exitthelemming); interviews in the Northern Echo and BBC Radio Kent; and an article in The Stage. In October, he gave a speech about the campaign in Birmingham (@exitthelemming).

Nocturne was released in late October (via @LucyParham). Lucy Parham's Chopin performances are interspersed with readings by Sam and Harriet Walter.

Tom Stoppard received this year's PEN Pinter Prize. Excerpts from his plays were read at the event. Sam read from Coast of Utopia (@buzzbuzz_mylord).

Sam wrote a blog post about the Palestine Choral Festival for Sinfini Music (via @exitthelemming).

Charles Edwards - National Theatre 50th anniversary, A Young Doctor's Notebook, Trying Again

[updated 14 November 2013]


Charles and Ralph Fiennes in Pravda (video source)
Charles played Michael Quince in an excerpt from Pravda (video here) at the National Theatre's 50 years on stage performance.
The program for the event contains some reflections about the venue, including this one from Charles (via his Twitter, @cedwardsactor)

During the closing moments of All My Sons in the Cottesloe, those of us who weren't on stage were peering through the curtains at Arthur Miller, who was watching his play, rapt, mouthing the final words as they were spoken, 50-odd years after he had written them. In the Green Room afterwards we gathered round him to soak up whatever wisdom he could impart. In time he finished his drink and got up to leave with his wife, and we all one by one started to produce posters, copies of Timebends and programmes for him to sign, like the starstruck kids we were.

Screencap of Charles from A Young Doctor's Notebook
He will be in the next series of A Young Doctor's Notebook; he briefly appears in the trailer (via @BakerStBasilisk).

A picture of Charles and Chris Addison accompanies an article about filming for Trying Again.