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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] |
Radio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Hanna
Gillian Hanna (20 June 1944 – 18 August 2019) was an Irish stage, film, TV and voice actress. She founded the feminisMonstrous Regiment Theatre Companyabout which she wrote a book that was published in 1991. Early life Hanna graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages from Trinity College, Dublin. She went on to work as an actor as well as a translator. Career In 1975, Hanna founded the feminist ''Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company''. Hanna worked with the company for fifteen years. In 1981, she starred in Honor Moore's ''Mourning Pictures'' at the Tricycle Theatre, a Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company production, with original music by Tony Haynes. The play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1982. She later published a book about the company, ''Monstrous Regiment: A Collective Celebration''. An essay of hers, "An Age Of Innocence", was published in the collection ''Trinity Tales: Trinity College In The Sixties''. She has extensive credits on stage as well as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter-Hugo Daly
Peter-Hugo Daly (born 1956 in Islington, London) is an actor and musician. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of new wave band the Cross along with fellow actor Phil Daniels. The band released a 1979 single, "Kill Another Night", on RCA Records. In 1980, Daly appeared with Daniels as drummer Mick "Lethal" in the Hazel O'Connor film '' Breaking Glass''. Extensive television appearances include ''Minder'', '' Bergerac'', ''The Bill'', '' Birds of a Feather'', ''Foyle's War'', ''Martin Chuzzlewit'', '' Silent Witness'', ''New Tricks'', '' Midsomer Murders'', '' Between the Lines'', ''Little Dorrit'', '' The History Man'', ''Lark Rise to Candleford'', Alan Bleasdale's '' G.B.H.'' and as Dave Morris in ''McLibel!''. He appeared in two of the '' Sharpe'' television films: '' Sharpe's Gold'' (1995) and ''Sharpe's Challenge'' (2006). Film appearances include Julian Temple's '' Absolute Beginners'', Martin Scorsese's ''Gangs of New York'', Woody Allen's ''Cassandra's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Holmes
Michelle Holmes (born Corinne Michelle Cunliffe; 1 January 1967, Rochdale, Lancashire), is an English actress who has appeared in several television serials. Career Holmes performed in a pop band called the Dunky Dobbers. She changed her professional name to gain entry to the actors' union Equity. Holmes' first acting role was in the ITV soap ''The Practice'' as Susan Turner the receptionist. Originally she was given a part as an extra, but after pestering the producers at Granada with multiple phone calls, she was given an audition for Susan which was successful. Holmes came to prominence as Sue, one of the babysitters in ''Rita, Sue and Bob Too'' who are seduced by an older man. A year later she appeared as Goth Jenny in ''Damon and Debbie'', and as Tina Fowler in ''Coronation Street''. Holmes played Yvonne Sparrow in the first three series of '' Goodnight Sweetheart'', and Maggie Coles in ''Firm Friends''. She appeared as Marie in two series of '' Common as Muck''. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian B Thompson
Brian B. Thompson is a BAFTA-nominated British television, theatre and radio writer whose work includes ''Byker Grove'', ''Grafters'', ''The Bill'' and ''Coronation Street''. He also created the detective series ''Trueman and Riley'', broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra from 2002 to 2012 (Producer, Toby Swift). Brian co-created the regional soap ''Quayside'' (Director Tom Hooper) for Tyne Tees TV, and worked on the first series of ''Revelations'' for Granada Television ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man. From 1956 to 1968 it broadcast to both the north west and Yorkshire but only on weekdays as ABC Weekend Television was it .... Theatre includes ''Derby Day'' (London Fringe Awards, Best Comedy) produced by Yorkshire Theatre Company. Thompson has also written a number of radio plays including ''Soap Gets in Your Eyes'' (Friday Play) and ''Full English'' (Afternoon Play). External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Coy
Jonathan Coy (born 24 April 1953, in Hammersmith, London) is a British actor. He has worked since 1975 largely in television, notably as Henry in the long-running legal series ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' and as Bracegirdle in the television series '' Hornblower'', adapted from the books by C. S. Forester. He also appeared as the German character, Kurt, in the British television series ''Brideshead Revisited'', in Season 1, Episode 7, entitled ''The Unseen Hook'', and Colin Grove in ''The Sandbaggers'' in 1978. In 2008 he played Lloyd in a UK tour of the play ''Noises Off'', Leonato in the 2011 Wyndham's Theatre production of ''Much Ado About Nothing'', with David Tennant, and Colonel Luykin in Pinero's '' The Magistrate'' at the Royal National Theatre in 2012-13, a production that was included in Season 4 of National Theatre Live. In 1997 he appeared as Doug Arkwright in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (“Daughter of the Regiment”, S3:E2). He also played a German spy called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Cavanagh
Kathryn Sarah Collins Jupe (born 12 December 1973), known professionally as Katy Cavanagh, is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Julie Carp in the ITV soap opera '' Coronation Street'' from 2008 to 2015. She also had regular roles in BBC drama '' The Cops'' (1998–2001), and the ITV drama '' Bob & Rose'' (2001). In November 2017, she appeared in the comedy television film ''Murder on the Blackpool Express''. Early life Cavanagh was born in North Shields, Northumberland, the daughter of Anne, a drama teacher, and Geoff, a headmaster. She grew up in Bolton, Lancashire. She was educated at Canon Slade School and trained at RADA and National Youth Theatre. Career Cavanagh has appeared regularly on British television since 1997. She had a regular role as Mel in the award-winning series'' The Cops'' from 1998 to 2001. In 2004, she had a regular role as Sergeant Dawn "Spike" Milligan in the television series ''Dalziel and Pascoe''. In 2006, she appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulvinder Ghir
Kulvinder Ghir (born 10 August 1965) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known as one of the cast members in the BBC sketch show '' Goodness Gracious Me''. He is also known for playing Aslam in the 1987 Yorkshire-based film '' Rita, Sue and Bob Too!'', alongside Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran and George Costigan. Early life Ghir was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian Punjabi parents of Sikh heritage. Ghir grew up in the Chapeltown suburb of Leeds, England. Ghir first began performing on stage at 13, going on to play comedy clubs between 15 and 17, thereafter enrolling in a London drama school. Career Ghir made his first television appearance as a teenager in 1981 on the Yorkshire Television programme ''The Extraordinary People Show''. At the time, he was looking at going into animation, and was one of three teenagers chosen to question Gerry Anderson about his techniques, and for general advice. His next TV appearance was in 1985, in the recurring role of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bhattacharjee
Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee (4 May 1960 – c. 10 July 2013) was a British actor who worked on stage, film and television. Early life and career The son of Gautam Bhattacharjee, a member of the Indian Communist Party who had to flee from the country in 1942, and Anne, a woman from a family of Russian Jewish descent, he was educated at state schools in Harrow. In the 1970s, Paul was a member of "The Young Theatre" at North Harrow where he was very involved in their productions (including an early role in ''The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew'' in 1974) and began to learn his trade as an actor. An association with Jatinder Verma and his theatre company Tara Arts began in 1979,Suman Bhuchar, "Bhattacharjee, Paul" in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 32. when he was, according to Verma "passionately idealistic, both artistically and politically" and had the desire "to use theatre to change the world". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Salt March
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. Another reason for this march was that the Civil Disobedience Movement needed a strong inauguration that would inspire more people to follow Gandhi's example. Gandhi started this march with 78 of his trusted volunteers. The march spanned , from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, which was called Navsari at that time (now in the state of Gujarat). Growing numbers of Indians joined them along the way. When Gandhi broke the British Raj salt laws at 8:30 am on 6 April 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the salt laws by millions of Indians. After making the salt by evaporation at Dandi, Gandhi continued southward along th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Whitchurch
Philip Whitchurch (born 30 January 1951) is an English stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for playing Captain William Frederickson in three episodes of the Sharpe series between 1994-1997 and the role of Chief Inspector Philip Cato in ''The Bill'' from 1993 to 1995. He also played another character, Inspector Twist, on the same show, as well as Tyler in '' My Hero'' from 2000 to 2006. Roles His other television work includes '' Sharpe'', ''The Brothers McGregor'', '' The Detectives'', ''Peak Practice'', ''Holby City'', '' Bergerac'', ''Boon'', ''Casualty'', '' Monarch of the Glen'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' G.B.H.'', ''Van der Valk'', ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'', '' Waterfront Beat'', ''Dramarama'', ''Wire in the Blood'', ''Foyle's War'', ''Mersey Beat'', '' In Exile'', '' Get Real'', ''Plotlands'', ''A Perfect State'', '' Virtual Murder'', ''El C.I.D.'' and ''The Vicar of Dibley''. He also played Derek, the chair of governors, in the first seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Catz
Caroline Catz (born Caroline Caplan; 19 October 1970) is an English film, television and theatre actress and narrator. She is best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in ''Doc Martin'' since 2004. Her other major roles have included Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in ''Murder in Suburbia'', Detective Inspector Helen Morton in ''DCI Banks'', and PC Cheryl Hutchins in '' The Vice''. Early life Caroline Catz was born Caroline Caplan on 19 October 1969 in Manchester to Bernard and Rosemary Caplan. Television and cinema She played opposite Michael Kitchen in a TV movie, ''The Guilty'' in June 1992. In 1994 she took a lead role in the BBC's ''All Quiet on the Preston Front'', which ran for three series. She followed this with a spell in ''The Bill'' as Rosie Fox, during which she met Michael Higgs, who later became her husband. Her part in ''The Bill'' was the first of four long-term roles in which she played police officers; in '' The Vice'' she was a PC, in ''Murder in Subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
