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The Polish Soldier
''The Polish Soldier'' is a radio play by Gregory Evans, first transmitted on BBC Radio 4 on January 24, 2001. The cast included Jeremy Northam Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor and singer. After a number of television roles, he earned attention as Mr. Knightley in the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's '' Emma''. He has appeared in the films ''An Ideal ... and Teresa Gallagher. The play was directed by Ned Chaillet. BBC Radio dramas {{2000s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Evans (dramatist)
Gregory Evans is a British television scriptwriter, playwright and radio dramatist. He has also written short stories, features and reviews for journals such as Harpers & Queen, Woman's Journal, The Observer and The Guardian online, and worked as a film critic for Harper's. He has published a book for young children, ''Owl in the House''. His stage adaptation of H. E. Bates's novel ''Fair Stood the Wind for France'' was produced at the Royal Theatre (Northampton). His tragi-comedy ''Shirleymander'', inspired by Andrew Hosken's book '' Nothing Like a Dame'', was staged at the newly-opened Playground Theatre in West London in May and June 2018. It was directed by Anthony Biggs and starred Jessica Martin and Jack Klaff. For BBC Radio 4 he has written original plays (such as '' The Polish Soldier'', '' Ghosting,'' '' Shirleymander'', '' Art & Gadg'') and a returning drama series based on his own family history titled ''Blood and Milk''. He has also written radio dramatisations of nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor and singer. After a number of television roles, he earned attention as Mr. Knightley in the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's '' Emma''. He has appeared in the films ''An Ideal Husband'', ''Gosford Park'', '' Amistad'', ''The Winslow Boy'', ''Enigma'', '' Cypher'', ''Dean Spanley'', and ''Martin and Lewis'', amongst others. He also played Thomas More in the Showtime series ''The Tudors''. From 2016 to 2017 he appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series ''The Crown''. Early life and education Northam was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the youngest of four children. His mother, Rachel (née Howard), was a potter and professor of economics, and his father, John Northam, was a professor of literature and theatre, as well as being an Ibsen specialist and lecturer (first at Clare College, Cambridge and later at Bristol). He has described his upbringing as not wealthy, but warm. Northam was educated at King's C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Gallagher
Teresa Gallagher is an American-born British actress. Career Gallagher is known for her role as Ellen Smith in ''The Bill'', for her appearances on radio in ''No Commitments'', ''Salem's Lot'', and '' Memorials to the Missing''. She played Sarah in ''Footballers' Wives'', and Alison Canning in ''Casualty''. She presented the children's BBC show ''Playdays'', and has provided the voices for others children's series including ''The Mr. Men Show'', ''Alphablocks'', ''Numberblocks'', and ''The Octonauts''. She has recorded redubs for several anime films such as ''Laughing Target'', '' X'', '' Bounty Dog'', ''Demon City Shinjuku,'' and ''Cyber City Oedo 808'' and later returned to do voice acting for anime with the English dubbed version of the TV series '' Ronja, the Robber's Daughter''. In 2003, she voiced Amalia, the female lead in Rita Dove's drama '' The Darker Face of the Earth'', opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the play's BBC radio adaptation. In 2010, she voiced Queen ... [...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] |