Words and Music "Greeneland", with readings by Sam and Romola Garai, was repeated on Wednesday. It is available on iPlayer for 28 more days.
Sam plays Albert Tiermann in
Doctor Who Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice, which is available on iPlayer for approximately three more weeks (
part 1|
part 2).
Sam plays Geoffrey Ponting in the film adaptation of
On Chesil Beach. He started filming in early November. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Anne-Marie Duff and Emily Watson. The director is Dominic Cooke, who previously directed Sam in The Hollow Crown: Henry VI (his Twitter @
exitthelemming and
IMDB).
December
He is featured in a Guardian article about the Moomin exhibition
Adventures in Moominland (until 23 April) at Royal Festival Hall:
The Moomins have many fans, including the actor Samuel West, who said he had felt at home in Jansson’s Moominvalley since he was seven.
“The sensuous melancholy, the odd cast and the wisdom of the worldview fascinates me,” he said. “This new exhibition captures both the textures and the emotions of Moominland, and the way ordinary things are transformed into magical strangeness by Jansson’s joyful sideways look.”
On 14 December, Jane Asher, Jenni Falconer, Guy Henry, Sir Richard Stilgoe, Claire Harman and Sam read at the
Home-Start Wandsworth carol service in St Anne's church. A picture of them is
here.
The organisation is a charity that supports families with young children under the age of five.
Sam and his partner Laura Wade went to the
Evening Standard Film Awards (tweets from @exitthelemming
1|
2 and pictures from Getty
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4). Winners included Hugh Grant and Kate Beckinsale.
In early December, Sam wrote a
tribute about the late
Andrew Sachs for the Telegraph. Sachs worked with Sam's mother Prunella Scales on Fawlty Towers.
November
Kate Duchêne, Hattie Morahan, Giles Terera and Sam were the readers for
A Poem For Every Night of the Year, a performance at the National Theatre. An
audio recording of the event is available on the NT's website.
He narrated Babar (Poulenc) and Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) at the
Bath Mozartfest, with Tim Horton on piano (@
exitthelemming).
October
The BBC Radio 3 website has a
clip of Sam reading the text of "Alleluia! A new work is come on hand", the text for the 2016
Radio 3 Carol Competition. The competition was for amateur composers to create music for this text. Jessie Reeves was the winner and her composition was broadcast throughout the Christmas weekend.
The third and final series of
Blood, Sex and Money was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October. Sam played Aristide Rougon in the episodes
"Crash",
"Massacre" and
"Fate".
Sam reads lyrics from
Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the wind" in this
clip (from 0:58). The reading was featured in a BBC Radio 4 PM story about Dylan receiving the Nobel prize for literature.
The
National Campaign for the Arts has relaunched with two campaigns: Local Heroes and Hearts for the Arts (
The Stage). Sam is the chair of the organisation. Local Heroes highlights the role of cultural institutions in shaping the careers of people before they became famous - refer to the Campaign's
website for details on how to submit nominations.
Hearts for the Arts is an annual award for
"councils and individual officers and Councillors who are overcoming financial challenges to ensure the arts are at the centre of community life."
Good Chance Theatre staged "Last Chance", a reading of the Dublin III Regulation at the Young Vic on 20 October (via the Evening Standard).The reading was a plea for the unaccompanied children of the Calais jungle camp. Readers included Carey Mulligan, Juliet Stevenson, Sam and Good Chance co founders Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy.
