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Philip Fox (actor)
Philip "Phil" Fox is an English film and television actor, known particularly for comic roles. His appearances include ''Genie in the House'', ''Maurice'', '' People Like Us'', '' Waking the Dead'', '' Maxwell'', ''Don't Tell Father'', ''Midsomer Murders'' and ''Foyle's War''. He also appeared in the film ''Venus'' alongside Peter O'Toole. He has also appeared in many children's programmes and has a long association with producer Clive Doig, who cast him in the children's shows ''Eureka'', ''The Album'', ''Eat Your Words'' and ''See It Saw It''. He has also appeared in very many productions for BBC Radio 4, most notably in a dramatisation of the Terry Pratchett books Mort and Small Gods. He has also played the part of Maurice Horton in The Archers. Fox played the estate agent in the first episode of Steve Coogan's comedy ''I'm Alan Partridge''. He also played the character Baldrick in the original pilot of the ''Blackadder'' series, which was never broadcast. For the series i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Gods
''Small Gods'' is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' novels, published in 1992. It tells the origin of the god Om, and his relations with his prophet, the reformer Brutha. In the process, it satirises religious institutions, people, and practices, and the role of religion in political life. Plot The Great God Om tries to manifest himself once more in the world, as the time of his Eighth Prophet is nigh. He is surprised, however, when he finds himself in the body of a tortoise, stripped of his divine powers. In the gardens of Omnia's capital of Kom, he addresses the novice Brutha, the only one able to hear his voice. Om has a hard time convincing the boy of his godliness, as Brutha is convinced that Om can do anything he wants, and would not want to appear as a tortoise. Brutha is gifted with an eidetic memory and is therefore chosen by Vorbis, the head of the Quisition, to accompany him on a diplomatic mission to Ephebe as his secretary. However, Brutha is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Swift
Toby Swift is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio. His numerous credits, from 1999 to 2011, include the crime dramas '' The Recall Man'' and ''Trueman and Riley {{Infobox Radio Show , show_name = Trueman and Riley , image = , imagesize = , caption = , other_names = , format = Drama , runtime = 45 minutes (Radio 4 plays)30 m ...''. He also directs contemporary and periodic radio dramas. He won the '' Prix Italia for Adapted Drama'' in 2004 for ''M'', and again in 2005 for ''My Arm'' and for a third time in 2007 for ''Metropolis''.Prix Italia, Winners 1949 - 2010, RAI ''The Loop'' won a ''Bronze [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Serial
''Classic Serial'' was a strand on BBC Radio 4, which broadcasts in series of one-hour dramas, "Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status." It is broadcast twice weekly, first from 3:00–4:00 pm on Sunday, then repeated from 9:00–10:00 pm the next Saturday. Works adapted have included ''The Aeneid'', '' On the Beach'', and ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', featuring such actors as Joss Ackland, Kenneth Branagh, and Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Regarded as one of Britain's best actresses, she is noted for her versatile work in various films and television programmes encompassing several genres, as well as for her .... References External links * BBC Radio 4 programmes British radio dramas {{BBC-radio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4 Extra
BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British digital radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day. It is the sister station of BBC Radio 4 and the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive, and as a result the majority of its programming originates from that archive. It also broadcasts extended and companion programmes to those broadcast on Radio 4, and provides a "catch-up" service for certain programmes. The station launched in December 2002 as BBC 7, broadcasting a mix of archive comedy, drama and current children's radio. The station was renamed BBC Radio 7 in 2008, then relaunched as Radio 4 Extra in April 2011. For the first quarter of 2013, Radio 4 Extra had a weekly audience of 1.642 million people and had a market share of 0.95%; in the last quarter of 2016 the numbers were 2.184 million listeners and 1.2% of market share. According to RAJAR, the station broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afternoon Play
''Drama'' (formerly ''Afternoon Theatre'', ''Afternoon Drama,'' ''Afternoon Play'') is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each year. More or less three-quarters are self-contained dramas. The remainder are short series of 2 to 6 episodes. As well as original drama series, the ''Afternoon Play'' has included a number of adaptations of popular works such as ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency''. History In one form or another, the ''Afternoon Play'' has been a feature of afternoons on Radio 4 since its launch in 1967, although the strict 45 minute format was not enforced until the reorganisation of Radio 4 by James Boyle in 1998, whereby the play directly follows the 2.00pm repeat of ''The Archers''. Several ''Afternoon Plays'' were amongst programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service The Wartime Broadcasting S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Chaillet
Edward William Chaillet, III ( ; born 29 November 1944) is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist. Chaillet, American by birth, was born in Boston, Massachusetts but is a "native of Washington" according to ''The New York Times''. He has lived in Britain since 1973. His newspaper career began at the ''Washington Evening Star'' in 1964, interrupted by service in the United States Army. He then lived in Europe, founded the Free State Theater company in Maryland, and studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and California Institute of the Arts. Chaillet moved to London in 1973 to work at ''The Times Literary Supplement'' for the editors Arthur Crook and John Gross 1974–76. He was deputy drama critic (to Irving Wardle) for ''The Times'' 1975–83. In 1983 he joined the BBC as Editor, Radio 3 Plays, before becoming a producer for BBC Radio Drama. At the same time (1983–86) he wrote drama criticism for '' The Wall Street Journal – Europe''. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Robinson
Sir Anthony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, author, broadcaster, comedian, presenter, and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television series ''Blackadder'' and has presented several historical documentaries including the Channel 4 programmes ''Time Team'' and ''The Worst Jobs in History''. He has published 16 children's books. Robinson, a member of the Labour Party, was knighted in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours for his public and political service. Early life Robinson was born on 15 August 1946 in Homerton, London, to Phyllis and Leslie Robinson. He attended Woodford Green Preparatory School and Wanstead County High grammar school.Wanstead High, history of our school Wansteadhigh.co.uk, Retrieved 16 May 2015 He passed four |
Blackadder
''Blackadder'' is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on BBC One from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, e.g., Melchett (Stephen Fry) and Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall). The first series, ''The Black Adder'', was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent series were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000, the fourth series, ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', ranked at 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, a list created by the British Film Institute. In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Edmund Blackadder was ranked third on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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