Samuel West - Jonathan Strange on Australian TV, Kreutzer vs Kreutzer, various interviews

Upcoming broadcasts
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell will have its Australian premiere Thursday 6 August on BBC First.

Faust will be repeated on BBC Radio 3 from today. Sam stars as Faust; Toby Jones plays Mephisotopheles and Anna Maxwell Martin plays Gretchen.
Armstrong and Miller will also be repeated from today, on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

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Production photo from Kreutzer vs Kreutzer (source: @ThomasGouldVLN)
Violinist Thomas Gould, members of the Aurora Orchestra, Katherine Parkinson and Sam performed Kreutzer vs Kretuzer at the Globe 12 and 13 July. Aurora violist Max Baillie performed Janáček on a viola that belonged to Janáček (Aurora Orchestra on Facebook).
Thomas tweeted pictures from the performance here. Sam and Katherine discussed the production and performed a couple of excerpts on In Tune on BBC Radio 3; the interview is available for one more week (it begins at 56 minutes). Here are some reviews and tweets about the play:

The Guardian
"Laura Wade’s brilliant two-hander Kreutzer vs Kreutzer... the ever watchable Katherine Parkinson and Samuel West, enact the quick-fire, quick-witted but potent dialogue with supreme ease and sense of pace...This nimble, sensitive study of the impact of music was revelatory as well as enthralling. Alas it was only on for two nights. Now a tour?"  [Sam tweeted, "Positive thoughts for continued life after that..."]

Financial Times
"The interplay between the understated performances of the actors and impassioned delivery of the musicians makes you listen more precisely to both words and music."

Just glorious Kreuzter v Kreutzer @The_Globe amazing Katherine Parkinson, fabulous @exitthelemming and delightful Aurora orchestra

— Midge McCall (@MM09) July 13, 2015

Thoroughly enjoyed Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer @The_Globe. Beautiful performances from @auroraorchestra, Katherine Parkinson and @exitthelemming.

— Anna Lyttle (@lyttleanna) July 12, 2015

@The_Globe @exitthelemming Had a simply brilliant evening at the Wanamaker. Wonderful performances from everyone.

— ))Linda Warren (@Linda222) July 12, 2015

#Appasionata in spades tonight @The_Globe @auroraorchestra @exitthelemming Laura Wade's wonderful #Kreutzervskreutzer pic.twitter.com/m8T4CDCsIp

— Artifartblast (@artifartblast) July 12, 2015

@tamaracharvey @exitthelemming Clever conceit and masterful performances tonight for KreutzerVsKreutzer @The_Globe Love to @auroraorchestra

— Tom Redican (@tom_redican) July 12, 2015

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A few interviews: Sam discussed After Electra in West Hampstead Life and arts funding in the Equity magazine (via The Stage) and the Independent.

Some radio picks for this week

• Julian Rhind-Tutt and Hugh Laurie are the readers for With Great Pleasure at Christmas
• The Sunday Feature "Anything but Banal - The Fascination of the Villain" features interviews with Rory Kinnear and Timothy West
• Michael Sheen's Eighties begins this Saturday on Radio 2
• Repeats: Rory Kinnear plays Young Alf in Ed Harris' drama The Moment You Feel It; An Inspector Calls stars Toby Jones as Inspector Goole; the cast of Neverwhere includes James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Romola Garai; and James Purefoy and Hattie Morahan star in Otherwise Engaged.

Samuel West - Uncle Vanya, Ramblings, Josephine Hart Poetry Week, Hyde Park on Hudson

Screencaps of Sam and Laura Carmichael (click thumbnails for full size. video source: BBC Breakfast)
On Tuesday, Sam and Uncle Vanya co-star Laura Carmichael discussed the play on BBC Breakfast. The play's official site has been updated with a new promo image. Also, the play's Facebook page has an album of pictures from rehearsals.

Sam and Toby Jones attended the after party for King Lear at the Almeida on Wednesday (wooller.com).

This week's episode of Ramblings, featuring Clare Balding and Sam exploring Rainham Marshes, was broadcast on Thursday. It is now available for streaming and as a podcast.

For The Josephine Hart Poetry Week, Sam, Deborah Findlay and Angus Wright read poetry by Philip Larkin at the Arts Theatre on Thursday. Pictures from the event have been posted at wooller.com.

A new poster for Hyde Park on Hudson has been released, ahead of its UK premiere at the London Film Festival (heyuguys). According to EntNewsUK, he will attend a screening of the film at the festival.

A video of his speech at Shift Happens is viewable on Vimeo (via @MarcusRomer).

Samuel West. Narration - The Soldier's Tale. Guardian letter.

Sam will be a guest on In Tune today (via @suzyklein). Presumably he will be discussing the upcoming performance of The Soldier's Tale at the Wigmore Hall, which he will be narrating this Friday. [Update, 25 February: a picture of Sam in the studio is here]
Later in the week, he will be a guest on Saturday Kitchen Live, facing his food heaven or food hell. [Update, 4 February: it clashed with a morning performance of The Soldier's Tale (see the comment from Anonymous on this post, and tweets from @cmoody and @debbie2711; cancellation confirmed by Sam here)]

Sam wrote a letter to the Guardian outlining disagreement with the appointment of actor György Dörner as the director of the Új Színház (the New Theatre). Early last week, he tweeted that he was in the process of putting the letter together:

"Putting together letter about theatre situation in Hungary (http://bit.ly/yOizOb). As ever, moved & delighted by response of fellow actors."

The letter's signatories include Daniel Evans, Romola Garai, Toby Jones, Dan Stevens, Harriet Walter, Caryl Churchill and Laura Wade.

Television - Murder on the Orient Express screencaps

IMDB|PBS

Film - Captain America

Screencaps of Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper and Richard Armitage from various Captain America videos which have been released recently (click the thumbnails for full size):
Behind the shield featurette by Norton

Featurette by Dunkin' Donuts

Trailer 2 (Yahoo Movies)







And new stills featuring Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper and Toby Jones can be viewed at I Am Rogue and Coming Soon.

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"

Scene & Heard, BBC Radio

Patrons Hugh Bonneville and Sam West attended a performance of the Scene & Heard production Twist and Turn. Tweets:

@hughbon: "Fabulous eve with @exitthelemming & other proud patrons at http://t.co/8hJGUpU - 11 yr olds writing astonishing short plays."

@exitthelemming: "Beautiful evening at @SceneandHeardUK. Simon Scardifield played 10 parts. Countess of Wessex, @hughbon & other supporters v pleased & proud."

BBC Radio

• Claudie Blakley and Tony Haygarth are the readers for Words and Music "Idleness"
• Dan Stevens, Malcolm Sinclair and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 A Thousand Kisses
• Sean Gallagher and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye
• Toby Jones reads the Book of the Week Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
• Matt Smith, Tamsin Greig and Alan Bennett will be guests on The 4 O'Clock Show
• Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and John Finnemore star in series 2 of Cabin Pressure {repeat}
• Alex Jennings and Imogen Stubbs star in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Glamour's Women of the Year Awards and the Offies

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards nominees include Any Human Heart, Downton Abbey and Sherlock for Best Drama Series; and Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hollander for Best Actor (via darcylicious). The winners will be announced 25 March.

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton, Hattie Morahan, Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson and Andrea Riseborough have received nominations for Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, which will be held on 7 June.

Toby Jones has been nominated for a Best Male Offie for The Painter at The Arcola.

Television - Murder on the Orient Express

Source: my screencaps

Murder on the Orient Express premieres in Australia on ABC1, Sunday 13 February at 8.30pm. The cast includes Hugh Bonneville (Edward Masterman), Toby Jones (Samuel Ratchett), David Morrissey (John Arbuthnot) and Samuel West (Dr Constantine).

Awards season events, Rosamund Pike, Toby Jones, Ruth Wilson

Awards season events

Golden Globe winners included Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama), Paul Giamatti (Barney's Version/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical), Boardwalk Empire (Best Television Series - Drama) and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire/Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama).
Pictures: arrivals (featuring Andrew Garfield, Colin Firth, Hayley Atwell, Kelly Macdonald and Tilda Swinton); Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Kelly Macdonald attended the Weinstein/Relativity Media after party (Getty 1|2, @liviafirth 1|2); Andrea Riseborough and Tilda Swinton attended the InStyle/Warner Bros after party (Getty); and Andrew Garfield attended the Sony Pictures Classics after party (Getty).

In other awards season events, Hayley Atwell was a guest at the HBO luxury lounge and the Instyle beauty lounge; also, Hayley Atwell and Andrea Riseborough attended the BAFTA LA tea party (arrivals, red carpet).

Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announced the BAFTA film nominations. Nominees include Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Leading Actor), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network/Supporting Actor and Orange Wednesdays Rising Award) and Gemma Arterton (Orange Wednesdays Rising Award).

Interviews

Rosamund Pike/Barney's Version: Anglophenia, She Knows, USA Today, tv.com.

Toby Jones (the Arts Desk) - Toby stars as Turner in The Painter at the Arcola Theatre which runs until 12 February.

Radio

Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke star in the Friday Play Like Minded People which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 February at 9pm.

English Ballet Nutcracker gala, Barney's Version, BBC Radio

Hayley Atwell attended the English Ballet Nutcracker gala performance. Pictures from WireImage, Rex Features and Getty (arrivals, pre party).

Rosamund Pike interview from the Globe and Mail about Barney's Version.

BBC Radio

• Rebecca Hall and John Paul Connolly are the readers for Words and Music "Full of Noises" {repeat}
• Stephen Sondheim reads his book Finishing the Hat for the Book of the Week
• Hattie Morahan and David Schofield star in series 2 of the Woman's Hour Drama The Art of Deception
• Martin Jarvis performs Jeeves in Manhattan "The Artistic Career of Corky"
• Richard E Grant and Toby Jones respectively read the Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare "All Hallows" and "Seaton's Aunt"

Dan Stevens. Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Celebrating Creativity at Tonbridge School. Radio - Orley Farm.

Dan played Curtis in "Late at Night", written by Richard Curtis, directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Ralf Little, Kelly Brook and Natalie Dormer (with a cameo from Richard Wilson). Press coverage of the 24 Hour Plays includes a video from Ideas Tap; and articles from the Independent, the Evening Standard and the Londoner's Diary. It will also be featured on The Culture Show (via Clemency Burton-Hill's Twitter, @clemencybh). Getty, Rex Features and wooller.com have pictures from the after party; as well as Dan, guests included Andrew Scott and Toby Jones.
Some tweets from Dan about the 24 Hour Plays: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8

Dan will participate in Celebrating Creativity at Tonbridge School, a celebration that will take place 17 February 2011 in the E.M. Forster Theatre at 7.45pm.

Orley Farm, a Classic Serial originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from December 2008 to January 2009, is available for purchase. Dan plays Peregrine Orme.

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]

Film - Resistance. Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Hayley Atwell, Simon Russell Beale. Film - My Week with Marilyn. BBC Radio.

• Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen have been cast in Resistance [link]
  
  
• Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, and Hayley Atwell interviews carey|rosamund|hayley
  
  
• Simon Russell Beale's "Perfect Weekend" from the Telegraph [link]
  
  
• The cast of My Week with Marilyn includes Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, and Simon Russell Beale [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Hugh Bonneville was interviewed on Loose Ends [link]
• Simon Pegg will be interviewed on Front Row [link]

Ruth Wilson. Television - Luther. Moet event. Film - Made in Dagenham. Television - Shakespeare history plays. Television - Any Human Heart. BBC Radio.

• Luther
• Ruth Wilson interview from Variety [link]
• Idris Elba and Ruth interview from Collider [link]
• Ruth attended the Moët et Chandon champagne harvest and "Tribute To Heritage" gala in Epernay, France 1|2
  
  
• Made in Dagenham interviews
• Rosamund Pike 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8
• Sally Hawkins 1|2|3|4|5
• Andrea Riseborough interview from the Observer [link]
  
  
• The Shakespeare history plays Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, and Henry V will be adapted for BBC2. Simon Russell Beale is the associate producer, and directors include Rupert Goold and Richard Eyre. (via the Guardian) [link]
  
  
• Any Human Heart, starring Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Hayley Atwell, will begin in November [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Jeff Harding and Toby Jones star in the Saturday Play The Kane Conspiracy [link]
• Toby Jones and Joseph Kloska star in The Wire First Domino [link]

Samuel West. Radio - Faust. Radio - Spitfire. Television - Midsomer Murders. Audio - Dark Matter.

The Drama on 3 Faust will be broadcast 19 September on BBC Radio 3. It stars Sam, Toby Jones, Derek Jacobi, and Anna Maxwell Martin. [link]

Programme page for the upcoming Saturday Play Spitfire!, starring Sam, Rory Kinnear, Samuel Barnett and Ruth Wilson (11 September, BBC Radio 4) [link]

Midsomer Murders "The Animal Within" will be repeated on UKTV this week (via Sam's Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]

Sam and Benedict Cumberbatch narrate the audiobook Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. It will be released 21 October. [link] According to the publisher Orion Books, Jeremy Northam is the narrator

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]

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. Arts funding. Belarus. Comedy of Errors opening night. Radio - Faust. Radio - With Great Pleasure. Television - Random Quest. Equity.

• A marvellous article by Sam in the Evening Standard about arts funding (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]
  
  
• Internet censorship in Belarus
• An open letter to David Cameron - as well as Sam, signatories included Sir Tom Stoppard, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade [link]
• A protest at the Belarussian embassy took place on 1 July
• Articles from Charter 97 and Index on Censorship
• Video of Sam performing an extract from Generation Jeans
• Some tweets from @exitthelemming, Sam's Twitter: 1|2|3|4
  
  
• Sam attended the opening night for The Comedy of Errors at the Open Air Theatre on 29 June [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Faust (starring Sam, Toby Jones and Anna Maxwell Martin) press release [link]
• Sam and Harriet Walter are the readers for an upcoming episode of With Great Pleasure. Readings have been chosen by Joan Bakewell. [link]
  
  
• Random Quest will be screened at the BFI 14 and 20 August [link]
  
  
• Sam has been elected to the Equity General Council (via The Stage) [link]