Theatre and film producer Judy Craymer is the unstoppable creator and producer of the globetrotting musical stage play Mamma Mia! and the Hollywood blockbuster movies starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Pierce Brosnan. With the show celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2024 and a third film in the wings, hear Judy talking to Maggie Lee about...
Award-winning actor Victoria Smurfit began her career in the nineties and ranks amongst Ireland’s most talented performers. Best known for her TV roles in Ballykissangel and the gritty police dramas Trial & Retribution and Bloodlands, she has captivated audiences the world over with her roles in Hollywood blockbusters and as the evil Cruella De Vil in the...
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An original and entertaining biographical series in which guests – the very best of British talent from a diverse array of artistic disciplines – talk candidly about how they found their creative calling. Their stories and reminiscences are accompanied by the music tracks that have inspired them along the way. Credits:...
International bestselling author Joanne Harris first appeared on the scene with Chocolat, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.Since then she has written 15 more novels, two novellas , two collections of short stories, and several screenplays. Born in Yorkshire,...
Coming from a family of actors, best-selling children’s writer Michael Morpurgo likes to joke that were it not for a twist of fate he could have been the next George Clooney. One of Britain’s greatest storytellers Michael is best known as the author of War Horse which was...
Home during World War Two for Alan Turing and some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th Century, for decades Bletchley Park was one of Britain’s best-kept intelligence secrets. Dramatized in the movie The Imitation Game, Station X as it was codenamed was a scene of unrelenting human...
Bold, adventurous and caring, The BRIT School – the place where a young Adele Adkins wrote two of her first songs, where Jessica Cornish, aka Jessie J, developed her performance skills, and Tom Holland, aka Peter Parker/Spiderman, honed his acting talent – ranks as one of...
One of the world’s most magnificent collections of books, the Bodleian Library lies at the heart of Oxford University life and is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe. Its captivating and breathtaking spread of buildings offers a spectacular array of old and new architecture, and some of its...
Best-selling author Joanna Trollope, a distant relative of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, is one of Britain’s most successful writers. After studying at Oxford, she worked in the Foreign Office, then became a teacher, and in 1980 turned to writing full time. Few authors write so clearly...