Radio - Publish and Be Damn'd

Nancy Carroll, Charles Edwards and Blake Ritson star in the Classic Serial Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. A two-parter, episode 1 will be broadcast tomorrow, and episode 2 next Sunday.

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. Narration - The Soldier's Tale.

The cast for Sam's radio directorial debut includes Ian McDiarmid, Celia Imrie, Roger Allam, Bertie Carvel, Blake Ritson and Tom Goodman-Hill (via Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming). Previous tweets from Sam about the play have hinted at recording on location and research.

He will narrate The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky at the Kew Music Festival on 26 June (via sheengate.co.uk).

Reminders:

• Sam, Janet Suzman and Timothy West will read from Shakespeare's First Folio at a Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass at the V&A, this Friday, 25 March at 7pm.
• He will open the Berry Theatre at a gala on 7 April.

Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Garfield, Kelly Macdonald, BBC Radio

Rosamund Pike interviews from the Guardian and Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column about Barney's Version; and an article from the BBC with her thoughts about Made in Dagenham's relative lack of BAFTA nominations.


Rosamund's Made in Dagenham co-star Andrea Riseborough stars as Rose in Brighton Rock, which will be released in the UK 4 February. Andrea has been interviewed in the Dazed & Confused February 2011 issue (via The Fashion Spot) and the Independent. In other publicity, an excerpt about her from the Telegraph's set visit:

"'I was so passionate about Brighton Rock from the outset,' she says. 'So I decided not to do a different film and had a bit of a rejig of my schedule and swapped round. It was wonderful and it all worked out brilliantly.'
'Andrea inhabits a role completely,' Joffe [Rowan Joffe, director] observes, 'and that's quite a dangerous and difficult process – to really lose yourself in a character, especially one as dark and victimised as Rose. But as well as being a great actress, Andrea’s a solid Geordie lass who has both feet on the ground.'"

And screencaps from a newly released clip (click thumbnails for full size):



Interviews with Andrew Garfield from the Telegraph and Kelly Macdonald from the Independent.


BBC Radio

• Alex Jennings stars in the Afternoon Play My Year Off {repeat}
• Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige read the Book at Bedtime The Meeting Point
• Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson are the readers for With Great Pleasure (readings chosen by Zoe Ball)

Film - Love Hate

Cinematographer John Lynch has uploaded Love Hate (via Ben Whishaw my brother tom) to his Vimeo channel.

Screencaps
of Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson (click thumbnails for full size)

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]

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. Narration - Lines of Flight. Radio - Summer Lightning. Radio - Faust. Bush Theatre gala.

• Lines of Flight will screen 16 July at the Squamish Mountain Festival (via the Lines of Flight Facebook group) [link]
• Sam plays Hugo in Summer Lightning, which will begin 4 July on BBC Radio 4 [link]
• A tweet from Sam about Faust, which also stars Toby Jones and Derek Jacobi:
  

  "About to start Faust Part II, the elegiac, emotional pendant to Part I's shoot-em-up. Like Kill Bill, really."

• As well as Sam, guests at the Bush Theatre gala included Hattie Morahan, Blake Ritson, and Jessica Hynes [link]

British Academy Television Craft Awards. Ladybird fairytales. BBC Radio.

• Guests at the British Academy Television Craft Awards included Hayley Atwell, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Armando Iannucci and Karen Gillan.
• Videos of Hayley Atwell and Stephen Mangan from Leicester Square TV hayley|stephen
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• Videos of Toby Stephens, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Benedict Cumberbatch and Blake Ritson reading Ladybird fairytales [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Dougray Scott and Lesley Sharp will be guests on Loose Ends [link]
• Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in The Lady in the Lake [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Blake's 7 "The Dust Run" [link]

Theatre - Enron, The Misanthrope and Rope. Dan Stevens - Wolf Hall.

[updated 2 August 2015]

Enron

• Tom Goodman-Hill interview from Angel magazine [link]
• Jeremy Paxman's "Discovery of the year" from the Telegraph:
  

  "I loved Lucy Prebble's Enron, which began at Chichester and then transferred to the Royal Court in London. This was a production buzzing with energy and ideas, a weird mixture of satire and vaudeville, which somehow managed to illuminate a prevailing madness. The most telling thing about the whole production, of course, was that by the time it was staged, we were all suffering the consequences of another episode of greed and stupidity, which made the Enron scandal look like a vicarage tea party."

Wolf Hall review from the Daily Express:

"Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief adviser, was a man so skilled at manipulation and survival he’d make Peter Mandelson blush. His story is told in the Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and superbly read by Dan Stevens..."

The Misanthrope

• Damian-Lewis.com has scans from a Sunday Times theatre feature featuring some of The Misanthrope cast (Tara Fitzgerald, Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley), Jessica Hynes, John Simm, Rupert Penry-Jones, Marc Warren and Dominic West (registration is required) [link]
• Stephen Mangan attended The Misanthrope press night [link]

Rope

• Guests at the after party included Hattie Morahan, Ben Miles and Lisa Dillon [link]
• A tweet from Sam West:
  

  "To the Almeida for Rope last night - a properly thrilling thriller. Bertie Carvel and Blake Ritson both remarkable; go! http://bit.ly/YC1wr"

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]

British Independent Film Awards nominations. Television - The First Men In The Moon. Hattie Morahan, Ruth Wilson, Samuel West.

• British Independent Film Awards
  
• Nominations [link]
• Jasons Isaacs and Solomon discussed the nominations on Film Weekly [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Armando Iannucci), The Douglas Hickox Award (Armando Iannucci), Best Screenplay (Armando Iannucci et al), Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (Peter Capaldi), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
  An Education. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Lone Scherfig), Best Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (Carey Mulligan), Best Supporting Actress (Rosamund Pike), Best Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina).
  
• Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear will star in the BBC4 one-off drama The First Men In The Moon [link]
• Guests at the Mrs Klein afterparty include Hattie Morahan, Blake Ritson, Bill Paterson and Lisa Dillon [link]
• Mention of Ruth from an interview with Small Island co-star Naomie Harris:
  

  "What was the last play you saw in London?
  A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse. My mate Ruth Wilson, who is in Small Island with me, was phenomenal. It moved me so much that I was crying like a baby."

• A tweet from Dan Wooller about Sam and Enron co-star Tom Goodman-Hill:
  

  @saturngirl thought it was fab, follow @exitthelemming and @tgoodmanh who are in the cast and jolly nice #enron

Hayley Atwell - Television - Mansfield Park

* updated 31 January

Telegraph
"...Mansfield Park does have the benefit of two of Austen’s most cherishable baddies, Mary and Henry Crawford, the dastardly London siblings who blight everything they touch on their arrival in Mansfield. Hayley Atwell and Joseph Beattie brought just enough sincerity to their performances to let them seem eminently reformable at times – and so played them perfectly..."

Hollywood Reporter
"...it's Atwell, as Mary, who steals this show with her insouciant sex appeal and droll rendering of lines..."

San Francisco Chronicle
"...Hayley Atwell and Joseph Beattie are wonderfully oily as the Crawfords..."

Excerpt from an interview with Blake Ritson, who plays Edmund Bertram:
"...talking of his leading ladies, Billie Piper and Hayley Atwell, Blake adds: 'They are both absolutely lovely and easy to work with. Both are very generous, fresh and playful on set which is nice. We were very relaxed on set, larking around and somehow that created the right energy, especially for the dancing and wedding scenes. The energy just bleeds seamlessly from before to during a take...'"

Pictures

Rex Features [link]

PBS press room 1|2

Screencaps from the trailer and program:
ITV trailer


Sample caps

All caps (101 of them) can be downloaded from here.

Links
IMDB [link]
PBS [link]

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