The royal family gathered on Easter Sunday to attend a church service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.
Not only is this the first Easter since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Easter service comes on the date of a somber anniversary for the royals, marking the second anniversary of the death of Prince Philip, who passed away at age 99 on April 9, 2021.
Read More: How The Royal Family Is Marking Their First Easter Without Queen Elizabeth
King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort, led the procession to the chapel, followed by Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and wife Duchess Sophie.
Photo by Yui Mok/Pool/Afp via Getty Images
Prince William and Princess Kate were also in attendance, accompanied by children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, with both parents and each of the children greeting the priest with a handshake.
Photo by Yui Mok/Pool/Afp...
Not only is this the first Easter since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Easter service comes on the date of a somber anniversary for the royals, marking the second anniversary of the death of Prince Philip, who passed away at age 99 on April 9, 2021.
Read More: How The Royal Family Is Marking Their First Easter Without Queen Elizabeth
King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort, led the procession to the chapel, followed by Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and wife Duchess Sophie.
Photo by Yui Mok/Pool/Afp via Getty Images
Prince William and Princess Kate were also in attendance, accompanied by children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, with both parents and each of the children greeting the priest with a handshake.
Photo by Yui Mok/Pool/Afp...
- 4/9/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Dame Emma Thompson has passionately advocated for intimacy coordinators on set – putting her at odds with fellow acting grandee Sir Ian McKellen.
Earlier this week, Sir Ian claimed that coordinators ruined the “purity” on set. But Dame Emma said the roles were “absolutely essential” for young women on sets that were dominated by men.
Speaking to Andrew Marr on Lbc, Dame Emma, 63, said: “I think if you’re a young woman on a set, which is largely peopled by men, the crew will be 90 per cent men and the women won’t be on the set with you, because generally speaking we do not have parity on any level on film sets. It’s all men.”
She continued: “And that’s a very uncomfortable position for a young woman who’s starting in the industry. It is absolutely essential that there is someone there to protect them. Absolutely essential.
“You...
Earlier this week, Sir Ian claimed that coordinators ruined the “purity” on set. But Dame Emma said the roles were “absolutely essential” for young women on sets that were dominated by men.
Speaking to Andrew Marr on Lbc, Dame Emma, 63, said: “I think if you’re a young woman on a set, which is largely peopled by men, the crew will be 90 per cent men and the women won’t be on the set with you, because generally speaking we do not have parity on any level on film sets. It’s all men.”
She continued: “And that’s a very uncomfortable position for a young woman who’s starting in the industry. It is absolutely essential that there is someone there to protect them. Absolutely essential.
“You...
- 2/10/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
Dev Patel works his subtle magic in David Lowery’s enthralling take on the medieval tale of the questing Gawain
What a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is. An ambitious adaptation of the chivalric poem about the adventures of an Arthurian knight, written in Middle English by an unknown author (and most famously translated in the 21st century by Simon Armitage), The Green Knight is the best work yet from David Lowery, director of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and A Ghost Story. Capitalising on leading man Dev Patel’s uncanny ability to embody a combination of weakness and strength, wretchedness and valour, Lowery’s haunting epic takes the viewer on a mythical quest, replete with flaming heads and eerie giants, that condenses the emotional weight of Peter Jackson’s entire Lord of the Rings trilogy into just over two hours of dense screen magic.
It’s Christmas Day at the Round Table,...
What a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is. An ambitious adaptation of the chivalric poem about the adventures of an Arthurian knight, written in Middle English by an unknown author (and most famously translated in the 21st century by Simon Armitage), The Green Knight is the best work yet from David Lowery, director of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and A Ghost Story. Capitalising on leading man Dev Patel’s uncanny ability to embody a combination of weakness and strength, wretchedness and valour, Lowery’s haunting epic takes the viewer on a mythical quest, replete with flaming heads and eerie giants, that condenses the emotional weight of Peter Jackson’s entire Lord of the Rings trilogy into just over two hours of dense screen magic.
It’s Christmas Day at the Round Table,...
- 9/26/2021
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced its competition contenders alongside its full program.
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
- 5/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has announced its Remembrance Week 2014 television schedule.
Five-part drama The Passing Bells will air on BBC One, and follows the First World War unfolding through the eyes of two ordinary young men. The series was written by Tony Jordan (Life on Mars).
A Countryfile special explores Word War I's lasting impact on the landscape of the Western Front, as an Antiques Roadshow special follows Fiona Bruce and experts meeting families with stories of wartime history.
The People Remember will see Sophie Raworth and Andy Torbet honour heroes of war through surprise reunions, stories of bravery and special guests including Chris Tarrant and Michael Morpurgo.
On Saturday, November 8, Huw Edwards will present The Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance, which, in the presence of The Queen, the Royal Family, and political and military leaders, pays tribute to victims of war.
BBC Two will share stories from Britain's boy soldiers in Teenage Tommies,...
Five-part drama The Passing Bells will air on BBC One, and follows the First World War unfolding through the eyes of two ordinary young men. The series was written by Tony Jordan (Life on Mars).
A Countryfile special explores Word War I's lasting impact on the landscape of the Western Front, as an Antiques Roadshow special follows Fiona Bruce and experts meeting families with stories of wartime history.
The People Remember will see Sophie Raworth and Andy Torbet honour heroes of war through surprise reunions, stories of bravery and special guests including Chris Tarrant and Michael Morpurgo.
On Saturday, November 8, Huw Edwards will present The Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance, which, in the presence of The Queen, the Royal Family, and political and military leaders, pays tribute to victims of war.
BBC Two will share stories from Britain's boy soldiers in Teenage Tommies,...
- 10/27/2014
- Digital Spy
London, Feb 12: British supermodel-turned-actress Lily Cole will be making her full fledged theatre debut as Helen of Troy in poet Simon Armitage's theatrical reworking of 'The Iliad'.
The 26-year-old beauty will star in Armitage's play 'The Last Days of Troy' in Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre and in London's Shakespeare's Globe on 8 May and 10 June respectively, the BBC reported.
'The Moth Diaries' star will play "the world's most beautiful woman" in the "visceral reworking" of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War. (Ani)...
The 26-year-old beauty will star in Armitage's play 'The Last Days of Troy' in Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre and in London's Shakespeare's Globe on 8 May and 10 June respectively, the BBC reported.
'The Moth Diaries' star will play "the world's most beautiful woman" in the "visceral reworking" of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War. (Ani)...
- 2/12/2014
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Angelina Jolie takes on Sleeping Beauty while Terry Gilliam tackles Berlioz as the stars come out to confound our expectations in the coming year
Film
Angelina Jolie in Maleficent
Hollywood's most formidable leading lady is back after a relatively quiet spell, in a role playing on her scariness and seniority. This reinvented fairytale is a twist on The Sleeping Beauty, and Jolie is not playing the insipid dormant heroine with her crybaby attitude to finger-pricking but the evilly magnificent Maleficent, the sorceress who casts a spell on the demure young Princess Aurora. How did she get that way? Everything will depend on the script – but Jolie is always a great turn. Peter Bradshaw 30 May.
Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun
Natalie Portman is a Hollywood A-lister who first came to prominence in George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy. She was compellingly vulnerable in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan,...
Film
Angelina Jolie in Maleficent
Hollywood's most formidable leading lady is back after a relatively quiet spell, in a role playing on her scariness and seniority. This reinvented fairytale is a twist on The Sleeping Beauty, and Jolie is not playing the insipid dormant heroine with her crybaby attitude to finger-pricking but the evilly magnificent Maleficent, the sorceress who casts a spell on the demure young Princess Aurora. How did she get that way? Everything will depend on the script – but Jolie is always a great turn. Peter Bradshaw 30 May.
Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun
Natalie Portman is a Hollywood A-lister who first came to prominence in George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy. She was compellingly vulnerable in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan,...
- 1/1/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw, Tim Jonze, Sean O'Hagan, Mark Lawson, Andrew Dickson, Lyn Gardner, Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Tom Service, Andrew Clements
- The Guardian - Film News
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Just when we had imagined Kate Middleton couldn’t feel worse, between the constantly vomiting and the tragic suicide of the nurse pranked by those Australian DJs attempting to contact Middleton, Morrissey steps in to rake her over the coals. Yes, the singer Morrissey. Why? Aw, it’s sweet you still think these things have to have a why. “It wasn’t because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life — it was the pressure around her,” the singer told New Zealand’s 3News, declaring that Kate “feels no shame about the death of this woman. She’s saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is absolutely staggering.” Whaaaaaa?
If that wasn’t harsh enough, Moz also accused Kate of having an eating disorder. “Does she have a health condition?” he mused. “Is it anorexia or is it pregnancy?...
If that wasn’t harsh enough, Moz also accused Kate of having an eating disorder. “Does she have a health condition?” he mused. “Is it anorexia or is it pregnancy?...
- 12/12/2012
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony may turn a little darker after evoking Blake's 'green and pleasant land', but writers have found poetry in progress ever since the industrial revolution
With the contents of the opening ceremony shrouded in mystery for a few hours yet, the signs are that Danny Boyle will follow imagery inspired by William Blake's "green and pleasant Land" with a vision of "dark Satanic Mills" – much to the horror of the Daily Mail.
But from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution some writers have found light in all this darkness, breathlessly hailing the sublime aspects of awe-inspiring infernos and discerning triumphant signs of progress and prosperity.
John Dyer's poem The Fleece (1757) describes in exhaustive detail every aspect of the textile industry over four hopelessly heroic volumes, and the work was one of the earliest literary descriptions of the Industrial Revolution. William Wordsworth later explained...
With the contents of the opening ceremony shrouded in mystery for a few hours yet, the signs are that Danny Boyle will follow imagery inspired by William Blake's "green and pleasant Land" with a vision of "dark Satanic Mills" – much to the horror of the Daily Mail.
But from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution some writers have found light in all this darkness, breathlessly hailing the sublime aspects of awe-inspiring infernos and discerning triumphant signs of progress and prosperity.
John Dyer's poem The Fleece (1757) describes in exhaustive detail every aspect of the textile industry over four hopelessly heroic volumes, and the work was one of the earliest literary descriptions of the Industrial Revolution. William Wordsworth later explained...
- 7/27/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
The Culture Show | Rostropovich – The Genius Of The Cello | Autumnwatch 2011 | Criminal Minds | A League Of Their Own | Chris Addison: My Funniest Year
The Culture Show
7pm, BBC2
Another week, another eclectic collection of reports from the arts show, which this week visits Glasgow. Top of the bill is host Andrew Graham-Dixon interviewing Grayson Perry, who's lately curated an installation of new works mixed up with objects drawn from the British Museum collection. Mark Kermode discusses We Need To Talk About Kevin with its director Lynne Ramsay, Simon Armitage celebrates National Poetry Day, and critic Michael Collins considers representations of working-class characters in the theatre. Plus, choreographer Akram Khan and the work of artist Gerhard Richter. Jonathan Wright
Rostropovich – The Genius Of The Cello
7.30pm, BBC4
The cello is the closest orchestral instrument to the human voice in its range of expression. It has achieved a pre-eminence in the classical repertoire,...
The Culture Show
7pm, BBC2
Another week, another eclectic collection of reports from the arts show, which this week visits Glasgow. Top of the bill is host Andrew Graham-Dixon interviewing Grayson Perry, who's lately curated an installation of new works mixed up with objects drawn from the British Museum collection. Mark Kermode discusses We Need To Talk About Kevin with its director Lynne Ramsay, Simon Armitage celebrates National Poetry Day, and critic Michael Collins considers representations of working-class characters in the theatre. Plus, choreographer Akram Khan and the work of artist Gerhard Richter. Jonathan Wright
Rostropovich – The Genius Of The Cello
7.30pm, BBC4
The cello is the closest orchestral instrument to the human voice in its range of expression. It has achieved a pre-eminence in the classical repertoire,...
- 10/7/2011
- by Jonathan Wright, David Stubbs, John Robinson, Martin Skegg
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome to our pick of audio highlights from 2010, presented by Pascal Wyse.
Hopefully there is something for everyone here: poetry from Simon Armitage, World Cup fury from Football Weekly, music from Orbital, a man with a lampshade for a head and a guided walk along the Thames with Ian Sinclair.
You can listen to the original podcasts these clips were taken from via the links below.
Thanks for listening – and Happy New Year.
Tech Weekly
The Books That Made Me
Media Talk
Music Weekly
Football Weekly
Election Daily
The Bike Podcast
The Business Podcast
Audio walks
Haycast
Science Weekly
Film Weekly
Pascal Wyse...
Hopefully there is something for everyone here: poetry from Simon Armitage, World Cup fury from Football Weekly, music from Orbital, a man with a lampshade for a head and a guided walk along the Thames with Ian Sinclair.
You can listen to the original podcasts these clips were taken from via the links below.
Thanks for listening – and Happy New Year.
Tech Weekly
The Books That Made Me
Media Talk
Music Weekly
Football Weekly
Election Daily
The Bike Podcast
The Business Podcast
Audio walks
Haycast
Science Weekly
Film Weekly
Pascal Wyse...
- 12/31/2010
- by Pascal Wyse
- The Guardian - Film News
The chestnuts won't just be roasting on an open fire at this time of year; they'll also be coming to a screen near you. Christmas movies are a time-honoured tradition of saccharine family values and simulated bonhomie but, having realised that most people get enough of this at home, the smarter cinemas are at last offering alternatives.
The chestnut of choice this year is Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, which, despite its icing sugar of schmaltz, could strike a chord with its themes of relinquished ambitions and financial hardship. The film is the centrepiece of the BFI Southbank's Rediscovering Frank Capra season (SE1, to 30 Dec, bfi.org.uk), and joining it in many places is another Jimmy Stewart festive classic, Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner.
In a similar vein, the Christmas seasons at the Glasgow Film Theatre (to 24 Dec, gft.org.uk) and Edinburgh Filmhouse (Sat to 24 Dec,...
The chestnut of choice this year is Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, which, despite its icing sugar of schmaltz, could strike a chord with its themes of relinquished ambitions and financial hardship. The film is the centrepiece of the BFI Southbank's Rediscovering Frank Capra season (SE1, to 30 Dec, bfi.org.uk), and joining it in many places is another Jimmy Stewart festive classic, Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner.
In a similar vein, the Christmas seasons at the Glasgow Film Theatre (to 24 Dec, gft.org.uk) and Edinburgh Filmhouse (Sat to 24 Dec,...
- 12/11/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Singer and songwriter Morrissey described the people of China as a subspecies because of the way they treat animals, and he is is standing by his remarks. The outspoken former Smiths frontman, a longtime vegetarian and animal rights advocate, told the Guardian Weekend magazine: "Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies." The interview was done by poet Simon Armitage, who told the Guardian: "I thought at the time it was a dangerous thing to say into a tape recorder. He must have known it would make waves, he's not daft. But he's provocative and theatrical, and it was one of dozens of dramatic pronouncements. I'm not an apologist for that kind of remark, and couldn't ignore it. But clearly, when...
- 9/7/2010
- by Katy Hall
- Huffington Post
Morrissey has described the Chinese people as "a subspecies". The ex-Smiths frontman made the comments while discussing animal rights in an interview with The Guardian at the weekend. Speaking to poet Simon Armitage, Morrissey said: "Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies." Armitage later added: "I thought at the time it was a dangerous thing to say into a tape recorder. He must have known it would make waves, he's not daft. "But he's provocative and theatrical, and it was one of dozens of dramatic pronouncements. I'm not an apologist for that kind of remark, and couldn't ignore it. "But clearly, when it comes to animal rights and animal welfare, he's absolutely unshakable in (more)...
- 9/6/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
London, Sep 04 – Morrissey has been criticized for calling Chinese people as a “subspecies” because of their treatment of animals.
The controversial singer, a well-known vegetarian and animal rights campaigner, said the treatment of Chinese circus animals was “absolutely horrific”.
“Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies,” he told poet Simon Armitage in an interview in Guardian Weekend magazine.
A spokesman for campaign.
The controversial singer, a well-known vegetarian and animal rights campaigner, said the treatment of Chinese circus animals was “absolutely horrific”.
“Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies,” he told poet Simon Armitage in an interview in Guardian Weekend magazine.
A spokesman for campaign.
- 9/4/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Our daily Haycasts - podcasts from the festival site - were the highlight of our coverage of last year's Guardian Hay festival. This year, we're heading back to Wales to bring you more of the same - but this time we'd like to hear your questions for the authors we're interviewing
Here's our full list of interviewees:
Joss Ackland
Simon Armitage
Antony Beevor
Helen Dunmore
Ranulph Fiennes
Rick Gekoski
Roy Hattersley
Charlie Higson
Peter Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Kazuo Ishiguro
James Lovelock
Henning Mankell
David Mitchell
Ben Okri
Yotam Ottolenghi
Mal Peet
Kjartan Poskitt
David Remnick
Sue Townsend
Robert Winston
Once we're at the festival, we'll blog and tweet every morning asking for your questions for the authors we're speaking to on the day day, but if you can't wait until then, please email your questions to books.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk. We hope to include one audience question per interview,...
Here's our full list of interviewees:
Joss Ackland
Simon Armitage
Antony Beevor
Helen Dunmore
Ranulph Fiennes
Rick Gekoski
Roy Hattersley
Charlie Higson
Peter Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Kazuo Ishiguro
James Lovelock
Henning Mankell
David Mitchell
Ben Okri
Yotam Ottolenghi
Mal Peet
Kjartan Poskitt
David Remnick
Sue Townsend
Robert Winston
Once we're at the festival, we'll blog and tweet every morning asking for your questions for the authors we're speaking to on the day day, but if you can't wait until then, please email your questions to books.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk. We hope to include one audience question per interview,...
- 5/21/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Planet Earth is suffering. From deforestation in Africa and strip mining in Appalachia, to those simply too lazy to recycle empty soda bottles, businesses and individuals are constantly wasting precious natural resources and polluting the air with carbon dioxide and other emissions. Fortunately, there are people trying to do something about it. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, reading poetry written by Simon Armitage, the documentary Climate of Changespans four continents following people not only trying to reduce their own effect on our climate, but lead movements to stop the destruction that is going on around them. With the central theme of education and personal effort, there is a great amount of hope that the tide can be turned. The message just needs to be delivered. The scope of this film is simply spectacular, and it.s hard to imagine that it took less than a few years to create (in actuality,...
- 4/26/2010
- cinemablend.com
A new interview with Daniel Radcliffe is to be featured in the Guardian Weekend magazine. A preview (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/03/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-art) is now online, with quotes about his art collection and how not to get recognised in public. ---Quote--- Radcliffe considered celebrating his legal majority when he turned 18 in July 2007 by buying a sensible car like a Toyota Prius or a Golf Gti. Instead he decided to invest in art, falling for a blue ink drawing on white paper, called Mona D, Mary and Me, by the New York-based conceptual artist Jim Hodges. "The dealer said they wanted to sell it to a more prestigious collector and Jim got word of this," Radcliffe said. "Turns out he's a massive Harry Potter fan and insisted they sell it to me. "Ever since then I've been really good friends with Jim and his best mate, Tim, a photographer.
- 7/3/2009
- by EmmaRiddle
- Snitchseeker.com
Britain's Queen Elizabeth is under pressure to appoint the first female poet laureate. Yorkshire man Simon Armitage is believed to be the favourite to succeed current royal wordsmith Andrew Motion but palace officials are reportedly hoping to appoint a woman. Carol Ann Duffy - widely regarded as the most accessible living poet - is another popular choice, despite the 55-year-old's alleged reservations about performing royal duties. A spokesperson for bookmakers William Hill said: "As far as the betting is concerned, we cannot split these two - but they are well clear of the rest of the runners as far as our poetic punters are concerned. "Duffy would become the first female to hold the role while Armitage is reportedly the...
- 3/24/2009
- Monsters and Critics
The New York Times named their 100 notable books of the year today and the genre, as one might expect, was likely under-represented. Graphic novels were entirely ignored and just four works of fiction could be considered within out genre and they are:
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. (Viking, $25.95.) A supernatural call girl narrates Pelevin’s satirical allegory of post-Soviet, post-9/11 Russia.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. By Simon Armitage. (Norton, $25.95.) One of the eerie, exuberant joys of Middle English poetry, in an alliterative rendering that captures the original’s drive, dialect and landscape.
2666. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.) The five autonomous sections of this posthumously published novel interlock to form an astonishing whole, a supreme capstone to Bolaño’s vaulting ambition.
The Widows of Eastwick. By John Updike. (Knopf,...
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. (Viking, $25.95.) A supernatural call girl narrates Pelevin’s satirical allegory of post-Soviet, post-9/11 Russia.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. By Simon Armitage. (Norton, $25.95.) One of the eerie, exuberant joys of Middle English poetry, in an alliterative rendering that captures the original’s drive, dialect and landscape.
2666. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.) The five autonomous sections of this posthumously published novel interlock to form an astonishing whole, a supreme capstone to Bolaño’s vaulting ambition.
The Widows of Eastwick. By John Updike. (Knopf,...
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