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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
`Daily Telegraph' `Murray Wardrop' The 63-year-old, most famous for playing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, said Britain risks losing the importance of Christianity in our multi- cultural society. Suchet, who has played the Agatha Christie character on ITV for 21 years, was confirmed as a Christian about two years ago. In an interview for Woman’s Weekly magazine, he [...]
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ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
In the 1660s, women are forbidden to appear on stage, and so Edward 'Ned' Kynaston (Billy Crudup), is England's most celebrated leading lady.But King Charles II becomes tired of seeing the same old performers in the same old tragedies, and since no one will take him up on his suggestion to improve 'Othello' with a couple of good jokes, he decides to liven the royal palate by allowing real women to...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The 63-year-old, most famous for playing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, said Britain risks losing the importance of Christianity in our multi- cultural society. Suchet, who has played the Agatha Christie character on ITV for 21 years, was confirmed as a Christian about two years ago. In an interview for Woman’s Weekly magazine, he said: “I do feel that Christianity is being marginalised...
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Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
British period pieces are regularly mocked as pretty pieces of cinema devoid of real bite. But you couldn't call Stephen Poliakoff's first film for more than a decade, Glorious 39, namby-pamby
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
How does Stephen Poliakoff get away with this stuff? Glorious 39 begins, in mildly intriguing fashion, in the run-up to the Second World War, positing an appeasement conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of toffs who believe Britain hasn't a chance against Hitler.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Stephen Poliakoff returns to the cinema after a 10-year absence and, by jingo, he appears to have secured the ghost of John Buchan to be his chaperone. Glorious 39 is a ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller, played out in the fraught run-up to the second world war. It gives us dotty aunts and dodgy spies, showbiz starlets and imperilled young firebrands. There are secret documents in the outhouse...
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Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Release date : November 20, 2009 Synopsis : This tense conspiracy thriller set on the eve of World War II and based on disturbing real events, focuses on ...
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Same Difference (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
An untried deaf actress has been handed the lead role in a primetime BBC thriller. Genevieve Barr will play deaf teenager Amelia Edwards, who witnesses a murder while staying with relatives in a new BBC1 four part series called The Silence. It is her first major role, which she won while on the Teach First training [...]
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ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Jane Austen’s novels about marriage are firmly established as literary classics. But what of the love life of the woman who penned the famous novels'As this drama opens, Jane (Olivia Williams) is a published novelist. With Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park much admired and Emma close to completion, Jane has found success as a writer. But the novelist herself, now nearing...
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The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Saturday Play: The Shape of the Table Radio 4, Saturday 2.30pm Tying in with Radio 4’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the tumultuous changes in Eastern Europe in 1989, the Saturday Play revives David Edgar’s National Theatre production from 1990. Set in a fictional...
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Johli Baptist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Barafundle Bay is my favourite beach. It is very beautiful on a bright sunny day. I can recall some very happy moments there. Next year a film called Barafundle Bay will be released at the end of April, directed by Hattie Dalton and starring Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild and Tom Burke. There is an interesting and amusing blog about the making of this film with some fine photographs....
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
HE is one of Britain’s most successful television dramatists, yet Tony Marchant has been told by the BBC to prove himself worthy by sitting an elementary test about how to portray “goodies and baddies”.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Glorious 39 director Stephen Poliakoff and the film's star Romola Garai headed to an intimate private drinks reception at Kettner's in Soho, to celebrate the film's British premiere at the London Film Festival.
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TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
By David Lambert - The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The smash hit series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as Detective... (more)