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Craig Warner
Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. His play '' Strangers on a Train'', based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013–14, and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and produced by Barbara Broccoli. He wrote '' The Queen's Sister'' for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), ''Maxwell'' for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and '' The Last Days of Lehman Brothers'', for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series ''Julius Caesar'' for Warner Bros., whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writer And Artist Craig Warner
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stories, monographs, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Days Of Lehman Brothers
''The Last Days of Lehman Brothers'' is a British television film, first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD on Wednesday 9 September 2009. Filmed in London, it was written by Craig Warner and directed by Michael Samuels. It was shown as part of the BBC's "Aftershock" season, a selection of programmes marking the first anniversary of the collapse of the American investment bank Lehman Brothers. It featured James Cromwell, Ben Daniels, Corey Johnson, Michael Landes and James Bolam. Synopsis ''The Last Days of Lehman Brothers'' summarizes the events that occurred over the weekend preceding Monday, 15 September 2008, when Lehman declared bankruptcy. Some of the story is narrated by the fictional character "Zach", a Lehman employee often taking orders directly from Lehman's chairman and CEO, Dick Fuld. Zach often breaks the Fourth wall, talking directly to the viewer. Investment bank Lehman Brothers is in trouble after a turbulent six months in which their real estate investments have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (; also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house. It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924) and began publishing in London in 1892. Initially, Methuen mainly published non-fiction academic works, eventually diversifying to encourage female authors and later translated works. E. V. Lucas headed the firm from 1924 to 1938. Establishment In June 1889, as a sideline to teaching, Algernon Methuen began to publish and market his own textbooks under the label Methuen & Co. The company's first success came in 1892 with the publication of Rudyard Kipling's '' Barrack-Room Ballads''. Rapid growth came with works by Marie Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde ('' De Profundis'', 1905) as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Tarzan of the Apes''.Stevenson, page 59. In 1910, the business was converted into a limited liability company with E. V. Lucas and G.E. Webster joining the founder on the board of dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Cooper Award
The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio. Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year. Five or six winners were chosen from the entire year's production of BBC drama, and published in a series of books. They were named after Giles Cooper, the Anglo-Irish radio dramatist who wrote over sixty scripts for BBC radio and television between 1949 and 1966. These awards ran annually between 1978 and 1992, instigated by Richard Imison at the BBC and Geoffrey Strachan at Eyre Methuen. There was no prize money, but publication was a notable mark of permanence in the ephemeral world of broadcasting. List of winners 1978 *John Arden – ''Pearl'' (published separately as per special arrangement with Eyre Methuen) * Richard Harris – ''Is It Something I Said?'' * Don Haworth – ''Episode on a Thursday Evening'' * Jill Hyem – ''Remember Me'' * Tom Mallin – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End theatre, West End debut in the 1981 play ''Moving'', before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for ''A Lie of the Mind''. Richardson has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Damage (1992 film), Damage'' and the Academy Award for Best Actress for ''Tom & Viv''. A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Damage''. She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning twice for ''Enchanted April (1992 film), Enchanted April'' and the TV film ''Fatherland (1994 film), Fatherland''. Her other films include ''Empire of the Sun (film), Empire of the Sun'', ''The Crying Game'', ''Sleepy Hollow (film), Sleepy Hollow'', ''The Hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Davis (actor)
Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, director and narrator. His early work as a director earned awards for ''Life’s a Gas'' (1992) and ''I.D. (1995 film), ID'' (1995). As an actor, he starred in ''Quadrophenia (film), Quadrophenia'' (1979), ''The Bounty (1984 film), The Bounty'' (1984), ''High Hopes (1988 film), High Hopes'' (1988), ''The Firm (1989 film), The Firm'' (1989), ''In the Name of the Father'' (1993), ''North Square'' (2000), ''Vera Drake'' (2004), ''Bleak House (2005 TV serial), Bleak House'' (2005), ''Whitechapel (TV series), Whitechapel'' (2009–2013), ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'' (2010), ''Brighton Rock (2010 film), Brighton Rock'' (2010), ''Merlin (2008 TV series), Merlin'' (2011), ''Silk (TV series), Silk'' (2012–2014), ''Poldark (2015 TV series), Poldark'' (2015–2016), ''Mad Dogs (American TV series), Mad Dogs'' (2015–2016), Trying (TV series), ''Trying'' (2020–2024) and ''Platform 7'' (2023). Early life Davis was born ... [...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. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. He replaced Gwyneth Williams, who had been the station controller since 2010. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM broadcast band, FM, Longwave, LW and Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview (UK), Freeview, Freesat, Sky (UK & Ireland), Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it List of most-listened-to radio programs#Top stations in the United Kingdom, the UK's second most-popular radio station after BBC Radio 2. BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Play
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, 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, dramatised 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 wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Born in London, Turing was raised in southern England. He graduated from University of Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge, and in 1938, earned a doctorate degree from Princeton University. During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra (cryptography), Ultra intelligence. He led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Turing devised techniques for speeding the breaking of Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codebreaker (2011 Film)
''Codebreaker'', also known as ''Britain's Greatest Codebreaker'', is a 2011 television docudrama aired on Channel 4 about the life of Alan Turing. The film had a limited release in the U.S. beginning on 17 October 2012. The story is told as a discussion between Alan Turing and his psychiatrist Dr. Franz Greenbaum. The story is based on journals maintained by Dr. Franz Greenbaum and others who have studied the life of Alan Turing and also some of his colleagues. Plot The film starts in October 1952 after Alan Turing (Ed Stoppard) has been convicted. He is talking to his psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum (Henry Goodman). Dr. Greenbaum and Alan continue to discuss; Alan informs Dr. Greenbaum that he cannot talk about his war time activities. Dr. Greenbaum informs him that he can talk about anything he wants. Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan, is shown and he goes on to explain how life was for John Turing (Alan's brother) and Alan Turing during their childhood. David Leavitt app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmys
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mists Of Avalon (TV Miniseries)
''The Mists of Avalon'' is a 2001 television miniseries based on the 1983 novel of the same title by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The series, produced by American cable channel TNT, adapted by Gavin Scott, and directed by Uli Edel, retells the Arthurian legend from the perspectives of Morgan le Fay and other women in the tale. The first episode was the highest-rated original film on basic cable in the summer of 2001. Plot Part I: Igraine and Uther The film begins with a battered, dirty, and injured Morgaine riding in a small boat through a misty river. Most of the film is a reflection through her eyes, with Morgaine as narrator. Morgaine (aged 8) is living with her pagan mother Igraine and Christian father Gorlois, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. Igraine's younger sister, Morgause, lives with them. Their eldest sister, Viviane, the Lady of the Lake, High Priestess of Avalon, along with Merlin, as the chief Druid, has come to Igraine with a prophecy that she will bear the king wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
