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).

Dan Stevens

• Some tweets about Beyond Frankenstein, a reading Dan participated in with Damian Lewis and Harriet Walter
• Stills for Vamps have been released
• Dan was a guest on the BBC Review Show earlier this month
• The audiobook History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason will be released in May

Dan Stevens

Out and about

• Dan supports UK Coffee Week (4-10 April).
• Comic Relief
• Dan was involved in two auctions: "superfollow plus" and tea at the Ritz with Downton Abbey cast members Hugh Bonneville (Earl of Grantham) and Brendan Coyle (Bates)
• Sarah Cawood and Hugh Bonneville shared pictures from the Big Red Nose Show
• He will participate as a BT London 2012 Storyteller.

Upcoming projects

• The Lucky Monkey Pictures website has a picture of Dan and Krysten Ritter from the set of Vamps
• Dan stars as Gaius Catullus in A Thousand Kisses, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 10 April
• Damian Lewis, Harriet Walter and Dan will read poetry at the National Theatre platform Beyond Frankenstein: Josephine Hart presents Romantic Poetry (Olivier Theatre, Friday 15 April, 6pm)

Ruth Wilson. Television - Luther. Andrea Riseborough. Television - Downton Abbey. Rosamund Pike. BBC Radio.

• Interview with Ruth Wilson about her great-grandfather Alexander Wilson, who had been a spy and polygamist (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) [link]
• Ruth interview about Luther from Hit Fix [link]
  
  
• Andrea Riseborough interview from Variety [link]
  
  
• A second series of Downton Abbey has been commissioned [link]
  
  
• Rosamund Pike interview from the Herald Sun [link] 
• Rosamund signed a letter to the Observer regarding the proposal to close the DH Lawrence heritage centre in his home town of Eastwood 1|2
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Michael Sheen presents the Archive on 4 "Playing the Dane" (via his Twitter, @michaelsheen) [link]
• Stephen Fry reads from his book The Fry Chronicles for the Book of the Week [link]
• Damian Lewis stars in series 3 of Number 10 (via damian-lewis.com) [link]
• Toby Jones, Eleanor Bron and Peter Marinker contribute to episode 1 of Beautiful Dreamers [link]
• Rupert Simonian, Adrian Scarborough and Lizzy Watts star in The Wire People Snogging in Public Places [link]

Television - Downton Abbey. Rosamund Pike. Film - Barney's Version. Theatre - Deathtrap. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Downton Abbey
• Dan Stevens posted a twitpic of the poster (via his Twitter, @thatdanstevens) [link]
• The production will be featured in upcoming issues of Tatler and Vogue [link]
  
  
• Rosamund will be featured in the October 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar (UK) [link]
• Article about Barney's Version from the Wall Street Journal [link]
  
  
• Pictures from Deathtrap 1|2
  
  
• Clip from Never Let Me Go featuring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Damian Lewis, Greta Scacchi, and Derek Jacobi star in the Drama on 3 Giovanni's Room [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt reads the Book of the Week Story teller: The Life of Roald Dahl [link]
• Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in the Classic Serial My Family and Other Animals [link]
• Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Harry Shearer on Chain Reaction [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]

Theatre - The Pride. Lucy Prebble. Theatre - The Real Thing. Samuel West - Radio - Bomber. Dan Stevens - Audio - War Horse. BBC Radio.

• Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw and Hugh Dancy were on the Leonard Lopate Show discussing The Pride (via mcctheater) [link]
• Lucy Prebble profile from the Telegraph [link]
• Toby Stephens, Hattie Morahan and Fenella Woolgar will star in The Real Thing at the Old Vic, 21 April-5 June 2010 (previews from 10 April) [link]
• Bomber and War Horse are featured in this article from the Guardian. Here are excerpts:
  

  "...I came across this classic [Bomber] and can report that it's just as riveting second time round...
  ...ever since I heard him read AL Kennedy's Day, I have become a loyal follower of Dan Stevens, he of the chameleon voice that makes you laugh or cry at a stroke. No need to ask what Stevens reading this heart-rending story [War Horse] did to me..."

• BBC Radio
• Andrew Scott and Dave Fishley star in The Wire Look Closer [link]
• Lorcan Cranitch and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
• Timothy Spall and Cheryl Campbell star in Jagged Prayer [link]
• Damian Lewis narrates Agent Zig Zag [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]

Dan Stevens - Audio - The Cradle of the Snake. Hayley Atwell - Audio - The Whispering Forest. Theatre - Enron. BBC Radio.

• Dan and Hayley are guest stars in the Big Finish audios The Cradle of the Snake and The Whispering Forest, respectively (via Pop Culture Zoo)
• Amanda Drew and Tim Pigott-Smith discussed Enron on The Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman on Radio 2 (via salihughes) [link]
• BBC Radio
• Rory Kinnear stars in The Wire The Gold Farmer and the Drama on 3 Amazonia
• Paul Jesson and Damian Lewis star in the Saturday Play The Small Back Room [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Thrilling Stories of the Railway [link]

Radio - Goldfinger. Instyle - The Brit Pack, Best of British party. South Bank Show Awards.

• As well as the previously announced Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike and Ian McKellen, the cast of Goldfinger includes Tom Hollander, Lisa Dillon and Tim Pigott-Smith. It will be broadcast 3 April. (via Commander Bond) [link]
• Andrea Riseborough and Ruth Wilson are in the portfolio "The Brit Pack" from the March 2010 issue of Instyle (UK). A behind the scenes video from the shoot is here. Instyle hosted a Best of British party celebrating the BAFTAs. Guests included Bonnie Wright, Claire Foy, Jamie Campbell Bower, Olivia Grant and Rosamund Pike.
• Ruth Wilson was at the Waiting for Godot press night after party 1|2|3|4
• Guests at the South Bank Show Awards include Damian Lewis, Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, David Morrissey and Peter Hall 1|2

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"

Entertainment news

• An Education
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Article about the film's production design [link]
• Carey Mulligan will receive the Chopin Virtuosos award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• John Simm will star in Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible (via SimmSpotting) [link]
  
• Martin Freeman, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Matthew Goode, Damian Lewis and Kelly Reilly interviews martin|colin|jodie|julian|matthew|damian|kelly
• Golden Globe nominations include Colin Firth (A Single Man) for Best actor in a motion picture (drama) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) for Best actress in a motion picture (drama) [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy awards [link]
• Peter Capaldi Late Late Show interview 1|2
  
• Shutter Island will be shown at the Berlinale [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Samantha Morton are on Screen Daily's list of new talent of 2009 [link]
• Samantha Morton has become an honorary associate of the London Film School [link]
  
• Julian Fellowes will write the pilot script for The Vanderbilts (via Televisionary) [link]
• Julianne Moore will receive the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• A review of Stanley Kubrick: The Film that Never Was [link]
• A Single Man and Mad Men are in the AFI's top ten productions in film and television [link]
• Romola Garai will play Masha in Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith from 25 January to 20 February 2010. Previews are from 15 January. [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

Ruth Wilson - Television - Luther. Romola Garai. Audio drama.

• Ruth plays Alice Morgan in Luther, a six-part series starring Idris Elba [link]
• Romola will be interviewed on Woman's Hour this Thursday [link]
• Audio drama:
• Urban Scrawl "Hounslow East" by Laura Wade stars Katherine Parkinson [link]
• Alex Jennings, Lizzy Watts and Patrick Kennedy star in the Woman's Hour Drama Our Mutual Friend [link]
• Patti Love, John Hannah and David Morrissey star in Mary Barnes [link]
  
• Sam Dale and Lydia Leonard star in the Afternoon Play The Railway Siding [link]
• Toby Stephens stars in Birdsong [link]
  
• Bill Paterson, Stephen Mangan and Damian Lewis star in the Afternoon Play Number 10 [link]

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]

Entertainment news

• Mao's Last Dancer took AUS$4.3 million in its opening week to become the highest-grossing Australian film so far this year [link]
  
• Christina Hendricks and Michael Sheen interviews christina|michael
• Colin Firth will receive the BAFTA/LA humanitarian award [link]
• Damian Lewis, Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan will star in a modern day version of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre 7 December - 13 March 1|2
  
• Pictures from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus UK premiere 1|2|3
• The Thick of It
• A picture (via AIannucci) [link]
• Screencaps of Peter Capaldi and Rory Kinnear from the teaser (click thumbnails for full size):
  

Entertainment news

• Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong and Lyndsey Marshall will star in Garrow's Law, a 4 part 18th century legal drama for BBC1 [link]
  
• Raymond Chandler had a tiny cameo in Double Indemnity [link]
• Stephen Fry was on Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4). The show will be available on iPlayer up to a week after broadcast. [link]
  
• Lucy Punch has replaced Nicole Kidman in Woody Allen's next film [link]
• Damian Lewis read some poems on Newsnight last week, which can be downloaded from here. Alternatively here are Youtube links 1|2|3
  
• Matt Smith, Rebecca Hall, Rosamund Pike and Andrew Garfield have been included in the "Brilliant Brits" feature in the July issue of Esquire [link]
• Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Sheen and Anton Yelchin interviews guillermo|michael|anton
  
• Mad Men has been nominated for several TCA awards (via ONTD) [link]
• random amusement:
• a tweet from Michael Sheen [link]
• a poem by Ricky Gervais (scroll to week 69) [link]
  

Television - Life

Click the animation (made by grimorie) above to find out more about Life, which is returning to NBC tomorrow night. The show stars Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi.

Charles Edwards - Television - 2000's

[updated 10 January 2009]

Murder Rooms (2001) [link]

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
PBS [link]
IMDB [link]

Monarch of the Glen - Series 4 episode 4 (2002) [link]

Colditz (2005)
IMDB [link]
Damian Lewis Yahoo group - projects file [link]

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