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23 June 2008
Suchet to open Narrowboat Rally & Canal Festival 28 - 29 June 2008...
According to Northampton Chronicle Suchet is to open the Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally & Canal Festival 2008 at the Braunston Marina in Northampton.
“TV actor to open narrowboat rally
David Suchet, the television actor of Poirot fame, will officially open the 2008 Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally in his capacity as a canal enthusiast and vice-president of the Inland Waterways Association.
Organisers are hoping to attract more than the 80 historic working narrowboats they had in 2007.
Mr Suchet will open the festival from the stern of Braunston's most important historic narrowboat, Raymond, which was built 50 years ago at Braunston Marina and was recently restored by the Friends of Raymond Volunteers.
All historic Braunston and Grand Union narrowboats will be moored in the old Oxford Arm in the marina and will participate in the daily parades.
Following its first appearance in 2005, there will also be an exhibition of the Members of the Guild of Waterway Artists, featuring 10 well-known canal artists.
There will also be a beer tent and on Saturday evening at 5pm, the canal touring Mikron Theatre Company will perform a new play. Admission costs £10 per car in aid of canal and local causes, the main recipient being the canal charity, Friends of Raymond” Northampton Chronicle
24 May 2008 updated 29 May
Dr No...
Let me remind you of the anniversary of Ian Fleming’s 100th birthday. Well, he’s dead now, but if he had lived, he would have been 100 years around this time. For that occasion Radio 4 has adapted his 6th Bond novel (the first to be filmed with legendary Sean Connery) into a radio play with Suchet performing Dr No, airing today on Radio 4 in UK - but the rest of us get a chance to listen too, so stay tuned at 2:30 pm (Greenwich time). If you can't make it then, you have the next seven days to listen to Dr No
Dr No on Radio 4 - Don't let the beginning of the programme confuse you - the play starts after a couple of minutes; if you can't wait, you can use the forward button.
Toby Stephens now and then sounds a bit like Roger Moore, and Suchet's Dr No will give you the chill with his crazed, creepy voice. Love this - Dr No explains how he got his name, Julius No: "I took the Julius after my father and the No after my rejection of him."
The Bank Job will be released on DVD 30 June 2008 in UK and is available for pre-orders on amazon.co.uk
On this day 62 years ago a star was born...
Hugh Whitemore’s radio dramatisation of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel from 1958, Dr. No, in which Suchet plays the title role, will air Saturday 24 May on BBC Radio 4. The radio adaptation is part of a season of Radio 4 programmes about Ian Fleming, marking the 100th anniversary of his birth. The programmes include a documentary, The Bond Correspondence, following Fleming's niece Lucy on a journey to find out more about her uncle and James Bond.
Dr. No on radio is directed by Martin Jarvis, and Toby Stephens, who played villain Gustav Graves in the 007 film Die Another Day, plays James Bond.
GenerationRX - a new documentary narrated by Suchet...
I’m not quite sure whether this is a film for TV or a release on DVD (or both). It's a documentary about the large amounts of psychiatric medication we feed our - sometimes healthy - children with in the Western world and what it can lead to. Scheduled to be released in the Summer of 2008.
GenerationRX by Kevin P Miller - sorry, wrong link I put up earlier, I was in a bit of a hurry, but it should be working now. If not you can read a little about the documentary here and there's also a link to a video clip.
Ten reasons to love Hercule...
You’re gonna love this video!
Flood in which Suchet plays Deputy Prime Minister, airs on ITV1 (UK) Sunday 4 May (part one) at 8:05 pm.
Suchet’s birthday is coming up...
He will be 62 the 2 May - so if you want to send him a birthday greeting, you might do that now, because it will probably take around 10-14 days to reach him. His agent’s office will forward your cards and letters - the latest valid address I know of is:
David Suchet
c/o Ken McReddie Associates Ltd.
36-40 Glasshouse Street
London W1B 5DL
UK
17 April 2008
No Poirot this summer on PBS...
It seems the schedule for airing the two latest Poirot episodes, Mrs. McGinty’s Dead and Cat among the Pigeons, this summer on PBS in the US has been changed. The announcement of the episodes has been removed from the Masterpiece Mystery site and according to a poster on Imdb, who wrote and asked Masterpiece, they will air next summer instead.
As for the shooting of the next two episodes, Third Girl and Appointment with Death, there is zip, zero, nada, nothing, no news out there coming my way whether they have started shooting - there hasn’t been any news for a month or so on Suchet’s whereabouts at all, sorry.
5 April 2008
Some video clips…
One of Suchet’s latest film projects Act of God. According to Imdb it’s a thriller and still in post production.
Joan Hickson interview on Agatha Christie's 100th Birthday. Miss Marple meets Poirot at the Agatha Christie Centennial Celebrations in Torbay in Devon. With thanks to Diana!
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