Hayley Atwell. Cure Parkinson's Trust Illuminate auction. Tod's Art Plus Drama Party.

Hayley has designed a candle holder for the Cure Parkinson's Trust Illuminate auction, which will open 22 February on Ebay. Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais and Harry Lloyd have also contributed designs to the auction.

Tom Hollander, Sally Hawkins and Hayley will perform at the Tod's Art Plus Drama Party at the Whitechapel Gallery on 24 March (via John Jones). Click here for ticketing information.

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]

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]

BAFTA TV award nominations

BAFTA TV award nominations include (via the British Comedy Guide):
A Short Stay in Switzerland. Actress (Julie Walters), Single drama.
Small Island. Supporting Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Drama serial.
Gracie! Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
Red Riding: 1974. Supporting Actress (Rebecca Hall).
QI. Entertainment performance (Stephen Fry).
The Thick of It. Female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), Male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), Situation comedy.

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]

Television - Lennon Naked. Andrea Riseborough. Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. BBC Radio.

• Christopher Eccleston, Naoko Mori, Claudie Blakley, Rory Kinnear and Andrew Scott will star in the BBC4 one-off drama Lennon Naked [link]
• Andrea organised some performances at a Stepney pub for the launch of an arts charity [link]
• BBC Radio
• Ruth will promote Small Island on Loose Ends [link]
• Peter Capaldi and Emily Bruni will be doing Words and Music [link]
• Afternoon Plays
• Stephen Mangan and Rebecca Front star in Grey Expectations [link]
• Timothy Spall and Amanda Root star in A Dangerous Thing [link]
  
• Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and David Schneider star in Knowing Me, Knowing You produced by Armando Iannucci [link]
  
• Stephen Fry and John Bird star in Absolute Power [link]

Entertainment news

• An unseen Charlie Chaplin film was bought for a bargain on eBay [link]
  
• David Tennant will star in the NBC pilot Rex is Not Your Lawyer [link]
• In the Loop won three Scottish BAFTAs - best director (Armando Iannucci), best writing (Armando Ianucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell) and best actor (Peter Capaldi) [link]
• Gerard Butler will star in Ralph Fiennes' contemporary reworking of Coriolanus [link]
  
• Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Emily Mortimer attended a screening of The Red Shoes in New York [link]
  
• Sally Hawkins, Juno Temple and William H. Macy will star in Abe Sylvia's feature directorial debut Dirty Girl [link]
• Glorious 39
• Article about the London Film Festival premiere's afterparty [link]
  
• Walsingham Abbey is one of the locations in the film [link]
• Ben Whishaw, Stephen Fry, Tom Sturridge, Charles Dance and Dominic Cooper interviews ben|stephen|tom|charles|dominic
• Wonderful blog post from Shadowplay about Vertigo (via Self-Styled Siren) [link]
• Michael Fassbender and Forest Whitaker will star in A Single Shot, a thriller directed by David Jacobson [link]
  
• Romola Garai's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
• Georgia, starring Rupert Friend, Richard Coyle and Emmanuelle Chriqui, has begun filming [link]
  
• Martin Scorsese believes Blu-Ray is good [link]
• Dominic Cooper will star in The Devil's Double [link]

Rosamund Pike - Film - Jackboots on Whitehall. Toby Stephens, Bill Nighy. BBC Radio 4 drama.

• Director Ed McHenry mentions Rosamund in an interview from Netribution:

  "...Rosamund Pike is a fantastic actress, the best British actress at the moment, she has a fantastic voice..."

• An excerpt from this week's BBC Radio 7 newsletter:

  "...In my newsletter 3 weeks ago, I asked you to nominate your "Top 10 Favourite Voices", and you sent in a most interesting selection.
  
  There were 63 nominated readers in all.
  
  As some readers received equal votes, there are actually 12 in our final list. (although the listener who nominated the same reader 10 times was only allowed one vote - you know who you are!)
  
  Top of the list, by a margin, was Michael Jayston, with particular mention of his readings of Rogue Male and Rogue Justice.
  
  Second equal were Martin Jarvis and Toby Stephens.
  
  In third place were: Bill Nighy, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi.
  
  In fourth place were Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Geoffrey Palmer and Robert Powell.
  
  If none of the names you nominated made the top 10 (or rather 12) I hope you won’t be upset, as this poll was simply a bit of fun..."

• BBC Radio 4 drama:
• Sian Phillips, Corey Johnson, Fenella Woolgar and Raad Rawi star in the Afternoon Play Hindenburg [link]
• Freddy White and Jemima Rooper star in the Saturday Play Phone [link]
  
• James Fleet and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Fireflies [link]
• Peter Capaldi, Ed Stoppard and Dominic Cooper narrate the Afternoon Reading The Heart of Saturday Night [link]

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]
  

Entertainment news

• John Orloff (A Mighty Heart) will write the screenplay for an Ian Fleming biopic produced by Leonardo DiCaprio [link]
• Rupert Penry-Jones interview about Whitechapel [link]
  
• 20th Century Fox will co-finance the third Narnia film with Walden Media 1|2
• An adaptation of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is being written and directed by Neil Jordan [link]
• Armando Iannucci's Sundance diary [link]
  
• Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry and Penelope Wilton will star in The Inn at the Edge of the World, an adaptation of Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel written and directed by Charles Dance [link]
• British television viewing has increased [link]
• Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities premieres 9 February on Nine [link]
  
• The U.K. Film Council is launching a movie search engine, FindAnyFilm.com, designed to enable consumers to find out when, where and how a film is available legally in the U.K. [link]
• List of films being shown at the Berlinale [link]
• Noel Clarke interview from Radio 1 [link]
  
• Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig will star in Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg [link]
• Transcript of an interview with Werner Herzog [link]
• Article about Stanley Kubrick's unmade film The Aryan Papers [link]
• Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) Awards nominations [link]