Performance Details: Agent ZigZag
Project type: Radio recording
Synopsis: Damian Lewis reads Ben Macintyre's compelling account of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent -- one of the most gripping stories of the Second World War.
Chronology: Probably recorded in the autumn of 2006. Presented on BBC Radio 4 in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from January 29, 2007, through February 2, 2007. Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 7 in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from April 6, 2009, through April 10, 2009. Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 7 in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from March 1, 2010, through March 5, 2010. Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 7 in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from November 8, 2010, through November 12, 2010. Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 7 in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from March 7, 2011, through March 11, 2011. Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in the UK in five daily 15-minute episodes from October 24, 2011, through October 28, 2011.
Principal Cast & Crew: Damian Lewis as Reader; Written by Ben Macintyre; Produced by Emma Harding.
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Episode 1 (01/29/07): At the start of the war, British criminal Eddie Chapman is recruited by the German Secret Service. He soon becomes a highly prized, and decorated, Nazi agent. What the Germans don't know is that he is also working for MI5.
Episode 2 (01/30/07): Former British con, Eddie Chapman, has been recruited as a spy by the Abwehr, the German intelligence organisation, who have given him the codename Fritz. Agent Fritz is about to be parachuted into England for his first mission: to sabotage the De Havilland aircraft factory in Hertfordshire.
Episode 3 (01/31/07): 'Fritz' is now in England preparing for his first mission, codenamed 'Walter', to sabotage the De Havilland aircraft factory in Hertfordshire. What the Germans don't know is that Fritz is also working as double agent 'Zigag' for MI5.
Episode 4 (02/01/07): In March 1943, MI5 sent Chapman back to his German controllers in order to gather information on the workings of the Abwehr.
Episode 5 (02/02/07): For the last year, Fritz has been in Oslo in the company of his girlfriend, Dagmar Lahlum, and his German spymaster, Dr. Graumann. But now Agent Zigzag is on his way back to Britain.
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Performance Details: The Awakening Conscience
Project type: Radio recording
Synopsis: William Holman Hunt meets Annie Miller, a young beauty who works behind the bar at the local pub. He resolves to turn her into the perfect model and woman. This radio production was the first of three plays in The Golden Triangle, a trilogy of radio plays about the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. (Damian was not part of the second and third plays in the series, The Order Of Release and Love Among The Ruins.)
Chronology: Probably recorded in 1998. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on November 25, 1998 (followed by The Order Of Release on December 2, 1998, and Love Among The Ruins on December 9, 1998.) Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on April 25, 2001 (followed by The Order Of Release on May 2, 2001, and Love Among The Ruins on May 9, 2001.)
Principal Cast & Crew: Alan Cox as _____; Julie Cox as _____; Jonathan Firth as _____; Damian Lewis as Rossetti; Written by Robin Brooks; Directed by Clive Brill.
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Performance Details: The Baker
Project type: Cinematic film
Synopsis: Can't sleep? Hate your job? Hate the city? Kill people for a living? Meet Milo -- he knows how you feel. Milo's a hit-man on the edge. When something snaps inside his head and he fails to fulfil a contract, he has to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Pursued by a ruthless colleague with a thing for rubber gloves, he hides out in a remote Welsh village, where he is mistaken for the new baker. Forced to bake to maintain the cover, what he discovers is nothing short of a revelation -- when he bakes, all his worries seem to disappear. Baking is therapy. When sparks fly with the beautiful local vet, he decides to start a new life as a baker. But as the villagers discover his true identity and start ordering hits on one another, things start to get messy. He's about to discover that you can't have your cake and eat it.
Chronology: Began pre-production in late February 2006. Principal photography began on March 27, 2006. Production was completed in May 2006. Released on region 2 DVD in Hungary on October 16, 2007. Released in the Ritzy Picturehouse cinema in London for a limited engagement, February 29 - March 6, 2008. Released on region 2 DVD in the UK on March 3, 2008. Released in cinemas in Greece on July 10, 2008. Released on region 1 DVD in Canada on August 12, 2008. Released on region 4 DVD in Australia on September 18, 2008. Presented on television (network not known) in Argentina on October 2, 2008. Released (limited) in select cinemas in Kansas City, MO, on October 9, 2009; Portland, OR, on October 23, 2009. Available for on-demand viewing via various cable and satellite television services (under the alternate title Assassin In Love) in the US beginning September 2, 2010. Released for rental on region 1 DVD in the US (under the alternate title Assassin In Love) on September 2, 2010. Released on region 1 DVD in the US (under the alternate title Assassin In Love) on October 12, 2010.
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Principal Cast & Crew: Kate Ashfield as Rhiannon Jones; Annette Badland as Martha; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Bjorn; Aimee Cowen as Checkout Girl; Gwenno Dafydd as Mrs. Edwards; Dyfan Dwyfor as Eggs; Michael Gambon as Leo; David Garfield as Griff; Michael Geary as Dai Williams; Gareth Wyn Griffith as Fish & Chip Man; Brian Hibbard as Bob; Philip Howe as Gareth Llewellyn; Paul Courtenay Hyu as Chinese Fish & Chip Man; Margaret John as Anne Jones; Damian Lewis as Milo; Gareth Lewis as Nature Documentary Voice; Rhodri Meilir as Owain Williams; Martin Glyn Murray as Hypnotist Voice; Anthony O'Donnell as Rhys; Robert Page as Stan; Nicholas Rowe as Businessman; Steven Spiers as Bryn; Adrian Sturges as Clerk; Dorien Thomas as Father Williams; Dyfed Thomas as Huw Edwards; William Thomas as Alun; Valerie Vaughan-Williams as Mrs. Thomas; Simon Winkler as Bodyguard; Boris the Sheep as Himself; Written by Gareth Lewis; Produced by Damian Lewis, Daniel Shepherd, Adrian Sturges and Justin Williams; Directed by Gareth Lewis.
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Performance Details: Band Of Brothers
Project type: Television mini-series
Synopsis: This story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, chronicles the experiences of the men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. The were an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered 150 percent casualties, and whose lives became legend.
Chronology: Production began with "boot camp" training in March 2000. Production took eight months. US television premiere on HBO on September 9, 2001; the first two episodes were presented that night, with one episode presented per week thereafter through November 4, 2001. UK television premiere on BBC 2 on October 5, 2001. Presented on television (networks unknown) in Israel on October 24, 2001; Singapore and Taiwan on October 27, 2001; Denmark on October 28, 2001; Hungary on December 1, 2001; Iceland on December 30, 2001; the Netherlands on January 20, 2002; Spain on March 4, 2002; Turkey on March 14, 2002; Brazil on March 24, 2002; Switzerland on April 11, 2002; Finland on June 26, 2002; France on July 22, 2002; Japan on July 27, 2002; Australia on September 2, 2002. Released on region 1 DVD in the US on November 5, 2002, and on region 2 DVD in the UK on the same date. eleased on home video in Austria and Germany on November 4, 2002. Released on home video in Argentina on November 6, 2002. Presented on television (networks unknown) in Norway on July 22, 2003; Croatia on January 8, 2004; Germany on March 25, 2005; Estonia on July 22, 2006; Italy on October 10, 2007. Released on Blu-Ray in the UK on November 10, 2008, and in the US on November 11, 2008.
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Principal Cast & Crew: Nicholas Aaron as Pvt. Robert E. "Popeye" Wynn (parts 1-5, 7-10); Kirk Acevedo as SSgt. Joseph D. Toye (parts 1-2, 4-7); John Adams as Pvt. Andrews (parts 2, 9); Doug Allen as Sgt. Alton More (parts 1, 3-7, 9-10); David Andrews as General Elbridge G. Chapman (part 10); William Armstrong as General Anthony McAuliffe (part 6); Martin Arno as Junior German (part 8); Eion Bailey as Pvt. David Kenyon Webster (parts 1, 4-5, 8-10); Jamie Bamber as 2nd Lt. Jack Foley (parts 7-9); Phil Barantini as Sgt. Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk (parts 1-6, 8-10); Joel Beckett as Officer In Cinema (Charge Of Quarters) (part 5); Paul Bentley as Old German In Landsberg (part 9); David Blair as Co-Pilot (part 2); Dean Blanke as German Grandson (part 9); Freerk Bos as Dutch Farmer (part 4); Kristina Brändén as Gertrud (German Girl With Egg) (part 9); Jonie Broom as Hans Schmidt (part 2); George Calil as Pvt. James H. "Moe" Alley, Jr. (parts 1, 4-10); Ben Caplan as Cpl. Walter S. "Smokey" Gordon, Jr. (parts 1, 3-6); Steve Chaplin as Pilot (part 2); Lee Colley as Soldier, 28th Infantry (part 5); Doug Cockle as Father John Maloney (parts 3, 6); Alexis Conran as Lt. George Lavenson (part 2); Dominic Cooper as Allington (part 1); David Crow as Corporal (part 7); Michael Cudlitz as Sgt. Denver "Bull" Randleman (parts 1, 3-10); Tim Davenport as Wounded Soldier (part 6); Marcos D'Cruze as Joseph P. Domingus (parts 1, 6); Tony Devlin as Pvt. Ralph "Doc" Spina (part 6); Jason Done as Drunk G.I. (part 10); Christoph Dostal as Senior German (part 8); Matthew Duquenoy as Co-Pilot, C-47 (part 2); Dale Dye as Col. Robert F. Sink (parts 1, 5-10); Michael Edmiston as Leadman Training (Jumpmaster) (part 1); Jonathan Edwards Young as Lt. John W. Kelly (part 2); James Embree as Easy Company Sergeant (part(s) _____); Jimmy Fallon as 2nd Lt. George C. Rice (part 5); Freddie Joe Farnsworth as Trooper On Horse (part 3) / Medic (part 6); Michael Fassbender as Sgt. Burton P. "Pat" Christenson (parts 1, 5-10); Simon Fenton as Pvt. Gerald J. Lorraine (part 2); Jeremy Finch as British Paratrooper (part 5); Dexter Fletcher as SSgt. John W. Martin (parts 1, 3-4, 6-10); Iain Fletcher as Bernard J. "Doc" Ryan (part 6); David Forest as Prisoner Saying "Danke" (part 9); Jordan Frieda as Replacement (part 7); Dirk Galuba as German MP (part 10); Tom George as Pvt. White (part 1); Ezra Godden as Pvt. Robert van Klinken (parts 1-4); Rick Gomez as Sgt. George Luz (parts 1, 3-10); Stephen Graham as Sgt. Myron "Mike" Ranney (parts 1-2); James Greene as Old Man On Bicycle (part 1); Luke Griffin as Sgt. Terence C. "Salty" Harris (part 1); Scott Grimes as TSgt. Donald G. Malarkey (parts 1-10); William Guarnere as Himself (part 10); Jack Gustav as German Soldier (part 2); Colin Hanks as 2nd Lt. Henry Jones (part 8); Jamie Harding as Young French Boy In Paris Subway (part 5); Tom Hardy as Pfc. John Janovec (parts 9-10); Craig Heaney as Pvt. Roy W. Cobb (parts 1-2. 4-5, 7-8); Ben Hecker as German Man In Flat (part 9); Edward "Babe" Heffron as Himself (part 10); Nolan Hemmings as Sgt. Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (parts 1-2, 4-5, 7-10); Josefine Hendriks as Young Dutch Girl (part 4); Paul Herzberg as German Doctor At Checkpoint (part 10); Matt Hickey as Pvt. Patrick O'Keefe (parts 9-10); Billy Hill as Dutch Farmer's Son (part 4); Paul Hornsby as German Soldier (part 4); Andrew Howard as Capt. Clarence Hester (parts 2, 5); Nigel Hoyle as Pvt. Leo Boyle (parts 3, 5); Mark Huberman as Pvt. Lester "Leo" Hashey (parts 3-4, 5, 7, 9); Frank John Hughes as SSgt. William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere (parts 1-7); James Hurn as 1st Replacement (part 5); Maxwell Hutcheon as German waiter (part 10); Adam James as Pvt. Cleveland O. Petty (parts 1-3, 5); Lucie Jeanne as Renee Lemaire (part 6); Corey Johnson as Maj. Kent (parts 9, 10); Marc Jordan as Pvt. John T. Julian (part 6); Wolf Kahler as German General (part 10); Malcolm Kaye as Prisoner With Janovec (part 9); Diana Kent as Mrs. Lamb (part 3); Goran Kostic as Prisoner With Corpse (part 9); Robin Laing as Pvt. Edward "Babe" Heffron (parts 3-10); Bill Laurence as German In Woods (part 6); Mark Lawrence as Cpl. H. Dukeman Jr. (parts 1, 3-5); Martin Lawton as German Grandfather (part 9); Matthew Leitch as SSgt. Floyd M."Tab" Talbert (parts 1, 3-5, 7, 9-10); Damian Lewis as Maj. Richard D. Winters (parts 1-10); John Light as Lt. Col. Dobie (part 5); C. Carwood Lipton as Himself (part 10, uncredited in others); Ron Livingston as Capt. Lewis Nixon (parts 1-10); Nick Lopez as US Guard (part 2); Richard Lynson as Officer In Hospital (part 3); Laird Macintosh as F Company Trooper (part 1) / Jeep Driver (part 6); James Madio as Sgt. Frank J. Perconte (parts 1, 3-10); Donald Malarkey as Himself (parts 10, uncredited in others); Christian Malcolm as MP at Lansberg (parts 9); Rocky Marshall as Cpl. Earl "One Lung" McLung (parts 6-8); John Martin as Himself (part 10); Tim Matthews as Cpl. M. Penkala Jr. (parts 1-7); Joseph May as Lt. Edward J. Shames (part 7); Peter McCabe as Cpl. Donald B. Hoobler (parts 1, 3-7); James McAvoy as Pvt. James W. Miller (part 4); Ross McCall as Cpl. Joseph Liebgott (parts 1-3, 5, 7-10); Stephen McCole as 1st Lt. Frederick T. "Moose" Heyliger (part 5); Neal McDonough as 1st Lt. Lynn D. "Buck" Compton (parts 1-7, 10); Phil McKee as Lt. Col. Robert L. Strayer (parts 1-3, 5-6); William Meredith as 2nd Replacement (part 5); Hugo Metsers as John van Kooijk (part 4); Benjamin Montague as Pvt. Matt McDowell (part 2); Rene L. Moreno as Pvt. Joseph Ramirez (parts 1, 3-5, 7-8, 10); Paul Murphy as Young G.I. (part 3); Hans-Georg Nenning as German Baker (part 9); David Nicolle as 2nd Lt. Thomas Peacock (parts 4-7); Ricky Nixon as Young German Sentry (part 5); Kieran O'Brien as Pvt. Allen E. Vest (parts 1, 8-9); Kieran O'Donnell as German Soldier (part 2); Rebecca Okot as Anna (Nurse) (part 6); Jason O'Mara as 1st Lt. Thomas Meehan (parts 1, 2); Peter O'Meara as 1st Lt. Norman Dike (parts 5-7); Jonjo O'Neill as Replacement #1 (part 10); Harry Peacock as Fake German (part 1); Oscar Pearce as Pvt. Richard H. Hughes (part 6); Simon Pegg as 1st Sgt. William S. Evans (parts 1, 2); John Perkins as German Soldier (part(s) _____); Ben Peyton as Warr. Off. Andrew Hill (part 2); Andrew Lee Potts as Pvt. Eugene Jackson (part 8); Dave Power as Rudolph R. Dittrich (part 1); Darrell "Shifty" Powers as Himself (parts 10, uncredited in others); Norman Campbell Rees as German Prisoner (part(s) _____); Philip Rham as German Colonel (part 10); Colin Ridgewell as German Soldier Shot (part 8); Luke Roberts as Herbert J. Suerth (part 5); Iain Robertson as Pvt. George Smith (parts 2-3); Chris Robson as Surrendering German (part 2); Scott Rognlien as Trooper, F Company (part 3); Suzanne Roquette as German Widow (part 9); Toby Ross-Bryant as Medic Paul Jones (part 6); Wil Röttgen as German Officer In Cart (part 9); Bart Ruspoli as Pvt. Edward J. Tipper (parts 1-3); Alex Sabga as Cpl. Francis "Frank" Mellet (parts 4, 7); Paul Sacks as Easy Company Jeep Driver (part(s) _____); Simon Schatzberger as Pvt. Joseph Lesniewski (parts 4-5, 7, 9); David Schwimmer as Capt. Herbert M. Sobel (parts 1, 4, 10); Andrew Scott as Pvt. John "Cowboy" Hall (part 2); Graham Seed as Red Beret Brigadier General (part 5); Isabella Seibert as German Girl With Janovec (part 9); Matthew Settle as Capt. Ronald Speirs (parts 2-3, 7-10); Ian Sharp as German Solider (part 6); Christian Simpson as Easy Company Lieutenant (part 1); Adam Sims as John S. Zielinski Jr. (part 5); Douglas Spain as Pvt. Antonio Garcia (parts 3-5, 7-10); Richard Speight, Jr. as Sgt. Warren H. "Skip" Muck (parts 1-7); Peter Stark as German Inside Barn (part 4); William Tapley as Capt. Paige (British Tank Commander) (part 4); Anatol Taubman as Otto Herzfeld (part 9); Shane Taylor as Cpl. Eugene G. Roe (parts 1-10); Gertrude Thoma as German Woman In Flat (part 9); Milo Twomey as Army Doctor (part 10); Dan van Husen as Alleged Commandant (part 10); Joe Villa as 2nd Replacement (part 10); Ian Virgo as Soldier (part(s) _____); Donnie Wahlberg as 2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton (parts 1-10); Mark Wakeling as Pilot, Plane 66 (part 2); Ben Walden as Referee, Training (part 1); Stephen Walters as John McGrath (part 3); Rick Warden as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh (parts 1, 3-6, 8-10); Marc Warren as Pvt. Albert Blithe (parts 1-3); Rupert Wickham as Brain Surgeon (part 10); Paul Williams as Pvt. Jack Olsen (part 2); Richard D. Winters as Himself (part 10, uncredited in others); Jack Wouterse as Dutch Farmer In Barn (part 4); Peter Youngblood Hills as SSgt. Darrell C "Shifty" Powers (parts 1-10); Written by Erik Jendresen (parts 1, 5, 10), Tom Hanks (part 1), John Orloff (parts 2, 9), E. Max Frye (part 3), Graham Yost (parts 4, 7), Bruce C. McKenna (parts 4, 6, 8) and Erik Bork (parts 8, 10); Based on book by Stephen Ambrose; Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks; Directed by Phil Alden Robinson (part 1), Richard Loncraine (part 2), Mikael Salomon (parts 3 ,10), David Nutter (part 4), Tom Hanks (part 5), David Leland (part 6), David Frankel (parts 7, 9) and Tony To (part 8).
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Part 1 - Currahee (09/09/01): They were ordinary men, swept up in the most extraordinary conflict in history. With the eyes of the world upon them, they found their greatest source of strength in each other. From Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, this is the story of Easy Company--an elite team of U.S. paratroopers whose WWII exploits are as incredible as they are true. Part 1 begins on June 4, 1944, in England, as Lts. Richard Winters and Lewis Nixon reflect on the past that led them to D-Day.
Part 2 - Day of Days (09/09/01): Planes carrying thousands of paratroopers cross the English Channel into French airspace, where German flak causes the pilots to drop them in a less than safe and organized fashion. Lt. Winters lands alone in a field, soon joined by John Hall, a private from another company. Executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg bring to life renowned WWII historian Stephen Ambrose's nonfiction book about an Army rifle company that parachuted into France on D-Day.
Part 3 - Carentan (09/16/01): After regrouping in the town of Angoville-au-Plain, Easy Company tries to capture the town of Carentan. Two days after D-Day, some members of Easy Company are still lost and alone in Normandy, including Pvt. Albert Blithe, who finds the rest of the unit just in time to help take Carentan, which Allied armor from Utah and Omaha beaches need in order to link up. Later, the company returns to England, but celebrations are short-lived when news comes that they'll be moving out again.
Part 4 - Replacements (09/23/01): Fresh replacements join Easy Company in time for a massive paradrop into German-occupied Holland. The Dutch townspeople of Eindhoven welcome them as liberators, but when Easy and a cluster of British tanks move into a nearby town, a superior German force inflicts many casualties and forces a retreat. As they move onto another assignment in Holland, Capt. Winters laments the retreat, and Capt. Nixon thinks that the ambitious Allied operation seems to have failed.
Part 5 - Crossroads (09/30/01): Capt. Winters leads a contingent of Easy Company men on a risky mission over a Dutch dike that results in a "turkey shoot" of fleeing Germans, and is promoted to Battalion Executive Officer, leaving Easy Company in the hands of Lt. "Moose" Heyliger. After moving back off the line to France, Lt. Nixon insists that Winters take a break and see Paris. But when Winters returns, news comes in of a massive German counterattack in the Ardennes Forest.
Part 6 - Bastogne (10/07/01): In the dead of winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, Easy Company struggles to hold the line alone, while fending off frostbite and hunger. An overwhelmed Medic Eugene Roe, on edge and close to combat exhaustion, finds friendship with a Belgian nurse. Easy spends a miserable Christmas in the trenches, but is buoyed after hearing news that General McAuliffe met the German Army's demand for surrender with the defiant answer: "Nuts!"
Part 7 - The Breaking Point (10/14/01): Having thwarted the Germans at Bastogne, Belgium, an exhausted Easy Company must now take the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Several are killed and wounded in fierce shelling, compounded by the incompetence of their new commander, Lt. Dike, about whom Winters can do nothing. Easy takes Foy, but at an enormous cost.
Part 8 - The Last Patrol (10/21/01): Easy Company arrives in an Alsacian town near the German border, and is ordered to send a patrol across the river to take enemy prisoners. Lt. Hank Jones, fresh from West Point and eager for combat experience, volunteers to lead, though he must convince a skeptical Winters. Also assigned to the patrol is Pvt. David Webster, back in Easy after rehabilitation of an injury. While successful, the mission costs a soldier's life.
Part 9 - Why We Fight (10/28/01): Easy Company finally enters Germany to surprisingly little resistance, and relaxes for the first time in months. A patrol in a nearby forest discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp, still filled with emaciated prisoners. The local citizenry, unbelievably disavowing knowledge of its existence, is made to clean it up. Suddenly, news arrives from Berlin--Adolf Hitler committed suicide!
Part 10 - Points (11/04/01): Major Winters leads Easy Company into the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden--once home to top Nazi officers--and receives orders to take the abandoned Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop fortress. As German officers hand over their weapons, soldiers raid wine cellars and snap up souvenirs. But their elation is short-lived--most of the division faces redeployment to the Pacific Theater. A closing vignette tells what happened to the men of Easy Company after they returned home.
We Stand Alone Together: This documentary, executive-produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, tells the remarkable story of the men of Easy Company featuring recent interviews with the real-life company members, whose deeds are dramatized in the miniseries, combined with rare and archival photographs and film footage.
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Performance Details: Beauty And Death
Project type: Radio recording
Synopsis: This radio production was part of the charitable organization Scene & Heard's Generation Next project. Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London, with volunteer theatre professionals, providing each child who participates with quality one-on-one adult attention and an experience of personal success through the process of writing and performing plays. With each of the Next Generation plays, the young playwrights were asked to create dramas comparing Britain with their families' countries of origin. The rules: The plays could include no more than two characters, and neither character could be human. In Beauty And Death, Mashuda Sweaty, a sunset, cares greatly about the people of Bangladesh and considers them all her friends. The arrow Anger Cruel, meanwhile, seeks a quiet world without people. He thinks that the world would be a better, more peaceful place without people. He trains his arrow friends to fight and kill.
Chronology: Probably recorded in the autumn of 2006. Presented on BBC World Service Radio's programme Outlook on December 4, 2006, as the first of five short radio dramas (each written by a London youth between the ages of 10 and 12) presented throughout the week (December 4-8, 2006).
Principal Cast & Crew: Damian Lewis as Anger Cruel; Nina Wadia as Mashuda Sweaty; Written by Promi Chowdhury, age 11; Directed by Marion Nancarrow.
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Mashuda Sweaty is a beautiful sunset shining over Bangladesh. When the arrow Anger Cruel encounters her, he is instantly attracted and begins to fall in love with her. However, she despises him for training his arrows to kill. He explains that he does this because he hates the noise that people create in the world. But Mashuda, who loves people, understands why there is noise and welcomes it as part of what makes people special.
Anger orders his arrows to kill the people of Bangladesh and initiates plans to kill all of the people of the world. The attack takes place, and before long, no living people remain in Bangladesh. Mashuda mourns their deaths and shines brightly in their honour. Meanwhile, Anger revels in the quiet. He pursues Mashuda romantically, mesmerised by her beauty. She rejects him and tells him of the beauty of the people he has now had killed. He claims that Bangladesh is now a place of peace, but Mashuda says it is now not a place of peace, but of loneliness. Anger feels remorse and apologises.
Suddenly, thunder comes and strikes Mashuda, threatening to kill her. Anger orders his arrows to kill the thunder and save Mashuda the sunset's life. She is saved and thanks him. He again attempts his romantic pursuit of her. She again rejects him, and he threatens her by saying the thunder may return. She continues to reject his advances, and he ultimately orders his arrows to kill her. Mashuda dies. Anger is remorseful over what he has done and is ashamed that he is innately evil and cannot change. He mourns for her, and he declares that she will remain beautiful forever.
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Performance Details: Beyond Frankenstein: Josephine Hart Presents Romantic Poetry
Project type: Poetry reading
Synopsis: Since January 2004, Josephine Hart has been hosting The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at monthly readings at the British Library in London. Josephine Hart devotes each evening to one or two poets, introducing and setting their poems in context. As she puts it, "An understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense." The readings by some of our finest actors then ignite the poems. The aim of the poetry hour is to reach a wide audience, namely schoolchildren who may not have been exposed to poetry in the best way. Josephine Hart hopes that by "guiding the reader through the poems in relationship to the poet's life, I hope to help people read the poetry again -- or to read them for the first time." The relevance of poetry to the world today is huge, it can provide one "with a route map through the world and its worldliness. ... Without poetry I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable, and infinitely less enjoyable." All proceeds net of costs go to the Actor's Centre, a unique space in the heart of London where those who practice the craft of acting can strive for excellence.
Chronology: This poetry reading, featuring the works of Shelley, Byron and their Romantic contemporaries, celebrating the great romantic-gothic world of Frankenstein, took place at the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre in London on April 15, 2011. This poetry reading was part of the National Theatre's Beyond Frankenstein platform, coordinated with the stage play Frankenstein, in production at the Olivier Theatre during the same period. Poems read by Damian at the event included La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats; Adonais: An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats, The Mask Of Anarchy and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Don Juan and So We'll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron (George Gordon).
Principal Cast & Crew: Damian Lewis as Reader; Dan Stevens as Reader; Harriet Walter as Reader; Presented and Introduced by Josephine Hart.
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Performance Details: Blue Peter: Laurel & Hardy
Project type: Television series episode
Synopsis: The children's television programme Blue Peter has been shown on BBC televlsion in the UK since 1958. (The programme is named for the familiar blue and white flag ships display while on sea voyages.) This episode features guest Damian taking part in a recreation of the famous comedic wallpaper sketch originally performed by Laurel & Hardy. The slapstick farce routine centers on two men attempting to decorate a room with wallpaper, despite having no experience and ample clumsiness.
Chronology: Probably recorded in early November 2002. Presented on BBC television on November 11, 2002.
Principal Cast & Crew: Matt Baker as _____; Peter Duncan as _____; Damian Lewis as _____; Directed by James Morgan.
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Performance Details: Bolivia For Sale
Project type: Television documentary film
Synopsis: Since the 1980s, Bolivia has followed the free-trade model commonly known as the Washington Consensus. Simply put, this means privatizing all state-owned enterprise, and opening up domestic markets to international investment and competition. Although privatization has worked well in some regions of the world, it has led to adverse results in other places, such as Bolivia. Damian Lewis visited Bolivia on behalf of Christian Aid in November 2005 to explore for himself the conditions of this poverty-stricken country, meet with some key people and gather information.
Chronology: Filmed in during the week of November 14, 2005, on location in Bolivia. Presented as part of Fairtrade Fortnight on the Community Channel in the UK, March 9-16, 2006.
Principal Cast & Crew: Maxima Cari as Herself; Diego as Himself; Javier Gomez as Himself; Damian Lewis as Himself (Presenter/Narrator); Abrahim Mamani as Himself; Gabriel Mamani as Himself; Carlos Rojas as Himself; Pablo Solon as Himself; Directed by Dylan Howitt.
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Performance Details: Born To Learn
Project type: Animated documentary short film
Synopsis: Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries being made about how humans learn. The series of animated short films is a project from the 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transnational movement committed to development of learning systems that apply and extend our growing knowledge of the learning process and are suited to current and future technological, social and economic conditions.
Chronology: In production January through early March, 2011. Narration recorded March 1, 2011. Presented online in early March 2011.
Principal Cast & Crew: Damian Lewis as Narrator; Written by Caroline Wijetunge; Storyboarding by Phil Parker; Compositing by Paul Hill; Animated by Jane Davies and Rob _____.
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Performance Details: Born To Learn: Class Reunion
Project type: Animated documentary short film
Synopsis: Born To Learn: Class Reunion is the second animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries being made about how humans learn. The series of animated short films is a project from the 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transnational movement committed to development of learning systems that apply and extend our growing knowledge of the learning process and are suited to current and future technological, social and economic conditions. Born To Learn: Class Reunion centers on a conversation between two friends: One is a man (voiced by Damian Lewis) who had dropped out of school at 15 and whose grandfather turned up with an old Harley Davidson motorcycle, and he is telling the story of that day to his friend, who happens to be a cognitive scientist. The video unpacks very neatly the significance of Confucius’s explanation that essentially it is only when you take the responsibility of having to do something for yourself that you really start to learn: "Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Let me do, and I understand."
Chronology: In production during spring/summer 2011. Narration recorded spring/early summer 2011. Presented online beginning July 5, 2011.
Principal Cast & Crew: Alex Kelly as Jeanne (Female Classmate); Damian Lewis as Male Classmate / Grandfather; Written by Caroline Wijetunge; Storyboarding by David _____; Animated by Dan _____, Oliver _____ and Rob_____; Directed by Jane Davies.
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Performance Details: Brides
Project type: Cinematic film
Synopsis: In 1922, a mail-order bride, one of 700 aboard the S.S. King Alexander, and an American photographer fall in love. However, she is bound for her new husband in America, and he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
Chronology: In production approximately from May 2003 through probably sometime during the summer of 2003. Released in cinemas in Greece on October 22, 2004; Australia on September 29, 2005; South Africa on August 12, 2005; and Turkey on October 14, 2005. Released on region 2 DVD in Greece on April 4, 2005, and on Region 4 DVD in Australia on July 12, 2006. Presented on television (network unknown) in Hungary on December 3, 2006.
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Principal Cast & Crew: Steven Berkoff as Karaboulat; Victoria Haralabidou as Niki Douka; Andréa Ferréol as Emine; Irene Iglessi as Miss Kardaki; Dimitris Katalifos as Captain; Liza Kouznetsova as Olga; Damian Lewis as Norman Harris; Yorgos Markis as Prodromos; Evelina Papoulia as Marion; Eleni Roussinou as Elena; Evi Saoulidou as Haro; Kostas Somar as Kostas; Apostolis Totsikas as Nikolai; Written by Ioanna Karystiani; Directed by Pantelis Voulgaris.
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It is the summer of 1922 in Samothrace, Greece. Niki Douka, an austerely beautiful twenty-five year-old seamstress, is preparing for a voyage to America. Rather than lose a good bridegroom, her family has unanimously decided to send her to Chicago as a replacement for her sister, Eleni. Eleni has returned because she was unable to bear living so far from home, despite the fact that the prospective husband -- Prodromos, a tailor by profession - treated her with kindness. So, with the unused wedding dress her sister would have worn and the photograph of the bridegroom in her luggage, Niki leaves for the New World.
Meanwhile, in Turkey, Norman Harris, a disillusioned American photographer, is on the last leg of his unsuccessful trip through Asia Minor and the Orient. The American newspapers with whom he works have turned down his photographs of the war he was covering, and he is headed back to the States and his crumbling marriage.
Norman and Niki are sailing on the same ship, the S.S. King Alexander. He travels in first class. She is in third class, along with 700 other mail-order brides, most of them Greek, but with a number of Rumanian, Turkish and Russian girls. Each of them carries the photograph of a bridegroom she has never met, and a cheap bridal gown in her small trunk.
Norman is moved at the sight of the swarm of women in third class. The melancholy, the honest faces uncertain about the future and the sparks of hope drive him to the ship's Captain requesting permission to create their portraits. Of all of the brides, Niki is the one who makes the greatest impression on him. Gradually they get to know each other and fall in love.
As the ship makes its way across the sea, the stories of Haro, the strikingly beautiful girl from Thrace with the oud; Captain Marinos, the shrewd seaman; Nikolai, the teen-aged steward; Olga, the angelic young Russian; Emine, the famous businesswoman and fortuneteller; and Karaboulat, the despicable pimp, are woven into the tale of the growing love between Niki and Norman.
One night, as the ship nears America, Haro, who was forced to leave behind her beloved in order to marry a Greek immigrant in Canada, kills herself. Her death serves as the catalyst prompting Norman to confess his love for Niki who, torn between her love for Norman and her duty to her family, awakens the next morning with her hair having turned completely white.
The S.S. King Alexander sails into New York Harbor. Waiting on the docks are the expectant and impatient bridegrooms hundreds of Greek and Balkan men, including Prodromos. Niki must choose her life's course.
Brides is a story about strong emotions, about dilemmas, about conscience, about a responsible attitude. It is about the little moments, the glances, the touches, the "yeses" an the "nos" that count in life.
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