Podcast appearances and mentions of dominic cooke

Agents Scott and Cam welcome director Dominic Cooke to the show to discuss the making of the 2020 Benedict Cumberbatch spy drama The Courier. Become a SpyHards Patron and gain access to top secret "Agents in the Field" bonus episodes, movie commentaries and more! Social media: @spyhards Purchase the latest exclusive SpyHards merch at Redbubble. View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes. Theme music by Doug Astley.

Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Ian Sanders of the Cold War Conversations Podcast, bond over trips to the ballet while reviewing the 2020 Benedict Cumberbatch espionage drama The Courier. Directed by Dominic Cooke. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright and Kirill Pirogov.. The Cold War Conversations Podcast is available everywhere. Don't forget to check out Ian's episode on Oleg Penkovsky.   You can also follow Ian on Twitter. Become a SpyHards Patron and gain access to top secret "Agents in the Field" bonus episodes, movie commentaries and more! Purchase the latest exclusive SpyHards merch at Redbubble. Social media: @spyhards View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes. Theme music by Doug Astley.

In the second part of Jonny's chat with director Dominic Cooke they discuss getting the end of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom wrong, some strategies actors use to avoid being vulnerable, Sophie Okonedo and giving her performance up to the gods, experiencing vulnerability as a director and having to be dragged back to see his own shows, his fears for free expression in young writers right now, his long collaboration with Caryl Churchill- and how Caryl was right in her play Seven Jewish Children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's chat Jonny takes a stroll down memory lane with acclaimed director Dominic Cooke. They both started at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 90's and Dominic rose to become artistic director of the Royal Court, Olivier-award winner, CBE and now the director of a new blockbuster stage production based on The Biggest TV Show in History. No not Seinfeld. Jonny and Dominic chat about the very particular flavour of the RSC when they met, their problem with stage violence, the “liberating duality of the theatre”, why we don't talk enough about being bored, the unsung hero of modern British directors, telling an actor “I don't believe you” and the problem with anger on stage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the most eagerly anticipated productions for Chichester Festival Theatre's current season is Rock Follies, an adaptation of the hit 1970s series. The cast is led by West End star Carly Bawden as Anna, a role that was originated by the late Charlotte Cornwell in the TV series. The role marks Carly's first time performing in the Minerva Theatre having previously performed at the theatre's Concert in the Park 2021 and notably worked with departing Artistic Director Daniel Evans on My Fair Lady at Sheffield Crucible. After a short career break, Rock Follies also marks a return for Carly to the stage and we hear her talk about her experience readjusting to being in a rehearsal space, working with a company to create a show for Chichester audiences.  In our interview, Carly Bawden sat down to talk about creating the new show with Dominic Cooke and finding ways to honour the original source material whilst keeping the show fresh for a modern audience. We also hear Carly talk about her Somerset roots, growing up in a small town to performing on West End stages. Throughout our conversation, she remains very humble about her success since leaving Somerset and tells us how grateful she is to the local community for supporting her ambitions to perform. Indeed, since leaving school, Carly Bawden has become one of the most sought-after performers, leading landmark revivals of Carousel and Assassins as well as helped open the new Boulevard Theatre with Ghost Quartet back in 2019. Always playing challenging roles, we hear her talk about her love of working on thought-provoking texts and her hopes to continue working with brilliant people within the industry.Rock Follies runs at the Minerva Theatre until Saturday 26 August.

We're bringing you a bonus episode with Amy Trigg who is currently part of the chorus, playing 2nd Woman of Corinth, in the West End revival of Medea.Amy is performing alongside Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels in  Dominic Cooke's production which runs at @SohoPlace. Amy most recently received huge acclaim for Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me (Kiln Theatre) which she wrote and starred in, winning The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020. Her theatre credits also include: The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Measure for Measure (RSC); Goth Weekend (The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough/Live Theatre, Newcastle); The Who's Tommy (Tour); The Glass Menagerie (Nottingham Playhouse); Shakespeare Within The Abbey (Westminster Abbey with Shakespeare's Globe); The Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare's Globe); Fusion (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells); The Joy of Dance (Lyric Hammersmith) and Sadler's Wells Takeover Weekend (National Theatre's River Stage). On screen she has been seen inThe F**k It Bucket, Unforgotten, Casualty, The Other One, Such Brave Girls, Feel Good, Unprecedented, Stella, Doctors, Street Dogs, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Pas De Deux.Amy is a wheelchair user and her incredible work is breaking down doors whilst inspiring so many people.Media runs at @SohoPlace until 22nd April. Visit www.sohoplace.org for info and tickets. Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.  

Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano tells us about his two new versions of Puccini's opera, Turandot – a revival on stage at the Royal Opera House, and a new recording with tenor Jonas Kaufman, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and the Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. A year on from the invasion of Ukraine, Luke Jones hears from some of the Ukrainian performers living and working in exile. He joins Hooligan Art Community, a performance group that started in the bomb shelters of Kyiv, as they rehearse for their new show, Bunker Cabaret. There are two blistering performances on the London stage today: Janet McTeer in Phaedra at the National Theatre and Sophie Okonedo as Medea at Soho Place. The plays' directors, Simon Stone and Dominic Cooke, discuss the hold these stories of two transgressive and tragic women have had over audiences for two and a half millennia, and why they speak to us today. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Olivia Skinner

Since the 1970s, Marion Bailey has worked pretty consistently on screen and on stage in a huge variety of films, plays and TV shows. Today, she is currently starring in a brand new production of Medea, directed by Dominic Cooke at the brand new @Soho Place Theatre. The show explores the themes of injustice and revenge, and Marion kindly took the time to discuss how the show has remained relevant throughout the years. In this new production, audiences will also be treated to a lesser known translation by Robertson Jeffers, who Marion describes as "breathtaking". Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels will also be starring alongside Marion as Medea and Jason/Creon/Aegues respectively.Marion Bailey is perhaps best known to audiences for her collaboration with Mike Leigh on films such as Meantime, Secrets & Lies and Mr. Turner where she received universal critical acclaim for her portrayal of Mrs Booth. More recently, Marion also collected 2 SAG awards alongside Season 3 and 4 cast of Netflix drama The Crown for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. In this special interview, Marion also reveals her thoughts on controversy around the latest season of The Crown as well as which other Royal Family member she'd be interested in playing. Just after the Queen passed away last year, Marion also reprised the role of Q in Handbagged and she shares her memories of playing the role during that time of national mourning. Now, as she plays the Nurse in Medea,  Marion reflects on her 40 year career as a true character actress, collaborating with various acclaimed directors, writers and actors. We hear her share her gratitude to those who have supported her and it seems we still have a lot to look forward to from Marion Bailey in the years ahead.Medea plays at @SohoPlace Theatre until Saturday 22nd April.

The acclaimed theatre, television and film director, Dominic Cooke, chats to us about his new production of Euripides's classic tragedy, ‘Medea', starring Oscar-nominated Sophie Okonedo as Medea, spurned wife of Jason, hellbent on brutal and bloody revenge. Dominic explains why all the male parts are being played by Ben Daniels and tells us why he decided to stage it at Soho Place, the first new purpose built theatre in the West End for 50 years. Most people will know the devastating, bloody climax to the story, and Dominic tells us why he wanted to direct such a harrowing play and elaborates on what Sophie Okonedo brings to the role. We finish this episode with a tribute to Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the brilliant, wickedly funny entertainer, writer who has died suddenly. Kit and McConnel, his regular cabaret act with musician James McConnel, has been delighting and outraging audiences here and abroad for many years. As our guest twice, we celebrate Kit's extraordinary career and treat you to a clip of him talking to Ed and me about the joys – and importance - of pantomime and playing King Rat in Dick Whittington.

The Play Podcast - 056 - Good by C.P. Taylor Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Dominic Cooke The Play Podcast is a podcast dedicated to exploring the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. C.P. Taylor's powerful, cautionary play Good charts how an ostensibly ‘good' person can become not just complicit to evil behaviour, but an active participant. Professor John Halder's creeping moral compromise as he joins the Nazi elite in 1930's Germany is a disturbing reminder of the dangers of populist political crusades. The play is currently being revived at the Harold Pinter theatre in London with David Tennant in the role of John Halder, and I'm delighted to be joined by the production's director, Dominic Cooke, to explore the contemporary resonances of this provocative play.

Summary Seth Abramovitch (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss the British war-hero who spied on behalf of the Japanese during Hollywood's Golden Age. This is a story-and-a-half, by jingo!  What You'll Learn Intelligence How a British war-hero became a spy for the other side Japanese espionage in Tinseltown  How the story involves Boris Karloff, Charlie Chaplin and Yoko Ono's father  The spy ring's activities before and after Pearl Harbor Reflections Playing the game for yourself vs. for a country or a cause Hubris & Nemesis  And much, much more… Episode Notes Squadron Leader Frederick Rutland, AM, DSC and Bar, was the first person to fly a seaplane from a ship in history. He was also the first man to spot the German fleet from his seaplane, thereby precipitating the largest naval battle of the First World War, the Battle of Jutland.  After leaving the military because of indiscretions with a fellow officer's wife, Rutland tries to live an ordinary vanilla life, but still craves his action-packed days of old…ultimately, he is approached by the Japanese to teach aviation and to spy on their behalf, which leads him to relocate to LA during the Golden Age of Hollywood.  To discuss this doozy of a story, I am joined by Seth Abramovitch from the Hollywood Reporter – i.e., the definitive interpretive voice of the entertainment industry – where he has worked for ten years.  And… There are some incredible Hollywood movies from the interwar period, capturing some of the tension and suspicion of the era, as well as the faint drumbeat of approaching war. Hitchcock alone had, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). Major stars of the era such as Marlene Dietrich, Great Garbo, and Madelaine Carroll helped solidify the spy genre with movies such as Dishonored (1931), Mata Hari (1931), and I Was a Spy (1933). Don't forget Fritz Lang's Spione (1928), which has been called a, “marvel of narrative economy in montage.”  Quote of the Week "At the very bottom of the list, it would be any kind of allegiance to any flag, because he's quick to offer to turn on Japan when push comes to shove at the very end of the whole story. I don't think he was doing it for any kind of nationalism or political, viewpoint. I think if anything he was apolitical." – Seth Abramovitch. Resources Headline Resources “Beverly Hills Spy: How a WWII Era James Bond Betrayed the Allies,” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter (2022) Andrew's Recommendation Reel vs. Real CIA – The Americans, Argo, Black Panther, and the Good Shepherd *SpyCasts* “Russia Upside Down” – with Creator of The Americans Joe Weisberg (2022) “The Courier” – the Director's Take with Dominic Cooke (2021) “Hollywood Spies” – with Jonna Mendez (2020) “U.S. Naval Intelligence in WWII” – with Rear Admiral Donald Mac Showers  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beginner Resources Spy for Japan, T. Bradbeer, Historynet (2022) [webpage] The Pacific War, WELT (2021) [video] FBI Raid Japanese Spy Network in LA, Smithsonian Channel (2019) [video] Books Intelligence & the War Against Japan, R. Aldrich (CUP, 2000) The Emperor's Codes, M. Smith (Bantam, 2000) Articles “Agent Shinkawa Revisited,” R. Drabkin & B. Hart, IJIC, 35/1 (2022) The 1924 Law That Slammed the Door on Immigrants, Smithsonian Magazine (2020) Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22, State Dept. Historian, State (n.d.)  Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5, State Dept. Historian, State (n.d.)

In this episode, Melanie takes us on a deep dive of spy stories, their conventions and subgenres. It turns out that what we usually think of as spy stories might not be spy stories at all! Meanwhile, Valerie examines the testing plot and offers advice about how to write historical fiction that works.

Join us for another week of laughter, TV shows, streaming, movies and all things entertainment. THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING Movies Octopussy (1983) Never Say Never Again (1983) Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022) Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) TV Shows The Witcher (S1 - S2) Yellowstone (S4) The Book of Boba Fett (E01 - E02) MOVIE OF THE WEEK & PEAK PERFORMANCE The Courier (2020). Staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Nindze, Rachel Brosnahan, Angus Wright, Jessie Buckly & Keir Hills. Directed by Dominic Cooke. And finally our Peak Performance nominations are in for Sandra Bullock. EPISODE TITLE This weeks episode title is dedicated to the cast and crew of Spider-Man: No Way Home. This particular title comes direct from everyone's favourite wizard... Doctor Strange. You know what to do. Get on those phones! RUNNING ORDER 01m25s | What we've been watching 28m53s | Yellowstone (S4) 49m44s | The Book of Boba Fett (E01 - E02) 01h06m20s | Movie of the week: The Courier 01h14m51s | News & Mailbag 01h25m23s | Peak Performance: Sandra Bullock GET IN TOUCH Support us on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Tweet us @HalfMeasuresPod Chat with us on Discord Follow us on Facebook Buy our merch on TeeSpring Visit our website halfmeasurespodcast.com This episode of the Half Measures Podcast is brought to you by our Patreon Producers: Samara King, Tricia Brady, Diana Knauer and Linda Tavner.

BBC推荐2021年豆瓣高分电影|2021 Douban High Score Movies Recommended by BBCDune《沙丘》 Now at last we have a big-screen Dune that may actually do justice to Frank Herbert's science-fiction novel. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, this is a somber, sweeping epic which runs for 155 minutes and still only covers the first half of the book. The budget is colossal, the crew is top-notch, and the cast is packed with big names, including Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya and Dave Bautista. As space operas about psychic-powered young heroes on desert planets go, it may never be as popular as Star Wars, but, says Clarisse Loughrey in the Independent, "It is a film of such literal and emotional largeness that it overwhelms the senses of such intimidating grandeur that it's hard to believe it even exists in the first place."我们终于迎来了一部可以对得起弗兰克·赫伯特科幻小说原著的电影版《沙丘》。丹尼斯·维伦纽瓦导演的这部阴郁磅礴的史诗大片长达155分钟，但也只讲完了原著的上半部分。这部电影耗资巨大，演员阵容也十分强大，包括蒂莫西·柴勒梅德、奥斯卡·伊萨克、乔什·布洛林、赞达亚和戴夫·巴蒂斯塔等众多大牌明星。这部星际科幻电影讲述了关于荒漠星球上具有超自然力量的少男少女的故事，它也许永远不会像《星球大战》系列一样受欢迎，但是，正如克拉丽斯·洛瑞在《独立报》上的评论：“这是一部篇幅和情感都广博到令人震撼的宏伟电影，它的存在本身就让人难以置信。”The French Dispatch《法兰西特派》 Wes Anderson fans rejoice: the writer-director's 10th film is his most Wes Anderson-ish ever. In The French Dispatch, he takes his meticulous style to new extremes, so barely a frame goes by that isn't ornamented with a split screen, a freeze frame, a sans serif caption, a florid voiceover, or a switch between monochrome and garish color. Beneath all these elaborate quirks is an anthology of three whimsical short stories set in the fictional French town and supposedly drawn from the pages of a New Yorker-style magazine in the mid-20th Century.韦斯·安德森的粉丝欢呼吧，这位编剧兼导演的第十部电影是他迄今为止将个人风格发扬得最淋漓尽致的作品。在《法兰西特派》中，安德森将他细致入微的风格发挥到了新极致。几乎没有一帧画面是未经过雕琢的，不是运用分屏、定格、无衬线字体、词藻华丽的画外音，就是在黑白和艳丽色彩之间切换。在所有这些精巧的手法之下，这部电影讲述的是在一座虚构法国小镇中发生的三个怪诞小故事，据称这些故事选自上世纪中叶一本《纽约客》风格的杂志。Ron's Gone Wrong《天赐灵机》 The first feature-length cartoon from a new British studio, Locksmith Animation, Ron's Gone Wrong is a family comedy about the differences between social media and physical interaction. Its schoolboy hero, Barney, is given what seems to be the ideal toy, a shiny robot which is programmed to be his friend – assuming it works properly. The snag is that this particular robot, Ron, barely works at all. "Children want someone who agrees with them, who wants to play the same games as them… and that's the type of dream the technology world offers you," the film's co-writer and co-director, Sarah Smith, said. "And in our movie, Barney ends up with Ron, who's completely dysfunctional and broken, who doesn't agree with him and doesn't know anything about him, and they have to build this relationship from that point."《天赐灵机》是英国新动画工作室Locksmith出品的第一部动画长片，这部家庭喜剧片讲述了社交媒体和实体互动之间的差异。男主人公是一位名叫巴尼的男学生，他得到了一个貌似很理想的玩具——一个亮闪闪的机器人，程序设定为他的朋友，当然前提是这个机器人要正常运转。问题在于这个名叫罗恩的机器人根本不能正常运转。该片的编剧和导演之一莎拉·史密斯说：“孩子们想要的是能认同他们、和他们玩同样游戏的玩伴，而这是科技世界可以帮助实现的梦想。然而在我们这部电影中，巴尼得到的却是功能完全失调的、坏掉的机器人罗恩。罗恩既不同意巴尼的观点，对巴尼也一无所知，他们的关系必须从头开始建立。”Minari《米纳里》Lee Isaac Chung's autobiographical drama has had glowing reviews, but it has also been the source of controversy. Most of the dialogue is in Korean, so the organizers of the Golden Globes put it in the Foreign Language Film category. But Minari is also the tale of a US family working on a small farm in Arkansas in the 1980s, so some commentators have argued that calling its language "foreign" is outdated and insulting. Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Times says that the film "feels like a balm right now, a gentle, truthful and tender story of family filled with kind people trying to love one another the best they can. "李·以萨克·郑的这部自传式电影收获了热烈的好评，但也引来了不少争议。该片的大多数对话都是韩语，所以金球奖主办方将其归为外语片类别。但是《米纳里》也是一部关于上世纪80年代在阿肯色州一家小农场劳作的美国家庭的故事，因此一些评论人士表示，将其称为“外语片”不仅过时而且具有侮辱性。《洛杉矶时报》的格伦·威普称，这部电影“在当下能给心灵带来抚慰，这个温和、真实而柔情的故事讲述的这个家庭里都是全心全意爱彼此的善良的人。”The Courier《信使》Benedict Cumberbatch has been tipped as a potential James Bond, but in The Courier, he plays one of Bond's less glamorous real-life counterparts. In 1960, just before Sean Connery signed up to be 007, a salesman named Greville Wynne was recruited by MI6 and the CIA to carry Soviet secrets back from Moscow. In the film, his wife wants him to abandon this increasingly dangerous mission, but Wynne believes that only his espionage can defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. Directed by Dominic Cooke, The Courier has a "fascinating" story, says Benjamin Lee at the Guardian, but it is Cumberbatch's performance that sells it.据传本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇是下一任邦德候选人之一，但在《信使》中，他饰演一个不那么迷人的间谍原型。1960年，就在肖恩·康纳利签约007系列电影之前，一位名叫格雷维尔·韦恩的销售员受雇于军情六处和中央情报局从莫斯科带回苏联机密。在影片中，他的妻子想让他放弃这个日益危险的使命，但是韦恩相信只有他的间谍行动才能化解古巴导弹危机。《卫报》的本杰明·李写道，多米尼克·库克导演的《信使》讲述了一个“引人入胜的”故事，但是让电影有看点的是康伯巴奇的表演。 colossal英 [kəˈlɒsl]；美[kəˈlɑːsl] adj. 巨大的；庞大的meticulous英 [məˈtɪkjələs]；美[məˈtɪkjələs] adj. 一丝不苟的；细心的；小心翼翼的whimsical 英 [ˈwɪmzɪkl]；美[ˈwɪmzɪkl] adj. 异想天开的；想入非非的；心血来潮的；滑稽可笑的snag英 [snæɡ]；美[snæɡ] n. 障碍；（尤指潜在的、意外的、不严重的）问题；突出物v. 抓住；（在带尖的东西上）钩住；挂破；抢先获得espionage英 [ˈespiənɑːʒ]；美[ˈespiənɑːʒ] n. 间谍活动；谍报活动；刺探活动

Hijinks about as we are joined by CSC's Crystian Wiltshire to discuss Dominic Cooke's 2012 Comedy of Errors!

Paradox House presents… Episode 9 of Scripted hosted by Daisy Lewis. Episode 9 is here and Daisy sat down with the unstoppable Clint Dyer to chat all things theatre, process and how positive representation at the National Theatre can pave the way for a brighter, more inclusive industry. We also are joined by the brilliant Rachel De-Lahay. It's not double trouble this week, listeners. It's double value and we can't wait for you to tune in. Clint Dyer is the Deputy Artistic Director of The Royal National Theatre. Clint is one of only a very small number of people, and the only Black British artist, to have worked at the National Theatre as an actor, writer and director on full-scale productions. His breadth of experience and creative work will be invaluable as the NT adapts following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and focus on the future. Clint continues to act, write and direct his own work away from the National Theatre. His most recent project saw him directing Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical which opened at the Lyric Theatre in the West End this year. Additionally, he reopened the National Theatre with Death of England: Delroy, which he directed and co-wrote with Roy Williams. Directing credits include: The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Apollo, West end), The Westbridge (Royal Court), Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Writing & Directing credits include: Death of England (National Theatre), Sylvia Plath (Royal Court), The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (Complicité) – co-directed with Simon McBurney. Writing credits include: The Big Idea – The New Order (Royal Court), Starter Motor – part of Soon Gone Windrush Monologues (BBC), Redacted – The Lock Down Plays Podcast, 846 – Stratford East, My White Best friend/3.3 - Royal Court Theatre. Acting credits include: For Stage – Clint has worked with the likes of Mike Leigh, Simon McBurney, Dominic Cooke, Michael Attenborough, Ian Brown, Mike Bradwell, Madani Younis, Gbolahan Obisesan, Dawn Walton and Philip Hedley. He starred in the Oliver Award-winning Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (National Theatre). For Film – Mine, Sus, The Trail, Cherps, Mr Inbetween, Everybody Love Sunshine, Love Me Still, Act of Vengeance, The Club, Montana, Unknown, Sahara, Agora, Mr Bean 2 and Shopping. Awards include: Best Actor – I.A.R Awards (for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), British Urban Film Awards, Screen Nation Film and Television Awards, Liege International Film Festival and The Texas Black Film Festival (for SUS). Rachel De-Lahay is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. Rachel's debut THE WESTBRIDGE premiered at the Royal Court in 2011 and went on to win the 2012 Writers Guild Award for Best Play as well as the 2011 Alfred Fagon Award. Rachel followed this up with ROUTES, which opened Vicky Featherstone's first season at the Royal Court in 2013. The play went on to earn Rachel the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards 2013. Rachel's third full-length play CIRLCES debuted at Birmingham Rep and transferred to the Tricycle Theatre. In 2015, the Bush commissioned Rachel to write a monologue for Black Lives, Black Words. The monologue became MY WHITE BEST FRIEND, which became the template for Rachel to collaborate with and commission a number of established and emerging voices in theatre under the Bunker and the Royal Court. In television, Rachel has collaborated with Jack Thorne on Channel 4's KIRI and Netflix's THE EDDY. She has written on episodes of THE FEED and NOUGHTS AND CROSSES, as well as developing and adapting material of her own with various production companies in the UK and the US. Enjoy!

Paradox House presents... Episode 5 of Scripted, hosted by Daisy Lewis. Week 5 is here and this week Daisy sat down with Dominic Cooke CBE. Listen in as we delve into process in theatre and screen as well as touching on the highly anticipated stage adaptation of Game of Thrones. Dominic graduated from Warwick University, his first job was as a TV runner led him to start his own theatre company, Pan Optic, which he ran for two years before becoming an assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He started his relationship with the Royal Court Theatre under Stephen Daldry in 1995. He then became an associate director at the Royal Court for Ian Rickson in 1999 during which time he directed Fireface by Marius von Mayenburg, Other People by Christopher Shinn and Redundant by Leo Butler. In 2003 he left the Royal Court and returned to the RSC for Michael Boyd where he directed his acclaimed version of The Crucible starring Iain Glen which won him the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director; the play also won the Olivier for Best Revival. In 2013 he won the International Theatre Institute Award for Excellence in International Theatre and in the same year was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters by his alma mater, Warwick University. Cooke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to drama. Dominic was artistic director and Chief Executive of the Royal Court Theatre 2006 to 2013 during which time he pioneered new writing by actively promoting the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme and new, young writers such as Mike Bartlett (My Child), Polly Stenham (That Face), Penelope Skinner (The Village Bike) and Bola Agbaje (the Olivier Award-winning Gone Too Far!) For film, Dominic's feature directorial debut, On Chesil Beach starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2017. It is based on the novel of the same name by Booker Prize winning novelist Ian McEwan. His latest film The Courier starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan and Jessie Buckley, premiered at Sundance in January 2020. Enjoy!

This week, the History Girls take a look at 2020's The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Dominic Cooke. Top MI6 agents Maggie and Nicole *if those are indeed their real names* go undercover to breakdown all the historic details of this exciting (or was it?) spy film! Introduction  Main Show - The Courier  About The Courier  Initial Reactions  Greville Wynne Oleg Penkovsky Costumes Conclusion  Follow Us On Social Media: Twitter: @HGATMPodcast  Instagram: @HGATMPodcast  Facebook: Facebook.com/HGATMPodcast   The Hosts: @nicoleackman16 / @maggieofthetown  Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PetticoatsandPoppies  

Career Q&A with Eddie Redmayne. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Eddie Redmayne was nominated for BAFTA's Rising Star Award in 2012 for his continuing body of work. Subsequently, he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with his fellow actors from Tom Hooper's Les Misérables for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The Working Title movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning three; and won three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture. For his performance as Marius, Mr. Redmayne was nominated for an Evening Standard British Film Award and an MTV Movie Award. He has starred in several other films, including Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, starring as the “my” part of the story as Colin Clark opposite Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe; Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, opposite Julianne Moore; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, also for Working Title, opposite Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I; Gregory Read's Like Minds, with Toni Collette and Tom Sturridge; Udayan Prasad's The Yellow Handkerchief, opposite Kristen Stewart; Justin Chadwick's TheOther Boleyn Girl; Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39; Timothy Linh Bui's Powder Blue; Christopher Smith's Black Death; Derick Martini's Hick; Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, as the son of the characters portrayed by Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie; and Andy and Lana Wachowski's upcoming sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending. The London native has also attracted attention on stage. For his Broadway debut starring as Ken opposite Alfred Molina as painter Mark Rothko in John Logan's Red, directed by Michael Grandage, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play; the production won six Tonys overall, including Best Play. Mr. Redmayne also received a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination; for the production's previous staging in London, at the Donmar Warehouse, he won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other U.K. stage work includes starring as Shakespeare's Richard II, again directed by Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse; in Christopher Shinn's Now or Later, at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Dominic Cooke; and in Anthony Page's Almeida Theatre staging of Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? The latter production earned Mr. Redmayne the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer. His notable television credits include starring in the BBC miniseries Birdsong, directed by Philip Martin; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, directed by David Blair; and The Pillars ofthe Earth, directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. His first miniseries appearance was in Elizabeth I, also his first project with director Tom Hooper. Mr. Redmayne's next movie, The Danish Girl, reunites him with director Tom Hooper.

Bonsoir à tous ! J'ai vu dans un livre de recettes de ma grand-mère que pour effacer une défaite contre la Suisse, il fallait écouter un podcast ciné. Je tombe bien comme qui dirait ... Au programme : - Qui suis-je ? Je suis un méchant où le méchant est le héros (1:30); - Anecdotes V/V/F sur "Un espion ordinaire" de Dominic Cooke (8:49); - Avito Rapido sur "Minari" de Lee Isaac Chung (13:55); - Jeu sur "Tokyo Shaking" de Olivier Peyon (15:50). Bonne semaine à tous !

Notre sélection de 4 films à voir en salle pour la semaine du 23 juin 2021 avec le très beau #Minari de Lee Isaac Chung, notre film de la semaine et le très riche #Gagarine de Fanny Liatard et Jérémy Trouilh. Retour aux années 70 avec le film d'espionnage « Un espion ordinaire » du britannique Dominic Cooke avec Benedict Cumberbatch et enfin le très intime premier film de Samir Guesmi qui s'appelle #Ibrahim. Cette semaine, des films pour tous les goûts.

Lois Reitzes talks with Dominic Cooke, director of the new film "The Courier".Plus, we'll hear from Alesia Johnson, the founder and CEO of Kids Video Connection. Their Virtual Children's Film Festival starts tomorrow and runs for 2 weeks.

Theater legend, Dominic Cooke's second film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the real life ordinary Joe and unintentional cold war hero, Greville Wynne, avoids the pitfalls of becoming too Ron Howard or Spielberg, to deliver a fine, satisfying period thriller with a real sting in the tale.

Bill Deamer is one of Britain's leading choreographers whose extensive training is grounded in ballet, jazz and tap. He is the first-choice go-to choreographer for period choreography. He started his career when, employed as lead dancer in a production of Cabaret in the West End (choreographed and directed by his mentor Dame Gillian Lynne OBE), he was offered an opportunity to choreograph his own version of Cabaret at Salisbury Playhouse. From there he has never looked back… He was reunited with Gillian Lynne when he was invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn to create the new tap choreography for the critically-acclaimed production of Cats at The London Palladium 2014 (which has subsequently run world-wide). Other notable productions include Top Hat (For which Bill won the Olivier Award for Best Choreographer), the 50th Anniversary UK Tour of The Sound of Music, Evita at the Dominion Theatre and the acclaimed Follies at The National Theatre directed by Dominic Cooke, for which Bill was nominated for his third Olivier Award. Bill is also a very successful choreographer for film & television - His keen eye for the camera has served him well, most notably for So You Think You Can Dance, ITV's All Star Musicals and the hit BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, where he continues to contribute featured group professional routines and Charlestons. Throughout his career Bill has also become an expert on Fred Astaire, one of his dance idols. He directed and choreographed the first-ever tribute to Fred at the London Palladium, and has appeared in ITV's Perspectives programme For the Love of Fred Astaire.

Matthew Sweet marks the forthcoming release of Dominic Cooke's thriller 'The Courier', with a new score by Abel Korzeniowski, and focuses on films based on true espionage stories. Matthew features music from the new film as well as from 'Argo', 'Mata Hari - Agent H21', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind', 'Black Book', 'Bridge of Spies', 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'Red Joan', and cues from Gabriel Yared's and Stephane Moucha's 'The Lives of Others', which is the Classic Score of the Week.

The spy game...can be a tricky one... On this episode we sit down with director Dominic Cooke to talk about 'The Courier'. The Courier is the true story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. We got the distinct pleasure to sit down with Dominic to talk about this true story, the spy game, why it draws audiences in and the magic that is Cumberbatch playing an everyman so darn well.

This week's show is standing tall with THREE big interviews.  None bigger than the tallest member of the Touched!  Anna Devlin joins the show this week to talk about playing Primrose on The Nevers.  Find out how the effects team made her larger than life, Anna takes us inside the mind of Primrose and the challenges of her turn at her age.  We also talk about what other abilities that she might want to have if she could choose.  WATCH THE NEVERS SUNDAYS AT 9PM ON HBO AND HBO MAX! We also chat with director Dominic Cooke this week about The Courier.  He talks about bringing this virtually unknown Cold War story to the screen, working with Benedict Cumberbatch and Merab Ninidze and the early days of the CIA.  Plus we also talk sequel potential!  WATCH THE COURIER, NOW AVAILABLE VIA PREMIUM ON DEMAND, AND IN THEATERS! Finally, we're joined by the Ghost Brothers themselves, Dalen Spratt and Juwan Mass!  The guys talk about their newest show, Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, which premieres on Discovery+ this Saturday.  They also tell us some great ghost stories from their past, how they became friends and how the show came together.  Plus, Dalen gives us some EXCLUSIVE information about what could have been this season!  GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON DISCOVER+. You think that's it?  We have more!  Hear a spoiler filled review of the Painkiller soft pilot, a couple of very interesting comics from Marvel and DC, along with some big RESIDENT EVIL news.  Plus, everyone else gave their Fantastic 4 fan casting, so we share ours.  It's an hour jam packed with nerdy goodness! Need even more?  Go to https://www.downandnerdypodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Agents Scott and Cam launch their DECLASSIFIED series, offering immediate spoilery takes on new spy movies, with a look at the Benedict Cumberbatch espionage thriller The Courier. In addition to reviewing the film, they also talk to director Dominic Cooke about adapting this fascinating true story and the notable cloak and dagger classics that inspired him. Directed by Dominic Cooke. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright and Kirill Pirogov. The Courier is available now on PVOD. Social media: @spyhards View the NOC List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Our review this week is the new thriller, The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Matt & Ashley discuss this cold war spy drama in our latest episode.

In his latest film THE COURIER, director Dominic Cooke tells the amazing true story of Greville Wynne, a British business man who is called by MI6 to transport secret documents from the former Soviet Union. Partnering with potential defector Oleg Penkovsky, the two men work to deliver information that could potentially defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this 1on1, we speak to Cooke about the unique relationship between Wynne and Penkovsky and why the story resonates so loudly today.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

The Courier is a new Cold War drama directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Merab Ninidze, and Angus Wright. The film follows the true story of Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch), who assisted in delivering crucial intel from a source in Moscow before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s. The film originally premiered at Sundance 2020 as Ironbark, and it's now available in theaters. This review is an excerpt from Episode #213 of the Cinemaholics Podcast. Our intro music this week is “U” by Wieland & Ulrich. LINKS Follow us on Twitter: Jon Negroni, Will Ashton Support our show on Patreon. Follow Cinemaholics on Facebook and Twitter.  Send us an email via cinemaholicspodcast [at] gmail.com. Leave us a voicemail on The “Swell” App. Shop our Cinemaholics merch page for hoodies, shirts, and more! Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cinemaholics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Glenn and Daniel venture back to a bygone era that justifies itself with a touching depiction of friendship amid international espionage, with The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Mirab Ninidze in a film based on historical events by Dominic Cooke, now out in theaters, and coming soon to Premium VOD platforms. But first, […]

The Courier 111 Minutes, Rated PG-13 Written by Tom O’Connor Directed by Dominic Cooke Synopsis: Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. A cold-war spy movie? About nuclear secrets? That actually happened? AND it stars Benedict Cumberbatch? Count us in. Have a listen … Continue reading The Courier

Dave and Megan kick off this week's episode by discussing LUDI (2:09), Edson Jean's drama about a Haitian nurse chasing the American Dream. Next, everyone reviews Chris Smith's Netflix documentary OPERATION VARSITY BLUES: THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL (12:38), which delves into the notorious scheme by celebrities and wealthy individuals to sneak their kids into prestigious universities. Then, we cover SLAXX (22:58), Elza Kephart's horror comedy about a killer pair of pants...yeah that's right, pants. We wrap up with THE COURIER (37:45), Dominic Cooke's Cold War thriller about a British spy (Benedict Cumberbatch) who works with a Russian source to help stop the Cuban Missile Crisis. And in this week's Patreon exclusive audio, we talk about THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, the winner of our women-directed horror movies poll.

Dominic Cooke, Janie Dee, Peter Forbes, Vicki Mortimer and Nicholas Skilbeck join Joe to share their experiences of staging and performing Follies at the National Theatre. This episode includes clips from the 2018 National Theatre Cast Album, questions from our listeners, and the PBP Follies Quiz!

Dominic Cooke, Janie Dee, Peter Forbes, Vicki Mortimer and Nicholas Skilbeck join host Joe Bunker to discuss their acclaimed National Theatre revival of the Stephen Sondheim / James Goldman musical, Follies. This episode features excerpts from the 1985 Follies in Concert Recording and the 2018 National Theatre Cast Recording.

Xbox Series X o S: la recensione e il confronto con la Sony playstation 5 02:33 - Problemi di connessione per il critico 05:58 - Seconda lode ad Andrea Galeazzi 08:04 - The Mandalorian 2 09:02 - “L'Ombra delle Spie” la recensione del film di Dominic Cooke con Benedict Cumberbatch 10:26 - “Cosa sarà” la recensione del film scritto e diretto da Francesco Bruni 11:19 - Nuovo lockdown e cinema nuovamente chiusi 13:58 – Thom Yorke alla Festa del Cinema di Roma 16:18 - “La Regina degli Scacchi” la miniserie creata da Scott Frank e Allan Scott, con Anya Taylor-Joy, in streaming su Netflix 18:59 - Suburra 3, la recensione dell'ultima stagione su Netflix - ATTENZIONE: SPOILER! 21:54 - Suburra: la serie è veramente finita? 22:45 - Romulus: la recensione della serie creata da Matteo Rovere, dal film “Il Primo Re” 24:15 - Domande degli ascoltatori: che ne pensi di Lovecraft Country? 24:46 - Novità su Gomorra 5? 25:19 - Domande degli ascoltatori: che ne pensi di Sense8? 25:40 - West Wing - Tutti gli uomini del Presidente: la recensione 28:08 - Domande degli ascoltatori: notizie della stagione 2 di McMafia? 28:14 - Netflix comprerà “No Time To Die”?

Xbox Series X o S: la recensione e il confronto con la Sony playstation 5 02:33 - Problemi di connessione per il critico 05:58 - Seconda lode ad Andrea Galeazzi 08:04 - The Mandalorian 2 09:02 - “L’Ombra delle Spie” la recensione del film di Dominic Cooke con Benedict Cumberbatch 10:26 - “Cosa sarà” la recensione del film scritto e diretto da Francesco Bruni 11:19 - Nuovo lockdown e cinema nuovamente chiusi 13:58 – Thom Yorke alla Festa del Cinema di Roma 16:18 - “La Regina degli Scacchi” la miniserie creata da Scott Frank e Allan Scott, con Anya Taylor-Joy, in streaming su Netflix 18:59 - Suburra 3, la recensione dell'ultima stagione su Netflix - ATTENZIONE: SPOILER! 21:54 - Suburra: la serie è veramente finita? 22:45 - Romulus: la recensione della serie creata da Matteo Rovere, dal film “Il Primo Re” 24:15 - Domande degli ascoltatori: che ne pensi di Lovecraft Country? 24:46 - Novità su Gomorra 5? 25:19 - Domande degli ascoltatori: che ne pensi di Sense8? 25:40 - West Wing - Tutti gli uomini del Presidente: la recensione 28:08 - Domande degli ascoltatori: notizie della stagione 2 di McMafia? 28:14 - Netflix comprerà “No Time To Die”?

Ruth Jones and Dominic Cooke share their favourite reads with Harriett Gilbert.

Bill Deamer is one of Britain's leading choreographers whose extensive training is grounded in ballet, jazz and tap. He is the first-choice go-to choreographer for period choreography.He started his career when, employed as lead dancer in a production of Cabaret in the West End (choreographed and directed by his mentor Dame Gillian Lynne OBE), he was offered an opportunity to choreograph his own version of Cabaret at Salisbury Playhouse. From there he has never looked back… He was reunited with Gillian Lynne when he was invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn to create the new tap choreography for the critically-acclaimed production of Cats at The London Palladium in 2014 (which has subsequently run world-wide). Other notable productions include The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory), Top Hat (For which Bill won the Olivier Award for Best Choreographer), the 50th Anniversary UK Tour of The Sound of Music, Evita at the Dominion Theatre, UK/European revival Saturday Night Fever and the acclaimed Follies at The National Theatre directed by Dominic Cooke, for which Bill was nominated for his third Olivier Award.  Bill is also a very successful choreographer for film & television – His keen eye for the camera has served him well, most notably for So You Think You Can Dance, ITV's All Star Musicals and the hit BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, where he continues to contribute featured group professional routines and Charlestons.Throughout his career Bill has also become an expert on Fred Astaire, one of his dance idols. He directed and choreographed the first-ever tribute to Fred at the London Palladium, and has appeared in ITV Perspectives programme For the Love of Fred Astaire. 

Norma has had a long and amazing career in theatre, film and TV.In theatre, Norma  played  Emily Whitman in Follies at the National Theatre directed by Dominic Cooke also Liesl at the print room in Babettes Feast directed by Bill Buckhurst , Abuela Claudia in In the Heights directed by Luke Lheppard.Her West End credits include, Les Miserbles, Nine, Pirates of Penzance, Matador, Daisy Pulls It Off, Cats, Chicago, Evita and Oklahoma directed by Jamie Hammerstein and in repertory, Rocky Horror Show, Fiddler On The Roof and Stepping Out.TV credits include, Sister Berthe in the live recording of The Sound Of Music for ITV directed by Coky Giedroyc, Rome directed by Alan Coulter, Judge John Deed directed by Steve Kelly, Mrs Stubbs in Chuckle Vision, directed by Jack Jameson, Genie In The House directed by Rob MacGillvray, The Biz directed by David Andrews, Hale and Pace directed by Peter Orton, Practcie Makes Perfect directed by Charles Garland, Eastenders directed by Michael Owen Morris, Friday Night Project directed by Steve Smith and Spy Series directed by John BirdNorma has also appeared in Beauty and the Beast directed by Bill Condon, Irini Meryl Streeps Housekeeper in Mamamia directed by Phyllida Llyod, Mother Whore in Les Miserables directed by Tom Hooper, Bronwen in Mortdecai directed by David Koepp, Mrs Grimm in The Story Of…. Directed by James Abadi, The Kid directed by Nick Moran, Yentl directed by Barbra Streisand

Film director and writer Mike Hodges, of Get Carter fame, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, starring Rosanna Arquette. Despite being critically acclaimed, it went straight to video, but has now been restored and re-released on DVD and streaming. Plus, the financial plight of freelance arts workers in the pandemic: the government has agreed a £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts, but how much will make it into the pockets of the many freelance and self-employed arts workers who have been put out of work? Theatre director Fiona Laird is concerned the money will be swallowed up by bureaucracy, and joins Samira Ahmed to discuss this, alongside Dominic Cooke, former Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre. And Oreet Ashery, one of ten artists to be awarded a £10 000 Tate Bursary - an initiative launched after the cancellation of the Turner Prize due to Covid 19. Working in a range of media, including installation, live art, and video, Oreet talks to Samira about making art inspired by illness: Dying Under Your Eyes, in response to the sudden death of Oreet's father, and Revisiting Genesis - a series of digital slideshows and an experimental film depicting nurses and people with life limiting conditions. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Emma Wallace

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today we celebrate a young actress whose Oscar nominations are outmatched only by her B-Sides! It's Saoirse Ronan time! The esteemed Bill Graham of The Film Stage Show joins us to discuss the Bronx-born, Ireland-raised starlet. B-Sides include Peter Weir's The Way Back, Andrew Niccol's The Host, Neil Jordan's Byzantium, and Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach. We dive into the historical accuracies and inaccuracies of The Way Back, the similarities between The Host and The Twilight Saga, the slightly immortality-positive POV of Byzantium, the narrative structure of On Chesil Beach and Ronan's penchant for making movies based on books! Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. We are also now on Spotify and Stitcher. Enjoy!

Treachery! Necromancy! Pirates! Rebellion! Unmerciful executions! In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, England takes a turn for the worse as the pitiful Henry and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (the O.G. Ned Stark of our tale) get taken for a ride by just about everyone, as nobles orchestrate baroque conspiracies against one another, the leader of a popular revolt puts Robespierre to shame in London as heads roll, and the War of the Roses finally breaks out. Intro music: Jon Sayles, "The Witches' Dance" (composed by anonymous); outro music: Jon Sayles, “Saltarello” (composed by anonymous). Illustrative excerpts were taken from: A Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 5, “A Golden Crown,” dir. Daniel Minahan; The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI, Part 2, dir. Dominic Cooke (2016); Mark Rylance as Jack Cade from the 2017 Shakespeare Authorship Trust Conference.

From auditioning for drama school in a football kit to receiving an Olivier Award nomination for his first leading role, this week Ian McIntosh talks us through his career. Ian is currently playing Galileo in the brand new touring production of Queen’s musical, We Will Rock You.After finishing as the runner up in GMTV’s Search for Troy Bolton, Ian went on to understudy Troy Bolton in the UK tour of High School Musical 2 before understudying Claude in the European Arena Tour of Hair. He made his West End debut in Rock of Ages, eventually becoming the alternate for Drew. He was alternate Deco in The Commitments (original West End cast) and received an Olivier Award nomination for originating the role of Barry Mann in the West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Prior to We Will Rock You, Ian starred as Young Ben in Dominic Cooke’s revival of Follies at the National Theatre. We Will Rock You tours the UK until Saturday 18th July 2020. Visit www.queenonline.com for tour dates.Hosted by Andrew Tomlins.Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.Thanks for listening!

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

The Hollow Crown is a series of British television film adaptations of William Shakespeare's history plays. The first cycle is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V, starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston. Olivier Award winners Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock directed the telefilms, which were produced by Rupert Ryle-Hodges for BBC Two and executive produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris under Neal Street Productions in association with NBCUniversal. The first series, which aired in the United Kingdom in 2012, received positive reviews from critics. Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale won British Academy Television Awards for Leading actor and Supporting actor for their performances, and Jeremy Irons was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor for his role as Henry IV. The first episode, Richard II, was nominated for the Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs. The BBC aired the concluding cycle in 2016 as The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses, a reference to the series of English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Tom Sturridge. The plays were produced in 2015 by the same team that made the first series of films but were directed by the former artistic director of Royal Court Theatre and Olivier Award winner, Dominic Cooke. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. The adaptation presents Henry VI in two parts, incorporating all three Henry VI plays. Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Leading Actor and The Wars of the Roses was nominated for Best Mini-Series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support

Sam talks to director Dominic Cooke and actor Billy Howle about their new film On Chesil Beach. It’s 1962, and two young newlyweds from very different backgrounds (Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan) have chosen to spend their honeymoon on the windswept beaches of Dorset. They’re inexperienced and new to love; a nervous energy fills the air at their first dinner as a married couple. But these aren’t just wedding-night jitters: as the evening progresses it becomes clear that something else is creating the divide. Awkwardly grasping for the connection they know they share, the pair recall moments from their lives, both together and apart, as the inevitability of physical intimacy hangs over them. Directed with great skill by four-time Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke, this is Ian McEwan’s heartfelt and sensitive adaptation of his bestselling novel of the same name.

The Directors UK Podcast is back, and this time we’re talking all things On Chesil Beach with the film’s director Dominic Cooke. Dominic spoke to Gillies Mackinnon about his experience making the film, his background in theatre, and working with Ian McEwan. Do leave us a review if you like what you hear! Music: Loyalty Freak

Dominic Cooke discusses his work as director on Stephen Sondheim’s Follies for the Olivier stage in 2017.

Stephen Sondheim's Follies starring Imelda Staunton and directed by Dominic Cooke is staged at the National's Olivier Theatre for the first time. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies", a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars. Salman Rushdie's new novel The Golden House invokes literature, pop culture and cinema to spin the story of the American zeitgeist over the last 8 years. The novel opens with the inauguration of Barack Obama and closes with the election of President Trump and is about a wealthy immigrant family in Manhattan told from the perspective of a young, aspiring film maker who lives opposite them. Writer/director Taylor Sheridan's Wind River stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The last in a trilogy of films which includes Hell or High Water and Sicario. Tin Star is a ten part British drama series created by Rowan Joffe on Sky Atlantic starring Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks. Police detective Jim Worth is the new police chief of a small town in the Rocky Mountains, where he has moved with his family to escape his past. The influx of migrant workers from a new big oil company, headed by the mysterious Mrs. Bradshaw, forces Worth to confront the resulting wave of crime that threatens his town. Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? is a new exhibtion at Wellcome Collection in London, the first major show to explore the relationship between graphic design and health and includes 200 exhibits, including the rarely displayed emblems of the Red Cross, Red Crescent and the Red Crystal.

As Doctor Foster returns to BBC One this week, Suranne Jones discusses reprising her BAFTA Award-winning title role.We remember Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of Steely Dan, who has died at the age of 67. Stephen Sondheim's rarely-staged musical Follies opens this week at the National Theatre in London. John Wilson speaks to director Dominic Cooke, actress Janie Dee and veteran soprano Dame Josephine Barstow about the demands of the show - a tale of lost youth, romance and nostalgia for a bygone showbiz era. Front Row goes on the road with Harriet Riddell, a textile performance artist who is cycling a 22-mile stretch of the Leeds to Liverpool canal as part of the Fabrications Festival, exploring textiles through the eyes of artists. We follow Harriet as she uses her portable sewing machine to make a record of the places and people she meets.

From the new series of the BBC's The Hollow Crown, director Dominic Cooke and writer Ben Power discuss their approach to filming Shakespeare's work for the screen.

William Shakespeare takes centre stage 400 years after his death. As The Hollow Crown returns to BBC One with the next series of the playwright's history plays, theatre director Dominic Cooke discusses his TV directorial debut making the series. The cast of Henry VI Parts I and II and Richard III include Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench and Hugh Bonneville.Actor Kim Cattrall describes why she loves playing Cleopatra, as part of our series Shakespeare's People, in which celebrated actors choose the character they've enjoyed playing most.Rufus Wainwright's new album Take All My Loves adapts nine of Shakespeare's sonnets into rock ballads, operatic pop songs and dramatic readings. The musician talks about his personal take on the playwright's poetic work.Was Sir Henry Neville the real author of Shakespeare's works? A new book, Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The Evidence by John Casson and Professor William Rubinstein, provides fresh evidence supporting the claim. Professor William Leahy, Chair of the Shakespeare Authorship Trust, reviews the evidence.Over the last two years, Ladi Emeruwa has played Hamlet in 197 different countries, travelling 180,000 miles in the process. He is one of a cast of 12 actors who have taken Shakespeare to all corners of the world from Bhutan to Belize and Cambodia to Cameroon. The tour reaches its climax this weekend when the final four performances take place at London's Globe theatre.Presenter John Wilson Producer Angie Nehring.

The director discusses his new production of August Wilson's play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, with Ola Animshawun. This is a recording of a live platform event. #MaRaineysBlackBottom

Director Dominic Cooke talks to Fiona Mountford about Caryl Churchill's new play. #ntHereWeGo http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/here-we-go

With Mark Lawson. Dominic Cooke is leaving London's Royal Court Theatre after seven years as Artistic Director. He looks back at his often controversial tenancy and discusses his final production, The Low Road by Bruce Norris. And in the week that Nicholas Hytner announced the date for his departure as Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Kenneth Branagh, Marianne Elliott, Sam Mendes and Kwame Kwei-Armah reveal where they stand as potential contenders for the top job. Michael Dobbs, who was Conservative Chief of Staff under Margaret Thatcher, and Haydn Gwynne who is currently portraying Thatcher on stage in The Audience, reflect on the ways that the former Prime Minister has been represented in culture. And two exhibitions by leading women artists open in London this week. In her new show Detached, Rachel Whiteread continues her exploration of casting the inside of objects including sheds, doors and windows. And sculptor Elisabeth Frink, who died twenty years ago, has an anniversary retrospective which celebrates the four decades of the artist's life in sculptures, drawings and paintings. Rachel Cooke reviews. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

The director discusses his new production with Fiona Mountford. This is a recording of a live Platform event.

Lenny Henry talks to Al Senter about his career, his relationship with Shakespeare and his role in Dominic Cooke's The Comedy of Errors. This is a video recording of a live platform event in the Olivier theatre from January 2012.

The director discusses his new production with Fiona Mountford.