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  Samuel West: 'On screen I mostly play evil members of the establishment or Victorian perverts'

  Samuel West: 'On screen I mostly play evil members of the establishment or Victorian perverts'. The actor on his pandemic poetry jukebox, life lessons of the Moomins, the pros and cons of Twitter, and how to reboot regional theatre

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  The Telegraph

  How Peter O'Toole was struck by the curse of Macbeth

  The critic Sheridan Morley once described leaving the Old Vic at the end of its 1980 Macbeth and overhearing two audience members on their way out. “One of them turned to his friend and said: ‘Well all I hope now is that the dog has not been sick in the car.’ I thought that was the best review of that production I’d ever heard.” Starring Peter O’Toole, that Macbeth was the kind of car crash from which few actors’ reputations emerge unscathed. It left audiences clutching their sides with laughter

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  Sheila Hancock: I hid my illness for fear of losing out on work

  In the new series of Great Canal Journeys, Sheila Hancock learns to scull in Henley-on-Thames. There she is with four Amazonian young rowers, heaving oars through the water. For someone born in February 1933, the month the Reichstag burned down, it looks hugely impressive, all the more so when she reveals that for three years she has been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. “Sometimes,” she says, “I can’t move across the room. I’ve hidden the fact because of work, because I wouldn’t get employe

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  Evening Standard

  Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter among actors in Jermyn Street Theatre's Sonnet Project

  A star-studded line-up of actors including Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy West and Jamael Westman have stepped in to support the Jermyn Street Theatre.The pandemic lockdown caused the theatre to lose 95 per cent of its income, and it later suffered flooding after a pipe burst in a neighbouring building destroying the workshop, technical stores, office and dressing rooms.

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  Sky News

  Coronavirus: How the arts sector is getting creative during lockdown

  Actor and director Samuel West is innovating, like many artists are having to at the minute, treading the virtual boards and lending his voice to the nation. "Anything that gives us a way of surviving when we come back."

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  Good Housekeeping UK

  Last Tango in Halifax season 5: What you need to know

  The show is finally coming back!

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  Good Housekeeping UK

  BBC One gives us our first glimpse at Last Tango in Halifax season 4

  The show is finally coming back!

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  Prima

  First look at Nicola Walker and Sarah Lancashire in new Last Tango in Halifax

  The series is coming back next year!

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  Timothy West returns in first look at new series of Last Tango In Halifax

  The actor will reprise his role as Ted.

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  The Guardian

  Great Canal Journeys: how a bittersweet boating show captured viewers' hearts

  One of the greatest love stories on TV seems to be over ... Tim and Pru in Great Canal Journeys. Photograph: Channel 4 Television‘My name’s Timothy West, and this is my wife, Prunella Scales.” Much of the tender magic of Great Canal Journeys is in that proud, robustly jolly, semi-formal introduction, habitually included in the narration as one venerated actor refers to his beloved other. The Channel 4 show – the probable last episode of which was broadcast last night – is one of many travel ser

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