Samuel West - recent and upcoming radio

Sam and Romola Garai were the readers for "Greeneland", last week's episode of Words and Music. It is available on iPlayer for 22 more days.
Also on BBC Radio 3 - he is in three programs from the Sounds of Shakespeare season.

• 22 April. Garrick's Ode (live broadcast in which he plays Garrick). This performance is sold out.
• 23 April. Record Review, a discussion of archive recordings. This will be broadcast live from a pop up studio at the RSC's The Other Place.
• 27 April. Free Thinking, a discussion about The Winter's Tale.

Sam did some readings for Shakespeare in Silence, which will be broadcast 17 April on BBC Radio 4.

He will be in the second series of Blood, Sex and Money on BBC Radio 4. It is an Emile Zola adaptation by Dan Rebellato (Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming). Other cast members include John Heffernan, Anna Maxwell Martin and Robert Jack (John's Twitter, @johnjheffernan). It will be broadcast in mid-May (Dan's Twitter, @DanRebellato).

In March, Sam tweeted about how Rebellato wrote the script and how it was performed.

.@DanRebellato's Zola radio script is one long scene in one room. Yesterday did it in bits, today whole thing in one go. West End transfer?

— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) March 22, 2016

Samuel West - Jonathan Strange on Australian TV, Kreutzer vs Kreutzer, various interviews

Upcoming broadcasts
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell will have its Australian premiere Thursday 6 August on BBC First.

Faust will be repeated on BBC Radio 3 from today. Sam stars as Faust; Toby Jones plays Mephisotopheles and Anna Maxwell Martin plays Gretchen.
Armstrong and Miller will also be repeated from today, on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

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Production photo from Kreutzer vs Kreutzer (source: @ThomasGouldVLN)
Violinist Thomas Gould, members of the Aurora Orchestra, Katherine Parkinson and Sam performed Kreutzer vs Kretuzer at the Globe 12 and 13 July. Aurora violist Max Baillie performed Janáček on a viola that belonged to Janáček (Aurora Orchestra on Facebook).
Thomas tweeted pictures from the performance here. Sam and Katherine discussed the production and performed a couple of excerpts on In Tune on BBC Radio 3; the interview is available for one more week (it begins at 56 minutes). Here are some reviews and tweets about the play:

The Guardian
"Laura Wade’s brilliant two-hander Kreutzer vs Kreutzer... the ever watchable Katherine Parkinson and Samuel West, enact the quick-fire, quick-witted but potent dialogue with supreme ease and sense of pace...This nimble, sensitive study of the impact of music was revelatory as well as enthralling. Alas it was only on for two nights. Now a tour?"  [Sam tweeted, "Positive thoughts for continued life after that..."]

Financial Times
"The interplay between the understated performances of the actors and impassioned delivery of the musicians makes you listen more precisely to both words and music."

Just glorious Kreuzter v Kreutzer @The_Globe amazing Katherine Parkinson, fabulous @exitthelemming and delightful Aurora orchestra

— Midge McCall (@MM09) July 13, 2015

Thoroughly enjoyed Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer @The_Globe. Beautiful performances from @auroraorchestra, Katherine Parkinson and @exitthelemming.

— Anna Lyttle (@lyttleanna) July 12, 2015

@The_Globe @exitthelemming Had a simply brilliant evening at the Wanamaker. Wonderful performances from everyone.

— ))Linda Warren (@Linda222) July 12, 2015

#Appasionata in spades tonight @The_Globe @auroraorchestra @exitthelemming Laura Wade's wonderful #Kreutzervskreutzer pic.twitter.com/m8T4CDCsIp

— Artifartblast (@artifartblast) July 12, 2015

@tamaracharvey @exitthelemming Clever conceit and masterful performances tonight for KreutzerVsKreutzer @The_Globe Love to @auroraorchestra

— Tom Redican (@tom_redican) July 12, 2015

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A few interviews: Sam discussed After Electra in West Hampstead Life and arts funding in the Equity magazine (via The Stage) and the Independent.

Television - In Love with Shakespeare, BBC Radio

Stephen Campbell Moore, John Simm and Sam West will perform speeches from Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Richard II in In Love With Shakespeare, a 30 minute program which will be broadcast on Sky Arts 28 May (via The Stage).

BBC Radio

• John Simm will be interviewed on Loose Ends
• David Morrissey will be interviewed on Front Row
• Toby Jones and Dina Lorzun star in the series 10 premiere of From Fact to Fiction
• Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play That's Mine, This is Yours
• Hattie Morahan reads "The Happy Valley" by Daphne du Maurier
• Fenella Woolgar reads the Book of the Week Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
• Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen are the readers for Words and Music "Self-Improvement"

Ruth Wilson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Simon Russell Beale, BBC Radio

From Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column: Jack O'Connell, Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell Martin will star in You Want Me to Kill Him? directed by Andrew Douglas and produced by Bryan Singer; and Simon Russell Beale's upcoming projects include Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company), a new play by John Hodge about an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (Cottesloe, National Theatre) and presenting the BBC series Symphony.

BBC Radio

• Andrew Buchan and Josette Simon are the readers for Words and Music "Law and Order"
• David Tennant stars in the Drama on 3 Kafka the Musical
• Blake Ritson reads the Book at Bedtime The Absolutist

Ruth Wilson, glamour.com's "Hot, Young and British", BBC Radio

Ruth Wilson has been interviewed in the Telegraph for her upcoming role in Anna Christie, and featured in the Times' Theatre Issue.

Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Garfield, Romola Garai and Hayley Atwell have been profiled in glamour.com's slideshow "Hot, Young and British".

BBC Radio

• Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin are the readers for Words and Music "Labyrinth"
• Claire Foy and Blake Ritson star in the Saturday Play Leverage
• Ian McDiarmid, Ben Miles and Stephen Dillane read for the Afternoon Reading I Expected the Worst 
• Hattie Morahan narrates the Book at Bedtime The Tiger's Wife

Samuel West. Radio - Faust. Radio - Spitfire. Television - Midsomer Murders. Audio - Dark Matter.

The Drama on 3 Faust will be broadcast 19 September on BBC Radio 3. It stars Sam, Toby Jones, Derek Jacobi, and Anna Maxwell Martin. [link]

Programme page for the upcoming Saturday Play Spitfire!, starring Sam, Rory Kinnear, Samuel Barnett and Ruth Wilson (11 September, BBC Radio 4) [link]

Midsomer Murders "The Animal Within" will be repeated on UKTV this week (via Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

Sam and Benedict Cumberbatch narrate the audiobook Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. It will be released 21 October. [link] According to the publisher Orion Books, Jeremy Northam is the narrator

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]

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
• Articles from Charter 97 and Index on Censorship
• Video of Sam performing an extract from Generation Jeans
• Some tweets from @exitthelemming, Sam's Twitter: 1|2|3|4
  
  
• 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]
  
  

Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Television - The Prisoner. Laura Wade - Theatre - Posh. BBC Radio.

• The Pillars of the Earth premieres on Starz 23 July. Its trailer is here (via bbccostumedrama). Screencaps of Hayley Atwell:
  
  
  
• The Prisoner
• Hayley Atwell will be on the panel for BFI preview screening Q&A on Wednesday 14 April (via Britmovie) [link]
• Ruth Wilson interview from the Daily Mail [link]
• Article from the Times [link]
  
  
• Laura Wade interviews for Posh 1|2|3|4
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Anne-Marie Duff and Geraldine James star in the Drama on 3 The Carhullan Army [link]
• Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear are the readers for Words and Music "Malady" [link]
• Rory Kinnear narrates the Book at Bedtime The Lessons [link]

Entertainment news

• Blog posts by David Morrissey about his BAFTA tour (via David Morrissey Online) [link]
• Bill Nighy stars in Richard Curtis' short film about the Robin Hood Tax [link]
• Carey Mulligan, Emily Mortimer and Nicholas Hoult & Matthew Goode interviews carey|emily|nicholas & matthew
• Measure for Measure
• Anna Maxwell Martin interview [link]
• Photo gallery from Broadway World [link]
• Scans from Total Film about Prince of Persia, starring Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhaal [link]
• Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess will star in The Promised Land directed by Michael Winterbottom [link] 
• Pictures of Ruth Wilson from the whatsonstage.com awards 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Vanessa Redgrave will receive a BAFTA fellowship [link] 
• Rosamund Pike has been photographed for Temperley London's New York installation [link]
• Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick and Bill Nighy wil star in the romantic comedy The Chalet Girl [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Screenplay at the Evening Standard Film Awards [link]
• Download of the screenplay (via AIannucci) [link]

BBC Radio

• Toby Stephens and Patrick Malahide star in the Friday Play Let's Murder Vivaldi [link]
  
• The Complete Smiley continues with the Classic Serial The Honourable Schoolboy starring Simon Russell Beale (as George Smiley), Hugh Bonneville, Anthony Calf and Anna Chancellor [link]
• Bill Nighy stars in A Charles Paris Mystery: Cast in Order of Disappearance [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Metamorphosis [link]
  
• Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Rebecca Front star in In the Chair [link]
  
• The Chekhov season includes:
• Ben Whishaw reading Twenty Minutes To Chekhov's Memory [link]
• Drama on 3 The Cherry Orchard, starring Sarah Miles, Nicholas le Prevost and Anne-Marie Duff [link]
• Bruce Alexander, Tessa Nicholson and Anna Maxwell Martin take part in the Sunday Feature Seven and a Half Years [link]
• Mackenzie Crook and Jason Isaacs are the readers for Words and Music "Sons of Russia" [link]
• Andrew Scott stars in A Life of Chekhov [link]
• Simon Russell Beale presents an episode of The Essay [link]

Film. Theatre. Television. Radio.

Upcoming productions mentioned by the Times and the Independent:

• The Times
  Film. A Single Man, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Brothers, Brighton Rock, Dagenham Girls.
  Theatre. The Little Dog Laughed, The Real Thing, Measure for Measure, Posh, Alice, Hamlet (starring John Simm, Sheffield Crucible), Hamlet (starring Rory Kinnear, the National).
• The Independent
  Film. Tamara Drewe, Shutter Island, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
  Theatre. Hamlet (starring John Simm, Sheffield Crucible), Hamlet (starring Rory Kinnear, the National).
  Television. Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes.
  Radio. Chekhov 150th anniversary.

BBC Radio

• Michael Fassbender and Mark Ravenhill will be on Loose Ends [link]
  
• Paul Hilton and Hattie Morahan star in The Wire Alex Tripped on My Fairy [link]
  
• Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi star in The News at Bedtime [link]
• Laura Dos Santos and Bill Nighy star in the Saturday Play Educating Rita [link]
• Derek Jacobi, Julian Rhind-Tutt and James D'Arcy are in MR James at Christmas [link]
  
• Simon Russell Beale, Ben Whishaw and Anna Maxwell Martin are in the Chekhov season (via brit_actors) [link]

Theatre - Sunday Times theatre feature. Lucy Prebble - Theatre. Dan Stevens. Radio - Guilty Until Proved Innocent. Radio - The Coral Thief. BBC Radio.

• Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm has some scans from the Sunday Times, featuring people such as Ben Whishaw, John Simm, Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, Sam West and Anna Maxwell Martin; and the Official London Theatre Guide has an article about the photoshoot.
• A discussion on Broadcasting House about female playwrights included contributions from Lucy Prebble and Alia Bano [link]
• BBC Radio
• The Afternoon Play Guilty Until Proved Innocent will be broadcast 16 December [link]
  
• Dan will narrate the Book at Bedtime The Coral Thief next month (via The Richard Armitage Board) [link]
• Rupert Penry-Jones was on Loose Ends [link]
  
• Kevin Eldon, Burn Gorman and Emma Fielding star in the Saturday Play The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [link]
• Lenny Henry, Lauren Mote and Lizzy Watts star in the Classic Serial Matilda [link]
• Peter Capaldi narrates the Afternoon Reading Sputnik "The First King of Mars" [link]
• Hugh Bonneville narrates A Short History of Gothic "Markheim" [link]

Entertainment news

• Noel Clarke and Jason Isaacs will be on the Orange Rising Star jury [link]
• St Trinians 2 trailer [link]
  
• Clive Owen, Dennis Hopper, Matt Damon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Lucy Cohu & Anna Maxwell-Martin interviews clive|dennis|matt|rupert|lucy & anna
• Article about A Single Man [link]
• Ben Whishaw won an International Emmy for Criminal Justice [link]
  
• Rehearsal pictures from The Misanthrope [link]
• Werner Herzog will be president of the International jury for the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival [link]
  
• Lone Scherfig interview about An Education [link]
• There will be a fourth series of Torchwood (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Glorious 39
• Stephen Poliakoff interview [link]
• Romola Garai interviews 1|2

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist.

• 24 Hour Plays
• Article and video from the Independent [link]
• 2 part recap from ThisStage 1|2
• Pictures from the after party. As well as performers such as Jason Isaacs, Romola Garai, Stephen Mangan, Ruth Wilson, Hattie Morahan and Anna Maxwell Martin, guests included Damian Lewis, Imogen Lloyd Webber, Blake Ritson and Jessica deRothschild. [link]
  
• The Thick of It
  
• Review of series 3 episode 2 from the Guardian [link]
• Rebecca Front was on Broadcasting House [link]
• In addition to Enron, productions such as The Winter's Tale (Best Actor - Simon Russell Beale; The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress - Rebecca Hall; Best Director - Sam Mendes) and Hamlet (Best Actor - David Tennant) are also on the Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist [link]

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• Hattie Morahan joins the previously announced Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell-Martin in the 24 Hour Plays [link]
• The Thick of It
• Rebecca Front and Billy Sneddon interviews rebecca|billy
• Positive reviews of series 3 episode 1 1|2
• Armando Iannucci's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
  
• BBC Radio
• Lia Williams, Hugh Bonneville and Katherine Parkinson star in the Drama on 3 The Lady From the Sea [link]
  
• Khalid Abdalla, Stephen Campbell Moore and Michael Pennington narrate the Afternoon Reading Tales From the Low Countries [link]
• The Richest Man in Britain is a sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith starring Mark Williams and Russell Tovey. Rosamund Pike is in the last episode of the series. [link]
• Penny Downie, Claudie Blakley and Daniela Denby-Ashe star in Ring Around the Bath [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates Bulldog Drummond [link]
• Rory Kinnear, Louise Brealey and Tom Goodman-Hill star in Fair Stood The Wind For France [link]
• Simon Russell Beale narrates, and David Haig, Hugh Bonneville and Joanna Scanlon star in Leaving [link]

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Sunday Times London theatre feature. BBC Radio.

• Anna Maxwell Martin and Ruth Wilson will take part in the 24-Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic, 1 November [link]
• There will be a Sunday Times London theatre feature about people such as Samuel West, Samantha Bond, Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Ben Whishaw, Peter Hall, Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Derek Jacobi. Sam posted a picture from the photoshoot, which took place at the Royal Court. [link]
• BBC Radio:
• Romola Garai will be on Loose Ends promoting Emma [link]
• Tom Hollander and Sheila Hancock will be the readers on Words and Music "Illusions of Power" [link]
• Peter Firth will narrate the Book of the Week The Defence of the Realm [link]
• Stephen Mangan and Peter Serafinowicz will narrate the Book at Bedtime And Another Thing... [link]
• Stephen Campbell Moore and Diana Quick star in the Afternoon Play A Dose of Fame [link]
• Judi Dench and Michael Sheen star in The Importance of Being Earnest [link]
• Jason Isaacs will narrate The Prince and the Pauper for Big Toe Books [link]

Film - An Education. Theatre - The Pride. Theatre - Measure For Measure. Dan Stevens - Radio - Dickens Confidential. BBC Radio.

• An Education
• Carey Mulligan and Lone Scherfig interviews 1|2|3
• Eight clips from the film [link]
  
• Carey will receive the breakthrough actress award at the Hollywood Film Festival [link]
  
• Ben Whishaw, Hugh Dancy and Andrea Riseborough will star in the American premiere of The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell at the MCC Theater (27 January-14 March 2010).
  Rory Kinnear, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Miles will star in Measure For Measure at the Almeida. [link]
• BBC Radio
  
• Series 2 of Dickens Confidential will be repeated from 29 September [link]
• Matt Lucas, Gina McKee and Hugh Bonneville star in the Afternoon Play Hoffnung - Drawn to Music [link]
• Simon Russell Beale is the reader in The Essay Voltaire and the Voices of the Enlightenment [link]

Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner. Rosamund Pike - Film - Surrogates. Film - We Want Sex. BBC Radio.

• There's an interview about The Prisoner with Ruth and co-star Jamie Campbell-Bower from Nylon [link]
• Three TV spots for Surrogates, which is released in the US 25 September [link]
• Paramount Pictures International will distribute We Want Sex in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike. 1|2
• BBC Radio:
• Colin Firth will be on Front Row on Monday [link]
• Anna Maxwell-Martin and Sharon Gavin star in the Woman's Hour Drama Au Pairs [link]
• David Tennant and Julia Davis star in the Saturday Play The Wooden Overcoat [link]