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"

Shadow Dancer, Johnny English Reborn, The Crimson Petal and the White, BBC Radio

Andrea Riseborough and Clive Owen will star in Shadow Dancer, an IRA thriller directed by James Marsh.

Screencaps of Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson and Stephen Campbell Moore from the Johnny English Reborn trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



Richard E Grant interview from the Telegraph, in which he discusses The Crimson Petal and the White and his directing projects in development.

BBC Radio

• Sony Radio Awards: Murder in Samarkand (starring David Tennant) and The Recordist (starring Sharon Horgan) have been nominated for Best Drama
• Stuart McLoughlin and Lizzy Watts star in the New Mystery Play The Flood
• Michael Sheen will be interviewed on Night Waves

Film - Made in Dagenham - trailer. Theatre - All My Sons - press night.

• Screencaps of Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Graves and Andrea Riseborough from the Made in Dagenham trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
• Hugh Bonneville, David Tennant, Guy Henry, Richard E Grant, Benedict Cumberbatch and David Hyde Pierce attended the All My Sons press night. The play stars David Suchet, Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Campbell Moore and Jemima Rooper. [link]

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]

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]
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• 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]

Entertainment news

• Robert Redford will receive Promax/BDA's Lifetime Achievement Award [link]
• Andrew Garfield, Richard Armitage and Hermione Norris will be presenting at the BAFTA TV awards. Nominees include Andrea Riseborough and Jason Isaacs. [link]
  
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama [link]
• Toby Kebbell has joined the cast of The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist [link]
• Boardwalk Empire (starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald) and Legally Mad (starring Hugh Bonneville and Charity Wakefield) are mentioned in an article about upcoming pilots (via ONTD) [link]
• Kevin Smith is going to perform at the Carnegie Hall in June [link]
• Felicity Jones will star in Ricky Gervais' film The Men at the Pru. Gervais is writing, directing and producing with Stephen Merchant. [link]
• Pictures of Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan on the set of Never Let Me Go [link]
• Mary and Max has recorded the highest second weekend for an Australian film for 2009 [link]
• In the Loop
• The film had a solid opening weekend at the UK box office [link]
• Positive review from the Independent [link]
• Will be screened at Tribeca [link]
  
• Matthew Macfadyen will play the sheriff of Nottingham in the new Robin Hood movie [link]
• The EMD cinema, in north-east London, which Alfred Hitchcock frequented when he was a child, is facing closure [link]
• Charlie Kaufman interview [link]
• Article about la nouvelle vague [link]
• Bond 23 update from producer Michael G. Wilson [link]
• Joseph Morgan and Stephen Campbell Moore will star in a miniseries adaptation of Ben Hur [link]