Samuel West - TV, culture campaigns, Scene & Heard

Sam plays Eliot Vincent in The Crimson Field, a six part series for BBC One which premiered last Sunday (United Agents). Presumably he will appear between episodes 3 and 6; cast listings have yet to be released.
He plays Norman Skinner in D Day: Last Letters Home, a drama documentary written and directed by Marion Milne. Produced for ITV1, it will be broadcast later this year (United Agents and Marion's ShowFolio).

Screencaps of Sam and his parents Timothy West and Prunella Scales from episode 2 of Great Canal Journeys (they are thumbnails - click them for full size). The episode is available on 4oD for 7 more days.

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The NCA has launched a campaign called 50p for Culture. It suggests that local councils should budget at least 50p per person every week on arts, museums and heritage (The Stage). In mid March, Carl Woodward tweeted some pictures of Sam (chair of the NCA) speaking about the campaign at UK Theatre headquarters 1|2
Sam gave a speech about My Theatre Matters at Hull Truck Theatre last Wednesday. The theatre, @sarahbrigham and @derbytheatre posted some pictures of him on Twitter 1|2|3

On 28 March, Sam read a poem by Mark Hurst, "50 Shades of Grayling" at Pentonville Prison (All That's Left). His reading was part of a protest which opposed new rules preventing prisoners from being sent items such as books. Prisoners' access to books would be limited to gaol libraries or earning money to buy books (BBC, Islington Gazette, Islington Tribune, Evening Standard).

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Sam presented the DVD award (the Royal Opera House's production of Tosca) at the BBC Music Magazine Awards yesterday (@PrestoClassical). The magazine tweeted a picture of Sam at the ceremony.

"...you're not a police officer; you're the emu who killed my sister": some dialogue from a Scene & Heard performance in late March (Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming). Scene & Heard produces plays written by children in Somers Town. A registered charity, its patrons include Sam, Hugh Bonneville, Anna Chancellor, Tom Goodman-Hill, Damian Lewis, Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen.

Guests at the Royal Court pub quiz fundraiser (18 March) included Benedict Cumberbatch and Romola Garai. Sam's team won the quiz (Tatler).

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. Rosamund Pike - Film - Barney's Version. Andrea Riseborough - Film - Brighton Rock. BBC Radio.

Ruth Wilson attended the International Emmy Awards on 22 November (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm). Winners included Small Island (TV movie/mini-series) and Helena Bonham Carter (Enid; Best Performance by an Actress). Pictures: the Telegraph, Rex Features, Getty (press room and arrivals) and WireImage.

Screencaps of Rosamund Pike from the Barney's Version trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



Interviews with Andrea Riseborough from askmen.com and Movieline, and screencaps of her from the Brighton Rock trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



BBC Radio

• Sam West reads the Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" {repeat}
• Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in the Afternoon Play The End of the Alphabet {repeat}
• Bill Nighy stars in A Charles Paris Mystery: Murder in the Title
• Harry Lloyd reads the Afternoon Reading story "Window Washer"
• Tom Goodman-Hill, Derek Jacobi and Harriet Walter star in the Classic Serial I, Claudius 
• Ricky Gervais will be interviewed on Front Row
• John Sessions and Alex Jennings star in series 2 of Electric Ink

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]

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]

Television - Doctor Who. Dan Stevens - Radio - The Secret Pilgrim.

• Screencaps from the Doctor Who "Vincent and the Doctor" (series 5 episode 10) trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
• Dan Stevens will play Ben Cavendish in The Complete Smiley: The Secret Pilgrim, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, starting on Sunday 13 June.  [link]

Theatre - Enron. Television - Any Human Heart. Television - Murder on the Orient Express. Television - Doctor Who.

• Enron (Broadway)
• Lucy Prebble is briefly featured in a video from THV about the production [link]
• Articles from Time Out and the New York Post time out|ny post
• Lucy Prebble interview from Elle [link]
  
  
• Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kim Cattrall, Gillian Anderson, Sam Claflin, Emerald Fennell and Natasha Little have joined the cast of the Channel 4 miniseries adaptation of Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Previously announced cast members include Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Broadbent and Ed Stoppard. 1|2
  
  
• A trailer for Murder on the Orient Express is here, and it will be broadcast on PBS 11 July (via bbccostumedrama). The cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Toby Jones, David Morrissey and Samuel West.
  
  
• Screencaps of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Bill Nighy, Helen McCrory and Toby Jones from the Doctor Who "The Eleventh Hour" coming soon trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  

Rosamund Pike. Samuel West - Audio - Eugene Onegin. BBC Radio.

• A Rosamund interview from the Surrey Comet, and some very lovely Grace Kelly inspired photos from the Guardian
• BBC Radio
• Track 2 from CD 2 of Eugene Onegin, featuring Timothy West, Sam West and Terrence Hardiman, will be played on Composer of the Week Sergei Prokofiev next Thursday [link]
• Hugh Bonneville reads the Book at Bedtime Solar [link]
• Stephen Campbell Moore reads the Book of the Week Chopin: Prince of the Romantics [link]
• Richard Armitage and Zoe Waites star in the Classic Serial Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady [link]
• Bill Nighy and Robert Glenister star in the Saturday Play Confesssions of a Medium [link]
• Richard E Grant stars in Harry in the Underworld [link]
• Bill Nighy stars in Killing Maestros [link]
• Dominic Cooper narrates A Land Without Magic for Big Toe Books [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]

Charles Edwards - Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream. BBC Radio.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream production photos from Broadway World [link]
• BBC Radio
• Geoffrey Palmer and Alex Jennings star in the Drama on 3 An Ideal Husband [link]
• Andrew Scott stars in the Saturday Play Slaughterhouse 5 [link]
• Tony Osoba and Bill Nighy star in Enquiry [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Casanova [link]
• David Tennant stars in the Saturday Play Murder in Samarkand [link]

Entertainment news

• Production for Happy Feet 2 will take place in Sydney [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth are in Vanity Fair's Hollywood Portfolio which is in the March 2010 issue (via ONTD). Carey is also on the cover with people such as Rebecca Hall and Mia Wasikowska (via Just Jared).
  
• Shutter Island and Red Hill will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival [link]
• Damian Lewis, Michael Adams, Rebecca Hall and Toby Schmitz interviews damian|michael|rebecca|toby
• Cemetery Junction poster (via gervsmerchpilk) and trailer poster|trailer
• John Malkovich will star in The Infernal Comedy at the Barbican next year [link]
• Bill Nighy will guest star in the next series of Doctor Who, in an episode written by Richard Curtis (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Information for BAFTA's David Morrissey on tour from David's official website [link]
• Marion Potts will be the next artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne 1|2
• Casting for the miniseries adaptation of Cloudstreet [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]

Radio - The Custom of the Country. BBC Radio.

• David Tennant will be on Desert Island Discs [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt, Romola Garai and Laurel Lefkow narrate the Afternoon Reading Bright Young Things [link]
• Lucy Prebble will be on Front Row [link]
• Jeremy Northam and Harriet Walter are the readers for Words and Music "Femmes Fatales" [link]
• Tom Goodman-Hill and Hugh Bonneville star in the Afternoon Play Big in Samoa [link]
• Bill Nighy and Andrea Riseborough star in the Saturday Play Private Lives [link]
  
• Tom Hollander and Dan Stevens star in the Classic Serial The Custom of the Country [link]
• Stephanie Cole and Benedict Cumberbatch star in Cabin Pressure [link]

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]

British Independent Film Awards winners. Film - An Education. Film - In the Loop. Theatre - Darker Shores. BBC Radio.

[updated 9 December]

• The British Independent Film Awards
• Winners include Armando Iannucci et al for Best Screenplay (In the Loop) and Carey Mulligan for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (An Education). The full list of winners is here.
• Pictures - guests included Peter Capaldi, Carey Mulligan, Gemma Arterton, Andrew Buchan, David Morrissey, Armando Iannucci, Rosamund Pike, Hayley Atwell and Jason Isaacs 1|2|3|4|5
  
• Tom Goodman-Hill has replaced Mark Gatiss in Darker Shores at the Hampstead Theatre. The play also stars Julian Rhind-Tutt, Vinette Robinson and Pamela Miles [link]
• BBC Radio
• Jason Isaacs narrates "Exchange Rates" by Lionel Shriver [link]
  
• Bill Nighy stars in The Entertainer [link]
• Romola Garai and Tim McMullan are the readers for Words and Music "Hope and Despair" [link]
• Katherine Parkinson, Ciaran McMenamin and Jemma Redgrave narrate the Afternoon Reading Defining Moments [link]
• Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Peter Serafinowicz star in In the Red [link]

Harold Pinter celebration at Lord's

[updated 3 October]


Artist: Joe Hill. Source: lordstaverners.org

A Harold Pinter celebration took place at Lord's Cricket Ground yesterday - a celebrity cricket match at Lord's Nursery Ground was followed by a tribute in the Long Room. A portrait of Pinter by Joe Hill was auctioned as well. Proceeds from the celebration will go towards purchasing a minibus for the cricket-loving kids in Hackney.
People who attended include Lady Antonia Fraser, Janie Dee, Peter Hall, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons, Jason Isaacs, Roger Lloyd Pack, Samuel West, Timothy West, Penelope Wilton, Harry Burton, Fintan McKeown, Dickie Wyse, Roger Davidson, Ian MaKinnon, Ben Nealon, Robert Powell, Paul Smith, Michael Billington, Somit Dutta, Mike Brearley, Mike Atherton, Mike Gatting, Jeremy Coney, Ian Smith and Chris Tarrant.

Bill Nighy was interviewed on Today last Saturday and he mentioned there would be "songs from Janie Dee" at the tribute. His interview is on this page (scroll down to 0851).
An excerpt from the Guardian:

"...Theatrical readings in the evening will see [Jeremy] Irons take to the stage with Tim West to perform an excerpt from No Man's Land, and [Mike] Brearley reading from The Caretaker..."

A tweet from Sam West about the game:

At Lords playing for Taverners vs Gaieties for Pinter celebration. Our opening pair Atherton and Gatting. I'm in at number eight. Oo-er.

I tweeted Sam about the celebration (and thanks to him for replying!):


A recap of the celebration is here at Cricket Family.


Links

The Lord's Taverners 1|2
The Independent [link]
Guardian [link]
Telegraph [link]
The Arts Desk [link]
whatsonstage.com [link]