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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch fans go wild for actor’s recording of the last ever Cabin Pressure
RADIO TIMES
Ben Dowell
9:46 PM, 23 February 2014
Ben Dowell is in the audience for Sunday night’s recording of the last ever edition of Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure as Cumberbatch fans bid the show a fond farewell
You don’t normally get these kind of crowds and this kind of hype for a Radio 4 comedy recording.
They are normally sedate and polite affairs where it is usually quite easy to get a free ticket.
Not this time.
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Because even before Benedict Cumberbatch stepped onto the stage at the RADA studios in central London on Sunday night for a recording of the last ever edition of Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure we knew this would be different.
Cumber-fans were waiting outside the venue for hours before the recording - and were there when it was over.
They had already broken a record – for the most ever ticket requests for a single Radio 4 comedy recording ever with 22,854 applications. Other single episodes of popular Radio 4 shows can have up to 17,000 requests but this latest figure is unprecedented.
Such was the demand that the BBC took the unusual step of issuing a random draw to choose which fans will get to see the show.
And fortunately your correspondent was among the lucky few in the audience at London’s RADA studios, an intimate venue with a capacity of just 200 people.
We are not allowed to talk about the episode – it is due to air on Christmas Eve 2014, a good ten months away – so no spoilers. What I can say is that the roar that greeted Cumberbatch when he came on stage - and he winked at the audience - was deafening.
I can also add that the one-off, 45-minute episode marked the end of the popular sitcom which is set in a small airline business and stars Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and writer John Finnemore alongside Cumberbatch. And its many fans will not be disappointed.
Charting the flipside of international air travel, Cole played forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey who bosses around her pilots with all the panache we have come to expect. Allam was fabulous as smooth-talking Douglas and Cumberbatch’s Martin, a struggling semi-competent pilot, provided a masterclass in comic timing.
Guesting in the last episode were a range of top name stars including Anthony Head and Timothy West.
Being the last ever episode it was also an emotional affair but the cast also clearly enjoyed themselves - especially when they made errors. (Cumberbatch, who was sporting burgundy slacks and a grey shirt, made very few, although Stephanie Cole swore mightily when she made a rare slip which brought the house down).
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-23/benedict-cumberbatch-fans-go-wild-for-actors-recording-of-the-last-ever-cabin-pressure
Ben Dowell
9:46 PM, 23 February 2014
Ben Dowell is in the audience for Sunday night’s recording of the last ever edition of Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure as Cumberbatch fans bid the show a fond farewell
You don’t normally get these kind of crowds and this kind of hype for a Radio 4 comedy recording.
They are normally sedate and polite affairs where it is usually quite easy to get a free ticket.
Not this time.
http://lifeofcowie.wordpress.com/tag/john-finnemore/
Because even before Benedict Cumberbatch stepped onto the stage at the RADA studios in central London on Sunday night for a recording of the last ever edition of Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure we knew this would be different.
Cumber-fans were waiting outside the venue for hours before the recording - and were there when it was over.
They had already broken a record – for the most ever ticket requests for a single Radio 4 comedy recording ever with 22,854 applications. Other single episodes of popular Radio 4 shows can have up to 17,000 requests but this latest figure is unprecedented.
Such was the demand that the BBC took the unusual step of issuing a random draw to choose which fans will get to see the show.
And fortunately your correspondent was among the lucky few in the audience at London’s RADA studios, an intimate venue with a capacity of just 200 people.
We are not allowed to talk about the episode – it is due to air on Christmas Eve 2014, a good ten months away – so no spoilers. What I can say is that the roar that greeted Cumberbatch when he came on stage - and he winked at the audience - was deafening.
I can also add that the one-off, 45-minute episode marked the end of the popular sitcom which is set in a small airline business and stars Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and writer John Finnemore alongside Cumberbatch. And its many fans will not be disappointed.
Charting the flipside of international air travel, Cole played forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey who bosses around her pilots with all the panache we have come to expect. Allam was fabulous as smooth-talking Douglas and Cumberbatch’s Martin, a struggling semi-competent pilot, provided a masterclass in comic timing.
Guesting in the last episode were a range of top name stars including Anthony Head and Timothy West.
Being the last ever episode it was also an emotional affair but the cast also clearly enjoyed themselves - especially when they made errors. (Cumberbatch, who was sporting burgundy slacks and a grey shirt, made very few, although Stephanie Cole swore mightily when she made a rare slip which brought the house down).
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-23/benedict-cumberbatch-fans-go-wild-for-actors-recording-of-the-last-ever-cabin-pressure
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy: Neverwhere - BBC Radio
Episode 1 of 6
Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Saturday 16 March 2013
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
LISTEN TO THE PREVIEW HERE
ACCESS BBC RADIO 4 HERE
Friday, November 30, 2012
Benedict Cumberbatch to play angel in star-studded Neil Gaiman fantasy Neverwhere (RADIOTIMES)
The Sherlock star is among a who’s who of cult character actors in the Radio 4 production about the magical world of London Below
Paul Jones
11:42 AM, 29 November 2012
A who's who of sci-fi and fantasy actors is lining up for a new radio version of Neil Gaiman's fantasy Neverwhere.
James McAvoy, star of the X-Men movies, heads up the cast, along with Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and Natalie Dormer, formerly of BBC3’s supernatural drama The Fades and currently filming Game of Thrones.
Homeland’s David Harewood and his fellow Doctor Who alumni Sophie Okonedo and Brenard Cribbins are joined by Anthony Head, star of Merlin and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Saruman (and Dracula) himself, Sir Christopher Lee.
Neverwhere is the tale of businessman Richard Mayhew (McAvoy) whose life is turned upside-down when he comes to the aid of a young woman named Door (Dormer). In helping Door, Richard ceases to exist in his own world – London Above – and is transported to the magical parallel universe that lurks beneath it – London Below, where the capital's landmarks take on new significance.
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