Podcast appearances and mentions of Eileen Atkins

Step into the stylish world of The House of Eliott! To Beths immense joy, we're diving into the beloved 90s BBC drama that brought 1920s fashion, ambition, and drama to our screens. Created by Upstairs, Downstairs duo Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, the series followed sisters Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott as they built a pioneering fashion house in a world still dominated by men. We'll explore what made The House of Eliott such a standout show—from its lavish period costumes and intricate storytelling to the feminist themes woven throughout. The series perfectly captured the excitement and challenges of the Roaring Twenties, blending high society glamour with the grit of two women fighting for independence in the fashion industry. Despite its devoted fan base, why did it end after just three seasons? Join us as we revisit this unforgettable drama, relive the fashion moments that defined it, find out what the cast went on to, and celebrate the legacy of The House of Eliott. This episode is one you won't want to miss! Talk2TheHand is an independent throwback podcast run by husband and wife, Jimmy and Beth. Obsessed with 90s nostalgia and 90s celebrities, we'll rewind the years and take you back to the greatest era of our lives.   New episodes bursting with nostalgia of the 90s released on Tuesdays. Please subscribe to our podcast and we'll keep you gooey in 1990s love. Find us on Twitter @talk2thehandpod or email us at jimmy@talk2thehand.co.uk or beth@talk2thehand.co.uk

This week we have a look at the 1994 horror film WOLF.  This is Episode #457!  Wolf is a 1994 American romantic horror film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, and Om Puri. It was written by Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone and the cinematography was done by Giuseppe Rotunno.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

Gosford Park de Robert Altman sort en 2001. Cʹest la quintessence du film à énigme dans le style Agatha Christie mais à la sauce altmanienne, cʹest-à-dire dans un manoir anglais, en 1932, avec une multitude de personnages qui se croisent et bien sûr, un meurtre. Ça vous fait penser à la série Downton Abbey, cʹest normal, cʹest le même scénariste, Julian Fellowes. Lʹhistoire de Gosford Park est surtout celle dʹun milieu, une société anglaise bipartite entre les domestiques et leurs maîtres. Ils se croisent tous les jours, mais les classes ne se mélangent pas. Et si les secrets des domestiques sont partagés uniquement entre eux, les secrets des maîtres sont connus de toutes et de tous. Car qui connaît mieux son maître que son valet ? Robert Altman, réalisateur américain, choisit la Grande Bretagne et ses châteaux, pour planter le décor de ce film, une énigme policière à lʹanglaise, un " Whodunit ", un genre qui lʹa toujours passionné mais quʹil nʹavait jamais osé traité. Et il se lance enfin à 76 ans avec son producteur Bob Balaban. Cʹest dʹailleurs sur une idée de Bob Balaban et de Robert Altman que le scénariste britannique, Jullian Fellowes développe une intrigue à tiroirs dont lʹintérêt tient principalement au fait que toute lʹhistoire est montrée du point de vue des domestiques. Le casting de ce film est aussi royal que la demeure qui habite lʹintrigue : Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Clive Oven, Emily Watson, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates. A sa sortie, le film est unanimement célébré par la presse et plébiscité par le public. Il obtient 7 nominations aux Oscars et remporte celui du meilleur scénario. Quant à Robert Altman il repart avec un Bafta et le Golden Globe du meilleur réalisateur. REFERENCES NIEMI, Robert, The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick (Directors' Cuts) 2016 Robert Altman and Julian Fellowes interview (2002) chez Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9799 Robert Altman on The Medium Of Film | The Dick Cavett Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9FQ6zKz5k Stephen Fry On Gosford Park & Robert Altman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkTMw4_oiA8 Robert Altman chapiter 4 https://www.dga.org/VideoHTMLNew.ashx?id=%7B61E2E31E-F5A5-4D83-A24C-17B10E8B2765%7D&db=web Un sujet après la mort de Maggie Smith sur CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/G8B5k8F1h_8MnUb9BDKUWX2NFGfRIhF_/ Maggie Smith chez Charlie Rose  le 03.01.2002 https://charlierose.com/videos/18267 In conversation with Maggie Smith: "I led a perfectly normal life until Downton Abbey" | BFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detAlTL9sbM La sortie du film en France, émission du 17 mars 2002 https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/1973877001/20-heures-le-journal-emission-du-17-mars-2002

A mix-and-match episode of BEHIND THE LENS this week as w/d/e/actor RICHARD RYAN joins us talking about ART OF DECEPTION. Plus, my exclusive interview with director THEA SHARROCK discussing the wickedly delicious WICKED LITTLE LETTERS. First up is my prerecorded exclusive interview with director THEA SHARROCK go in-depth on one of the most hilarious films you will see all year – WICKED LITTLE LETTERS. I laughed so hard that I had to watch the film twice to hear all of the dialogue. Boasting a first-rate cast with Olivia Coleman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Scanlon, and Anjana Vasan, with a script by Jonny Sweet, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS is quite simply, perfection. Based on a true event from the 1920's United Kingdom, foul language itself becomes a character thanks to the verbatim verbiage of the profane letters at the heart of this tale, which is then punctuated with outstanding production values and performances while also addressing themes as topical today as in 1920 – freedom of speech, oppression, workplace discrimination, socio-economic discrimination, discrimination against women, and overall misogyny. Then take a listen as the man wearing all the hats, RICHARD RYAN, joins us talking about his latest film, the action-packed thriller ART OF DECEPTION. Talking about choosing collaborators, developing the script, a prolonged "part-time" shooting schedule, post-production, and more, Richard covers his roles as producer, writer, director, actor, editor, line producer, post-production supervisor, VFX, and the inherent challenges he faced in bringing ART OF DECEPTION to life. http://eliasentertainmentnetwork.com

Jetzt wird's schmutzig: "Stinkendes Miststück" ist noch der höflichste Ausdruck in dieser unerhört witzigen Geschichte über einen großen Skandal in einer kleinen englischen Stadt der 1920er Jahre. Nach einer verdammt wahren Geschichte was heute Hatespeech und Trolle im Netz sind, existierte auch 1920 schon – analog per Post! In der auf wahren Begebenheiten basierenden Komödie KLEINE SCHMUTZIGE BRIEFE rütteln anzügliche anonyme Hassbriefe die englische Kleinstadt Littlehampton gehörig durcheinander. Inmitten des Skandals zwei grundverschiedene Frauen: Oscar-Preisträgerin Olivia Colman als zugeknöpfte Edith und die für den Oscar nominierte Jessie Buckley als freigeistige Rose.  Beates Filmkritik als Mini-Podcast...  In ihrem jüngsten Microfazit nimmt euch Beate mit auf eine skandalöse Reise ins Littlehampton der 1920er Jahre, wo KLEINE SCHMUTZIGE BRIEFE für einiges an Wirbel sorgen. Als bekennende Liebhaberin des englischen Humors, konnte sie sich ein Grinsen nicht verkneifen, als sie miterlebte, wie Olivia Colman und Jessie Buckley sich durch diese absurd witzige Geschichte manövrierten. Was passiert, wenn eine kleine englische Stadt durch eine Serie frecher, anonymer Briefe auf den Kopf gestellt wird, ist einfach zu köstlich, um es zu verpassen. Die Darsteller? Laut Beate ein Traum. Von der Haupt- bis zur kleinsten Nebenrolle scheint jeder Charakter wie maßgeschneidert für sein Gegenstück in dieser bunt zusammengewürfelten Gemeinschaft. Aber nicht alles ist Sonnenschein in Littlehampton. Während sie die meiste Zeit über die Eskapaden der Protagonistinnen lachte, gab es doch einen Aspekt, der sie nachdenklich stimmte. Doch dazu mehr in ihrem Podcast – sie möchte nicht zu viel vorwegnehmen. In ihrem "Microfazit" lüftet Beate, was "KLEINE SCHMUTZIGE BRIEFE" so besonders macht und warum der englische Humor ein so kraftvolles Werkzeug ist. Sie lädt ihre Zuhörer ein, sie zu begleiten, während sie die Ecken und Kanten dieses potenziellen Kultfilms auslotet. Ist die Vorhersehbarkeit vielleicht doch ein cleverer Zug? Beate macht neugierig auf eine Entdeckungsreise, die beweist, dass auch ein bisschen Vorhersehbarkeit den Spaß nicht trüben muss. KLEINE SCHMUTZIGE BRIEFEOriginaltitel: Wicked Little LettersRegie: Thea Sharrock mit: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Joanna Scanlan, Hugh Skinner, Malachi Kirby, Gemma Jones, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Alisha Weir u.a. KINOSTART: 28. März 2024 IM VERLEIH VON STUDIOCANAL Bildrechte: © STUDIOCANAL 2024

Il film Una ragazza e il suo sogno è una commedia americana per ragazzi del 2003, diretta da Dennie Gordon e interpretata da Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins e Anna Chancellor. Una ragazza e il suo sogno è una commedia che mescola elementi di favola moderna e ricerca di identità. La trama segue Daphne, interpretata da Amanda Bynes, alla ricerca del padre aristocratico, Henry Dashwood, impersonato da Colin Firth. Il film è un viaggio divertente e commovente attraverso le differenze sociali e l'amore familiare.   La pellicola ha ricevuto valutazioni contrastanti, con alcuni apprezzamenti per la sua natura leggera; altri critici affermano che è banale e poco riuscita. La performance di Bynes è elogiata, mentre il plot potrebbe risultare prevedibile.   In sintesi, Una ragazza e il suo sogno può essere apprezzato per il suo tono leggero e la trama orientata alla famiglia, sebbene non raggiunga l'unanimità nella sua accoglienza. Amanda Bynes, la protagonista L'attrice principale, Amanda Bynes, ha recitato in pochi film, tra cui: Easy Girl (2010) Hairspray (2007) Sydney White – Biancaneve al college (2007) She's the Man (2006) Le cose che amo di te (2005) Che fine ha fatto la Bynes? Dopo il 2010, Amanda Bynes è praticamente scomparsa dai set cinematografici. Attualmente, la Bynes ha attirato l'attenzione per i suoi cambiamenti di immagine, inclusa una breve parentesi in cui ha tinteggiato i capelli di nero e successivamente ha optato per il biondo platino all'inizio del 2024. Nel 2023, ha annunciato la decisione di abbandonare il suo podcast per ritornare alla ribalta. Ci sono state preoccupazioni riguardo alla sua salute mentale; è stata a lungo ricoverata in un ospedale. Nonostante sia nata nel 1986, dal 2012 al 2022, la Bynes è stata considerata inadatta a intendere e volere. Pertanto, è stata affidata a suo padre, che ne ha detenuto la tutela legale. Purtroppo, quello di Amanda Bynes non è un caso isolato. Altre giovani attrici e cantanti americane hanno avuto problemi simili a cavallo fra gli anni '00 e'10 del nostro secolo. Queste cattive ragazze formano un gruppo per niente piccolo. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corgiov/message

Wicked Little Letters is a 2023 British black comedy mystery film directed by Thea Sharrock and written by Jonny Sweet. The film stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, and Timothy Spall. Wicked Little Letters premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023, and was released in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal on 23 February 2024. The film received mixed reviews from critics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/popcorn-junkies/message

Wolf is a 1994 American romantic horror film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, and Om Puri. It was written by Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone and the cinematography was done by Giuseppe Rotunno. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 1000 STICKERS FOR $79  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

I don't want to be born. It's 1975, London and somewhere Joan Collins' character is giving birth, ably assisted by Doctor Donald Pleasence. If that wasn't a scary thought, the baby, well……………………doesn't want to be born. Take 3 future Dames of the British Empire, a forgotten actor and a demonic maniacal dwarf distributing unsubstantiated curses to a stripper who scorns his advances. And you have the makings of a horror classic, but it doesn't end up quite as expected! Bizarre deaths, unintentionally comical dialog and ‘cod' Italian accents are abundant. Join my guest Paul Chandler (aka ‘The Shy Yeti') as he leads us down the King's Road in London, home to the evil baby, Nicholas. For this is the story of the baby that didn't want to be born. Visit the homes of the rich and well heeled, rub shoulders with a seedy strip club owner, battle evil with a sarcastic nun, all to bring down the curse placed upon Joan Collins. Ralph Bates, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence and Joan Collins all star in this 70's horror ‘It's about erotic as making cheese on toast!'

This week Jackie and Danielle are talking about 2003 comedy What A Girl Wants with their guest Olivia! On a whim, American teenager Daphne boards a plane to England to find the father she never met. Upon arriving there, though, she makes a startling discovery: The man she's looking for is Lord Henry Dashwood, a member of the British upper class, who is running for political office. Lord Henry didn't know Daphne existed, but he welcomes her into his life. However, she isn't so sure -- and his family and his current betrothed look on her disapprovingly. Starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor and Jonathan Pryce ·Season 2 Episode 48· --- No More Late Fees - https://biolinks.heropost.io/nomorelatefees --- Olivia:  IG: https://www.instagram.com/_olivia_joan_ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oliviajoan18  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/support --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nomorelatefees/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nomorelatefees/support

In this fourth episode in a new series, interviewer Chloe Fox talks to the actress Dame Eileen Atkins about mentors, social mobility and why fidelity is overrated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nothing Like a Dame (released in the United States as Tea With the Dames) is a 2018 British documentary film directed by Roger Michell, with Sally Angel serving as executive producer. It was produced by Sally Angel and Karen Steyn. The film documents conversations between actresses Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith (all of whom are Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire) interspersed with scenes from their careers on film and stage. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drzeusfilmpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drzeusfilmpodcast/support

A real-life Dame and a fictional Lady - Eileen Atkins and Adjoa Andoh, Bridgerton's Lady Danbury - pair up to discover they're kindred spirits, with a surprising amount in common. Their wide-ranging conversation takes in Eileen's working class roots, her pushy stage mum, a naughty deception that paid off at the Guildhall, the letters of Virginia Woolf, co-creating two TV juggernauts - Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Elliot, and how to stay young and limber; and Adjoa's teenage yearning to be on the stage, quitting her Law degree to follow her dreams, her textbook 80s life on the road with a feminist touring company, the magic of actors and audiences coming together in theatre, and the joy of Shonda Rhimes. Introduced by Samantha Bond. Music by Dan Gillespie Sells. To make a donation to help UK theatre workers in financial need, please click on this link: https://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye and Rich Evans. Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey. Acting for Others Presents… is a Simple Beast Production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brevity is the soul of wit, and Emma Thompson is the heart and soul of 2001's "Wit," co-written and directed by Mike Nichols. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by one and done wonder Margaret Edson, "Wit" takes us through the grueling cancer treatment of Thompson's Vivian Bearing, a largely lonely experience except for the presence of Best Supporting Susie. played by living legend Audra McDonald. We have much to say about McDonald's history making career and what she brings to this role (the Popsicle scene!), and we have buckets of love for Eileen Atkins, as well as Noah Wyle even though he's actually not in this movie and Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie, which is sort of related. Plus: the presence of Pinter, the click-clack of Kelekian, the MUSIC!, and an important tangent about formative outfits from our cataloging years. Plus: Lucy updates and a supersized Beatrice Straight! Join us for SEASON 1 OF "SMASH" and get early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Instagram: @bsapod Colin Drucker Instagram: @colindrucker_ Nick Kochanov Twitter: @nickkochanov Instagram: @nickkochanov

Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood are founding editors of Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine and independent publishing house. As specialists in books that have stood the test of time even while falling out of fashion, Gail and Hazel bring us titles so good, they deserve to be heard as audiobooks, too. Books and Authors Recommended Humour My Grandmothers and I, Diana Holman-Hunt A Boy at the Hogarth Press, Richard Kennedy The Empress of Ireland, Christopher Robbins Natural History & the English Countryside Adrian Bell Trilogy: Corduroy, Silver Ley, The Cherry Tree James Rebanks: English Pastoral, A Shepherd's Life Lark Rise to Candleford Trilogy, Flora Thompson: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, Candleford Green  The Brensham Trilogy, John Moore: Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village, The Blue Field Children's Books BB (Denys Watchkins-Pitchford): The Little Grey Men, Down the Bright Stream Ronald Welch's novels Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman and post-Roman novels* Memoirs & Diaries Blue Remembered Hills, Rosemary Sutcliff A Late Beginner, Priscilla Napier A Sort of Life, Graham Green Roald Dahl: Boy, Going Solo The House of Elric, Gavin Maxwell Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel Conundrum, Jan Morris Nella Last's War, Nella Last Recommended Audiobooks Richard Crompton's Just William series, read by Martin Jarvis Anthony Trollope: The Barsetshire Chronicles, The Pallisers, read by *Timothy West Will She Do, Eileen Atkins, read by the author In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary, Jan Morris, read by Phyllida Nash A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth For more information about Slightly Foxed, visit foxedquarterly.com. Who Are We?  The Listening Books Podcast is hosted by audio producer Jessica Stone and is a production of Listening Books, a UK charity that provides an audiobook lending service for over 115,000 members who find that an illness, mental health, physical or learning disability affects their ability to read the printed word or hold a book. It's simple to join. For more information, head to www.listening-books.org.uk. To purchase a gift membership, go directly to https://www.listening-books.org.uk/gift-membership We'd love to hear from you!  Here's a good place to review the podcast.  You can also give us a shout on Twitter: @ListeningBooks,  Or Instagram: @ListeningBooks,  Or Facebook,  And we also have some content on YouTube. 

With a career spanning eight decades, Dame Eileen Atkins is one of the most acclaimed British actors. She is a three-time Olivier Award-winner and has won Emmy and BAFTA Awards for her role in the television series Cranford. A familiar face on screen since making her television debut in 1959, she has starred in shows ranging from Doc Martin to The Crown, and her film roles have included The Dresser, Gosford Park, Cold Mountain and Paddington 2. She also co-created the long-running television series Upstairs Downstairs and The House of Elliot, and wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Dame Eileen talks to John Wilson about her upbringing on a Tottenham council estate and how, under the tutelage of a woman she knew as Madame Yandie, she became Baby Eileen, a child stage performer, singing and dancing in working men's clubs. She chooses as one of her greatest influences one of her teachers at Latymer School, EJ Burton, who introduced her to literature and theatre. She recalls the impact of joining the company at the Shakespeare Theatre, now the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1957, after a long struggle to secure stage roles. Dame Eileen also explains how her fascination with Virginia Woolf led to one of her most celebrated stage performances, that of the writer herself, in a one woman show adaptation of A Room Of One's Own. Producer: Edwina Pitman

An elder C.S. Lewis looks back on his remarkable journey from hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Chrsitian writer of the past century. The Most Reluctant Convert features award-winning actor Max McLean as the older Lewis and Nicholas Ralph - breakout star of PBS Materpiece's All Creatures Great and Small - as young Lewis. Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford, this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years- old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief. Norman Stone Norman Stone began his professional career in television as the youngest producer/director to be working at the BBC, and soon established himself as a top film maker with his highly acclaimed film A Different Drummer about the blind and deaf Christian poet, Jack Clemo. Four years later, he created Shadowlands, the gripping film drama on the love and loss of C.S. Lewis, which earned two BAFTA awards, an International Emmy, and the coveted ‘Prague D'or' for Best Director. This film went on to be an award-winning stage play, as well as a Hollywood movie.Other dramas followed included Martin Luther – Heretic, starring Jonathan Pryce; New World with James Fox; The Vision starring Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick and Helena Bonham-Carter, and the award-winning Burston Rebellion with Eileen Atkins and Bernard Hill. Stone was also asked to direct the internationally acclaimed CBS co-production Pied Piper, starring Peter O'Toole. He then directed two of the famous BBC Miss Marples films, starring the iconic Joan Hickson in the title role, and also, The Black Velvet Gown, which earned him his second International Emmy. Always interested in experimenting with new forms of filmic storytelling, Stone went on to create and direct The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, which starred Jeremy Irons and was nominated for a prestigious ACE Award in the category of Best International Drama. This experience led directly to Tales from the Mad House, an award-winning series of one-man dramas, featuring such stars as Jonathan Pryce, Dame Eileen Atkins, Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, James Cosmo and Helen Baxendale, before making the gritty, Glasgow feature film, Man Dancin' which collected more international awards.A string of new dramas followed, including C.S. Lewis - Beyond Narnia, Florence Nightingale, The Narnia Code and KJB - The Book that Changed the World (winner of The Templeton, Movie Guide, Epiphany Prize).In 2020, Norman completed a major Feature Documentary narrated by Ewan McGregor, The Final Fix, exploring a remarkably effective new treatment for drug addiction, and in 2021, during lockdown, he wrote and directed a new, creative drama on C.S. Lewis called The Most Reluctant Convert. This film was cinema-premiered in over 500 American cities in November 2021 and has already been seen in over 120 countries around the world.Norman is currently preparing a dramatically challenging feature film, Raising Hell, the true story of the battle to beat child prostitution in Victorian England, and is also developing an exciting, new TV action series, ROK, set in Gibraltar and the Mediterranean.Website: https://cslewismovie.com/Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBd8bYTMoTKlUAk4IVyb16QFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSLewisMovieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fpa_theatre/IMDB: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBd8bYTMoTKlUAk4IVyb16Q

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/sLr6rbzYmik PETER BOGYO has been an actor, a Company Manager, a General Manager, an Executive Producer, a Producer of Special Events and Benefit Concerts, and an Author. On Broadway, he served as General Manager of LOVE LETTERS, starring Mia Farrow, Brian Dennehy, Carol Burnett, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen; THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.; STICK FLY, starring Dulé Hill, directed by Kenny Leon, TIME STANDS STILL, starring Laura Linney, directed by Daniel Sullivan, AMERICAN BUFFALO, starring John Leguizamo, directed by Robert Falls, A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best, directed by Howard Davies, THE BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD, starring Suzanne Somers; SLY FOX, starring Richard Dreyfuss, directed by Arthur Penn; FORTUNE'S FOOL, starring Alan Bates and Frank Langella, directed by Arthur Penn, and VOICES IN THE DARK, starring Judith Ivey, directed by Christopher Ashley. Off-Broadway, his general manager credits include A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, AND A GUN with Olympia Dukakis; Elaine May's ADULT ENTERTAINMENT, directed by Stanley Donen; Jerry Herman's musical revue SHOWTUNE; MR. GOLDWYN, starring Alan King, directed by Gene Saks; MADAME MELVILLE starring Macaulay Culkin and Joely Richardson; and THE UNEXPECTED MAN, starring Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins, directed by Matthew Warchus. He has served as Executive Producer for the soldout Carnegie Hall concert PIAF! THE SHOW, and for FIGARO 90210 at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street. For more information, please visit www.peterbogyo.comnstagram.com/pbogyo.gmg/

Dame Eileen is joined by the novelist Salley Vickers to talk about Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage. It is a marvellous memoir, beginning with her youth in Tottenham and ending when her theatrical career takes off. Forthright, transparent, dry, funny... there is nothing remotely precious about Dame Eileen's account of herself. It is a delight!  Please email, telephone (+44 (0)20 7589 9473) or order online if you would like a copy.  Edited by Magnus Rena  Music: Dusty Springfield, Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonplace . . . The novelist Barbara Pym became beloved and Booker Prize-nominated in the late twentieth century, yet many rejections, years in the literary wilderness and manuscripts stored in linen cupboards preceded her revival. Paula Byrne, author of The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, and Lucy Scholes, critic, Paris Review columnist and editor at McNally Editions, join the Slightly Foxed team to plumb the depths and scale the peaks of Barbara Pym's writing, life and loves. From Nazi Germany to the African Institute; from London's bedsit land to parish halls; from unrequited love affairs with unsuitable men to an epistolary friendship with Philip Larkin; and from rejection by Jonathan Cape to overnight success via the TLS, we trace Pym's life through her novels, visiting the Bodleian and Boots lending libraries along the way. There's joy in Some Tame Gazelle, loneliness in Quartet in Autumn, and humour and all human experience in between, with excellent women consistently her theme. We then turn from Pym to other writers under or above the radar, finding darkness in Elizabeth Taylor, tragicomedy in Margaret Kennedy and real and surreal rackety lives in Barbara Comyns. To round out a cast of excellent women, we discover Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca was foretold in Elizabeth von Arnim's Vera, and we recommend an eccentric trip with Jane Bowles and her Two Serious Ladies, as well as theatrical tales from a raconteur in Eileen Atkins's memoir.  (Episode duration: 57 minutes; 16 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Flora Thompson, Lark Rise and Over to Candleford & Candleford Green, Slightly Foxed Edition Nos. 58 and 59 (1:39) Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (2:11) Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow is out of print (4:28) Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn (6:33) Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died is out of print (8:16) Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle (14:07) Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (19:06) Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings (22:14) Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves is out of print (32:28) Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor (36:33) Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (37:00) Elizabeth Taylor, Angel (38:27) Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter (41:16) Barbara Comyns, The House of Dolls (42:16) Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (42:45) Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (43:03) Barbara Comyns, A Touch of Mistletoe (43:46) Elizabeth von Arnim, Vera (47:47) Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys, McNally Editions (48:59) Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies (50:37) Eileen Atkins, Will She Do? (52:39) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Not So Bad, Really, Frances Donnelly on Barbara Pym, Issue 11 Hands across the Tea-shop Table, Sue Gee on Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek and Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor, Issue 58 There for the Duration, Juliet Gardiner on Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs Lippincote's, Issue 13 Sophia Fairclough and Me, Sophie Breese on the novels of Barbara Comyns, Issue 42 Other Links McNally Editions is an American imprint devoted to hidden gems (2:47) In the Paris Review Re-Covered column, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn't be Lucy Scholes is the host of the Virago OurShelves podcast The Barbara Pym Society Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Harry Mount hosts the Oldie Gang Show with guests Andrew Lownie, David Starkey and Dame Eileen Atkins. Andrew Lownie reveals the true nature of the Duke of Windsor, the subject of his book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Historian and broadcaster, David Starkey, paints a dynamic portrayal of Henry VIII as the both pivotal to British history and the progenitor of Brexit. Henry VIII is also essential for understanding the role of the Prime Minister and Parliament today. Dame Eileen Atkins is in conversation with Oldie veteran contributor Valerie Grove. Atkin's memoir, Will She Do? is a frank and funny chronicle of Eileen's journey from a Tottenham council estate - entertaining in men's clubs as Baby Eileen - to dominating the English stage and screen as an actor and writer.  January 19, 2022 at the Reform Club

Before we wrap this damn thing up, the guys look to the audience and choose The Dresser from the list of suggestions. Does this highly theatrical film starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay successfully stake its claim to be placed in the BFI Top 100? How does this movie manage to have such "big" acting that works so well on film? Did Brendan go too 'tiny film glasses' with his war metaphor theory? What about Jason's theory that Norman is in love with Sir? All that and more in this week's episode!   Next week: The next Audience Brit Pick will be Hell Drivers! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_Top_100_British_films Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bfi_pod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://www.instagram.com/mariahhx)   The Dresser stars Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox, Sheila Reid and Michael Gough; directed by Peter Yates. Is It Streaming? USA: available to rent Canada: available to rent UK: available to rent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you feel lucky? Viv Groskop talks to actress Dame Eileen Atkins about how owning the room is sometimes about being open to chance. They explore the genuine terror of the first night, the horror of being publicly judged, and why your own opinion is what matters. And there are room-owning anecdotes aplenty, starring the likes of Sir Laurence Olivier... Dame Eileen's book, Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage is out now. Viv's book, Lift As You Climb is out now. @vivgroskop    

On stealing lifts home with Laurence Olivier, Colin Farrell's proposition of sex without strings, and turning down working with Martin Scorsese, award-winning stage and screen actor Dame Eileen Atkins goes out to lunch with Jay.  Dame Eileen and Jay enjoy fine dining in the heart of theatreland at The Delaunay, London: https://www.thedelaunay.com/  For official show merch, head to: https://kontraband.shop/collections/out-to-lunch  Out To Lunch is a Somethin' Else and Jay Rayner Production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our final discussion to mark our 75th anniversary we look at the issue of equal pay. This was identified as the area women most want to see change in their daily lives and 70% of those asked said they had experienced inequality in this area. Emma Barnett talks to Baroness Kishwer Falkner who's head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which regulates the Equality Act and also to Emma Satyamurti a lawyer leading a group action for equal pay by female staff working in Morrisons. Dame Eileen Atkins joins Emma to talk about the journey from being Tottenham's answer to Shirley Temple to hugely respected actor for stage, screen and TV. Her memoir is called 'Will She Do?' Today MPs are going to debate new government plans that would mean members who are suspended for sexual harassment or bullying could face a by-election. Labour want the measure to apply retrospectively - so that it would include the Conservative MP Rob Roberts who was suspended from Parliament for six weeks in May after an independent panel found he had sexually harassed a former employee. He did not face a petition to trigger a by-election due to a loophole in parliamentary procedure - because the panel that handed down his suspension doesn't have those powers. BBC political correspondent, Chris Mason, explains. Composer Charlotte Bray has composed new song cycle called Crossing Faultlines. Believed to be the first of its kind to address the topic of women in the workplace, the song cycle explores themes of mentorship, discrimination and ambition. The piece was commissioned as part of a new recital programme dream.risk.sing: elevating women's voices, an initiative conceived to express women's stories through song. Emma is joined by Charlotte Bray, Samantha Crawford and Lana Bode. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Anna Lacey Interviewed Guest: Baroness Kishwer Falkner Interviewed Guest: Emma Satyamurti Interviewed Guest: Eileen Atkins Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Bray Interviewed Guest: Samantha Crawford Interviewed Guest: Lana Bode

Backstage with Eileen AtkinsHow does the writing we love create the roles we perform?Join Dame Eileen Atkins, stage and TV star, three-time Olivier Award winner and screenwriter of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs' and ‘Mrs Dalloway' talk about her autobiography, Will She Do? She tells Lucy Scholes how she created the first entertainment about servants inspired by her parents' lives, how a casting director got her addicted to the books of Virginia Woolf and how women in repertory theatre felt in charge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lust, jealousy, rage, race, and one very inconveniently misplaced handkerchief lie at the center of Shakespeare's "Othello," an emotional tour de force that takes manipulation and evil to new levels. Will and James discuss where Iago falls in the pantheon of Shakespearean villains, their visceral reactions to the breakdown of Othello and Desdemona's marriage, and the role that Othello's race and status as an outsider in Venice play in his downfall. // Credits // Intro Music: Jon Sayles, "The Witches' Dance" (composed by anonymous); Outro Music: Jon Sayles, “Saltarello” (composed by anonymous); Illustrative Excerpts: "Inception," dir. Christopher Nolan (2010); "Othello," dir. Oliver Parker (1995); Eileen Atkins, “If wives do fall,” The Guardian (2016).

Eminent Law scholar Meg is back for Jude-Ly with her pick, the epic war romance Cold Mountain (2003). Despite the main characters being apart for the vast majority of the film, there is opportunity for rich discussion about their emotions and motivations. With this being Diana's first watch, she agrees that this is an expertly crafted movie, but didn't fully appreciate its relentless nature. Check out Meg's podcasts Indoorswomen and Pod Appétit: Gourmet Takes and learn more about all her projects from her website. Find her on Twitter @MegWritesWords @indoorswomen & @pod_appetit & on Instagram @megmezeske @indoorswomenpodcast & @pod_appetit In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. Stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman,Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Charlie Hunnam, Jack White, Ethan Suplee, and tiny roles for Jena Malone, Lucas Black, James Rebhorn, Emily Deschanel, and Cillian Murphy. (from IMDb.com) Find other amazing podcasts by searching #ladypodsquad on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and all the social media platforms. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @HEAMCast, like us on Facebook @HappilyEverAftermath, and e-mail us at contact@heamcast.com.

Two acting greats advocate for their favourite books.

Football might not have come home, but a new episode of your favourite podcast series has! We're back with a fun chat about 2010's Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Everett, Martin Freeman, Eileen Atkins and of course, Rupert Grint. The cast is stacked, so is the podcast with heaps of tidbits and chatter. Come check it out! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @LWIBTPod Simon's Twitter: @SimonRWhitlock Calum's Twitter: @CalumTheFilmGuy Jingle by Simon via Garageband Logo by Ashley (@ashley_gfx)

With Antonia Quirke Actor and producer David Oyelowo reveals how he made his directorial debut, The Water Man, almost by accident. And why, thanks to raw data, streaming has lead to greater diversity of content and changed the minds of white film executives. Gosford Park turns 20 this year. Robert Altman's whodunnit was like a who's who of British acting talent - Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Eileen Atkins, Derek Jacobi and Tom Hollander. The Rev star takes us behind the scenes of this modern classic, which had its own whodunnit.

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, Harlly, Jeaun and Lawson call that very feeble. ALSO DISCUSSED* 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)* Bernie (2011)* Bloody Sunday (2002)* Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)* Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved from Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine (2021)* June Again (2020)* Songbird (2020)* Super Troopers (2001)* Super Troopers 2 (2018)* The Time Machine (2002)

Front Row joins Radio 4's celebration of Bob Dylan, who will be 80 on Monday. John Wilson joined by Bob Geldof, to consider the art and influence of Bob, on Bob. Ann Powers, music critic for National Public Radio joins from somewhere on the Nashville Skyline. On Bob Dylan's first trip to Britain, in the winter of 1962, he and the great English folk singer Martin Carthy, met, became friends and performed together in small clubs such as the Troubadour (still going!). Bob Dylan acknowledges the influence of Carthy, whose versions of Scarborough Fair and Lord Franklin, for instance, inform songs of his such as Bob Dylan's Dream and Girl From the North Country. It will be Martin's 80th birthday on Friday, he's three days older than Dylan. Front Row drags him away from his celebration (and a rehearsal - Carthy, like Dylan, is still a hardworking musician) to remember those early days, and a winter so cold he and Bob chopped up an old piano for firewood. Kerry Shale stars with Richard Curtis, Lucas Hare and Eileen Atkins in Dinner with Dylan, the afternoon drama on Radio 4 on Saturday. Shale,a famously versatile voice actor, is intrigued by Dylan's voice and how it has changed or, rather, he has changed it. Using songs recorded over decades Kerry analyses how folky young Bob becomes hip, sneery Bob, then mellow country Bob, dangerous angry Bob finally exhausted Ancient Mariner Bob. 'I Contain Multitudes', Dylan says, using the famous phrase of Walt Whitman as the title of one of his songs. Poet Caroline Bird does some close reading of 'Visions of Johanna' and the writer Fred D'Aguiar, esonance of Dylan's early work in the wake of the murder of George Floyd Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May

Longtime friends and Meryl Streep fans Zachary Scot Johnson ( http://www.youtube.com/user/thesongadayproject/about ) and Maryl McNally discuss Meryl Streep's 2007's extended cameo in "Evening"."Evening" co-stars Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins & Barry Mostwick. It is directed by Lajos Koltai and has a screenplay by Susan Minot & Michael Cunningham, based on Minot's novel.Email the hosts at MerylStreepPodcast@gmail.com and remember to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast if you enjoy!Zach's ranking of Meryl's performances1. sophie's choice2. silkwood3. postcards from the edge4. the post5. big little lies season 26. julie and julia7. the hours8. devil wears prada9. a cry in the dark10. adaptation11. the bridges of madison county12. kramer vs kramer13. manchurian candidate14. into the woods15. let them all talk16. the laundromat17. the river wild18. doubt19. music of the heart20. it's complicated21. ricki and the flash22. mamma mia 223. florence foster jenkins24. out of africa25. death becomes her26. the prom27. a prairie home companion28. ironweed29. deer hunter30. mamma mia 31. falling in love32. plenty33. little women34. defending your life35. heartburn36. first do no harm37. still of the night38. before and after39. she-devil40. suffragette41. mary poppins returns42. evening43. house of the spirits44. the homesman45. manhattan46. juliaZach's ranking of Meryl's films1. the post2. the hours3. silkwood4. little women5. kramer vs kramer6. adaptation7. sophie's choice8. out of africa9. the deer hunter10. doubt 11. big little lies season 212. into the woods13. the bridges of madison county14. a cry in the dark15. let them all talk16. the laundromat17. postcards from the edge18. julie and julia19. the devil wears prada20. it's complicated21. mary poppins returns22. the prom23. the river wild24. manchurian candidate25. music of the heart26. death becomes her27. suffragette28. a prairie home companion29. falling in love30. ironweed31. ricki and the flash32. florence foster jenkins33. defending your life34. plenty35. manhattan36. mamma mia37. evening38. heartburn39. still of the night40. mamma mia 241. first do no harm42. she-devil43. julia44. the homesman45. house of the spirits46. before and afterMaryl's ranking of Meryl's performances1. the post2. julie and julia3. devil wears prada4. postcards from the edge5. adaptation6. big little lies season 27. out of africa8. kramer vs kramer9. the hours10. manchurian candidate11. river wild12. mamma mia 213. florence foster jenkins14. mamma mia15. silkwood16. music of the heart17. into the woods18. it's complicated19. little women20. heartburn21. deer hunter22. death becomes her23. ricki & the flash24. doubt25. first do no harm26. she-devil27. the laundromat28. house of the spirits29. mary poppins returns30. defending your life31. manhattan32. before and after33. still of the night34. julia35. the homesmanMaryl's ranking of Meryl's films1. the hours2. little women3. postcards from the edge4. kramer vs kramer5. the post6. adaptation7. florence foster jenkins8. doubt9. silkwood10. out of africa11. the deer hunter12. big little lies season 213. devil wears prada14. mamma mia 15. mary poppins returns16. into the woods17. julie & julia18. mamma mia 219. river wild20. manchurian candidate21. it's complicated22. death becomes her23 music of the heart24. defending your25. the laundromat26. house of the spirits27. heartburn28. first do no harm29. ricki & the flash30. julia31. she-devil32. still of the night33. before and after34. the homesman35. manhattan

V tokratni oddaji ocenjujemo prejemnika berlinskega zlatega medveda, dramo Sinonimi izraelskega režiserja Nadava Lapida, ki se sprašuje o tem, do kolikšne mere je mogoče pretrgati vez s svojimi koreninami. Pod drobnogledom je tudi biografska drama Vita in Virginia – film, posnet po gledališki igri Eileen Atkins iz leta 1992, je postavljen v 20. leta in pripoveduje o romanci med avtorico Vito Sackville-West in legendarno Virginio Woolf. Kritiški pogled usmerjamo še v Kralja Staten Islanda Judda Apatowa, avtorja filmov Napumpana in To so 40 ter producenta kultne serije Punce, pa v glasbeno romantično dramo Še vedno verjamem.

It's not Maid Marian but rather Marion Loxely, a more modern take on Robin Hood's paramour, played by Cate Blanchett in Ridley Scott's 2010 version of the folklore tale of the legendary outlaw and his merry men. For this discussion Murtada Elfadl welcomes back Teo Bugbee.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/sundayswithcate)

BONUS! You know what we need? Another period piece about ladies loving ladies! Join Q for a review of Vita&Virginia, the 2018 film based on the play by Eileen Atkins. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uppod/message

Our episode covering the BSA's of The Hours this week should have been, well, a couple of hours! Looks like that upload maybe had some glitches (bit of a Laura Brown birthday cake scenario), so we're uploading this again in full, just in case! Enjoy! From Meryl's unraveling Clarissa Vaughan to Miranda Richardson's fabulous Vanessa Bell to the BSA queen herself, Allison Janney, 2002's "The Hours" is packed with brilliant performances in roles big and small. While Nicole Kidman earned her Best Actress Oscar for playing the tortured and talented Virginia Woolf, this week we recognize all of the other performances worthy of awards in our eyes. (Spoiler: it's pretty much every performance.) We queen out on Julianne Moore's heavy lifting, Ed Harris's transformation, Jeff Daniels command of gay affectations, Toni Collette's ACTING CHOICES, and that great flower shop scene with Eileen Atkins. It's just too much, and we can't get enough. Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Twitter: @bsapod Colin Drucker Twitter: @colindrucker Instagram: @colindrucker_ Nick Kochanov Twitter: @nickkochanov Instagram: @nickkochanov

Welcome back to Sherwood! This episode of Adapt or Perish concludes our two-part look at the world’s most famous outlaw, Robin Hood! If you haven’t listened to part one yet, check it out! For this episode, we watched and discussed: Robin of Sherwood (ITV, 1984–1986), created by Richard Carpenter, and starring Michael Praed, Jason Connery, Ray Winstone, and Nickolas Grace. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Warner Brothers, 1991), directed by Kevin Reynolds, written by Pen Densham and John Watson, and starring Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Christian Slater. Robin Hood (20th Century Fox, 1991), directed by John Irvin, written by Sam Resnick and John McGrath, and starring Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, and Jeroen Krabbé. Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (Sierra On-Line, 1991), designed by Christy Marx. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (20th Century Fox, 1993), directed by Mel Brooks, written by Brooks, Evan Chandler, and J. David Shapiro, and starring Cary Elwes, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Tracey Ullman, and Dave Chappelle. Robin Hood (BBC, 2006–2009), created by Dominic Minghella and Foz Allan, and starring Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Keith Allen, and Richard Armitage. Robin Hood (Universal, 2010), directed by Ridley Scott, written by Brian Helgeland, and starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Eileen Atkins, and Max von Sydow. Robin Hood (Lionsgate, 2018), directed by Otto Bathurst, written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly, and starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, and F. Murray Abraham. Footnotes: Swamp Thing (USA Network, 1990–1993) “Robin (The Hooded Man),” theme from Robin of Sherwood by Clannad A Knight’s Tale (2001), written and directed by Brian Helgeland, and starring Heath Ledger. “All For Love,” the 1993 single for Disney’s The Three Musketeers, performed by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting. King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (1990) Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea (“When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down),” “Captain Kidd,” “The River Driver”) You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us and all of our show notes online at adaptorperishcast.com. If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at adaptorperishcast@gmail.com or tweet using #adaptcast.

Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce, now in “The Height of the Storm,” reveal favorite roles, Broadway memories and the “Phantom” casting that never was.

This Had Oscar Buzz has always been a long day’s journey into Evening! In 2007, the film strangely opened in the summer and quickly became the poster child for the “Oscar bait” moniker. Starring a massive female ensemble including [inhales sharply] Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Glenn Close, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins … Continue reading "042 – Evening (with Richard Lawson)"

Book Vs Movie (Replay) “Cold Comfort Farm” The Margos Take a Trip to the Countryside with the 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons Vs the 1995 TV Movie Directed by John Schlesinger   We have NO idea why it took us so long to finally tackle this charming book and movie--but we are so grateful to the listeners for suggesting this idea to us! The story of 19-year-old Flora Poste (recently orphaned) who comes to Cold Comfort Farm with a pittance of an inheritance who has the gift of helping people achieve their dreams. In this story, we meet Flora, the unique Strakadder family, Aunt Ada Doom, Mary Smiling, Adam Lambsbreath as she guides them to forget about “something nasty in the woodshed” and enjoy their lives at Cold Comfort Farm. In this ep the Margos discuss : The interesting life story of author Stella Gibson who wrote over 22 novels and books of poetry but Cold Comfort Farm remained her one and only hit. The social satire of the time (writing about living on farms in England was all the rage in England in the 20s and 30s) Kate Beckinsale's incandescent performance The cast of the movie including Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell and Sir Ian McKellen Plus, movie trivia and more! Clips Featured: Cold Comfort Farm  trailer Seth Starkadder becomes a movie star Mr. My Bug (Stephen Fry) attempting to woo Flora Poste Ian McKellan preaching “No butter in hell!” Outro Music “Music from Cold Comfort Farm” Robert Lockhart Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/ Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com Margo P. @ShesNachoMama http://thechingonahomesteader.weebly.com/  

An extra long episode this time round 'cos we have a special guest: the fiery Celtic Goddess herself, Drag Queen Ms. Bunny O'Hare! Topics covered include: classic documentary 'We Live In Public; Makeup Artist Rachel Maksy; Social Media Influencers; The drag scene; Makeup and perfume tips; Mike Birbiglia's show 'Thank God For Jokes'; 'Offense' in stand up comedy; 'Nothing Like A Dame' / 'Tea With The Dames' - a documentary about the lives and careers of Dames Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins. And much more...   00:00 - 06:34 Intro, Wine Corner, your Conspiracy Theories,  Liza Minnelli - Dancing In The Moonlight 06:34 - 18:35 'We Live In Public' documentary Trailer - We Live In Public Trailer - Dig! Josh Harris lecture 2016 18:35 - 34:20 'Pinup Companion' Rachel Maksy, Social Media Influencers, Drag Scene, Makeup and Perfume tips Rachel Maksy youtube channel 34:20 - 53:10 Mike Birbiglia's show 'Thank God For Jokes', a discussion about 'Offense' in comedy Trailer - Thank God For Jokes 53:10 - 1:12:30 'Nothing Like A Dame' / 'Tea With The Dames' documentary, a discussion about the lives and careers of Dames Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins. And also who we think the next 'Dames' will be. Trailer 1:12:30 - 1:15:52 Outro, Contact Details, Upcoming gigs

País Estados Unidos Dirección Woody Allen Guion Woody Allen Fotografía Darius Khondji Reparto Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney, Hamish Linklater, Erica Leerhsen, Jeremy Shamos, Antonia Clarke, Natasha Andrews, Valérie Beaulieu, Peter Wollasch, Jürgen Zwingel, Wolfgang Pissors, Sébastien Siroux, Catherine McCormack, Ute Lemper Sinopsis En la Francia de los años 20, durante la época dorada del jazz, un mago inglés (Colin Firth) está decidido a desenmascarar a una falsa médium (Emma Stone). Esto desencadenará una serie de hechos mágicos que sacudirán la vida de ambos.

Eileen Atkins, grande dame of the stage, looks back over her career. The actress famous for her roles in The Crown and Gosford Park, talks about playing Childie in the original stage production of The Killing of Sister George, and co-creating Upstairs Downstairs, as well as some of the famous acting roles she has turned down.Penny Marshall, the first woman to direct a film that took more than 100m dollars at the box office, has died. She was, too, the second female director to have a film Oscar-nominated for best picture. Marshall starred as Laverne in the long-running hit comedy Laverne and Shirley, directing several episodes before moving on to make commercially and critically successful feature films. Leslie Felperin, who grew up watching Laverne and Shirley, assesses the career of this pioneering director.BBC One's This Is My Song is a television series which invites members of the public in to a recording studio to work with famous music producers and create a track for a very personal reason. Samira speaks to two people involved in the series - music producer Sister Bliss from Faithless, and Charles, who, following a double lung transplant, sang in the studio for the first time. If you're in need of a break from all the sugar-coated seasonal fare, Front Row is offering some substitute Christmas treats for you to consider. Critic Sarah Ditum unwraps her alternative festive book, Stephen King's The Shinning, a tale of a family forced to survive a homicidal snowy winter.Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Hilary Dunn

First Man is a film about astronaut Neil Armstrong's life in the lead-up to the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission. The Modern Couples exhibition at The Barbican Gallery shines a spotlight upon the often under-appreciated partners of artistic geniuses whose contribution to their work and achievements has been hitherto unacknowledged or unknown. Jonathan Price and Eileen Atkins star in The Height Of The Storm, a new play by Florian Zeller translated by Christopher Hampton which has just opened in London The Penguin Book Of The Contemporary British Short Story includes 30 works from writers including Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain and many more Informer is a new BBC TV series about a young British Muslim who is coerced into becoming a police informer to infiltrate his own community. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Mullan, Tiffany Jenkins and Arifa Akbar. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra: Arifa recommends: Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual and Ben Okri's short film The Insider Tiffany recommends the Slow Burn Podcast from Slate John recommends The Wife Tom recommends Sondheim's Company

News of National Theatre's new season featuring Cate Blanchett, Nicola Walker in new Mark Ravenhill play at Royal Court, a review of Florian Zeller's new play The Height Of The Storm starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins (confusing but moving), and this week's top five openings including a new play by Martin McDonagh starring Jim Broadbent  

T Lo gush over the amazing documentary "Tea With the Dames," starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright and then bicker over the details of "A Star is Born," from the costume design to the song writing to the directorial choices to the acting performances. T loved it, Lo had issues with it and they both state their cases.

Eileen Atkins talks about her latest stage role in Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, a play about a couple who have been in love for 50 years. The actress, who began her career in the 1950s explains the challenges of Zeller's writing and her preference for new theatre. 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, John Kampfner, co-founder of the Creative Industries Federation, and arts journalist Jo Caird discuss the impact of the financial crisis on the arts.Today it was announced that Denis Norden has died. His long career as a comedy writer and performer spanned radio sitcoms in the late 1940s , Hollywood films, and the hugely successful television out-takes show It'll be Alright on the Night. Dick Fiddy, Archive TV Programmer at the BFI explains his significance.Ingrid Persaud has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with The Sweet Sop. She explains what inspired her story which explores the relationship between a father and his estranged son. Set in Trinidad and told in a distinctively Caribbean voice, it deals with themes of masculinity, death and…chocolate. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Hannah Robins

New Zealand Herald movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to talk about the latest releases, including:Oceans 8 starring Sandra Bullock, Care Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kahling, Dakota Fanning and Sarah PaulsonFive years, eight months, 12 days and counting that's how long Debbie Ocean has been devising the biggest heist of her life. She knows what it's going to take, a team of the best people in the field. Their target -- a necklace that's worth more than $150 million.Tea with the Dames starring Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie SmithTogether, they're 342 years old. They're in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sharp, competitive, tearful, hilarious, savage, clever, caustic, cool, gorgeous, poignant, irreverent, iconic, old, and unbelievably young. Special friends, special women and special dames: a chance to hang out with them all, at the same table, at the same time, and enjoy sparkling and unguarded conversation spliced with a raft of archive.LISTEN ABOVE TO FRANCESCA'S VERDICTS

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason unpack how Céline Dion ended up in a music video for 'Deadpool 2' and why she is the only Lady for the job, Also: LADIES SITTING AROUND TABLES! A clip from the upcoming documentary featuring Dames Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Eileen Atkins, and Ryan also recounts (for those of us who are not watching the Roseanne reboot) a scene that featured the Lady money shot of Laurie Metcalf, Estelle Parsons, Sandra Bernhardt, and the Lady campaign recipient herself, Natalie West. PLUS: Olivia de Havilland demands another day in court, Angela Davis appears on a $500 t-shirt, Sandra Bullock officially need not fear her stalker any more, Pamela Anderson's strange friendship and why she's the new WikiLeaks, the elder abuse of Elaine Brown results in astronomical compensatory damages, Molly Ringwald's father is saved aboard a Southwest flight, Jean Smart's surprising genealogy lesson, and MUCH MUCH MORE...

In the episode of the Pindrop podcast two of Britain’s most cherished actors, Dame Eileen Atkins and Dame Sian Philips give a live reading at the Royal Academy of Arts of a short story from 1919 called The Dictator: The Story of Ak and Humanity by Yefim Zozulya. Eileen Atkins is an award-winning actress, known for her critically-acclaimed roles in film and television productions including Gosford Park, Cranford and The Crown. Siân Phillips has starred in era-defining film and TV including Beckett and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – and the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, for which she won a BAFTA for Best Actress. The performance was followed by a Q&A with Pindrop founder, Simon Oldfield

In this exclusive joint appearance, leading stars of stage and screen Siân Phillips and Eileen Atkins read selected works of exceptional Russian literature. The readings conclude with a Q&A chaired by Pin Drop founder Simon Oldfield.

This week on StoryWeb: Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Has there ever been a more graceful first line of a novel than that? Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is graceful and poised, like her title character, ever one to have things “just so.” Her dinner party – toward which the whole novel rushes – is sumptuous, elegant, and in every possible way, “just so.” But of course, there’s much more here than meets the eye. Old bonds as well as old rifts and hurts swirl through the party as Clarissa Dalloway confronts Sally Seton (with whom she’d had a flirtation in her youth) and Peter Walsh (whose marriage proposal she had rejected in that same youth). In this modernist novel, all time is present at once, and as Clarissa, Sally, and Peter meet at the dinner party, they’re each – individually – transported three decades into the past, reliving the scintillating and very nearly risqué time at the country estate of Bourton when Clarissa kissed Sally, broke Peter’s heart, and met her future husband, Richard Dalloway. And yet there is even more seething underneath the surface of these upper-middle-class concerns. For this is London, 1923, post-World War I, a devastated London trying to pick up its bombed-out shards and rebuild itself. Running parallel to Clarissa, Sally, Peter, and Richard’s story is the plotline belonging to Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran. His Italian wife, Lucrezia, takes him on quiet walks in London parks and tries to soothe him. But Septimus won’t be soothed – just as Woolf seems to be saying that London, Europe, indeed the entire world won’t be soothed. As Septimus’s story makes abundantly clear, Septimus and his fellow veterans are not the walking wounded. They are very nearly the hobbling dead, passing time in a twilight evening. Woolf’s ability to pull Clarissa Dalloway together with Septimus Warren Smith is nothing short of miraculous. These two worlds – that of the privileged, moneyed class and that of the barely surviving veterans, the fodder for the aristocracy’s war – weave in and out of each other’s lives. Mrs. Dalloway is definitely worth reading – both on its own merits and as a way into American novelist Michael Cunningham’s 1998 retelling of it in The Hours. Clarissa Dalloway is a character you will not soon forget, whether you meet her as she was first conceived in the pages of Woolf’s novel or on the screen in Vanessa Redgrave’s portrayal of her or whether you meet permutations of Clarissa in Cunningham’s The Hours or watch Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, and Nicole Kidman present their own takes on shades of Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf herself. If this is your first time reading Virginia Woolf, be gently forewarned. She is every bit the stream-of-consciousness modernist, playing, as she did, a central role in dismantling the traditional novel and then completely reinventing it. As Woolf said, “[It is] precisely the task of the writer to go beyond the ‘formal railway line of sentence' and to show how people ‘feel or think or dream . . . all over the place.’” British novelist E.M. Forster, a contemporary of Woolf’s, agreed with her description of what she was trying to do in Mrs. Dalloway. He said, “It is easy for a novelist to describe what a character thinks of. . . . But to convey the actual process of thinking is a creative feat, and I know of no one except Virginia Woolf who has accomplished it.” Given Woolf’s startling, groundbreaking, narrative-shattering approach to fiction, how does one actually set about reading Mrs. Dalloway? My advice is much the same as the advice I offered for reading William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury: simply let Woolf’s prose wash over you. Little by little, you’ll begin to grasp the story. And if you’re wondering what Woolf had in mind as she wrote Mrs. Dalloway, read excerpts from her diary! Much of the novel focuses on London walks taken by various characters. The Mrs. Dalloway Mapping Project is an excellent website, as is Clarissa Dalloway’s London. And if you ever find yourself in London and wish to retrace Mrs. Dalloway’s steps on her famous walk, you can download a written walking tour guide as well as an audio walking tour. You’ll also want to have with you Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s indispensable volume, Virginia Woolf's London: A Guide to Bloomsbury and Beyond. Numerous other resources tracing Woolf’s relationship to London and its outskirts can be found at the Blogging Woolf website. Learn more about Virginia Woolf by visiting the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s website. The Virginia Woolf Blog features an interactive timeline of Woolf’s life, complete with links to information about important people and events in her life. The New York Times also has a treasure trove of archived articles about Woolf. Of course, Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, which also had a country home in Charleston. A key part of Bloomsbury was Hogarth Press, which Woolf and her husband, Leonard, established as a vehicle for publishing modernist literature, including the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Learn more about the press at Yale University’s Modernism Lab website. In addition to her outstanding collection of writing, Virginia Woolf is also well known for her profound struggles with mental illness, which led her to commit suicide in 1941. An excellent multimedia website – Woolf, Creativity, and Madness – provides deep insight into this aspect of Woolf’s life. Ready to read Mrs. Dalloway? You’ll definitely want a hard copy of this complex novel (and besides, since the novel is still under copyright in the United States, there are no legal, free online versions). You might also find it interesting to read more of Woolf’s work. I recommend The Virginia Woolf Reader, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska. Whether you read the novel or not, you’ll definitely want to watch the outstanding film based on it. Vanessa Redgrave plays Mrs. Dalloway, and screenplay writer Eileen Atkins is known for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in British theatrical productions. She has played Woolf in the one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, and she also played Woolf in Vita and Virginia, a play which Atkins herself wrote. In the New York production of Vita and Virginia, Redgrave played Vita Sackville-West opposite Atkins's Woolf. Visit thestoryweb.com/woolf for links to all these resources and to watch an excerpt from the film. The video clip features Clarissa and Peter at Bourton and moves ahead thirty years as Clarissa, Peter, and Sally reflect on that summer during Clarissa’s dinner party. You can then listen to the only known recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. Recorded in 1937 as part of a BBC radio broadcast, the clip features Woolf’s thoughts on craftsmanship and language. Tune in next week, when StoryWeb will feature Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours and the film based on it. The Hours will shift and deepen your understanding of Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway.

We delve into the world of film and find the forgotten gems or otherwise unappreciated masterpieces of film and talk about them. This episode we discuss one of the best films of all time "The Avengers" (1998) which stars Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw and the inhabitants of London? In this commentary, we talk about the interesting questions that are brought from watching this brilliant film and we hope that we answer some of those questions. This episode features Ryan Sliwinski, Bartek Kasprzyszak and Lauren Thuys! PRESS PLAY AT 7:00!  Tony Stark ain't in this one but Sean Connery in a bear suit is, do you like movies that don't make sense but kinda do? Then this film is for you! This film has cars, babes, bears, cripples, robot wasps and nudity. Remember that manners maketh man.

Título original The Hours Año 2002 Duración 114 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director Stephen Daldry Guión David Hare (Novela: Michael Cunningham) Música Philip Glass Fotografía Seamus McGarvey Reparto Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Allison Janney, Miranda Richardson, Jeff Daniels, Eileen Atkins, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Daniel Brocklebank Productora Paramount Pictures / Miramax Género Drama | Homosexualidad. Años 20. Años 50. Historias cruzadas. Enfermedad. SIDA Sinopsis Historia de tres mujeres de épocas diferentes que tratan de encontrarle un sentido a la vida. A principios de los años 20, Virginia Woolf, en un elegante barrio de Londres, lucha contra su locura mientras empieza a escribir su primera gran novela: "Mrs. Dalloway". En los años 50, en Los Ángeles, a Laura Brown, una mujer casada y con hijos, la lectura de "Mrs. Dalloway" le resulta tan reveladora que empieza a considerar la posibilidad de cambiar radicalmente su vida. En Nueva York, Clarissa Vaughan, una versión actual de "Mrs. Dalloway", está enamorada de su amigo Richard, un brillante poeta enfermo de SIDA.

Título original Last Chance Harvey Año 2008 Duración 92 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director Joel Hopkins Guión Joel Hopkins Música Dickon Hinchliffe Fotografía John de Borman Reparto Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Richard Schiff, James Brolin, Liane Balaban, Tim Howar, Wendy Mae Brown, Bronagh Gallagher, Jeremy Sheffield Productora Overture Films Género Romance. Drama | Drama romántico. Bodas Web oficial http://www.widepictures.es/nuncaestardeparaenamorarse/ Sinopsis Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman), un neoyorquino maduro que compone música publicitaria, está pasando por un mal momento tanto profesional como personal. De repente, surge una novedad en su vida: durante un viaje a Londres para asistir a la boda de su hija, conoce a Kate (Emma Thompson), una peculiar solterona cuya vida social es bastante anodina. Harvey se siente inmediatamente atraído por su inteligencia y su espontaneidad y pronto se establece entre ellos una relación que puede cambiar el curso de sus tristes y solitarias vidas.

Choreographer Akram Khan talks to Anne McElvoy about curating a festival at the Lowry, the relationship between dance and visual art and his interest in flamenco. Professor Diane Purkiss reviews Eileen Atkins performance at the RSC in The Witch of Edmonton. Deanna Petherbridge discusses an exhibition of prints showing witches that she's curated at the British Museum.

One of the greatest classical actors of his generation, Sir Ian McKellen reflects on his more than 50 years on stage, explaining that he's really only qualified to voice his opinion on two topics: gay issues and theatre. He talks about the recent production of "Waiting for Godot" in which he played opposite Patrick Stewart in London, then Roger Rees in both London and Australia, and which he'd happily perform in yet again (and wonders what the production would have been like had director Sean Mathias have received approval for McKellen's originally proposed co-star, Dame Judi Dench); why he feels that despite performing it in venues around the world, he never really "cracked" the role of "King Lear" and would like to try again; offers his first thoughts on recalling such roles as Iago, Macbeth, Richard II and Richard III; explains the British system which allowed him to move into a professional career quickly after his university days despite having no formal acting training; how he found himself on Broadway with Ian McShane and Eileen Atkins -- only six years after graduating from university -- in a Russian play that was a big English hit but a U.S. flop; explores the experience of playing the leading role in "Bent" in both the original production, prior to coming out publicly, and playing it again 10 years later after he had declared his sexuality; and why without his Broadway performance in "Amadeus", which was entirely the result of Paul Scofield declining to play it in the U.S. and McKellen having gone to school with Peter Hall, he might not even be sitting for a Downstage Center interview. Original air date - October 20, 2010.

One of the greatest classical actors of his generation, Sir Ian McKellen (1981 Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for “Amadeus”) reflects on his more than 50 years on stage, explaining that he's really only qualified to voice his opinion on two topics: gay issues and theatre. He talks about the recent production of “Waiting for Godot” in which he played opposite Patrick Stewart in London, then Roger Rees in both London and Australia, and which he'd happily perform in yet again (and wonders what the production would have been like had director Sean Mathias have received approval for McKellen's originally proposed co-star, Dame Judi Dench); why he feels that despite performing it in venues around the world, he never really "cracked" the role of King Lear and would like to try again; offers his first thoughts on recalling such roles as Iago, Macbeth, Richard II and Richard III; explains the British system which allowed him to move into a professional career quickly after his university days despite having no formal acting training; how he found himself on Broadway with Ian McShane and Eileen Atkins -- only six years after graduating from university -- in a Russian play that was a big English hit but a U.S. flop; explores the experience of playing the leading role in “Bent” in both the original production, prior to coming out publicly, and playing it again 10 years later after he had declared his sexuality; and why without his Broadway performance in “Amadeus”, which was entirely the result of Paul Scofield declining to play it in the U.S. and McKellen having gone to school with Peter Hall, he might not even be sitting for a Downstage Center interview.

One of the greatest classical actors of his generation, Sir Ian McKellen reflects on his more than 50 years on stage, explaining that he's really only qualified to voice his opinion on two topics: gay issues and theatre. He talks about the recent production of "Waiting for Godot" in which he played opposite Patrick Stewart in London, then Roger Rees in both London and Australia, and which he'd happily perform in yet again (and wonders what the production would have been like had director Sean Mathias have received approval for McKellen's originally proposed co-star, Dame Judi Dench); why he feels that despite performing it in venues around the world, he never really "cracked" the role of "King Lear" and would like to try again; offers his first thoughts on recalling such roles as Iago, Macbeth, Richard II and Richard III; explains the British system which allowed him to move into a professional career quickly after his university days despite having no formal acting training; how he found himself on Broadway with Ian McShane and Eileen Atkins -- only six years after graduating from university -- in a Russian play that was a big English hit but a U.S. flop; explores the experience of playing the leading role in "Bent" in both the original production, prior to coming out publicly, and playing it again 10 years later after he had declared his sexuality; and why without his Broadway performance in "Amadeus", which was entirely the result of Paul Scofield declining to play it in the U.S. and McKellen having gone to school with Peter Hall, he might not even be sitting for a Downstage Center interview. Original air date - October 20, 2010.

Robin Hood, Bryan Grazer, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Ridley Scott, Brian Helgeland, Max von Sydow, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, Mark Addy, Kevin Durand, Matthew Macfadyen, Scott Grimes, Alan Doyle, Douglas Hodge, Lea Seydoux

Hey MovieSetters! Welcome to Tuesdays edition of 'The Behind the Scenes Show'. This web-i-sode we are taking a look at the new DVD releases this week! The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Twilight and Last Chance Harvey. Enjoy! “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time. TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. But he doesn’t have fangs, and he doesn’t drink human blood; Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), the Cullens’ mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her? New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting—or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle. Trying to hide his devastation, Harvey leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses the plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, Harvey is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a sensitive, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother (Eileen Atkins), is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.

Experiences on stage in America and England are the core of this conversation with actors Eileen Atkins (Doubt), Richard Griffiths (2006 Best Actor Tony Award for The History Boys), Jonathan Pryce (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and his Tony Award-winning performances in 1977’s Comedians and 1991’s Miss Saigon), Lynn Redgrave (The Importance of Being Earnest) and Zoë Wanamaker (Awake and Sing).

Experiences on stage in America and England are the core of this conversation with actors Eileen Atkins ("Doubt"), Richard Griffiths ("The History Boys"), Jonathan Pryce ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"), Lynn Redgrave ("The Importance of Being Earnest") and Zoë Wanamaker ("Awake and Sing").

Sue Lawley's castaway this morning is the actress Eileen Atkins. From dancing in working men's clubs as a child to portraying Virginia Woolf on Broadway and the snobbish Celia for Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue, she traces her life as performer and writer.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Get off of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones Book: Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf Luxury: An Atkinson Grimshaw painting

Sue Lawley's castaway this morning is the actress Eileen Atkins. From dancing in working men's clubs as a child to portraying Virginia Woolf on Broadway and the snobbish Celia for Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue, she traces her life as performer and writer. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Get off of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones Book: Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf Luxury: An Atkinson Grimshaw painting