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In the world of sports, this list tips off with NBA standouts like Chris Bosh making a slam dunk in the fame department. But the realm of music isn't left in the silence, with artists like Chris Martin of Coldplay hitting the high notes of notoriety. Football has its own roster of renown with professionals like Chris Doleman. Treading the boards and lighting up screens, actors such as Chris Pratt have become household names, while comedians like Chris Rock ensure the name carries a weight in laughter too.
With a roster so diverse, it's intriguing to note how many individuals named Chris have bounced their way to fame in basketball alone. And while this list celebrates a wide array of Chris's, there's always room for more. If a favorite celebrity bearing the name Chris comes to mind, this list offers the chance to spotlight them. Peruse the famous Chrises and cast a vote for those who stand out as the most iconic bearers of this common, yet celebrated, name.
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Have a read and see what you think and let us know if we've missed any.
Ian McKellen
Who would’ve thought an actor who has appeared in more than 45 films during a career that has spanned six decades, would hail from Burnley? But it’s true, for Sir Ian McKellen, or perhaps as he’s more famously known, Gandalf, was born in the East Lancashire town but moved to Wigan not long after, before his family finally settled in Bolton. As well as appearing on the big screen, Sir Ian boasts a successful career in theatre. The actor has won six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has received two Oscar nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations.
Sophie Hitchon
The Olympic athlete won bronze and set a British record for the hammer throw at the 2016 Rio Games and was Great Britain's first ever Olympic medal in the event.
The 27-year-old Burnley lass also reached the hammer final at the 2012 London Olympics, and is the 2010 World Junior Champion, the 2013 European U23 Champion, and the 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist.
Malcolm Hebden
You probably know him best as busy-body Norris Cole from Corrie, a role he’s played since 1994. Born in Chester Malcolm grew up in Burnley and began his acting career on the stage. At the beginning of April, Coronation Street bosses reassured fans that Norris would not be leaving the cobbles, following Malcolm Hebden’s absence. Producer Iain MacLeod said they were ‘hoping’ his character would rejoin the cast after it was announced a new family had bought number three from the resident.Hebden’s character Norris Cole has been away from the soap since 2017, when the actor needed surgery following a heart attack.
Will Greenwood
Rugby playing Will was born in Blackburn, and attended Stonyhurst College and Sedbergh School before graduating with a BA in Economics from Hatfield College, Durham. Will was involved in all but one of England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup games and scored England’s only try against South Africa. He toured three times with the British and Irish Lions and is now considered one of the most insightful rugby commentators in today’s game.
Jimmy Anderson
Another sporting hero to hail from East Lancashire, is Burnley’s James Anderson. England’s most successful bowler to date, with 851 wickets to his name across all competitions, James made his cricketing debut playing for Lancashire at the age of 19. Regarded by some as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, the former St Mary's and St Theodore's RC High School pupil played cricket at Burnley Cricket Club from a young age, and now has a stand named after him at Lancashire County Cricket ground.
Grace Davies
The 22-year-old singer-songwriter came second in Series 14 of The X Factor which was aired in 2017.
Hailing from Langho in the Ribble Valley, Grace recently released a statement on her Facebook page telling fans she was working on her new album but did not yet have a release date for it.
Sam Aston
Bacup’s Sam Aston shot to fame in 2003, when he stepped onto the cobbled streets to play Chesney Brown in Coronation Street. However, that wasn’t the first TV appearance for the former Haslingden High School pupil, for who could forget the infamous Warburtons bread advert in which he uttered the immortal lines: “don’t be stupid, it’s pouring down with rain!”
John Simm
Although technically not born in East Lancashire, we can still claim the Human Traffic actor as one of our own as he grew up in Nelson and attended Edge End High School. The 39-year-old has had a glittering career in film and TV, taking lead roles in dramas such as, Life on Mars, Mad Dogs and Doctor Who, as well as playing Joy Division’s Bernard Sumner in the 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People.
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Best known for her role as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, Julie, 49, was born in Accrington. She won a National Television Award in 2014 and has since starred in shows such as Happy Valley and Broadchurch, as well as treading the boards at theatres in London and Manchester.
Jay Rodriguez
The 29-year-old Burnley lad plays for Championship team West Bromwich Albion but made his footballing debut for his hometown club in 2007, scoring 41 goals in 128 appearances across all competitions. Jay must have footballing blood in his veins as his father, Enrique, trialled for Deportivo de La Coruña before spending some time at Burnley in 1983, appearing for their reserve team.
Jordan North
Another Burnley native to make it onto our celeb list is Radio One DJ and presenter Jordan North. Jordan began his disc spinning career as a teenager, working part-time on the radio station at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. After studying TV and Radio Production at The University of Sunderland, he went on to present on student and community stations, including a stint on Rock FM in Preston. A massive Burnley fan, 29-year-old Jordan was, in 2018, announced as the new host for the Radio 1 Greatest Hits show on Sunday mornings.
Ian McShane
Born in Blackburn but raised in Manchester, Ian McShane is probably best known for playing the roguish antiques dealer in the hit 1980s TV show, Lovejoy. He also starred in Dallas, and HBO’s Deadwood, and played Blackbeard in the fourth instalment of hit movie franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Jim Bowen
Growing up in Clayton-le-Moors and attending Accrington Grammar school, the late Jim Bowen was a dustman for what was Nelson district council, before gracing TV screens hosting the popular Sunday night TV game show, Bullseye. A supporter of Blackburn Rovers, his famous catchphrases included ‘look at what you could’ve won’ and ‘you can’t beat a bit of Bully’. Jim died in 2018, after struggling to recover from a stroke in 2014.
Agyness Deyn
So technically the super model and actress wasn't born in East Lancashire, but she did move to Rawtenstall and attended All Saints Roman Catholic High School, as well as Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Sixth Form, Waterfoot, before the catwalk came calling. Agnes, or Laura Michelle Hollins, as she was born, worked in a fish and chip shop in Rossendale and won the Rossendale Free Press 'Face of '99' competition, aged just 16. She moved to London shortly after and was on the cover of American Vogue in 2007.
READ > Our reporter visited all 6 Wetherspoons in East Lancs — and ranked his best to worst
Jane Horrocks
The final celeb on our list is Rawtenstall's Jane Horrocks, who is probably best known for her role in the 1998 film, Little Voice, for which she received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, and the character Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous. The actress has also tread the boards in London's West End and has provided voiceovers for films such as Chicken Run and Corpse Bride.
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Jenna Coleman
Jenna Coleman is an actress, who is best known for her role as Clara Oswald from Doctor Who from 2012-2015 and also playing Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale from 2005-2009. She will be playing the role of a young Queen Victoria in the itv series Victoria later this year. She was born in Blackpool,Lancashire.
Sir Ian McKellen
Sir Ian McKellen was born in Burnley,Lancashire and is an actor, who has starred in the award-winning franchises The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, playing the role of Gandalf in both. He also plays the role of Magneto in the X-Men franchise. Among other roles McKellen has starred in many theatre productions such as Macbeth.
Sara Cox
Sarah Cox is an English presenter that is best known for presenting the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from 2000-2003. She was born in Bolton.
Vernon Kay
Vernon Kay was born in Bolton, he is a tv presenter and has presented shows such as All Star Family Fortunes and Splash!. He has also presented BBC Radio 1 in 2004-2010.
Danny Jones
Danny Jones was born in Bolton. He is an English Musician who was once the lead band member in Mcfly and now is a member of the McBusted band.
Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake was born in Westhoughton, Bolton. She is an english actress who is best known for her role as Martha Costello in the TV series Silk. She has also featured in The Theory of Everything.
Peter Kay
Peter Kay is an actor and comedian, who was born in Lancashire. He has been in an episode of Doctor Who, Coronation Street and Wallace and Gromit : The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Christopher Eccelston
Christopher Eccelston was born in Salford in Lancashire. He is well-known for his role as playing the 9th Doctor in Doctor Who.
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He is an actor who has starred in Faulty Towers, Coronation Street, Midsummer Murders and also Doctor Who playing the role of Wilfred Mott.
Bolton
Hall in the Wood Manor In Lancashire
Bolton Castle
An old photograph of the Bolton Town Hall
An elephant sculpture featured in the Town centre of Bolton.
Gateway Bridge in Bolton
Bolton Shown on the map.
Bolton Wanderers-Football Team.
All Souls’s Church in Bolton
Bolton Market Hall
Bolton Council Logo
Bolton Abbey
Bolton Museum
Bolton Abbey Station
Bolton Church of the Holy Trinity
Bolton University
Bolton Castle Maze
An old photograph of the Town Hall in Lancashire
Lancashire Flag
Town Hall in Lancashire
Lancashire Landscape
Blackpool Tower in Lancashire
Singing Ringing Tree- A landmark featured in Lancashire
‘The Man and the Scythe’ is a pub in Bolton, built in 1251, it is one of the oldest pubs in the UK
With a population of 260,000 people, it makes bolton the largest town in Britain.
Bolton has one of the oldest pubs in the UK, ‘The Man and the Scythe’ as it was built in 1251
It is 10 miles North West of Manchester
Waterloo Road was produced in Manchester Studios, and was also filmed in Manchester.
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About
The ninth incarnation of The Doctor on the hit British series Doctor Who, he has also appeared in such films as Thor: The Dark World and Gone in 60 Seconds. He stars on the HBO series The Leftovers.
Before Fame
He was in a production of A Streetcar named Desire. He caught the public eye for the first time when he portrayed Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It in 1991.
Trivia
He played the character Major Henry West in the horror film 28 Days Later.
Family Life
His parents, Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston, raised him near Lancashire with his two older brothers. He had a son named Albert in February 2012.
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Kym Marsh, 48, and her boyfriend Samuel Thomas, 29, are all smiles as they depart theatre after starring in 101 Dalmatians The Musical
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Kym Marsh and her boyfriend Samuel Thomas were all smiles on Tuesday as they departed The Palace theatre in Manchester following their latest performance.
The singer, 48, and the actor, 29, who went public with their romance in July, are currently on a huge tour of the UK and Ireland while starring in 101 Dalmatians The Musical.
Exiting the venue, Kym changed from her costume into more practical clothing but still sported her dramatic stage makeup.
She teamed a grey T-shirt from Scamp and Dude with matching joggers and a pair of platform trainers while carrying an oversized tote bag.
Kym is playing Cruella de Vil in the production alongside her new boyfriend Samuel, who stars as Tom Dearly.
The West End show opened at New Wimbledon Theatre on June 22, 2024 and will continue to tour across the country until January 2025.
Last week, Kym looked smitten with Samuel as they posed for a series of pictures of together, which he shared to his Instagram.
He sweetly declared that 'life's pretty great at the moment' as the new couple continued to enjoy their honeymoon period.
Samuel told in the caption to his post how they'd had 'two wonderful days' in London as they took in the sights and played tourists.
He finished off by saying 'I love you' while sharing a beautiful snap of Kym as they enjoyed a romantic day out.
He penned: 'Life’s pretty great right now. Two wonderful days in London staying at @strandpalace in between venues last week, and what a lovely time we had.
'Great food, new tattoos, Camden market, @kissmekateuk @barbicancentre and all the laughter and love. I Love you @marsh_kym❤️.'
His pals were quick to comment under the post saying how happy and in love he looked.
Their outing comes after Kym was forced to defend herself for revealing she is dating Samuel who is the same age as her son.
At 29, Samuel - who she refers to as 'the most amazing man ever' - is the same age as her eldest child, David Cunliffe.
Kym's friends are reportedly worried that her new romance with a younger man could all end in heartache if it 'fizzles out'.
The soap star has the support of her pals who are apparently 'happy' she has found someone, but they are said to have concerns that she could end up hurt.
The actress is a parent to son David, 29, and daughter Emilie, 27, from a former relationship with builder David Cunliffe.
The couple, who met in a Lancashire pub, separated in 1999, shortly before Kym found fame as a contestant on TV talent show Popstars, where she would become a member of short-lived pop group Hear'Say.
Two years later Kym was making an appearance on Top Of The Pops when she crossed paths with actor Jack Ryder, a household name at the time thanks to his role as Jamie Mitchell in EastEnders.
They married at St. Albans parish church, Hertford, in August 2002 and subsequently sold the pictures to OK! magazine for a reported £300,000.
But seven years later it was all over, with Ryder filing for divorce on the grounds of adultery following her apparent fling with second-husband-in-waiting Jamie Lomas
Friends initially feared Kym had rushed into her relationship with Lomas, who she started dating just four months after separating from Ryder.
The pair met on a train as they made their way to the 2007 TV Quick Awards, but casual chat soon turned into romance with the pair going public in 2008 - a year before her divorce.
They had been together for less than two months when Kym fell pregnant with their first child, but tragedy struck when their son Archie Jay died moments after being born 18-weeks premature on February 11.
The couple had happier news when they welcomed daughter Polly in March 2011.
They exchanged vows in September 2012 but were divorced by 2014, with Kym reportedly stunned by Lomas' decision to break it off.
She remarried for a third time to Scott Ratcliff back in 2021.
The pair split 13 months following their wedding when Kym filed for divorce citing unreasonable behaviour.
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True Detective: Night Country - from Jodie Foster to Christopher Eccleston, who's playing who?
Season four of True Detective boasts a star-studded cast
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Vicky Jessop15 January 2024
The fourth season of the blockbuster anthology series True Detective is here, and this time around the action is relocating from mainland America to the frigid winter ice of the Arctic Circle. In the town of Ennis, Alaska, something dark is stirring, as eight scientists have mysteriously gone missing from their research facility. Is something dark afoot? Of course it is.
With Jodie Foster at the helm of the show playing Detective Liz Danvers, the series already promises to be exciting – but she’s also backed up by a stellar supporting cast, many of whom are also familiar faces.
Liz Danvers, played by Jodie Foster
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Liz Danvers is one of the two main characters in True Detective: Night Country. She is a Detective with the Ennis police force, sent up north after falling out with her former bosses elsewhere. She’s also a bit of a live wire: prickly, aggressive and traumatised from several undisclosed events in her past. She’s also a reluctant stepmother to the equally reluctant Leah (Isabella Star LaBlanc), the daughter of her late partner.
Who is Jodie Foster?
Jodie Foster has been a Hollywood icon for over fifty years. Born in 1962, Foster was a gifted child – she learned to read at age three, speaks fluent French (she often overdubs herself in films she appears in) and attended Yale University, where she studied African-American literature.
She started acting at a young age, initially starring in commercials and then moving onto TV shows like Paper Moon (the last TV series she starred in before True Detective) and Disney films. "Some people get quick breaks and declare, 'I'll never do commercials! That's so lowbrow!'” she told The Sun-Sentinel newspaper. “I want to tell them, 'Well, I'm real glad you've got a pretty face, because I worked for 20 years doing that stuff and I feel it's really invaluable; it really taught me a lot.'"
She had her big break when she was just 12 years-old, after Robert de Niro cast her as a child sex worker in 1976’s Taxi Driver (for which she won an Academy Award, and two BAFTAs). In 1991, she went onto achieve massive critical and commercial success as FBI agent Clarice Starling in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs (Foster later revealed that she had attempted to purchase the film rights to the novel herself, after reading it in 1988).
Since then, Foster has mixed acting with directing – she directed the episodes Lesbian Request Denied (2013) and Thirsty Bird (2014) for Orange is the New Black, and Chapter 22 (2014) for House of Cards.
Evangeline Navarro, played by Kali Reis
Kali Reis as Evangeline Navarro
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Navarro, Liz Danvers’ opposite number, is a State Trooper who is based in Ennis. She is of Indigenous Inupiaq heritage and has a younger sister who struggles with her mental health. Navarro is also a wild card: she was moved from the police force to the troopers after a former job went wrong, but she is still trying to solve the murder of Indigenous woman Annie K, who was found mutilated on the outskirts of the town some years back.
Who is Kali Reis?
Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1986, Reis is of both Cape Verdean and Native American heritage – specifically Cherokee, Nipmuc, and Seaconke Wampanoag.
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"My mom raised me as a single parent and we attended… Native pow wows regularly,” Reis told sports website WBAN. “Everyone in my family is involved with either sports or music or both. I grew up a rough, tough and determined girl; playing tackle football with all the neighbourhood boys, wresting, fighting, building forts and anything else that would potentially get me hurt or in trouble!"
Reis started boxing at around 14. Initially coached by her mother’s friend Domingo ‘Talldog’, she had a brief amateur career before going onto win three world titles – including the WBC World Female Middleweight belt. She fought under the name K.O. Mequinonoag – Mequinonoag being the Native American name "given to me by my mother, she is the medicine woman of our Seaconke Wampanoag tribe. It means ‘Many Feathers’, or ‘Many Talents’.”
Reis ventured into filmmaking via her support for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement. Filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka asked if she would collaborate and star in upcoming film Catch The Fair One – for which she received critical acclaim. Following that, she was cast in thriller Black Flies, which starred Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan. True Detective is her third-ever acting role.
Rose Aguineau, played by Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw as Rose Aguineau
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Rose Aguineau is a mysterious woman who lives on the edge of Ennis and acts as a mentor figure of sorts to Navarro over the course of the series. She has a penchant for cigarettes, knows an awful lot about how to survive on the ice (the showrunners describe her as a “survivalist”) and also has a habit of seeing her dead lover return to her as a ghost. Is she mad? Probably not: this is Ennis after all.
Who is Fiona Shaw?
Another heavy hitter, Fiona Shaw has been a mainstay of British film and television for years. Born in 1958 in County Cork, she graduated from RADA and went onto have a successful stage career – which included playing the male lead in a 1995 production of Richard II. She’s appeared in films as diverse as Harry Potter (as Aunt Petunia), Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Three Men and a Little Lady, and The Black Dahlia.
Recently, she’s also enjoyed something of a TV renaissance. Cast as MI6 chief Carolyn Martens in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve, she then appeared in Fleabag as the Counsellor and in Star Wars series Andor as lead character Cassian’s adoptive mother Maarva.
Ted Corsaro, played by Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston as Ted Connelly
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Ted is Liz’s boss. Described by the showrunners as the “regional chief of police and a political animal”, he’s running for mayor – and also happens to be sleeping with Liz on the regular.
Who is Christopher Eccleston?
Born in Salford, Lancashire in 1964, Christopher Eccleston was first inspired to become an actor when he was 19 after watching TV shows about working-class communities like Boys from the Blackstuff. After graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama, he made his stage debut at 25 in the Bristol Old Vic’s A Streetcar Named Desire.
Since then, he’s become a TV and film regular, appearing in shows like Cracker, Second Coming and Shallow Grave. His breakthrough was arguably the BBC 2 drama Our Friends In the North, which he appeared in alongside Mark Strong and Daniel Craig. In 2005, he helped reboot Doctor Who by starring as the Ninth Doctor, with Russell T Davies as showrunner – a role he stepped down from the same year after considerable acrimony between himself and the producing team.
“Yes, I have felt bitter, and yes, I have felt betrayed, but I know also that Doctor Who was the best thing that, professionally, ever happened to me, not so much a learning curve as a plunge down a well and a long climb towards the sunshine I see now,” he wrote in his memoir.
Leah Danvers, played by Isabella Star LaBlanc
Isabella Star LaBlanc as Leah Danvers
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Leah is the stepdaughter of Liz Danvers. Liz was once married to Leah’s father, but by the time the show starts, he’s dead and she is now Leah’s sole guardian. Of Inupiaq heritage, Leah’s attempts to find out more about her culture are constantly being thwarted by Liz, and the two spend much of their relationship at loggerheads.
Who is Isabella Star LaBlanc?
LaBlanc is a Native American actor based in Minneanapolis. Of Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota heritage, she has appeared on stage (among other places, for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC) and has written her own works on Native American culture and history that have been performed onstage.
“I come from a family and a community of activists,” she told the DC Theater Arts site. “I’ve grown up around people on the front lines, and I know that I’ve been able to live the life that I live as a proud Indigenous person because of activists that have come before me and that raised me.”
Peter Prior, played by Finn Bennett
Finn Bennett and John Hawkes as Peter and Hank Prior
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Peter Prior is another police officer working in Ennis. Married to an Indigenous woman, he struggles to balance his home life with the demands of his boss, Liz Danvers. He has a fraught relationship too with his father Hank, who also works in the police force.
Who is Finn Bennett?
Not much is known about Finn Bennett, but he’s a British actor who’s previously appeared on stage at the Royal Court Theatre opposite Lesley Sharp (in 2019 play The Woods), in 2021 HBO series The Nevers and in Top Boy.
Hank Prior, played by John Hawkes
Hank is Peter’s father, and also works at the Ennis police force. The two have a troubled relationship – Hank’s wife, Peter’s mother, died some time ago, and the father and son don’t often talk. Hank is also desperately lonely: unable to communicate with his son, he’s in a long-distance relationship with a mail-order bride who may or may not be a scammer.
Who is John Hawkes?
Born John Perkins in 1959 (he later changed his name due to there being another John Perkins working as an actor), Hawkes was raised in "a midwest Scandinavian community" before moving to Austin, Texas in his teens. Heappeared in 2011 film Winter’s Bone (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award), the 2012 film Lincoln and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 12
The dust has now settled on the Earth-shattering finale of Doctor Who series 12, and in hindsight, not all my predictions were on the money. It was hasty to say “The big reveal in the finale is almost certainly something to do with Rassilon”, or that “There’s no way the Ruth Doctor can be an incarnation before Hartnell” (the jury is still out on that one, by the way). Meanwhile, other people have had better luck with their predictions. For instance, my then eight-year-old son predicted this two years ago:
Two trillion is probably the figure we’re looking at, given we’re covering at least ten million years of Gallifreyan history, probably more once we take into account all the time travel they’ve done over that period and the fact that something fatal seems to happen to the Doctor on average once every three years.
This has all kinds of implications for the show, for the Doctor as a character, for what will happen to the character going forward and what their past means. But I think we can all agree that the most important consequence of this enormous shift is that now your favourite incarnation of the Doctor that wasn’t “canon” a couple of weeks ago is totally a legitimate part of the pantheon.
And fudging stuff so that we can fit it into the Doctor Who canon is one of our favourite hobbies. So with that in mind, let’s go through all the Doctors that haven’t been “canon” until now, and stamp them with a great big “This Counts” sticker.
The “Shalka” Doctor
Played by: Richard E Grant
Who are they?
Before Christopher Eccleston, before Russell T Davies, before there was any hope that Doctor Who might return to Saturday teatimes ever again, the BBC chose a new way to continue the Doctor’s adventures. The Doctor’s 40th anniversary was looming, and yet there wasn’t any Doctor Who to watch!
To solve this, the BBC came up with an innovative idea. Hiring a writer who was best known for Doctor Who comics and some books in the Virgin New Adventures series, the BBC would make new animated episodes, and instead of broadcasting them on TV, people would watch them on the Internet, if you can imagine such a thing.
This new incarnation was played by Richard E Grant in the role of a darker, more cynical Doctor with a mysterious past. His companion was a robotic Master, played by Derek Jacobi (who would later briefly take up the role in the new series episode Utopia and again in numerous Big Finish audios) and he had only one adventure on screen, fighting off an alien invasion in Lancashire.
Can they be canon?
The handy thing about this being such a short-lived series is there are not many opportunities for it to contradict what’s gone before. Yes, the Master is here, but he’s a robot duplicate, they all have time machines and memory wipes are a thing. Richard E Grant talks about how Andy Warhol wants to paint him and his “eight previous selves”, but that could just mean his eight previous selves before this one. If you want to make this one slot into the chronology, go for it.
The “Lenny Henry” Doctor
Played by: Lenny Henry. Obviously.
Who are they?
This five-minute sketch in The Lenny Henry Show, broadcast in 1985, posited the bold question, “Can the Doctor ever be played by somebody wearing a leather jacket?” The Doctor also had a companion who fancied him, showing this sketch as really far ahead of its time. The Doctor travels to 2010 to discover everything has been taken over by Cybermen controlled by a Cyber-Margaret Thatcher.
And like pretty much every Doctor Who “parody”, it is basically an entirely sincere audition tape, with Lenny spouting technobabble and running down corridors with the best of them.
Can they be canon?
The opening credits show Colin Baker transform into Lenny Henry, but we can ignore that. We can also explain away the fact that the Doctor refers to Daleks and meets Cybermen in this episode, thanks to memory wipes (although personally, I’d still like it if The Daleks and Tenth Planet remained the Doctor’s first encounter with these enemies).
However, the Doctor does call Daleks and Cybermen “robots”, which I think we can all agree is a sackable offence.
The “Nelvana” Doctor
Played by: No actor was ever cast, but he was described as having elements of Peter O’Toole, Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd.
Who are they?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In 1990, with Doctor Who cancelled, the BBC began looking into the possibility of continuing the show as an animated series. The Canadian animation house, Nelvana, was commissioned to do the job and drew up a fantastic array of concept art, including a new Doctor, a new outfit, and a new, robotic Master who looked like Sean Connery.
Sadly (or maybe not) the series was cancelled when the BBC took the project and gave it to a British animation studio instead, and shortly after the project died in development hell.
Can they be canon?
Again, all we have is a few pieces of concept art to go on, so your imagination can do what it likes here. Yes, there are Daleks, and also K9, but there are almost as many copies of him floating around the universe as there is the Doctor. The Sean Connery Robo-Master could easily be a future incarnation who’s decided to go back and kill the Doctor before they met.
Doctor “Who”
Played by: Peter Cushing
Who are they?
As William Hartnell’s Doctor was becoming a huge success, the idea was hatched to take him to the big screen. In Doctor Who and the Daleks, and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150AD. With technicolor Daleks equipped with flame throwers and big-budget set pieces, this Doctor breaks all kinds of Doctor Who rules. He’s a human, he invented the TARDIS rather than stole it, and perhaps most staggeringly of all, his name is “Doctor Who”.
However, all of this is small beans compared to having a legend like Peter Cushing in the role.
Can they be canon?
First, the Doctor’s name is Doctor Who. Missy says so at the beginning of ‘World Enough and Time‘. Sure, maybe you think the Doctor’s arch-nemesis is an unreliable source, but that seems like a pretty weird thing to make up to me.
As for being human, the Doctor’s been human at least twice, or even three times depending on if your canon includes the Virgin New Adventures books. Surely another won’t hurt. And there’s always been ambiguity over whether the Doctor “stole” or “invented” the TARDIS.
It’s a bit awkward the films depict such similar events to the ones seen in William Hartnell’s adventures, but I’m sure there’s a timey-wimey explanation for that.
In fact, the biggest obstacle to Peter Cushing’s canonical status is that he’s already in there. In Steven Moffat’s novelisation of ‘The Day of the Doctor’, the Doctor mentions knowing Peter Cushing, and that Cushing made some (inaccurate) movies about some of his adventures. The novel also mentions that Peter Cushing’s friendship with the Doctor is also how he managed to appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story years after his death.
The “Curse of the Fatal Death” Doctor(s)
Played by: Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant (again), Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Joanna Lumley
Who are they?
Filmed as a “parody” for Comic Relief, again, like all Doctor Who parodies, this was an audition tape-but not for the actors this time. The story, written by one Steven Moffat, featured a timey-wimey plotline, the Doctor getting married, the Doctor using up all of their regenerations, and then turning into a woman. You might recognise this as a greatest hits list of Moffat’s actual time running the show.
Can they be canon?
While Rowan Atkinson is supposed to be yet another “Ninth” Doctor, the only clue to this in the plot is how many regenerations he has left. And by the same token, the Doctor thinking they’ve run out of regenerations only to get a new one is something that’s already happened before (Who knows how many times the Time Lords pulled this trick on them?). We’ve got Daleks, and we’ve got the Master, but you can make it fit if you want.
The “Web of Caves” Doctor
Played by: Mark Gatiss
Who are they?
A four-minute sketch produced for BBC Two’s Doctor Who night in 1999, this features Mark Gatiss’s Doctor being menaced by some pretty useless aliens. Again, all parodies are audition tapes. It’s in black and white, which really I think all pre-Hartnell Doctors should be, but there’s no other clue to say which Doctor this is.
Can they be canon?
The aliens mention a couple of plans, hollowing out the Earth’s core, draining the sea into the Earth’s molten core, which the Doctor says have been “done”, referencing post-‘Unearthly Child’ episodes of the show. But it’s hard coming up with original evil plans, so I wouldn’t be surprised if these weren’t new ideas when our run of Doctors foiled them.
And honestly, I think Gatiss wants in more than any of the other Doctors on this list so far, so let’s let him have it.
The “Nth” Doctor
Played by: Nicholas Briggs
Who are they?
One of the things Doctor Who fans have missed out on as a result of the vast, intricate, all-encompassing and distinctly timey-wimey continuity of the franchise, is the reboots and elseworld stories every other sci-fi franchise seems to get. But an exception to that is the Unbound stories.
Produced by Big Finish, these plays featured new actors in the role of the Doctor and stories that could never, ever take place in existing continuity. The Doctor never leaves Gallifrey, the Doctor escapes the justice of the Time Lords, the Doctor is captured by the Time Lords only to be exiled to Earth 30 years later than he was in the main continuity, meaning he lands on an Earth ravaged by multiple alien invasions. There are great stories here, and great actors in the role, even if some of them have dated poorly (Arabella Weir gives a great turn as an alcoholic, fugitive Third Doctor with a job in Sainsbury’s, even if the discussion around “sex change Time Lords” is, well, they could have done a lot better there).
Can they be canon?
Some of the stories might be able to made to fit into the pre-Hartnell era with careful fudging, and amusingly, Arabella Weir’s previous incarnation is played by Nicholas Briggs. David Warner’s Doctor, a more tired, cynical version of our own (who can get pretty darn tired and cynical sometimes) has even broken into the mainstream universe thanks to some adventures with Bernice Summerfield.
So the answer is, yes, but maybe not in the way you were expecting…
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Born: 16th February 1964
Episodes Broadcast: 2005, 2013
Biography
Although he starred in Doctor Who for just one year, Christopher Eccleston was perhaps the programme's most pivotal choice of lead actor since Patrick Troughton demonstrated the public's willingness to accept a new Doctor in 1966. The face of the show's twenty-first-century resurgence, Eccleston was born in Salford, Lancashire. He aspired to play football for Manchester United, but instead discovered a passion for acting in his late teens. Eccleston spent two years studying performance at Salford Tech, and then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. However, he struggled to find work and took a variety of jobs, including posing nude as an artists' model.
Eccleston's professional break came in 1989, when he was cast in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic. Although the stage was his first love, he made his television debut in Blood Rights in 1990, before earning small roles in shows like Casualty and Inspector Morse. Eccleston then won acclaim for his performance in the 1991 movie Let Him Have It. He co-starred in the first season of Cracker, before asking to be written out early in its second run. Other Nineties television included Hearts And Minds, Our Friends In The North and Hillsborough. On the silver screen, Eccleston starred in the 1994 Danny Boyle cult classic Shallow Grave, while smaller roles could be found in Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett and the science-fiction thriller eXistenZ, amongst others. His first brush with Doctor Who occurred when he was asked to audition for the American co-production that became Doctor Who (1996). At the time, however, Eccleston was not interested in associating himself with such an established television property.
Eccleston tackled the lead role in Russell T Davies' The Second Coming
Eccleston maintained a steady presence in movies following the turn of the century, appearing in Gone In Sixty Seconds with Nicholas Cage and two well-reviewed horror films: The Others with Nicole Kidman and Boyle's 28 Days Later.... On television, Eccleston was becoming closely associated with Nicola Shindler's production company, Red. He worked on episodes of Clocking Off and Linda Green, and had an award-winning turn in the telefilm Flesh And Blood. Eccleston then tackled the lead role in The Second Coming, which Shindler co-produced with Russell T Davies. Amongst his other work was a modern retelling of Othello under producer Julie Gardner. When Davies was tasked with bringing Doctor Who back to television in 2005, with Gardner as one of his fellow executive producers, Eccleston asked that he be considered for the role of the Doctor. He was independently suggested to Davies and Gardner by the revived programme's other executive producer, Mal Young.
So it was that Eccleston made his debut as the Ninth Doctor in Rose. But although his reinvention of the role was widely heralded, the reality was that he had already quit Doctor Who. With the early days of the production having been inordinately fraught, Eccleston's relationship with Davies quickly deteriorated. Just twelve weeks after his first appearance as the fantastic Ninth Doctor, he handed off to his successor, David Tennant, in The Parting Of The Ways. Eccleston spent much of the rest of the decade working in Hollywood, including the films The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, plus several episodes of the super-powered drama Heroes. He acknowledged that these projects were often terrible, but they paid well enough to subsidise his more creatively challenging and meaningful work.
Eccleston's television credits during the 2010s included Lennon Naked, The Shadow Line, The Leftovers and The A Word, while Thor: The Dark World was amongst his movie appearances. Eccleston was approached about appearing in the Doctor Who fiftieth-anniversary special The Day Of The Doctor, but he ultimately decided against participating, with executive producer Steven Moffat instead developing the War Doctor incarnation played by John Hurt. In 2011, Eccleston married a copywriter named Mischka. Son Albert was born in 2012, and daughter Esme arrived the following year. Eccleston and his wife were divorced in 2015.
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CHRISTOPHER Eccleston was a hit during his spell as the nation's favourite time traveller in Doctor Who.He starred in the BBC drama Come Home in 2018
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CHRISTOPHER Eccleston was a hit during his spell as the nation's favourite time traveller in Doctor Who.
He starred in the BBC drama Come Home in 2018, but what else has Christopher appeared in and how old is the actor?
Who is Christopher Eccleston and how old is he?
Christoper Eccleston is a 54-year-old actor who came to prominence in the crime series Cracker.
Born in Manchester on February 16, 1964, Christopher was inspired to begin a career in acting after becoming enthralled in television dramas.
His early roles between 1991 and 1996 included stints on Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot and the part of Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North.
Christopher Eccleston married his ex-wife Mischka in November 2011 but the couple split in December 2015. They have two children together, Albert and Esme.
When was Christopher Eccleston in Doctor Who?
It was announced in April 2004 that Christopher Eccleston would take on the role of The Doctor in the BBC's reboot of the popular sci-fi series.
His first episode as the time traveller was broadcast in March 2005 but he caused controversy by walking away at the end of the series.
In November 2008, showrunner Russell T. Davies claimed that Christopher was only ever contracted for one series due to the BBC being uncertain about the franchise's future.
Despite discussions about returning for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, Eccleston is yet to pick up his sonic screwdriver again.
What else has Christopher Eccleston been in?
Prior to his stint on Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston had starred in movies such as Gone in 60 Seconds, 28 Days Later and Elizabeth.
Following his popularity since the sci-fi hit, he's since starred in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Thor: The Dark World and Kray twins biopic, Legend.
Aside from Doctor Who, Christopher's television credits include The League of Gentlemen, Lennon Naked, Lucan, Fortitude, Safe House and The A Word.
In 2018 he starred as Greg in Come Home, a BBC drama about a couple who have been married for nineteen years before the wife, Marie, walks out.
Multiple time-frames, viewpoints, and flashbacks told Greg and Marie’s story, forcing viewers to confront their own truths.
After beginning his career on the stage, Christopher made his RSC debut as Macbeth in the summer of 2018.
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The pandemic might have closed theatres and film sets but actor Christopher Eccleston from Salford still won applause for his performance in praise of the NHS.
The lockdown has brought the nation to a grinding halt across many industries, including TV, film and theatre but Christopher Eccleston got rave reviews for a performance from his back garden.
His reading of a poem called Our Heroes, first on Radio 5Live and then on The One Show prompted an emotional response from across the country.
It was written by Matthew Kelly from Salford whose partner is a district nurse and is dedicated to the bravery of the NHS and frontline workers who’ve been tackling the coronavirus crisis.
‘I’m very fortunate and humbled and grateful for the NHS,’ says Eccleston. ‘It was an honour to be asked, and very moving to witness the response to the NHS. All credit to the poet. My hope is the next time the NHS is abused and mistreated by Boris Johnson and his Cabinet, the whole nation holds them to account.’
Salford-born Eccleston, who spent the lockdown at his home in London, adds: ‘I’m in a very privileged position as I live alone and have a back garden. I’ve so far avoided contracting the virus, as have my mother and children.
‘It’s had and will have a devastating impact on my industry and all industries. Theatre relies on large gatherings of people and I can’t see that happening for a long time. Many theatres and theatre companies will not survive.’
Eccleston is currently on our screens in The A Word but recalls that he was a little perturbed when Peter Bowker, his friend and collaborator of almost 20 years, asked him to play a grandfather in the programme. ‘It’s very bad for my image,’ he jokes.
In the BBC drama, Eccleston, 56, plays Maurice, the straight-talking grandad of Joe, a young boy with autism. The first series aired to great acclaim in 2016 and was followed by a second series a year later, but the drama only recently returned for a third run.
In the intervening period, Eccleston published his memoir I Love the Bones of You in which he revealed his battles with mental health issues and wrote extensively about his father, Ronnie, a man not so dissimilar to Maurice in their no-nonsense approach to life.
Maurice represents the type of men ‘trying to understand modern life and modern afflictions. They’re trying to keep up but also applying the damp flannel of common sense,’ says Eccleston who grew up in Salford with Ronnie, mum Elsie and his older twin brothers.
Maurice might be ‘massively inappropriate’, as Eccleston puts it, but his candour forces the audience to confront their own prejudice.
For instance, the show’s been applauded for its diversity, but as Eccleston noted during an event at The Lowry Theatre shortly before lockdown, this itself is troubling. ‘Diversity is reality, not some distortion as it’s often portrayed,’ he told the audience.
He was quoting Bowker, but his own experiences have opened his eyes to the veracity of the statement.
‘I famously played Doctor Who and I get stopped a lot for it, but I genuinely get stopped as much for Maurice and it’s precisely because Down’s Syndrome and autism do touch everybody’s life,’ says Eccleston, who studied drama at Salford Tech and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before starring in the likes of Cracker and Our Friends in the North during the 90s.
And he adds: ‘At this time, families are being forced together or forced apart and many are being devastated by grief, so I hope our portrayal of an essentially loving and strong family resonates. I also hope it makes them laugh.’
Looking to the future, there’s already talk of a fourth series of The A Word but only after another extended hiatus. No doubt Eccleston will return as he couldn’t be prouder to be part of the prime time drama.
‘What’s really important about The A Word, for us and the whole subject, is we’re on BBC One,’ he says. ‘Usually at 9pm on BBC One or ITV, it tends to be crime dramas or super posh soaps, but what we’ve got is this story and that’s significant politically. It kicks the door open.’
The series in brief
In the current series of The A Word, Joe’s parents Alison (Morven Christie) and Paul (Lee Ingleby) are carving out new lives following their divorce, helping Joe adjust to living in Manchester and the Lake District and tackling the challenges this creates.
It’s the typically tactless Maurice who’s trying to keep the peace, helping his granddaughter Rebecca (Molly Wright) tell Alison and Paul she’s pregnant, and acting as mediator between his partner Louise (Pooky Quesnel) and her Down’s Syndrome son Ralph (Leon Harrop) who’s getting married and moving out.
The show’s appeal has always been its honest depiction of a family trying to do their best by one another, ‘and their failure and success at communication and life,’ notes Eccleston.
This no doubt has greater resonance given recent circumstances prompted by the global pandemic.
The A Word continues on Tuesday nights on BBC One.
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Born in England, Christopher Eccleston studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He made his acting debut on prestigious stages such as the Old Vic in Bristol and the Royal Court Theatre . In 1991, Peter Medak offered him his first film role in L’Age de vivre , but it was Petits Meurtres entre amis which revealed him in 1994 – a cynical comedy about friendship and money crowned with a Bafta in 1995 which also propelled Ewan McGregor and director Danny Boyle to the forefront.
His early career alternated local television appearances ( Cracker , Our Friends In The North ) with increasingly important roles on the big screen. In the cinema, he distinguished himself in 19th century England with Jude (1996, Michael Winterbottom ), a drama adapted from Thomas Hardy ‘s final novel , then played the role of Duke of Norfolk in the historical fresco Elizabeth (1998, Shekhar Kapur ), project manager of the mind-blowing eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg ), life companion of Debla Kirwan in With or Without You (id., again directed by Michael Winterbottom ) and rabbi in Sonia Horowitz, l’insoumise (2000, Boaz Yakin ).
This year 2000 saw him move from the small, intimate British film to the Hollywood blockbuster in 60 Seconds Flat , where he rubbed shoulders with Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage (2000, Dominic Sena ), then make a foray into the disturbing The Others by Alejandro Amenábar ( 2001). Moving with ease from one register to another, he took on roles on television ( Strumpet , Othello , The King and Us ), dabbled in rock ‘n’ roll for his friend Michael Winterbottom ( 24 Hour Party People , 2002 ), returns to the 19th century in Dina (id., Ole Borneal ), embarks with Jordana Brewster on an initiatory journey ( The Invisible Circus , 2003) before radically changing setting and era in the horrific 28 Days Later (id.), for which he found Danny Boyle .
In 2005, his popularity took a leap forward when he agreed to lend his features to the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, hero of the fantasy series Doctor Who , a real institution in Great Britain subject to a reboot that year . But the following year, he left the key to the Tardis with David Tennant and crossed the Atlantic to play in a few episodes of Heroes (2007).
He then opposed Channing Tatum in the first opus of GI Joe (2009), then disappeared alongside Hilary Swank in Amelia , a drama based on the true story of aviator Amelia Earhart (2010, Mira Nair ) . That same year, he appeared on the BBC, decked out in round glasses, in the immaculate clothes of the great John Lennon for the needs of Lennon Naked , then was awarded an Emmy Award for his role in the pilot of the series Accused ( id.). Attached to the small screen, he played in 2011 in the choral series The Shadow Line and starred in the mini-series Blackout on Los Angeles .
On the cinema side, Christopher Eccleston appears two years later in the dramatic comedy Song for Marion where he plays the offspring of Terence Stamp , and in the sequel to Thor , where he takes on the costume of the supervillain Malekith the Accursed.
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As mentioned previously, the ‘Kindle Monthly Sale’ has been subsumed into their generic Kindle offers, consequently there is no designated 'Monthly' sale as we used to know it. What we now have is a variety of different 'offers' bundled together. I've decided to still feature a monthly offers post but will try and be more…
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As mentioned previously, the ‘Kindle Monthly Sale’ has been subsumed into their generic Kindle offers, consequently there is no designated ‘Monthly’ sale as we used to know it. What we now have is a variety of different ‘offers’ bundled together.
I’ve decided to still feature a monthly offers post but will try and be more selective (famous last words). I’ll continue to concentrate on more recent titles (within the last year or so), largely on the assumption that the longer a book has been around it’s more likely to have hit your radar already. Where I’ve been selective is that I’m only including my top picks rather than including ALL the books I’ve bought, read or would read. This will hopefully help to focus my mind! That said I’ll still throw in a few golden oldies that I’ve read and love. As ever, it’s a list that’s skewed towards my prevailing reading tastes so feel free to look at the complete list on Amazon here.
What I will also do over the course of the month is post additional titles over on my Facebook page here . These will be titles which on the whole are less recent but well worth a look.
Genres have been allocated by me and have been generously applied especially as some books are a mix of genres. I don’t like to pigeon hole but it helps to give the post a bit more structure.
(NB As an Amazon Associate, Bookshop and Hive Affiliate I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases)
Index
Crime, Thriller and Mystery
Feel Good Fiction and Romance
General Fiction
Historical (I tend to take this as pre 1960’s ie not in my lifetime!)
Non-Fiction
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Hiding Place by Jenny Quintana
Some houses have their secrets. But so do some people . . .
Abandoned as a baby in the hallway of a shared house in London, Marina has never known her parents, and the circumstances of her birth still remain a mystery.
Now an adult, Marina has returned to the house where it all started, determined to find out who she really is. But the walls of this house hold more than memories, and Marina’s reappearance hasn’t gone unnoticed by the other tenants.
Someone is watching Marina. Someone who knows the truth . . .
Her Sister’s Child by Alison James
Sixteen years ago my sister died. Her baby disappeared on the same day. And I’ve never stopped searching for her…
Lizzy’s life was complicated and she had so many secrets. Secrets I kept for her. Maybe if I’d done things differently, she’d still be here now and the little girl she gave birth to wouldn’t have gone missing…
In all these years, I’ve never stopped looking, but I’d almost given up hope. Until now.
Because today I encountered an old school friend, Johnny, and it all came flooding back to me.
That day. The terrible discovery.
And something he said made me realise the shocking truth: I’ve always known who took Lizzy’s baby. I just didn’t want to admit it. Because then everything that happened would be my fault…
Unbound Ties by Liz Mistry
When the past unravels, all that’s left is death.
Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly,
When DI Gus McGuire is called out to the murder of a pregnant woman, the crime scene tells him that this killer is not only taunting them … he’s also just getting started.
Lavender’s green,
With ritualistic precision, the killer has placed a series of clues beneath the victim’s feet. Gus soon realises that these clues link back to his mother’s past as a child in foster care in Scotland.
When I am king, dilly dilly,
Troubled by his mum’s secrets, Gus is in a dark place. Side-lined from the main investigation, Gus works another murder, not realising that the two are linked and that the killer is closer than he realises … Dangerously close.
You shall be queen.
Then the killer begins to target people near to Gus. Angry and determined Gus races to unravel the past and catch this sadist before the loss is too much for him to bear.
After the Fire by Jo Spain
Nobody was supposed to get out alive.
On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks.
Tom Reynolds, now Chief Superintendent, is no longer head of the murder squad. But when it transpires the woman escaped from a house fire started deliberately and that there are more victims, Tom is sucked in. What begins as a straightforward case of arson, soon becomes something much more sinister.
The people in that house never wanted to be there in the first place. Now more of them are missing. Tom is faced with a ticking clock as he tries to locate the others and as he does, a terrifying spider’s web of domestic and international crime unfolds.
And not everybody will survive the fall-out.
Cut to the Bone by Roz Watkins
A beautiful young social-media star goes missing.
But who took her?
When controversial internet celebrity Violet Armstrong vanishes in the middle of a scorching Peak District summer, the case sparks a media frenzy.
The clock is ticking for DI Meg Dalton and her team to find Violet before online threats explode into real-life violence. And then the blood and hair of a young woman are found in an empty pig trough at the local abattoir…
The more Meg finds out about this unnerving case, the more she becomes convinced that something very, very bad has happened to Violet. With temperatures rising and the press demanding answers, the case is about to take a terrifying turn…
The Missing by Daisy Pearce
A missing girl. A loving mother who never gave up. A betrayed wife who doesn’t know who to trust.
Teenager Edie Hudson was nobody’s little darling, which made vanishing all too easy. Two decades later, she’s been forgotten by everyone except her mother, Samantha.
And the person who knows what happened to her.
Samantha has had a long time to remember, and to regret. Having seen how little her daughter mattered to the community in the months following her disappearance, she wonders if Edie was lost before she was even gone. Or was it guilt, not indifference, that made the locals turn a blind eye? When she meets Frances, she at last starts to hope for answers.
Because Frances is obsessed with the mystery too, after finding a photo of her husband with the girl who disappeared.
What really happened all those years ago? And just how dangerous could it be to find out?
The Lie by Hilary Boyd
‘I just thought you should know who you’re married to . . .’
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Romy and Michael had it all. 30 years of marriage, two wonderful sons and a beautiful home.
Until a letter arrives containing a shocking accusation, and everything falls apart.
Fleeing to an idyllic countryside village to find time to think, Romy finds herself drawn to Finch, a handsome stranger with a tragic past. Is this a chance to start again?
But then the phone rings:
Michael is in hospital. He says he needs her help . . .
Some One’s There by Diane Saxon
Who’s watching who?
When a beautiful, red haired nurse’s body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all eyes turn to him.
With a very specific modus operandi, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan and her team know exactly who the offender is, the trouble is he’s currently serving a life stretch in HMP Long Lartin.
It soon becomes evident to DS Morgan and her team that there may be a copycat killer is on the loose, one who may be taking his pleasure in stalking his victims first.
In a race against time, they need to track down the copycat and discover who is pulling whose strings?
Corrupted by Simon Michael
A sordid secret lies at the heart of political London…
London, 1964
Charles Holborne has cemented his reputation as a respected murder trial lawyer, who is near unbeatable in the courtroom.
Having overcome the traumas of his past, he seems to be settled in his career and his relationship with his partner, Sally.
But Charles is his own worst enemy and old habits threaten to drag him down…
He is also still on the radar of the notorious Kray Twins and before long he finds himself drawn into one of their darker scandals.
Charles’s career – and his life – is in jeopardy as he fights for justice in a world of corruption and double-dealings.
The Truth Will Out by Jane Isaac
CALL OF DEATH
Eva Carradine is horrified when she witnesses an attack on her best friend, Naomi Spence, during a video call. Fearing for her own safety, Eva calls an ambulance and flees her home. DCI Helen Lavery leads the investigation into Naomi’s murder, but with no leads, no further witnesses and no sign of forced entry, the pieces of the puzzle are slow to come together.
As Helen inches towards solving the case, her past becomes caught up in her present. Someone is after both her and Eva. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When the net starts to close around them, can Helen escape her own demons as well as help Eva to escape hers?
The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry
Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer.
Determined to clear Simpson’s name, his protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh’s deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.
What You Did by Claire McGowan
It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.
When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted—by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying—but which? And why?
When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.
Deadly Games by Sally Rigby
A killer is playing cat and mouse……. and winning.
DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself.
Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the text books and puts her skills to the test.
The two headstrong women join forces to stop the killer. But sparks fly when real world policing meets academic theory, and it’s not a pretty sight.
Deadly Games is the first book in the Cavendish and Walker crime fiction series. If you like serial killer mysteries and psychological intrigue, then you’ll love Sally Rigby’s page turning book. Pick up your copy today.
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Feel Good Fiction & Romance
Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown
Could one split second change her life forever?
Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track – that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her ticket) are 300 miles away in Amsterdam!
But then Hannah meets Léo on the station platform, and he’s everything Si isn’t. Spending the day with him in Paris forces Hannah to question how well she really knows herself – and whether, sometimes, you need to go in the wrong direction to find everything you’ve been looking for…
The Man I Didn’t Marry by Anna Bell
What happens when the man she married can’t remember her?
Ellie has the perfect life: a happy marriage, a gorgeous daughter and a baby on the way. But when her husband Max develops amnesia, he forgets everything about the last five years . . . including their relationship.
Now the man she said ‘I do’ to has become a stranger, and she has no idea why. Yet Ellie is determined to reconnect and find her Max again – he has to be in there somewhere, right?
As they get to know one another afresh, Ellie finds herself seeing Max clearly for the first time. But then she discovers that before his memory loss, Max was keeping a huge secret from her. Will their new beginning prove to be a false start, just as it seemed they might fall in love all over again?
Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Emmie Blue has a secret…
A long time ago, Emmie Blue released a red balloon with a secret message hidden inside – and against all odds, across hundreds of miles of ocean, it was found on a beach in France by a boy called Lucas.
Fourteen years later, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Emmie hopes that Lucas is finally about to kiss her. She never expected him to announce that he was marrying someone else!
Suddenly Emmie’s dreams are shattered and the one person in her life she can rely on is slipping through her fingers. But what if Lucas isn’t her forever? What if her love story is only just beginning…
Growing Up for Beginners by Claire Calman
It’s not easy being a grown-up, but Eleanor hoped she’d be better at it by now…
When Eleanor waves her daughter off for a gap-year trip, she finds herself stuck as a satellite wife, spinning in faithful orbit around her domineering husband, with only her clever but judgmental father Conrad for comfort.
Andrew isn’t mastering the art of growing up either. But when he finds his belongings dumped in bin bags on the drive, even he can see that his girlfriend is hinting he should move out. With no other options, he moves back in with his parents.
Backing onto their garden lives artist Cecilia, living in chaotic clutter and dreaming of her ex-lovers, still acting like a stroppy teenager at the age of 66.
Four lives are drawn together by long-buried secrets of the past, and it is time for them all to grow up… before it’s too late.
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
Leena is too young to feel stuck.
Eileen is too old to start over.
Maybe it’s time for The Switch…
Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn eighty, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn’t offer many eligible gentlemen… So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love, and L Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire.
But with a rabble of unruly OAPs to contend with, as well as the annoyingly perfect – and distractingly handsome – local schoolteacher, Leena learns that switching lives isn’t straightforward. Back in London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, and with the online dating scene. But is her perfect match nearer to home than she first thought?
The Golden Oldies Guesthouse by Dee MacDonald
Tess and Simon Sparrow may have a few more grey hairs than they used to, but that doesn’t stop them being swept up in a whirlwind romance and starting over. Swapping their city lives for an escape to the Cornish countryside, they fall in love with a crumbling hotel and impulsively buy it to renovate as their forever home. But soon the newlyweds have had their first fight (and their second and third…) and building costs are spiralling out of control. Their families think they’re mad and Tess is starting to agree – she just wants to escape back to civilisation.
Doing up the glorious, wisteria-clad property was meant to be a delightful retirement project. But the electrics are faulty, there’s no central heating, and the kitchen ceiling’s fallen in: the dream has become reality and things only get more chaotic when the first guests arrive…
Mysterious Celia, hapless romantic Dominic and tarnished, lovelorn actress Titania are all looking for a fresh start. Everyone in this eclectic group has their own reasons for being in Cornwall, but the summer is full of secrets and surprises. As plans go awry and truths are revealed, Tess and Simon realise that they’ve taken on a bigger challenge than they intended to: can their happily-ever-after survive the chaos or will this end up being the biggest mistake of their lives?
Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits. But Tilly’s childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she’d ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning.
Now an adult, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother’s unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. But when her mother dies, Tilda returns to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Queenie sets about unravelling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel, only to discover that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all …
Mothers and daughters … their story can be complicated … but it can also turn out to have a happy ending.
La Cour des Roses Books 2 & 3 by Helen Pollard
Return to the Little French Guesthouse
Blue skies, new love, and a glass of Bordeaux . . . what could possibly go wrong?
When Emmy Jamieson leaves her life behind and moves to La Cour des Roses, a gorgeous guesthouse amidst vineyards in France, everything is resting on her success as the new guesthouse manager.
Looming in the calendar is the biggest booking ever, when the entire eccentric, demanding Thomson family will descend for a golden wedding anniversary. With airbeds on the floor and caravans in the garden, La Cour des Roses will be bursting at the seams.
Emmy knows she’s up to the challenge, especially with the support of the gorgeous Alain, the half-French, half-English, caramel-eyed accountant. But she hadn’t counted on a naked, sleepwalking travel blogger, or the return of owner Rupert’s venomous ex-wife Gloria.
Gloria has a few things to say about Emmy’s new role, Rupert’s finances, and the unsuspecting Alain, which send everybody reeling. Just when Emmy can see a future for herself of endless sunshine, true love and laughter, are her dreams about to be ripped at the seams?
Summer at the Little French Guesthouse
Summer sun, chilled, white wine, and a gorgeous fiancé. Nothing could upset pure bliss … Right?
Emmy Jamieson loves her new life in the gentle hills and sunflowers of the lush French countryside, managing La Cour des Roses, a beautiful, white stone guesthouse. With marriage to caramel-eyed Alain just round the corner, things couldn’t be more perfect.
The odd glass (gallon) of wine dulls the sound of Emmy’s mum in full motherzilla-of-the-bride mode, and the faint tinkling of alarm bells coming from Alain’s ex are definitely nothing to worry about. Guesthouse owner Rupert and a whole host of old and new friends are there to make sure nothing gets in the way of Emmy’s happiness.
But as Emmy gets close to the big day, a secret from the past throws everything decidedly off track. Will her idyllic French wedding go ahead as planned, or will Emmy run back home to England with a broken heart?
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General/Contemporary Fiction
The Never Ending Summer by Emma Kennedy
Three women. Two unforgettable road trips.
Wherever you are in life, it’s never too late to find yourself.
Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin.
For Agnes’s mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can’t help feeling that something is missing.
As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of…
Brass Ring by Diane Chamberlain
What if your LONG-LOST SISTER holds the key to a family secret?
Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn’t trade for anything . . . but that is about to change for ever.
When Claire fails to prevent a young woman’s suicide, the incident seems to trigger something in her – forgotten images of a long-lost sister and a childhood she had always remembered as being close to perfection. Realising that this was not the case, Claire runs the risk of uncovering the dark secrets that are locked away in her memories.
Caught in a complex struggle between the present and past, between the man who wants to help her and the husband who cannot, Claire must discover the terrible truth for herself…
This Secret Thing by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Out of love. Out of protection. Out of fear. Everyone has a reason to lie.
Everyone in Raleigh, North Carolina, is talking about Norah Ramsey, the single mother accused of being a suburban madam. But Norah’s not the only one keeping secrets.
After her mother’s arrest, Norah’s teenage daughter, Violet, is devastated and alone. She has no one to turn to until her grandmother Polly arrives. Polly, long estranged from Norah, is running from her own troubles. Down the street, Bess, once Norah’s best friend, desperately tries to hide secrets while Casey, Bess’s daughter, flees college after a traumatic event, only to find that home isn’t the safe haven she expected. And Nico, the detective who has doggedly pursued Norah Ramsey in hopes that she will lead him to his missing brother, is drawn further into these women’s lives while facing his own domestic disturbance.
Scandal has brought each of them to a crossroads. Now, as they delve into Norah’s secrets, they must come to terms with secrets of their own—ones that still have the power to hurt or to heal.
Back to School by Jack Sheffield
The year is 1969 and Jack Sheffield is a young teacher in need of a job.
In a room full of twenty-nine other newly qualified teachers, he’s overjoyed when he’s appointed to Heather View Primary. Jack is excited to start his first year there and to begin shaping young minds in a beautiful new location on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
But Heather View isn’t as idyllic as it first sounds. In fact, it looks more like a prison than a primary school. With less than adequate funding and a head teacher who doesn’t seem to care, it’s no easy task to give the kids the education they deserve. But Jack’s determined to do just that.
Full of warmth and good humour, Back to School is like taking a nostalgic walk through the past to a simpler time…
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The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple with their own inner demons, the line between right and wrong starts to blur. Will the secrets they keep stop them from escaping with their lives?
Like a House on Fire by Caroline Hulse
Things Stella and George have had blazing rows about:
– Misquoting Jurassic Park
– Leaving a Coke can on the side of the bath
– Fitting car seats for their hypothetical kids
In other news, they’re getting divorced.
But first, Stella’s mum is throwing a murder mystery party and – with her dad losing his job, her mum’s recent diagnosis, and some very odd behaviour from her sister – now is not the time to tell everyone.
All Stella and George have to do is make it through the day without their break-up being discovered – though it will soon turn out that having secrets runs in the family…
A Touch of Silk by Caro Fraser
To all the world, Leo Davies is both a successful and charismatic QC, whose flourishing career is the envy of the legal profession. But this outward facade conceals a troubled private life, one that he is struggling to keep hidden from his clients and co-workers. When feelings for a close colleague in chambers are rekindled, Leo is torn between following his heart and breaking apart the fragile relationship he has with his daughter.
And with a new lawyer joining the team at 5 Caper Court, Leo is also in for a rude awakening at work. As professional rivalries become personal entanglements, flings and rumours abound, and Leo will discover the danger of mixing business with pleasure.
Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope
What happens when family roles are reversed and the children must look after mum and dad?
It’s been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it’s left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . .
As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together?
The Liberation of Brigid Dunne by Patricia Scanlan
**Published in the UK as A Family Reunion** which is £5.99!!
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.
When four feisty women from the same family get together at a family reunion, anything can happen…
Marie-Claire, betrayed by her partner Marc, plans to teach him a lesson he will never forget. She travels home from Toronto to Ireland, to the house of the Four Winds, for her great-aunt Reverend Mother Brigid’s eightieth birthday celebrations. It will be a long-awaited reunion for three generations of family, bringing together her mother, Keelin, and grandmother, Imelda – who have never quite got along
And then all hell breaks loose.
Bitter, jealous Imelda makes a shocking revelation that forces them all to confront their pasts, admit mistakes, and face the truths that have shaped their lives. With four fierce, opinionated women in one family, will they ever be able to forgive the past and share a future?
And what of Marc?
It’s never too late to make amends…or is it?
Find Me by André Aciman
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami’s visit and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
Secrets of Santorini by Patricia Wilson
Sent away to a convent school in Dublin at the age of five, Irini McGuire has always had a strained and distant relationship with her mother, Bridget, a celebrated archaeologist who lives on the paradise island of Santorini. So, when Irini receives news that Bridget has been injured at a dig and is in a coma, she knows it is finally time to return to the island of her birth.
Reading through her mother’s notes at her bedside, Irini starts to realise how little she knows about Bridget’s life. Now, driven by rumours that her mother’s injury was no accident, Irini must uncover the dark secrets behind her family’s separation.
Will she discover the truth about her parents and her past before it is too late?
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris
Faith. Secret. Magic. Murder…?
Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her youngest child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend.
But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette and a written confession to Reynaud, the life of the sleepy village is once more thrown into disarray. Then the opening of a mysterious new shop in the place of the florist’s across the square – one that mirrors the chocolaterie, and has a strange appeal of its own – seems to herald a change: a confrontation, a turbulence – even, perhaps, a murder . . .
What will the wind blow in today?
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six.
From the moment Daisy walked barefoot on to the stage at the Whisky, she and the band were a sensation. Their sound defined an era. Their albums were on every turntable. They sold out arenas from coast to coast.
This is the story of their incredible rise: the desire, the rivalry – and the music.
Then, on 12 July 1979, Daisy Jones and the Six split up.
Nobody knew why. Until now…
If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
A TWIST THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART . . . AN ENDING THAT WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
Audrey’s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected.
As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.
As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? – the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.
A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage secures her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community. However, Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.
America, present day. Tori Kovač, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation. Setting out to learn the truth, Tori’s journey leads her to a remote seaside village in Japan where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.
Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson
Meet Eve, who has departed from her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children; and Anastasia: defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, suddenly vulnerable as she awaits a life-saving operation.
Inexperienced and ill-equipped, Sally and Eve embark upon a journey through the canals of England, guided by the remote and unsympathetic Anastasia. As they glide gently – and not so gently – through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of canalboat life draw them inexorably together, and a tender and unforgettable story unfolds.
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Historical
The Raj Hotel series by Janet MacLeod Trotter
The Emerald Affair (Book 1)
In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day?
In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her best friend Lydia’s home. Esmie is at first concerned for Tom’s shell shock, then captivated by his charm, but it’s effervescent Lydia he marries, and the pair begin a new adventure together in India.
When marriage to Tom’s doctor friend Harold offers Esmie the chance to work in India, the two sets of newlyweds find themselves living wildly different lives on the subcontinent. Esmie, heartbroken but resolved, is nursing at a mission hospital on the North West Frontier. Lydia, meanwhile, is the glamorous mistress of the Raj Hotel, where Tom hopes his sociable new wife will dazzle international guests.
As Esmie struggles with her true feelings for Tom and the daily dangers of her work, Lydia realises the Raj is not the centre of high society she had dreamed of. And when crisis strikes both couples, Esmie faces a shattering choice: should she stay the constant friend she’s always been, or risk everything and follow her heart?
The Sapphire Child
In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?
In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved.
As the Second World War looms, Andrew joins the army to fight for freedom. Meanwhile in India, Stella, reeling from her terrible betrayal, also throws herself into the war effort, volunteering for the Women’s Auxiliary Corps, resigned to living a lonelier life than the one she dreamed of as a child.
When Andrew returns to the East on the eve of battle with Japan, the two former friends are reunited, though bitter experience has changed them. Can they rekindle what they once had or will war demand of their friendship the ultimate sacrifice?
A Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.
Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor’s letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mystery inheritance but in order to find out more, she must travel to the glittering French Riviera.
Eve discovers her legacy is an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean sea and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous.
But under the heat of the sun, all is not as it seems. Now, Eve must unlock the story behind her surprise bequest – before things spiral out of control…
The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey
Occupied Italy, 1944. In the mountain regions south of Bologna, Liliana Nicoletti’s family finds escaped POW James Foley behind German lines. Committed to the anti-Fascist cause, they deliver him to a powerful band of local partisans. But when the SS launches a brutal attack against the Resistance, Liliana’s peaceful community is destroyed. Alone and thrown together by tragedy, James and Liliana fight together as Monte Sole burns. Forging an unbreakable bond, they know their only hope of survival is to make it to the Allied lines.
Twelve years later, fate reunites Liliana, newly widowed, and James, now a journalist for a New York magazine. Liliana reveals to him the obsession that has haunted her since the massacre at Monte Sole: finding and bringing to justice the SS officer who ordered her family killed. James has a revelation too. He might know how to hunt the man down. Joining forces once more, and increasingly drawn to each other, Liliana and James discover new levels of conspiracy on a journey that leads them to Argentina—and to a choice that will change their lives forever.
Pippo & Clara by Diana Rosie
A country torn apart by war. Two siblings divided by fate.
Italy, 1938. Mussolini is in power and war is not far away . . .
Clara and Pippo are just children: quiet, thoughtful Clara is the older sister; Pippo, the younger brother, is forever chatting. The family has only recently arrived in the city carrying their few possessions.
When Mamma goes missing early one morning, both Clara and Pippo go in search of her. Clara turns right; Pippo left.
As a result of the choices they make that morning, their lives will be changed forever.
Spirited by Julie Cohen
Viola has an impossible talent. Searching for meaning in her grief, she uses her photography to feel closer to her late father, taking solace from the skills he taught her – and to keep her distance from her husband. But her pictures seem to capture things invisible to the eye . . .
Henriette is a celebrated spirit medium, carrying nothing but her secrets with her as she travels the country. When she meets Viola, a powerful connection is sparked between them – but Victorian society is no place for reckless women.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, invisible threads join Viola and Henriette to another woman who lives in secrecy, hiding her dangerous act of rebellion in plain sight.
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
Only a few months after the end of the Second World War, a new battle is beginning in the little village of Chawton. Once the final home of Jane Austen, the Chawton estate is dwindling, and the last piece of Austen’s heritage is at risk of being sold to the highest bidder…
Drawn together by their love of her novels, eight very different people – from a local farmer to a glamorous film star – must unite to attempt something remarkable. As new friendships form, and the griefs of the past begin to fade, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society, and to save the beloved novelist’s home and legacy. But can her words change all their lives in return?
People Like Us by Louise Fein
Leipzig, 1930s Germany
Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it.
Until Walter changes everything. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life. A Jew.
Anti-semitism is growing by the day, and neighbours, friends and family members are turning on one another. As Hetty falls deeper in love with a man who is against all she has been taught, she begins to fight against her country, her family and herself. Hetty will have to risk everything to save Walter, even if it means sacrificing herself…
The Strange Adventures of H by Sarah Burton
Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H’s life is a happy one until her lecherous cousin robs her of her innocence, and the plague takes away the city and the people she loves. H is cast out – friendless, pregnant and destitute – into the rapidly emptying streets of London under quarantine.
Forced to fend for herself, she is determined to gain back the life she lost. H will face a villain out for revenge, find love in the most unexpected places, and overcome a betrayal that she never could have foreseen. Weathering it all, can H charm, or scheme, her way to the life of freedom and independence that she longs for?
She Came to Stay by Eleni Kyriacou
In a city of strangers, who can you trust?
London, 1952. Dina Demetriou has travelled from Cyprus for a better life. She’s certain that excitement, adventure and opportunity are out there, waiting – if only she knew where to look.
Her passion for clothes and flair for sewing land her a job repairing the glittering costumes at the notorious Pelican Revue. It’s here that she befriends the mysterious and beautiful Bebba.
With her bleached-blonde hair and an appetite for mischief, Bebba is like no Greek Dina has ever met before. She guides Dina around the fashionable shops, bars and clubs of Soho, and Dina finally feels life has begun.
But Bebba has a secret. And as thick smog brings the city to a standstill, the truth emerges with devastating results. Dina’s new life now hangs by a thread. What will be left when the fog finally clears? And will Dina be willing to risk everything to protect her future?
The Foundling by Stacey Halls
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl – and why.
Less than a mile from Bess’s lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. When her close friend – an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital – persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
1925. The war is over and a new generation is coming of age, keen to put the trauma of the previous one behind them.
Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing whose life is dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure; to parties and drinking and staying just the right side of scandal. Lawrence Weston is a struggling artist, desperate to escape the poverty of his upbringing and make something of himself. When their worlds collide one summer night, neither can resist the thrill of the forbidden, the lure of a love affair that they know cannot possibly last.
But there is a dark side to pleasure and a price to be paid for breaking the rules. By the end of that summer everything has changed.
A decade later, nine year old Alice is staying at Blackwood Hall with her distant grandparents, piecing together clues from her mother’s letters to discover the secrets of the past, the truth about the present, and hope for the future.
The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen
As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage.
When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified—and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow.
As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny.
The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
At the close of World War II, London is in ruins and Rose Daniel isn’t at peace. Eight years ago, her brother disappeared while fighting alongside Gypsy partisans in Spain. From his letters, Rose has just two clues to his whereabouts—his descriptions of the spectacular south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and his love for a woman who was carrying his child.
In Spain, it has been eight years since Lola Aragon’s family was massacred. Eight years since she rescued a newborn girl from the arms of her dying mother and ran for her life. She has always believed that nothing could make her return…until a plea for help comes from a desperate stranger.
Now, Rose, Lola, and the child set out on a journey from the wild marshes of the Camargue to the dazzling peaks of Spain’s ancient mountain communities. As they come face-to-face with war’s darkest truths, their lives will be changed forever by memories, secrets, and friendships.
The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
1700s
Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work at the home of an English silk merchant. Very soon, she finds herself thrust into a dangerous world, where her talent for herbs and healing starts to attract unwanted attention.
Mary-LouiseStephenson dreams of becoming a silk designer, a path that has remained largely forbidden to women. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have shocking consequences for all who dwell at the Silk House.
Present Day
Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside to look after the first intake of girls in its history. She is to stay with them in the Silk House, a converted silk factory from the 18th century, where the shadows hide secrets waiting to be discovered…
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it.
The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm.
When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteen-year-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn’t quite what she seems. As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.
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The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman
A large black cast iron range glowing hot, the kettle steaming on top, provider of everything from bath water and clean socks to morning tea: it’s a nostalgic icon of a Victorian way of life. But it is far more than that. In this book, social historian and TV presenter Ruth Goodman tells the story of how the development of the coal-fired domestic range fundamentally changed not just our domestic comforts, but our world.
The revolution began as far back as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, when London began the switch from wood to coal as its domestic fuel – a full 200 years before any other city. It would be this domestic demand for more coal that would lead to the expansion of mining, engineering, construction and industry: the Domestic Revolution kick-started, pushed and fuelled the Industrial Revolution.
There were other radical shifts. Coal cooking was to change not just how we cooked but what we cooked (causing major swings in diet), how we washed (first our laundry and then our bodies) and how we decorated (spurring the wallpaper industry). It also defined the nature of women’s and men’s working lives, pushing women more firmly into the domestic sphere. It transformed our landscape and environment (by the time of Elizabeth’s death in 1603, London’s air was as polluted as that of modern Beijing). Even tea drinking can be brought back to coal in the home, with all its ramifications for the shape of the empire and modern world economics.
Taken together, these shifts in our day-to-day practices started something big, something unprecedented, something that was exported across the globe and helped create the world we live in today.
Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
In every relationship there are two narratives; more often than not these narratives do not converge.
This is the basis for academic and writer Phyllis Rose’s cult classic Parallel Lives, a book that examines five literary Victorian partnerships, from Charles Dickens’s disastrous marriage to Catherine Hogarth to George Eliot’s joyful and unwed union with George Henry Lewes.
In an age where divorce was scandalous and ‘until death do us part’ was taken literally, the subjects of Rose’s book were forced to find inventive and surprising ways to coexist. As she tracks the shifting tides of power within these parallel lives in fascinating detail, Rose shows how desire, fantasy and control play out in our most intimate relationships.
Parallel Livesis an engrossing group biography and an essential work of feminist non-fiction that continues to resonate, compelling us to reflect on how we live now.
I Love the Bones of You by Christopher Eccleston
Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship that has shaped his entire career trajectory, mirroring and defining his own highs and lows, from stage and screen triumph to breakdown, anorexia, self-doubt, and a deep belief in the basic principles of access and equality denied to generations. The actor reveals how his background in Salford, and vision of a person, like millions, denied their true potential, shaped his desire to make drama forever entwined with the marginalised, the oppressed, and the outsider.
Movingly, and in scenes sadly familiar to increasing numbers, Eccleston also describes how the tightening grip of dementia on his father slowly blinded him to his son’s existence, forcing a new and final chapter in their connection, and how ‘Ronnie Ecc’ still walks alongside him today. Told with trademark honesty and openness, I Love The Bones Of Youis a celebration of those on whom the spotlight so rarely shines, as told by a man who found his voice in its glare. A love letter to one man, and a paean to many.
‘My father was an “ordinary man”, which of course means he was extraordinary. I aim to capture him and his impact on my life and career.’ – Christopher Eccleston
Till the Cows Come Home by Sara Cox
Till the Cows Come Home is DJ and TV presenter Sara Cox’s wonderfully written, funny coming of age memoir of growing up in 1980s Lancashire.
The youngest of five siblings, Sara grew up on her father’s cattle farm surrounded by dogs, cows, horses, fields and lots of ‘cack’. The lanky kid sister – half girl, half forehead – a nuisance to the older kids, the farm was her very own dangerous adventure playground, ‘a Bolton version of Narnia’.
Her writing conjures up a time of wagon rides and haymaking and agricultural shows, alongside chain smoking pensioners, cabaret nights at the Conservative club and benign parenting. Sara’s love of family, of the animals and the people around them shines through on every page. Unforgettable characters are lovingly and expertly drawn bringing to life a time and place.
Sara later divided her childhood days between the beloved farm and the pub she lived above with her mother, these early experiences of freedom and adventure came to be the perfect training ground for later life.
The Five : the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.
Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.
Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression – or as she calls it, ‘the grey slug’ – for twenty-five years. In 2003, she moved from the city to the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens and began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting and drawing as she went. Each walk lifted her mood, proving to be as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical.
In Emma’s hand-illustrated diary, she takes us with her as she follows the paths and trails around her cottage and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna over the course of a year. Reflecting on how these encounters impact her mood, Emma’s moving and candid account of her own struggles is a powerful testament to how reconnecting with nature may offer some answers to today’s mental health epidemic. While charting her own seasonal highs and lows, she also explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into such areas as forest bathing and the ways in which our bodies and minds respond to plants and wildlife when we venture outdoors.
Written with Emma’s characteristic wit and frankness, and filled with her beautiful drawings, paintings and photography, this is a truly unique book for anyone who has ever felt drawn to nature and wondered about its influence over us.
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Christopher Eccleston (pronounced /ˈɛkəlstən/; born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005 he became the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
Born into a working-class family in Langworthy, Salford, Eccleston is the youngest of three boys. His brothers, Alan and Keith, are twins eight years his senior. The family lived in a small terraced house in Blodwell Street until the late 1960s, when they relocated to nearby Little Hulton. Eccleston attended Joseph Eastham's High School, Little Hulton, where he became head boy Growing up with a love of Granada and BBC1 television, his main ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United. However, at the age of 19, he found himself to be a much better actor than footballer, being inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff. Eccleston completed a two-year Performance Foundation Course at Salford Tech, before going on to train at the Hampstead-based Central School of Speech and Drama. As an actor, his early influences had been Ken Loach's Kes and Albert Finney's performance in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, but he soon found himself performing the classics, including the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Molière. At age 25, Eccleston made his professional stage debut in the Bristol Old Vic's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Underemployed as an actor for some years after graduating school, Eccleston took a variety of odd jobs at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.
Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It and an episode of Inspector Morse, "Second Time Around", also in 1991. However, it was a regular role in the television series Cracker (1993–94) that made him a recognisable figure in the UK. At around the same time he appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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(CNN) — Far-right demonstrations turned violent for a second night across England Wednesday, in the wake of this week’s mass stabbing in Southport – the worst attack on children in the country in recent history.
While a community continues to grieve the murder of three young girls, far-right agitators have mobilized around online misinformation and hateful, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives – fueling disorder in London, Manchester and the northeastern town of Hartlepool.
Chaotic scenes unfolded in the capital on Wednesday night, with protesters from the “Enough is Enough” demonstration throwing bottles and cans at police, and hurling flares toward the gates of Downing Street while chanting far-right, anti-Islam slogans, including, “We want our country back.”
In Manchester, demonstrators wearing balaclavas gathered outside a hotel that houses asylum seekers, and in Hartlepool, police cars were set ablaze by a mob who carried sticks and pelted officers with objects.
More than 100 people in London were arrested for “violent disorder” and an “assault on an emergency worker,” according to the city’s Metropolitan Police. There were two arrests in Manchester, and eight in Hartlepool, according to police there.
The violence follows Tuesday’s night of unrest in the northwest English town of Southport, where a group of far-right protesters hurled bricks at a mosque, set cars and police vehicles on fire and clashed with police barely an hour after a peaceful vigil for Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7) and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9) was held across town.
Eight other children suffered stab wounds in the attack and five of them are in critical condition. Two adults also remain in critical condition after being injured in the attack, police said.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the scenes, saying the protesters “hijacked” the community’s grief.
Met police superintendent Neil Holyoak said that while “it is understandable the public have strong feelings” about the Southport stabbings, “the subsequent violent, unlawful disorder that unfolded was completely unacceptable and driven by misinformation.”
Shortly after Monday’s attack, far-right groups began to circulate a false name for the alleged attacker across social media, and falsely claimed that he was an asylum seeker.
The suspect is a 17-year-old from Banks, Lancashire. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, according to police.
Axel Rudakubana, who was charged with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder, was named on Thursday after a judge lifted reporting restrictions.
Less than 24 hours after the attack, however, before the suspect’s name had been released, the false name had already received over 30,000 mentions from more than 18,000 unique accounts on X alone – and was amplified by prominent far-right leaders, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
That false name had been also recommended to users through X’s algorithm, and was trending as a top recommended search result for users under the “What’s happening” sidebar.
Tim Squirrell, ISD’s director of Communications and Editorial, told CNN that after any attack, there are always people speculating about the suspect’s ethnicity and religion.
“White nationalists will seize on any opportunity to spread misinformation about Muslims, about anyone who’s not White. So they were immediately on it – and were happy to spread basically whatever would confirm their presuppositions about who had done it,” he said.
Whether it was a malicious actor, or whether it was someone who was looking for “clicks,” is unclear, Squirrell added. “But we do know that the name that they gave out was made up… and that all the details are completely made up.”
Squirrell pointed to the fact that the viral posts about the alleged attacker said that he was on a watch list for MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. However, MI5 – MI6’s internal counterpart – is the organization responsible for fighting domestic terrorism. “They gave out details that were basically designed to pick up the attention of the far-right, and also for anyone who is concerned about migration,” he said.
Algorithms tend to favor emotive, sensationalist, outrageous, engaging content – because they are based on engagement.
“Things that people on the far-right – or people who are interested in peddling misinformation as a way of getting engagement – tend to post things that will appeal to the algorithm,” Squirrell said. He added that, while the algorithm played a part, there was also a “huge amount of organizing happening” in a variety of different places that are not algorithmically oriented – for example in far-right groups on the instant-messaging platform Telegram.
Such Telegram groups have been instrumental in organizing these demonstrations.
Hope Not Hate, a UK advocacy group that campaigns against racism and fascism, identified one of the first Telegram groups that appeared on the encrypted social media network just hours after the Southport stabbings.
Like what was being shared on X and other platforms, the Telegram group “Southport Wake Up,” also posted false information about the alleged suspect. Hours after the attack, the group’s creator sent out the details for the first protest: Meet near a Southport mosque on Tuesday.
It was there that the violence began.
The “Southport Wake Up” group is still active, and on Thursday, posted calls for similar disruptions at Muslim centers in other cities across England.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Starmer was set to meet with senior police leaders in London on Thursday.
In a statement, Downing Street said: “While the right to peaceful protest must be protected at all costs, he will be clear that criminals who exploit that right in order to sow hatred and carry out violent acts will face the full force of the law.”
CNN’s Jessie Gretener, Duarte Mendonça, Ivana Kottasová and Radina Gigova contributed to this article.
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“People like myself, Sean Bean, Maxine Peake – there’s not going to be people like us coming through in 20 years,” he maintains.
The Salford-born former Doctor Who actor is talking to i in the wake of his award-nominated performance in HBO’s The Leftovers, which tells the story of another disappearing act.
The show begins with 140 million humans vanishing from the face of the earth with no explanation, in an event known as the ‘sudden departure’.
As the show comes to a conclusion after three seasons, Eccleston has been given pause for thought about his time in the US – and the lack of diversity in the British arts.
“It’s always been a policy of the Conservative government and party to destroy working class identity.”
‘We need a spiritual revolution’
In its final season, The Leftovers came of age, resonating with critics after two seasons that struggled to find their audience.
The show’s fascinating high-concept premise presented us with damaged characters attempting to find a belief system in the wake of a catastrophic event. As Matt Jamison, Eccleston played a former reverend struggling to understand why he wasn’t taken in the sudden departure, an event which he attributes to the rapture.
Each episode brings a tidal wave of existential crisis. However, Eccleston says that questions raised by the show weren’t new for him.
“These are questions I’ve been carrying around with me for life.”
Despite moving towards agnosticism following the birth of his children, Eccleston identifies himself as “a peace-loving atheist”.
The actor is critical of organised religion and suggests that we all need to question the role it has in our lives. “We’ve had an industrial revolution, we’ve had a digital revolution, now we need a spiritual revolution,” he states.
Mancunian to New Yorker
The Leftovers is set in the New York state town of Mapleton, and Eccleston worked tirelessly to morph his Mancunian twang into a believable American accent.
“It’s a slower process for me because I learn visually. Some people learn audibly, to the ears, but I have to see the words written down phonetically and it’s a slower process.
“It improved as I went on and that’s always going to happen because you’re spending more and more time in the character.
“I was surrounded by American actors who weren’t even thinking about dialect. It was an enormous challenge for me and one that I’m very proud of.”
Eccleston notes that the only criticism of his accent has come from British viewers.
“Nobody’s picked me up on it in America, but in Britain people are going to pick me up on it because I’m part of the furniture over here, you just can’t please everybody.
“The point for me was to please the American producers and the casting producers and I can tell you for a fact that that has worked because I’m receiving work offers over there,” he says with a chuckle. “I’ve achieved my goal.”
“You can’t get into drama school if you’re from a council estate. You can’t afford it.”
Taking aim at the Tories
As Eccleston forges a new chapter of his career on the other side of the Atlantic, however, the actor fears that high profile working class actors back home will soon be a thing of the past.
“The situation is not improving,” he maintains. “It’s getting worse and worse. All areas of the arts are becoming ivory towers.”
The actor is scathing of the Conservative Party, who he holds responsible for the decline in working class talent.
“Due to student debt, we are being excluded. It’s always been a policy of the Conservative government and party to destroy working class identity.”
“If you prevent them from having a cultural voice which is what’s happening, they achieve that,” he continues. “They hate us, they want to destroy us, so we’re being ruled out of having a voice.
“You can’t get into drama school if you’re from a council estate. You can’t afford it.
Eccleston’s notable roles
Let Him Have It, 1991
Shallow Grave, 1994
Our Friends in the North, 1996
Hillsborough, 1996
eXistenZ, 1999
24 Hour Party People, 2002
28 Days Later, 2002
Doctor Who, 2005
Heroes, 2007
Thor: The Dark World, 2013
Legend, 2015
The A Word, 2016
“It was different for me in the eighties and look what I’ve achieved. Look what Sean Bean’s achieved. Look what Maxine Peake’s achieved.
“But there’s not going to be the numbers in 20 years, and it’s the same for people of colour who come from that background. We’re moving towards a white culture, but we live in a multi-cultural society.”
The question of free education
Eccleston is talking not long after Jeremy Corbyn’s vow to wipe out student debt if Labour are voted into power following the next General Election.
Despite having differences in opinion with the Labour leader, Eccleston insists that higher education should be free.
“I have my problems with Corbyn, but the idea that you have to pay for your education? It didn’t happen to me,” he says.
“It’s a policy to exclude the working classes educating themselves, and realising the corruption that goes right up to the top of the Conservative Party.”
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Christopher Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It (1991). However, it was a regular role in the television series Cracker (1993) that made him a recognizable figure in the United Kingdom. He appeared in the low-budget thriller Shallow Grave (1994), and in the same year, won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). It was the transmission of the latter series on BBC Two that really made him into a household name in the United Kingdom. In his film career, he has starred as a leading man alongside a number of major actresses, such as Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998), Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998), and Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster in The Invisible Circus (2001), and Nicole Kidman in The Others (2001).
In addition to his successful film career, he has continued to work in television, appearing in some of the most challenging and thought-provoking British dramas. These have included Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), the Iago character in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello", and the religious epic The Second Coming (2003), playing Steve Baxter, the son of God. His stage career, while not as extensive as his screen credits, has nevertheless shown him to be a formidable actor. He has given intense, focused performances in such plays as "Hamlet", "Electricity" and "Miss Julie", for which he received excellent reviews.
A very highly regarded actor, Eccleston has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the BAFTA Television Awards, the British premiere television awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North (1996). Although he didn't win those awards, however, he did triumph in the Best Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends in the North (1996). He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in "Flesh and Blood". In 2005, he received the Most Popular Actor award in the National Television Awards for starring in Russell T. Davies's re-imagining of Doctor Who (2005).
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Christopher Eccleston (; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor. The recipient of an Emmy Award and two BAFTA Award nominations, Eccleston is best known for his work on television and in film - in particular for his collaborations with directors Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom and writers Peter Flannery, Jimmy McGovern and Russell T. Davies.
Eccleston trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made his professional acting debut onstage in a Bristol Old Vic production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Eccleston garnered attention for his film roles as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It and David Stevens in Shallow Grave and for his television performances in Cracker and Hillsborough. His BAFTA-nominated performance as Nicky Hutchinson in the BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996) established Eccleston as a household name in the UK; he followed the serial with film roles in Jude, A Price Above Rubies, Elizabeth, eXistenZ, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Invisible Circus, The Others, 24 Hour Party People and 28 Days Later and television roles including the drama series Clocking Off and a second BAFTA-nominated performance as Messianic figure Stephen Baxter in the ITV drama serial The Second Coming.
Eccleston garnered widespread attention and acclaim for portraying the ninth incarnation of the title character in the 2005 revival of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, becoming the first actor to play the role since 1996. He departed the role after a single series, winning a National Television Award and receiving Broadcasting Press Guild Award and BAFTA Cymru Award nominations for his performance. Eccleston has since appeared in the television series Heroes, The Shadow Line, Blackout, Lucan, The Leftovers, Safe House, Fortitude and The A Word and films including G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Thor: The Dark World and Legend. He won an International Emmy Award for his performance in an episode of the anthology series Accused. Onstage, Eccleston has played the title roles in productions of Hamlet and Macbeth as well as starring in productions of Miss Julie, A Doll's House and Antigone. Since 2017, Eccleston has narrated the documentary series Ambulance.
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Christopher Eccleston says his northern accent held him back when trying to secure Shakespearean roles on stage.
The actor star says there is a perception in the industry that "people like me can't be classical".
Eccleston was born into a working class family on a council estate in Salford in Lancashire in 1964.
He will appear as Macbeth in a new production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon, but he had to ask for the role.
"I'm never offered Shakespeare," he says. "I went after this. Nobody offered it me. I went after it."
He wrote "an old-fashioned letter" to the artistic director of the RSC, Gregory Doran.
"I said, since I was 17 I've always wanted to play Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company. So can I do it?"
But the 54-year-old resents having to ask for roles.
"I should have been offered more but I didn't go the right university or the public schools. It needs to change," he adds.
He has played one other Shakespeare role on stage - Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2002.
But nothing since. And he is convinced his background is to blame.
"I think the people who run some of the big established theatres, particularly in London, they associate Shakespeare with white, middle-class men.
"It's discrimination and I loathe it."
And for fans of his work on television, including Doctor Who, Cracker and Our Friends in the North, and on film in Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later, Christopher Eccleston has a surprising confession.
"I became a television actor and a film actor by default. But if I'd been offered the big classic roles which I wanted to do, I'd have done them.
"I've had a passionate love of Shakespeare since I was 17, but in a way, it's like the love that dare not mention its name."
Nonetheless, despite the fact it makes him "very angry", Christopher Eccleston says he is "fortunate" because he is white and male.
"It's a lot more difficult for women," he adds.
And for that reason he thinks gender blind casting is "the greatest thing to happen to British theatre since William Shakespeare wrote his plays".
"The fact that there are women who will one day play Macbeth and play Hamlet, with no second thought, is the most wonderful thing," he says.
"But women still struggle. The roles are not there. There is still a long, long way to go."
Christopher Eccleston played the ninth incarnation of the Doctor when the show returned to BBC One after 16 years.
He welcomes the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the first female star of Doctor Who.
"She will be the best Doctor. I mean why did they have to wait so long?"
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Christopher Eccleston was born 16 February 1964 and today celebrates his 59th birthday.
Eccleston’s time as the Ninth Doctor was of course a notoriously short one, remaining in the role for just a single series in 2005. Nevertheless, it was a hugely important series, being the one that revived our favourite show.
So have a fantastic birthday, Chris!
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The internet has made a lot of noise since the casting of Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who. The first female custodian of the Tardis gets her hands on the keys this Christmas and has said that she is hoping to get some "calls of advice" from previous owners.
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David Tennant has already praised Doctor Who's new "strong female lead" but one Doctor who has stayed schtum on the topic is Christopher Eccleston... until now.
Appearing on Radio 4 show Loose Ends, the actor was asked by stand-in presenter Sara Cox what he thought of the new Doctor.
"She's working class, she's northern, what can go wrong?" said the Lancashire-born actor.
Of course, Eccleston is well acquainted with Whittaker; the two starred together in National Theatre production Antigone back in 2012.
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The 53-year-old played the ninth Doctor for one series in 2005, and was the first to appear in BBC1's revamped show under the stewardship of Russell T. Davies.
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Whittaker's casting was announced last month, after the men's Wimbledon final, with her Thirteenth Doctor due to make her first appearance in this year's Christmas special.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Title: Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire
Author: James Croston
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC SITES OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ***
HISTORIC SITES
OF
Lancashire and Cheshire.
A WAYFARER'S NOTES IN THE PALATINE COUNTIES,
HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY, GENEALOGICAL,
AND DESCRIPTIVE.
BY
JAMES CROSTON, F.S.A.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain; Member of the Architectural,
Archæological and Historic Society of Chester; Member of the
Council of the Record Society.
Author of "On Foot through the Peak," "A History of Samlesbury," "Historical Memorials
of the Church in Prestbury," "Old Manchester and its Worthies,"
"Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire,"
etc., etc.
JOHN HEYWOOD,
Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester;
and ii, Paternoster Buildings,
LONDON.
1883.
TO
JOHN LEIGH, Esq.,
of
the manor house, hale, cheshire,
the president and
one of the founders of the society for the
reprinting of the rarer poetical literature
of the spenserain age,
in testimony of lengthened friendship
and literary obligation,
and
in appreciation of his efforts
to rescue from oblivion the legends and traditions
which cast the halo of romance round many of
the old halls and manor houses of
lancashire and cheshire,
this book is inscribed with
the best wishes of his sincere friend,
the author.
[Pg vii]
PREFACE.
The favourable reception accorded both by the Public and the Press to a former work—Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire—has encouraged the Author to prepare the present volume, which is issued with the hope that it may be found not less worthy of acceptance. Like the one which preceded it, it illustrates, in a certain degree, the history and romance of the two Palatine counties, the Author's aim having been to give to particular localities an individuality and freshness, by presenting in an entertaining and popular form the "sites" of remarkable scenes and incidents of bygone days. "England," says a well-known writer, "is pre-eminently the country (compared with the rest of Europe) in which the monuments that embody historical associations, and link the present with a far-reaching past are most thickly strewn;" and in Lancashire and Cheshire the soil is plentifully studded with the memorials of ancient days, that stand out in refreshing and instructive relief among the crowding evidences of modern power and civilisation—places hallowed by associations and as the homes of those whose memories we would not willingly let die, and scenes that are identified with much of the history, tradition and romance of the centuries that are gone. No pretention is made to what is commonly called the dignity of history, which usually means the placing of important personages and great events in prominent relief without regard to minor incidents or the relations the figures in the background bear to the[Pg viii] occurrences recorded, the Author's purpose having been rather to combine with well-attested facts, topographical description, personal narrative and local legend, and to snatch from Oblivion's spoils the shadowy fragments of tradition that have floated down through centuries of time—things that the ordinary historian casts aside as unworthy of his notice, but which, though oftentimes inexact in detail, are generally founded upon a substratum of fact, and tend therefore to throw additional light on human thought and action in the past.
The agreeable duty remains for the Author to express his obligations to those friends who, by information communicated and in other ways, have aided him in his enterprise. His thanks are due to Miss Abraham, of Grassendale Park, Liverpool; the Rev. Edward J. Bell, M.A., Rector of Alderley; John Leigh, Esq., The Manor House, Hale; Thomas Helsby, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, the learned Editor of "Ormerod's Cheshire;" J. P. Earwaker, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Pensarn, Abergele, the historian of East Cheshire; Thomas Middleton, Esq., Springfield, Adlington; Edward T. Cunliffe, Esq., the Parsonage, Handforth; Mr. John Owen, Mile End, Stockport; and Mr. D. Bennett, Shakspeare Terrace, Ardwick.
Upton Hall, Prestbury, Cheshire,
September, 1883.
[Pg ix]
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I page Swarthmoor Hall and the Founder of the Society of Friends 1 CHAPTER II Old Alderley and its Memories—The Stanleys—Edward Stanley, Pastor and Prelate—The Home of Dean Stanley 50 CHAPTER III Rivington and the Lords Willoughby—The Pilkingtons—The Story of a Lancashire Bishop 104 CHAPTER IV Handforth Hall—The Breretons—Sir William Brereton 171 CHAPTER V Newby Bridge and the Lake Country—An Autumn Day at Cartmel—The Priory Church 249 CHAPTER VI Disley—A May Day at Lyme—Lyme Hall and the Leghs 278 CHAPTER VII "Jemmy Dawson" and the Fatal '45 397 CHAPTER VIII A Morning at Little Moreton 431 CHAPTER IX Wardley Hall 448 L'Envoi 483
[Pg x]
ILLUSTRATIONS.
page Swarthmoor Hall 4 George Fox's Bible 4 George Fox's Chair 9 Ulverston Church 16 Autograph of Margaret Fell 22 George Fox's Meeting House 22 Meeting of Fox and Cromwell 29 Autograph of Thomas Fell 30 Fac-simile of Fox's Handwriting 37 Gateway, Lancaster Castle 37 Autograph of William Penn 40 Autograph of Daniel Abraham 48 Dean Stanley 50 Alderley Church 55 Alderley School 59 Alderley Rectory 62 Autograph of Edward Stanley 92 Autograph of the Bishop of Norwich 95 Autograph of Dean Stanley 103 Rivington Church 127 Interior, Durham Cathedral 151 Durham Castle 158 Nantwich 211 Autograph of Sir William Brereton 217 Sir William Brereton 245 The "Swan," Newby Bridge 248 Lyme Hall 281 Windmill at Crescy 292 Autograph of Sir Peter Legh 361 Autograph of Richard Legh 367 Traitors' Gate, The Tower 371 Legh Arms 383 Mr. Byrom's House at the Cross 398 Wardley Hall 449
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SUBSCRIBERS.
Accrington and Church Co-operative Society, Accrington.
Adshead, G. H., Esq., Fern Villas, Bolton Road, Pendleton.
Andrews, P. S., Esq., Accountant, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Anningson, Joseph William, Esq., L.R.C.P., 11, Yorkshire Street, Burnley.
Ardern, Lawrence, Esq., Mile End, Stockport.
Ashworth, Joseph, Esq., Albion Place, Bury.
Ashworth, J., Esq., 47, Cannon Street, Manchester.
Ashworth, Walter, Esq., The Hollies, Bury.
Aspland, L. M., Esq., 47, Linden Gardens, Bayswater, London, W.
Atherton, James, Esq., Miles Platting, Manchester.
Attock, Fred, Esq., Somerset House, Newton Heath, Manchester.
Auchincloss, P. W., Esq., Prestbury.
Axon, W. E. A., Esq., F.R.S.L., Fern Bank, Higher Broughton.
Ayre, Rev. L. R., M.A., Holy Trinity Vicarage, Ulverston.
Bagnall, Benjamin, Esq., Eaton Gardens House, Brighton, Sussex.
Bagnall, J. ffreeman, Esq., Runcorn.
Bailey, J. E., Esq., F.S.A., Stretford.
Baker, William, Esq., Messrs. Cassell & Co.
Barnes, Isaac, Esq., Corporation Inn, Ashton-under-Lyne (2 copies).
Barlow, J. R., Esq., J.P., Edgeworth, Bolton.
Barlow, W. Wycliffe, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Barratt, Peter, Esq., Greengate Lane, Prestwich.
Barnes, Alfred, Esq., Farnworth, near Bolton.
Barnston, Miss, 16, Cambridge Road, Brighton.
Bayley, William, Esq., Cray Brow, Lymm.
Bazley, Sir Thos., Bart., Eyford Park, Stow-on-the-Wold.
Beard, James, Esq., The Grange, Burnage.
Beales, Robert, Esq., M.D., Congleton.
[Pg xiv] Bell, Rev. E. J., M.A., Rural Dean, Rector of Alderley.
Bentley, A. F., Esq., Albion Place, Bury.
Beswick, John, Esq., 1, Great Ducie Street, Manchester.
Birley, The late Hugh, Esq., M.P., Moorland, Withington.
Birley, James, Esq., Huskisson Street, Liverpool.
Bland, George, Esq., Park Green, Macclesfield.
Blomfield, Rev. Canon, Mollington Hall, Chester.
Boddington, Henry, Junr., Esq., Strangeways Brewery, Manchester. 3 copies
Boddington, Henry, Esq., The Cove, Silverdale, Carnforth.
Boddington, W. Slater, Esq., Monton House, Eccles.
Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Booth, C. H., Esq., Solicitor, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Booth, John Gregory, Esq., Knight Hills, Padiham.
Boote, D., Esq., Oakfield, Ashton-on-Mersey.
Boston Athenæum, Boston, Mass.
Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.
Bostock, Robert Chignell, Esq., Little Langtons, Chislehurst, Kent.
Boulton, Isaac W., Esq., J.P., Stamford House, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Bowdler, Wm. Henry, Esq., J.P., Kirkham, Lancashire.
Boyle, Rev. J. R., 24, Normanton Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Bradshaw, Christopher, Esq., Kenwood, Ellesmere Park, Eccles.
Braddon, C. H., Esq., M.D., Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Bradshaw, George Paris, Esq., 30, Gloucester Street, Warwick Square, London, S.W.
Bragg, Harry, Esq., The Mount, Blackburn.
Bride, Dr., Wilmslow.
Bridgeman, The Hon. and Rev. Canon, The Hall, Wigan.
Broadbent, Edwin, Esq., Reddish, near Stockport.
Brocklehurst, William Coare, Esq., Butley Hall, Prestbury.
Bromley, F. W. Esq., Solicitor, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Brook, J., Esq., Sunnyside, Old Trafford.
Brooke, Sir R., Bart., Norton Priory, Runcorn.
Brownell, John, Esq., Hazlecroft, Alderley Edge.
Brown, Rev. Canon, M.A. Staley Vicarage, Staleybridge.
Brown, R., Esq., Mosley Grange, Cheadle Hulme.
Brown, Councillor W., 720, Rochdale Road, Manchester.
Buckley, R. J., Esq., Strangeways Brewery, Manchester.
Buckley, R. J. E., Victoria Street, Manchester.
Bullock, Thos. Esq. (The late), Rock House, Sutton, Macclesfield.
Burrow, Joseph, Esq., Agincourt, Bury.
Burton, Alfred, Esq., 37, Cross Street, Manchester.
[Pg xv] Carrington, H. H. Smith, Esq., Whalley Bridge. East Cheshire.
Charlton, Henry, Esq., Tytherington Hall, Macclesfield.
Chetham's Library, Manchester.
Connell, Thos. R., Esq., Wavertree, near Liverpool.
Chorlton, Thos., Esq., 32, Brazenose Street.
Chorlton, Wm., Esq., Fairfield, near Manchester.
Chrystal, R. S., Esq., Flixton.
Clarke, Matthew, Esq., 7, Cumberland Street, Macclesfield.
Coates, The Misses, Sunny Side, Crawshawbooth.
Collins, James, Esq., Ada Villa, Old Trafford, Manchester.
Cooper, Thos., Esq., Mossleigh House, Congleton.
Coppock, Russell, Esq., Solicitor, Stockport.
Cordinley, D., Esq., Surveyor, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Coultate, William Miller, Esq., F.R.C.S., J.P., 1, York Street, Burnley.
Craven, Thos., Esq., Merlewood, Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
Creeke, Major, A. B., Esq., Monkholme, Burnley.
Crofton, Mrs., 29, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, London, W.
Crompton, George, Esq., Laund, Brierfield, Burnley.
Cronkshaw, John, Esq., White Bull Hotel, Blackburn.
Cross, John, Esq., Cambridge Villa, Heaton Norris.
Cross, The Right Hon. Sir R. A., M.P., Eccle Riggs, Broughton-in-Furness.
Croston, Mrs. S. W., Claremont Villas, Twickenham.
Cunliffe, Ed. T., The Parsonage, Handforth.
Dale, John, Esq., Cornbrook, Manchester.
Dale, Thos, Esq., J.P., F.G.S., Bank House, Southport.
Darrah, Charles, Holly Point, Heaton Mersey.
Davenport, E. H., Esq., Heathlands, Malvern Wells.
Davenport, John Mason, Esq., Marland, Rochdale.
Davies-Colley, Thos., Esq., M.D., Newton, Chester.
Deakin, Edward Carr, Esq., Hill Top, Belmont, near Bolton.
Dean of Chester, The Very Rev. The Deanery, Chester.
Dean, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Medical Officer of Health, Burnley.
Dickenson, R., Esq., Sunnyside, Hunby Road, Dudley.
Dillon, Rev. Godfrey, 52, Water Street, Radcliffe.
Dixon, G., Esq., Astle Hall, Chelford, Crewe.
Dobson, Matthew, Esq., Mosley House, Cheadle.
Dodgson, Mr. Joseph, 33, Park Row, Leeds.
Dooley, Mr. Henry, Stockport.
Dorrington, J. T., Esq., Bonishall, near Macclesfield.
[Pg xvi] Downing, William, Esq., Springfield, Olton, Acock's Green, near Birmingham.
Dransfield, Wm., Esq., Ranmoor, Sheffield.
Dugdale, Joseph, Esq., Park House, Blackburn.
Duncan, C. W., Esq., Stanley Place, Chester.
Dyer, A. C., Esq., Manchester.
Eastwood, J. A., Esq., 49, Princess Street, Manchester.
Eckersley, Chas., Esq., Fulwell House, Tyldesley.
Eckersley, J. C., Esq., J.P., Standish Hall, near Wigan.
Edgar, R. A., Esq., Seymour Lodge, Heaton Chapel.
Egerton, The Hon. Algernon, M.P., Worsley Old Hall, near Manchester.
Elwen, G., Esq., 11, Knoll Street, H. Broughton.
Enion, J. E., Esq., South King Street, Manchester.
Evans, John, Esq., 1, Mytton Street, Greenheys.
Eyre, Rev. W. H., Stonyhurst College, Blackburn.
Fairbrother, Henry, Esq., Holmlea, Altrincham.
Feather, Rev. G., Glazebury Vicarage, Leigh, Lanc.
Fielden, Miss, Mollington Hall, Chester.
Fielden, Joshua, Esq., M.P., Nutfield Priory, Redhill, Surrey.
Foden, William, Esq., Beech Lane, Macclesfield.
Folds, O., Esq., Brunshaw, Burnley.
France, James, Esq., Eversley Place, Taunton Road, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Frankland, George, Esq., Express Office, Burnley.
Free Library, Town Hall, Ashton.
Free Library, Blackburn, per D. Geddes, Esq.
Free Public Library, Town Hall, Heywood.
Free Public Library, Liverpool.
Free Public Library, Town Hall, Manchester.
Free Public Library, Town Hall, Rochdale.
Free Public Library, Peel Park, Salford.
Free Public Library, Town Hall, St. Helens.
Free Public Library, Stockport.
Free Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales.
Free Public Library, Wigan.
Freeman, William Charles, Esq., District Bank, Leigh, Lanc.
Freston, T. W. Esq., 8, Watling Street, Manchester.
Fryer, Dr. Alfred, Wilmslow.
Galloway, F. C., Esq., 120, Bowling Old Lane, Bradford, Yorks.
Gamble, Col., Windlehurst, St. Helens.
[Pg xvii] Gaskell, A. E., Esq., Trafford Mount, Old Trafford.
Gaskell, Josiah, Esq., Burgrave Lodge, Ashton-in-Makerfield.
Gerrard, Joseph, Esq., Acres Field, Bolton.
Gibbon, Benjamin, Esq., Woodleigh, Knutsford.
Goodman, Davenport, Esq., Eccles House, Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Gosling, Samuel F., Esq., Biddulph, Congleton.
Greenhalgh, Joseph Dodson, Esq., Gladstone Cottage, Bolton.
Graham, Rev. P., Turncroft, Darwen.
Grantham, John, Esq., 2, Rothsay Place, Old Trafford.
Gratrix, S., Esq., West Point, Whalley Range.
Gray, Mr. Henry, Antiquarian and Topographical Bookseller, 25, Cathedral Yard, Manchester.
Greg, Francis, Esq., Chancery Place, Manchester.
Grey, Robert, Esq., Greenfield House, Boro' Arcade, Hyde.
Greenall, Col., Lingholme, Keswick.
Greenall, Sir Gilbert, Bart., Walton Hall, Warrington.
Greenup, Joseph, Esq., Johnson Square, Miles Platting.
Greenwood, Charles, Esq., 26, Akeds Road, Halifax.
Greenway, C., Esq., J.P., Darwen Bank, Darwen.
Grundy, Alfred, Esq., Whitefield, near Manchester.
Grundy, Harry, Esq., Fernsholme, Bury.
Guest, W. H., Esq. 78, Cross Street, Manchester.
Hague, John Scholes, Esq., Northwood, Buxton.
Hall, John, Esq., The Grange, Hale, Cheshire.
Hall, Joshua, Esq., Kingston House, Hyde.
Hall, John Albert, Esq., Park Hill, Congleton.
Hall, Robert, Esq., Acres House, Hyde.
Halstead, Louis, Esq., Redwaterfoot, Cornholme.
Hampson, J. Taylor, Esq., Solicitor, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Hampson, J. R., Esq., Old Trafford.
Hampson, Wm., Esq., Rose Hill, Marple.
Hammersley, T. G., Esq., Brownhills, Tunstall.
Hanby, Richard, Esq., Chetham's Library, Manchester.
Hardwick, Charles, Esq., 72, Talbot Street, Moss Side.
Hargreaves, Percy, Moss Bank, Halliwell, near Bolton.
Harrison, Vevers, Esq., Dukinfield.
Harlow, Miss, Heaton Norris, Stockport.
Hartley, Mrs., Brierfield House, near Burnley.
Hartley, Job W., Esq., Westgate, Burnley.
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
[Pg xviii] Heywood, Abel and Son, Oldham Street, Manchester.
Hibbert, Henry, Esq., Broughton Grove, Grange-over-Sands.
Hibbert, Percy J., Esq., Ibstock, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Higgins, James, Esq., Woodhey, Kersall.
Higinbottom, Thomas, Esq., 15, York Street, City.
Hiley, B., Bookseller, Salford.
Hilton, William H., Esq., Messrs. Sale, Seddon, Hilton, and Lord, Manchester.
Hindley, Thomas, Esq., Stockport.
Hodgkinson, S., Esq., Woodville, Marple.
Hodkinson, John, Esq., 101, Mill Street, Macclesfield.
Holden, Arthur T., Solicitor, Bolton.
Holden, Thomas, Esq., Springfield, Bolton.
Holm, A., Esq., Elysée House, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
Holmes, James, Esq., Egerton Road, Fallowfield.
Holt, Robt. (The late), Bookseller, Manchester.
Hooley, S. J., Esq., Manchester and Liverpool Bank, Tunstall.
Hornby, James, Esq., Standishgate, Wigan.
Howard, Dr., Altoft, Normanton.
Howard, Edward Carrington, Esq., J.P., Poynton Birches, near Stockport.
Howell, E., Esq., 26 and 28, Church Street, Liverpool.
Hughes, Thos., F.S.A., Esq., The Groves, Chester.
Hulme, James, Esq., Marple.
Humberston, Miss A., Newton Hall, Chester.
Hutton, T., Fairfield House, Ormskirk.
Hyde, W., Esq., Town Clerk, Stockport.
Jackson, Hartley, Esq., Pickup Terrace, Burnley.
Jackson, H. J., Esq., Ashton-under-Lyne.
Jolley, Thos., Esq., Legh Street, Warrington.
Jones, John Joseph, Esq., Abberley Hall, Stourport.
Jones, Tom H., Esq., 67, Sloane Street, Manchester.
Kay, Jacob, Esq., 5, Booth Street, Manchester.
Keene, Richard, Esq., All Saints, Derby.
Kenyon, W., Bookseller, 47, Church Street, Newton Heath, Manchester.
Kenderdine, T., Esq., Morningside, Old Trafford.
Knott, James, Esq., Higher Ardwick, Manchester.
Lallemand, G. E., Esq., Park Grange, Macclesfield.
Lawton, G. F., Esq., Cranbourne Terrace, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Leathes, Fred de M., Esq., 17, Tavistock Place, London.
[Pg xix] Lees, C. Percy, Esq., The Limes, Middlewich.
Lees, E. B., Esq., Kelbarrow, Grasmere.
Lees, Samuel, Esq., Park Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Leece, Joseph, Esq., Mansfield Villas, Urmston.
Legh, Mrs., Adlington, Macclesfield.
Leigh, Arthur G., Esq., F.A.S., 54, Market Street, Chorley.
Leigh, Charles, Esq., Bank Terrace, Wigan.
Leigh, John, Esq., The Manor House, Hale, Cheshire. (2 copies).
Leigh, Joseph, Esq., J.P., Brinington Hall, Stockport.
Leyland, John, Esq., Hindley Grange, Wigan.
Lingard-Monk, R. B. M., Esq., Fulshaw Hall, Wilmslow.
Liptrott, T. C., Esq., Rivington, Lancashire.
Littlewood, James, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Long, J. F., Esq., Ancoats.
Longden, A. W., Esq., Hawk Green, Marple.
Longton, E. J., M.D., The Priory, Southport.
Longshaw, Mrs., Beach Priory, Southport.
Lord, Henry, Esq., 42, John Dalton Street, Manchester.
Lord, W. C., Esq., Elm Lodge, Eccles.
Lowe, J. W., Esq., The Ridge, Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Lowcock, John, Esq., Greengate Mills, Salford.
Lupton, Arthur, Esq., 28, Manchester Road, Burnley.
Lupton, Albert, Cumberland Place, Burnley.
Lupton, Benjamin, Esq., 136, Manchester Road, Burnley.
Lupton, Joseph Townend, Esq., 28, Manchester Road, Burnley.
Marson, James, Esq., Hill Cliffe, Warrington.
Massie, Admiral, Stanley Place, Chester.
May, J. F., Esq., Prestbury.
May, John, Esq., Ridge Hill, Sutton, Macclesfield.
McQuhae, Mr., 5, Stamford Street, Brooks's Bar, Manchester.
Mellin, Mr., Ridgefield, Manchester.
Mellor, James W., Esq., Lydgate View, Huddersfield.
Metcalfe, Wm., Esq., 3, Vernon Avenue, Eccles.
Middleton, Thos., Esq., Springfield, Adlington. (3 copies).
Milne, J. D., Esq., Burnside, Cheadle.
Milnes, Ernest S., Esq., Plas Ffron, Wrexham.
Minshull and Hughes, Messrs., Chester.
Mitchell, Wm., Esq., Golbourne House, Golbourne.
Moorhouse, Chris., Esq., St. Paul's Road, Kersal.
[Pg xx] Moorhouse, Fred, Esq., Kingston Mount, Didsbury.
Morton, W., Esq., 258, Birchfield Place, Stockport Road, Manchester.
Mosley, Sir Tonman, Bart., J.P., Rolleston Hall, Burton-on-Trent.
Moulton, Geo., Esq., Hall's Crescent, Collyhurst.
Myers, Henry, Esq., 94, West Road, Congleton, Cheshire.
Napier, G. W., Esq., Merchistoun, Alderley Edge.
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[Pg xxi] Richmond, Thos. G., Esq., Ford House, Prestbury.
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Watts, Lady, Abney Hall, Cheadle.
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White, Charles, Esq., Holly House, Warrington.
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Wilkinson, Aaron, Esq., Westbourne Grove, Harpurhey.
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Wilson, Wm., Esq., Savings' Bank, Stockport.
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"Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire."
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Bostock, Robt. Chignel, Esq., Little Langtons, Chislehurst, Kent.
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Bryham, Wm., Esq., J.P., Ince Hall, Wigan.
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Burton, Mrs. R. Lingen, Abbey House, Shrewsbury.
Chester, The Very Rev. the Dean of, The Deanery, Chester.
Clarke, Edward, Esq., Park Cottage, Macclesfield.
Clarke, Matthew, Esq., 7, Cumberland Street, Macclesfield.
Colley, Thos. Davies, Esq., M.D., Newton, Chester.
Dixon, George, Esq., Astle Hall, Chelford, Crewe.
Duncan, Chas. W., Esq., Stanley Place, Chester.
Eckersley, J. C., Esq., J.P., Standish Hall, Wigan.
Egerton, The Honble. Wilbraham, M.P., Rostherne Manor, Knutsford.
Ennion, Thos., Esq., High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk.
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[Pg xxvii] Hilton, J. S., Esq., Cranbourne Terrace, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Howard, J., Esq., Normanton.
Hughes, H. R., Esq., Kinmel Park, Abergele.
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Humberston, Col., Glan-y-Wern, Denbigh.
Humberston, Miss A., Newton Hall, Chester.
Jackson, Miss Eva, Durley Lodge, Bishops Waltham, Hants.
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Paine, Cornelius, Esq., 9, Lewes Crescent, Brighton, Sussex.
Parrott, Peter, Esq., Greenbank, Sutton, Macclesfield.
Pierpoint, Benjamin, Esq., Bank, Macclesfield.
Powell, Francis Sharpe, Horton Old Hall, Bradford, Yorks.
Rushton, John Latham, Esq., M.D., Macclesfield.
Sainter, J. D., Esq., King Edward Street, Macclesfield.
Starkie, Lieut.-Col. Le Gendre, Huntroyde, Burnley.
Sturkey, Thos., Esq., Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
Tomkinson, Mrs., 24, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, London.
Vickerstaff, T. J., Esq., 6, Mill Street, Macclesfield.
Viles, Edward, Esq., Pendryl Hall, Codsall Wood, Wolverhampton.
Weston, John, Esq., The Heysoms, Hartford.
Wilson, Rev. Canon, Prestbury Vicarage.
Wilson, J., Esq., LL.D., Town Clerk of Congleton.
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HISTORIC SITES
OF
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
CHAPTER I.
SWARTHMOOR HALL AND THE FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
The traveller who, by chance, finds himself in the quaint old town of Ulverston with a few hours at his disposal will find no difficulty in occupying them pleasantly and profitably. In the busy capital of Furness he is on the very threshold of that great storehouse of English scenic beauty, the Lake Country; almost at his feet is the broad estuary of the Leven, and beyond, spreads Morecambe Bay with its green indented shores, presenting alternately a flood of waters and a trackless waste of shifting sand. In that pleasant region there is many a picturesque corner, many a place of historic note, and many an ancient building that wakes the memories of bygone days.
One of the historic sites, and certainly not the least interesting, is within the compass of a short half hour's walk—Swarthmoor[Pg 2] Hall, for years the resort, and, for a time, the home of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends; and scarcely less interesting is the primitive-looking little structure that stands within a few hundred yards of it, the first regularly constituted meeting-house in which Fox's disciples, the "Friends of Truth," or the "Children of Light," as they were indifferently called, worshipped. The locality is one he always loved. Here he gained his most enthusiastic converts, achieved his greatest triumphs, and suffered his severest persecutions; it was here, too, he won his faithful wife, and here, also, in the later years of his life, he loved to retire to recruit his weakened energies and prepare himself for a renewal of his arduous work.
It was a warm summer's evening when we set forth upon our short pilgrimage; the air was unusually clear, a dreamy quietude spread around, and the sun, as it declined towards the west, glowed grandly upon the distant woods and fells. As we slowly mounted the ascending road we could see the lonely sands gleaming in the mellow light, and the broad expanse of water that lay far out in the offing calm and smooth as a mirror; while in rear, and upon the right, the wild mountains stood out in picturesque disorder, dark, rugged, and forbidding, save where here and there a golden radiance brightened their loftiest peaks. A short distance beyond the railway we turned off the road and struck into a pleasant meadow path on the right that soon brought us to a green and bosky dell, at the bottom of which a mountain stream, the Levy Beck, meandered freakishly beneath the embracing trees, prattling with the rough boulder stones and aquatic plants along its course, and telling its admiration in a never-ending song of gladness as it rippled onwards towards the sea. The little bowery, untrodden nook is just the place for fays and fairies to secrete themselves, the spot of all others where John Ruskin would expect to catch sight of Pan, Apollo, and the Muses. Every sight and sound is suggestive of peaceful quietude, and, while the lazy wind stirs the over-arching branches for the warm sunshine to steal through, we are tempted to linger in the vernal solitude,[Pg 3] watching the playful ripples on the water and listening to the gentle murmuring around——
An old-fashioned bridge bestrides the stream, and the stump of a tree offers an inviting seat. While we stay to contemplate the scene, the soft zephyrs that play about and the alternate sunshine and shade as the light clouds float overhead induce a dreamy forgetfulness of outer things. Then we are up again, and, crossing the stream, follow a rough and miry cart-way that climbs up the opposite height, and brings us in a few minutes to the breezy summit.
Swarthmoor, for that is the name, possesses historic renown. It lies just where the parishes of Ulverston, Pennington, and Urswick join each other, and is said by tradition to have derived its name from the Flemish general, "Bold Martin Swart," or Swartz, a valiant soldier of noble family, who, in 1487, with Lord Lovel and the Earls of Lincoln and Kildare, encamped here with an invading army of 7,000 German and Irish troops, who had landed at the Pile of Fouldrey with the object of placing Lambert Simnel on the throne of England. But tradition in this instance, is at fault; for the name has a much earlier origin, and is met with as Warte as far back as the time of Duke William of Normandy. At a later date, when the soldiers of King Charles had entered Furness and "plundered the place very sore," as the old chronicle has it, Colonel Rigby, the Parliamentarian commander, temporarily withdrew from Thurland Castle and started in hot pursuit; and we are told that the Roundheads, after stopping on Swarthmoor to pray, marched on to Lindale, a couple of miles further, where they fought with such vehemence and resolution that the unlucky Cavaliers were put to flight.
But Swarthmoor has other and more peaceful associations. On reaching the summit of the moor, which is now enclosed, you see in front of you a large, irregular, and somewhat lofty pile of[Pg 4] building, of ancient date, which, though by no means pretentious in its outward appearance, still wears an air of sober dignity that well accords with the memories that gather round. Evil times have fallen upon it, and it is now occupied as a farmhouse; but in its pristine days it was successively the home of Judge Fell and George Fox. From the high table-land on which it stands you can look round upon a scene but little changed from what it must have been when the father of Quakerism gazed upon it, more than two centuries ago. The old hills and the wild fells still lift their heads to the breezes of heaven; the tide ebbs and flows over those broad sands as it did of yore; there are the same bleak moorlands, the same broad fields, the same crops of golden wheat, and the same sun ripening for the harvest; but how changed are all human affairs since earnest George Fox, "the man in leather breeches," discoursed in Ulverston church, and Judge Fell's wife "stood up in her pew and wondered at his doctrine, for she had never heard the like before."
The hall evidently dates from the latter part of Elizabeth's reign, and, though it has been altered from time to time to meet the wants of successive occupants, it still retains many of the architectural features of that period. The roof is gabled; the windows are square, with the usual latticed panes and heavy mullions and transoms—they have in places been bricked up, but their original position may be determined by the moulded dripstones which still remain—and on one side a square bay of three storeys projects from the line of the main structure, the only feature specially noticeable in the building. Externally the place has a forlorn and neglected appearance, and exhibits unequivocal signs of heedless indifference and unseemly disrespect. It is partially surrounded with barns, shippons, and outhouses, and heaps of refuse and farmyard litter strewn about give an air of meanness and disorder that but ill accord with its earlier associations as the abode of a vice-chancellor and circuit judge.[Pg 4a]
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We loitered about for some time, and then, pushing back the gate, crossed a little enclosure which seems to have been at some time a garden, but is now only so by courtesy, and entered by a narrow doorway a passage that communicates with the "hall." Though shorn of its original proportions, it is still a spacious apartment; plain, however, to a degree, and exhibiting the gloomy character common to many houses of the Tudor period; it has a plain flagged floor, some remains of oak wainscotting, and a huge fireplace that seems to have been intended to make up in warmth what was lacking in cheerfulness. In this room the earlier meetings of the Friends were held, and here it is said that for forty years they were in the habit of assembling, after which the chapel on Swarthmoor was built by George Fox's order and at his cost. On one side of the room is a deep embayed recess with a slightly raised floor—a cosy nook, with mullioned and quaint latticed[Pg 8] windows lighting it on three sides, and here is preserved an old-fashioned oak desk, a treasured relic of the great reformer. A couple of stone steps lead into a small and dimly-lighted room which tradition affirms to have been the study of Judge Fell and afterwards of George Fox. The upper chambers are large and airy, and one of them, more pretentious than the others, exhibits some remains of ancient ornamentation. An old four-post bedstead of carved oak, on which it is said that Fox slept, still remains, and we were told that the privilege of sleeping upon it is never denied to any member of the Society of Friends, but that it is one very rarely availed of. From one of the chambers on this floor a door opens to the outside, though at a considerable distance from the ground, leading to the belief that there has been at some time or other a projecting balcony, and it is said that within the memory of persons still living there was such a projection[Pg 9] with a sort of canopy above it. It is commonly affirmed that from this elevated position Fox was wont to address his followers assembled in the garden below, when the number was too large to admit of their being conveniently accommodated in the house. We were standing upon the self-same spot where the hardy, earnest, and fearless, though imaginative and rhapsodical, Puritan preacher stood more than two hundred years ago, while on the green sward below, the little band of his own faith listened with wondering awe to the outpourings of his prayers and the torrent of his eloquence, and worshipped with silent, contemplative, "waiting" reverence of soul. As we gazed upon the scene the events of that period of tumult and strife crowded upon the memory. A more fitting time for our visit could hardly have been chosen. The shadows were drawing on, and the soft, mellow sunshine fading into the warm grey light of evening, seemed to wrap every object in its dreamy embrace; the distant hills were fading from view and a calm and solemn stillness prevailed that well accorded with the impressive memories associated with the place.[Pg 9a]
Of the early history of Swarthmoor Hall comparatively little is known. Shortly after the commencement of the troublous reign of the first Charles, it was in the occupation of Thomas Fell, a barrister of Gray's Inn, and afterwards a justice of the Quorum, a worthy legal brother and contemporary of Sir Matthew Hale. Though nominally a Churchman, the owner of Swarthmoor strongly inclined towards Independency, and, on the breaking out of hostilities, took the side of the Parliament party, but he does not appear to have at any time engaged in active military operations, though it is more than probable his house afforded hospitable shelter to Colonel Rigby and his friends, when they and their small army marched to Lindale Close to give battle to the Cavaliers under Colonel Huddleston. The year in which the first shot in that great struggle was fired, an ordinance was addressed by the Parliament to Lord Newburgh, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, requiring him to place certain gentlemen named on the Commission of the Peace for the county, and the name of Thomas[Pg 10] Fell occurs among the fourteen mentioned. Three years afterwards (1645) he was returned with his neighbour, Sir Robert Bindloss, of Borwick Hall, as representative in Parliament of the borough of Lancaster. When the Parliament found itself sufficiently powerful to sequestrate the estates of those who had taken up arms in the cause of the King and had refused to take the National Covenant, committees of sequestration were appointed, and on the 29th of August, 1645, Mr. Fell was named on the one for dealing with the estates of "Delinquents" in the county of Lancaster. In 1648 he, with Colonel Assheton and Major Brooke, was deputed to organise the defence of the county against the anticipated advance of the army of the Duke of Hamilton; in the succeeding year he was appointed to the office of Vice-chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and he was also named as one of the judges of assize for the circuit of West Chester and North Wales. His name also occurs in 1650 on the commission for the survey of Church livings and the provision of a competent maintenance for preaching ministers in the several parishes throughout England and Wales. Fell was much esteemed in his own locality, and is described as a wise and learned man, incorruptible as a judge, honoured and feared as a magistrate, and beloved by his neighbours.
In 1632 John Fell took to himself a wife in the person of Margaret Askew, a lady of good family and exemplary piety, the daughter of John Askew, of Marsh Grange, in the adjoining parish of Dalton-in-Furness, he being at the time 34 years of age, and his bride not quite 18. Mrs. Fell inherited an historic name that she was in every way worthy of, her great-grandmother being Ann Askew, the most notable of the victims of the horrible persecutions which dishonoured the closing years of the reign of Henry VIII. Ann Askew was well known at Court, if indeed, she was not actually employed about the person of Queen Catherine Parr, whose Lutheran tendencies were more than suspected, she herself being an avowed believer in the reformed doctrines. She had been married against her will, and had been discarded by her[Pg 11] bigoted husband on account of the strength of her convictions. Her religious zeal outran her discretion, and, having expressed her opinions of the doctrine of transubstantiation with imprudent frankness, she was subjected to an examination by the Bishop of London; she escaped on that occasion, but was subsequently examined before the council, when she was less fortunate, being sentenced to be burnt at the stake in Smithfield after having undergone the torture of the rack. The barbarous scene is thus described in a letter addressed by a London merchant, Otwell Johnson, to his brother at Calais:—"Quondam Bishop Saxon (Shaxton), Mistress Askew, Christopher White, one of Mistress Fayre's sons, and a tailor that came from Colchester or thereabouts, were arraigned at the Guildhall, and received their judgments of my Lord Chancellor (Wriothesley) and the council to be burned, and so were committed to Newgate again. But since that time the aforesaid Saxon and White have renounced their opinions; and the talk goeth that they shall chance to escape the fire for this viage. But the gentlewoman and the other men remain in steadfast mind; and yet she hath been racked since her condemnation, as men say; which is a strange thing in my understanding. The Lord be merciful to us all." Burnet says that he had seen an original journal of the transaction in the Tower, which shows that "they caused her to be laid on the rack, and gave her a taste of it;" but he doubts the accuracy of the statement of Fox, the martyrologist, that the Chancellor, when the Lieutenant of the Tower refused "to stretch her more," threw off his gown, and himself "drew the rack so severely that he almost tore her body asunder." Lord Campbell gives this horrid story without noticing the doubt of Burnet, and adds that Griffin, the Solicitor-general, assisted in the detestable crime. Let us hope that in this case human nature was not so utterly degraded as the somewhat credulous historian of the English martyrs has represented. There was a disgusting scene in Smithfield which soon followed the torture of the high-minded woman, who, amidst her sufferings, would not utter one word to implicate her friends. Upon a bench under St. Bartholomew's Church sit the Lord[Pg 12] Chancellor, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Bedford, the Lord Mayor, and other dignitaries. There are three martyrs, each tied to a stake. The apostate Shaxton is to preach the sermon. It is rumoured that gunpowder has been placed about the condemned to shorten their sufferings. The Chancellor and the other high functionaries have no compunction for their victims, but they are in terror for their own safety. Will not the exploding gunpowder drive the firewood where they sit? They hold a grave consultation, and are persuaded to sit out the scene. The gentlewoman and her fellow sufferers die heroically—a noble contrast to the cowardice that quakes in the extremity of its selfishness upon the bench under St. Bartholomew's Church. Such was one of the scenes that marked the closing days of the life of Henry the Eighth.[1]
Ann Askew had a son, William, who became heir to the Marsh Grange estate on the death without issue of Hugh Askew, on whom it had been bestowed by the crown in 1542. This William had a son, John, the father of Margaret Askew, who, before she had well attained to womanhood, became the wife of Lawyer Fell, and the mistress of Swarthmoor. Margaret Fell, as we shall see, proved herself a worthy great-granddaughter of the martyr Ann Askew.
The period that immediately preceded the great and bitter conflict in which many of the dearest interests of England were involved, and much of her best blood shed, was one of great religious activity and excitement. The seeds sown at the Reformation had ripened, and there had been a steady continuity and successive advance towards Calvinism and the rejection of all ceremonial not directly authorised by Scripture. The Church had been purged of the most flagrant of the Romish superstitions, but the Book of Common Prayer retained many things in the ritual it enjoined which, to those who assumed a superior sanctity and claimed to hold the Bible as their only rule, were held to savour of[Pg 13] Popery and idolatry. Preferring to do what was right in their own eyes, they rejected the Liturgy and the Episcopal form of government. They disliked the surplice and would not wear it, and they objected to many of the ceremonies the Church prescribed. There were great divergencies of opinion; the public mind was much exercised with the controversies that arose; and the feeling of hostility was increased by the intolerant and persecuting spirit manifested by the authorities of the day. The Puritans, as they were called, had gained considerable ascendancy, and, though they had not withdrawn themselves from the Church, they had become a powerful party within its pale, and asserted their peculiar views with much tenacity. It is difficult to say what a more moderate policy might have produced, but the determination of Laud to reduce them to submission, instead of serving the interests of the Church, only drove them into more open resistance, and converted religious enthusiasts into political agitators.
Such was the condition of religious parties in England at the time when Thomas Fell and his youthful spouse became the occupants of Swarthmoor Hall. At that time there was living in the little rural hamlet of Drayton-in-the-Clay, in Leicestershire, a weaver of the name of Christopher Fox, a zealous attender on the ordinances of the Church, and who, from his integrity and piety, was known among his neighbours by the sobriquet of "Righteous Christer." His wife, Mary Lago, was a woman imbued with strong religious feelings, well read, and of an education superior to that usually possessed by persons in her station of life. To this couple was born a son—George Fox—who at the time of Thomas Fell's marriage with the great-granddaughter of the martyr, Ann Askew, was eight years of age. His childhood and youth were passed in the quietude and seclusion of his Leicestershire home, with little idea of the great world beyond or the questions that were then stirring the minds of men. He grew up silent, pensive, and thoughtful. After receiving a scanty education, he was placed with a relative who combined the several occupations of wool dealer, shoemaker, and grazier. In pursuing his humble calling,[Pg 14] young Fox frequently attended the country fairs, but, finding his occupation distasteful, he forsook his wool dealing and sheep-herding and betook himself to the neighbouring town of Lutterworth, the place from which, two centuries and a half previously, John Wycliffe had sent forth his itinerant preachers—the "Poor Priests," as he designated them—who traversed nearly the whole kingdom, disseminating his opinions as they went. Of a taciturn and meditative turn of mind, with no settled occupation, but possessing an earnest desire for holiness, Fox became unsettled in his views and controversial in his habits. He conferred with one divine after another in his efforts to obtain light and peace—Churchman and Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist, each in their turn, but could not satisfy himself with any. He remarks: "Neither them (the Episcopalians) nor any of the dissenting people could I join with, but was a stranger to all, relying wholly upon the Lord Jesus Christ." As Macaulay says: "He wandered from congregation to congregation; he heard priests argue against Puritans; he heard Puritans harangue against priests; and he in vain applied for spiritual direction and consolation to doctors of both parties.... After some time he came to the conclusion that no human being was competent to instruct him in divine things, and that the truth had been communicated to him by direct inspiration from heaven." He had spent much of his time in studying the Scriptures alone, in the fields and orchards, and in the deep gloom of his native woods, and in this way had acquired a ready aptitude in quoting particular texts. Believing that the time had arrived for promulgating his own peculiar views of Christian truth and ecclesiastical polity, he wandered from place to place disputing with some and rebuking others. In 1647 he began to hold meetings, and astonished those who heard him by his earnestness and fluency of speech. The quiet pastoral regions of the Trent Valley and the Derbyshire hills formed the scene of his earliest labours, and here Quakerism may be said to have had its birth. At Nottingham, seeing the church upon a hill, he went there, and found, as he expressed it, that "the people looked like[Pg 15] fallow ground, and the priest like a great lump of earth stood up in the pulpit above." He interrupted the preacher, and for doing so was cast into prison. On regaining his liberty he proceeded to Mansfield-Woodhouse, where he was again "moved to go into the steeple-house and declare the truth to the priest and people;" but the people fell upon him, put him in the stocks, and threatened him with "dog-whips and horse-whips." Continuing his itinerant ministry, we next find him at Derby, where, in accordance with his usual practice, he proceeded to church, and after the service stood up to address the people. For uttering "blasphemous opinions" he was taken to prison, and brought before Justice Bennett, whom he bade to "tremble at the word of the Lord," an expression which caused the magistrate to apply to him the term Quaker—a nickname that has ever since attached to his followers, who previously had designated themselves the "Children of Light."
After these rough experiences he visited Yorkshire, traversed the picturesque Wensleydale, Grisedale, and Lunedale, and thence passed into Westmoreland. Here, on the high fells between Kendal and Sedbergh, he preached a sermon memorable in the annals of Quakerism. It was delivered from the summit of a weather-beaten rock adjoining the bleak moorland chapel of Firbank, whither a great company of zealous preachers and laymen had assembled from the surrounding district for a conference. Fox preached a sermon of three hours' duration, and with such earnestness that many of his hearers in their enthusiasm resolved to devote themselves to the work of promulgating his views. In all, it is said that about sixty energetic preachers formed the harvest of this northern mission, who traversed the country on foot, spreading the Quaker doctrines over the entire kingdom, many of them wearing out their lives in the hardships, privations, and persecutions they had to endure. Journeying southwards, Fox climbed to the top of Pendle Hill, which rises within the borders of Lancashire. "As we travelled," he says in his Journal, "we came near a very great hill, called Pendle Hill, and I was moved of the Lord to go up to the top of it, which I did with difficulty, it was so very steep and high.[Pg 16] When I came to the top, I saw the sea bordering upon Lancashire. From the top of this hill the Lord let me see in what places He had a great people to be gathered. As I went down I found a spring of water in the side of the hill, with which I refreshed myself, having eaten or drunk but little for several days before." The spring is still there, and in the neighbourhood is commonly known even at this day as George Fox's Well.
The district comprehended within his view became the scene of his most important labours. He spent several years among the pleasant valleys of the Lune and the Kent, and along the breezy shores of Morecambe Bay. In his wanderings he never missed an opportunity of rebuking the "priests," in their "steeple-houses." At Staveley, close by the foot of Windermere, he disputed with the minister, and was roughly treated in consequence. The same afternoon, at Lindale-in-Cartmel, a picturesque spot a couple of miles north of Grange, he, with more prudence, waited till the service was over before he commenced his harangue. Thence he proceeded to Ulverston; his fame had gone before him, and the people flocked to listen to his utterances. The visit was a memorable incident in his life, for it was the occasion on which he first met the courtly but courageous woman who afterwards became his wife. He was taken by a friend to Swarthmoor Hall, where he stayed all night; the next morning being a fast-day, he attended service at the old church of St. Mary's. When he entered, Lampitt, the Puritan vicar, whom he describes as "a high notionist, who would make it appear that he knew all things, was singing with his people; but his spirit was so foul, and the matter they sang so unsuitable to their states, that, after they had done singing, I was moved of the Lord to speak to him and the people"—a practice that was sometimes permitted in that age, provided it was done with courtesy and decorum; conditions, however, that Fox did not always observe. It must have been a stirring scene; the tall and powerfully-built "man in leather breeches"—the stern, uncompromising reformer, who had almost turned the religious world upside down—clad in his strange, [Pg 17] [Pg 18] [Pg 19] uncouth garb, wearing his broad-leaved immovable hat—which, by the way, had not then become the accepted badge of Quakerism—his long, lank hair depending upon his shoulders, and his eyes flashing with light as he declaimed against "hypocritical professors," and "hireling priests." Standing on one of the seats, he delivered a stirring address on the necessity of sincerity in religious profession. The people marvelled at his eloquence, and many of them were moved by his earnestness. As he proceeded the fervour increased and rose to a pitch of intense excitement, the heart of many a listener was touched, and the stifled sob and the heaving sigh told of the powerful effect of his utterances. Judge Fell was not there, being away at the time discharging his judicial functions on the Welsh circuit, but his wife, Margaret Fell, was present, and her heart was stirred by the enthusiasm of the preacher. "I stood up in my pew," she says, "and wondered at his doctrine, for I had never heard such before;" and then, after describing the sermon, she adds, "I saw clearly we were all wrong; so I sat down in my pew again, and cried bitterly; and I cried in my spirit to the Lord, 'We have taken the Scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.'" Fox's hearers were not, however, all moved by the same spirit. Justice Sawrey, who was amongst the congregation, denounced the intruder, and ordered him to be taken away, but he continued his address until he was forcibly removed, and then preached in the churchyard, when a crowd gathered round, maltreated him, and drove him out. According to his own version his sufferings were cruelly severe. He thus describes in his Journal the scene that occurred on the occasion of another of his visits to the "steeple-house" at Ulverston:
The people were in a rage, and fell upon me in the steeple-house before his (Justice Sawrey's) face, knocked me down, kicked me, and trampled upon me. So great was the uproar, that some tumbled over their seats for fear. At last he came and took me from the people, led me out of the steeple-house, and put me into the hands of the constables and other officers, bidding them whip me, and put me out of the town. Many friendly people being come to the market, and some to the steeple-house to hear me, divers of these they knocked down also, and broke their heads, so that the blood ran down several; and Judge Fell's son running after to see[Pg 20] what they would do with me, they threw him into a ditch of water, some of them crying: "Knock the teeth out of his head." When they had hauled me to the common moss-side, a multitude of people following, the constables and other officers gave me some blows over my back with willow rods and thrust me among the rude multitude, who, having furnished themselves with staves, hedge-stakes, and holme or holly bushes, fell upon me, and beat me upon the head, arms, and shoulders, till they had deprived me of sense; so that I fell down upon the wet common. When I recovered again and saw myself lying in a watery common, and the people standing about me, I lay still a little while, and the power of the Lord sprang through me, and the eternal refreshings revived me, so that I stood up again in the strengthening power of the eternal God, and stretching out my arms against them, I said with a loud voice: "Strike again! here are my arms, head, and cheeks!" Then they began to fall out among themselves.
Whilst we honour the great Quaker evangelist for the unfaltering testimony he bore to his principles and admire his honesty and fortitude, it must be admitted that he provoked much of the persecution he was subjected to by his obtrusive and intolerant disputations, and his disregard for ministerial authority and ecclesiastical sanctities.
Swarthmoor Hall, the home of the Fells, was then known far and wide for the hospitality of its owner, and to none was a heartier welcome accorded than to the professors and teachers of religion. The evening following his first harangue in the church at Ulverston Fox was a guest within its walls; at the request of his hostess he preached to the family and servants, and with such effect that the whole household became converted to his principles. Two or three weeks afterwards Mrs. Fell's husband returned to his Lancashire home. As he crossed the trackless waste of the Leven Sands, the only way at that time from Lancaster into Furness, a company of his friends and neighbours went out to meet him and apprise him of the events that had occurred at Swarthmoor in his absence. "A deal of the captains," writes Margaret Fell, "and great ones of the county went to meet my then husband as he was coming home, and informed him that a great disaster was befallen among his family, and that they were witched, and that they had taken us out of our religion; and that he might either set them away, or all the country would be undone." The judge, as may be[Pg 21] supposed, was greatly concerned at the intelligence and much incensed against the man who had "bewitched" his family and wrought such trouble in his house. Mrs. Fell told her husband the true state of things, and at night Fox, who was still in the neighbourhood, was sent for. On his arrival he answered all his interrogator's objections in so satisfactory a manner that the judge "assented to the truth and reasonableness thereof;" he set forth in detail the points of his new doctrine, and inveighed against the conduct of the clergy. Margaret Fell thus records the result of the interview:—"And so my husband came to see clearly the truth of what he spoke, and was very quiet, that night, said no more, and went to bed. The next morning came Lampitt priest of Ulverston, and got my husband into the garden and spoke much to him there; but my husband had seen so much the night before that the priest got little entrance upon him." The judge must have been greatly impressed with the arguments of his guest, for from that time he offered no further objection to the Quakerism of his household; though he himself remained a Churchman to the end of his days he was a steady friend to the members of the new sect and its founder on all occasions when it was in his power, and in token of his sympathy gave them permission to hold their meetings in his house, there being no other place in the neighbourhood where they could assemble. "He let us have," said his wife, "a meeting in his house the next first day after, which was the first public meeting that was at Swarthmoor; our meetings being kept at Swarthmoor about thirty-eight years, until a[Pg 22] new meeting-house was built by George Fox's order and cost, near Swarthmoor Hall."
The "new meeting-house" remains to this day, and is still resorted to for religious worship by the Friends of Ulverston and the surrounding district. It is a modest, unpretending structure, standing within a little walled enclosure, and, of course, perfectly unadorned. In the house, which forms part of the structure, is still preserved the Bible given by Fox, with the original chain by which it was fastened to the reader's desk, and also his "great elbow chair."[2] We passed through the open gate into the flagged space in front to make a sketch of the building, on which at the time of our visit the sun was casting its evening benison of golden radiance. In front is a small gabled porch with a panel over the doorway bearing the inscription:—"Ex dono, G. F., 1688," the year of English freedom. That modest little structure, unostentatiously religious and impressive in its simplicity, was to us more "spirit-moving" than many a more pretentious monument. In that lowly building Quakerism was cradled.[Pg 22a]
The Quakers may almost be called a Lancashire sect, for the palatine county was the scene of the earliest and most successful labours of the founder, and it was from the immediate district that the largest accessions to their ranks were obtained, results that[Pg 23] were no doubt largely due to the influence which George Fox acquired over the household at Swarthmoor, and to the protection and encouragement given to him by Judge Fell himself. After the disorderly scene in Ulverston Church and churchyard, Fox proceeded to the market place, where he was subjected to the same rough treatment, and beaten with sticks until he lost consciousness.
On recovering his senses he returned to Swarthmoor, where he found the inmates of the hall busy dressing the heads of the Friends who had tried to protect him from the violence of the mob in the town.
A fortnight afterwards he visited the Isle of Walney, off the adjacent coast, where he met with similar treatment, so that his friends had to hurry him back to the boat for safety; but here they found themselves in a dilemma, for when they attempted to land on the other side the people of Dalton "rose up with pitchforks, flails, and staves, to keep him out of the town, crying 'Kill him, kill him, knock him on the head, bring the cart and carry him away to the churchyard.'" Mrs Fell, hearing of his misfortune, sent a horse to convey him to Swarthmoor, when Thomas Fell issued warrants against his assailants, some of whom deemed it expedient to leave the country. Shortly afterwards warrants were issued by two magistrates, Sawrey and Thompson, against Fox himself for having spoken blasphemy, and he was required to appear at the sessions at Lancaster to answer the charge. Thomas Fell and Colonel West were present, and stood him in good stead on the occasion, pointing out the discrepancies in the evidence and reproving the witnesses. The charge could not be sustained and Fox was liberated, having achieved a triumph in that he had had an excellent opportunity of proclaiming his principles to a large assembly of the local magistracy. After the sessions he held a meeting in the town and gained many converts, among[Pg 24] them being Colonel Gervase Benson, Major Ripon, then mayor of Lancaster, and Thomas Briggs, who afterwards became an active missionary among the Friends and accompanied the founder when he went out to the West Indies in 1671. Having held several meetings in the town, in spite of the threats of the "baser sort of people" to throw him over the bridge into the Lune, he returned to his old quarters at Swarthmoor, but was not long before he found that another information had been laid against him. At the following assize at Lancaster, Windham, the presiding judge, directed a warrant to be issued, but Colonel West, the clerk of assize, spoke boldly in his defence, and resolutely refused to prepare the warrant, and so the matter fell to the ground.
From Lancaster Fox again returned to Swarthmoor, and occupied the closing months of the year (1652) in visiting various parts of North Lancashire and adjoining parts of Westmoreland, exhorting the people, declaiming against "steeple-houses," and unceremoniously interrupting those who taught therein by loudly contradicting their statements of doctrine and proclaiming them to be "hypocritical professors." Before quitting Swarthmoor he addressed several vigorous protests to the local magistrates and ministers, especially those who had been the most active among his opponents, including Sawrey and Lampitt, the vicar of Ulverston, and some of the epistles he was "moved" to write it must be confessed were not remarkable as manifesting a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. Thus he writes to his old enemy, Sawrey:—"Thou was the first stirrer up of strikers, stoners, persecutors, mockers, and imprisoners in the North, and of revilers, slanderers, railers, and false accusers! How wilt thou be gnawed and burned one day, when thou shalt feel the flame, and have the plagues of God poured upon thee, and then begin to gnaw thy tongue because of the plagues! Thou shalt have thy reward according to thy works. Thou canst not escape. The Lord's righteous judgments will find thee out."[3] Lampitt, the[Pg 25] Puritan vicar, he designates "a deceiver, surfeited and drunk with the earthy spirit," and "a right hypocrite in the steps of the Pharisee," adding "when thou art in thy torment (though now thou swellest in thy vanity and livest in wickedness) remember thou wast warned in thy lifetime...."
Having thus cleared his conscience to the priest and people of Ulverston he went into Westmoreland, but returned in the spring of 1653 to his friends in Furness, and about this time he writes in his Journal:—"Being one day in Swarthmoor Hall, when Judge Fell and Justice Benson were talking of the news, and of the Parliament then sitting, which was called the Long Parliament, I was moved to tell them, that before that day two weeks, the Parliament should be broken up, and the Speaker plucked out of his chair. And," he adds, "that day two weeks, Justice Benson coming thither again, told Judge Fell, that now he saw George was a true prophet, for Oliver had broken up the Parliament." That event, which will be ever memorable in the annals of England, occurred on the 20th April, 1653; Colonel Worsley, Manchester's first parliamentary representative, on a signal from Cromwell, entered the house with a force of 300 men, expelled the members from their chamber, and "took away the bauble," and so the Long Parliament, which for twelve years, under a variety of forms, had alternately defended and invaded the liberties of the nation, fell by the parricidal hands of its own children without a struggle and without regret.
From Swarthmoor Fox travelled further north, visiting Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, where he frequently came in contact with the Baptists, a sect that had anticipated many of the doctrines and much of the system of discipline adopted by the Friends, and many of whom became followers of Fox. In the border city he preached in the Castle, at the Market Cross, and then went into the "steeple-house," where a tumult arose. "The magistrates' wives," he says, "were in a rage, and strove mightily to be at me;" then "the rude people of the city rose and came with staves and stones into the steeple-house, crying 'Down with[Pg 26] these round-headed rogues.'" For interrupting the services in the church he was committed to gaol and subjected to many hardships; Wilfrid Lawson, a predecessor, but not an ancestor of the present baronet of that name, who was then high sheriff, "stirred them up to take away his life," and his peace was disturbed at night by "a company of bitter Scotch priests, Presbyterians made up of envy and malice" and "foul-mouthed." He lay in the prison at Carlisle for several months. On regaining his liberty he passed into Westmoreland, and thence to his constant friends, the Fells, of Swarthmoor.
Fox had now fought and won the decisive battles of his life; Quakerism had become an established fact, and had taken a firm hold on the minds of many of the people in the north, and not a few of the converts had begun to preach the new doctrines in other parts of the country. Having, as he considered, concluded his great pioneering work, he took his departure from the hospitable mansion at Swarthmoor in the spring of 1654, and travelled through the midland and southern districts of England. While in his native county, preaching, disputing, and holding conferences, he was taken prisoner by a company of the Parliamentary troopers, and sent by Colonel Hacker to Cromwell under the charge of Captain Drury. When in the presence of the Protector, at Whitehall, he exhorted him to keep in the fear of God; and Cromwell, having patiently listened to his lecture, parted with him, saying, "Come again to my house, for if thou and I were but an hour a day together, we should be nearer one to the other. I wish no more harm to thee than I do to my own soul." Fox found a friend in Cromwell, and on another occasion, when he and some of his friends had been dispersing "base books against the Lord Protector," as Major-General Goffe informed Thurloe, Cromwell sent the Quaker away, on receiving from him a written promise that he would do nothing against his government.
The age was characterised by much religious enthusiasm and extravagance. George Fox and his "quaking men in their leather coats" were becoming formidable from their increasing numbers,[Pg 27] and attracted much attention. Their opposition, obstinacy, and self-sufficiency, too, in denying the authority of Presbyteries and Synods, and all ecclesiastical officers, frequently brought them into collision with the magistrates. So numerous had they become that it has been computed there were at this period seldom fewer than I,000 of them in prison, some for disturbing the peace, some for refusing to pay tithes, and others because they would not do violence to their principles by taking the oath of allegiance or uncovering their heads in the presence of the magistrates. So frequent and severe were the prosecutions to which the Friends were then subjected that Margaret Fell addressed several letters to Cromwell, drawing his attention to the sufferings they were compelled to undergo. In one of them, written in 1657, she warned the Protector that the wickedness of the oppressor would come to an end, and praying that his understanding might be lightened, and that he might exercise justice and judgment without fear, favour, or affection.
In the three years from 1654 to 1657 Fox travelled over nearly the whole of the south of England and Wales. In the autumn of 1657 he turned his steps in the direction of Swarthmoor, passing through Chester and Liverpool on the way, and calling at Malpas; whence he proceeded to Manchester. His reception in the last-named town he thus describes in his Journal:—
Thence we came to Manchester; and the sessions being there that day, many rude people were come out of the country. In the meeting they threw at me coals, clods, stones, and water. Yet the Lord's power bore me up over them, that they could not strike me down. At last, when they saw that they could not prevail by throwing water, stones, and dirt at me, they went and informed the justices in the sessions; who thereupon sent officers to fetch me before them. The officers came in while I was declaring the word of life to the people, plucked me down, and haled me up into their court. When I came there all the court was in disorder and noise. Wherefore I asked, where were the magistrates that they did not keep the people civil? Some of the justices said they were magistrates. I asked them why then did they did not appease the people, and keep them sober? for one cried "I'll swear," and another cried, "I'll swear." I declared to the justices how we were abused in our meeting by the rude people, who threw stones, clods, dirt, and water; and how I was haled out of the meeting and brought[Pg 28] thither, contrary to the instrument of government, which said, "none should be molested in their meetings that professed God and owned the Lord Jesus Christ;" which I did. So the truth came over them, that when one of the rude fellows cried "he would swear," one of the justices checked him, saying, "What will you swear? Hold your tongue." At last they bid the constable take me to my lodging; and there be secured till morning, till they sent for me again. So the constable had me to my lodging; and as we went the people were exceedingly rude; but I let them see "the fruits of their teachers, and how they shamed Christianity, and dishonoured the name of Jesus, which they professed." At night we went to a justice's house in the town, who was pretty moderate; and I had much discourse with him. Next morning we sent to the constable to know if he had anything more to say to us. And he sent us word "he had nothing to say to us; but that we might go whither we would." "The Lord hath since raised up a people"—he adds—"to stand for His name and truth in that town over those chaffy professors."
From Manchester he went to Preston, and thence to Lancaster, where, at his inn, he met with his former friend, Colonel West. Shortly afterwards he crossed the sandy shores of Morecambe Bay to Swarthmoor, where, he says, "the Friends were glad to see me;" and, he adds, "I stayed there two first days, visiting Friends in their meetings thereaways."
From Swarthmoor he went through Westmoreland and Cumberland into Scotland, where he remained some time, visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Dunbar, the Highlands, and other places; returning through Durham and Yorkshire into Furness, where for a few weeks during the winter he was again the guest of the Fells. In the beginning of 1653 he made another journey into the southern counties, and on that occasion he had another interview with Cromwell—a very brief one, and his last, for it was a few days before the Protector's death. In his Journal he tells us something of the great man's appearance at the time when London was gay with ambassadors extraordinary from France, and Mazarin's nephew was assuring the Protector of the profound veneration his uncle had for him—"the greatest man that ever was." But the day was passed for pomps and flatteries.
"Taking boat," says Fox, "I went to Kingston, and thence to Hampton Court, to speak with the Protector about the sufferings of the Friends. I met him riding into Hampton Court Park; and before I came to him as he[Pg 29] rode at the head of his life guard I saw and felt a waft (or apparition) of death go forth against him; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. After I had laid the sufferings of the Friends before him, he bid me come to his house. So I returned to Kingston, and next day went to Hampton Court to speak further with him. But when I came he was sick, and—Harvey, who was one that waited on him, told me the doctors were not willing I should speak with him. So I passed away, and never saw him more."
Carlyle thus characteristically comments upon Fox's narrative:—
"I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him." Or in favour of him, George? His life, if thou knew it, has not been a merry thing for the man, now or heretofore! I fancy he has been looking this long while to give it up, whenever the Commander-in-chief required. To quit his laborious sentry-post, honourably lay up his arms, and begone to his rest—all eternity to rest in, George! Was thy own life merry, for example, in the hollow of the tree, clad permanently in leather? And does the kingly purple, and governing refractory worlds instead of stitching coarse shoes, make it any merrier? The waft of death is not against him, I think—perhaps against thee, and me, and others. O George, when the Nell Gwynne defender and two centuries of all-victorious cant have come in upon us, my unfortunate George.[Pg 29a]
Cromwell died on the 3rd September; and in little more than one short month Fox lost another, and that his truest, friend. For some time previously the health of Judge Fell had been declining; on the 8th of October he passed away from the scene of his earthly[Pg 30] labours, and a few days later was buried by torchlight in a grave under his family pew, in the old church of St. Mary, at Ulverston.
Writing long afterwards, his widow, Margaret Fell, thus recorded her loss:—
We lived together 26 years, in which time we had nine children, and one that sought after God in the best way that was made known to him. He was much esteemed in this country, and valued and honoured in his day, by all sorts of people, for his justice, wisdom, moderation, and mercy.... He was about 60 years of age. He left one son and seven daughters, all unpreferred; but left a good and competent estate for them.[4]
By his will, which bears date September 23, 1658, he left various legacies in trust for poor and aged persons in the parishes of Ulverston and Dalton, and also for the maintenance of a schoolmaster at Ulverston. Among other bequests is one to his "very honourable and noble friend, the Lord Bradshaw" (John Bradshaw, the regicide), of "ten pounds to buy a ring therewith, whom I humbly beseech to accept thereof as all the acknowledgment I can make, and thankfulness for his ancient and continued favours and kindness undeservedly vouchsafed unto me since our first acquaintance." Bradshaw did not live long to wear the memento of the departed judge's friendship, for within a year he had found a grave in the mausoleum of kings at Westminster.
Under the provisions of Thomas Fell's will, Swarthmoor Hall, with its appurtenances and fifty acres of land, were reserved to the use of his widow during the remainder of her life, or until such times as she should marry again, when the property was to pass to Daniel Abraham, the husband of his daughter Rachel. Mrs. Fell remained in the occupancy of the old mansion, and the[Pg 31] meetings of the Friends were held in the house weekly, as they had been during the judge's lifetime. It was not, however, until after the Restoration that George Fox paid another visit to the place. In 1660, he returned from the south, and, after holding a general meeting for all the Friends in Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire at Arnside, he proceeded once more into Furness, and took up his abode at Swarthmoor; but he had scarcely done so when Major Porter, then mayor of Lancaster, issued a warrant for his apprehension. He was forcibly carried away from the hall to the constable's house at Ulverston, where he remained for the night; and the following morning was conveyed across the sands to Lancaster, when he was committed by Porter on the charge of being "an enemy to the King, and that he had endeavoured to raise a new war, and imbrue the nation in blood again." In vindication of his innocence, Fox denied that he was "a disturber of the nation's peace;" and affirmed that he was "never an enemy to the King, nor to any man's person upon the earth." Margaret Fell, who considered that an injustice was done to herself by his removal from her house, also addressed a letter of remonstrance to "all the magistrates concerned in his wrong taking up and imprisoning;" and, failing to obtain redress, determined on proceeding to London, in order that her case might be laid before the King.
"Having a great family," she says in her "Testimony," "and he being taken in my house, I was moved of the Lord to go to the King at Whitehall; and took with me a declaration, and an information, of our principles; and a long time, and much ado, I had to get to him. But, at last, when I got to him, I told him if he was guilty of these things, I was guilty, for he was taken in my house; and I gave him the paper of our principles, and desired that he would set him at liberty, as he had promised that none should suffer for tender consciences; and we were of tender consciences, and desired nothing but the liberty of our consciences. Then, with much ado, after he had been kept prisoner near half a year at Lancaster, we got a Habeas Corpus, and removed him to the King's Bench, when he was released."
To send the delinquent Quaker all the way to London guarded by a party of horse was a serious matter, and after much deliberation[Pg 32] George Chetham, of Clayton and Turton Tower—a nephew of Humphrey, the founder of the Chetham Hospital at Manchester—who was then sheriff, to avoid the expense of conducting his prisoner, liberated him on his promise to appear before the judges in town on a day fixed. From Lancaster he went straight to Swarthmoor, where he stayed two or three days; and then set out for London, passing through Cheshire and Staffordshire, and holding meetings at several places on the way. When he arrived in London "multitudes of people," he says, "were gathered together to see the burning of the bowels of some of the old King's (Charles I.) judges, who had been hung, drawn, and quartered." The following morning he proceeded to the King's Bench, and, pulling out of his pocket the writ charging him with embroiling the nation in blood and making a new war, presented it to the judges, who, as may be supposed, were a good deal astonished and amused at the inconsistency of paroling a prisoner accounted such a dangerous personage, and permitting him to travel a distance of 250 miles without guard or restraint. None of his accusers appearing, and there being nothing sufficiently serious to warrant his committal, the matter was referred to the King, who at once gave orders for his release.
In the summer of 1663 Fox was again at Swarthmoor, when, after a brief stay, he went over to Arnside to attend a meeting, and thence travelled through Northumberland and Cumberland, returning to the hospitable home of Mrs. Fell in the autumn of the same year. On his arrival he was informed that Colonel Kirkby, a neighbouring justice and a member of Parliament, had, on the preceding day, sent his officers to search the house in the expectation of finding Fox there. Undismayed, Fox went the next morning to the colonel's house, Kirkby Hall, when he found the Flemings, of Rydal, and several other of the neighbouring gentry assembled to take leave of the colonel before his departure to London to attend to his Parliamentary duties. Fox, in the presence of the company, asked if there was any charge against him; and he was told, in reply, that "as he," Colonel Kirkby, "was[Pg 33] a gentleman, he had nothing against him. But," he added, "Mistress Fell must not keep great meetings at her house, for they meet contrary to the Act."[5] A few days later he was again apprehended and conveyed to Holker Hall, the residence of Justice Preston, the brave-hearted Margaret Fell accompanying him; when, after being examined, he was ordered to appear at the sessions at Lancaster. He then returned with Mrs. Fell to Swarthmoor; and shortly afterwards, while the Friends were peaceably assembled at a meeting in the hall, the door was opened, and William Kirkby, of Adgarley, a half-brother to Colonel Kirkby, entered with the constables, exclaiming, "How now, Mr. Fox! You have a fine company here!" and at once proceeded to take the names of those present; any who refused being handed over to the custody of the officers. This proceeding led to Margaret Fell herself being examined and committed for trial. Having traversed from the spring assizes, she was brought up on the 29th June, 1664, her chief offence being that of having had meetings for worship in her house at Swarthmoor. It would appear from the evidence she had received an intimation that, on her giving security to discontinue the meetings, the prosecution would be abandoned; and the offer was again made that, if she would give the required security, the case against her would be dismissed. But she refused, and the jury found for the King. A respite was allowed; but, she remaining obstinate, sentence of premunire was passed against her in September of the same year, and she was committed to prison, where she remained until the summer of 1668. Fox, who was also a prisoner for being a "rebel" and a dangerous character, was for a time more successful, his shrewdness and acumen enabling him to discover several errors in the indictment; but he was immediately questioned again, the oath was tendered[Pg 34] and refused, and, being once more put upon trial, he traversed to the next assizes. The sufferings of both were very severe; each prisoner wrote an account of their trials, and the descriptions they give furnish some interesting particulars respecting the condition of the prison at Lancaster at the time. From the narrative of Margaret Fell it appears that, after her trial, the judge said:—"Mistress Fell, you wrote to me concerning your prisons, that they are bad and rain in, and are not fit for people to lie in; and (she says) I answered, the sheriff doth know, and hath been told of it several times; and now it is raining, if you will send to see, at this present, you may see whether they be fit for people to lie in or no. And Colonel Kirkby stood up and spoke to the judge to excuse the sheriff and the badness of the room, and I spoke to him, and said if you were to lie in it yourselves you would think it hard; but your minds is only in cruelty to commit others, as William Kirkby hath done, who hath committed ten of our friends, and put them into a cold room, where there are nothing but bare boards to lie on, where they have laid several nights, some of them old ancient men, above three score years of age, and known to be honest men in their country where they live. And when William Kirkby was asked why they might not have liberty to shift for themselves for beds, he answered and said, they were to commit them to prison, but not to provide prisons for them. And we asked him who should do it, then? and he said the King; and then the judge spoke to him, and said, they should not do so, but let them have prisons fit for men." George Fox also made [Pg 35] [Pg 36] [Pg 37] complaint. He says:—"I desired the judge to send some to see my prison, being so bad, they would put no creature they had in it, it was so windy and rainy; and so I was had away to my prison, and some justices, with Colonel Kirkby, went up to see it; and when they came up in it, they durst scarcely go in it, it was so bad, rainy, and windy, and the badness of the floor, and others that came up said it was ... I being removed out of the prison I was in formerly; and so Colonel Kirkby told me I should be removed from that place ere long." While lying in this deplorable state in the gaol at Lancaster, he says he was so starved with cold and rain that his body became greatly swelled, and his limbs much benumbed. Well might Macaulay say of those times, "The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime and of every disease. At the assizes the lean and yellow culprits brought with them from their cells to the dock an atmosphere of stench and pestilence which sometimes avenged them signally on bench, bar, and jury."
After some time Fox was transferred from Lancaster to the castle at Scarborough, where, during his incarceration, he was visited by the widow of General Fairfax. His condition there was no better than at Lancaster. The room in which he was placed, he says, "being to the seaside, and lying much open, drove in the wind forcibly, so that the rain came over my bed and ran over the room, that I was fain to skim it up with a platter. And when my clothes were wet I had no fire to dry them; so that my body was benumbed with cold and my fingers swelled, that one was grown as big as two." His friends were forbidden to supply him with any comforts, and he remarks, "Commonly a threepenny loaf served me three weeks and sometimes longer, and most of my drink was water with wormwood steeped or bruised in it."[Pg 37a]
After he had been two years in confinement an order for his release was obtained from the King, procured, as it would seem, through the influence of a friend at Court, one "Esquire Marsh," to whom he had been long known, and who declared that, if necessary, "he would go a hundred miles barefoot for the liberty[Pg 38] of George Fox." He was set at liberty on Saturday, the 1st of September, 1666, and he notes in his Journal that "the very next day after my release (Sunday, September 3), the fire broke out in London and the report of it came quickly down into the country." The date is confirmed by the gossiping Secretary of the Navy, Samuel Pepys, who, as he tells us in his "Diary," on that said Sunday morning rose at three o'clock, slipped on his nightgown, and looked out of the window of his house in Seething Lane, at the east end of the city, but, thinking the fire far enough off, "went to bed again and to sleep."
After his release from a severe imprisonment of two years and nine months, Fox was greatly weakened in body, and it seemed at the time unlikely he could long survive the hardships he had had to endure. On his release, he thus moralises upon his oppressors:—"And, indeed, I could not but take notice how the hand of the Lord turned against those of my persecutors who had been the cause of my imprisonment, or had been abusive or cruel to me in it. For the officer that fetched me to Howlker Hall wasted his estate, and very soon after fled into Ireland. And most of the justices that were upon the bench at the sessions when I was sent to prison died in a while after," and, he adds, "when I came into that country again, most of those that dwelt in Lancashire were dead, and others ruined in their estates. So that, though I did not seek revenge upon them for their acting against me contrary to law, yet the Lord had executed his judgments upon many of them."
It was not until 1667 that George Fox again visited Lancashire. In that year he was at William Barnes's, near Warrington, whence he sent letters into Westmorland and other places by Leonard Fell and Robert Widders; monthly meetings of the Friends were held, and to one of them he says:—"Margaret Fell, being a prisoner, got liberty to come, and went with me to Jane Milner's in Cheshire, where we parted." In the summer of the following year (1668) Mrs. Fell was set at liberty, and, on regaining her freedom, went into Cornwall with her daughter Mary, and her son-in-law, Thomas Lower. Shortly afterwards Fox proceeded to[Pg 39] Ireland, and on his return he met with Margaret Fell at Bristol, she being, at the time, on a visit to another married daughter, Isabel Yeomans. "I had seen from the Lord a considerable time before," says Fox, "that I should take Margaret Fell to be my wife, and when I first mentioned it to her, she felt the answer of Life from God thereunto. But, though the Lord had opened this thing to me, yet I had not received a command from the Lord for the accomplishment of it then. Wherefore I let the thing rest, and went on in the work and service of the Lord as before, according as he led me; travelling up and down in this nation and through Ireland." His conduct in respect to his marriage was honourable and disinterested. Before finally deciding, he consulted the seven daughters of his intended wife and her sons-in-law, and obtained their sanction to the proposal, and, further, took care that the provision for the children of Judge Fell was settled and secured before the marriage. The judge's son was the only member of the family who disapproved of the union, but, as he is described as irreligious and of irregular habits, his opinion was disregarded. In his Journal Fox thus records the attendant circumstances:—
But now, being at Bristol, and finding Margaret Fell there, it opened in me from the Lord, that the thing should be accomplished. After we had discoursed the matter together, I told her, "if she also was satisfied with the accomplishing of it now, she should first send for her children," which she did. When the rest of her daughters, were come, I asked both them and her sons-in-law, "if they had anything against it, or for it," and they all severally expressed their satisfaction therein. Then I asked Margaret (Mrs. Fell) "if she had fulfilled and performed her husband's will to her children." She replied, "the children knew that." Whereupon I asked them, "whether, if their mother married, they should not lose by it?" And I asked Margaret, "whether she had done anything in lieu of it, which might answer it to the children?" The children said she had answered it to them, and desired me to speak no more of it. I told them, he adds, "I was plain, and would have all things done plainly; for I sought not any outward advantage to myself." So, after I had thus acquainted the children with it, our intention of marriage was laid before the Friends, both privately and publicly, to their full satisfaction; many of them gave testimony thereunto that it was of God. Afterwards, a meeting being appointed for the accomplishing thereof, in the meeting-house, at Broadmead, in Bristol, we took each other, the Lord joining us together in the honourable marriage, in the everlasting covenant and immortal seed of life.
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The marriage of George Fox with Margaret Fell, which took place on the 18th of October, 1669, eleven years after the death of Thomas Fell, occasioned very little interruption to Fox's ministerial activity. After a brief "honeymoon" of ten days they took leave of each other, he going on a religious mission through the country, while his wife returned to her own home at Swarthmoor.
A few months after Margaret Fox's return her old adversary, Colonel Kirkby, caused her to be again arrested and recommitted at the age of 56 to Lancaster Castle. "The Sheriff of Lancaster," she writes, "sent his bailiff and pulled me out of my own house, and had me prisoner to Lancaster Castle (upon the old _præmunire_[6]), where I continued a whole year, and most of that time I was sick and weakly." At length, in April, 1671, through the intercession of influential Friends, a discharge under the Great Seal was obtained and she was set at liberty, the sentence of præmunire passed seven years before being annulled. "Then," she says, "I was to go up to London again, for my husband was intending for America."[Pg 40a]
The founder of Quakerism had determined upon a voyage across the Atlantic for the purpose of organising the numerous Friends who had been gathered in the far West by the earlier Quaker preachers. In these days such a voyage is accounted as little more than a mere pleasure trip to those who like, or do not absolutely dislike the sea, but in the days of the Stuart Kings it was a serious undertaking; nothing, however, could daunt the spirit of Fox or obstruct his progress when once an enterprise was determined upon. On the 12th of June, 1671, the little yacht, the "Industry," with its living freight of fifty passengers, including Fox and the twelve preachers, who had agreed to accompany him on his mission, sailed down the Thames, Margaret Fox and several Friends going with them as far as Gravesend. On the voyage they were chased by Barbary pirates, and after their landing they underwent many perils and hardships, for travelling in the then[Pg 41] primitive condition of the American colonies was arduous work, involving co
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Christopher Eccleston’s breakthrough role as the late Derek Bentley in the 1991 movie Let Him Have It highlighted one of the 20th century’s most infamous miscarriages of justice. So it seems only fitting that, 33 years on, the Doctor Who actor is fronting a documentary series — his first ever presenting gig — that chronicles other travesties of the British legal system.
"My career started with one of the most controversial miscarriages of justice, as Derek Bentley was hanged for a murder he didn’t commit," the actor tells Yahoo UK. "And then by doing Hillsborough and Sunday with Jimmy McGovern, which again were about miscarriages of justice, there was a sense that I had a level of engagement with those issues.
"So I suppose a number of the dramas I've done have given voice to people without a voice."
The Sky History series, The Guilty Innocent, comprises eight 45-minute episodes, with the first focusing on the story of George Davis, wrongly convicted in 1975 for his supposed part in an armed robbery at the London Electricity Board, and the second shining a spotlight on the case of James Henratty, one of the last men to be hanged in the UK.
While Eccleston wasn’t yet born when Henratty allegedly shot and killed Michael Gregsten in August 1961, he was around for the trial of George Davis, whose fitting up by the police inspired the then-ubiquitous words 'George Davis is innocent OK' to be scrawled on walls up and down the country.
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"I remember the graffiti," says Eccleston, who at the time of Davis’ conviction would have been 11 years old, "but I was too young to engage with it. I never imagined as a child, though, that I would end up meeting George and discovering the story of Rose, his wife, and Peter [Chappell, Davis’ best friend].
"They’re inspirational characters because they both had pretty rudimentary educations, and hadn’t hitherto been particularly politically engaged, but they did so and made a noise about it."
Class is a theme that runs deep in The Guilty Innocent. In most of the great miscarriages of justice in Britain, from the Guildford Four to the Birmingham Six to the Tottenham Three, those that found themselves in the dock, up against the might of the British establishment, were invariably working class — the powerless versus the powerful.
"As was Derek Bentley, as were the 97 football supporters at Hillsborough, as were the victims of the Bloody Sunday massacre," points out Eccleston. "They were disenfranchised people. It's what this country is all about: class."
"Class and race for me are the two big issues, they’re eternal. But yes, if the judicial system comes down heavily, it's always on working class people."
It’s clear that Eccleston is passionate about the cases covered in The Guilty Innocent, and he says he never wanted to be a simple talking head, reciting these stories from the confines of a TV studio.
Each episode climaxes with the actor meeting some of the key participants (in the George Davis one, he makes contact with the daughter of campaigner Peter Chappell and in the other the nephew and grand-nephew of James Henratty), a decision Eccleston reveals was key to his saying yes to the project.
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"At first, I was supposed to be topping and tailing it," he says, "but that’s never been the way I’ve worked. In researching dramatic roles, in researching Bentley or Our Friends In The North or Hillsborough, one of the great stimuluses of my work is meeting and understanding people. That's where I get the raw material for my performances.
"And as I'm speaking to George, as I'm speaking to the Hanratty family, I'm trying to understand them on the grounds that maybe one day I might play them. You've got to be a listener as an actor in front of the camera and in doing your research."
Though Henratty was hanged 62 years ago, questions endure over his guilt or innocence. In 2001, as a result of persistent questions over the handling of the case, Henratty’s body was exhumed, with his family hoping that new DNA evidence would finally exonerate the 25-year-old.
In the end, the Court of Appeal reached the opposite judgement, that it proved Henratty’s guilt "beyond doubt". Except many believe that the DNA evidence may well have, over the decades, become contaminated, leaving the question of whether James Henratty really did pull the trigger on Michael Gregsten still unanswered, something that continues to haunt his relatives, as we see at the end of episode two.
"The last thing Henratty said was that he wanted his name to be cleared," says Eccleston. "That’s an enormous burden for his family, but also for the victims' families. If it wasn't Hanratty, then the victims most of all need to know who it was, for peace. It's a very dangerous, delicate programme we're making there and I'm hoping that the viewers feel we've done it with sensitivity."
There are eight episodes in this run, but — sadly — there are many more examples of gross miscarriages of justice to keep this series running for years, and it seems as if Eccleston is hungry to expose more scandals, and to tell more stories of when the innocent found themselves, either through police corruption or incompetence, sent down.
"Oh, the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, the Stephen Lawrence case… I’d like to revisit those things to examine establishment views on race and class," he says.
"And as we did in Our Friends In The North, show how corruption takes root in a judicial system, and how it takes root within our police force. Even the Post Office scandal. That’s been dealt with dramatically, but I think it would be interesting to look at that in a more documentary type view, and have individuals affected by that interviewed on camera.
"It's great to have them dramatically represented, but I do love to hear from the horse's mouth, as we did with George and the Hanratty family. There are no plans for more, but if there is an audience appetite, I'd certainly be on board."
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Also joining him once again will be his former companion Catherine Tate as she returns as Donna Noble after her unforgettable exit back in 2010 during ‘The End of Time: Part 2'.
In a teaser clip shown before Strictly Come Dancing recently, viewers also discovered the arrival of Neil Patrick-Harris’ character.
The How I Met Your Mother star will play the Toymaker, one of the famous villains last seen in 1966.
Jemma Redgrave will also revive her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.
Meanwhile, Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa will shortly become the new Doctor Who, with his first appearance over the festive period.
What is the order of the Doctors on Doctor Who?
Countless famous faces have played the role of the Doctor. They are all listed below in production order as reported by Radio Times.
The TV experts added: “The following actors have portrayed incarnations of the Doctor across the entire life of Doctor Who, here presented in the order in which they played the character in the real-life production.”
William Hartnell as The First Doctor
Patrick Troughton as The Second Doctor
Jon Pertwee as The Third Doctor
Tom Baker as The Fourth Doctor
Various as The Morbius Doctors
Adrian Gibbs as The Watcher
Peter Davison as The Fifth Doctor
Richard Hurndall as The First Doctor
Colin Baker as The Sixth Doctor
Michael Jayston as The Valeyard
Sylvester McCoy as The Seventh Doctor
Paul McGann as The Eighth Doctor
Christopher Eccleston as The Ninth Doctor
David Tennant as The Tenth Doctor
David Tennant as The Meta-Crisis Doctor
Matt Smith as The Eleventh Doctor
Toby Jones as The Dream Lord
John Hurt as The War Doctor
Tom Baker as The Curator
Peter Capaldi as The Twelfth Doctor
Michael Jones as child First Doctor
David Bradley as The First Doctor
Jodie Whittaker as The Thirteenth Doctor
Jo Martin as The Fugitive Doctor
Evan McCabe as Brendan
Various as The Timeless Children
Sacha Dhawan as The Master Doctor
David Tennant as The Fourteenth Doctor
Ncuti Gatwa as The Fifteenth Doctor
When will the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials air on TV?
The Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials will be on TV for three consecutive weeks.
The first episode, 'The Star Beast', will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 6.30pm on Saturday, November 25, followed by Strictly Come Dancing.
The second episode 'Wild Blue Yonder' will be on BBC on December 2 and the third episode 'The Giggle' will be on TV a week later on December 9 - both will also air at 6.30pm.
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It was a quirk of circumstance that Will Jacks' first standout performance as an England player was a six-wicket haul in a Test match rather than a characteristically dominant white-ball innings. Jacks became the first England debutant spinner since 1993 to claim a five-for on Test debut in 2022, setting up a famous win in Rawalpindi. Not only was it his maiden first-class five-for, he was not even meant to be in the side: he was a late change to the side before the toss with Ben Foakes ruled out through illness.
But though his offspin is more than serviceable, Jacks is primarily a powerful top-order batter who has long been tipped for the top. He shot to mainstream attention on Surrey's pre-season tour in 2019, when he hit a 25-ball hundred in a T10 friendly against Lancashire in Dubai, by which stage he had graduated from a spell with England's Under-19s which included a century against India in a Youth Test and the vice-captaincy at the 2018 World Cup.
Jacks played for Surrey in all three formats in the Championship-winning season of 2018, at the age of 19, and by his early 20s was an established first-team regular. He earned his Test call-up for England's 2022 Pakistan tour after an impressive all-round season for Surrey, developing his offspin under head coach Gareth Batty's tutelage, and also won caps for the T20I and ODI teams. He was also the second man to score a century in the Hundred, playing for Oval Invincibles against defending champions Southern Brave.
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Here is the latest Zelig-style shot of me standing next to some famous people. Actually, you probably don’t recognise them, although the gentlemen on the right was in Betty Blue, among many other French films. He is the urbane Jean-Hughes Anglade, one of the four principals in smash hit French cop drama Braquo, whose second season begins on French cable channel Canal+ in November, and whose first season premieres here on FX from October 30. I’ve seen the first four episodes. It’s fantastic. I’m in. And on Friday, I hosted a Q&A about the show at London’s Soho Hotel for the British media, with three of the cast, plus executive producer Claude Chelli, who is on the left. The other gentleman, whose impressive head is why many commentators are already calling it “the French Shield“, is Joseph Malerba. Here is his head, in character, alongside Anglade’s moustache. Their co-stars are Nicholas Duvauchelle (who wasn’t in London for the Q&A) and Karole Rocher (who didn’t hang around at the reception afterwards).
Critic Stephen Armstrong, who was also on the panel on Friday, wrote a very good introductory piece about Braquo for the Sunday Times‘ Culture, which is not much use to you here, as it will be hidden behind the Times‘ paywall. So this is all you need to know in advance:
Braquo will also, inevitably, be compared to The Wire – a comparison underwritten by the fact that Canal+, effectively France’s “fourth TV channel”, seems to have been forged in the image of HBO, with its strong adult fare and subscription base. It bears some similarity: it’s gritty and handheld and exposes the dark underbelly of a large city, in this instance Paris; its central quartet of cops are prone to “crossing the line” in order to bring justice to scumbags, and their maverick methodology means they rub up against their chiefs on a regular basis. What makes it different from The Wire is that it is not especially interested in the criminals. So let’s put a stop to the Wire comparisons. Although, having said that, Braquo‘s creator, writer and predominant season-one director Olivier Marchal, was once a cop, so he has that in common with The Wire‘s co-creator Ed Burns. Oh, and it also employs novelists as writers.
I shall warn you now, it’s violent. In the opening scene of the first episode of eight, it sets out its stall. This is strong stuff. As it’s subtitled, we must hope we are getting the full impact of the writing, which is sexually frank and full of expletives. It was odd to watch this episode on the big screen before the Q&A with the French-speaking cast and producer, who were watching it with the English translation. Of the four, Chelli was the most fluent English speaker, and he said he was satisfied with the way it had been subtitled. (It’s been done for a British audience – we get “bog” for toilet, for instance.) The cinematically dingy warehouse that seems to pass as a police station in the suburbs of Paris is an atmospheric, tactile base for our rogue cops; it even has its own bar – which, it turns out, is not a wishful fantasy. So this is a glimpse into the world of French urban policing that has its own attractions for a foreign audience.
All cops shows genuflect to American culture, and it’s there in Braquo, but it’s peculiarly Gallic, too, very moody and a touch existential. There are few laughs. There is little banter. It’s incredibly dark, and if the first four episodes are anything to go by, Eddy (Anglade), Theo (Duvauchelle), Roxanne (Rocher) and Walter (Malerba), these four have a habit of making things worse with their reckless procedural ways. And demons? They’ve got ’em!
What I like is that FX are getting into the imported foreign-language drama groove. BBC4 have made it their trademark with The Killing and Spiral (whose Law & Order-style equal emphasis on the legal system makes it much more officey than Braquo, so the pair can be watched as companions to one another), and SkyArts are currently following suit with the Italian Romanzo Criminale, a period mafia origins story set in Rome whose first episode I enjoyed. I say, the more subtitled dramas the merrier. Who would have guessed five or ten years ago that the boutique channels would be fighting over imports with writing at the bottom of the screen? Let they fight. We, the viewers, are the winner.
It was fun to host a Q&A whose panel were not English, and one of whom, Rocher, spoke through a translator. (I’m hoping that watching Braquo will help me with my French, which is schoolboy at best, and hasn’t been tried out in the field since 2005 when I last went to Paris.) I discovered that US imports are all over French TV, and that, less predictably, the biggest bought-in shows out there are The Mentalist, and CSI in all its forms. As for British shows, Chelli was a big fan of The Shadow Line, which hasn’t been shown in France, and Red Riding, which has. I was interested to find out that one of the key influences on Marchal in terms of style and story was the lesser-known American cop drama, Joe Carnahan’s Narc from 2002, starring Ray Liotta, which I must admit I loved, as it seemed to hark back to 70s classics like The French Connection, which is nice, as there really is a French connection now. (Before the Q&A we had a lively discussion about how the best American cinema was influenced by the French New Wave, and yet, this grew out of a bunch of French critics’ love of classic Hollywood directors like Hawks and Hitchcock, so the give-and-take between the two cultures has always been potent.)
Anyway, looks out for Braquo, if you have access to FX. They’re about to start work on Season Three in France. And no, Monsieur Anglade didn’t really want to talk about Betty Blue. I tried.
It can be revealed. For the last month, I have been piloting with the Guardian – a newspaper I have “taken”, near-exclusively, for the entirety of my adult, newspaper-reading life, but have pretty much continually failed to get a job with – a brand new TV review column. Except not a column in the newspaper. Get with it, Granddad. This will be a column that you actually watch, with your eyes, and listen to, with your ears. It is called Telly Addict. Naturally, at this early stage, I appear to be unable to embed it, so you’ll have to use this link for now.
The idea is, every Friday (or Saturday morning, as they will load it up at midnight), you will get a new one, right there on your screen, and my little face will move its mouth about and words of wit and wisdom will come out of it. And the words will be about three or four programmes that have been on the telly, and which I have watched, on the telly. Our aim is for me to talk about those programmes which have been on, and which you might have seen, rather than watch advance tapes or DVDs from the needy broadcasters. I already watch a lot of telly, so this should not present a problem.
These are some grabs from one of the three, yes three, full pilots we have already made in the run-up to today’s actual launch. (They are produced in the Guardian‘s actual TV studios, and are made by Matt and Andy.) You must pilot, so that you can make mistakes away from the public gaze, and we fiddled with the chair, and the angle, and the crop, and the zoom, and we seem to be satisfied with the one that is displayed in the embedded film above. I hope you are too.
Having been stung by the vitriolic mania of the Guardian comments sections before, I fear what may be left there by crotchety human beings, so I might just stay here, and take your considered comments onboard instead. It’s just a man talking about telly. You are encouraged to disagree, but don’t – as the visitors to the Guardian website will – leave cruel comments about my face. I can’t really do much about my face.
I read a fascinating quote from Christopher Eccleston in the Observer magazine yesterday: “The staples of drama are not people who have been happy. Nobody wants to watch a drama about a happy person.” Let’s just run that past again: Nobody wants to watch a drama about a happy person. I really like Christopher Eccleston; he’s my third favourite Doctor and I was lucky enough to interview him for Elizabeth and he turned out to be exactly as I wanted him to be: earnest, serious, but not above self-lacerating honesty and good humour. So, I take what he says seriously. Especially about acting and drama. And this quote has been churning around in my mind ever since. (Probably because I’ve been painting; stuff churns in your mind when you’re doing DIY.)
Last night I eagerly sat down to watch one of four new homegrown TV programmes starting this week: Exile on BBC1. (There’s also Vera, Case Sensitive and The Shadow Line.) Inevitably, it’s in three parts, but those three parts play out over consecutive nights because today’s terrestrial TV schedulers think we’ll forget everything in seven days. Ironically, Exile is about a man who forgets more than just what happened in a TV programme. In fact, what it is, is TV’s first Alzheimer’s thriller. As tricky as that may seem, creator Paul Abbott and his star protegee Danny Brocklehurst have welded two genres to create a third, and for that, you must applaud their guts and determination. And BBC1’s.
Exile began last night with John Simm’s lad-mag writer losing his job and his girlfriend (somebody else’s wife, naturally), and heading North, in the driving rain, to somewhere suburban in Lancashire to rehabilitate. (He’s also a coke-snorter, so it’s literal as well as emotional.) He returns to the family home, where his dad, Jim Broadbent, a former campaining journalist, is in the throes of Alzheimer’s, looked after, round the clock, by saintly daughter and Simm’s older sister Olivia Coleman. Although, well-written, she’s not saintly in the beyond-belief sense, just less selfish than John Simm, who hasn’t been back for years. The house is brilliantly grey and gloomy – as who’s got time to redecorate? – which means it is frozen in time, just like Broadbent, and its ghosts are still in the walls, which makes Exile about the past, and about reconnecting with it. It’s also an acting gift for Simm and Broadbent, who get to do two-handers about fathers and sons, and inevitably rise to the occasion. Apart from the heinous crime of having Simm call Coleman “Sis” when they first speak – in case we are too stupid to work out that a man and a woman who know each other and have the same dad are brother and sister – Brocklehurst does his best to sidestep the usual drama cliches, and instead layers on the reality of the frankly unbearable situation with subtlety and wit.
The thriller begins to emerge towards the end of part one, when a memory sparked by being back in the old house reignites Simm’s curiosity about a story his dad was working on before he started to lose his mind. The audacity of drawing a conspiracy thriller out of what feels like a traditional family chamber piece with a box-ticking “issue” at its core is head-spinning. But don’t come here looking for glamour or flashy thrills. It’s clearly going to be a depressing ride. Episode one ground lovelessly from failure and despondence to family tragedy and unsavoury symptomatic detail to rushed sex and a spin round the Co-Op with admirable commitment to the dreary and everyday that are the hallmarks of Jimmy McGovern and Paul Abbott’s work. Except it’s Abbott that has carved thrillers out of this morass, and you detect his hand here.
Brocklehurst has proved his licks on Shameless and Clocking Off, and we’re in able company here, but we go back to Eccleston’s theory: Nobody wants to watch a drama about a happy person. Let’s hope not, or nobody’s going to watch Exile. In this country we do gloom and grit so well. I loved it when Simm re-entered his teenage bedroom, now stripped of all posters, but still with the “same curtains.” It was like something out of Tim Burton: all wonky angles and tiny window and a headboard from Hell. Just making sure nobody thought Exile was a light drawing room comedy. Let’s see where it goes next.
Oh, and some of you will have spotted this already, if you’ve been reading: I have just created a drama, or a comedy drama, about a happy person. Still, I don’t expect anybody to watch it, as it’s on the radio.
The Sopranos ended in 2007, The Wire in 2008. So, what did HBO do next? Well, it gave the creators of those two epic, HBO-defining shows free range to do whatever the hell they wanted. David Simon, co-creator of The Wire, went off with writer-producer Eric Overmeyer to New Orleans and made Treme, which premiered way back in April 2010 on HBO, and has finally reached our shores via Sky Atlantic. David Chase, who created The Sopranos, is currently developing a miniseries for HBO about the birth of cinema called The Ribbon Of Dreams; meanwhile, the core writers and producers of The Sopranos have spread out to form a quality drama platoon, Matthew Weiner defecting to Showtime to produce the magnificent Mad Men, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess creating the contemporary NYPD family procedural Blue Bloods for CBS, and Terence Winter sticking around to create Boardwalk Empire.
So, three of the four major post-Sopranos shows are period pieces. Interesting. The Wire‘s David Simon, meanwhile, a man of the streets, is too interested in the drama around him to go backwards, which is why Treme, though set three months after Katrina in 2005, is all about now. Treme and Boardwalk are defining shows for Sky Atlantic, now airing on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. We’re a number of episodes in, so worth assessing where we’re at.
Treme is, in many ways, nothing like The Wire. But it gets under the skin of New Orleans just like Simon’s previous show did with Baltimore. Treme, or Tremé, is a district not totally decimated by the hurricane, but predominantly black, and serves as a capsule for the themes that run through the city like wire. The main theme, though, is music. I’ve never visited New Orleans but I know loads of people who have – or certainly did, before Katrina – and they all say the same thing: wherever you go, there is music. Although Simon is a writer fixated on people, and against institutions (we saw them all ticked off in The Wire), he and Overmeyer have allowed music to be the heart and soul of the piece. It opens with music, it ends with music, and what’s been most thrilling about the first two episodes, is that it stops to let us listen to music. Real musicians from the district play themselves – and play, themselves – and if a sense of reality is something you require from your fiction, Treme delivers.
Fictional threads arise from the constant soundtrack (which is to say, an actual soundtrack that emanates from the story, rather than a soundtrack that is layered on afterwards), but these seem to operate at the same pace as the jazz and blues. The fine cast plays as a band, but individual actors get solos: Clarke Peters – sage-like cool customer Lester Freamon in The Wire – as a father and Mardi Gras Indian rebuilding his life in the water-damaged city; Wendell Pierce – Bunk in The Wire, although a New Orleans-based musician before that, who appeared “as himself”, a wise talking head, in Spike Lee’s epochal When The Levees Broke – as the definitive no-good wandering minstrel; Khandi Alexander – junkie Fran in Simon’s The Corner – as a bar owner in search of her brother; Steve Zahn as a white Trustafarian DJ whose love of indigenous culture seems entirely sincere (he’s seen encouraging live voodoo chicken sacrifice on the air!); John Goodman and Melissa Leo as the middle class white liberals, a teacher and a civil rights lawyer … all human life is here, going about its business, not always providing high-wire, or high-Wire, thrills, but that’s not in the nature of the beast. Profound truths about family and roots and social engineering are still told.
Some have been critical of Treme‘s pacing and lack of incident. But not all drama can be packed with events. I thought drama arose from the decisions of characters when faced with events, not from the events themselves. If so, Treme is pure drama. The event happened three months ago; these people are acting accordingly. The music interludes even give you time to think. Two episodes in, and I’m in.
Boardwalk is much more traditional and less jazzy, even though it is set in the jazz age. That Martin Scorsese is an executive producer, and directed the pilot, is apt, as each episode feels like a little movie. Not that little, actually. Again, not all critical reaction has been positive. Many find it beautifully assembled, but derivative, and calculated. It is, but who can resist returning to it, to find out what happens next?
Apparently Steve Buscemi – not a leading man by birth, but hey, guess what, one with Sopranos form (they look after their own in this universe) – is not that much like the Atlantic City treasurer Nucky Johnson his Nucky Thompson is based on, but nor, you have to assume, is Jonathan Rhys-Meyers’ Henry VIII an exact copy of the real king in The Tudors. It’s not important. As long as the stories are good. And the unfolding twin-engine plotline of Prohibition-led, politically-exploited gangsterism and the seeds of romance in among the stony ground of sexual cruelty and opportunism (itself shaded by the suffragette and temperance movements) is enough to be going along with. Buscemi’s let’s-say unconventional allure to all women is partly explained away by power, but it’s more of a stretch to understand why Kelly Macdonald’s Margaret would have any time for him, despite an early kindness afforded her. That’s a bigger leap of faith for the viewer than the obviously computer-generated seafront. (Actually, echoing the food-poisoning “dream” episodes of The Sopranos, it does give the show an aesthetically pleasing unreality, a bit like the compound in Big Love.)
We’re six episodes into Boardwalk, so I have a more confident handle on it than I do as yet with Treme – my appreciation of which is at gut level – but I can feel the tensions rising. It’s totally HBO, in that its violence is unflinching (the vandalism of Jimmy’s girl with ambitions to become a starlet a particularly nasty moment), and its sex is raw and full-frontal, albeit usually between an ugly, immobile grunting man and a beautiful, shapely, composed woman – do the men who make these films feel more comfortable with the soft-porn exploitation of actresses’ bodies if the men are always presented in less than pretty form? That said, the interrelationships and intrigues and historical and social context would sit easily after 9pm on a terrestrial channel. I wonder if HBO programmes use the word “cunt” and flash their reproductive organs because they can?
This has not been an advertisement for Sky Atlantic. DVD box sets and illegal downloading are or will be available. (Treme is out in the UK in April; Boardwalk not yet listed.)
So, Mad Men Season 4 began last night – watched, one imagines, by hundreds on BBC4. For those of us who’ve been with it from the start (and I don’t mean that to sound superior; I’m very rarely in at the ground floor with the best US imports, as you’ll know from past experience with The Wire, Battlestar, Curb, 30 Rock and, most conspicuously, House), the current media hoo-hah seems a little after the event. In fact, if I’d been watching it for the very first time last night, not having seen it before, I might even have wondered what the fuss was all about. Sure, it looks pretty, and the 60s setting is interesting and the suits well cut, but who are these people with rods up their arses, and why should I care if they win this account or lose that one? Well, rare indeed is the TV show that can live up its own hype. For my money, and I speak as an early investor, the first episode of S4 was dazzlingly clever. My heart was in my mouth on more than one occasion, and if it hadn’t been so late, and I didn’t have that stupid Derren Brown hoax to watch, I could easily have watched it all over again. They’re so finely polished these episodes, it would be a shame to delete them. They go on giving.
In breaking up the old Sterling Cooper, gradually, throughout S3, and re-established them at the bottom of the food chain, in an office with only a fabled second floor, the creators have been able to a) position Don Draper at the very apex of the business, where he always belonged, with his own “D” in the company initials (as Peggy said, those who jumped ship with him, did so because they love him), and b) cut away some of the dead wood. I’m sure we’ll see Sal and Kinsey again, but for now, it’s nice to have the sprawling cast cut back. Joan, so central to the hype – or at least Christina Hendricks has been – barely spoke in this episode. Not that her presence was reduced. The look on her face when Don sent the “two-piece” clients packing spoke volumes. But again, if I’d believed the hype, I might have assumed that the statuesque Joan was the star of Mad Men. She’s not. Never was. But she always felt like an essential internal organ, and, like so many of the supporting characters, has been fleshed out immeasurably over three seasons. Oh, and she has much bigger breasts than most women on telly. Don’t know if that’s been coyly referred to at all? Oh.
God, to hack through the think-pieces that have proliferated in the run-up to this season premiere! My own Radio Times had Kirsty Lang sounding the horn for women’s lib, as promoted by Mad Men’s pivotal role in both compartmentalising and patronising its secretarial class, while the wives and typists sought to unshackle themselves from the hob and the ribbon; no less than David Hare took the angle in the Guardian that if this is indeed a “fancy soap”, it’s one whose “governing metaphor” is authenticity (“Mad Men, at its most basic, plugs into the theme of class which powers so much great American art”); Melanie Philips fed her own bloated ego by devoting an entire column to the fact that she likes Mad Men in the mad Mail, as if this is news enough to power a page of text – oh, and she gets in a dig at modern society’s political correctness and its “hollow heart”, and dreamily retro-fetishises the smoking, drinking and “rampant predatory sexism, racism and other prejudices.”
Here I am, adding to the chatter once again. If you watched the programme for the first time last night and wondered what all the fuss was about, then please do yourself a favour and get the first, second and third seasons somehow. Borrow them, whatever. Mad Men has earned what it’s doing in Season 4. But you have to appreciate the breakdown to understand and enjoy the rebirth. “Who is Don Draper?” is only a profound question if you think you already know the answer. But even those of us who think we do, we didn’t know he liked a bit of that, now, did we?
I’ve blogged about Mad Men here before, but only briefly. Once here, and another time here.
I sincerely hope you have never seen the television programme My Super Sweet 16. It’s on MTV and although it’s an American show – how could it not be? – it now exists in a xeroxed British version, called My Super Sweet 16 UK . If you haven’t stumbled upon it, please don’t seek it out unless you have a strong stomach. (If you do find it, please ensure you are not wearing shoes, as you may feel the urge to kick the television set in.)
Here’s how it goes: a spoiled brat approaching their 16th birthday is corralled by the programme-makers into throwing a party to beat all previous parties. Now, who actually pays for all this is unclear. Certainly, the parents seem well off. The “narrative” of the show, which is typically murky for a “reality” format, involves the parents being ordered around by said brat, as preparations escalate, a dance routine is rehearsed and the centre of their universe becomes ever more demanding and appalling. If the programme is to be believed, 15-year-olds in America are all rich beyond their wildest dreams and interested only in designer labels, price tags and being “popular”, a quality that can be bought with the aforementioned designer labels. Now, fair enough, most of us are pretty shallow at 15, caught between childish urges and creeping hormonal discomfort, but then most of us don’t have access to blank cheques from daddy and an overinflated sense of our own importance. The Super Sweet 16 bash – heavily formulaic, if you watch more than one episode and you mustn’t – always involves a “theme”, a “performer” (ie. someone famous appearing to mime to a record and thus make the birthday boy/girl more popular with their squealing contemporaries), that dance routine, and a tantrum, when something fails to go right. Clearly, if you are going to organise a massive party, you don’t leave stuff to the last minute, but they always do, in order for the programme to introduce some jeopardy where there really is none. Omigod, the snow machine isn’t big enough! The Bollywood dance routine won’t fit on the stage! They can’t book Kayne West! (They all seem to want to book Kanye West.)
It’s trash telly, but it’s also deeply frightening that there are kids out there this materialistic and hollow, and parents out there so unable to provide love they substitute it with money, in the process creating a monster. I’m afraid I’ve seen a number of these things now, mostly the UK ones, and if someone told me that the whole thing was set up and that the parents and kids were played by actors, I wouldn’t be surprised. Charlie Brooker, whose Screenwipe shamefully brought the show to my attention, called it “an Al-Qaeda recruitment film,” and I can’t top that for accuracy. You stagger away from watching it with the cast-iron certainty that we are all going to hell.
Of course, it can be watched for morbid fun. Midway through, the party-thrower is helicoptered or chauffeured to a photogenic location, there to hand out the invites to a scrum of schoolfriends (and I use the word “friends” in the social networking sense). It is here that “reality” comes unmoored from reality. If there really are kids like this out there in the country I live in, I want them removed from the gene pool. This may sound harsh, but if these 15 year olds grow up thinking that wealth is everything, what are their eventual offspring going to grow up thinking? (A dimwit from Essex who conspired with her “friends” not to invite any “losers” or “ugly people” to her James Bond-themed party, to which a mercenary Akon turned up to mime his song, was given a bracelet that cost as much as a car.)
As ever, I blame the parents. I am reluctant to criticise parenting, not being one myself, but the cowed, unthinking, credit-card-swiping fools on this programme (all “new money”) have misunderstood what parenting actually is.
Thoroughly enjoyed seeing Strictly Come Dancing through to the end this year (despite the inordinate amount of filler required to pad out the final to well over two hours – how many times does anyone need to see that montage of the finalists’ previous dances and rehearsal-room tears?). It was only when they introduced last year’s winner, Mark Ramprakash, who I have confirmed is a cricketer, that I realised I must not have watched it last year. This will be because I was doing my radio show on a Saturday, I expect. I definitely watched bits, if not all of the first three series, because I remember Natasha Kaplinsky and Claire Sweeney and the elegant Zoe Ball and Julian Clary being voted back in despite his lack of ballroom dancing ability, proving that the public vote with their hearts, not their heads.
This last aspect – the “human factor”” – is, one assumes, why the men always do so well (I think it was an all-male final last year): the granny vote! Well, this year’s winner, Alesha Dixon, formerly of Mis-Teeq, was a deserving one. She was easily the best dancer of the run, and – so I learned over the weekend – not professionally trained, which I had assumed, her being a pop singer and all. Good on her. Matt Di Angelo should have been disqualified for looking like a scruffy bastard with that facial hair anyway.
The reason I mention the show, which I like for reasons unprofound, is that the final reached new levels of vacuity. Every contestant or friend/relative of contestant interviewed used the phrase “journey” to describe what had been some ballroom dance training. I’ve noticed this a lot in 2007. One can no longer have an experience; one must go on a “journey”. Thus, Alesha Dixon did not perform an increasing number of different dances on telly over 12 weeks; she went on an incredible “journey.” Equally, Matt Di Angelo, formely of EastEnders (although I’ve no idea who he played), did not perform an increasing number of different dances on telly over 12 weeks, only to be beaten on the night, he went on an amazing “journey”. (Presumably, his “journey” wasn’t as good as Alesha’s, since it ended in defeat on national television, but it was a “journey” nonetheless – a bit like going on holiday, which is also a “journey” and finding out your hotel doesn’t look like it did on the website.)
I think we can guess where this new obsession with “journeys” come from. The United States of America, perhaps? The world of therapy, perhaps? (I have absolutely nothing against therapy, by the way, and am in fact fascinated by human psychology, but when phrases like “journey” and “closure” seep into everyday language, I fear for the future efficacy of therapy itself. You’re going to get patients turning up and talking about their “journey” as if they know what they’re talking about.) It’s been weird since the death of Princess Diana and the first flush of success in the country of Jerry Springer, to see a nation mutate from monosyllabic emotionally constipated introverts to one of externalising, emotionally incontinent extroverts, where a problem aired is a problem halved, and if a confession of infidelity or sexual malpractice isn’t made on television, it hasn’t been made at all. Who knew we British would get so good at talking about how we feel? In many ways, this is healthy. But we are in danger of going too far, and bestowing unimportant, mundane, easily-explained experiences with psychological and emotional significance that they don’t merit.
Not everything we do is a “journey”. I’ve just wrapped some Christmas presents. It wasn’t a “journey”. It was a task. I went to Waitrose yesterday: now that was a journey. But not a “journey”. The year is coming to a close. It’s been an experience with ups and downs in it, a few changes, a few new things, a few old things – but it’s not necessary to analyse it as a whole and discover what kind of “journey” it’s been.
Well, I’m glad I got that off my chest. I needed closure on it.
Let’s just run through some of the best things of 2007, lest this potentially oppressive and wrongheaded time of year get us down. I’ve done singles and albums, but these are a few of the cultural and social equivalents of the life-affirming pied wagtail:
Books
Rumsfeld: An American Disaster by Andrew Cockburn
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – quite the most depressing novel I think I’ve ever read in my life, but compelling like no other
Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks
Al Qaeda by Jason Burke (came out in 2006 in hardback, but let’s not quibble) – I had this in my bag when I was stopped and searched last week under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. The police officer didn’t see it.
Bit Of A Blur by Alex James
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan – short but sweet
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein – actually I’m still in the process of reading this (it’s my bedside read, which is often the slowest of my on-the-go books, as I tend to go to bed to go to sleep), but it’s proving a powerful join-the-dots exercise
Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet
The Damned Utd by David Peace – another oldie, but I’m catching up with this exciting British-born, Tokyo-based writer, and enjoying GB84 at the moment
Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – also halfway through, but considering how much other reading I’ve done on the Iraq war this year, it adds a refreshing perspective by focusing on one aspect of the fiasco
Believe In The Sign by Mark Hodkinson – he sent me a copy of it, as he’s a self-publisher, which is in itself admirable, and I get sent a lot of books on a nostalgia/memoir theme which aren’t always worth reading, but this one, about supporting Rochdale in the 70s, is
Tescopoly by Andrew Simms
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Jamie At Home by Jamie Oliver – a cook book I’ve actually used
Films (because they come out on DVD so quickly now, some of these are already available on DVD, but if I start including DVDs we’ll end up with last year’s list of best films, and there will be no demarcation between one year and the next – and then where will we be?!)
The Lives Of Others – a tie for Film Of 2007 with …
Control
Tell No One
Hot Fuzz
The Bourne Ultimatum
Letters From Iwo Jima
Zodiac
Sicko
Michael Clayton
3:10 To Yuma
Knocked Up
This Is England
Half Nelson
TV programmes
Cranford, BBC1 – thought I’d throw something homegrown in at the top, before we turn into the 51st State of Televisual America
The Mighty Boosh, BBC3 – haven’t had time to write about the third series yet, but I think it may be their best; certainly their most cohesive and together, and the episode about Howard’s birthday was almost Seinfeldian in the way the plot strands met up at the end
Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib, C4
Comics Britannia, BBC4
Heroes, Sci-Fi, then BBC2
The Sopranos, E4, C4 – the final Season was elegiac, slow, confident and magnificent; also, not in any way predictable
The Wire, FX – in my opinion, Season Four was as good as any that have gone before, right up there with Season Two
Californication, Five – I note that this is not everybody’s cup of tea and I don’t watch it for the scenes of a sexual nature, it’s Duchovny who carries it
Entourage, ITV2 – can’t believe I’m so late with this: loving Season Three, and now into Season One on DVD
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
The Riches, Virgin 1 – truly, an acquired taste, but one I’ve been more than prepared to acquire – unlike Dexter and 30 Rock and Ugly Betty, which failed to ring the appropriate bells and made Sky+ life a little easier to manage
Britz, C4 – not perfect, but as good as way as any to prove that C4’s still got it, drama-wise, in its 25th birthday year
Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares, C4 – can’t watch The F Word, but this is Gordon doing something useful
Monarchy, BBC1 – documentary series of the year
Malcolm & Barbara, ITV1 – one-off documentary of the year; its images may never leave me (what a shame it was entangled in the “fakery” rows – a piece of publicity-chasing that should have been beneath everyone involved)
Strictly Come Dancing, BBC1 – the crown prince of talent shows, it shouldn’t have worked, but it does, chiefly because it’s about ability and learning and self-improvement, and these are not bad things to find in a BBC programme at this difficult time. Unlike Big Brother, which I watched all the way through this year, witnessing some people ballroom dancing for coins and compliments does not make me feel dirty afterwards
Saxondale, BBC2 – sitcom improves in second series: not an easy trick to pull off
Jamie At Home, C4
[I’m bound to have forgotten a few TV shows, so chuck a few more into the pot]
Live events
Carter USM reunion, Brixton Academy – specifically, singing along at the tops of our lungs to The Impossible Dream
Marcus Brigstocke & Friends, Canizaro Park, Wimbledon – part of a local festival it brought together an amazing lineup of Brigstocke, Jeff Green, Rich Hall, Adam Hills and compere Shappi Khorsandi: weird layout, constant drizzle, it being the summer, but a fine crowd and a good time had by all
Aracde Fire, Brixton Academy – do I only go to gigs at Brixton Academy? It seems so; a quasi-religious occasion
Swan Lake, English National Ballet, Royal Albert Hall – My First Ballet, and a minor revelation, not least the fantastic percussion of toes on wood, which I wasn’t expecting
Porgy & Bess, Savoy Theatre – made doubly thrilling for the unexpected chance to see Clarke Peters (he plays Lester Freamon on The Wire) live
Guys & Dolls, Piccadilly Theatre
Live Earth, BBC – only joking, it was shit beyond belief; I actually preferred Concert For Diana
Highs
Winning the RTS Breakthrough award and the Rose D’Or for the unfashionable sitcom Not Going Out (plus two untelevised British Comedy Awards)
Appearing on Richard & Judy for the first – and, it seems, last – time
Becoming Mark Kermode’s regular understudy on News 24 (next slot: January 4)
Attracting goldfinches, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, robins, greenfinches, starlings and the occasional woodpecker to my bird feeders (with the odd wren pecking around on the ground)
The lost child benefit CDs and the fact that this howling error may have torpedoed Labour’s hopes of bringing in ID cards
All those pheromones I released at the gym
The Day The Music Died
Cancelling MySpace
Ignoring Facebook
Alright, just for balance:
Lows
Constant headaches from orchestrated lobbying and cowardly abuse on this blog
BT meltdown
Losing my old laptop in flooding (although I like my new one better)
The BBC phone-in “scandals” and the glee with which certain quarters of the media met the news of resultant job losses (including that of my friend Leona)
Driving through the West End of London after 1am, following stints on 6 Music, and realising just how many businesses leave their lights on all night – it really is business as usual isn’t it?
Deciding to stop taking the Guardian on grounds of its conservative views on medicine, then having to go back as the Independent was just boring – ah well! So much for the principled stand!
Having the blog described by someone called Stella on the 6 Music message boards as “lots of poorly-written TV reviews” – actually, this made me smile!
Anticlimactic publication of That’s Me In The Corner, accompanied by almost no reviews and through-the-floor sales (but thanks to those who sought it out in darkened corners of bookshops and actually enjoyed it)
High/Lows
Leaving 6 Music in March after five years. I was sad to go, but at the same time it was liberating, not having to project unbiassed BBC views any more, and as for getting my weekends back – sweet!
Happy Christmas and may your God go with you!
So, wish us luck tonight at the first ever untelevised British Comedy Awards! Just my luck to finally get a nomination in the year that ITV drops the show due to the “voting irregularities” that are still under investigation after this summer’s wave of premium rate phoneline scandals. Anyway, for your information, these are the nominations:
[NB: I was going to put an asterisk after the nominee I want to win, but I started doing this and it was a flawed project, as of course I want Not Going Out to win, and in some of the categories I am not fussed one way or the other, and I’ve only seen half an episode of Gavin & Stacey, so can’t really judge its merits. Instead I’ve gone out on a limb and put the asterisk next to the one I think will win …]
BEST TELEVISION COMEDY ACTOR 2007
DAVID MITCHELL
Peep Show (Objective Productions for Channel 4)
JACK DEE *
Lead Balloon (Open Mike for BBC Four)
KEVIN BISHOP
Star Stories (Objective Productions for Channel 4)
LEE MACK
Not Going Out (Avalon for BBC One)
BEST TELEVISION COMEDY ACTRESS 2007
CATHERINE TATE
The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect for BBC Two)
LIZ SMITH
The Royal Family: The Queen of Sheba (Granada Productions for BBC One)
RUTH JONES *
Gavin & Stacey/Saxondale (Baby Cow for BBC Three/Baby Cow for BBC Two)
BEST COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY 2007
ALAN CARR & JUSTIN LEE COLLINS
The Friday Night Project (Princess Productions for Channel 4)
SIMON AMSTELL *
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Talkback Thames for BBC Two)
STEPHEN FRY
QI (Talkback Thames for BBC Two)
BEST MALE COMEDY NEWCOMER 2007
JAMES CORDEN *
Gavin & Stacey (Baby Cow for BBC Three)
MATHEW HORNE
Gavin & Stacey (Baby Cow for BBC Three)
MATT BERRY
The IT Crowd (Talkback Thames for Channel 4)
BEST FEMALE COMEDY NEWCOMER 2007
JOANNA PAGE *
Gavin & Stacey (Baby Cow for BBC Three)
RUTH JONES
Gavin & Stacey (Baby Cow for BBC Three)
SHARON HORGAN
Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive/Pulling (Jones the Film for BBC Three/Silver River for BBC Three)
BEST NEW BRITISH TELEVISION COMEDY (Scripted) 2007
GAVIN & STACEY
Baby Cow for BBC Three
LEAD BALLOON *
Open Mike for BBC Four
NOT GOING OUT
Avalon for BBC One
BEST TELEVISION COMEDY 2007
GAVIN & STACEY *
Baby Cow for BBC Three
PEEP SHOW
Objective Productions for Channel 4
STAR STORIES
Objective Productions for Channel 4
BEST NEW COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME 2007
AL MURRAY HAPPY HOUR *
Avalon for ITV1
FONEJACKER
Hat Trick for E4
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
So Television for BBC Two
BEST COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME 2007
HARRY HILL’S TV BURP
Avalon Television for ITV1
NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS *
Talkback Thames for BBC Two
THE FRIDAY NIGHT PROJECT
Princess Productions for Channel 4
BEST LIVE STAND UP 2007
ALAN CARR
DARA O’BRIAIN *
SIMON AMSTELL
BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SHOW 2007
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM *
HBO Entertainment for More 4
THE OFFICE: AN AMERICAN WORKPLACE
NBC Universal for ITV2
THE SIMPSONS
Twentieth Century Fox for Sky One / Channel 4
BEST COMEDY FILM 2007
BORAT
20th Century Fox
HOT FUZZ *
Universal
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE
20th Century Fox
Of course, these things are never an exact science, so the fact that Peep Show won last year doesn’t necessarily mean it, or David Mitchell, won’t win again this year, although it does seem a bit old now. Gavin & Stacey is such a shoo-in for Best TV Comedy, surely that leaves the field open a bit in Best New TV Comedy.
(I have been once before, way back in, I think, 1997, when myself and Stuart’s Movie Club was on, and the same production company produced Lily Savage, so we were on Paul O’Grady’s table. The main thing I remember, apart from Buster Merryfield tripping up as he walked past our table, is that at the after-show, the Chuckle Brothers said a confident and warm hello to Stuart and I, even though we’d never met them before. Maybe comedians are nicer than you thought.)
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Born: 16th February 1964
Episodes Broadcast: 2005, 2013
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Although he starred in Doctor Who for just one year, Christopher Eccleston was perhaps the programme's most pivotal choice of lead actor since Patrick Troughton demonstrated the public's willingness to accept a new Doctor in 1966. The face of the show's twenty-first-century resurgence, Eccleston was born in Salford, Lancashire. He aspired to play football for Manchester United, but instead discovered a passion for acting in his late teens. Eccleston spent two years studying performance at Salford Tech, and then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. However, he struggled to find work and took a variety of jobs, including posing nude as an artists' model.
Eccleston's professional break came in 1989, when he was cast in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic. Although the stage was his first love, he made his television debut in Blood Rights in 1990, before earning small roles in shows like Casualty and Inspector Morse. Eccleston then won acclaim for his performance in the 1991 movie Let Him Have It. He co-starred in the first season of Cracker, before asking to be written out early in its second run. Other Nineties television included Hearts And Minds, Our Friends In The North and Hillsborough. On the silver screen, Eccleston starred in the 1994 Danny Boyle cult classic Shallow Grave, while smaller roles could be found in Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett and the science-fiction thriller eXistenZ, amongst others. His first brush with Doctor Who occurred when he was asked to audition for the American co-production that became Doctor Who (1996). At the time, however, Eccleston was not interested in associating himself with such an established television property.
Eccleston tackled the lead role in Russell T Davies' The Second Coming
Eccleston maintained a steady presence in movies following the turn of the century, appearing in Gone In Sixty Seconds with Nicholas Cage and two well-reviewed horror films: The Others with Nicole Kidman and Boyle's 28 Days Later.... On television, Eccleston was becoming closely associated with Nicola Shindler's production company, Red. He worked on episodes of Clocking Off and Linda Green, and had an award-winning turn in the telefilm Flesh And Blood. Eccleston then tackled the lead role in The Second Coming, which Shindler co-produced with Russell T Davies. Amongst his other work was a modern retelling of Othello under producer Julie Gardner. When Davies was tasked with bringing Doctor Who back to television in 2005, with Gardner as one of his fellow executive producers, Eccleston asked that he be considered for the role of the Doctor. He was independently suggested to Davies and Gardner by the revived programme's other executive producer, Mal Young.
So it was that Eccleston made his debut as the Ninth Doctor in Rose. But although his reinvention of the role was widely heralded, the reality was that he had already quit Doctor Who. With the early days of the production having been inordinately fraught, Eccleston's relationship with Davies quickly deteriorated. Just twelve weeks after his first appearance as the fantastic Ninth Doctor, he handed off to his successor, David Tennant, in The Parting Of The Ways. Eccleston spent much of the rest of the decade working in Hollywood, including the films The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, plus several episodes of the super-powered drama Heroes. He acknowledged that these projects were often terrible, but they paid well enough to subsidise his more creatively challenging and meaningful work.
Eccleston's television credits during the 2010s included Lennon Naked, The Shadow Line, The Leftovers and The A Word, while Thor: The Dark World was amongst his movie appearances. Eccleston was approached about appearing in the Doctor Who fiftieth-anniversary special The Day Of The Doctor, but he ultimately decided against participating, with executive producer Steven Moffat instead developing the War Doctor incarnation played by John Hurt. In 2011, Eccleston married a copywriter named Mischka. Son Albert was born in 2012, and daughter Esme arrived the following year. Eccleston and his wife were divorced in 2015.
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Don Novello, American actor and comedian (Father Guido Sarducci-Saturday Night Live), born in Ashtabula, Ohio
Felix Arons, Dutch director and actor (Waaldrecht), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1992)
Bonnie Franklin, American actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2013)
Harun Farocki, German filmmaker and author (Nicht loeschbares Feur), born in Nový Jičín, Czech Republic (d. 2014)
Bernard Derome, Canadian broadcaster (Le Téléjournal), born in Montreal, Quebec
Jan 10 William Sanderson, American actor (Newhart - "Larry"; Deaedwood - "Farnum"; True Blood - "Sheriff Dearborne"), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor, born in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist (Marjoe) and actor (Earthquake; Falcon Crest), born in Long Beach, California [1]
Françoise Hardy, French pop singer, songwriter ("Je Suis D’Accord", "Comment te Dire Adieu"). and actress, born in Paris, France (d. 2024) [1]
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner; Ladyhawke; Osterman Weekend), born in Breukelen, Netherlands (d. 2019)
David Gerrold [Jerrold David Friedman], American science fiction screenwriter (Star Trek) and author (The Martian Child), born in Chicago, Illinois
Bobby Ball [Harper], British comic, actor, singer and television host (Cannon and Ball; The Last of Summer Wine), born in Oldham, Lancashire, England (d. 2020)
Barbara Moore, American actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - "Lisa Rogers"), born in Wardell, Missouri
Leo Burmester, American actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs), born in Louisville, Kentucky
Geoffrey Hughes, British actor (Coronation Street), born in Wallasey, England, (d. 2012)
Feb 2 Karen Foss, American broadcaster (KSDK St. Louis), born in Kansas City, Kansas
Feb 2 Katherine Crawford, American actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings), born in Los Angeles, California
Feb 2 Michael Sharvell-Martin, British stage and screen character actor (Dave Allen At Large), born in Herne Bay, Kent, England (d. 2010)
Trisha Noble (aka Patsy Ann), Australian pop singer ("Good Looking Boy"), and actress, born in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2021)
Michael Tucker, American actor (Stuart Markowitz-LA Law), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Roger Lloyd-Pack, British stage and screen actor (Only Fools and Horses - "Trigger"; The Vicar of Dibley - "Owen"; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), born in Islington, England (d. 2014)
Lajos Kovács, Hungarian actor (Woyzeck; Wings of Desire; the Witman Boys), born in Bátaszék, Hungary
Jerry Springer
German-American politician (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977), and television tabloid talk show host (Jerry Springer, 1991-2018), born in London, England
Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor, born in Wadakkancherry, India (d. 2006)
Feb 13 Stockard Channing, American actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace), born in New York City
Alan Parker, English director (Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express), born in London, England (d. 2020)
E. J. Peaker, American actress (That's Life), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Feb 22 Jonathan Demme, American film director (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), born in Baldwin, New York (d. 2017)
Barry Bostwick, American actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show, Megaforce), born in San Mateo, California
Feb 24 Sheila Larkin, American actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer), born in Brooklyn, New York
Karen Grassle, American actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie), born in Berkeley, California
Feb 25 Kristina Holland, American actress (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Marilyn Michaels, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour), born in New York City
Alan Fudge, American actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls), born in Wichita, Kansas
Colin Nutley, director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack)
Feb 28 Kelly Bishop, CO, actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn)
Dennis Farina, American actor (Get Shorty, Law & Order, Crime Story), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2013)
Feb 29 Phyllis Frelich, American actor (Love is Never Silent), born in Devil's Lake, North Dakota
Katherine Crawford, American actress (Captains & King; Gemini Man), born in Los Angeles, California
Mar 2 Uschi Glas, German actress
Paul Sands, comedian and actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere), born in Los Angeles, California
Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
Pattie Boyd
English model, photographer and author who married both George Harrison and Eric Clapton (not at the same time), born in Taunton, England
(Roger) Hilary Minster, British character actor ('Allo 'Allo!), born in Surrey, England (d. 1999)
Mar 21 Marie-Christine Barrault, actress (Stardust Memories), born in Paris, France
Michael Nyman, British pianist and composer of opera and film scores (Mesmer; Carrington; The Piano), born in Stratford, London
R. Lee Ermey, American actor (Full Metal Jacket- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), born in Emporia, Kansas (d. 2018)
Kelly Garrett, American actress and singer (The Night That Made America Famous), born in Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
Diana Ross
American singer (The Supremes - "Stop! In The Name Of Love"; "You Can't Hurry Love"; "I Hear A Symphony"), and actress (Lady Sings Blues; Mahogany), born in Detroit, Michigan
Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (Hamoun), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2008)
Ken Howard, American actor (Ken - The White Shadow), born in El Centro California (d. 2016)
John Suchet, British TV journalist (Independent TV News), and classical music presenter (Classics FM), born in Paddington, London, England
Tomohiro Nishikado, Japanese video gamer developer (Space Invaders), born in Osaka, Japan
Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
Apr 1 Rusty Staub, American baseball utility (6 x MLB All Star; Houston Colt .45s / Astros; Montreal Expos; NY Mets; Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (Mets games 1986-95), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2018)
Bob Sheridan, American boxing and MMA broadcaster (WGBS "Rumble in the Jungle", "Thrilla in Manila"; bodogFIGHT), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2023)
Tony Orlando [Cassavitis], American pop singer (& Dawn - "Tie A Yellow Ribbon"; "Knock Three Times"), and television personality, born in New York City
Craig T. Nelson, American actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach), born in Spokane, Washington
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress (Ciske de Rat; Antonia's Line), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hywel Bennett, Welsh, actor (Family Way, Shelley), born in Garnant, Wales (d. 2017)
John Milius, American screenwriter (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Charles Burnett, American film director (When It Rains; Glass Shield), born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
John Sergeant, British political journalist, radio and television broadcaster, born in Oxford, England
Margo MacDonald, Scottish national broadcaster and politician (MP for Glasgow Govan 1973-74), born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 2014)
Niklaus Schilling, Swiss film director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 2016)
Len Goodman, British ballroom dancing champion and television personality (Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-16; Dancing with the Stars, 2005-22), born in London, England (d. 2023)
Richard Kline, American actor and director, born in New York City
Apr 29 [Nicolas] Michael Angelis, English actor (Thomas & Friends, Boys from the Black Stuff), born in London, England (d. 2020)
Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), born in New York City (d. 2010)
Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor (Detective), born in Paris, France
May 5 John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Sir Edward-Quest, Sliders), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
May 5 Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers - "Robin Colcord"), born in Aberystwyth (d. 2015)
Anton Furst, American production designer (Batman), born in London (d. 1991)
Eva Norvind, Norwegian-Mexican actress, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 2006)
May 7 Richard O'Sullivan, British comedy actor (Man About the House), born in Chiswick, London
May 7 Sivi Aberg, Swedish actress (Batman TV show), born in Gävle, Sweden
Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, French actress and writer (Love on the Run, Cousin cousine)
Francesca Annis, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune), born in London, England
George Lucas
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (Star Wars; Indiana Jones; American Graffiti), born in Modesto, California
May 14 Russi Taylor, American voice actress (6th Minnie Mouse, 1986-2019), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2019)
Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
Danny Trejo, American actor
Peter Mayhew, British-American actor (Chewbacca in Star Wars), born in London, England (d. 2019)
Frank Oz [Oznowicz], American muppetteer (Sesame Street - "Grover"; " Cookie Monster"; "Bert"; The Muppet Show - "Miss Piggy", Fozzie Bear"), film director (Little Shop of Horrors, What About Bob?; Bowfinger), and actor, born in Hereford, England
May 25 John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality (World's Wildest Police Videos), born in Pendleton, Oregon
Sam Posey, American auto racer (12 Hours of Sebring 1975; 24 Hours of Le Mans 1971 3rd) and TV commentator (ABC Sports), born in New York City
Faith Brown, British actress and impressionist
May 28 Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens, Northern-Irish actress, voice artist and singer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
May 28 Sondra Locke, American actress (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Willard), and director (Impulse), born in Shelbyville, Tennessee (d. 2018)
Helmut Berger [Steinberger], Austrian film actor (Ludwig; Ash Wednesday; The Damned; Dorian Gray), born in Bad Ischl, Austria
Robert Powell, English actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets), born in Salford, England
Michelle Phillips (née Gilliam), American singer, songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas - "California Dreaming"), and actress (Dillinger; Knot's Landing), born in Long Beach, California
Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), born in San Diego, California (d. 2012)
Brigid Bazlen, American actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady), born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 1989)
Linda Foster, American actress (Doris-Hank), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Joe Grifasi, American actor, born in Buffalo, New York
Barbara Grigor, Scottish filmmaker and art entrepreneur (d. 1994)
Bill Rafferty, American comedian (Laugh-In; Real People), born in Queens, New York (d. 2012)
Dave Nelson, American baseball infielder (MLB All Star 1973 Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and broadcaster (Milwaukee Brewers Fox Sports Wisconsin), born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma (d. 2018)
Jun 20 David Roper, English actor (The Cuckoo Waltz), born in Bradford, Yorkshire
Jun 20 Terry Funk, American HOF pro wrestler (WWF Tag Team C'ship 1998; NWA World Heavyweight C'ship 1975-76) and actor (Paradise Alley; Roadhouse), born in Hammond, Indiana (d. 2023)
Corinna Tsopel, Greek actress (Man Called Horse) and Miss Universe 1964, born in Athens, Greece
Jun 21 Tony Scott, English film director and producer (Top Gun; Revenge: Days of Thunder), born in Northumberland, England (d. 2012)
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa), born in Bad Aussee, Austria
Gary Busey, American actor (The Buddy Holly Story; A Star in Born (1976); Lethal Weapon), born in Goose Creek, Texas
Paul Young, Scottish actor (Another Time Another Place), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ray Meagher, Australian actor (Home and Away), born in Roma, Queensland, Australia
Jeffrey Tambor, American character actor (Larry Sanders - "Hank"; Arrested Decelopment), born in San Francisco, California
Jul 8 Jonelle Allen, American stage and screen actress (The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Palmerstown, USA - "Bessie"; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - "Grace"), and singer, born in New York City
Bill Boggs, American TV host (Midday), and producer (Morton Downey Jr Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denise Nicholas, American actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back), born in Detroit, Michigan
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (Airwolf; Hooper; Buster & Billie; Tribes), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2019)
Betty Davis (née Mabry); American model, soul and funk singer-songwriter ("They Say I'm Different"; "Nasty Gal"), born in Durham, North Carolina (d. 2022)
Catherine Schell [Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott], Hungarian-born British actress (two Pink Panther films), born in Budapest, Hungary
Tim McIntire, American actor (Brubaker; Stand By Your Man), singer-songwriter, and musician (Funzone), born in Yaak, Montana (d. 1986)
Guich Koock, actor (Harley Puckett-Carter Country), born in Austin, Texas
Mijanou van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide - "Alicia"), born in The Hague, Netherlands
Kiel Martin, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. LaRue"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
Frances de la Tour, British actress (Bejeweled; Wombling Free), born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England
Geraldine Chaplin, American-born actress (Doctor Zhivago, 3 Musketeers) daughter of Charlie Chaplin, born in Santa Monica, California
Jul 31 Sherry Lansing, American actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain), born in Chicago, Illinois
Richard Belzer
American comedian, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street; Law & Order: SVU - both shows "Det. John Munch") and author (How To Be A Stand-Up; UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut [1]
David Rasche, American stage and screen actor (Sledge Hammer!), born in St Louis, Missouri
Aug 7 John Glover, American actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special), born in Kingston, New York
Sam Elliott, American character actor (Lifeguard; A Star Is Born (2018), Conagher; Gettysburg), born in Sacramento, California
Ian McDiarmid, Scottish stage director, and stage and screen actor (Star Wars -"Palpatine"), born in Carnoustie, Scotland
Kevin Tighe, American actor (Newsie, Another 48 Hours, K-9), born in Los Angeles, California
Linda Ellerbee, American journalist (Weekend, NBC Overnight), born in Bryan, Texas
Aug 15 Sylvie Vartan, Armenian-Bulgarian-French pop-yé-yé singer ("Twiste et Chante"), and actress, born in Iskretz, Bulgaria
Carl Wayne, English singer and actor (The Move), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2004)
Peter Weir, Australian director/writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society), born in Sydney, New South Wales
Lena Tabori, Swedish actress model and daughter of Viveca Lindfors, born in Stockholm, Sweden
Christine Chubbock, American TV newscaster (WXLT-TV, Sarasota, Florida), born in Hudson, Ohio (d. 1974)
Aug 24 Peter Hutton, American filmmaker, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
Aug 24 Rocky Johnson, Canadian pro wrestler (father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; with Tony Atlas first black champions in WWE history), born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (d. 2020)
Anthony Heald, American actor (Orphans; Silence of Lambs), born in New Rochelle, New York
Alan Parker, British session guitarist (Blue Mink; Serge Gainsbourg) and television and film composer (American Gothic), born in Matlock, Derbyshire, England
Aug 26 Stephen Greif, English actor (Blake's Seven), born in Sawbridgeworth, England
G. W. Bailey, American actor (Police Academy, The Closer), born in Port Arthur, Texas
Boyd Coddington, American auto designer (owner Boyd Coddington Hot Rod Shop) and television host (American Hot Rod on TLC), born in Rupert, Idaho (d. 2008)
Freek de Jonge, Dutch comedian (Neerlands Hoop), born in Westernieland, Netherlands
Aug 30 Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author, born in Monterey, California (d. 2007)
Jos LeDuc [Michel Pigeon], Canadian professional wrestler, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1999)
Jennifer Salt, American actress (Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party), born in Los Angeles, California
Rod Arrants, American actor (Vamping, Ape, Young & Restless), born in Los Angeles, California
Linda Kaye Henning, American actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction), born in Los Angeles, California
Sep 6 Swoosie Kurtz, American actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Carol Barnes, British television news journalist (ITN; ITV), born in Norwich, England (d. 2008)
Sep 13 Jacqueline Bisset, English actress (Class, Deep, Secrets), born in Weybridge, Surrey, England
Joey Heatherton, American dancer and actress (Bluebeard), born in Rockville Center, New York
Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress, born in Chipiona, Spain (d. 2006)
Jeremy Child, English actor (Privilege, Taffin), born in Woking, Surrey, England
Fannie Flagg, American actress and comediene (Candid Camera), born in Birmingham, Alabama
Sep 21 Susan Maureen Fleetwood, Scotland, actress (Krays, Sacrifice)
Diana Körner, German actress (Barry Lyndon), born in Wolmirsleben, Germany
Michael Douglas
American actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Anne Robinson, English television host (The Weakest Link), born in Crosby, Lancashire, England
Sep 26 Victoria Vetri, American model and Playboy playmate (Sep 1967, Playmate of the Year 1968), convicted of manslaughter, born in San Francisco, California
Matthew Cowles, American soap actor (Eban Japes-Loving, Billy-All My Children), born in New York, (d. 2014)
Torben Jensen, Danish actor (Taxa; Hayfever; Watch Me Fly; Guldregn), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2018)
Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish pop and mariachi singer, and actress, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2006)
Rodney Marsh, British football forward (9 caps; QPR, Manchester City) and broadcaster (Sky Sports), born in Hatfield, England
Angela Rippon, British television personality, born in Plymouth, Devon, England
Udo Kier, German actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein), born in Lindenthal, Cologne, Germany
Johnny Washbrook, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka), born in Toronto, Ontario
Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)
Keith Adrian [Johnson], British-Dutch stage and screen actor, director, and playwright, born in New Delhi, British India (d. 2004)
Oct 19 O Yeong-Su, South Korean actor (Squid Game), born in Kaepung County, Japanese Korea
Warren Burton, American actor (Jason Dunlap-Another World, born in Chicago, Illinois
Coluche [Michel Colucci] French comedian (My Best Friend's Girl), born in Paris (d. 1986)
Oct 28 Dennis Franz, American actor (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue - "Lt. Buntz"), born in Maywood, Illinois
Sally Kirkland, American actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama), born in New York City
(Richard) "Kinky" Friedman, American country rocker ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), and humorist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2024) [1]
Nov 1 Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, American pro wrestling manager, color commentator, and wrestler (WWE Hall of Fame), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
Patrice Chereau, French opera director and actor (Danton), born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France (d. 2013)
Julian Christopher, American actor (Jerry-Magician), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (Saban the Cow,), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 2000)
Jay Hammer, American actor (Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light), born in San Francisco, California
Danny DeVito
American Emmy Award-winning actor (Taxi - "Louie"; Ruthless People; Twins; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Frank"), born in Neptune Township, New Jersey
Lorne Michaels
Canadian TV producer, actor and comedy writer (Saturday Night Live), born in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Ramis, actor and director (SCTV, Stripes), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014)
Nov 21 Marcia "Marcy" Carsey, TV executive/producer
Joe Eszterhas, American screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls), born in Csákánydoroszló, Hungary
Candy Darling [James Slattery], American transgender actress (Flesh, Women in Revolt), born in Queens, New York (d. 1974)
Ben Stein, American actor
Nov 25 Mark Minkov, Russian/Soviet theater and film score composer, born in Moscow (d. 2012)
Rita Mae Brown, American poet, novelist (Rubyfruit Jungle), screenwriter (Long Hot Summer), and mystery writer (Mrs. Murphy), born in Hanover, Pennsylvania
Dian Parkinson [Dianna Lynn Batts], American model (The Price Is Right) and Miss USA 1965, born in Jacksonville, North Carolina
Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor, born in Paris, France
Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (Coach, That's Incredible), born in Los Angeles, California
Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor (The Fugitive), born in Amsterdam
Tisha Sterling, American actress (Coogan's Bluff), born in Hollywood, California
Lynda Day George, American actress (Casey-Mission Impossible), born in San Marcos, Texas
Dec 11 Teri Garr, American actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein), born in Lakewood, Ohio (or 1947)
Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor (Hellbound: Hellraiser II), born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Yosemite Sam, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Friz Freleng, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Stage Door Cartoon"
Bernard Hill, English actor (Yosser Hughes-Boys from the Blackstuff, King Théoden-The Lord of the Rings), born in Manchester, England
Tim Reid, American actor and comedian (WKRP in Cincinnati - "Venus Flytrap"; Frank's Place), born in Norfolk, Virgina
Jean Fergusson, English actress, born in Wakefield, United Kingdom
Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor, born in Aomori, Japan
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How Old? 79 or 80 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Goat/Sheep (Feb 4, 1943 - Jan 24, 1944),
Monkey (Jan 25, 1944 - Feb 12, 1945)
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The Salford actor tells how his dad threw him out on Christmas Day as he no longer recognised him
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Christopher Eccleston saw his intelligent “alpha male” father broken by dementia.
As reported in the M.E.N he opened a new centre in his home city of Salford this week, which he hopes will by a catalyst for providing more support and hope for families touched by the disease.
Today in a revealing and heart-breaking interview he tells how his father, Ronnie, threw him out a a family gathering on Christmas Day, not recognising his own son.
He also explains why Whitehall must do more to finance reserch into a heartbreaking condition.
His father died in 2012, aged 83, spending the final year of his life in a home.
He had left school at 14 and worked for 25 years as a forklift truck driver at Colgate Palmolive, in Ordsall.
It was from his father that Christopher inherited a passion for language which would eventually lead to a career as a celebrated actor.
“My father, Joseph Ronald, Eccleston, Ronnie Ecc, as he was called, was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2000. Once he had been diagnosed we realised he had been exhibiting symptoms since 1997. So he lived with dementia for 15 years. My mum cared for him for 14 of those years, so I have first hand experience of family members suffering the disease. Suffering is not a word that all people with dementia like - they prefer to say they are living with it.
What is dementia? Important questions answered by Alzheimer's Research UK
“My dad’s dementia started with problems with short-term memory, He became obsessed for instance with the length of the grass at my house. He used to come and tell me that we needed to cut the hedges. He would say that again and again in a loop, and I used to snap at him because at the time I did not understand dementia. He would forget season tickets when we went to the game at Old Trafford.
“My father threw me out of his home on Christmas Day, which upset my mother, Elsie, deeply. He didn’t know who I was. He felt I was on his territory. I made him paranoid. I made him afraid, so he basically got me out of the house, what I mean is, I understood I needed to leave, so he could be more comfortbale. My mum was very upset by that and I had to gently say to my mum ‘look that wasn’t my dad. My dad would never throw me out of his house, that was his condition’.
“The most traumatic experience is when people with dementia realise they are ill. I saw my father pass through that and fight it with all his will. Once he was at a party, at my brother’s house, and knocked over a cup of tea. My brother said it was fine, but my father’s embarrassment and anxiety escalated to the point where he was on his knees, repeating: ‘What’s happening to me, what’s happening to me? I am Ronnie Eccleston.’ It was devastating.”
Dr Who actor, Christopher learned to step inside his father’s world in order to maintain a loving relationship, as ‘friend’. “If I said ‘Duncan Edwards’ to him there would be a flicker in his eye, and I would quote Shakespeare to him. My father was an intelligent man, but he had been denied an education as men of his background were made for the factory or cannon fodder. He taught himself. It was incredibly painful to see his personality dismantled. I think about him every day.
“Elsie cared for Ronnie for 14 years, and she would be embarrassed, and think I was being over the top, by using a word like devoted, but she was. She married the man and felt it was her job to care for him. And I know for a fact that if the boot was on the other foot he would have done the same for Elsie. My father was very fastidious about his appearacne and personal hygiene. He lost the ability to do that for himself. So my mum did those things for him, and she was happy to do it. He was stripped of his identity,
“Elsie needed support. She needed understanding. She said the saddest day of her life was not when my dad died but when she had to put him in a home. She will go with that to her grave. Salfordians are very loyal people. A part of my mum still feels that she turned her back on her husband - which she did not.
“She is the most caring person on the planet, but it was an emotional, practical and physical grind, too. Carers are not recognised enough for the financial and practical support they provide. My mother did get some respite, but it’s difficult because he always wanted her and she would suffer when they were apart, wondering whether he was eating or if people were being kind to him. One day, she asked him, “Ronnie, do you know who I am?” and he said, “I don’t know, but I love you.
“The government will only support the NHS with research into dementia if we apply pressure. Unfortunately we are more and more dependent on charities to fund things like this because as a nation the option that we should care for our citizens is no longer there and it should be. In 1945 we decided we would care for our citizens and that has slowly been eroded.
“If you are in a caring role you need support from the government, community, and social services, and that support will only improve if things like the Salford Institute for Dementia at Salford University are publicised and spoken about. The government needs to have an iniative where carers are paid and celebrated and acknowledged.
“The knowledge of carers or supporters is huge. My mother’s knowledge is enormous, so we have to access that knowledge and use it and listen. We have to listen to people living with dementia and to people who are supporting them and normalize the condition.”
Christopher, 53, who was born in Langworthy and raised in Little Hulton, opened the £300,000 Salford Institute for Dementia at the University.
It aims to be an outreach centre for people to access the latest research and ideas about living well with dementia, which is set obe the 21st century’s biggest killer.
It contains a special kitchen built to demonstrate the latest dementia friendly designs, with a glass fronted fridge and cupboards as well as other design features such as colour cues to help people with dementia understand the environment.
People with dementia and their carers can visit to take part in activities such as gardening and dance and to get guidance from others who have experienced the condition, while researchers from across the University will also be able to work there.
Prof Anthea Innes, Director of the Institute,said: “The new hub will put the University of Salford at the heart of the community and provide a real focal point for people living with dementia as well as their carers.
“The events taking place here to mark Dementia Awareness Week will provide a great opportunity for anyone who’s been affected by dementia to find out about the work being done here in Salford, as well as across the North West and further afield, to help people living with the condition. We look forward to seeing as many members of public as possible on both days.”
Dr Doug Brown, Director of Research and Development at Alzheimer’s Society, said research into the disease had been “chronically underfunded”.
Analysis in 2015 revealed that for every £10 dementia cost the economy only 8p was spent on research. The equivalent spend on cancer research was £1.
Dr Brown said: “When it comes to dementia, the numbers and statistics can be frightening. This devastating condition is expected to affect one million of us by 2021.
“It’s the only one of the top ten causes of death in the UK that we can’t prevent, cure or even slow down.
“Researchers across the globe are working together to tackle the many questions that surround dementia.
“One of the questions we get a lot at Alzheimer’s Society is ‘why isn’t there a cure for dementia yet?’ The answer is that dementia is a collection of dizzyingly complex conditions each with multiple potential causes, very few of which are clearly known.
“Another reason for the lack of a cure is that historically, dementia research has been chronically underfunded.
“The good news is that the tide is beginning to turn. The number of dementia researchers has doubled in the last six years.”
The Medical Research Council,Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK have come together to invest £250m in a new UK Dementia Research Institute.
Around 850,000 people in the UK have dementia and that number is expected to reach 2m by 2051, to grow as the population ages.
There is currently no cure for any of the neurodegenerative conditions that give rise to dementia.
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The famous actor knight discovers that he was not the only person in his family to have trodden the boards.
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Famous British actor Sir Ian Murray McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire on the 25 May, 1939. He has a mixture of Northern Irish and Scottish forbears on his father's side while his mother, Margery, is of English ancestry.
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Famous British actor Sir Ian Murray McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire on the 25 May, 1939. He has a mixture of Northern Irish and Scottish forbears on his father’s side while his mother, Margery, is of English ancestry. Sir Ian’s father was, Denis Murray McKellen (1905-1964), who was born in Stockport, Cheshire and we can find the birth index for him from a search of TheGenealogist’s Birth and Baptisms records. The actor’s own birth is slightly more difficult to find as it has been misrecorded in the Index for the April-June quarter 1939, by the General Register Office, under the surname McKellar.
Now I’m the last of the McKellens, the last of my line… I’m just left with some photographs really. And there’s no one left for me to ask about them.
Sir Ian’s paternal grandparents were William Henry McKellen and Alice Beatrice Murray whose marriage can be found in the records at TheGenealogist at Barton-on Irwell, Salford. Alice was born in Scotland in 1881 and it is her that Sir Ian is most interested in discovering more about. Alice McKellen was also known as Mother Mac and the programme, on BBC 1, reveals that Mother Mac sang a solo at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, in front of thousands of people.
Sir Ian’s mother, Margery Sutclifffe, we can find was born in 1905 in Salford and she and Sir Ian’s father, Denis, married in 1931 in Stockport, Cheshire as can easily be discovered using the records on TheGenealogist.
A search of the 1911 census now finds a young Denis aged 5 in his parent’s seven roomed house in Romiley Cheshire. Sir Ian’s grandfather is a 41 year old Engineer (Estimator) for Gas Engine Makers and his grandmother (Mother Mac) is 31 at the time.
Using the Trade, Residential and Telephone directories on TheGenealogist we can find William Henry McKellen in the residential listing for 1923 in the Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire and then, moving forward to 1937, we discover Denis, Sir Ian’s father, in the Directory of Burnley and District 1937. This shows us that he was a Chartered Civil Engineer living at 15 Westhouse Avenue.
Sir Ian is then fascinated to learn that his grandmother, Alice (Mother Mac), wasn’t the only performer in his family tree. To his shock, he hears about another actor in his lineage Frank Lowes, who was Alice McKellen’s uncle.
Using TheGenealogist census records we can find Frank Lowes in Manchester’s Moss Side in the 1871 census enumerated as an actor. By the 1891 he and his wife are found in the census in Wavertree in Liverpool.
To discover that her uncle Frank, her mother’s elder brother, Frank Lowes, is down in the census as an actor! …But where was he acting? What was he acting?
Sir Ian learns that research into Frank Lowes’ career finds that he moved from Manchester to Bolton and then to Liverpool. Though Frank started his career during the theatrical boom in Manchester, Sir Ian is happy when he discovers that his ancestor’s big break happened in Bolton, where he himself had spent his youth.
Unfortunately, it is also in Bolton that circumstances see a change in Frank Lowes’ career. After his theatrical patron immigrated to America, Frank began to struggle to find quality acting jobs.
However successful or unsuccessful Frank was, I do like the idea that he contributed to the gaiety of things by being in a show, and touring round, bringing entertainment to people. That’s what my mother apparently said; if Ian decides to be an actor, it’s a good job because it brings pleasure to people.
The trail leads Sir Ian to Liverpool. Sadly the news is not good as Frank Lowes’s life ended in the workhouse after a few years performing in music halls. This unsettling fact has caused Sir Ian to reflect on just how insecure an actor’s life is, this being something that he and his friends in the acting profession know all too well.
Pleased to have found a thespian in his family Sir Ian is keen to discover more about Frank’s father, Robert, whom we can see on the 1871 census above was a ‘Clerk in a Shipping House’. Sir Ian, who is known for his campaigning work for Gay rights, is pleased to find out that his ancestor Robert Lowes had a part to play in the growing radicalism in the North of England. Driven by what were the appalling working conditions in the factories, the warehouse clerk campaigned for social change by pressing the employers for a half day off work each week, for the warehousemen, in addition to their entitlement to the day off on a Sunday. Robert and his fellow campaigners were successful in their aim. The workers managed to convince the merchants of Manchester to grant the half-holiday.
In the television programme Sir Ian is seen to be very proud to have found that Robert Lowes made a difference to the horrendous working conditions of the time and this is especially so when he finds out that his ancestor’s campaign has had a domino effect across the country. It could be said that Robert Lowes was the “grandfather of the weekend.”
Tragically, Robert Lowes died of emphysema aged 56 and in straitened circumstances. Sir Ian is proud of his great, great, grandfather, knowing all too well the struggles of campaigning from his own experience.
You have to admire Robert’s achievements…What I had always hoped was true about the McKellens and people they married was an attitude to life, doing good and helping other people…This bright radical thinking clerk stood up and changed the world.
Sir Ian Mckellen found the research into his family a positive experience saying:
I do feel that I can almost touch these people. I feel happy in their company… It doesn’t really matter to me that I am the last of the McKellens. But I do feel a little bit more secure as a person. Yes I think I’ll probably never be quite the same.
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County of England
This article is about the county in England. For other uses, see Lancashire (disambiguation).
Non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in England
Lancashire ( LAN-kə-shər, -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.
The county has an area of 3,079 square kilometres (1,189 sq mi) and a population of 1,490,300. After Preston (147,800),[7] the largest settlements are Blackpool (141,100) and Blackburn (124,995); the city of Lancaster has a population of 52,655.[8] For local government purposes, Lancashire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and two unitary authority areas, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool. The county historically included northern Greater Manchester and Merseyside, the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas of Cumbria, and part of northern Cheshire, and excluded the eastern part of the Forest of Bowland.
The west of Lancashire contains flat coastal plains, which rise to the hills of the Pennines in the east. The county contains large parts of two national landscapes, Arnside and Silverdale and the Forest of Bowland, and other protected areas such as the Ribble and Alt Estuaries National nature reserve. The major rivers in the county are, from north to south, the Lune, the Wyre, and the Ribble, which all flow west into the Irish Sea. The highest point in Lancashire is either Gragareth or Green Hill, both approximately 628 m (2,060 ft) high and located in the far north-east of the county.
Lancashire was founded in the 12th century; in the Domesday Book of 1086 much of what would become the county is treated as part of Yorkshire and Cheshire. Until the Early Modern period the county was a comparatively poor backwater, although in 1351 it became a palatine, with a semi-independent judicial system. This changed during the Industrial Revolution, when the county rapidly industrialised; until 1974 it included both Liverpool, a major port, and Manchester, which with its surrounding towns dominated the manufacture of textiles.[9] The Lancashire coalfield was also exploited, with many collieries opening. By 1971 Lancashire had a population of 5,118,405, which made it the most heavily populated county in the United Kingdom after Greater London.
History
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Main article: History of Lancashire
Before the county
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During Roman times the area was part of the Brigantes tribal area in the military zone of Roman Britain. The towns of Manchester, Lancaster, Ribchester, Burrow, Elslack and Castleshaw grew around Roman forts. In the centuries after the Roman withdrawal in 410 AD the northern parts of the county probably formed part of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a successor entity to the Brigantes tribe. During the mid-8th century, the area was incorporated into the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria from the north of the River Ribble and the Kingdom of Mercia from the south, which both became parts of England in the 10th century.
In the Domesday Book, land between the Ribble and Mersey were known as "Inter Ripam et Mersam"[10][11] and included in the returns for Cheshire.[12] Although some historians consider this to mean south Lancashire was then part of Cheshire,[11][13][full citation needed] it is by no means certain.[note 1][14][note 2] It is also claimed that the territory to the north formed part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.[13][full citation needed]
Early history
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The county was established in 1182,[15][full citation needed] and came to be bordered by Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. It was divided into the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby.[16] Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, the detached part north of the sands of Morecambe Bay including Furness and Cartmel, and Lonsdale South.
Victorian era to late 20th century
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Since the Victorian era, Lancashire has had multiple reforms of local government.[17] In 1889, the administrative county of Lancashire was created, covering the greater part of the county. Multiple county boroughs were outside the county council control; Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, St. Helens, and Wigan. The area served by the Lord-Lieutenant (termed now a ceremonial county) covered the entirety of the administrative county and the county boroughs. It expanded whenever boroughs annexed areas in neighbouring counties such as Wythenshawe in Manchester south of the River Mersey and from Cheshire, and southern Warrington. It did not cover the western part of Todmorden, where the ancient border between Lancashire and Yorkshire passes through the middle of the town.
During the 20th century, the county became increasingly urban with Warrington (1900), Blackpool (1904) and Southport (1905) becoming county boroughs, with many boundary extensions. The borders around the Manchester area were particularly complicated, with narrow protrusions of the administrative county between the county boroughs – Lees Urban District formed a detached part of the administrative county, between Oldham county borough and the West Riding of Yorkshire.[18] Lancaster, the historic county town, became a city in 1937.[19]
The administrative county was also the most populous of its type outside London, with a population of 2,280,359 in 1961. By the census of 1971, the population of Lancashire and its county boroughs had reached 5,129,416, making it the most populous geographic county in the UK.[20]
Post-1974
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On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, southern parts of administrative Lancashire were transferred to the two newly established metropolitan counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.[21] Widnes and Warrington, which did not form part of either new county but which were cut off from the rest of Lancashire, were transferred to Cheshire.[15][full citation needed] In the north, the new county of Cumbria incorporated the Furness exclave.
The new ceremonial county of Lancashire also gained land in 1974, as the urban districts of Barnoldswick and Earby, Bowland Rural District, and the parishes of Bracewell and Brogden and Salterforth from Skipton Rural District were transferred from the West Riding of Yorkshire.[22]
One parish, Simonswood, was transferred from the borough of Knowsley in Merseyside to the district of West Lancashire in 1994.[23] In 1998 Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen became unitary authorities, removing them from the non-metropolitan county but not from the ceremonial county.
As the new boundary changes came into effect on 1 April 1974, a government statement in The Times newspaper stated: “They are administrative areas and will not alter the traditional boundaries of counties”.[24]
Geography
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Geology, landscape, and ecology
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See also: Geology of Lancashire
The three main rivers in Lancashire are the Ribble, Wyre and Lune, which all drain west to the Irish Sea. The Wyre rises in Bowland and is entirely within Lancashire, while the Ribble and Lune rise in North Yorkshire and Cumbria respectively. Many of Lancashire's other rivers are tributaries of the Ribble, including the Calder, Darwen, Douglas, and Hodder. The Irwell, which flows through Manchester, has its source in Lancashire.
To the west of the county are the Fylde coastal plain and West Lancashire coastal plain, which lie north and south of the Ribble Estuary respectively. Apart from the coastal resorts these areas are largely rural and devoted to vegetable crops. Further north is Morecambe Bay. In the northwest corner of the county, straddling the border with Cumbria, is the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape, characterised by its limestone pavements and home to the Leighton Moss nature reserve.
In the east of the county are upland areas leading to the Pennines. North of the Ribble are Beacon Fell Country Park and the Forest of Bowland, another National Landscape. Much of the lowland in this area is devoted to dairy farming and cheesemaking, whereas the higher ground is more suitable for sheep, and the highest ground is uncultivated moorland. The valleys of the River Ribble and its tributary the Calder form a large gap to the west of the Pennines, overlooked by Pendle Hill. South of the Ribble are the West Pennine Moors and the Forest of Rossendale, where former cotton mill towns are in deep valleys. The Lancashire Coalfield, largely in modern-day Greater Manchester, extended into Merseyside and to Ormskirk, Chorley, Burnley and Colne in Lancashire.
The highest point of the ceremonial county is Gragareth, near Whernside, which reaches a height of 627 m (2,057 ft).[25] Green Hill near Gragareth has also been cited as the "county" top.[26] The highest point in the historic county is Coniston Old Man in the Lake District, at 803 m (2,634 ft).[27]
Human geography
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Further information: North West Green Belt
The north of the ceremonial county is less densely populated than the south, especially inland. The Fylde coast forms a continuous built-up area from Lytham St Annes to Fleetwood, including Blackpool, and further north is the Lancaster/Morecambe built-up area. The rest of the region is characterised by small towns and villages in the flat farmland surrounding the lower reaches of the Ribble, Wyre, and Lune and the sparsely populated uplands of the Forest of Bowland.
The centre and south-east of Lancashire is relatively urbanised, especially around the major settlements of Preston, Blackburn, and Burnley and near the border with Greater Manchester.[28] The Central Lancashire urban area includes the city of Preston and the towns of Penwortham, Leyland and Chorley. A short distance east, Blackburn and Darwen are the first of several adjacent areas urban areas which stretch east toward West Yorkshire and south into the valleys leading to Greater Manchester, the others being Accrington and Rossendale and Burnley. West Lancashire in the south-west is rural with the exception of Skelmersdale, which forms part of Wigan urban area.[29][30]
The North West Green Belt covers a large part of the south and centre of the county, including all of the non-urban areas in the boroughs of West Lancashire and South Ribble and the majority of Chorley. Elsewhere it is less extensive but covers the areas between the major settlements to prevent their convergence both with each other and with the nearby Merseyside and Greater Manchester conurbations. There is a further area of green belt in the north of the county, between Lancaster, Morecambe, and Carnforth.
Some settlements within the historic county boundaries are in the ceremonial counties of West Yorkshire, Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cumbria:[15][full citation needed][22][31][21][32][33][34]
To ceremonial From historic Lancashire Greater Manchester Merseyside Cumbria Cheshire West Yorkshire Todmorden (part) From historic To ceremonial Lancashire West Riding of Yorkshire
Boundary changes before 1974 include:[34]
Todmorden, split between Lancashire and Yorkshire then entirely to West Riding of Yorkshire in 1889
Mossley, split between Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire then entirely to Lancashire in 1889
Stalybridge, entirely to Cheshire in 1889
Areas such as Wythenshawe and Latchford, former county boroughs of Manchester and Warrington both extended south of the Mersey into historic Cheshire
areas such as Reddish and the Heatons (Heaton Chapel, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor and Heaton Norris), former county borough of Stockport extended north into historic Lancashire.
Governance
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Local government
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The ceremonial county of Lancashire is divided into fourteen local government districts. Twelve are part of the two-tier non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, which is administered by Lancashire County Council and twelve district councils. Lancashire County Council is based in County Hall in Preston, and has 84 councillors.[35] The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since the 2017 Lancashire County Council elections; the 2021 elections they won 48 seats, the Labour Party won 32, and the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party won two each.[36] The twelve districts of the non-metropolitan county are Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, and Wyre.[37][38]
Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen are unitary authorities, meaning their councils combine the functions of a district and county council. They were formed in 1996, before which each district was part of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.[39] Both authorities currently have a majority Labour administration.
The ceremonial county itself only has a minor administrative functions, being the area to which the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire is appointed; the shrieval county has the same boundaries and is the area to which the High Sheriff of Lancashire is appointed. As of 2023 these positions are held by Amanda Parker and David Taylor respectively.[40][41]
Parliamentary constituencies
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The ceremonial county is divided into sixteen constituencies for the purpose of parliamentary representation.
General Election 2019: Lancashire[42] Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Green Brexit Party Others Turnout 331,000
−7,000 270,000
−92,000 37,000
+9,000 19,000
+10,000 16,000
+16,000 41,000
+39,000 716,000
−34,000
Overall Number of Seats as of 2019 Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Green Brexit Party Others 11
+3 4
−4 0
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— 0
— 1 (Speaker)
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Duchy of Lancaster
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See also: History of Lancashire
The Duchy of Lancaster, the private estate of the sovereign, exercises the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[43] The most prominent effect of this is that the Duchy administers bona vacantia within the County Palatine, receiving the property of persons who die intestate and where the legal ownership cannot be ascertained.[44] The county palatine boundaries remain the same as the historic boundaries, ignoring subsequent local government reforms.[45]
Economy
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Lancashire in the 19th century was a major centre of economic activity, and hence one of wealth. Activities included coal mining, textile production, particularly that which used cotton, and fishing. Preston Docks, an industrial port is now disused. Lancashire was historically the location of the port of Liverpool while Barrow-in-Furness is famous for shipbuilding.
As of 2013, the largest private sector industry is the defence industry with BAE Systems Military Air Solutions division based in Warton on the Fylde coast. The division operates a manufacturing site in Samlesbury. Other defence firms include BAE Systems Global Combat Systems in Chorley, Ultra Electronics in Fulwood and Rolls-Royce plc in Barnoldswick.
The nuclear power industry has a plant at Springfields, Salwick operated by Westinghouse and Heysham nuclear power station is operated by British Energy. Other major manufacturing firms include Leyland Trucks, a subsidiary of Paccar building the DAF truck range.
Other companies with a major presence in Lancashire include:
Airline Network, an internet travel company with headquarters in Preston.
Baxi, a heating equipment manufacturer has a large manufacturing site in Bamber Bridge.
Crown Paints, a major paint manufacturer based in Darwen.
Dr. Oetker, an international food processing company, has a factory in Leyland that produces frozen pizza mostly under the Chicago Town and Ristorante brands.
Enterprise plc, one of the UK's leading support services based in Leyland.
Hanson plc, a building supplies company operates the Accrington brick works.
Hollands Pies, a major manufacturer of baked goods based in Baxenden near Accrington.
National Savings and Investments, the state-owned savings bank, which offers Premium Bonds and other savings products, has an office in Blackpool.
Thwaites Brewery, a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Juno Thwaites in Blackburn.
Xchanging, a company providing business process outsourcing services, with operations in Fulwood.
AB InBev, a multinational beverage company, brews Budweiser, Stella Artois, Brahma, Bass and Boddingtons in Samlesbury.
Fisherman's Friend, a confection company, famous for making strong mints and lozenges, based in Fleetwood.
The Foulnaze cockle fishery is in Lytham. It has only opened the coastal cockle beds three times in twenty years; August 2013 was the last of these openings.[46]
Enterprise zone
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The creation of Lancashire Enterprise Zone was announced in 2011. It was launched in April 2012, based at the airfields owned by BAE Systems in Warton and Samlesbury.[47] Warton Aerodrome covers 72 hectares (180 acres) and Samlesbury Aerodrome is 74 hectares.[48] Development is coordinated by Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, Lancashire County Council and BAE Systems.[47] The first businesses to move into the zone did so in March 2015, at Warton.[49]
In March 2015 the government announced a new enterprise zone would be created at Blackpool Airport, using some airport and adjoining land.[50] Operations at the airport will not be affected.[51]
Economic output
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This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire at basic prices published by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British pounds sterling.[52]
Year Regional Gross Value Added [note 3] Agriculture [note 4] Industry [note 5] Services [note 6] 1995 13,789 344 5,461 7,984 2000 16,584 259 6,097 10,229 2003 19,206 294 6,352 12,560
Education
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Lancashire has a mostly comprehensive system with four state grammar schools. Not including sixth form colleges, there are 77 state schools (not including Burnley's new schools) and 24 independent schools. The Clitheroe area has secondary modern schools. Sixth form provision is limited at most schools in most districts, with only Fylde and Lancaster districts having mostly sixth forms at schools. The rest depend on FE colleges and sixth form colleges, where they exist. South Ribble has the largest school population and Fylde the smallest (only three schools). Burnley's schools have had a new broom and have essentially been knocked down and started again in 2006. There are many Church of England and Catholic faith schools in Lancashire.
Lancashire is home to four universities: Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire, Edge Hill University and the Lancaster campus of the University of Cumbria. Seven colleges offer higher education courses.
Transport
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Roadways
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The Lancashire economy relies strongly on the M6 motorway which runs from north to south, past Lancaster and Preston. The M55 connects Preston to Blackpool and is 11.5 miles (18.3 km) long. The M65 motorway from Colne, connects Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn to Preston. The M61 from Preston via Chorley and the M66 starting 500 metres (0.3 mi) inside the county boundary near Edenfield, provide links between Lancashire and Manchester, and the trans-Pennine M62. The M58 crosses the southernmost part of the county from the M6 near Wigan to Liverpool via Skelmersdale.
Other major roads include the east–west A59 between Liverpool in Merseyside and Skipton in North Yorkshire via Ormskirk, Preston and Clitheroe, and the connecting A565 to Southport; the A56 from Ramsbottom to Padiham via Haslingden and from Colne to Skipton; the A585 from Kirkham to Fleetwood; the A666 from the A59 north of Blackburn to Bolton via Darwen; and the A683 from Heysham to Kirkby Lonsdale via Lancaster.
Several bus companies run bus services in the Lancashire area serving the main towns and villages in the county with some services running to neighbouring areas, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and West Yorkshire. Some of these include:
Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
Stagecoach Manchester
Go North West
Preston Bus
Diamond North West
Railways
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The West Coast Main Line provides direct rail links with London, Glasgow and other major cities, with stations at Preston and Lancaster. East-west connections are carried via the East Lancashire Line between Blackpool and Colne via Lytham, Preston, Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley. The Ribble Valley Line runs from Bolton to Clitheroe via Darwen and Blackburn. There are connecting lines from Preston to Ormskirk and Bolton, and from Lancaster to Morecambe, Heysham and Skipton.
Airways
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Blackpool Airport are no longer operating domestic or international flights, but it is still the home of flying schools, private operators and North West Air Ambulance. Manchester Airport is the main airport in the region. Liverpool John Lennon Airport is nearby, while the closest airport to the Pendle Borough is Leeds Bradford.
There is an operational airfield at Warton near Preston where there is a major assembly and test facility for BAE Systems.
Waterways
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Heysham offers ferry services to Ireland and the Isle of Man.[53] As part of its industrial past, Lancashire gave rise to an extensive network of canals, which extend into neighbouring counties. These include the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lancaster Canal, Sankey Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal and Manchester Ship Canal.
Demography
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The major settlements in the ceremonial county are concentrated on the Fylde coast (the Blackpool Urban Area), and a number of notable settlements along west to east of the M65: including the city of Preston and towns of Blackburn, Darwen, Accrington, Burnley, Padiham, Brierfield, Nelson and Colne. South of Preston are the towns of Leyland and Chorley (which, with Preston, formed Central Lancashire New Town designated in 1970), as well as Penwortham, Skelmersdale and Ormskirk.
The north of the county is predominantly rural and sparsely populated, except for the city of Lancaster and the towns of Morecambe and Heysham, the three of which form a large conurbation of almost 100,000 people. Lancashire is home to a significant Asian population, numbering over 70,000 and 6% of the county's population, and concentrated largely in the former cotton mill towns in the south east.
Population totals within the post-1998 boundaries of the non-metropolitan county
YearPop.±% p.a. 1801 163,310— 1811 192,283+1.65% 1821 236,724+2.10% 1831 261,710+1.01% 1841 289,925+1.03% 1851 313,957+0.80% 1861 419,412+2.94% 1871 524,869+2.27%
YearPop.±% p.a. 1881 630,323+1.85% 1891 736,233+1.57% 1901 798,545+0.82% 1911 873,210+0.90% 1921 886,114+0.15% 1931 902,965+0.19% 1941 922,812+0.22% 1951 948,592+0.28%
YearPop.±% p.a. 1961 991,648+0.44% 1971 1,049,013+0.56% 1981 1,076,146+0.26% 1991 1,122,097+0.42% 2001 1,134,976+0.11% 2011 1,171,339+0.32%
Pre-1998 statistics were gathered from local government areas that now comprise the non-metropolitan county
Source: Great Britain Historical GIS.[54]
Culture
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Symbols
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See also: Flag of Lancashire
The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower found on the county's heraldic badge and flag. The rose was a symbol of the House of Lancaster, immortalised in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th-century Wars of the Roses).
A flag consisting of a red rose on a gold field was designed by the Friends of Real Lancashire, a pressure group which promotes the historic county, and registered with the Flag Institute, a vexillological charity, in 2008.[55][56] The flag has been flown from public buildings within the historic county boundaries on Lancashire Day (27 November), including from County Hall in Preston,[57] St Helens Town Hall,[58] the in the parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham which were previously in Lancashire.[59][60] It has also been flown from the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government building in London.
An alternative flag consists of a red rose on a white field. This design had already been registered by Montrose in Scotland.[61]
Sport
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Cricket
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Lancashire County Cricket Club has been one of the most successful county cricket teams, particularly in the one-day game. It is home to England cricket team members James Anderson and Jos Buttler. The County Ground, Old Trafford, Trafford, has been the home cricket ground of LCCC since 1864.[62]
Local cricket leagues include the Lancashire League, the Central Lancashire League and the North Lancashire and Cumbria League.
Since 2000, the designated ECB Premier League[63] for Lancashire has been the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.
Football in Lancashire is governed by the Lancashire County Football Association which, like most county football associations, has boundaries that are aligned roughly with the historic counties. The Manchester Football Association and Liverpool County Football Association respectively operate in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.[64][65]
Lancashire clubs were prominent in the formation of the Football League in 1888, with the league being officially named at a meeting in Manchester.[66][67] Of the twelve founder members of the league, six were from Lancashire: Accrington, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Everton, and Preston North End.
The Football League now operates out of Preston.[68] The National Football Museum was founded at Deepdale, Preston in 2001, but moved to Manchester in 2012.[69]
Seven professional full-time teams were based in Lancashire at the start of the 2023–24 season:
Premier League: none
Championship: Blackburn Rovers, Burnley and Preston North End
League One: Blackpool
League Two: Accrington Stanley, Fleetwood Town and Morecambe
The county's most prominent football rivalries are the East Lancashire derby between Blackburn Rovers and Burnley, and the West Lancashire derby between Blackpool and Preston North End.
A further nine professional full-time teams lie within the historical borders of Lancashire but outside of the current ceremonial county. These include the Premier League clubs Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United.
Rugby league
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Main article: Rugby league in Lancashire
Along with Yorkshire and Cumberland, Lancashire is recognised as the heartland of Rugby League. The county has produced many successful top flight clubs such as St. Helens, Wigan, Warrington, Oldham, Salford and Widnes. The county was once the focal point for many of the sport's professional competitions including the Lancashire League competition which ran from 1895 to 1970, and the Lancashire County Cup which ran until 1993. Rugby League has also seen a representative fixture between Lancashire and Yorkshire contested 89 times since its inception in 1895.[70] In recent times there were several rugby league teams that are based within the ceremonial county which include Blackpool Panthers, East Lancashire Lions, and Blackpool Sea Eagles.
Archery
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There are many archery clubs located within Lancashire.[71] In 2004 Lancashire took the winning title at the Inter-counties championships from Yorkshire who had held it for 7 years.[72]
Wrestling
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Lancashire has a long history of wrestling, developing its own style called Lancashire wrestling, with many clubs that over the years have produced many renowned wrestlers.[73] Some of these have crossed over into the mainstream world of professional wrestling; including multiple Catch wrestling champion Steve Wright father of Alex Wright, Billy Riley the founder of Wigan's catch-wrestling gym, 'The Snake Pit',[74] Billy Robinson, Davey Boy Smith, William Regal, and the Dynamite Kid.[citation needed]
Music
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Folk music
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Lancashire has a long and highly productive tradition of music making. In the early modern era the county shared in the national tradition of balladry, including perhaps the finest border ballad, "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", thought to have been composed by the Lancashire-born minstrel Richard Sheale.[75] The county was also a common location for folk songs, including "The Lancashire Miller", "Warrington Ale" and "The soldier's farewell to Manchester", while Liverpool, as a major seaport, was the subject of many sea shanties, including "The Leaving of Liverpool" and "Maggie May",[76] beside several local Wassailing songs.[75] In the Industrial Revolution changing social and economic patterns helped create new traditions and styles of folk song, often linked to migration and patterns of work.[77] These included processional dances, often associated with rushbearing or the Wakes Week festivities, and types of step dance, most famously clog dancing.[77][78]
A local pioneer of folk song collection in the first half of the 19th century was Shakespearean scholar James Orchard Halliwell,[79] but it was not until the second folk revival in the 20th century that the full range of song from the county, including industrial folk song, began to gain attention.[78] The county produced one of the major figures of the revival in Ewan MacColl, but also a local champion in Harry Boardman, who from 1965 onwards probably did more than anyone to popularise and record the folk song of the county.[80] Perhaps the most influential folk artists to emerge from the region in the late 20th century were Liverpool folk group the Spinners, and from Manchester folk troubadour Roy Harper and musician, comedian and broadcaster Mike Harding.[81][82][83] The region is home to numerous folk clubs, many of them catering to Irish and Scottish folk music. Regular folk festivals include the Fylde Folk Festival at Fleetwood.[84]
Classical music
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Lancashire had a lively culture of choral and classical music, with very large numbers of local church choirs from the 17th century,[85] leading to the foundation of local choral societies from the mid-18th century, often particularly focused on performances of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.[86] It also played a major part in the development of brass bands which emerged in the county, particularly in the textile and coalfield areas, in the 19th century.[87] The first open competition for brass bands was held at Manchester in 1853, and continued annually until the 1980s.[88]
The vibrant brass band culture of the area made an important contribution to the foundation and staffing of the Hallé Orchestra from 1857, the oldest extant professional orchestra in the United Kingdom.[89] The same local musical tradition produced eminent figures such as Sir William Walton (1902–88), son of an Oldham choirmaster and music teacher,[90] Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961), born in St. Helens, who began his career by conducting local orchestras[91] and Alan Rawsthorne (1905–71) born in Haslingden.[92] The conductor David Atherton, co-founder of the London Sinfonietta, was born in Blackpool in 1944.[93] Lancashire also produced more populist figures, such as early musical theatre composer Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), born in Southport, who began his musical career as organist of Salford Cathedral.[94]
More recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932– Parbold),[95] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016, Salford),[96] Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022, Accrington),[97] Gordon Crosse (1937–, Bury),[98] John McCabe (1939–2015, Huyton),[99] Roger Smalley (1943–2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948–, Manchester), Steve Martland (1954–2013, Liverpool),[100] Simon Holt (1958–, Bolton)[101] and Philip Cashian (1963–, Manchester).[102] The Royal Manchester College of Music was founded in 1893 to provide a northern counterpart to the London musical colleges. It merged with the Northern College of Music (formed in 1920) to form the Royal Northern College of Music in 1972.[103]
Popular music
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Liverpool, both during its time in Lancashire and after being moved to the new county of Merseyside, has produced a number of successful musicians. This includes pop stars such as Frankie Vaughan and Lita Roza, as well as rock stars such as Billy Fury, who is considered to be one of the most successful British rock and roll stars of all time.[81] Many Lancashire towns had vibrant skiffle scenes in the late 1950s, out of which a culture of beat groups emerged by the early 1960s, particularly around Liverpool and Manchester. It has been estimated that there were at least 350 bands—including the Beatles—active in and around Liverpool during this era, playing ballrooms, concert halls, and clubs.[104] A number of Liverpool performers followed the Beatles into the charts, including Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Searchers, and Cilla Black.
The first musicians to break through in the UK who were not from Liverpool or managed by Beatles manager Brian Epstein were Manchester's Freddie and the Dreamers,[105] with Herman's Hermits and the Hollies also hailing from Manchester.[106] The Beatles led a movement by various beat groups from the region which culminated in the British Invasion of the US, which in turn made a major contribution to the development of modern rock music.[107] After the decline of beat groups in the late 1960s, the centre of rock culture shifted to London, and there were relatively few Lancashire bands who achieved national prominence until the growth of a disco scene and the punk rock revolution in the mid-and-late 1970s.[108]
The towns of Accrington, Burnley, Chorley, Clitheroe, Colne, Lytham St Annes, Morecambe, Nelson, Ormskirk and Skelmersdale as well as the cities of Lancaster and Preston are referenced in the 1991 song, It's Grim Up North by the band the KLF.
Cuisine
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Lancashire is the origin of the Lancashire hotpot, a casserole dish traditionally made with lamb. Other traditional foods from the area include:
Black peas, also known as parched peas: popular in Darwen, Bolton and Preston.
Bury black pudding has long been associated with the county. The most notable brand, Chadwick's Original Bury Black Puddings, are still sold on Bury Market,[109] and are manufactured in Rossendale.
Butter cake: slice of bread and butter.
Butter pie: a savoury pie containing potatoes, onion and butter. Usually associated with Preston.
Clapbread: a thin oatcake made from unleavened dough cooked on a griddle.
Chorley cakes: from the town of Chorley.
Eccles cakes are small, round cakes filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, originally made in Eccles.
Fag pie: pie made from chopped dried figs, sugar and lard. Associated with Blackburn and Burnley, where it was the highlight of Fag Pie Sunday (Mid-Lent Sunday).
Fish and chips: the first fish and chip shop in northern England opened in Mossley, near Oldham, around 1863.[110]
Frog-i'-th'-'ole pudding: now known as "toad in the hole"
Frumenty: sweet porridge. Once a popular dish at Lancashire festivals, such as Christmas and Easter Monday.
Goosnargh cakes: small flat shortbread biscuits with coriander or caraway seeds pressed into the biscuit before baking.[111] Traditionally baked on feast days like Shrove Tuesday.
Jannock: cake or small loaf of oatmeal. Allegedly introduced to Lancashire (possibly Bolton) by weavers of Flemish origin.
Lancashire cheese has been made in the county for several centuries.[112] Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese has been awarded EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status.[113]
Lancashire Flat Cake: A lemon flavoured sponge cake, traditionally made with a couple too many eggs, best eaten after being chilled.
Lancashire oatcake, resembling a large oval pancake, eaten either moist or dried
Lancashire Sauce, a lightly spiced mustard produced by the Entwistle family of Bury
"Stew and hard": a beef and cowheel stew with dried Lancashire oatcake
Nettle porridge: a common starvation diet in Lancashire in the early 19th century. Made from boiled stinging nettles and sometimes a handful of meal.
Ormskirk gingerbread: local delicacy that was sold throughout South Lancashire.
Parkin: a ginger cake with oatmeal.
Pobs or pobbies: bread and milk.
Potato hotpot: a variation of the Lancashire Hotpot without meat that is also known as fatherless pie.
Ran Dan: barley bread. A last resort for the poor at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century.
Rag pudding: traditional suet pudding filled with minced meat, originating in Oldham.
Throdkins: a traditional breakfast food of the Fylde.
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls: traditional mints produced by William Santus & Co. Ltd. in Wigan.[114]
Cinema
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961) was directed by Bryan Forbes, set at the foot of Worsaw Hill and in Burnley, and starred local Lancashire schoolchildren.
The tunnel scene was shot on the old Bacup-Rochdale railway line, location 53°41'29.65"N, 2°11'25.18"W, off the A6066 (New Line) where the line passes beneath Stack Lane. The tunnel is still there, in use as an industrial unit but the railway has long since been removed.
Funny Bones (1995) was set mostly in Blackpool, after opening scenes in Las Vegas.
Media
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Television
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The county is covered by BBC North West and ITV Granada which broadcast from Salford. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter.[115] A small part of East Lancashire around Barnoldswick and Earby is served by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire broadcasting from Leeds. This area is served by a local transmitter in Skipton which is relayed from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.[116]
Radio
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BBC Local Radio for the county is served by BBC Radio Lancashire which broadcast from its studios in Blackburn, BBC Radio Merseyside can be heard in southern parts, BBC Radio Manchester in the east and BBC Radio Cumbria in the north. County-wide commercial stations are Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire, Capital Manchester and Lancashire, Heart North West, and Smooth North West. Community based stations are Beyond Radio (covering northwestern Lancashire), Pendle Community Radio (serving the Pendle area), Rossendale Radio (for Rossendale), and Central Radio (for The Fylde, Preston, Leyland and Chorley areas of Lancashire). [117]
Newspapers
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The county is served by these local newspapers:
Lancashire Telegraph (daily, East Lancashire, published in Blackburn)
Lancashire Evening Post (daily, Central and Northern Lancashire, published in Fulwood, Preston)
Accrington Observer (weekly)
Blackpool Gazette (daily)
Burnley Express (twice weekly)
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times (weekly)
Fleetwood Weekly News
Lytham St Annes Express (weekly)
Nelson Leader (weekly)
Pendle Express (weekly)
Rossendale Free Press (weekly)
The Visitor (weekly, published in Morecambe)
The national weekly Farmers Guardian is published in Fulwood, Preston.
Places of interest
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Key Abbey/Priory/Cathedral Accessible open space Amusement/Theme Park Castle Country Park English Heritage Forestry Commission Heritage railway Historic House Places of Worship Museum (free/not free) National Trust Theatre Zoo
The following are places of interest in the ceremonial county:
Gallery
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See also
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Lancashire portal
North West England portal
Notes
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References
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Bibliography
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Crosby, A. (1996). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series.) Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-85033-932-4.
Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-722761-9.
Morgan, P. (1978). Domesday Book Cheshire: Including Lancashire, Cumbria, and North Wales. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-85033-140-4.
Phillips A. D. M., and Phillips, C. B. (2002), A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire. Chester, UK: Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. ISBN 0-904532-46-1.
Sylvester, D. (1980). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series). (2nd Edition.) London and Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-85033-384-9.
Further reading
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Farrer and Brownbill, The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster Vol 1 (1906); Vol 2 (1908); Vol 3 (1907); Vol 4 (1911); Vol 5 (1911); Vol 6 (1911); Vol 7 (1911); London: Constable.
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While it isn’t unusual for a telly star to share a historic photo, this one was particularly special as it also featured his co-star and on-screen sister Tina O’Brien.
Turns out the pair worked together as child stars BEFORE they were cast in Corrie as siblings.
Who knew?
Alongside the snap of an 11-year-old Jack and 16-year-old Tina standing next to none other than fellow Corrie veteran Sarah Lancashire, he had written: “Flash back to me and @tinaob83 I’m Clocking Off 1999.”
Read more: Coronation Street’s Adam Barlow to embark on shock affair?
Jack played Charlie Kolakowski in one episode of the series called Yvonne’s story, while Tina played his sister – again! – Adele Kolakowski.
The popular series was based in a Manchester textile factory and also starred Christopher Eccleston and Philip Glenister.
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Some of his 175,000 Instagram fans were quick to comment on the photo, with one joking: “Cheers for making me feel old!!!”
Another told Tina that she “hadn’t changed a bit”.
Don’t miss out: Three steps to ensure you see all ED!’s latest news on Facebook
While one wrote: “Really good series that and your son is your double.”
In fact, many of the comments likened a young Jack to his real life son Reuben, five.
Tina joined the cast of Coronation as Sarah in the same year as appearing in Clocking Off, with Jack following a year later.
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Christopher Eccleston (born 16th February, 1964) is an English actor well-known for various roles in film, theatre and television. He is best known in film for his work in Shallow Grave (1994, with Ewan McGregor), Jude (1996), Elizabeth (1998) and 28 Days Later (2002). His television credits include Cracker (1993-1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), The Second Coming (2003, playing the Son of God), and the lead in the revived BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who (2005) - a role he controversially relinquished after one season.
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Rex Harrison, English stage and film actor best known for his portrayals of urbane, eccentric English gentlemen in sophisticated comedies and social satires. The best known of these is My Fair Lady, in which he starred onstage and onscreen, winning a Tony and an Oscar, respectively, for his performances.
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Rex Harrison (born March 5, 1908, Huyton, Lancashire, England—died June 2, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.) was an English stage and film actor best known for his portrayals of urbane, eccentric English gentlemen in sophisticated comedies and social satires.
After graduating from secondary school at age 16, Harrison began a stage apprenticeship with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre. He first appeared on the London stage in 1930, the same year his first film, The Great Game, was released. Throughout the 1930s, Harrison divided his time nearly equally between the stage and the screen, scoring a noted stage success with his role in Noël Coward’s Design for Living (1939–41). During World War II, Harrison served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. He achieved stardom after the war with highly praised roles in the films Blithe Spirit and The Rake’s Progress (both 1945). His first American film was the popular Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
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From the late 1940s through most of the ’50s, Harrison spent much of his time on the New York stage. Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days (1948–49). His greatest stage triumph came during the 1956–59 seasons with his portrayal of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe’s musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Because he was hopeless as a singer—Loewe once remarked that Harrison had a vocal range of one and a half notes—Harrison developed a technique of talking his way through songs that proved highly effective. For his performance, he won a second Tony Award. He repeated the role for Warner Brothers’s lavish 1964 screen adaptation and was awarded the Oscar for best actor.
During the 1970s Harrison continued to appear in motion pictures and on New York and London stages, and in 1980 he recreated the role of Higgins in a successful touring production of My Fair Lady. Harrison, who once stated that Shaw was his “contemporary in thought and feeling,” gave the greatest performance of his later years as the philosophical and mystical Captain Shotover in the 1983 Broadway and London productions of Shaw’s Heartbreak House, which was adapted into a television film in 1986. Harrison’s final performance was in a 1990 revival of Somerset Maugham’s The Circle, in which he appeared until one month before his death. He was knighted in 1989.
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Filming begins on the second series of ITVâs event thriller, Safe House Feb/08/2016 Christopher Eccleston, Marsha Thomason and Paterson Joseph announced as lead cas... Oct/06/2014 Damon Lindelof's 'The Leftovers' Picked Up By HBO Sep/17/2013 'The Leftovers' adds four to cast Jun/10/2013 Christopher Eccleston declines 'Doctor Who' 50th anniversary special a... Apr/06/2013
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Chris was cast in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote but did not film any scenes. In the documentary Lost in La Mancha his photograph appears on a pinboard featuring photos of the cast.
Christopher emailed old friend Russell T Davies and asked to be put on the list of possibles for the title role in the revival of Doctor Who.
Christopher was told that he was only doing one series and a Christmas special of Doctor Who. This was agreed in January 2005.
The BBC recently admitted that they announced Christopher's departure from Doctor Who a bit too early.
Christopher gave some money to help Manchester United to fend off Malcolm Glazer.
Christopher appeared on Breakfast last year while visiting the Tsunami victims families.
Christopher was the first actor to play Doctor Who to be born when the show first started.
Christopher's earliest memory of Doctor Who is Patrick Troughton in the black and white episodes of the late 1960s.
As a child, Chris initially wanted to be a football (soccer) player.
Chris appeared in the film Jude, and in one of his scenes he stars alongside David Tennant who has a non-speaking part. Both have had the honour of playing Doctor Who.
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Christopher Eccleston is running this year’s London Marathon to raise money for the Big Issue. The actor has just celebrated a big birthday – and wants to use the occasion to raise vital funds for our work, as well as raising awareness for our mission. You can sponsor him here.
“I’ve just turned 60 and my plan is to run the London Marathon for the Big Issue,” Eccleston said.
“The last one I ran was when I was 50. So my plan is to run at 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100. And then I’ll retire!”
Eccleston, who recently starred opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective, has been a fixture on screen and stage for more than three decades, with major roles in Our Friends in the North, Hillsborough, Lennon Naked, The Leftovers and The A Word.
The actor has been a Big Issue brand ambassador since 2020. When he joined, he said: “I’m the Big Issue generation, aren’t I? I remember when it was launched. And to see something like Big Issue born makes you proud. Because you feel like the social conscience of the nation is active.”
Here’s what happened when Christopher Eccleston had a heart-to-heart with Big Issue seller Clive
Christopher Eccleston: ‘A crime was visited on the working-class about art’
Now, he’s putting his best foot forward to support the Big Issue and our ongoing mission to eradicate homelessness and help people to work their way out of poverty.
“To be wearing the Big Issue colours is incredible,” continued Eccleston.
“I’ll be happy just to get round the course. I think I’ll be OK at 20 miles, but I don’t know where I’m going to find that next six miles.
“The training has been going OK. I really stepped it up at the end of last year. I played Scrooge at [London’s] the Old Vic before Christmas and that really helped because it was so physical. But 26 miles is 26 miles.”
For Christopher Eccleston, running has been an important part of his life for many years.
“When I was hospitalised and on a lot of medication and a lot of restrictions, I think one of the things that deepened my depression, was not being able to go for my run,” he said.
“And as soon as I was out of hospital, that is what I did. Fitness is so important. That’s what I say to anybody who asks me about mental health. Physical exercise – whatever works for you – just do it. I’ve never made a bad plan during a run…”
When is the London Marathon 2024?
This year’s London Marathon takes place on Sunday 21 April 2024, and Christopher Eccleston will be one of approximately 50,000 runners taking part in the race
The London Marathon will start at 8.30am with a staggered start for both the elite and wheelchair races, before the mass participation event begins at 9.30am, which the actor will be running in.
What it’s like to run the London Marathon – by those who completed it
Meet the Big Issue sellers set to run London Marathon 2021
Eccleston won’t be the only celebrity on the course. Award-winning actors and musicians including McFly drummer Harry Judd, TV presenter Romesh Ranganathan and star of Emmy award-winning show Ted Lasso, Phil Dunster, will all be making their London Marathon debuts.
Christopher Eccleston, however, is no stranger to the course, having run the gruelling marathon a whopping five times.
The 26.2 miles course weaves through some of London’s most notable landmarks, including running across Tower Bridge, alongside the North Bank of the Thames and finishing off outside the gates of Buckingham Palace.
You can watch Eccleston and the 49,999 other runners on BBC One from 8.30 am to 2.15 pm and on BBC Two from 2.15 pm until 3.pm. Or you can cheer on our Big Issue ambassador from the sidelines of the race in person at various milestones throughout central London.
Sponsor Christopher Eccleston in the London Marathon HERE.
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When Doctor Who returned with the revived series back in 2005, Christopher Eccleston was the first actor to take on the main lead of the Doctor. Many fans across the world label Eccleston the best Doctor since 2005; however, fans were disappointed that he only stuck around for one season due to Eccleston clashing with the show producers.
Unlike previous Doctors, Eccleston, who departed Doctor Who 12 years ago, has yet to reappear as the Ninth Doctor on the hit BBC series. On November 23, 2013, a 50th Anniversary special episode saw the return of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and the War Doctor (Sir John Hurt), who teamed up with the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) to save Gallifrey.
Originally, the departing Doctor Who showrunner (Steven Moffat) sat down with Eccleston to persuade him to return to the science fiction show one more time as the iconic Ninth Doctor. After a very long conversation, Eccleston declined Moffat's offer. But why?
Despite Moffat doing everything he could to persuade Eccleston to make his long-awaited return, Moffat instinctively knew that Eccleston would say no right from the start. Speaking to Radio Times, Moffat said:
"But I knew that Chris was almost certainly going to say no. I met him a couple of times and he was absolutely lovely. He met with me because he didn’t want to say no through his agent or a phone call or email. He wanted to do it personally. And I three-quarters talked him into it."
The original plan for the 50th Anniversary Special saw Tennant, Smith, and Eccleston all meet together in a "brutal" way to rescue Clara from the Doctor's timeline. However, Moffat realized his plans to persuade were sadly not working and he gave up. On the other hand, Eccleston has now stepped forward and revealed that he will return to Doctor Who. But, it comes with a catch.
Back in May this year, Inverse sat down with Eccleston to talk all things Doctor Who and his new HBO show, and fans were finally given some delightful news: Eccleston will return to Doctor Who in the future! During his interview, Eccleston revealed that he will happily return to the long-running series for the 100th Anniversary in 2063. During his interview, Eccleston said:
"I’m giving you an exclusive, I will return for the 100th anniversary. If I’m asked, I will return for the 100th anniversary."
The clever ones among you all will already be doing the math and realize that Eccleston — born in February 1964 — will be 99 years old when the 100th anniversary finally arrives. From the way the news comes across, it seems that Eccleston will return in his TARDIS in 2063 no matter how old he is — at least we have something to look forward to!
Of course, many of you out there will begin to believe that Eccleston won't return to Doctor Who like he says he will, or are starting to doubt if the show will still be running then. However time will tell, and we eagerly await to see what the future holds for hardcore Doctor Who fans.
As the old saying goes: "Age is nothing but a number," which gives hope for fans that they will see the Ninth Doctor one final time. For now, we're playing the waiting game until 2063 comes around. Or, if you have a TARDIS, pop into the future to see what his return is like — but no spoilers, please!
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Plymouth is well known as Britain's Ocean City, but some might say the South West tends to get forgotten about when it comes to individuals that have pursued a career in the spotlight.
But there are in fact plenty of locals that have gone on to have extremely successful careers.
From actors, singers, Olympians and reality stars, Plymouth is home to a number of well known faces that boast a range of fantastic achievements.
Here is a list of some of the city's biggest successes, and those that make us proud to be from Plymouth.
Tom Daley
One the most obvious faces for the top of our list, Tom Daley is one of the most successful British divers of our time.
Born and raised in Plymouth, Tom is a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, double World Champion and winner of the 2009 FINA World Championship at the age of just 15, also earning the same title in 2017. He also won two gold medals for England at the 2010 Commonwealth games. Most recently Tom won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games with partner Daniel Goodfellow for the men's synchronised 10 metre-platform.
Tom started diving at the age of seven as a member of Plymouth Diving Club and his talent in the sport was soon recognised as he started taking part in national and international competitions from the age of just nine.
To add to his extensive list of achievements, in 2013 Tom Daley was also approached for a role in ITV celebrity diving reality show Splash, as a mentor to the celebrities taking part.
Currently, Tom Daley is married to American film director and producer Dustin Lance Black and the two live together in London. In June 2018 they announced the birth of their first child through surrogacy, Robert Ray Black-Daley.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Another of Plymouth's most famous celebrities, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is an English model, actress, designer and businesswoman. She is best known for her supporting roles in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Mad Max: Fury Road.
She is also well known for her work for Victoria's Secret as one of their brand "Angels", working with large retailer Marks and Spencer, and becoming the face of Burberry's 2011 brand fragrance.
Rosie, 31 was born in Plymouth, growing up on a farm in Tavistock where she attended Tavistock College. She first got into modelling after undertaking a work experience placement at London based model agency Profile when she was just 15 years old.
She was signed to Victoria's Secret in early 2006 and went on to land her first solo British Vogue cover, walking runways for Givenchy, Burberry, Michael Korr's and Louis Vuitton to name a few. She landed her role in Transformers after previously working with the film's director Michael Bay on a Victoria's Secret commercial.
Rosie has been in a relationship with actor Jason Statham since 2010 and has been engaged since 2016. Jack Oscar Statham, the couple's child, was born in June 2017.
Charlotte Holmes
Charlotte Holmes was crowned Miss England back in 2012 and has gone on to become a successful English commercial model and TV Presenter.
She attended Torpoint Junior school and Devonport High School for Girls. Her modelling career also began locally when she was 19, when she won The Face of Plymouth.
In the years that followed she moved to London to pursue her career and went on to gain eighth place in the Miss World contest and placed fourth on Britain and Ireland's next Top Model back in 2010.
She is also known for her charity work, completing the London Marathon in April 2011, and raising £2,000 for children's charity Variety GB. From Cancer Research, Help for Heroes and the Naked Heart foundation, Charlotte has selflessly raised money for many worthwhile causes. More recently she participated in a cycling expedition around Sri Lanka for the Genesis Research Trust, cycling 390km over five days.
Charlotte now does a lot of work as a Fitness and Wellness Coach, promoting a healthy lifestyle on her social media pages and starring on the cover of women's fitness. She also starred on an MTV programme hosted by Vicky Pattinson as a fitness coach to the contestants.
Shelby Tribble
Shelby Tribble is best known for her successful modelling career, and more recently appearing in the extremely popular TV show The Only Way is Essex.
Shelby's modelling career began when she was 15, when she was scouted for Teen Queen Beauty pageant after attending the Clothes Show in Birmingham. She came second, before going on to win Miss South West, Miss Hippodrome and in 2015 she bagged the title of Miss Great Britain.
She joined the cast of TOWIE in 2018 and quickly became the talk of the show, in particular surrounding her romance with Pete Wicks. The couple have since split, but Shelby's popularity continues to grow and she has over 200,000 followers on Instagram, where she frequently posts pictures of herself hanging out with a range of famous faces.
Charlie Frederick
Charlie took part in the 2018 season of Love Island, which pulled in ITV 2's biggest ever audience of almost four million viewers during some episodes throughout the series.
He made his way to the villa at the same time as Megan Barton-Hanson and Josh Denzel who both ended up making it until the show's final. Although Charlie was only there for a few days, he made an impact on the villa and received lots of positive feedback from fans who thought he made his departure far too early.
An already successful model, Charlie previously lived in Plymouth before moving to London to pursue his modelling career before he was approached by the Casting Directors of Love Island.
Charlie was dumped from the villa when his fellow islanders chose him and Hayley Hughes as the least compatible pair. The pair made a hilariously awkward exit that amused viewers, although Hayley was the girl that Charlie had his sights on before he went into the villa.
Since his stint in the programme, Charlie is continuing to model and now has over 300,000 followers on Instagram where he frequently posts an array of topless snaps.
Sharron Davies
Sharron Davies grew up in Plymouth and she is a former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, as well as competing in the Commonwealth Games.
Sharron, who also has MBE status, learnt to swim with Devonport Swimming Association and swam for the British National Team at the age of just 11. Having won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and a silver medal in the Olympics by the age of 18, Sharon then called time on her swimming career to build a television profile and a career in modelling, although she returned to the pool in 1989, before hanging up her swimsuit for good in 1994.
By this point she had been British Champion on 20 occasions and broken two hundred British swimming records.
Since retiring she has appeared as a spokesperson on BBC's Question Time supporting the British Olympic bid as well as starring in Dancing on Ice in 2010, where she made it to week seven.
She has also been married three times and has three children.
Chris "Woody" Wood of Bastille
Bastille is a British band formed in 2010, beginning as a solo project by lead vocalist Dan Smith, but later expanding to include keyboardist Kyle Simmons, bassist Will Ferguson and drummer Chris Wood, who grew up in Plymouth and attended Devonport High School for Boys.
Bastille have had countless musical successes, including four UK top tens, and they have spent a total of 87 weeks in the top 40. Bastille's 2013 album Bad Blood went double platinum charting at number one in the United Kingdom and number eleven in the United States, and they have also been nominated for a total of two Grammy awards.
A massive Plymouth Argyle fan, Chris had always been in bands since he was around 14 including school bands, before going on to attend music college before moving back to Plymouth to save some money. He then moved back to London where he met Dan Smith and joined the band, who went on to get their big break after the release of single Pompeii, which peaked at number two in the UK chart and was the 11th best selling song of 2013.
More recently Bastille have been preparing for the release of their third studio album Doom Days, and in August 2018 they released single "Happier" with Marshmello, which also reached number two in the singles chart. They also headlined Plymouth festival MTV Presents: Ocean City Sounds in the summer of 2018.
Chris Martin
Although not strictly Plymouth born and bred, Chris Martin is one of the South West's most successful musicians of all time as the lead singer and co-founder of Coldplay.
Chris was in fact born in Exeter, but later moved to London where he formed a rockband called Pectoralz, but this was eventually renamed Coldplay in 1998. He has achieved worldwide fame with the other band members mainly after the release of the band's single "Yellow" in 2000, a song that also earned the band their first Grammy Award nomination.
Chris married actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2003 and their daughter Apple was born in London in 2004, inspiring the band's song "Speed of Sound", which talks about Chris Martin's experience at becoming a father.
Coldplay has sold over 90 million records worldwide, released a total of four live albums, 46 singles and sold five million singles in the United Kingdom. After 20 years together as a band, Coldplay are still releasing music and performing.
Phillip Schofield
Although originally born in Lancashire, Phillip grew up in Newquay Cornwall, and better still, a show on Hospital Radio Plymouth was his first step into the industry, which has led him to become one of ITV's best loved presenters.
He spent two years on the show, until he was offered the position of a bookings clerk for BBC Radio at the age of just 17 where at the time he was the youngest employee.
Phillip has worked on too many projects to name, but he is best known for being the co-presenter of This Morning, which he has worked on since 2002, Dancing on Ice, All Star Mr and Mrs and The Cube.
Grace Adams-Short
Grace shot to fame way back in 2006, for being a housemate in the seventh series of Big Brother, when the show was at its peak.
A Plymouth College Student, Grace's stint in the house caused controversy and she was the talk of the media after throwing a glass of water over a fellow housemate. The same series of Big Brother starred Nikki Graham, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace and Nikki Graham, who have all gone on to enjoy careers in the spotlight.
On the show Grace also fell for fellow housemate Mikey Dalton, and, where most other Big Brother couples have split up soon after living in the real world, the couple are still together 12 years later with three children.
Grace went on to become a successful business woman in running her own theatre school in the city, with Mikey owning his own advertising company.
Although she has stayed out of the spotlight for some years since, at the start of 2018 Grace appeared on Loose Women eight days before she was due to give birth to her third child, to discuss their imminent arrival and unusual meeting.
Andy Byford
Andy Byford is the current President of the New York City Transport authority, and, although he pursued his career in London where he moved to gain a certificate and diploma in transport, Plymouth resides as his home town.
A lifelong supporter of Plymouth Argyle and still holding a season ticket, Andy worked as a Station Foreman for London Underground in his early career, leading to Group Station Manager at Kings Cross St Pancras Station and later general manager, before moving to main line railway operations.
In 2011, Andy was hired by the Toronto Transmit Commission, where he was credited for bringing about several changes to the system, including service improvements and modernizations. He was also the chief operating officer for Railcorp in New South Wales, Australia before 2018 saw him into his current role as President.
Andy has plenty of aims regarding the future of New York's transport, which is currently in crisis, he wants to make the trains and buses run on time and "save the subways". New York City has the largest public - transport system in North America, with eight million passengers passing through each day, so there is no doubt that the role has meant Andy has put Plymouth on the map in a big way.
Steve Bartlett
Botswana born and Plymouth raised, Steve Bartlett is the CEO and co-founder of Social Chain Group, Europe's largest social media and digital publishing house, consisting of two companies, Social Chain and Media Chain.
Steve is particularly admirable after he was expelled from school, dropped out of University and got into debt, but he managed to turn it all around. When asked why he does what he does, Steve has said he wanted to prove to his 18 year old self that it can be done.
"You can pull yourself from some of the darkest places, both mentally and physically," he said previously. "If you have the right drive and determination, it can be done."
Social Chain Group is now known for delivering ground breaking social campaigns for some of the most exciting global brands. The group has developed a digital publishing house, Media Chain, which reaches over 400 million people through a series of online brands. The business now has five locations worldwide; Manchester, London, Berlin, Munich and New York.
Steve has also been voted by Econsultancy as the "Most Influential Industry Figure" in 2018. He wants to inspire a generation to overcome their fear and negativity, and to believe that they can too. He now works from a 6,000sq ft office in New York but admitted: “Plymouth is my home town, it means a lot to me.”
Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep is best known as a dancer, director, choreographer and actor, although in the later stages of his career he has made a large amount of reality TV appearances.
Wayne attended Geraldine Lamb Dance School in the city, and with hopes of becoming the next Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire he studied tap and jazz. He then moved to Hartlepool before joining the Royal Ballet School which led him to become a senior principal dancer performing globally. As the shortest male dancer to be admitted into the Royal Ballet School, many directors were reluctant to cast Wayne in traditional male lead roles, although Andrew Lloyd Webber once made adaptions for him, and Wayne created many roles in his musicals.
He managed to break a world record in 1973 by completing a entrechat-douze, a jump with 12 beats of the feet, and the record still remains unbeaten to this day. He is also remembered for dancing with Princess Diana at the annual Christmas party of the Friends of Covent garden at the Royal Opera House in 1985.
Wayne Sleep's more recent TV appearances include, I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of Here! in 2003, Strictly Dance Fever on BBC One, in which he appeared as a judge, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Come Dine With Me, Stepping out, All Star Family Fortunes, Celebrity Masterchef, The Chase, The Real Full Monty, and most recently Celebrity Big Brother in early 2018. He also appeared in "The Real Marigold Hotel, a series broadcast on BBC following a group of celebrity pensioners on a journey to India.
In his personal life, Wayne lives with his husband Jose Bergera in West London and owns a charity, the Wayne Sleep foundation which helps students who have successfully gained a place at a performing arts vocational college. He continues to pass his knowledge through private tuition and workshops for all ages.
Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance is an actor, screenwriter and film director best known for playing Tywin Lannister in Game Of Thrones, although he has had many other on screen roles including Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3, and the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold. He typically plays the roles of assertive bureaucrats of villains wearing a suit or similar attire.
Charles grew up in Plymouth and attended Widey High School in Crownhill, which ended up closing in 1988. He later attended The Leicester College of Arts where he studied graphic design and photography before becoming a member of The Royal Shakespeare Comapny.
He made his on screen debut in 1974 but his big break didn't come until 10 years later, when he played the major role of Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown, and he has played lead roles in British Dramas ever since as well as starring in a host of Shakespeare works for the RSC. He has also made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Merlin and a celebrity version of Top Gear.
Charles was appointed as an Officer of the Order of The British Empire on 17 June 2006. He is now 72 years old, has three children and was married for over 30 years before divorcing in 2004.
Mark Ormrod
Mark Ormrod is one of Plymouth's most inspirational individuals. In the early hours of Christmas Eve 2007, the former Royal Marines Commando was out on a routine foot patrol in the Helamand Province of Afghanistan when he stepped on and triggered an Improvised Explosive Device.
An innovative and dangerous procedure carried out onboard a Chinook helicopter en route to the hospital saved his life. He woke up three days later in the UK in Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham with both legs amputated above the knee and his right arm amputated above the elbow. He was the UK’s first triple amputee to survive the Afghanistan conflict.
Mark has gone on to use his set back as a springboard for growth and reinvention and today he has a great sense of wonder, humour and has a great love for learning and for life.
Today he is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, a peak performance coach, Invictus Games gold medalist and the author of the award winning auto-biography 'Man Down'. Mark has inspired people all over the city and even the country, and he currently has thousands of followers on social media. He is the perfect mentor and role model to other amputees and is an ambassador for the Royal Marines Association.
He also has three children and a wife, and is a relentless charitable fund raiser and dare devil who has performed stunts that plenty of able bodied athletes would find daunting.
Miranda Hart
Just down the road from Plymouth, Miranda Hart was born in Torquay, Devon. She is one of the most well known female comedians of the century. She began her career with drama training at the Academy of Live and and Recorded arts before moving on to write material for the Edinburgh fringe festival and making appearances in various British sitcoms.
Her big break came about when she starred in her own self-driven, semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda, which ran for three series and several Christmas specials from 2009 to 2015. It also earned four British Comedy awards and four BAFTA nominations. In 2012 Miranda began appearing in the BBC drama Call the Midwife and in 2015 she made her Hollywood debut in Paul Feig's film Spy and embarked on a stand-up tour which was later released on DVD.
Miranda has also written four books including a semi-autobiography, a compilation of scripts from the TV series, a description of her life since owning her dog and a fourth book, in partnership with Comic Relief. She also presented the Royal Variety Performance in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Cambridge, making her the first solo female presenter in 105 years.
Kate Nesbitt
Kate Nesbitt is a pharmacy technician in the Royal Navy who has become a well-known name after becoming the second woman in the British Armed Forces to be awarded the Military Cross. The award was as a result of her actions in Afghanistan in March 2009.
Kate is from Whitleigh and was educated at Sir John Hunt Community College. The inspiration to pursue her career came from her family background as her father was a former Royal Marine colour sergeant and two of her brothers are also in the armed forces.
She joined the Royal Navy in 2005 and was deployed to Afghanistan for six months between October 2008 and March 2009 as part of the ongoing Operation Herrick where she was a Medical Assistant attached to 3 Commando Brigade.
The Military Cross awarded to Kate, is typically awarded to any rank of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force in "recognition of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy on land". This was mainly due to her actions during a Taliban ambush.
In March 2009, while under fire from Taliban forces, Lance Corporal John List was shot in the neck. Kate ran 70 metres under fire and found him struggling to breathe as the bullet had gone through his top lip, rupturing his jaw and coming out of his neck. She bravely administered aid for around 45 minutes, saving his life. During which time both of them were subject to gun fire from the Taliban Forces.
Kate was presented with her Military Cross for her outstanding bravery by Prince Charles on November 27, 2009 at Buckingham Palace. Her citation read: "Nesbitt's actions throughout a series of offensive operations were exemplary; under fire and under pressure her commitment and courage were inspirational and made the difference between life and death. She performed in the highest traditions of her service."
Heather Knight
Heather Knight OBE is an English cricketer who is captain of the England women's cricket team.
She was educated at Plymstock school before being offered a place at the University of Cambridge to study natural science, which she turned down so that she would have time to play cricket. She then went on to study Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University.
In addition to the England Women's team, Heather has played for Plymstock Cricket Club in the Devon Cricket League where she opened the batting for the first team. In addition, she has also played for The Diamonds, The Rubies and England Academy Women. She topped the county run in both 2008 and 2009.
In June 2016, Heather was appointed captain of the England Women's cricket team after Charlotte Edwards stood down, leading the England team in her first Women's Cricket World Cup as captain. They won the tournament despite losing to India in the opening match.
Heather was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2018 New Year Honours list, as well as being named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for her part in the 2017 World Cup victory. It was also announced in October 2018 that she would be the captain of England's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.
Paul Wotton
Paul is originally from Plymouth and is currently assistant manager at Plymouth Argyle alongside Derek Adams. He also holds the title of being one of the club's most successful captains, leading the team to win two Football League titles in three seasons.
By the time he left Plymouth in 2008, he had broken into the top ten of the club's all-time appearance list - playing more than 400 matches and winning Player of the Year award twice.
His first season for Plymouth Argyle began in 1994, which was also his first as a professional. He was released in June 2008 where he joined Southampton, as well as playing for Oxford United and Yeovil Town. He then re-joined Plymouth Argyle after three-and-a-half years away and became Argyles second highest appearance maker behind Kevin Hodges.
He officially retired from playing in 2015, although Derek Adams kept him on as a first-team coach. In May 2018 it was announced that he would step up to the role of assistant manager for the 2018-19 season.
Tonia Couch
Tonia is a diver known around the world for representing Great Britain in the Olympics.
Originally from Plymouth, her diving talent became initially recognised when she became the youngest girl ever to qualify for the lottery funded Junior Olympic Programme, where she took bronze in the Junior Girls platform event at the British Championships.
In 2008 and 2009, her eighth-place finishes at the Olympics and the World Championships were the best results by a British female for 20 years, and they secured her place in British diving history.
At the 2010 Commonwealth games she gained fourth place for her 10m synchro partnership with Sarah Barrow. The duo went on to win countless trophies including the European gold and World Cup bronze in 2012, in front of a home crowd at London 2012 Olympics.
In 2013 and 2014, Tonia claimed the British 10m platform title, competed in her fifth consecutive World Championships, finished fourth at the World Cup in Shanghai and won a silver medal with Sarah at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.
At the March 2015 world series in Dubai, Tonia won the overall title of Diving World Series champion for the 10m platform after winning four bronze medals in the series. Her success at the World Championships in Kazan helped team GB to secure a quota place at the 2016 Olypics.
Her most recent achievement was qualifying for the 2017 World Championships. Although since then she has retired, Tonia received a special recognition award at the British Diving Championships on January 26 2018.
Eddie Ryan
Vincent Rubio, better known by the ring name Eddie Ryan, is a British professional wrestler originally from Plymouth.
He graduated from Plymouth University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration in 2008, before moving to Swindon to become a professional wrestler, paid for with the full time job he had as an analyst at Nationwide Building Society.
He started his ring career in 2008 at 4 front Wrestling training school. He changed his ring name to Eddie Ryan before representing England overseas in Japan and the United States.
In 2012 he won his first professional championship in a ten-man ladder match and in 2014 won the PWA Heavyweight Championship on the company's fifth anniversary show.
More recent achievements include a debut for World Wrestling Entertainment under the NXT brand in October 2018, where Eddie Ryan competed and won at Plymouth Pavilions.
Trevor Francis
Trevor Francis was born in 1954 and is is best known as a former footballer from Plymouth who mainly played as a forward. He became England's first £1 million player following his transfer from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest in 1979 and he later went on to win two consecutive European cups, as well as playing for other teams including Manchester City, Sampdoria, Atalanta, Rangers and Sheffield Wednesday.
He played for England many times at international level scoring 12 goals as well as taking part in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, scoring in the group games against Czechoslovakia and Kuwait. His last appearance for England came in spring 1986, on what would have been his 52nd appearance.
Upon retiring from playing football, Trevor Francis took over as manager of Sheffield Wednesday before spending time as a television pundit before going back to Birmingham City as manager in 1996. The same year they reached the play offs but failed to be promoted. He also had a spell in charge of Crystal Palace from 2001 to 2003, during which time Palace defeated Liverpool in an FA Cup fourth round replay at Anfield in 2003.
Tim Curry
Tim Curry is an English actor and singer best known for working in a diverse range of theatre,film and television.
Although he was born in Cheshire, Tim spent most of his childhood in Plymouth, relocating to South London when his father died from pneumonia. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a combined degree in English and Drama, before landing his first fukll time role as part of the original London cast of the musical Hair in 1968, where he met Richard O Brien, who went on to write Tim's next full time role, Dr. Frank-N-Further in The Rocky Horror Show.
He then ended up on Broadway, before later appearing as Scrooge in the musical version of a Christmas Carol in Madison Square Garden in 2001. Many other roles led him to receive an award in theatre, the Artistic Achievement Award in 2015 at the Actors Fund's 19th Annual Tony Awards Viewing Party.
Tim's most famous roles in film include Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan in Annie, Darkness in fantasy film Legend, Plaza Hotel Manager Mr. Hector in home alone 2: Lost In New York, and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, to name a few.
Aside from film, television and voice acting performances, Tim Curry also had some success as a solo music artist, touring America with his band in the 80's. Since 1988, Tim has lived in Los Angeles, California where he remains until the present day.
Angela Rippon
A television Journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter, Angela May Rippon was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news.
After leaving school in Plymouth at 17, Angela joined the photographic office of the Western Morning News and worked for the Sunday Independant. Her TV career began in Plymouth in 1966, where she went on to become a reporter for BBC TV news and she ended up first presenting a national news programme on BBC 2 in 1974.
Angela's most popular presenting roles include presenting the first two series of Top Gear and Come Dancing, Rip Off Britain and has co-hosting Holiday Hit Squad on the BBC since 2013.
In 2010, Angela appeared for one night on Dancing On Ice as a judge covering for Robin Cousins. She later returned to participate in the sixth season in 2011 as one of the contestants with Canadian ice skater Sean Rice. She appeared in a BBC documentary in raise funds for Comic Relief in 2011 also, with Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack and Reggie Yates called Famous, Rich and in the Slums. The documentary showed four celebrities travelling to Kenya, Africa's largest slum.
2011 also saw Angela join the one show presenting a five minute slot called Rippon's Britain, also appearing on Children In Need with other newsreaders in a special one off edition of Strictly Come Dancing in November of the same year.
Angela's most recent role saw her co-present live covering of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for Channel Seven (Australia) alongside Michael Usher and Melissa Doyle. In 2017, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to demetia care in her role as development lead with Dementia Friendly Communities.
Angela married at the age of 22 before divorcing in 1989.
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Actor Christopher Eccleston has agreed to narrate the audiobook version of A J Hartley’s Cold Bath Street, published by the student-run, not-for-profit publishing house UCLan Publishing.
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Actor Christopher Eccleston has agreed to narrate the audiobook version of A J Hartley’s Cold Bath Street, published by the student-run, not-for-profit publishing house UCLan Publishing.
Debbie Williams, who set up the publishing house at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), said Eccleston was Hartley’s “ideal” narrator.
“I did know Chris from years ago as I used to serve him when I managed a floor of Deansgate Waterstones a while ago but had lost touch. Chris is currently playing Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company and a friend of mine, who runs the Shakespeare Institute, was running an event with him. Chris and I met up at the event again and got chatting,” she said.
Hartley, who is also a Shakespeare professor, took part in the event with Eccleston at the Shakespeare Institute last month and the actor had “no hesitation” in saying he wanted to narrante the audiobook.
“Chris very much believes in what we are doing and cannot wait to work with the students,” said Williams. “He will be coming up to our University studios in Preston to make the recordings.”
Cold Bath Street, a gothic thriller, was launched at the Northern Young Adult Literary Festival in early April 2018 and is described as Hunger Games crossed with Artemis Fowl.
Eccleston said: “Cold Bath Street is thrilling and deeply moving. I loved the originality of its premise and specificity of its location: the north. Just fantastic! I am very excited to be doing the audiobook.”
The audiobook will be released in 2019. UCLan is also publishing a special print edition of the book on 31st October with a map by illustrator Tomislav Tomic.
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Florence Cameron
Most of us have noticed that David Cameron and family are rather partial to visits to Cornwall, but did you know little Florence Cameron was born at the Royal Cornwall Hospital? She was several weeks premature and was born in the county during the Camerons’ summer holiday. Her middle name is even Endellion after the Cornish village.
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Christopher Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It (1991). However, it was a regular role in the television series Cracker (1993) that made him a recognizable figure in the United Kingdom. He appeared in the low-budget thriller Shallow Grave (1994), and in the same year, won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). It was the transmission of the latter series on BBC Two that really made him into a household name in the United Kingdom. In his film career, he has starred as a leading man alongside a number of major actresses, such as Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998), Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998), and Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster in The Invisible Circus (2001), and Nicole Kidman in The Others (2001).
In addition to his successful film career, he has continued to work in television, appearing in some of the most challenging and thought-provoking British dramas. These have included Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), the Iago character in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello", and the religious epic The Second Coming (2003), playing Steve Baxter, the son of God. His stage career, while not as extensive as his screen credits, has nevertheless shown him to be a formidable actor. He has given intense, focused performances in such plays as "Hamlet", "Electricity" and "Miss Julie", for which he received excellent reviews.
A very highly regarded actor, Eccleston has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the BAFTA Television Awards, the British premiere television awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North (1996). Although he didn't win those awards, however, he did triumph in the Best Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends in the North (1996). He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in "Flesh and Blood". In 2005, he received the Most Popular Actor award in the National Television Awards for starring in Russell T. Davies's re-imagining of Doctor Who (2005).
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The vice-president of Canada's English language acting union isn't happy seeing a Rogers ad featuring U.S. star John Krasinski letting loose to Taylor Swift in a boat on Lake Simcoe."Every time I see that commercial, it makes my skin crawl," said Keith Martin Gordey, who is also the president of the Union of British Columbia Performers. "The agency that made that, Publicis … has locked us out."For more than two years, a labour dispute between The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio
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The vice-president of Canada's English language acting union isn't happy seeing a Rogers ad featuring U.S. star John Krasinski letting loose to Taylor Swift in a boat on Lake Simcoe.
"Every time I see that commercial, it makes my skin crawl," said Keith Martin Gordey, who is also the president of the Union of British Columbia Performers. "The agency that made that, Publicis … has locked us out."
For more than two years, a labour dispute between The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) and a group of Canadian ad agencies has effectively prevented union actors from appearing in spots for many of the country's largest brands.
Actor Jason Bryden says he moved to Toronto in 2012, because union commercial work had dried up in Vancouver.
"I just thought we should try Toronto and see if it's better there. And it was, until this lockout."
He says he went from auditioning six times a week to once every six months.
Toronto actor Jason Bryden, who's worked in a number of commercials, says he's gone from six auditions a week to one every six months. He says a lack of union work means he's had to sell his home and is now considering a career change. (Submitted by Jason Bryden)
"I know that would be a lot different if I left my union, if I was a non-union performer," he said.
Bryden and some Canadian actors say the related loss of work has contributed to them having to sell their homes. That's one of the reasons the ad, featuring a Hollywood star from an agency that isn't using Canadian union talent, has drawn criticism. Meanwhile, the group representing ad agencies in the dispute says agreeing to the deal the union wants would spell the end of union commercial work in Canada.
What's the dispute about?
From the 1960s to 2022, ACTRA had a deal called theNational Commercial Agreement (NCA) with two groups, the Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA), representing Canadian brands, and the Institute of Canadian Agencies (ICA), representing the creative agencies that produce ads on behalf of brands.
The ACA has signed on to a series of extensions, allowing advertisers a path to work with agencies using union talent. Meanwhile, the ICA and ACTRA have been unable to agree on an updated version of the deal, with talks breaking down in April 2022.
LISTEN | Canadian actor explains the industry's ongoing labour dispute:
ACTRA filed abad faith bargaining claim with the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) against the ICA and ICA agencies. The union contends the NCA is a collective agreement, while the ICA says it's a contract that has expired, meaning they can use non-union actors. The OLRB hearings are scheduled through December..
Mediated discussions between the two parties broke down in the fall of 2023, with the ICAstating on its website that the mediator determined the parties were too far apart to continue with the process.
Actors selling homes, changing careers
With union acting gigs drying up, Bryden says he had to sell his house in December and move to a different neighbourhood with his kids.
He's also considering a career change at age 52 and is thinking about going back to school to get a Masters in psychology to become a counsellor or a psychotherapist.
"I'm just on the verge of maybe pulling the trigger on that, going back and getting into some student debt and reprogramming so I can bring my children to the finish line of the whelping."
He says he doesn't think his plan will change, even if the union dispute is resolved.
"When you acquire things like a mortgage and children, you have to be making some good cake these days, especially in the cities where showbiz exists, like Vancouver and Toronto."
Actor Paloma Nuñez remembers how she felt when she first saw the Rogers ad featuring Krasinski.
"I was infuriated," she said.
Actor Paloma Nuñez was upset when she saw Krasinski appear in a Rogers ad during a labour dispute impacting Canadian commercial actors. (Griffin Jaeger/CBC)
Canadian actors hoped for solidarity
Nuñez referenced last year'sactors strike in the U.S., and said she'd like to see stars from south of the border insist Canadian companies go back to using union talent as a precondition to coming here to work with them.
"All I'm asking and hoping is that they would show solidarity to us and say 'This isn't acceptable, and if you want us, you need to go back to union,' " she said.
Hamilton actor Kate Ziegler says Canadian commercial actors impacted by this dispute haven't been afforded the same solidarity shown to actors hit by the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes in the U.S. last year.
Hamilton actor Kate Ziegler has been significantly impacted by the labour dispute between a group of Canadian ad agencies. (Griffin Jaeger/CBC)
"I think there is a place for stars, people with a lot of notoriety to make a statement, take a stand, do a thing to support the journeyman actors," said Ziegler, who was once the voice of Rogers in ads.
She says she's also preparing to sell her home. "I'll stay in the union, I'll stay and fight, but I can't hold this on my own anymore."
In an email, a spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA expressed support for Canadian union actors. "We wholeheartedly support our colleagues at ACTRA in their fight for fair protections for their members."
Multiple emails to Krasinksi's publicist did not receive a response before publication.
A representative for Rogers did not reply to an email seeking comment and requesting an interview.
CBC News also reached out to Publicis, but did not hear back.
Dispute before labour board
The ICA says that if it were to agree to the deal the union wants, advertisers would simply work with agencies using non-union talent instead.
Keith Martin Gordey is the vice-president of ACTRA National. (Submitted by UBCP)
They shared their September 2023 proposal for a new agreement. ACTRA has responded, saying it's disappointed with proposed concessions.
The ICA also contests ACTRA's description of the dispute as a lockout, saying that ACTRA has instructed its members not to work for signatory agencies, but that agencies have never prevented ACTRA members from auditioning for productions.
Gordey, the ACTRA vice-president, says that's just not true.
"It's before the Ontario Labour Board right now," he said, suggesting the OLRB would have to rule on whether or not the NCA is a collective agreement.
Nonetheless, he said, "it's an agreement that's been in place for over 60 years."
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Christopher Eccleston (* 16. Februar 1964 in Salford, Lancashire) ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Eccleston ist bekannt für seine Darstellung komplexer Charaktere in Kino- und Fernsehfilmen und als neunte Inkarnation des Doktors in Doctor Who.
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Christopher Eccleston has insisted that he has no interest in returning to Doctor Who.
The Lancashire native portrayed the ninth incarnation of The Doctor when the sci-fi series was revived in 2005, but departed after only one series. He was succeeded by David Tennant.
During an interview on Graham Norton's BBC Radio 2 show, Eccleston expressed pride over portraying the Time Lord and admiration for Doctor Who's former executive producer Russell T. Davies.
"I heard Russell was going to do Doctor Who and I thought, 'That's quite strange'," the actor admitted. "When I heard he was writing it, I emailed him and said I'd like to play the part. I went after the part."
Eccleston added: "I'd done a lot of television for adults. I actually think the most intelligent and the most difficult audience are children. They will be not patronised... I wanted to front a big series like [Doctor Who], which I felt was going to be intelligent."
The star went on to profess that he was drawn to the role of the time-traveling alien because of the character's belief in not judging others.
"The thing about The Doctor is, he's very inclusive. He doesn't see the alien in aliens and I loved that about him," he added. "Also the fact that he's never at home. He's a Time Lord and he's always, always falling though the universe. When I thought about that, I thought I could play that."
After insisting that his only intention was to do one series to "make that show a success", Eccleston balked at Norton's question as to whether he'd reprise the role of the Ninth Doctor for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013.
"No, I never bathe in the same river twice," Eccleston said.
Last week, current showrunner Steven Moffat teased that John Barrowman could return as Captain Jack Harkness in a future Doctor Who episode, and John Simm later expressed openness to re-emerging as The Master.
Doctor Who returns with new episode 'The Curse of the Black Spot' this Saturday on BBC One in the UK and on BBC America in the US.
> Rate last weekend's episode 'Day of the Moon'
Listen to Christopher Eccleston discuss Doctor Who below:
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What is it about? In the modest northern metropolis of West Yorkshire, the police sergeant Catherine Cawood finds herself pursuing cases that have ties to her own troubled past.
Watch… if you like character-driven crime stories. There’s a strong procedural element to “Happy Valley,” as Catherine finds clues, asks questions and tracks her prey. But the show’s creator Sally Wainwright is just as interested in her heroine’s complicated home-life (where she lives with her emotionally unstable grandson and her ex-junkie sister), as well as the social conditions that fostered this series’ cast of drug-dealers, kidnappers, rapists and serial killers. “Happy Valley” is mostly about this community, where beautiful landscapes are marred by pockets of extreme poverty, and where everybody seems to know everybody else’s business.
Watch… if you like dark British mysteries. “Broadchurch” is not reinventing the wheel — it’s still centered on a murder that takes the entirety of Season 1 to solve — but the location (gorgeous British coastline) and committed actors (David Tennant and Olivia Colman are fantastic) are what raise the bar here. The murder sets off a series of revelations that unearths deep secrets, and this layered approach gives the show more than enough plot points for viewers to enjoy.
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Tall and gaunt, with bony, long-nosed features and a deep, resonant voice, Eccleston is suited to playing intense, brooding characters. But he can also bring a quirky saturnine humour to lighter roles, and made an offbeat but effective choice for the ninth incarnation of Doctor Who (BBC, 2005- ).
He was born in Salford, Lancashire, the youngest of three sons in a working-class family, and attended local schools. At 19, inspired to an acting career by hard-hitting TV dramas like Boys from the Blackstuff (BBC, 1982), he completed a two-year performance course at Salford Tech before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He made his professional stage debut in 1988 with a support role in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic, and landed a couple of parts at the National Theatre, but for a year or two roles were hard to come by. His screen breakthrough came in Let Him Have It (d. Peter Medak, 1991), playing the ill-fated Derek Bentley, hanged for anotherÂs crime.
Eccleston made his television debut in 1990, and soon started getting major roles. He was a sceptical senior cop, DCI Bilborough, in Cracker (ITV, 1993-94) until, at his own request, he was written out of the series, memorably murdered by Robert CarlyleÂs avenging killer in a story channelling writer Jimmy McGovern's fury at the Hillsbrough stadium disaster. Two years later he was one of the four leads (with Gina McKee, Daniel Craig and Mark Strong) in Peter FlanneryÂs modern-day political saga Our Friends in the North (BBC, 1996). In between these he starred in Danny BoyleÂs debut film, the black comedy Shallow Grave (1994), along with Kerry Fox and Ewan McGregor; his character, seemingly the most inhibited of the trio, reveals an unexpected talent for calculated violence.
He was ideal casting as the dogged but ultimately doomed title character in Michael WinterbottomÂs Jude (1996), adapted from Thomas HardyÂs Jude the Obscure, co-starring with Kate Winslet, and made a grim, befurred Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998). After a small but key role as the Seminar Leader in David CronenbergÂs eXistenZ (US, 1999) he made his Hollywood debut as a British crime boss in the actioner Gone in 60 Seconds (US, 2000). He played Nicole KidmanÂs husband in the atmospheric ghost story The Others (US, 2001), before re-teaming with Michael Winterbottom for the Madchester-scene drama 24 Hour Party People (2002), and with Danny Boyle for the horror movie 28 Days Later (2002). In Alex CoxÂs punk updating of MiddletonÂs The RevengerÂs Tragedy (2002) he played the protagonist, Vindici, with dark, sardonic humour.
On TV Eccleston played Trevor Hicks, whose two daughters died in the Hillsborough disaster, in McGovernÂs drama Hillsborough (ITV, 1996). (Thirteen years later, he acted as the real-life HicksÂs best man at his wedding.) He was one of many guest stars in Paul Abbott's high-impact factory drama Clocking Off (BBC, 2001-2004) and a discreetly malevolent Iago - or rather 'Ben Jago' - in Andrew Davies' updated Othello (ITV, 2001) In Russell T DaviesÂs eccentric telefantasy The Second Coming (2003) he played a Manchester video-shop assistant who believes himself to be the son of God.
Davies, who had persuaded the BBC to revive the cult fantasy series Doctor Who (dormant since 1996), was instrumental in choosing Eccleston to play the ninth Doctor. A surprise choice, the actor won over many sceptical fans with his reading of the character: a playful, even manic, curiosity laced with moments of foreboding gloom. However, Eccleston quit the role after a single series. At the time it was officially explained that he wanted to avoid typecasting; but he later said, ÂI left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didnÂt agree with the way things were being run. I didnÂt like the culture that had grown up around the series.... My face didnÂt fit and IÂm sure they were glad to see the back of me. The important thing is that I succeeded. It was a great part. I loved playing him. Â
Since The Doctor, his highest-profile role to date, Eccleston has appeared in other fantasy roles. He was a character with the power of invisibility in the NBC TV series Heroes (US, 2007), the villainous Rider in the film adaptation of Susan CooperÂs young-adult novel The Dark Is Rising (US, 2007) and the similarly nefarious Destro in GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). In a BBC biopic, Lennon Naked (2009), he was cast as John Lennon. He played morally compromised characters in McGovern's Accused (BBC, 2010-12), and Bill Gallagher's Blackout (BBC, 2012), but the most powerful of his recent roles was as Joseph Bede, seemingly quiet consultant to a crime empire who shows his darker side when obliged to head up the operation, in the BBCÂs labyrinthine seven-part noir thriller The Shadow Line (2011).
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Ulverston is one of the region’s most vibrant small towns and it’s about to celebrate the anniversary of its most famous son
In 2014 three special people got together in a bid to do something significant to mark the birth of Ulverston’s most famous son. The three are Mark Greenhow, owner and curator of a certain local museum, Dave Crossley, a promoter and local event organiser, and Jakki Moore, owner of the Beggar’s Theatre in nearby Millom.
The person they wanted to honour was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on June 16, 1890 in his grandparents’ modest cottage on Argyle Street in the old Lancashire town.
Many of you will know him better as Stan Laurel, the inimitable star of stage and screen, a modest genius, who made people laugh out loud for generations, and still does to this day.
Mark, Dave and Jakki had a vision to create a special event to mark his birth. In June 2014, that dream became a reality and the first ever ‘Another Fine Fest’ was held in the town, a celebration of music, comedy, street theatre and art. A truly colourful celebration of the birth of an equally colourful character.
So the scene is set for 2015, and the second ‘Another Fine Fest’, which is being held on Saturday June 20. This year is a going to be a pretty special, with even more fun to be had, as it marks the 125th anniversary of Stan’s birth and the 50th of his passing.
Stan’s mother, Margaret Metcalfe (known as Madge), was born in Hawes in 1861. By the late 1860s the Metcalfe family had made the move to Ulverston, where Madge’s father set up as a shoemaker in Newland Bottom.
His father, Arthur Jefferson known as AJ, first appeared in Ulverston in 1880 working as actor manager at Spencer’s Gaffe, the local name for the Hippodrome Theatre, conveniently located at the end of Argyle Street.
AJ first laid eyes on Stan’s mother when he heard her sing at Holy Trinity Church. He told friends that he was going to marry her and, true to his word, they were wed on March 19 1884 in the very church where he had first heard her sing. After marrying AJ, Madge decided to tread the boards, quickly becoming a very successful actor in her own right.
In 1890 she returned to Ulverston to give birth to Stan. When he was born he wasn’t expected to survive the night but he made it through and spent the next five or six years of a fairly sickly childhood with his grandmother in Ulverston, until he went away to school.
He later recalled: ‘I used to go shopping on Market Street with grandma Metcalfe – that was a big treat for me.’ During these trips he could usually be found in Gillam’s General Store buying his supply of sweets. ‘Beer’s treacle toffee,’ he recalled. ‘It sure was good.’
Despite being away from his parents they had a good relationship. ‘We were seldom together…I was almost always in boarding school or living with my grandparents in Ulverston, but still strange as it may seem, we were always a close family.’
By the early 1900s Stan had moved to be with his parents in Glasgow, where his father managed the Metropole Theatre. Stan too was soon drawn by the footlights and the grease paint. At the aged of 16 he made his stage debut as a comic in 1906. He went down a storm, but that might just have had something to do with his father, who was sitting in the audience…
In 1910, he joined Fred Karno’s troupe of comedy actors under the stage name of Stan Jefferson travelling to America acting as a young Charlie Chaplin’s understudy. From 1916 to 1918, he teamed up with Alice Cooke and Baldwin Cooke, forming the Stan Jefferson Trio.
It was around this time that Stan met Mae Dahlberg, his partner both on and off stage, a person who had a profound impact on his life. In performing circles the number 13 isn’t very lucky and Stan’s stage name ‘Stan Jefferson’ contained that number of letters…he wanted to change it. Mae recalled: ‘One night after the show I was in the dressing room…looking at an old history book…I came to a drawing of Scipio Africanus…Around his head he wore a laurel wreath…I said aloud Laurel, laurel, Stan Laurel…how about that name?’’ That’s how Stan got his name, which he adopted legally in 1931.
In 1917 Stan made his first movie entitled Nuts in May. This led to more short comedies with greats like Gilbert M. ‘Bronco Billy’ Anderson, Larry Semon, and Hal Roach. In 1917 Laurel appeared in a film called The Lucky Dog (1921) with an actor in the cast by the name of Babe Hardy aka Oliver Hardy. The pair met again in 1925 at the Hal Roach studios, though they weren’t appearing together at this point. That all changed, when Leo McCarey put these comic geniuses together and an immediate partnership unfolded. Laurel & Hardy hit the big time, and stardom after appearing in Putting Pants on Philip (1927), the rest as they say is history...
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The three-part series sees him play a father struggling to cope after his wife unexpectedly walks out, leaving him alone with their children.
It’s the latest role for an actor who’s notched up some pretty memorable roles over the past couple of decades, from the likes of Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave through to his short but memorable stint in Doctor Who.
Born on February 16 1964 in Salford, Lancashire, Eccleston is the youngest of three boys, and was inspired to become an actor aged 19 after watching such acclaimed TV dramas as Boys From The Blackstuff.
He trained at the Central School Of Speech and Drama and made his acting debut at the Bristol Old Vic, but held other assorted jobs – including working on a building site – while he tried to get his career off the ground.
Eccleston’s breakthrough role came in the critically acclaimed 1991 film Let Him Have It in which he played Derek Bentley, who was controversially hanged for the murder of a policeman in 1953 – a decision which led to a lengthy campaign for a posthumous pardon after his role in the crime was called into question.
From there, he went on to star in Danny Boyle’s debut movie Shallow Grave in 1995, starring alongside Ewan McGregor in the story of flatmates faced with a dilemma when their new tenant dies, leaving a suitcase full of money behind.
Meanwhile, Eccleston made his mark on the small screen in Our Friends In The North – widely regarded as one of the best TV dramas of the 90s – which followed the story of four friends from Newcastle over three decades, taking in some significant moments in modern history along the way.
The role landed the actor a Bafta nomination in 1996, although ultimately he lost out to Nigel Hawthorne.
Eccleston’s other roles included Cracker, Hearts and minds, the TV movie Hillsborough and Clocking Off – although he won himself a whole new fanbase when he was cast as the Doctor in the 2005 Doctor Who revival.
He quit after just one series and more recently said it ‘almost destroyed’ his career – and claimed that he was blacklisted by the Beeb after he left.
Not that it seems to have done his career any harm, since he’s been a pretty familiar face on TV and in films over the ensuing decade – with more recent roles in the likes of Fortitude, The Shadow Line, Safe House and another big BBC drama, The A Word.
You might also have spotted him in blockbuster movies in recent years including GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Thor: The Dark World.
Come Home, meanwhile, sees its central story told from different perspectives including those of his character Greg and that of his character’s wife Marie – who walks out on him and their kids – and he’s admitted he found that side of the drama appealing.
‘The extreme places and situations that the characters find themselves in, it’ll be interesting to see the story from everyone’s point of view rather than it being the typical male led drama,’ he explained. ‘There are six very strong characters in this and we see it from their point of view.
Away from the screen Eccleston is divorced from his wife Mischka, with whom he has two children – five-year-old son Albert and Esme, four.
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The Ultimate Discworld Casting Pages
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Once upon a time, in an a.f.p. far, far away, someone said "Who would you cast in a Discworld Movie?". The discussion went on for some time.
Some time later, a newbie said "Who do you think should play Rincewind in a Discworld movie?". The discussions went on for some time.
Later still, a different newbie said "Who do you think should play...." and was promptly pounced upon and beaten severly until they promised never to mention casting again.
These pages have been created in an attempt to increase the general level of happiness and understanding on a.f.p. They contain all of the suggestions for Discworld casting from the members of the alt*pratchett newsgroups (including material orginally archived by Stewart Tolhurst and Len Oil) and by direct email to esmi@lspace.org.
This page contains the main list of suggestions for casting a live action movie with the Discworld characters listed alphabetically by surname. Where suggestions have been for anything other than a real actor, these have been highlighted with *. Links have also been included to the relevant Who's Who Section for those characters that have descriptions.
You will find additional location and casting suggestions on the Discworld Locations and Extras page, suggestions for casting for an animated movie on the Voice Casting page and even a Muppet Cast List.
This page of L-Space is maintained by esmi@lspace.org and Ssirienna
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THE SECOND ACT presents a solo exhibition of new paintings, ceramics, textiles, audio and moving image works by Jamie Holman, expressing the current and historic expression of governance and state violence across industry, working class people and protests.
Holmans ‘Destriers’ series locates governance and state violence in both public and domestic spaces, exploring working class protest, crowd theory and police control strategies, as part of an English heritage that first appears in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Holman identifies subjugation by horseback as a key visual element of the tapestry, and as the beginning of an unbroken chronology of equestrian governance, that persists to this day.
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CHRISTOPHER Eccleston is set to continue the trend of well-known Lancashire-born stars to play prominent roles in the much-loved American anthology series. David Thewlis recently…
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CHRISTOPHER Eccleston is set to continue the trend of well-known Lancashire-born stars to play prominent roles in the much-loved American anthology series. David Thewlis recently gave an excellent turn in season three of Fargo, and now Eccleston is set to play a key role in season four of True Detective.
The new season of Nic Pizzolatto’s gritty series is set for release in January 2024, and will also star Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Fans of Eccleston will relish seeing him in a serious role for the first time since Close to Me in 2021.
What Do We Know About the New Season of True Detective?
True Detective burst onto the scene in 2014 and was a critical sensation thanks to its immersive story and star turn from Matthew McConaughey. The anthology series returned for seasons two and three with different high-profile actors in the cast. Now, it’s set for a new outing as True Detective: Night Country, which will take place in Alaska during winter. That means there’s going to be no sunlight, hence the name.
Eccleston is one of a few major players in the series, alongside another star-studded cast. The main attraction is Foster, in her first major television role since the 1970s. She has appeared in various shows such as The X-Files and The Simpsons, but only as a voice actor. It will be exciting to see her in action over a limited series, where she has the chance to dig deep into the role.
Series Should Expand to Attract More Viewers
Although most seasons of True Detective have been highly rated critically, the series is not considered one of HBO’s blockbusters. The likes of Game of Thrones and The Last of Us sit in that bracket, and they have attracted massive audiences thanks to franchises that have spread out into games as well. Having actors like Eccleston on board will help True Detective appeal to more people in the UK, but it would also make sense for the franchise to expand.
Narcos is a great example of a crime series that shot to worldwide attention thanks to its expansion into related media. The Netflix series gained millions of viewers through related games, such as Narcos Rise of the Cartels. There was also the Narcos online casino site game, which was so popular that it led to another entry, Narcos: Mexico. This helped to boost the spinoff to the main series and draw even more viewers in.
True Detective is coming into its fourth season now, so it’s about time that it starts to build a legacy. HBO could look to replicate Narcos in this way and mirror the success of the Netflix offering. It would certainly help to make more people aware of the series and boost its viewership.
Eccleston fans always love to see him taking on new roles, and it’s great to see his Lancashire charm in American titles. Not much is known about his role in Night Country yet, but it‘s bound to be good.
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Alannah Le Cross (née Maher) (she/her) is obsessed with theatre, art, subversive underground performance culture, and statement earrings. A longstanding theatre critic; arts enthusiast; and writer with a penchant for exploring subcultures, human experiences and city culture; she joined Time Out Sydney in 2019. After beginning as an editorial assistant and telling stories as the resident lifestyle journalist, she is now the arts and culture editor. In this role, she delights in connecting people with cool art and interesting experiences, as well as sharing reviews and insights from a crop of incredible theatre critics whose diverse perspectives and incredible way with words leads to enriching reads.
She studied a Bachelor of Communications majoring in Journalism at Western Sydney University, which included an exchange program at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She has written features and reviews for a range of independent and street press publications including The Music, and served as an arts editor for City Hub. Throughout her twenties, Alannah’s arts journalism career was juggled with roles in administration, marketing and publicity in the arts industry, not-for-profit and start-up spaces. Pair that with a past in hospitality, and you could say that she has experience on every side of the coin, and an appreciation for everyone’s hard work.
As of 2023, Alannah is also a judge on the Musical Theatre Panel of the Sydney Theatre Awards. If she’s not out seeing as many shows as humanly possible, you’ll find her down at theImpy; and/or hanging out with drag queens; and/or nesting, adventuring, taking down the patriarchy, spreading the queer agenda and navigating neurodivergence with her spouse. But she’ll never be as busy or overcommitted as she was duringSydney WorldPride.
Growing up regionally in Nelson Bay, Port Stephens (I know, how could she leave the beautiful beaches? And the dolphins!? The salty delicacies of Aussie Bob's Fish & Chips!?) she was always drawn to the excitement and culture of the big city. A die-hard Inner Westie, Alannah is a shameless Sydney advocate who loves this city full of contradictions and diversity. She is passionate about making the arts more accessible and championing stories that foster our understanding of ourselves and others.
Want to pitch something to Alannah? Chuck her an email at alannah.lecross@timeout.com.
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Never has the famous Time Lord in the Universe been so 'sorted'. Gone are the floppy hats, eccentric knitwear and 'plummy' public school tones. Doctor Who is now tough and streetwise with a strong Salford accent.
Not surprising really, when you consider that this Doctor was 'born' in Manchester. For that, you can thank both Christopher Eccleston and writer Russell T Davies. Between them, they have drawn on their common Mancunian upbringing, to invigorate this most treasured of childhood programmes.
Davies is Mancunian and proud. He began his career as a storyliner on Coronation Street, and is now one of TV's finest script writers. All his finest work - Queer As Folk, The Second Coming and Bob & Rose - has been set in Manchester. So when given the entire Space-Time continuum to work with, a 'Manc' Time Lord was always a possibility.
Christopher's leather jacket-wearing Doctor, played in his own Salford accent, is more down-to-earth than some of his more flamboyant predecessors - "stripped down", as Russell describes him.
"The first couple of episodes were written before Christopher was cast," says Russell. "But, by happy accident, my template for the character fitted him perfectly and he's also added as we've gone along."
'Doctor Who's a scally!'
"The accent is an interesting thing," says Salford-born Christopher. "The Doctor is a scientist and an intellectual, and a lot of people seem to think you can only be those things if you speak with received pronunciation which, of course, is rubbish."
"If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north? Lots of planets have norths!"Rose talking to the Doctor
But Doctor Who with a Salford accent? It's definitely got people talking. In one episode of the new series, even the Doctor's own companion Rose (Billie Piper) asks: "If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?" The Doctor replies: "Lots of planets have norths".
Talking on the Mark Radcliffe Show on Radio 2 this week, Bolton comic Peter Kay just couldn't let it go: "Eh! Doctor Who's a scally! I heard that trailer: 'You're alright! Don't worry 'bout it. Nice one. Where are the daaaaleks? Where's the Taaardis?'
"Christopher Eccleston is Doctor Who. I'd loved to be in Doctor Who. Russell T Davies, if you're listening: I'd love to be Davros! I'm practically there with Brian Potter. I've got me own wheelchair. I could be a modern day Davros."
A Salford lad
Christopher was born and raised in Salford. His childhood dream was to play for his beloved Manchester United. But finding himself to be a much better actor than he was a footballer, he took to acting.
His TV and film credits are impressive: Shallow Grave, Our Friends in the North, Jude, The Second Coming, Hillsborough, Cracker, Clocking Off and many more. He's even made a guest appearance in The League of Gentlemen (filmed in Hadfield, on the edge of Manchester) - [Christopher Eccleston photo gallery - 'See Also']
Although he was never a fan of Doctor Who as a child, he leapt at the chance of working with Russell T Davies and making Doctor Who a Salford-Manchester collaboration.
Said Chris: "I read that he was going to do it and e-mailed him and said: When you draw up an audition list, put my name on it. Because I'm a fan of his writing. I've worked with him on Second Coming. I love Bob And Rose, I love Queer As Folk most of all, I think. I just wanted to work with Russell."
Russell still sounds surprised when he recalls how Christopher contacted him.
"I didn't think Christopher would be interested," he admits. "But it's no secret that he has a very serious screen image, and I think playing the Doctor is a way of showing a different side of himself. "There's a lot of fun and humour in his portrayal, but of course when the Doctor is angry or passionate we get that other side of Christopher, which has helped make him one of Britain's finest actors."
Eccleston's inspiration
"It's as close to myself as I've played, I feel. It's like a version of me as a child. It's how I felt about the world as a child and everything in it. And I kind of based a lot of it on Russell. I borrowed a lot of Russell's speed of thought and pace."
Favourite alien
"The dalek," says Eccleston without hesitation. "Because of the psychology that goes on between the daleks and the Doctor. They know more than you all do about the Doctor's history. It's not so much the suckers and the lasers - it's the insight the daleks have about the Doctor and his personal and emotional history."
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Christopher Eccleston. Actor: Thor: The Dark Kingdom. Christopher Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in Gib's Ihm Chris! (1991). However, it was a regular role in the television series Für alle Fälle Fitz (1993) that made him a recognizable figure in the United Kingdom. He appeared in the low-budget thriller Kleine Morde unter Freunden (1994), and in...
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Christopher Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in Gib's Ihm Chris! (1991). However, it was a regular role in the television series Für alle Fälle Fitz (1993) that made him a recognizable figure in the United Kingdom. He appeared in the low-budget thriller Kleine Morde unter Freunden (1994), and in the same year, won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). It was the transmission of the latter series on BBC Two that really made him into a household name in the United Kingdom. In his film career, he has starred as a leading man alongside a number of major actresses, such as Renée Zellweger in Teurer als Rubine (1998), Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998), and Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster in The Invisible Circus (2001), and Nicole Kidman in The Others (2001).
In addition to his successful film career, he has continued to work in television, appearing in some of the most challenging and thought-provoking British dramas. These have included Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Das Fußballdrama von Sheffield (1996), the Iago character in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello", and the religious epic The Second Coming (2003), playing Steve Baxter, the son of God. His stage career, while not as extensive as his screen credits, has nevertheless shown him to be a formidable actor. He has given intense, focused performances in such plays as "Hamlet", "Electricity" and "Miss Julie", for which he received excellent reviews.
A very highly regarded actor, Eccleston has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the BAFTA Television Awards, the British premiere television awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North (1996). Although he didn't win those awards, however, he did triumph in the Best Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends in the North (1996). He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in "Flesh and Blood". In 2005, he received the Most Popular Actor award in the National Television Awards for starring in Russell T. Davies's re-imagining of Doctor Who (2005).
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Christopher Eccleston (; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor. The recipient of an Emmy Award and two BAFTA Award nominations, Eccleston is best known for his work on television and in film - in particular for his collaborations with directors Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom and writers Peter Flannery, Jimmy McGovern and Russell T. Davies.
Eccleston trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made his professional acting debut onstage in a Bristol Old Vic production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Eccleston garnered attention for his film roles as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It and David Stevens in Shallow Grave and for his television performances in Cracker and Hillsborough. His BAFTA-nominated performance as Nicky Hutchinson in the BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996) established Eccleston as a household name in the UK; he followed the serial with film roles in Jude, A Price Above Rubies, Elizabeth, eXistenZ, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Invisible Circus, The Others, 24 Hour Party People and 28 Days Later and television roles including the drama series Clocking Off and a second BAFTA-nominated performance as Messianic figure Stephen Baxter in the ITV drama serial The Second Coming.
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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
William Dudley to Gilbert Ernotte
Christopher Eccleston Biography (1964-)
Born February 16, 1964, in Salford, Lancashire, England. Addresses: Agent: Brian Swardstrom, Endeavor, 9601 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Lorraine Hamilton, Hamilton Hodell Ltd., 24 Hanway St., Ground Floor, London W1T 1UH, England.; Manager: Stacy Boniello, The Firm, 9465 Wilshire Blvd., 6th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Occupation
Actor
Birth Details
February 16, 1964
Salford, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Famous Works
CREDITS
Film Appearances
Derek Bentley, Let Him Have It (also known as L'age de vivre), United Artists, 1991
Alonso Zunz, Death and the Compass (also known as La muerte y la brujula), 1992
Priest, Anchoress, International Film Circuit/Upstate Films, 1993
David Stephens, Shallow Grave, Miramax, 1994
Jude Fawley, Jude, Gramercy, 1996
Duke of Norfolk, Elizabeth (also known as Elizabeth: The VirginQueen), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
Gary Ellis, Heart, Feature Film, 1999
Levi, eXistenZ, Universal, 1999
Vincent Boyd, With or Without You, BIM Distribuzione, 1999
Millennium man, Killing Time: The Millennium Poem (documentary), 1999
Raymond Vincent Calitri, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Buena Vista, 2000
Wolf, The Invisible Circus, Fine Line, 2000
Salesman, The Tyre (short film), FilmFour, 2000
Charles Stewart, The Others (also known as Les autres and Los otros), Dimension Films, 2001
Strayman, Strumpet, Destiny Films, 2001
Cabbie, This Little Piggy (short film), Vinegar Hill Productions,2001
Boethius, 24 Hour Party People, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2002
Leo Zhukovsky, I Am Dina (also known as Dina, Dina--Meine geschichte, Ich bin Dina, Jag aer Dina, and Jeg er Dina), Columbia TriStar, 2002
Vindici, Revengers Tragedy, 2002, Fantoma, 2004
Major Henry West, 28 Days Later... (longer version released as 29 Days Later; also known as 28 jours plus tard), Fox Searchlight,2003
(Uncredited) Lost in La Mancha (documentary), IFC Films, 2003
Television Appearances
Series
Deputy Chief Inspector David Bilborough, Cracker, 1993-94, later broadcast in the United States as a series of movies
Title role, Doctor Who, BBC1 (England), 2005
Miniseries
Dick, Blood Rights, BBC (England), 1990
Sean Maddox, Friday on My Mind, BBC, 1991
Drew Mackenzie, Hearts and Minds, Channel 4 (England), 1995
Nicky Hutchinson, Our Friends in the North, BBC, 1996
Movies
Deputy Chief Inspector David Bilborough, Cracker: One Day a Lemming Will Fly, Arts and Entertainment, 1994
Deputy Chief Inspector David Bilborough, Cracker: The Mad Woman in theAttic, Arts and Entertainment, 1994
Deputy Chief Inspector David Bilborough, Cracker: To Say I Love You, Arts and Entertainment, 1994
Deputy Chief Inspector David Bilborough, Cracker: To Be a Somebody, Arts and Entertainment, 1995
Trevor Hicks, Hillsborough (also known as Inquest), ITV (England), 1996
Sender Horowitz, A Price above Rubies, 1997
Ben Jago, Othello, PBS, 2001
General Ford, Sunday, Channel 4 (England), 2002
Joe Broughton, Flesh and Blood, BBC (England), 2002
Stephen Baxter, The Second Coming, BBC America, 2003
Specials
Man in dream, Rachel's Dream, 1992
Angel Morris, Business with Friends (also known as ContinentalDrift: Business with Friends), 1992
Anthony, The King and Us (also known as Waiting for the Whistle: The King and Us), BBC (England), 2002
Pure Rage: The Making of "28 Days Later," 2002
Narrator, The Importance of Being Morrissey, Channel 4 (England),2003
Doctor Who: A New Dimension, BBC1 (England), 2005
Narrator, E=mc2, Channel 4, 2005
Episodic
Stephen Hills, "A Reasonable Man," Casualty, BBC1 (England), 1990
Terrence Mitchell, "Second Time Around," Inspector Morse, PBS, 1991
Radio, "Jo," Chancer, PBS, 1991
Mark, "Coverup," Boon, ITV (England), 1991
Frank Carter, "One, Two, Buckle Your Shoe," Poirot, PBS, 1992
James "Jim" Calvert, "Yvonne's Story," Clocking Off, BBC (England), 2000
James "Jim" Calvert, "Steve's Story," Clocking Off, BBC, 2000
Tom Sherry and Neil Sherry, "Twins," Linda Green, BBC, 2001
Dougal Siepp, "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk," The League of Gentlemen, Comedy Central, 2002
Himself, "Television Drama: Part 2," The South Bank Show, ITV (England), 2004
Guest, Breakfast, BBC, 2004
"Doctor Who Mastermind," Mastermind, BBC, 2005
Himself, Blue Peter, BBC, 2005
Guest, This Morning, ITV, 2005
Guest, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, BBC, 2005
Himself, The Heaven and Earth Show, BBC, 2005
Guest, Top Gear, BBC, 2005
Doctor Who Confidential, BBC, 2005
Other
Alexander von Humboldt, Wilderness Men, 2000
Stage Appearances
Pablo Gonzales, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bristol Old Vic Theatre,Bristol, England, 1988
Jean, Miss Julie, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2000
Also appeared in Abingdon Square and Bent, both Royal National Theatre, London.
RECORDINGS
Videos
The Making of "Elizabeth," PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1998
Appeared in the music video "Dr. Kloot" by I Am Kloot.
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Childhood
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889. His father was a versatile vocalist and actor; and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive actress and singer, who gained a reputation for her work in the light opera field.
Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten as the early death of his father and the subsequent illness of his mother made it necessary for Charlie and his brother, Sydney, to fend for themselves.
Having inherited natural talents from their parents, the youngsters took to the stage as the best opportunity for a career. Charlie made his professional debut as a member of a juvenile group called “The Eight Lancashire Lads” and rapidly won popular favour as an outstanding tap dancer.
Beginning of his career
When he was about twelve, he got his first chance to act in a legitimate stage show, and appeared as “Billy” the page boy, in support of first H. A. Saintsbury and then William Gillette in different productions of “Sherlock Holmes”. At the close of this engagement, Charlie started a career as a comedian in vaudeville, which eventually took him to the United States in 1910 as a featured player with the Fred Karno Company.
He scored an immediate hit with American audiences, particularly with his characterization in a sketch entitled “A Night in an English Music Hall”. When the Fred Karno troupe returned to the United States in the fall of 1912 for a repeat tour, Chaplin was offered a motion picture contract.
He finally agreed to appear before the cameras at the expiration of his vaudeville commitments in November 1913; and his entrance in the cinema world took place that month when he joined Mack Sennett and the Keystone Film Company. His initial salary was $150 a week, but his overnight success on the screen spurred other producers to start negotiations for his services.
At the completion of his Sennett contract, Chaplin moved on to the Essanay Company (1915) at a large increase. Sydney Chaplin had then arrived from England, and took his brother’s place with Keystone as their leading comedian.
The following year Charlie was even more in demand and signed with the Mutual Film Corporation for a much larger sum to make 12 two-reel comedies. These include “The Floorwalker”, “The Fireman”, “The Vagabond”, “One A.M.” (a production in which he was the only character for the entire two reels with the exception of the entrance of a cab driver in the opening scene), “The Count”, “The Pawnshop”, “Behind the Screen”, “The Rink”, “Easy Street” (heralded as his greatest production up to that time), “The Cure”, “The Immigrant” and “The Adventurer”.
Gaining independence
When his contract with Mutual expired in 1917, Chaplin decided to become an independent producer in a desire for more freedom and greater leisure in making his movies. To that end, he busied himself with the construction of his own studios. This plant was situated in the heart of the residential section of Hollywood at La Brea Avenue.
Early in 1918, Chaplin entered into an agreement with First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, a new organization specially formed to exploit his pictures. His first film under this new deal was “A Dog’s Life”. After this production, he turned his attention to a national tour on behalf of the war effort, following which he made a film the US government used to popularize the Liberty Loan drive: “The Bond”.
His next commercial venture was the production of a comedy dealing with the war. “Shoulder Arms”, released in 1918 at a most opportune time, proved a veritable mirthquake at the box office and added enormously to Chaplin’s popularity.
He followed “Shoulder Arms” with “Sunnyside” and “A Day’s Pleasure”, both released in 1919. In April of that year, Chaplin joined with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith to found the United Artists Corporation. B.B. Hampton, in his “History of the Movies” says:
“The corporation was organized as a distributor, each of the artists retaining entire control of his or her respective producing activities, delivering to United Artists the completed pictures for distribution on the same general plan they would have followed with a distributing organization which they did not own. The stock of United Artists was divided equally among the founders. This arrangement introduced a new method into the industry. Heretofore, producers and distributors had been the employers, paying salaries and sometimes a share of the profits to the stars. Under the United Artists system, the stars became their own employers. They had to do their own financing, but they received the producer profits that had formerly gone to their employers and each received his share of the profits of the distributing organization.”
(Note: The comments on each film outlined below are taken from articles by David Robinson. We strongly recommend you read the full articles by following our links, since they provide many more insights on Chaplin’s life and work.)
The Kid (1921)
However, before he could assume his responsibilities with United Artists, Chaplin had to complete his contract with First National. So early in 1921, he came out with a six-reel masterpiece: The Kid, in which he introduced to the screen one of the greatest child actors the world has ever known - Jackie Coogan.
Later in 1921, he released “The Idle Class”, in which he portrayed a dual character. Then, feeling the need for a complete rest from his motion picture activities, Chaplin sailed for Europe in September 1921. London, Paris, Berlin and other capitals on the continent gave him tumultuous receptions.
After an extended vacation, Chaplin returned to Hollywood to resume his picture work and start his active association with United Artists. Under his arrangement with U.A., Chaplin made eight pictures, each of feature length, in the following order:
The Masterpiece Features
A Woman of Paris (1923)
A Woman of Paris was a courageous step in the career of Charles Chaplin. After seventy films in which he himself had appeared in every scene, he now directed a picture in which he merely walked on for a few seconds as an unbilled and unrecognisable extra – a porter at a railroad station. Until this time, every film had been a comedy. A Woman of Paris was a romantic drama. This was not a sudden impulse. For a long time Chaplin had wanted to try his hand at directing a serious film.
The Gold Rush (1925)
Chaplin generally strove to separate his work from his private life; but in this case the two became inextricably and painfully mixed. Searching for a new leading lady, he rediscovered Lillita MacMurray, whom he had employed, as a pretty 12-year-old, in The Kid. Still not yet sixteen, Lillita was put under contract and re-named Lita Grey.
Chaplin quickly embarked on a clandestine affair with her; and when the film was six months into shooting, Lita discovered she was pregnant. Chaplin found himself forced into a marriage which brought misery to both partners, though it produced two sons, Charles Jr and Sydney Chaplin.
The Circus (1928)
The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award – it was still not yet called the ‘Oscar’ – he was given it at the first presentations ceremony, in 1929. But as late as 1964, it seemed, this was a film he preferred to forget. The reason was not the film itself, but the deeply fraught circumstances surrounding its making.
Chaplin was in the throes of the break-up of his marriage with Lita Grey; and production of The Circus coincided with one of the most unseemly and sensational divorces of twenties Hollywood, as Lita’s lawyers sought every means to ruin Chaplin’s career by smearing his reputation. As if his domestic troubles were not enough, the film seemed fated to catastrophe of every kind.
In the late 1960s, after the years spent trying to forget it, Chaplin returned to The Circus to re-release it with a new musical score of his own composition. It seemed to symbolize his reconciliation to the film which cost him so much stress.
City Lights (1931)
City Lights proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin’s career. By the time it was completed he had spent two years and eight months on the work, with almost 190 days of actual shooting. The marvel is that the finished film betrays nothing of this effort and anxiety.
Even before he began City Lights, the sound film was firmly established. This new revolution was a bigger challenge to Chaplin than to other silent stars. His Tramp character was universal. His mime was understood in every part of the world. But if the Tramp now began to speak in English, that world-wide audience would instantly shrink.
Chaplin boldly solved the problem by ignoring speech, and making City Lights in the way he had always worked before, as a silent film. However he astounded the press and the public by composing the entire score for City Lights.
The premieres were among the most brilliant the cinema had ever seen. In Los Angeles, Chaplin’s guest was Albert Einstein; while in London Bernard Shaw sat beside him. City Lights was a critical triumph. All Chaplin’s struggles and anxieties, it seemed, were compensated by the film which still appears as the zenith of his achievement and reputation.
Modern Times (1936)
Chaplin was acutely preoccupied with the social and economic problems of this new age. In 1931 and 1932 he had left Hollywood behind, to embark on an 18-month world tour. In Europe, he had been disturbed to see the rise of nationalism and the social effects of the Depression, of unemployment and of automation.
He read books on economic theory; and devised his own Economic Solution, an intelligent exercise in utopian idealism, based on a more equitable distribution not just of wealth but of work. In 1931 he told a newspaper interviewer, “Unemployment is the vital question . . . Machinery should benefit mankind. It should not spell tragedy and throw it out of work”.
In Modern Times Chaplin set out to transform his observations and anxieties into comedy. The little Tramp - described in the film credits as “a Factory Worker”- is now one of the millions coping with the problems of the 1930s, which are not so very different from anxieties of the 21st century - poverty, unemployment, strikes and strike breakers, political intolerance, economic inequalities, the tyranny of the machine, narcotics.
The Great Dictator (1940)
When writing The Great Dictator in 1939, Chaplin was as famous worldwide as Hitler, and his Tramp character wore the same moustache. He decided to pit his celebrity and humour against the dictator’s own celebrity and evil. He benefited – if that is the right word for it, given the times – from his “reputation” as a Jew, which he was not – (he said “I do not have that pleasure”).
In the film Chaplin plays a dual role –a Jewish barber who lost his memory in a plane accident in the first war, and spent years in hospital before being discharged into an antisemite country that he does not understand, and Hynkel, the dictator leader of Tomania, whose armies are the forces of the Double Cross, and who will do anything along those lines to increase his possibilities for becoming emperor of the world. Chaplin’s aim is obvious, and the film ends with a now famous and humanitarian speech made by the barber, speaking Chaplin’s own words.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The idea was originally suggested by Orson Welles, as a project for a dramatised documentary on the career of the legendary French murder Henri Désiré Landru – who was executed in 1922, having murdered at least ten women, two dogs and one boy.
Chaplin was so intrigued by the idea that he paid Welles $5000 for it. The agreement was signed in 1941, but Chaplin took four more years to complete the script. In the meantime the irritating distractions of a much-publicised and ugly paternity suit had been compensated by his brilliantly successful marriage to Oona O’Neill.
In the late 1940s, America¹s Cold War paranoia reached its peak, and Chaplin, as a foreigner with liberal and humanist sympathies, was a prime target for political witch-hunters. This was the start of Chaplin’s last and unhappiest period in the United States, which he was definitively to leave in 1952.
Limelight (1952)
Not surprisingly, then, in choosing his next subject he deliberately sought escape from disagreeable contemporary reality. He found it in bitter-sweet nostalgia for the world of his youth – the world of the London music halls at the opening of the 20th century, where he had first discovered his genius as an entertainer.
With this strong underlay of nostalgia, Chaplin was at pains to evoke as accurately as possible the London he remembered from half a century before and it is clear from the preparatory notes for the film that the character of Calvero had a very similar childhood to Chaplin’s own. Limelight’s story of a once famous music hall artist whom nobody finds amusing any longer may well have been similarly autobiographical as a sort of nightmare scenario.
Chaplin’s son Sydney plays the young, talented pianist who vies with Calvero for the young ballerina’s heart, and several other Chaplin family members participated in the film. It was when on the boat travelling with his family to the London premiere of Limelight that Chaplin learned that his re-entry pass to the United States had been rescinded based on allegations regarding his morals and politics.
Chaplin therefore remained in Europe, and settled with his family at the Manoir de Ban in Corsier sur Vevey, Switzerland, with view of lake and mountains. What a difference from California. He and Oona went on to have four more children, making a total of eight.
A King in New York (1957)
With A King in New York Charles Chaplin was the first film-maker to dare to expose, through satire and ridicule, the paranoia and political intolerance which overtook the United States in the Cold War years of the 1940s and 50s. Chaplin himself had bitter personal experience of the American malaise of that time.
To take up film making again, as an exile, was a challenging undertaking. He was now nearing 70. For almost forty years he had enjoyed the luxury of his own studio and a staff of regular employees, who understood his way of work. Now though he had to work with strangers, in costly and unfriendly rented studios. The film shows the strain.
A Countess from Hong Kong
In 1966 he produced his last picture, “A Countess from Hong Kong” for Universal Pictures, his only film in colour, starring Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando. The film started as a project called Stowaway in the 1930s, planned for Paulette Goddard. Chaplin appears briefly as a ship steward, Chaplin’s son Sydney once again has an important role, and three of Chaplin’s daughters have small parts in the film. The film was unsuccessful at the box office, but Petula Clark had one or two hit records with songs from the soundtrack music and the music continues to be very popular.
Last Years
Chaplin’s versatility extended to writing, music and sports. He was the author of at least four books, “My Trip Abroad”, “A Comedian Sees the World”, “My Autobiography”, “My Life in Pictures” as well as all of his scripts. An accomplished musician, though self-taught, he played a variety of instruments with equal skill and facility (playing violin and cello left-handed).
He was also a composer, having written and published many songs, among them: “Sing a Song”; “With You Dear in Bombay”; and “There’s Always One You Can’t Forget”, “Smile”, “Eternally”, “You are My Song”, as well as the soundtracks for all his films. Charles Chaplin was one of the rare comedians who not only financed and produced all his films (with the exception of “A Countess from Hong Kong”), but was the author, actor, director and soundtrack composer of them as well.
He died on Christmas day 1977, survived by eight children from his last marriage with Oona O’Neill, and one son from his short marriage to Lita Grey.
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Made his professional acting debut at age 25 in a 1988 production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic
First film role was in the 1991 fact-based drama Let Him Have It, in which he portrayed a mentally handicapped teen charged with murder
In 1997, was nominated for a Best Actor BAFTA for the miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996); won a Best Actor Award from the Broadcasting Press Guild for his performance
Has worked frequently with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle: first on the 1994 drama Shallow Grave, then on the 2001 British TV drama Strumpet and later on the 2002 horror movie 28 Days Later
Was nominated for a 2003 Best Actor BAFTA for the made-for-TV religious drama The Second Coming
After reviving the long-dormant British sci-fi series Doctor Who in 2005—and winning Most Popular Actor at the 2005 National Television Awards—controversially left the series after just one season
Portrayed Claude on the series Heroes, using the superpower of invisibility to help Peter Petrelli
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Ruth studied Environmental Sciences at Lancaster University in the late 1980’s. This was a time when few UK Universities were taking the subject seriously:
“Lancaster saw Environmental Science as a discipline in itself rather than an add-on or marginal science. The environmental movement was taking off and Lancaster understood the need to put scientific rigour behind that movement.”
Ruth stayed on at Lancaster to complete a PhD where she examined trends in pollution in the North Sea. She then started her career developing environmental policy, before moving on to Head of International at the Natural Environment Research Council in 2002.
In 2010 Ruth became Head of Earth Observation at the UK Space Agency working with industry, governments and academics around the world to fund and develop innovative satellite programmes.
In the same year Ruth also became a member of Lancaster University’s governing body, in order to give something back to the institution that set her off on her fascinating career.
“Lancaster University shares my values. It is changing lives, not only through providing a world class education to individuals from all over the world, but also by leading research and producing new knowledge that changes the way we live and work for the better.”
Kath came to Lancaster to study History in the 1980’s, and said it was the college structure and campus that attracted her to our University. Kath was active in the Students' Union and Labour Club, although admits that she didn’t work as hard as she might have done.
A module in industrial relations sparked her interest and persuaded her to look for a job in human resources; following job hunting on Milk Round she landed herself a two-year graduate development programme at the London Stock Exchange.
Following this, Kath became HR Director at GlaxoSmithKline before working for FTSE 100 group GUS plc. She then worked for more than six years at AstraZeneca, as Vice President of HR for Research and Development, before being appointed as HR Director for Rolls Royce.
According to Kath, working hard to be professionally successful was something she learned at Lancaster:
“Lancaster University was where I grew up emotionally; I realised you have to work in order to achieve.”
Kath has maintained good links with Lancaster and from 2013-2017 she was an Advisory Board Member at Lancaster University Management School.
As an 18-year-old, Nicky undertook a secretarial course before securing herself a job as a PA to a senior manager at KPMG.
Whilst working at KPMG, Nicky uncovered a deep love of music and an interest in marketing. She realised that she wanted to work in arts management and so approached a KPMG partner to ask whether the company would sponsor her through university. KPMG agreed and Nicky decided to study Marketing and Independent Studies at Lancaster University.
Proving vital to her career, Nicky joined Nightline in her first week of university; after her second term she was asked to run it.
“Nightline was incredibly important to my career," she says. "There was a lot of responsibility and I learned a great deal about training and marketing. It was also very good socially… most of the friends I have kept from university days were also in Nightline.”
Following this, Nicky became a volunteer Childline Counsellor for five years before becoming a Samaritan in January 2002. She was on the YouthXpress leadership team at Southwark Cathedral between 2007-2017, is the Vice-Chair of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and is an advisor to the Pro-Youth Philharmonia.
Prior to establishing Create, Nicky was the Chief Executive of the Orchestra of St John’s, where she extended the organisation's range of community outreach. She was also a Marketing Executive at KPMG and worked at Manchester Camerata and the City of London Sinfonia.
In 2013 Nicky was recognised as ‘Clarins Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year’; she received the Charity Times ‘Rising CEO Star’ Highly Commended award in 2014. In 2015 she was one of 30 #SocialCEO award winners and in 2017 she was runner-up for the Directory of Social Change ‘Influencer’ award.
Rainer read Economics at Lancaster and joined various societies, including the Labour Party and the Revue Group (a student comedy society active between 1976 and 1992.) Joining the Revue Group gave Rainer the opportunity to write and perform sketches. By his second year he was a co-director of the Review Group’s annual show.
Rainer said: “Lancaster gave me the freedom to explore and discover what I was. It also gave me the chance to write and perform as a comic actor and that has led me to what I am doing now."
Following his time at Lancaster, Rainer went back to London where he started his career in arts management at the English Bach Festival. He also worked in the touring departments of Harrison Parrott and as Touring Manager of the London Festival Orchestra.
In the late 1980’s Rainer started performing a comedy double-act with friend and fellow student Peter Wylie. By 1992 he gave up his job with the London Festival Orchestra to become a professional comedian, creating a niche style by combining his love of classical music with comedy.
Rainer now lives in London and continues to tour his solo shows, writes and delivers comedy programmes for the BBC and conducts comedy routines for orchestras.
Sam wasn’t planning on going to Lancaster, but after accompanying his sister to an open day he decided that this was where he wanted to study.
Sam said: “I went to Lancaster a bit shy, but it was the right environment for me to grow. What really struck me was the nature of the relationships that existed between students and teachers, which made it OK to discuss, challenge and debate with a person who was in authority. In a big company like the BBC, that is vital.”
University exposed Sam to social language; he developed an interest in sociolinguistics, global media, language and marketing. By graduation Sam was wondering how he could utilise this interest and decided television was the route he wanted to take.
Back in Birmingham, Sam told a recruitment agency that he wanted to work in television and (with beginners luck) was offered a job at BBC Pebble Mill – helping people operate their computers. Soon after this, a job as a press assistant became available; Sam applied and was successful.
After some travelling and a short-lived job in PR, Sam landed his first publicist job for BBC Entertainment. This led to a series of promotions within the BBC, as well as roles at ITV and Channel 4. In July 2011, Sam became Head of Communications for BBC Television, where he managed a large team of publicists and managers, as well as overseeing the press and publicity for all BBC programming.
He went on to become Head of PR and Communications at Twitter, Director of Content Communications at Netflix and a partner at Freuds. He then spent a year at a tech start up company before becoming a self-employed senior communications consultant in September 2022.
Born in Leeds, Ralph came straight from school in Yorkshire to study Theatre Studies at Lancaster University.
He took part in a various activities at Lancaster; in his first year he volunteered to take part in a production of Another Country, a play about spy Guy Burgess, and his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism – Ralph played one of four homoerotic statues, naked bar a loin-cloth.
The same year Ralph went to the Edinburgh Festival to perform in a play by one of his Lancaster lecturers, an experience he described as, “one of the best things I have ever done.”
Ralph was inspired by his teachers at Lancaster, but also praised the facilities and the exposure he got to all aspects of theatre – writing, directing and putting on plays. Ralph said [of Lancaster]:
“I feel I got a more rounded experience of the theatre – I had more understanding of how drama works than I would have done in drama school.”
Despite his love of theatre (he and some friends also set up a theatre company in their third year), Ralph was discouraged from becoming an actor full-time. After university he took up a job as a teacher in a sixth-form college in York.
However, Ralph continued acting in his evenings and two years later (after an inspiring conversation with professional actor Robson Green) he handed in his notice. Four months later Ralph found himself working in the film First Knight, alongside Richard Gere.
Since then he has appeared in a number of renowned films and television programmes. He is married with two children, and lives in London.
Born in Bradford, Edd applied to Lancaster University to study History (though later changed to American Studies and Politics). Despite not getting the grades, Edd was accepted and came to campus as a shy and uncertain teenager.
In the safety of Lancaster’s small campus, Edd gained confidence in himself and made many lasting friends, as well as coming out as gay to himself and his family.
“In the middle of a bigger city, a person like me would have got emotionally lost. A smaller, friendly city like Lancaster was a really good fit.”
Edd got involved in university politics, the LGBT society and in his first year was a roving reporter for the university radio station.
After university, Edd had no idea what he wanted to do, and eventually took a job in the litigation department of a bank. This job made him so unhappy, that he used cooking as a relaxation tool and outlet. He began to experiment with various cake and biscuit recipes.
Following this Edd applied to catering school, but was rejected. Despite this, he bought culinary course books and spent the evenings teaching himself instead. In 2010 a friend persuaded him to apply for The Great British Bake Off – this was the event that changed his life.
As the winner of The Great British Bake Off, Edd was invited to do work experience in Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. Since then he has set up his own company, The Boy Who Bakes, has appeared on various TV shows and runs regular courses for aspiring bakers.
Edd now lives with his partner in London and has said:
“I’m in a job I really love…my time at university taught me where I really did fit.”
When applying for university Lancaster was top of Jane’s list, as one of the few universities that offered a degree in advertising. On her first visit to Lancaster she was convinced; she loved the city and found the campus instantly welcoming.
Academically Jane found her course stimulating and worked hard, but also enjoyed the social side of Lancaster - playing for the Pendle netball team, as well as spending time at the Sugar House!
Jane landed her first job at BDDH advertising agency in London soon after graduation, but quickly moved into more senior roles at other companies. She always had a love for the BBC and in 2008 she secured a role as a content strategist with BBC drama and entertainment.
Jane is still working for the BBC as Director of the BBC Brand. She said:
'Lancaster gave me the toolkit to get my first job and the confidence to do it. I feel incredibly lucky to have done the course - it really set me up for my career.'
Born in Bristol, James came to Lancaster University to study Music in the 80’s, armed merely with a ‘box of Spam and [a] biro’!
On his return to campus to receive his honorary degree, he said:
“It’s a great place, the Lancaster Campus; a true mirror of the times that have produced each part of it. As someone said in a famous film, ‘I’ll be back’.”
After graduating from Lancaster, James started writing for an engineering magazine and, later, an automobile magazine. He also wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph between 2003 and 2011.
James has appeared on a number of television and radio shows, including for the BBC and ITV. In 1999 he became a co-presenter of (the original) Top Gear until 2015, after which he became co-presenter of The Grand Tour for Amazon Prime Video alongside his former Top Gear colleagues.
James lives in West London.
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alan found his way to Lancaster University from one of the most deprived comprehensive schools in the area – the first member of his family to go to university.
He said:
“Lancaster University was my foundation for the whole of my working life and career. The skills I learned there - of being rigorous, analytical and understanding how to make a judgement call - were important in my political life, and still are in the work I do today in child poverty and social mobility."
Following his time at Lancaster University, Alan returned to Newcastle where he operated a radical bookshop (called Days of Hope), became active in the Trade Union movement and took a leading role in a campaign to save Sunderland’s shipbuilding industry.
In 1992 Alan won the Darlington seat in the general election, next to Tony Blair’s constituency in of Sedgefield, and was identified as one of the pioneers for the modernisation of the Labour Party. He went on to serve within the UK government, before resigning unexpectedly in 2010 to ‘spend more time with [his] family’.
In 2009, Alan Milburn chaired a governmental commission, the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. Its report recommended improvements in social mobility by acting at every life stage - school, university, internship and recruitment. He continued this work as the Chair of the Commission on Social Mobility and Child Poverty, before his resignation in 2017.
Education has been at the heart of Alan’s career: “I just want to do what little I can to make sure that university education is open to all young people to develop their talents, whatever their social or economic background."
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The new Doctor Who is Broadchurch actor Jodie Whittaker, who has shaken everything up by being named the first Yorkshire incarnation of the Time Lord.
While Lancashire has been the birthplace of three doctors (Tom Baker, Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston), no one from God’s own county has taken on the iconic title. Enter Whittaker.
“It’s more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can’t wait,” said the actor following the announcement.
‘Doctor Who represents everything that’s exciting about change’
She also insisted fans should not fear change, presumably out of worry that this may start a second War of the Roses.
“Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that’s exciting about change,” she said, adding: “The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one.”
Doctor Who writer Jenny Colgan added “I can’t imagine what it’s like for Jodie: she must be so scared and excited all at once, but I couldn’t be happier, and 100% can’t wait to write for her.”
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Whittaker came to prominence in the 2006 drama Venus alongside the late Peter O’Toole.
Since then she has played a variety of roles with a strong focus on complex women living on the South Coast including roles in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Broadchurch.
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The Bay (Tall Story Pictures) an ITV crime drama set in Morecambe that first aired in March 2019 and is now on Series 4. Missing persons, murders and the lives and relationships of the local police team contribute to a hugely popular TV show, that showcases the natural beauty of Morecambe Bay. Actor Morven Christie starred in the first two series, with Marsha Thomason replacing her in the family liaison officer role from series 3 (series 3 trailer). Daniel Ryan, Erin Shanagher, Thomas Law and Andrew Dowbiggin make up a formidable core cast. Written by Lancashire-based writer Daragh Carville.
To find out more about the locations in and around Morecambe → The Bay Locations
Brassic (Sky One) Comedy drama series that premiered August 2019 and is now one of Sky’s most popular TV comedy shows. It follows the lives of petty criminal Vinnie (Joe Gilgun) and single mum Erin (Michelle Keagan) and the trials, tribulations and trouble Vinnie and his pals encounter in the fictional town of Hawley. Co-creator Gilgun’s Hawley was inspired by his childhood hometown Chorley, with many scenes now shot in and around Bacup. Series 4 Official trailer here. Watch out for series 5 in 2023, along with a Christmas special.
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Christopher Eccleston | Introduction
Christopher Eccleston is a highly esteemed British actor who has made a significant impact on both the big and small screens. Born on February 16, 1964, in Lancashire, England, Eccleston has captivated audiences worldwide with his incredible range and versatility as an actor. Eccleston's journey in the world of acting began at a young age. While attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he honed his craft and developed a deep passion for performing. His dedication and talent quickly caught the attention of industry professionals, leading him to make his professional debut in the groundbreaking television series "Boys from the Blackstuff" in 1982. Throughout his extensive career, Eccleston has portrayed a wide array of complex and unforgettable characters across various genres. From his intense performance as Derek Bentley in the critically acclaimed film "Let Him Have It" to his portrayal of the enigmatic Doctor Who in the wildly popular science fiction series, Eccleston has consistently proven himself as a truly versatile actor. Perhaps one of Eccleston's most unforgettable roles was in the hit drama series "Our Friends in the North." His portrayal of the brooding and troubled Nicky Hutchinson garnered critical acclaim, showcasing his ability to delve into the depths of complex characters and bring them to life with authenticity and depth. This role solidified Eccleston's reputation as one of Britain's finest actors and earned him numerous awards and nominations. In addition to his success in television, Eccleston has also made a mark in the world of film. His standout performances in movies such as "Shallow Grave," "Elizabeth," and "28 Days Later" have established him as a formidable presence on the silver screen. Eccleston's ability to disappear into his characters and deliver captivating performances has made him a sought-after actor by renowned directors in the industry. Beyond his acting prowess, Eccleston is also known for his commitment to his craft and his strong beliefs. He has been vocal about his experiences with mental health and has openly discussed his struggles with an eating disorder and depression, shattering the stigma surrounding these issues. His willingness to share his own story has inspired many and has reinforced his reputation as a compassionate and empathetic individual. With his undeniable talent, immense range, and dedication to his craft, Christopher Eccleston has truly solidified his status as one of the most respected actors of his generation. His contributions to the world of acting have left an indelible mark, and his performances continue to inspire and entertain audiences worldwide. As he continues to take on new and exciting roles, there is no doubt that Christopher Eccleston will remain a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment.
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1. Christopher Eccleston is best known for his role as the Ninth Doctor in the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who, but he actually initially turned down the opportunity to audition for the part. He eventually changed his mind after he was impressed by the show's first script.
2. Despite achieving great success in the entertainment industry, Christopher Eccleston has openly spoken about his struggles with mental health issues, including depression and anorexia. He has been an advocate for mental health awareness and has courageously shared his personal experiences to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.
3. Eccleston's first major breakthrough came in 1994 when he played the role of Derek Bentley in the film "Let Him Have It." This powerful performance earned him critical acclaim and established him as a talented actor.
4. Christopher Eccleston is an accomplished stage actor and has appeared in numerous theater productions throughout his career. In 2011, he played the role of John Lennon in the biographical play "Lennon" at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.
5. Eccleston has a deep passion for football (soccer) and is a fervent supporter of Manchester United. Despite his busy schedule, he tries to attend as many matches as possible and has also appeared in documentaries discussing his love for the sport.
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Not only is Lancashire the best place to live in the UK, but it is also known as home to an impressive number of celebrities.
Not counting the exceptional list of reality stars and internet creators to be bred out of the red rose county, there are 10 big name celebrities who call Lancashire home.
And what? You might think, what’s that got to do with anything?
READ MORE:Tyson Fury's dad walks out of Tommy Fury camp over wedding row
Lancashire’s celebrity stamps prove its a hotspot for building talent, adding to the endless list of reasons we already had proving it the best place to live in the UK.
Welcome to our very comprehensive guide to the celebrities that call Lancashire home.
Tyson Fury
So he might be fond of a quick trip to the casino, but Tyson Fury, our Gypsy King, is the first to let the world know he calls Lancashire home.
He loves a walk down Morecambe Bay and has lived in Morecambe since 2011. His face is even seen on electrical boxes on the main roads.
If you didn’t know he lived in the area, I’d be surprised. He even loves a trip to Lancaster’s Crafty Scholar.
Jordan North
Happy place, happy place, Turf Moor.
Jordan North did not only provide every single ounce of entertainment on last year’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - he headed into the castle to let everyone know that Burnley, Lancashire is the place to be.
Specifically, Burnley Football Club’s home pitch, Turf Moor.
Since then, Jordan North has returned to Blackpool to share his love of the Fylde Coast with his thousands of Instagram followers, showing his fellow southern radio presenters exactly what they’ve missed out on down the other end of the country: £1 burgers and world-changing piers.
Sir Ian McKellen
Third on our native list is Sir Ian McKellen. Born in 1939 in Burnley, Ian McKellen is best known for his role as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Like Gandalf once said, “it is the everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.”
That’s why Sir Ian McKellen has a blue heritage site plaque outside the place he was born, to keep the darkness at bay.
Everyone loves Ian McKellen, he’s been in everything from X-Men, Beauty and the Beast to the memorable 2019 re-make of Cats. He’s one of Lancashire’s finest.
Jenna Coleman
Jenna Coleman is best known for her role as Queen Victoria in the ITV series, Victoria. But when it comes to her regal roots, the crown falls on Blackpool.
Jenna Coleman was born in Blackpool in 1986 where she attended Blackpool’s Arnold School and played an active role in the regional theatre company In Yer Space.
Jenna’s professional career began on Emmerdale where she played Jasmine Thomas in 2005. She later joined Waterloo Road in 2009 before her big break in 2012 in Doctor Who, where she played the companion of the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith.
Nick Park
Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run. Preston’s Nick Park is the genius behind all the greatest animations you’ve seen on screen.
The Prestonian had a keen interest in drawing cartoons from a young age and went on to study at Preston’s College.
Preston College even named their library the Nick Park Library Learning Centre.
Nick won an Oscar in 1990, and bagged his second one for his film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which was released in 2005.
He’s got four Academy Awards, six BAFTAs and a gold Blue Peter Badge.
Ranvir Singh
The Good Morning Britain host and former Strictly Come Dancing star, Ranvir Singh, is known for her down to earth moments on TV.
Ranvir was born in Preston and went on to study at Lancaster University.
Ranvir’s time on Strictly has even whirred up a dedicated following for the Preston-born presenter with fans constantly praising the presenter for her humble anecdotes and charming humour.
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff
Andrew Flintoff, also known as Freddie Flintoff, is a TV and Radio presenter from Preston, probably more well known for his position as an international cricketer.
Freddie first represented Lancashire at an under 11s level before making his way to play for Lancashire Cricket Club.
He’s known as a sporting hero but is also proud of his red rose heritage, becoming a Lancashire Ambassador in 2019.
Zoe Ball
Radio and TV Presenter Zoe Ball hosted Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two and also greets listeners on her morning breakfast show on Radio 2.
Zoe was born in Blackpool in 1970, before moving to Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire.
Her move out of the county doesn’t prove Lancashire isn’t the best county though - in fact, Zoe Ball sat down with the Lancashire Hotpots in 2019. Lancashire life will never escape you, even if you leave.
Steve Pemberton
Actor Steve Pemberton is best known for his work in the League of Gentlemen. But he’s also a Chorley original.
He attended Saint Michaels Church of England High School, before going on to win a BAFTA for Inside No.9 in 2019. He's funny, he's charming, he's well acclaimed - sounds like Lancashire to me.
Jon Richardson
When Jon Richardson isn't telling grumpy-toned jokes on TV, he can be found on the zipwire on Williamson Park.
Jon is known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and also does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. He is the presenter of Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier and also featured with his wife in Meet the Richardsons.
He is Lancaster born and raised, having attended Ryelands Primary School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School.
This impressive list of Lancashire’s most famous shows one thing: the red rose county bleeds national, and even global, talent.
Vote Lancashire in the 2Chill campaign to see the county crowned as Best Place To Live in the UK.
Download the LancsLive app for free oniPhone here andAndroid here.
To keep updated, followLancsLive on Facebook and@LiveLancs on Twitter.
Have you got news for us? Contact our newsdesk on lancslive@reachplc.com.
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Ian McKellen (born May 25, 1939, Burnley, Lancashire, England) is a British actor of great versatility, noted for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for his eclectic filmography.
McKellen attended St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where as a student actor he was often directed by John Barton, later of the Royal Shakespeare Company. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1961, McKellen made his professional debut in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons. Acting steadily throughout the 1960s, McKellen won both popular and critical acclaim in his performances as both William Shakespeare’s Richard II and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II for the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. In 1971 he cofounded the Actors’ Company, a collective of actors who had equal say in the choosing and casting of plays and in the recruiting of directors. He left the group in 1974 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company at the invitation of Barton.
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A versatile actor, McKellen played a range of characters from Shakespearean to contemporary, and many roles (in plays by such authors as Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, and others) in between. Though his interpretations were frequently controversial, his immense talent for acting was unquestionable. He received Laurence Olivier Awards for his work in the London stagings of such plays as Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1991). In 1981 McKellen won a Tony Award for his performance as Antonio Salieri in a Broadway production of Amadeus. He also directed several plays and wrote and performed a one-man show called Acting Shakespeare.
In addition to his stage work, McKellen appeared in a number of motion pictures, notably a film version of David Hare’s Plenty (1985) and Richard III (1995), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play that is set in a fictionalized version of England in the 1930s; McKellen also cowrote the screenplay. In 1998 he portrayed director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, for best actor. He later played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003), a film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy (1954–55). He earned another Oscar nomination (for supporting actor) for his work in the 2001 film. McKellen later reprised the role of Gandalf in a series of films (2012, 2013, 2014) based on Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937).
McKellen’s other movie credits included the X-Men series (2000, 2003, 2006, 2014), in which he was cast as supervillain Magneto, and The Da Vinci Code (2006). McKellen’s subtlety and exactitude as an actor were showcased in the character study Mr. Holmes (2015), about the attempts of a nonagenarian Sherlock Holmes to resolve a case that has bedeviled him for 30 years. In 2017 he appeared in the musical Beauty and the Beast. McKellen also starred in the television comedy Vicious (2013–16), in which he and Derek Jacobi played a sniping but ultimately loving gay couple. In 2019 McKellen starred with Helen Mirren in the thriller The Good Liar, and he also appeared in Cats, an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful stage musical.
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Christopher Eccleston became visibly emotional while recalling his experience of being bullied at school and how it led to him becoming a bully himself.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the Doctor Who actor appeared upset as he recounted traumatic experiences in the playground and apologised to a boy he said he bullied as a child.
“The pop psychology of it is: ‘I bullied because I was bullied.’ I don’t know that I accept that, I know that I feel a great deal of shame,” he explained. “It was a very sensitive boy in my class. At break time, I used to make him give me his crisps.”
“I would like to apologise to him. I know his name but I don’t know where he is. He was probably like myself when I went into infants, vulnerable and sensitive … I can remember feeling dislike for myself while I did it, so it’s a very complex thing.”
Eccleston, 52, said he could not be open with his family about being bullied because he grew up in a "macho" culture.
The actor, who is backing the Stand Up to Bullying campaign which commences next week, said the effects of bullying were cyclical and the repercussions could have a domino effect on others.
“I was bullied at school from the age of five by a girl who was seven and it happened every playtime. Playtime became terror time for me,” he said.
“She would trap me against the wall, she would make me do sums, maths as we now call it, and it really collared my life, I didn’t want to go to school, I certainly didn’t want to go out at playtime.”
“One of the big factors I think for all people who are bullied is shame,” he added. “I could never tell my parents that I was being bullied because I grew up in quite a macho culture and you’re supposed to stand up for yourself.”
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The source of this speculation is The Mirror, a tabloid that has nonetheless got many things right about Doctor Who in the past decade or so, including departures of Doctors, companions, and showrunners.
The newspaper suggests that Millie will only be in three of the eight episode run comprising Doctor Who Series 15, set to air in 2025. We still have at least nine more confirmed episodes with Ruby Sunday left to screen, i.e. eight for Series 14, coming this year, and a Christmas special; we do know Gibson has filmed some of Series 15, so she will be in the 2025 season, potentially making her the first companion to leave mid-series since Amy and Rory (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, respectively) in Series 7.
The Mirror reports that Varada Sethu will play the new companion.
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“Varada is a real gem, Russell [T Davies, showrunner] was just blown away by her talent. The cast and crew have really warmed to her and he’s sure the fans will too.”
The 32-year-old Sethu has starred in numerous high-profile roles, in TV series like the Star Wars spin-off, Andor, and Hard Sun (penned by Hide‘s Neil Cross), as well as films like Jurassic World Dominion and Now You See Me 2.
We know that Gibson is looking to audition for more roles, potentially in Hollywood, but that doesn’t count her out of the Whoniverse anyway, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Salford has probably had more than its fair share of celebrities over the years.
All kinds of well known people are associated with the city. Here's a selection of our famous sons and daughters:
Adam Thomas
Actor. Born on 11 August 1988.
Adrian Morley
Rugby League player. Born on 10 May 1977.
Alan Halsall
Actor, Coronation Street. Born on 11 August 1982.
Albert Finney
Actor, born in Salford and grew up on Gore Crescent, Weaste. Born on 9 May 1936.
Albert Leslie Yoxall
Codebreaker, he worked alongside Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during Word War II. Born on 18 May 1914.
Albert Scanlon
Manchester United footballer and survivor of the Munich air disaster. Born on 10 October 1935.
Alfred Darbyshire
Architect. Born on 20 June 1839.
Alistair Cooke
Radio journalist - 'Letter from America, Radio 4', born in Isaac Street, Salford on 20 November 1908.
Allan Clarke
Musician, member of the Hollies. Born on 5 April 1942.
Alliott Verdon Roe
Pilot and aircraft manufacturer. Born on 26 April 1877.
Andrew Knott
Actor. Born on 22 November 1979.
Andrew Whyment
Actor. Born on 2 April 1981.
Andy Crane
Television and radio presenter. Born on 24 February 1964.
Al Read
Popular radio comedian active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Born on 3 March 1909.
Arthur Thomas Doodson
Oceanographer. Born on 31 March 1890.
Arthur Wooliscroft
Footballer. Born on 17 February 1904.
Ayub Khan Din
Actor. Born on 11 July 1961.
Benedict Wong
Actor. Born on 3 July 1971.
Sir Ben Kingsley
Oscar-winning actor, grew up in Pendlebury. Born on 31 December 1943.
Bernard Sumner
Musician, member of Joy Division and New Order. Born on 4 January 1956.
Billy Garton
Footballer. Born on 15 March 1965.
Billy, Albert and Jack Marchant
Boxers.
Bob Valentine
Swinton rugby league and Manchester United goalkeeper. Born on 21 December 1877.
Brenda De Banzie
Actress. Born on 28 July 1909.
Catherine Tyldesley
Actress - Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Holby City, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Sorted, Shameless and Trollied. Born on 17 September 1983.
Charlie Pawsey
Rugby league footballer in the 1950s. Born on 15 April 1923.
Chelsee Healey
Actress. Born on 6 August 1988.
Chris McGreal
Rugby League player in the 1970s.
Christopher Eccleston
Actor - 'Cracker', 'Shallow Grave', the former 'Doctor Who'. Born on 16 February 1964.
Clinton Ford
Singer. Born on 4 November 1931.
Cornelius Nicholls
Cricketer and umpire. Born on 17 March 1838.
Damian Keeley
Footballer. Born on 14 February 1963.
Danielle Nicholls
Television and radio presenter. Born on 16 December 1978.
David Bamber
Actor. Born on 19 September 1954.
David Watson
Professor of Zoology and Anatomy. Born on 18 June 1886.
Dean Holden
Footballer and manager. Born on 15 September 1979.
Debbie Horsfield
Writer, producer.
Denis Betts
Rugby player and coach. Born on 14 September 1969.
Denis Gregson
Rugby player. Born 4 December 1936.
Di Stewart
Television presenter. Born on 18 January 1979.
Don Whillans
Rock climber and mountaineer. Born on 18 May 1933.
Doris Butterworth
Dancer and tiller girl.
Eddie Colman
Manchester United footballer who died in the Munich air disaster. Born on 1 November 1936.
Edgar Lustgarten
Crime writer and television presenter. Born on 3 May 1907.
Edward Schunck
Chemist, who did much work with dry eyes. Born on 16 August 1820.
Edward Watkin
British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. Born on 26 September 1819.
Emmeline Pankhurst
'Mrs Pankhurst' was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. Born on 15 July 1858.
Elkie Brooks
Singer/songwriter. Born on 25 February 1945.
Ewan MacColl
Singer, songwriter, actor, playwright, radio broadcaster and socialist. Born in Broughton, Salford. Born on 25 January 1915.
Franki Raffles
Photographer and feminist. Born on 17 October 1955.
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Author, lived in Salford and her stays at the grand house in Buile Hill influenced The Secret Garden. Born on 24 November 1849.
Francis Brandt
Cricketer.
Fred and Peter Done
Businessmen. Born on 6 May 1940.
Fred Fielder MBE
Broadcaster and fundraiser, patron of 11 charities. Born and raised in Higher Broughton.
Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies
Comedian. Born on 21 July 1937.
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
Businessman and statesman. Born on 23 August 1883.
Gary Whelan
Drummer with the Happy Mondays. Born on 12 February 1966.
Geoff Bent
Manchester United footballer who died in the Munich air disaster. Born on 27 September 1932.
Geoffrey Howard
Clergyman and author, he famously walked across the Saraha carrying all his gear in a wheelbarrow.
George Bradshaw
Printer and publisher. Born on 29 July 1800.
George Costigan
Actor, although not born in Salford George went to school in Salford. Born on 8 August 1947.
George Keeling
Swam in the 1912 Olympics. Killed in the trenches in 1916.
George Shepherd
Photographer.
George Switzer
Footballer. Born on 13 October 1973.
Ghislaine Howard
Artist.
Giant Haystacks (Martin Ruane)
Wrestler, although not born in Salford Martin lived in Broughton from the age of three. Born on 10 October 1946.
Gordon Wharmby
Actor - Last of the Summer Wine, Poirot. Born on 6 November 1933.
Graham Gouldman
Singer, songwriter, musician and founding member of 10cc. Born on 10 May 1946.
Graham Nash
Songwriter - Crosby, Stills and... Born on 2 February 1942.
Gus Aubrey
Actor. Born on 12 July 1905.
Harold Bratt
Footballer for Manchester United from 1955 to 1961. Born on 8 October 1939.
Harold Brighouse
Playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. Born on 26 July 1882.
Sir Harold Evans
Journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. Born on 28 June 1928.
Harold Riley
Artist. Born on 21 December 1934.
Harold Williams
Ice skater.
Harry Dagnan
Rugby player for Salford RLFC in the 1940s.
Harvey Jacobson
Businessman and entrepreneur. Born on 28 June 1956.
Hazel Blears
Politician. Born on 14 May 1956.
Helen Cherry
Actress. Born on 24 November 1915.
Ian Blease
Rugby League player. Born on 1 January 1965.
Ian Watson
Rugby League coach and former Salford player. Born on 27 October 1976.
Isabel Hodgins
Actress. Born on 23 November 1993.
James Fearnley
Musician with the Pogues. Born on 9 October 1954.
James Hazeldine
Actor. Born on 4 April 1947.
James Peters
Rugby player, the first black man to play rugby union for England. Born on 7 August 1879.
James Prescott Joule
Physicist, known for his research in electricity and thermodynamics. Born on 24 December 1818.
James W Gibson
Businessman who was the owner of Manchester United. Born on 21 October 1877.
Jamie Moore
Professional boxer. Born on 4 November 1978.
Jan Johnston
Singer. Born on 13 October 1968.
Jane Robinson
Costume designer
Jason Done
Actor. Born on 5 April 1973.
Jason Manford
Comedian, actor and television presenter. Born on 26 May 1981.
Jim Moore
Professional cyclist and ski instructor. Born on 6 April 1940.
Jim Ramsbottom
Regeneration expert who transformed the Castlefield area of Manchester.
Jim Valentine
Rugby Union and Swinton Rugby League legend. Born on 29 July 1866.
Joanne Whalley
Actress. Born on 25 August 1961.
Joe Bowker
Professional boxer. Born on 12 June 1881.
Joe Gladwin
Actor - 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Born on 22 January 1906.
Joe Riley
Footballer. Born on 6 December 1996.
John Cooper Clarke
Inventor of punk poetry. Born on 25 January 1949.
John Henry Poynting
Physicist. Born on 9 September 1852.
John Motson
Football commentator. Born on 10 July 1945.
John Thomson
Actor and comedian. Born on 2 April 1969.
John Virgo
Snooker player and presenter. Born on 4 March 1946.
Sir John Moores
Businessman, born in Eccles on 25 January 1896. Founder of the Littlewoods empire (football pools and retail company). Liverpool Polytechnic took the name Liverpool John Moores University in his honour upon being granted University status in 1992. Born on 25 January 1896.
John Wilkinson
Businessman and former chairman of Salford RLFC.
Jon Christos
Singer. Born on 23 March 1976.
Joseph Brotherton
Salford's first member of parliament - largely responsible for the opening of Peel Park, Salford and Weaste Cemetery. Born on 22 May 1783.
Joseph Kay
Economist. Born on 27 February 1821.
Joseph Toole
Born in Ordsall, politician and Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1936 to 1937.
Josie Rourke
Theatre and film director. Born on 3 September 1976.
Julian Ballantyne
Television presenter.
Justin Chadwick
Actor and director. Born on 6 December 1968.
Kallum Higginbotham
Footballer. Born on 15 June 1989.
Kate Ford
Actress. Born on 29 December 1976.
Ken Reid
Cartoonist, creator of Fudge the Elf and Roger the Dodger. Born on 18 December 1919.
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Football commentator - 1966 World Cup. Born on 17 July 1920.
Kris Smith
Model and former Rugby League player. Born on 20 August 1978.
Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway
Suffragette, author and horticulture expert. Born on 14 May 1854.
Laurence Stephen Lowry
World famous artist, he lived in Station Road, Pendlebury. Born on 1 November 1887.
Leslie Cussons
Chairman of Cussons Sons & Co. Born on 13 January 1907.
Lewis Tan
Actor and martial artist. Born on 4 February 1987.
Lilias Armstrong
Phonetic expert. Born on 29 September 1882.
Marc Tierney
Footballer, part of the Norwich City team that were promoted to the Premiership in 2011. Born on 23 August 1985.
Mark Addy
Hero - renowned for saving over 50 people from drowning in the River Irwell, at a time when it was at its most polluted.
Mark Ashworth
Actor. Born on 16 December 1976.
Mark 'Bez' Berry
Dancer with the Happy Mondays. Born on 18 April 1964.
Mark Day
Guitarist with the Happy Mondays.
Mark E. Smith
Long-time member of 'The Fall', an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. Born on 5 March 1957.
Mary Naylor
Artist.
Matt Greenhalgh
Screenwriter.
Max Shacklady
Olympic boxer and wrestler. Born on 31 December 1918.
McAtee family
A family of footballers and rugby players.
Michael Vaughan
England cricket captain, born in Eccles. Born on 29 October 1974.
Michelle Keegan
Actress, although not born in Salford Michelle went to school in Salford. Born on 3 June 1987.
Mike Amatt
Musician and children's entertainer.
Mike Leigh
Writer and director. Born on 20 February 1943.
Mike Sweeney
Broadcaster and DJ. Born on 15 September 1947.
Mike Walker
Jazz guitarist. Born on 12 July 1962.
Mike Walling
Comic actor and screenwriter. Born on 8 July 1950.
Neil Midgley
Referee. Born on 9 September 1942.
Nick Blackman
Footballer. Born on 11 November 1989.
Nigel Pivaro
Actor and journalist. Born on 11 December 1959.
Sir Norman Moore
Doctor and medical historian. Born on 8 January 1847.
Pat Kirkwood
Actress. Born on 24 February 1921.
Paul Groves
Rugby league player. Born 27 May 1965.
Paul Kenny
Photographer. Born on 16 July 1951.
Paul Scholes
Footballer, born in Salford. Born on 16 November 1974.
Paul Tierney
Ex Manchester United player who was awarded the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the year 2001-02. Born on 15 September 1982.
Pearce Quigley
Actor.
Peter Hook
Musician. Born on 13 February 1956.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Classical music composer, appointed Master of the Queen's Music in March 2004. Born on 8 September 1934.
Pete Travis
Television and film director.
Phil Bardsley
Footballer. Born on 28 June 1985.
Phil Power
Football manager. Born on 25 July 1967.
Randolph Schwabe
Artist and professor of fine art. Born on 9 May 1885.
Rebecca Atkinson
Actress. Born on 22 September 1983.
Ren Harvieu
Musician. Born on 3 September 1990.
Richard Cobden
Salford's apostle of free trade. Born on 3 June 1804.
Richard Wright Procter
Barber, poet and author.
Rob James-Collier
Actor. Born on 23 September 1976.
Robert Powell
Actor - 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'Jesus of Nazareth'. Born on 1 June 1944.
Robert Roberts
Author. Born on 15 June 1905.
Russell Watson
Opera singer. Born on 24 November 1966.
Ryan Giggs
The Manchester United star has been a Salford resident since he was six years old. Born on 29 November 1973.
Sacha Parkinson
Actress. Born on 11 March 1992.
Samia Ghadie
Actress. Born on 13 July 1982.
Sara Ahmed
Writer and scholar. Born on 30 August 1969.
Shaun Ryder
Singer with The Happy Mondays. Born on 23 August 1962.
Shelagh Delaney
Playwright and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, 'A Taste of Honey'. Born on 25 November 1938.
Shelley Holroyd
Javelin thrower. Born on 17 May 1973.
Sinéad Moynihan
Model and actress.
Sir Simon Gerard McDonald
British diplomat. Born on 9 March 1961.
Simon Williams
Poet and author. Born 5 November 1964
Stan Pearson
Footballer between 1936 and 1959. Born on 11 January 1919.
Stephen Foster
Boxer. Born on 16 September 1980.
Stephen Lord
Actor. Born on 1 October 1971.
Steve Evets
Actor. Born on 26 July 1959.
Syd Walker
Actor and comedian. Born on 22 March 1886.
Sydney Chapman
Mathematician. Born on 29 January 1888.
Terry Eagleton
Literary Theorist. Born on 22 February 1943.
The Ting Tings
The indie pop duo formed in 2007 at Islington Mill studios in Salford.
Thomas McNulty
Played for Manchester United, part of the team that won the 1952 league title.
Thomas Worthington
Architect. Born on 11 April 1826.
Tim Burgess
Singer songwriter (Charlatans). Born on 30 May 1967.
Tom Brown
Artist.
Tom Dodson
Artist.
Tom Hudson
Actor. Born on 2 October 1986.
Tommy Fury
Boxer and Love Island contestant.
Tony Flynn
Author and local historian.
Tony Neary
Rugby Union player. Born on 25 November 1948.
Tony Shacklady
Olympic wrestler. Born on 26 December 1945.
Anthony 'Doc' Shiels
Artist, writer, magician.
Tony Warren
Creator of TV's 'Coronation Street'. Born on 8 July 1936.
Tony Wilson
Record label owner, radio and TV presenter and journalist. Born on 20 February 1950.
Victoria Armstrong
Dancer.
Walter Greenwood
Author - 'Love on the Dole'. Born on 17 December 1903.
William Cooke
Clergyman and hymn writer.
Reverend William Cowherd
One of the philosophical forerunners of the Vegetarian Society, formed in 1847.
William Crabtree
Predicted and recorded a transit of Venus in 1639.
William Lockett
First Mayor of Salford, 1844 to 1845.
William Renshaw
Seven time Wimbledon winner between 1881 and 1889, including six consecutive titles. Born on 3 January 1861.
William Webb Ellis
Supposed inventor of rugby. Born on 24 November 1806.
William Worrall Mayo
Doctor and founder of the Mayo Clinic. Born on 31 May 1819.
Winifred Mary Letts
Writer. Born on 10 February 1882.
Yousaf Ali Khan
Film director.
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Many fans hold that Doctor Who is the best idea for a TV series ever conceived. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, the BBC’s flagship sci-fi programme may not have always lived up to that, but over the last six decades, it’s a show that has had at least as many incarnations as its title character. In this weekly series, three Doctor Who fans go through the greatest show in the galaxy, decade by decade…
Part Five: The 2000s
“It won’t be quiet, it won’t be safe, and it won’t be calm. But I’ll tell you what it will be – the trip of a lifetime!”
Is there anything that sums up the excitement of Doctor Who coming back in 2005 more than its trailer being so quotable? After some time away, Russell T Davies’ revamp banishes the programme’s quaint image and turns it into the sort of show where one of the best actors in the land might run away from a big fireball.
After much finagling at the BBC, Davies recreates Doctor Who in the image of 1990s US genre TV shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer without forsaking its fundamental weirdness.
Doctor Who in 2005 is big. It’s bold. It’s accessible for new viewers and international buyers, but it keeps fans in the style to which they are accustomed – an odd amount of episodes with madly varying subjects, budgets, and production values.
It aspires to Buffy's heady mix of everyday dramatic stakes and the wooden, vampire-fettling ones, but the influence goes right down to the music. Once-and-future composer Murray Gold revolutionises the soundscape of the 13-episode series, as radiophonic and electronic music gives way to an omnipresent Welsh orchestra and choir.
And on top of it all, Davies consolidates the previously separate roles of writer, script editor, and producer in a US-style “showrunner” model. Wiping away the old, tangled mythology with a largely unseen Time War, he reinvents the Doctor first as a noble veteran, outwardly cheerful and loving and brave, but racked by survivor’s guilt from unseen adventures.
Sooner than expected, he does it again with the Tenth Doctor, a motormouthed geek with a hero complex and a nasty streak, who inadvertently leads the people around him into danger. The Doctor is still the title character, but at least to begin with, the human companion is the lead.
Before all that, the show needed a serious actor, a real leading man; a world-class actor who could embody the Doctor. And after years of waiting, the announcement finally came that Richard E Grant would be the Ninth Doctor!
Hang on, what? WHAT? … What?
Guess Who’s back, back again… (1999 – 2003)
Davies almost got the greenlight to bring Doctor Who back towards the end of the 1990s. As detailed in last week’s feature, this clashed with the efforts of BBC Worldwide and BBC Films to make a Doctor Who movie. So, he moved on, but kept in touch with Doctor Who’s supporters – namely, controllers Jane Tranter and Mal Young – as they moved up the BBC hierarchy.
But yet another department entered the fray in 2003. The corporation’s online service BBCi commissioned Cosgrove Hall to animate a new six-part Doctor Who serial for the show’s 40th anniversary. Written by Paul Cornell, Scream Of The Shalka stuck to Withnail & I in its re-casting and made Richard E Grant the BBC’s official Ninth Doctor… for a while.
Running 78 minutes in total, the Flash-animated adventure reboots the Pertwee-era format for an alien-invasion story in Lancashire in 2003. Like the TV revival, the companion character is central, there’s some off-screen trauma involving the Doctor, and no regeneration for McGann’s Eighth Doctor.
The voice cast also included Sophie Okonedo as the new Doctor’s companion Alison, Derek Jacobi as an android replica of the Master, and an up-and-comer called David Tennant as a warehouse caretaker. All three have since appeared in New Who in one capacity or another.
It’s an interesting could-have-been. If nothing else happened in the Drama department, maybe Scream Of The Shalka could have launched an animated continuation. But with incoming BBC One controller Lorraine Heggessey also keen on reviving the show, things moved quickly.
The serial was earmarked for release in weekly instalments in November and December 2003. But Davies’ revival of the show on BBC One was announced at the end of September.
In the retrospective documentary on BBC DVD’s 2013 disc release of Shalka, Cornell remembers RTD calling him with the immortal line: “I’ve got terrible news. We’re bringing back Doctor Who.”
Trip of a lifetime (2003 – 2005)
At long last, how did Russell T Davies bring back Doctor Who? Well, it was commissioned before a word was written, so he wrote a series treatment to give BBC executives at the time an idea of what they’d get.
Conveniently, Doctor Who Magazine published this treatment in a special edition covering the making of the 2005 series, so we can have a look. And the vision is pretty fully formed.
As billed, Rose Tyler is a shop girl who dreams of more. The Doctor is her new best mate, the last of the Time Lords. Worried mum Judy Tyler, useless boyfriend Mobbsy, and shagger-from-the-future Captain Jax would all have name-changes, but they’re in there too. Charles Dickens, aliens in Downing Street, Rose’s dead dad, “Gameshow World”, and the Time War are all present and correct in the proposed episode order. And the mission statement is this:
“If the Zogs on planet Zog are having trouble with the Zog-monster… who gives a toss? But if a human colony on the planet Zog is in trouble, a last outpost of humanity fighting to survive… then I’m interested.
Every story, somehow, should come back to Earth, to humanity, its ancestors, and its descendants. Rose will experience the entire history of her race. And we will celebrate it.”
And thus, the short-lived “no bug-eyed monsters” edict of the original 1960s conception neatly translates to a 2000s version with the courage of its conviction.
Introducing the Doctor through Rose’s eyes places the focus squarely where it remains for four out of Davies’ five years in that job. At first, it’s a continuation, without the continuity. There’s even a sense of Davies, who first pitched to write for the show during Colin Baker’s era, reviving or rescuing ideas that had either been mishandled by the show or otherwise gone unheralded.
Back in 1985, season 22 also featured dystopias built on television viewership; amoral, green-skinned capitalists; Daleks that fly and cannibalise humans to reproduce; and of course, 45-minute episodes.
This first run of New Who is hardly all killer, no filler. But a good rule of thumb is that the pre-title sequence covers as much ground as Part One would in a classic serial. As always, the sonic screwdriver helps with economy of plotting, but the psychic paper is a new RTD invention that keeps the plot from stalling or sticking for too long.
What’s more, series one was staffed by TV writers who had grown up as fans – Cornell was commissioned to write Father’s Day, and Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, and Steven Moffat also contributed scripts. It wasn’t the first time that fans ran Doctor Who, but Davies refurbishes and reorients everything for new audiences.
Accordingly, the new Who is never embarrassed by the old Who. Heck, Rose is almost a loose remake of 1970’s Spearhead From Space. This time, the only returning characters are the Doctor and the TARDIS. The new series neither writes off nor overwrites what went before. Instead it grounds stories on Earth, whether in its past, present, future, or assorted satellites.
Handily, Davies didn’t look to the fan-favourite casting suggestions in finding someone new to front the series either. Christopher Eccleston wanted to play the Doctor because he was a fan of RTD, not of Doctor Who. More importantly, Billie Piper was cast as Rose following her TV debut in the 2003 anthology series The Canterbury Tales.
And when Doctor Who came back in 2005, it was just what the Ninth Doctor says – fantastic.
But not five days after Rose was watched by more than 10 million viewers, the BBC press office bungled the swift commission for series two by confirming that Eccleston had quit Doctor Who. Despite all falsely accredited “typecasting” concerns and other speculation about the difficult working environment in the revival’s first production block, Eccleston has never divulged why he decided to leave early on in production.
It’s a shame how it ended because there’s always a sense he could have done more with his Doctor in another run on telly. He’s great throughout, but his performance really clicks by the time of The Empty Child, Moffat’s first script for the show proper.
By the end of the series, we have the first big test of the new equal-billing approach with the Doctor departing and Rose carrying on. The inherited paranoia that the show would go away again would bubble up later in the decade and right up to the present but here, the do-or-die attitude is only for the good.
Had this multi-million-pound reboot been a catastrophic flop for one reason or another, or the BBC had pulled the plug when Eccleston left, Davies and company could walk away not feeling they’d left anything on the table with this run.
There’s a case to be made that it’s the strongest, most consistent run of Davies’ first spell as showrunner. Like Raiders Of The Lost Ark and the old adventure serials that inspired it, it’s not great because it’s a faithful recreation of the original, but a new thing that’s as good as its makers remember Doctor Who being, and better.
The scary bits are scary, the funny bits are funny, the much-grumbled-about “soap” bits are real and grounded, and the Daleks are still basically Daleks. It was a hit with critics, with audiences, and – by and large – with fans old and new.
Even Boom Town – Davies’ low-budget, last-minute-replacement script, and no one’s favourite series one episode – pares the new vision down to silent running and still delivers some smashing moments, like the Doctor reckoning with the fallout of his travels, a long-distance relationship falling apart on a day out, and (just to lighten things up) public officials being hilariously murdered off-screen in electrified swimming pools and very icy patches.
As a capper, Doctor Who won Best Drama Series at the BAFTA Television Awards in May 2006. By then, the show was already barrelling forward with the next Doctor…
New teeth (2005 – 2009)
David Tennant was confirmed as the Tenth Doctor on 16th April 2005. The BBC commissioned a 60-minute Christmas special at the same time as the second series, giving Davies the unusual task of launching two Doctors in one year.
The Christmas Invasion not only started the Tenth Doctor’s adventures but also made the Christmas special a ratings-grabbing fixture of the BBC One schedule for more than a decade. Tennant, a lifelong fan, hits the ground running in his first series in the role. He undoubtedly would have been just as popular if Eccleston had stayed for another year or two, but the momentum of series one gives him a big leg-up, as does returning companion Billie Piper.
Taking in Cybermen, Ood, and a werewolf along the way, series two builds to Rose’s exit in Doomsday. Story-wise, it’s bigger than any previous companion departure precisely because the show is built on Piper’s character. Her exit underscores and overshadows the preposterously huge Daleks vs Cybermen finale. Naturally, it also cliffhangers with the introduction of Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), because you know, life goes on!
On the publicity side of things, the turnover of leads in each series turbo-charged Doctor Who. Each series launch had a new lead, and the newness became a selling point. In the 1980s, the show struggled in the ratings opposite ITV’s Coronation Street, but since the 2000s, it’s regularly grabbed as many media headlines as all of the soaps combined.
This series also gave us the beginnings of a Whoniverse, establishing Torchwood and re-establishing Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) providing back-door pilots for BBC Three’s Torchwood and CBBC’s The Sarah Jane Adventures, which both debuted between this series and the next.
Davies designed these series as a way of keeping commissioners interested in the parent show. But by 2007, Doctor Who became a mini media empire. Commissioners developed other family dramas like Robin Hood and Merlin to fill the now-regenerated Saturday teatime slot, and even ITV had a go with telefantasy shows like Primeval and Demons.
Series three made a star of Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, who joins the Doctor in the cracking series opener Smith & Jones. The back-half of her stint in the TARDIS – from Cornell’s Human Nature two-parter, through Moffat’s “Doctor-lite” classic Blink, into Davies’ epic resurrection of the Master (Jacobi again, then John Simm) – is a pretty unimpeachable streak of scripts.
Soon after, 2007’s Christmas special Voyage Of The Damned became the most-watched episode of the new series to date. 16 million viewers tuned in to see Tennant’s Doctor snog guest-star Kylie Minogue, meet soon-to-be-regular Bernard Cribbins, and prevent a starship Titanic from pancaking London. Ho ho ho!
That popularity was solidified and largely maintained by series four, which brought Tate back as a regular. Whatever you think of this series, there’s never been another time when New Who has been as flat-out popular with UK audiences as it was during 2008.
And where classic Who would have done a multi-Doctor story, RTD’s take reaches its apex in The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. The finale brings back Piper, Agyeman, Sladen, and John Barrowman’s Captain Jack back to help the Doctor and Donna fight off the Daleks and Davros. Basically, it’s Doctor Who’s answer to Avengers: Infinity War, when The Avengers was a twinkle in Kevin Feige’s eye.
In the background of all of this, the online Doctor Who fan community that had grown during the 1990s ballooned in the 2000s, with new episodes to, er… enjoy. This was going about as well as you’d expect. By 2008, the New Who fans who grew up with that buzzing in the background of forums had seemingly internalised older fans’ terror of the show going away again.
The sheer amount of press coverage fuelled this paranoia too. “DOCTOR WHO AXED BY BBC” headlines proliferated around the show’s ongoing success. Due to the manner of Eccleston’s departure, rumours that Tennant had quit were greatly exaggerated from almost the moment he was announced – The Stolen Earth’s audacious regeneration cliffhanger acknowledged that, as did the subsequent Christmas special The Next Doctor, starring David Morrissey as “the next Doctor”.
And so, Tennant’s actual departure became a much bigger event than his predecessor’s. He announced his decision to leave along with Russell T Davies while collecting his third National Television Award for Best Actor (he was very popular) in October 2008.
Tennant’s final specials centre the Doctor more than any other episode in this era. He’s paired with guest-star companions and eventually written out saving another national treasure from a radioactive shower cubicle.
Davies was sometimes caught up in the show’s celebrity orbit too. In his essential “Great Correspondence” book The Writer’s Tale, the showrunner tells journalist Benjamin Cook that he turned down an offer to appear on ITV’s celebrity skating show Dancing On Ice at one point. (It’s relatively early in the RTD2 era, but times have changed – he’s booked to appear on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel soon.)
First time around, his departure was announced in May 2008, ahead of series four’s Silence In The Library. The two-parter is effectively a sizzle reel written by his successor Steven Moffat, who repeats themes and ideas from his previous three stories but also introduces River Song (Alex Kingston) and the next Doctor’s story. And 26-year-old Matt Smith was introduced as the Eleventh Doctor with a Doctor Who Confidential special in January 2009.
Next to most British TV dramas, Doctor Who’s future was and is relatively secure. To this day, that fan paranoia and online scuttlebutt hasn’t really gone away. Happily, the Ninth Doctor once had some wise words that apply here:
“You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you’re going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive.”
Almost 20 years on, the revival is going strong through umpteen new incarnations. And the other thing to remember about Doctor Who, is that the end is always just the beginning…
One day, they will come back…
As well as reviving the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, and the sodding Macra(!), the new series quickly populates its wardrobe with monsters for writers to bring out when the budget is stretched. Davies created the Ood and the Judoon, and we’ve previously written at length about the impact of Moffat’s Weeping Angels.
Read more: Doctor Who and the terror of the Weeping Angels
Elsewhere, spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures both continued in the early 2010s and Captain Jack Harkness also returned in the Thirteenth Doctor’s era. Tennant and Piper have both returned as different characters, while Eccleston emphatically hasn’t, but some of the Ninth Doctor audio adventures he’s made with Big Finish Productions are worth a listen.
And the Christmas specials kept going until 2017, eventually racking up enough for a seasonal boxset. And Ncuti Gatwa’s first Christmas special, The Church On Ruby Road, goes out on 25th December 2023. Because of course, the biggest comeback from the first RTD era may yet turn out to be RTD himself…
Six more brilliant things about Doctor Who in the 2000s
1. Davies understands that a lot of creative professionals – actors, writers, directors, crew-people – were inspired by watching Doctor Who as a kid. And so, the BBC Three making-of show Doctor Who Confidential provided a crash course in how it all gets made. Only the 15-minute cutdown editions made it onto disc releases, but the full-length versions have lots more of VFX supervisor Danny Hargreaves setting up explosions every single week, and they are EXCELLENT. (A new incarnation of the show, Doctor Who Unleashed, is part of this month’s big RTD2 kick-off.)
2. Across 50 episodes, David Tennant got more time to develop his performance than Christopher Eccleston, but no Doctor has ever had a scene as good to play as the first showdown with the Dalek in Dalek. You could imagine how every Doctor might approach those sharp emotional turns – from fear to glee to anger to grief to spite – but Eccleston utterly owns it. It’s the best scene in the best Dalek episode this century.
3. Much has been written about Rose Tyler and Donna Noble and how brilliant they both are, but Martha Jones remains the most underrated companion. In broad terms, her character arc across that series is there to make a point about life after Rose, but Agyeman outshines what could have been a more thankless role– we’re not convinced the writers always knew what to do with her, but it’s no wonder that she gets special guest-star status throughout the fourth series.
4. That Stolen Earth ending set both the Tenth Doctor and the audience alight, but in the Best Cliffhanger stakes, nothing this era comes close to the last 10 minutes of Utopia, a galloping panic-attack of a sequence in which every alarm set during the third series starts going off all at once. It’s perfectly executed by Davies and director Graeme Harper, and Masterfully performed (eh? eh?) by Tennant, Agyeman, Jacobi, and newly arrived Big Bad, John Simm.
5. With its zombie grannies and gas-mask transformations, Series One hits the horror like it’s the Phillip Hinchcliffe era again, but moment for moment, Davies’ companion-lite journey-into-terror Midnight is the scariest story. It’s not only the Moffat-esque playground-antics-made-scary conceit but also the way it suspends the usual format of Doctor Who for an exciting adventure with Ordinary British People. And we all know what a nightmare they are. Fair play to Donna knowing how terrible it was going to be and staying in the space spa…
6. Never mind the full-length episodes, there were also a lot of minisodes in the 2000s, with every episode of series two getting its own “TARDISode” prequel on the official Doctor Who website. But the two biggies were both scenes produced for the BBC’s Children In Need telethons – an untitled Christmas Invasion prequel that portrays Rose’s immediate reaction to the Tenth Doctor after his regeneration, and Time Crash, a Moffat-penned multi-Doctor comedy sketch that both sends up and celebrates Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor. “To days to come”, indeed.
Allons-y! Feel free to share your favourite things about 2000s Doctor Who in the comments…
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A Doctor Who star has claimed an A-list actress accused him of touching her inappropriately on set.
Christopher Eccleston, 59, played the ninth Doctor in the hit BBC series. He is currently starring alongside his "childhood crush" Jodie Foster in thriller True Detective, which is inspired by a horrifying mystery. The pair play "friends with benefits" and Christopher has praised True Detective's intimacy coordinator.
The actor has said he felt protected during the sex scenes, unlike in a previous job. "I did a sex scene with an A-list actress – not Nicole Kidman, who was brilliant – and she implied, in front of the crew, that I was copping a feel because she didn’t like me," he said.
Speaking to The Independent, Christopher admitted he was thankful the incident happened before the Harvey Weinstein "stuff came to light". He felt the accusation could have caused the end of his career. Christopher added: "I’ve never felt more betrayed by a fellow actor than I did that day. I have to say to you that I would sooner have put my hands in a food blender than copped a feel of that person."
He believes it would not have happened if there was an intimacy coordinator on set, and claims it was an "abuse of power". Christopher took on the role as the Doctor back in 2005 when the show made its much anticipated comeback. He was the first actor to take on the character who was not born when the series first began.
Due to his successful comeback, there was a shock when it was announced he was leaving at the end of the series after just two months in the role. His exit was shrouded in mystery and controversy, with the BBC admitting they had falsely attributed a leaving statement to him without his consent.
They also confessed to breaking the agreement made to not publicly disclose he was only doing one series. Christopher claimed his relationship with showrunner Russel T. Davies and some of his producers had broken down "irreparably" during the first block of filming and never recovered.
"They lost trust in me, and I lost faith and trust and belief in them," he said. He went on to appear on stage at the Old Vic theatre and star in TV dramas, The Leftovers, Blackout and The A World. The actor also played villain Malekith in Thor sequel The Dark World.
Christopher recently opened up about his mental health, admitting he almost "lost everything". He was hospitalised with severe clinical depression and has candidly discussed the moments he reached his lowest point. Speaking with Plymouth-based Big Issue magazine vendor Clive - a publication the actor is an ambassador for - Christopher said: "There was one night I thought I was going to die.
"I was running down Euston Road with a suitcase. Now, if anybody has seen me they'd have gone, 'Oh, there's Doctor Who'. My point is, I don't think people understand how quickly it can happen. Particularly in times of economic recession." He admitted he "broke down" and experienced a mental health episode while he was filming for the first series of The A Word on BBC, which aired in 2016.
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How old was Colin Baker when he played the Doctor?
It’s a slightly trickier question to answer than it looks at first glance. Do you mean when he was cast? When shooting began? His cameo in Androzani, or his first proper episode? Or maybe when his first episode was actually broadcast?
There isn’t much difference, admittedly. The answer is 40 (if you’re being sensible and don’t want months or weeks or days), but if you’re making an ordered list of how old the various actors were when they first played the Doctor, it does present a tiny problem. As depending on when you count, he’s older/younger than when Eccleston played the role (also 40, but 41 when his first episode was broadcast).
Happily, the point of this particular list is less about worrying precisely when we should consider a Doctor’s tenure to have begun, and more about how I find it funny that David Tennant is now the third oldest Doctor. Third! Lols! …well, it amuses me anyway. Amuses, and fills me with existential dread about the passage of time. Hurrah!
Given that I’ve met Doctor Who fans, I want to put a long, long disclaimer at the start of the post: the information presented here is the result of a combo of Internet research (and there is plenty of reliable info on the Internet about Who, shush) and a quick flick though those lovely Howe-Stammers-Walker Handbooks from the nineties. All mistakes are mine and there are almost certainly mistakes. These mistakes may include, but are not limited to, counting the Doctor’s first proper episode rather than an end of episode cameo; and counting the first day of shooting an episode rather than the first day the actor was actually recording.
The important thing though – the very important thing – is that David Tennant is now the third oldest actor to have played the Doctor*. Remember that for your Doctor Who trivia quizzes. Don’t let anyone steal your point!
*Oh God, by which I mean actor to have played the Doctor as a main role and not a guest or supporting part**. I both love and hate this fandom for this sort of ridiculousness.
**But there are Bonus Doctors at the end anyway.
The Quick List (age at casting/shooting/broadcast date):
William Hartnell – 55/55/55
Peter Capaldi – 55/55/56
David Tennant – 51/51/52
Jon Pertwee – 49/50/50
Patrick Troughton – 46/46/46
Sylvester McCoy – 43/43/44
Colin Baker – 40/40/40
Christopher Eccleston – 40/40/41
Tom Baker – 40/40/40
Paul McGann – 36/36/36
Jodie Whittaker – 35/35/36
David Tennant – 33/34/34
Ncuti Gatwa – 29/30/31
Peter Davison – 29/30/30
Matt Smith – 26/26/27
Way too many details:
William Hartnell – First Doctor (55)
Birth date: 8th January 1908
Casting announced: 21st November 1963 (press conference to launch the show.)
Shooting begins: 27th September 1963
First episode broadcast: 23rd November 1963
Age at casting announcement: 55
Age when shooting begins: 55
Age at first broadcast: 55
Peter Capaldi – Twelfth Doctor
Birth date: 14th April 1958
Casting announced: 4th August 2013
Shooting begins: 7th January 2014
First episode broadcast: 23rd August 2014
Age at casting announcement: 55
Age when shooting begins: 55
Age at first broadcast: 56
David Tennant – Fourteenth Doctor
Birth date: 18th April 1971
Casting announced: 23 October 2022
Shooting begins: June 2022 (?)
First episode broadcast: November 2023
Age at casting announcement: 51
Age when shooting begins: 51
Age at first broadcast: 52
Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
Birth date: 7th July 1919
Casting announced: 17th June 1969
Shooting begins: September 1969
First episode broadcast: 3rd January 1970
Age at casting announcement: 49
Age when shooting begins: 50
Age at first broadcast: 50
Patrick Troughton – Second Doctor
Birth date: 25th March 1920
Casting announced: 2nd September 1966
Shooting begins: 22nd October 1966
First episode broadcast: 5th November 1966
Age at casting announcement: 46
Age when shooting begins: 46
Age at first broadcast: 46
Sylvester McCoy – Seventh Doctor
Birth date: 20th August 1943
Casting announced: 27th February 1987
Shooting begins: 4th April 1987
First episode broadcast: 7th September 1987
Age at casting announcement: 43
Age when shooting begins: 43
Age at first broadcast: 44
Colin Baker – Sixth Doctor
Birth date: 8th June 1943
Casting announced:19th August 1983
Shooting begins: 24th January 1984
First episode broadcast: 22nd March 1984
Age at casting announcement: 40 (2 months, 11 days)
Age when shooting begins: 40
Age at first broadcast: 40
Christopher Eccleston – Ninth Doctor
Birth date: 16th February 1964
Casting announced: 2nd April 2004
Shooting begins: 20th July 2004
First episode broadcast: 26th March 2005
Age at casting announcement: 40 (1 month, 17 days)
Age when shooting begins: 40
Age at first broadcast: 41
Tom Baker – Fourth Doctor
Birth date: 20th January 1934
Casting announced: 15th February 1974
Shooting begins: 1st June 1974
First episode broadcast: 28th December 1974
Age at casting announcement: 40 (26 days)
Age when shooting begins: 40
Age at first broadcast: 40
Paul McGann – Eighth Doctor
Birth date: 14th November 1959
Casting announced: 5th January 1996
Shooting begins: 15th January 1996
First episode broadcast: 12th May 1996
Age at casting announcement: 36
Age when shooting begins: 36
Age at first broadcast: 36
Jodie Whittaker – Thirteenth Doctor
Birth date: 17th June 1982
Casting announced: 16th July 2017
Shooting begins: 31st October 2017
First episode broadcast: 7th October 2018
Age at casting announcement: 35
Age when shooting begins: 35
Age at first broadcast: 36
David Tennant – Tenth Doctor
Birth date: 18th April 1971
Casting announced: 16th April 2005
Shooting begins: July 2005
First episode broadcast: 25th December 2005
Age at casting announcement: 33
Age when shooting begins: 34
Age at first broadcast: 34
Ncuti Gatwa – Fifteenth Doctor
Birth date: 15th October 1992
Casting announced: 8th May 2022
Shooting begins: November 2022
First episode broadcast: 2023 (?)
Age at casting announcement: 29
Age when shooting begins: 30
Age at first broadcast: 31 (?)
Peter Davison – Fifth Doctor
Birth date: 13th April 1951
Casting announced: 4th November 1980
Shooting begins: 13th April 1981
First episode broadcast: 4th January 1982
Age at casting announcement: 29
Age when shooting begins: 30
Age at first broadcast: 30
Matt Smith – Eleventh Doctor
Birth date: 28th October 1982
Casting announced: 3rd January 2009
Shooting begins: 20th July 2009
First episode broadcast: 3rd April 2010
Age at casting announcement: 26
Age when shooting begins: 26
Age at first broadcast: 27
Bonus Doctors!
David Bradley
Birth date: 17th April 1942
First episode broadcast: 1st July 2017
Age at first broadcast: 75
John Hurt
Birth date: 22nd January 1940
First episode broadcast: 18th May 2013
Age at first broadcast: 73
Richard Hurndall
Birth date: 3rd November 1910
First episode broadcast: 23rd November 1983
Age at first broadcast: 73
Peter Cushing
Birth date: 26th May 1913
First film released: 23rd August 1965
Age at first broadcast: 51
Jo Martin
Birth date: 29th April 1980 (? – online ref but possibly unreliable)
First episode broadcast: 26th January 2020
Age at first broadcast: 39 (?)
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Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire (born 10 October 1964) is an English actress. Known for her work in television and theatre, she has received numerous accolades over a career spanning four decades, including three British Academy Television Awards and a nomination for an Olivier Award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2017 for services to drama.[1]
Lancashire graduated from drama school in 1986 and began her career in local theatre. She went on to play regular characters on Coronation Street (1991–1996, 2000), Where the Heart Is (1997–1999), and Clocking Off (2000). In July 2000, she signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with the ITV network, making her the UK's highest-paid television actress at that time. Subsequent roles included Cherished (2005), Oliver Twist (2007), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011), and Five Daughters (2010).
Since the 2010s, Lancashire has garnered critical acclaim for her roles in series such as The Paradise (2012), Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020), Happy Valley (2014–2023), Kiri (2018), and Julia (2022–2023). On stage, she has starred in West End productions of Blood Brothers (1990), Guys and Dolls (2005-2006), and Betty Blue Eyes (2011). She is married and has three children.
Early life
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Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire[1] was born on 10 October 1964 in Oldham, Lancashire.[2] Her father, Geoffrey Lancashire (1933–2004), was a television scriptwriter for Coronation Street who also wrote situation comedies such as The Cuckoo Waltz.[3][4] Her mother, Hilda, worked as Geoffrey's personal assistant.[3] She has three brothers, one older, one younger and a twin.[5] Lancashire was educated at Oldham Hulme Grammar School between 1976 and 1981.[6] At the age of 17 she started to suffer clinical depression.[7]
Lancashire has stated she was never driven by the ideas of fame and status.[3] Her background had inspired an initial interest in working behind the scenes in television. She did not give serious thought to the performing arts until the age of 18.[8] After winning a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Lancashire realised that acting was for her .[8] She graduated in 1986, describing her time as a student there as "tremendous" but "seriously hard work and quite intimidating".[8][9]
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After rejection from several repertory theatre companies, Lancashire was given her first acting role by Howard Lloyd-Lewis, artistic director of the Manchester Library Theatre Company, which provided her with an Equity Card.[10] Lancashire performed two plays with the company, Pacific Overtures and The Beauty Game, which she has stated formed "the start of my career as an actor".[11] She found her first professional acting experience "terrifying" as a result of the live audiences, recalling that, "because I wore a bathing costume in some of the scenes, I got heckled!"[10] She also realised that taking risks or underperforming could have had consequences for her acting career.[10] Her role as Denise in The Beauty Game earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.
During her early career, Lancashire found herself with large breaks between theatre appearances. To support herself financially, she worked as a drama tutor for five years at Salford University alongside her acting work.[8][12]
Discussing Lancashire's time as a visiting lecturer in Acting and Characterisation, Professor Ron Cook, Head of the University's School of Media, Music and Performance, said Lancashire made a "significant impact" in the formative stages of the drama department at the University and had also directed student productions.[13]
In 1987, Lancashire made a brief appearance in Coronation Street as Wendy Farmer, a prospective lodger of series regular Jack Duckworth (Bill Tarmey).[14] In the late 1980s, she also appeared in an episode of the children's anthology series Dramarama,[14] and a single episode of the ITV sitcom Watching.[15]
In 1990, Lancashire received her "big break" – the role of Linda in a production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers at the Albery Theatre.[8] Although she thoroughly enjoyed performing in London's West End, she found it difficult to reconcile the experience with raising two young children in Manchester.[16]
1991–2000: Coronation Street and other series
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Two weeks after finishing her run in Blood Brothers, Lancashire auditioned for the role of new Coronation Street character Raquel Wolstenhulme, a colleague of supermarket employee Norman "Curly" Watts (Kevin Kennedy).[8][17]
Lancashire joined on a three-month contract, continuing to teach at Salford University for another year.[12][18] Raquel first appeared on 25 January 1991 and departed on 10 May; having moved to London to try to launch a modelling career.[19][20] Lancashire had initially been reserved about Raquel's characterisation, observing her "acidic side" could have rendered her the "street bitch" had it been embellished. She took care to highlight Raquel's potential, playing against what had been written to make her more comic, evoking audience sympathy.[12] Between 26 September and 19 October 1991, Lancashire played the title role in an adaption of Educating Rita at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.[21] Following Raquel's reintroduction on 30 December 1991,[22] Lancashire committed herself to Coronation Street full-time.[18] She would remain in the series until 1996, earning a reported annual salary of £90,000.[23]
In December 1995, Lancashire starred in the spin-off straight-to-video film Coronation Street – The Cruise, a 75-minute special detailing Raquel and Curly's honeymoon. The special was advertised as being exclusive to video, and 750,000 copies were sold, to the value of £10 million.[24] Lancashire departed Coronation Street in 1996 due to her heavy work schedule and desire to pursue other projects.[23] She had also tired of the fame the role brought her, shying away from personal appearances and interviews with television magazines.[25] Her final scenes attracted 20 million viewers.[23] Lancashire's performance in the role saw her nominated in the Most Popular Actress category at the 2nd National Television Awards in October 1996.[26]
Lancashire's next role was district nurse Ruth Goddard in the ITV drama series Where the Heart Is, which began airing in 1997.[27] Also in 1997 she filmed a situation comedy for the BBC, Bloomin' Marvellous, in which she played Liz, one half of an argumentative married couple trying for a baby.[28]
However, owing to poor viewing figures and a damning critical response the sitcom was not renewed.[29] Regarding the negative reception to the series, her co-star Clive Mantle sarcastically remarked "I've seen murderers and rapists get a better press than we did".[30] Lancashire continued to star as Ruth Goddard in Where the Heart Is for its second and third series in 1998 and 1999. In 1998 she was nominated for her second National Television Award for Most Popular Actress.[31] In February 1999 she made a guest appearance in the British dark comedy anthology series Murder Most Horrid alongside comedian Dawn French. The pair played two yachtswoman whose journey ends with fatal repercussions.[32] In April it was announced that Lancashire would be quitting Where the Heart Is, despite an offered pay rise. At the time, Where the Heart is was the third most popular drama on British Television, regularly attracting 12 million viewers. Lancashire's decision was reportedly influenced by the series filming away from home, and a fear that remaining in the series long term would harm her career.[33] In January 2000 she expanded on her decision, stating that Ruth "was too chocolate-boxy, no longer a challenge".[34]
On 1 January 2000, Lancashire returned to Coronation Street for one episode in which Raquel asks Curly for a divorce. Lancashire felt it was an apt time to return, as she was now a more confident actress and wanted to portray Raquel again before she aged significantly.[34] The series' producer at the time, Jane Macnaught, deemed Raquel one of Coronation Street's most popular ever characters and her return an opportunity for her "millions of fans" to learn what had become of her.[23] Lancashire and Kennedy were the sole actors in the episode, the first to feature just two characters.[35] From late January, Lancashire appeared as factory employee Yvonne Kolakowski, a widow with a dysfunctional personal life, in the BBC One drama series Clocking Off. Lancashire used her own experiences as a single mother in her characterisation.[34] In March, she played actress Coral Atkins in the television film Seeing Red.[36]
Lancashire found shooting the drama, which detailed Atkins' decision to quit her acting career in order to set up a care home for abused children, "mentally draining".[5] Lancashire then spent eight weeks filming the BBC One legal sitcom Chambers in which she played "ambitious" and "bigoted" barrister Ruth Quirke.[5][37] The series was aired from June 2000.[37] Lancashire's final role in 2000 was in the two-part drama thriller My Fragile Heart.[38] Lancashire's output in 2000 earned her several awards. She was voted best actress at the TV Quick Awards in September 2000 for her roles in Clocking Off and Seeing Red, and in October was voted Most Popular Actress at the 6th National Television Awards for Seeing Red.[39][40] In March 2001 she was named Drama Performer of the Year by the Television and Radio Industries Club, with mention of her work in Clocking Off and Seeing Red.[41]
2000–2003: "Golden Handcuffs" contract
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Resulting from Lancashire's ability to connect with a television audience, ITV sought to secure her exclusively to their network in a two-year golden handcuffs deal, which was finalised in July 2000.[42] Lancashire became the first actress to be given such a contract with ITV.[43] The deal, worth £1.3 million, made Lancashire the highest-paid actress in British Television.[44][45] Discussing the exclusive signing ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott identified Lancashire as being someone with "a great range [who] creates a tremendous empathy with an audience".[46] He also admitted that heavy interest in Lancashire from the BBC had been a factor in giving her the contract, and blocking her from working with other networks.[46]
Her last role on BBC One during this period was comedy drama Gentleman's Relish, an adaptation of the Miles Gibson novel Kingdom Swann.[42][43] The television film, which aired on New Year's Day 2001, was Lancashire's first in the costume drama genre; she played a housekeeper harbouring romantic feelings for her employer (Billy Connolly).[48] Her first role under her new contract with ITV was the six-part drama The Glass opposite John Thaw.[42][43] The series, which aired between May and June 2001 saw Lancashire star as a saleswoman for a double-glazing company who ends up caught in a love triangle with her boss and his nephew.[42][49][50] In October Lancashire starred in an adaptation of the Michelle Magorian novel Back Home as Peggy Dickinson, a woman adjusting to life in post-war Britain after having been separated from her family during the war.[51]
In March 2002, Lancashire received an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Salford University.[52][53] In April, she starred in two-part psychological thriller The Cry, which she described as her "most naked role yet".[54] She played a social worker grieving her second still-born child who is determined to protect a baby she perceives to be at risk of abuse.[54] Lancashire drew on her own experiences of clinical depression in her depiction of her character's mentality.[55] Her performance saw her awarded with a Golden Nymph award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.[8][56] In April, it was reported that Lancashire had been lined up to play the lead role in comedy drama Life Begins, which creator Mike Bullen had written with Lancashire in mind.[57] However, by June, Lancashire had exited the drama, unwilling to commit to a potentially long running series.[58] Later that month, BBC News and newspaper The Guardian reported that Lancashire had exited her exclusive deal with ITV, which would not be renewed after it expired in the autumn. The decision was reportedly influenced by Lancashire's desire to reduce her workload and to have the freedom to take on other roles.[59][60] In September 2002, she appeared in a two-part crime drama pilot, Rose and Maloney, as legal investigator Rose Linden.[61] On 22 December she appeared in the television movie Birthday Girl as Rachel Jones, who plans a party to celebrate being in remission from a serious illness, only to discover that the disease has returned.[62]
Lancashire's final role under her ITV contract was Gertrude Morel in an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1913 novel Sons and Lovers, airing in January 2003. The portrayal –her first of a mother with adult children– followed Gertrude's transformation from a young bride into a fifty-something woman ravaged by her life experiences of poverty and domestic abuse.[63] Lancashire re-read the novel several times prior to filming, and identified with the themes of filial and marital relationships she had been unable to appreciate as a GCSE student.[63] The miniseries gave her a sense of conviction in her career path, stating ahead of the broadcast in 2002: "whatever the reason I do what I do, I felt I had come to a point where I could stop searching after this".[18] Reviewing the serial, Paul Hoggart of The Times wrote that Lancashire "steals the show" with a "performance of immense subtlety and quiet strength, proof, if we still needed it, that she has matured into a terrific actress."[64] Conversely Andrew Billen, writing in New Statesman, wrote that "Sarah Lancashire was no revelation at all", purely because she had "long since proved herself a formidable actress".[65]
2004–2012: Subsequent projects
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While pregnant with her third child, Lancashire began an 18-month career break, the longest of her working life.[67] Lancashire's first job after returning to work was her directorial debut on an episode of the BBC One anthology series The Afternoon Play.[68][69] For "Viva Las Blackpool", she was given the Best Newcomer Award (sponsored by BBC Birmingham) at the Birmingham Screen Festival and the Best New Talent Award at the Royal Television Society (Midlands) awards in 2004.[70][71] The venture also earned her first British Academy Television Awards nomination in 2005 for Best new Director of Fiction.[72] Lancashire next filmed three two-part stories for Rose and Maloney, following on from the pilot episode in 2002.[68] The delay between shooting for the pilot and its follow-up was a result of Lancashire's career break and problems reconciling her availability with that of co-star Phil Davis.[8]
In 2005, Lancashire starred in The Rotters' Club as a housewife in 1970s Birmingham.[73] Also in 2005, she appeared in the BBC television film Cherished as Angela Cannings, a British woman who was wrongfully convicted of killing her two baby sons.[66] Lancashire was proud to be involved with the project, having greatly admired Cannings strength of character during her ordeal, and being able to relate to her sense of anguish as a parent.[66] In December 2005, Lancashire returned to West End theatre, taking on the role of Miss Adelaide in the Donmar Warehouse production of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre.[74] Lancashire was due to stay with the production until March 2006, but due to a severe chest infection made her last appearance on 4 January.[75]
In 2006, Lancashire accepted an invitation to write a short autobiographical entry in Who's Who.[76][77] Lancashire's only television acting role in 2006 was as house-wife and cake-maker Elaine in the BBC comedy drama Angel Cake.[78] In November, she presented an episode of the Five documentary series Disappearing Britain in which she interviewed people with memories of Wakes Week holidays in Blackpool during the early 20th century.[79] In February 2007, she made an appearance in the E4 teen drama series Skins.[80] This was followed by a leading role in the BBC Two television drama Sex, the City and Me as solicitor Ruth Gilbert.[81][82] In October, Lancashire appeared in her first feature film, David Nicholls' And When Did You Last See Your Father? in which she played aunt Beaty.[83] In December, she played the supporting role of Mrs Corney in the BBC's 2007 adaption of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist.[84] Whilst ambivalent about the serial as a whole, The Daily Mirror's Jane Simon singled Lancashire out for praise stating that she "really sets the tone for the cold, unfeeling world into which orphaned Oliver is born."[85]
Between 2008 and 2011, Lancashire narrated the BBC One series Lark Rise to Candleford, a costume drama based on Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood in the 1880s.[2][86] In April, she appeared in the opening episode of the 2008 series of Doctor Who, as "an enigmatic and powerful businesswoman" who Lancashire described as a "warped Mary Poppins".[87] She was amongst a number of high-profile actors the series' executive producer Russell T Davies secured for the fourth series of the science-fiction drama as part of his intention to make it "bigger and blowsier".[88] In 2009, Lancashire starred in the BBC One musical drama series All the Small Things. She played Esther Caddick, a full-time mother who starts a choir after her husband leaves her for a more glamorous woman.[89] In July that year, the actress was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Huddersfield.[90]
Following this, she reunited with director Coky Giedroyc, who had directed her in Oliver Twist, for a 2009 television adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights in which she played housekeeper Nelly Dean.[91][92] In 2010, Lancashire portrayed Rosemary Nicholls, mother of a murder victim, in the three-part BBC drama Five Daughters; a depiction of the Ipswich serial murders from the perspective of the victims and their families.[93] Though the pair never met, Lancashire felt it important to receive Nicholls consent before filming, and was later "humbled" and "relieved" to receive a feedback letter thanking her for her portrayal.[94] Also in 2010, she guest-starred in the police drama series Inspector George Gently.[95]
In March 2011, Lancashire began starring in a new Cameron Mackintosh musical, Betty Blue Eyes, at the Novello Theatre.[96] In the production, a loose adaptation of the 1984 film A Private Function, she starred as Joyce Chilvers, an aspirational housewife who Lancashire describes as "brittle" and "capricious".[97] Despite positive reviews[98] the musical closed in London on 24 September 2011, after a run of just six months.[97][99] For her performance Lancashire was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[100] In 2012, she appeared as lady's maid Miss Whisset in the penultimate episode of the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs.[101] In September 2012, Lancashire began appearing as Head of Ladieswear Miss Audrey in the six-part series The Paradise set in a department store in Northern England in the late 19th century.[102][103] Lancashire described her character as "a true archetypal spinster" who has long denied herself a romantic life and who begins to feel undermined by a younger colleague.[103]
2012–present: Last Tango in Halifax, Happy Valley and recent work
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Between November 2012 and March 2020, Lancashire appeared opposite Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi in the BBC drama series Last Tango in Halifax. In the series, she plays Caroline, an Oxford-educated headmistress who feels that her mother's second marriage gives her "permission" to be herself.[104] Caroline's same-sex relationship with a fellow teacher resulted in Lancashire receiving more fan mail than for any other role,[3] largely from women telling her that the series had helped them to come out.[105] Due to the under-representation of gay characters in television, Lancashire felt it particularly important that Caroline's experience would be depicted accurately.[105] In her portrayal, she opted to focus on the "humanity" of the character, rather than her sexuality.[105] Filming of the second series clashed with filming of the second series of The Paradise, which necessitated Lancashire leaving The Paradise partway through its second series. For her role as Caroline, she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in both 2013 and 2014, winning in 2014.[106][107] At the 2015 Hay Festival, Lancashire stated that of all the roles she has taken on in her career Caroline is the one she is most proud of, citing the "extraordinary impact" of the character.[108] After airing three full series, Last Tango in Halifax returned for a fourth series in December 2016, consisting of two episodes which were promoted as "Christmas Specials",[109] and also for a fifth series in 2020.[110][111]
In 2014, Lancashire re-united with Last Tango in Halifax writer Sally Wainwright on the crime drama Happy Valley. Wainwright was keen to write another role for Lancashire after being "blown away" by her performances in Last Tango in Halifax.[112] Lancashire portrays single-grandparent Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant still dealing with the aftermath of her daughter's rape, and subsequent suicide, eight years earlier.[3][112] Mark Lawson of The Guardian identified the performance as a career best for Lancashire, stating that she perfectly conveyed "the script's demandingly contradictory notes of tragedy, comedy, love, guilt, weakness and courage".[113] For this role she earned the TV Choice Award for Best Actress in 2014,[114] and the Royal Television Programme Award for Best Actress in 2015.[115] In September 2014, the Radio Times listed her as one of the thirty most powerful women in British television and radio.[116] In April 2015, she received her fourth BAFTA television nomination, her first in the Best Actress category.[117] In June 2015, she was named Best Actress in a Drama Series at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.[118]
Despite Lancashire's concerns regarding the decision to extend the story told in Happy Valley, Wainwright's "genuine" storytelling and "integrity" convinced her to return for a second series, which aired in 2016.[119] Lancashire stated that she found the second series as "emotionally brutal"[119] as the first; disclosing to The Independent that she inhabited Catherine's emotional pain for the entirety of the shoot.[120] Whilst promoting the second series, Lancashire also refuted criticism about the level of violence towards women in the series, stating she "would never condone anything which [she] thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous" and that Catherine's experience represented an "absolutely honest portrayal of what a female police officer can be subjected to".[119] For her role in the second series of Happy Valley, Lancashire won the 2017 National Television Award for Best Dramatic Performance,[121] and the BAFTA TV award for Best Actress.[122]
In March 2015, Lancashire began filming a television adaptation of Ronald Harwood's 1980 play The Dresser.[123] In the drama, which aired in October 2015, Lancashire portrayed stage manager Madge, whose unrequited love for 'Sir' (Anthony Hopkins), the head of a repertory theatre company, puts her at odds with his dresser and confidant, Norman (Ian McKellen).[124] Lancashire described The Dresser as "the greatest piece ever written about actors" and found both working with and observing McKellen and Hopkins – "two of the greatest actors ever" – an extraordinary experience.[124] Following an airing on the American premium cable channel Starz in 2016, Lancashire was nominated for the 2016 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries[125] Lancashire played Mrs Pike in the 2016 feature film Dad's Army, based on the situation comedy series of the same name.[126] In early 2017, she began voicing the character of "Headmonstress" Mrs Twirlyhorn in the animated pre-school series School of Roars, which airs on Cbeebies.[127]
Lancashire was due to appear opposite Martin Freeman in Labour of Love, a political comedy by James Graham, at the Noël Coward Theatre in late 2017[128] but pulled out on 1 September "on doctor's advice" and was replaced by Tamsin Greig.[129] In 2018, she starred as Miriam – billed as an "experienced, no-nonsense social worker" – in Kiri, a four-part drama series written by Jack Thorne, co-produced by Channel 4 and the American on-demand service Hulu.[130] The miniseries centres on a black girl living with a white foster couple who is murdered on a visit to her family, putting Miriam and the social services under scrutiny.[130]
Lancashire portrayed Julia Child in the HBO Max drama Julia. The eight-part series debuted on the channel in March 2022.[131] Having received favourable reviews, the series was renewed in May 2022. In October 2023, it was announced she will be co-starring in the upcoming Netflix series Black Doves.[132]
Personal life
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At the age of 22 Lancashire married her first serious boyfriend, Gary Hargreaves, a music lecturer 11 years her senior, whom she had met four years earlier.[5] Recalling the circumstances of her first marriage in 2001, Lancashire stated she only married because she became pregnant and possessed both a traditional outlook and a fear of the stigma of having a child out of wedlock.[133] Thomas, her first child with Hargreaves, was born in 1987; a second son, Matthew, was born in 1989.[12][34]
Two years into her role on Coronation Street, Lancashire experienced a 14-month nervous breakdown, but did not confide in anyone besides her close family or take any time off work. In retrospect, she deemed her decision "the worst thing [she] could have done.[134] During the worst part of her experience Lancashire described herself as "hysterical at the thought of getting out of bed".[135] Her mother, Hilda, forced her to seek medical assistance for her condition, which Lancashire states "gave me my life back",[135] her twenties having been "a write-off".[136]
Lancashire felt her first marriage had also contributed to her unhappiness; in 2001 she stated that though her marriage lasted ten years it "was 10 years longer than it should have done".[5][133] In 1995 she separated from Hargreaves; the couple would later divorce.[133] She described leaving her marriage as a "cleansing experience" and a "renaissance"; one that enabled her to rediscover her sense of identity.[133] Other steps that Lancashire took to combat her depression included remaining single for five years, attending therapy sessions and taking the anti-depressant drug Paroxetine.[133]
In August 2001 Lancashire married television executive Peter Salmon in a low-key ceremony held at Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire.[44] Salmon had proposed to Lancashire in New York during a holiday at Easter 2001.[133] The two had begun a romantic relationship in the summer of 2000,[133] though they had first met several years earlier while she was portraying Raquel on Coronation Street and he was employed by Granada Studios, which produces the soap opera.[44] In March 2003 Lancashire gave birth to her third son, Joseph.[68]
Filmography
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Main article: Sarah Lancashire filmography
Awards and nominations
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Lancashire was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[1][137]
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Highest Rated: 100% The Dresser (2015)
Lowest Rated: 31% Dad's Army (2016)
Birthday: Oct 4, 1964
Birthplace: Oldham, England, UK
Actress Sarah Lancashire was most commonly known for her roles in television dramas. Lancashire began her career with roles in "Seeing Red" (1999-2000), "Oliver Twist" (2007-08) and "Skins" (2007-2010). Later, Lancashire acted in the dramatic adaptation "When Did You Last See Your Father?" (2008) with Jim Broadbent, "Last Tango in Halifax" (PBS, 2013-15) and "The Paradise" (PBS, 2013). More recently, Lancashire acted on "Happy Valley" (BBC 1, 2014-).
Highest rated movies
100% The Dresser
82% Everybody's Talking About Jamie
73% And When Did You Last See Your Father?
31% Dad's Army
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Sarah Lancashire Happy Valley, James Norton (L), Sarah Lancashire (R), 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?, (aka AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?), Back row: Matthew Beard, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Lancashire, Robert Angell; front row: Elaine Cassidy, Tilly Curtis, Tara Berwin, 2007. ©Sony Pictures Classics THE DRESSER, Sarah Lancashire, (aired Oct. 31, 2015). photo: Joss Barratt/©BBC/Starz!/Playground Television UK The Dresser, Sarah Lancashire, 05/30/2016, ©STARZPR Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Episode 1', Season 2, Ep. #1, 02/09/2016, ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Siobhan Finneran (L), Sarah Lancashire (R), 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Jill Baker (L), Sarah Lancashire (C), Alan Mckenna (R), 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire, 'Season 1', ©NETFLIX
Filmography
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Credit 82% 68% Everybody's Talking About Jamie Margaret New (Character) - 2021 31% 36% Dad's Army Mrs. Pike (Character) - 2016 100% 60% The Dresser Madge (Character) - 2015 No Score Yet 84% Wuthering Heights Nelly (Character) - 2009 73% 64% And When Did You Last See Your Father? Beaty (Character) $1.1M 2007 No Score Yet No Score Yet Cherished Angela Cannings (Character) - 2005 No Score Yet No Score Yet Beating Jesus Rachel Jones (Character) - 2002 No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cry Meg Bartlet (Character) - 2002 No Score Yet No Score Yet Gentleman's Relish Violet Askey (Character) - 2001 No Score Yet No Score Yet Back Home Peggy Dickinson (Character) - 2001 No Score Yet No Score Yet Seeing Red Coral Atkins (Character) - 2000
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Credit 96% 88% Julia Julia Child (Character) 2022-2023 98% 94% Happy Valley Catherine Cawood (Character) 2014 2016 2023 No Score Yet No Score Yet School of Roars Mrs Twirlyhorn (Character) 2017-2018 2020-2022 No Score Yet No Score Yet Talking Heads Gwen (Character) 2020 95% 90% Last Tango in Halifax Caroline (Character) 2012-2016 2020 50% 67% MotherFatherSon Angela Howard (Character) 2019 97% 90% National Treasure Miriam Grayson (Character) 2018 76% 82% The Paradise on Masterpiece Miss Audrey (Character) 2012-2013 No Score Yet 80% Upstairs Downstairs Miss Whisset (Character) 2012 No Score Yet No Score Yet Lark Rise to Candleford Unknown (Character) 2008-2011 No Score Yet No Score Yet Inspector George Gently Unknown (Character) 2010 90% 64% Doctor Who Miss Foster (Guest Star) 2008 No Score Yet 70% Skins Unknown (Guest Star) 2007 No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rotters' Club Unknown (Character) 2005 No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 2000
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One of the most unique and charming characteristics of the UK has to be the sheer range of accents heard across the country.
From Scouse to Cockney, Brummie and Manc - the UK's dialectology is vast, as are dialects within regions too. Despite this, according to a study last year, the strong Rs specific to Lancashire accents could be dying out.
The same can be said for more hyper-local dialects too, as one social media discussion has sparked. Over on the History of Blackpool Facebook page, one local has questioned whether or not Blackpool has a local accent.
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Posted by Lucas Webster, the simple question was asked: "Why does Blackpool not have a local accent?" An open-ended question, but people can't seem to agree.
Linda Cook says there may not be an existence of a Blackpool accent "because very few locals live there now." Ian King has also suggested why this may be, saying: "Interesting question, I've often wondered that myself.
"I think it is because over the years Blackpool was a complete melting pot. People came to Blackpool from all over, by way of example my own Blackpool ancestry is part local (really local, in the area since the 1700's), part German, part Scottish. I think the way Blackpool people talk reflects our mixed heritage."
Lynn Avis agrees with this too, commenting: "It's funny because I always say to people if you guess where my accent is from, I'll give you a million pounds! I'm nearly 60 and nobody has ever guessed correctly so far, the closest someone got was Morecambe!
"Although it does has a northern accent, it doesn't seem pronounced enough for people to recognise it. Probably due to the fact Blackpool has always had a very transient population."
However, other comments seem to think Blackpool does in fact have a distinct accent of its own. Most agree it can be seen as similar to a Mancunian accent, one of the closest major cities to Blackpool.
Chris McCulloch wrote: "It definitely does. I always thought we didn't have one until I moved out of Blackpool. I'd say its more similar to the Manc accent than any other."
Ray Ward suggested: "It does, it's a sort of "Mid Atlantic Manc." You only need to go inland as far as Kirkham and the accent becomes a more familiar Lancashire one."
Amy Groves-Gottfreund agreed: "I’ve lived here for 20 years since I was 13 and it definitely does have an accent. I’m from Manchester and my partner sometimes sounds more Manc than me but was born and bred here."
Others believe the accent is strikingly similar to other dialects in Lancashire. Jimmy Gilliard commented: "I think we definitely do, although it is fairly subtle in its difference to other accents in the Lancashire or Northern vicinity. All I can say is I can recognise a Blackpool accent when I hear it even when abroad. If unsure, if they say 'sands,' as opposed to 'beach,' you know they are probably Blackpool."
Interestingly, Darren Cremona said the accents in Blackpool was even more hyper local than originally thought. Darren wrote: "I think you can hear different accents from what part of Blackpool your from. Bispham people sound different from South Shore and Fleetwood accent is well different."
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It’s a fact that’s largely been going under the radar, but in the next series of Doctor Who (a 6-part run named Flux), we’ll meet a new companion: Dan Lewis, played by Liverpudlian comedian, John Bishop.
So how did Bishop feel joining Jodie Whittaker (the Thirteenth Doctor) and Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) for Doctor Who Series 13? Let’s find out…
What did it mean when you got the call to be a part of Doctor Who?
It meant I could get out of the house and not be stuck in with COVID (laughs)! I’ll be honest, I don’t know how big an impact this will have on my life or anything like that as it’s not come out yet, but as a life experience, it’s one of the best things that I’ve done since I’ve managed to get into this world of show business. I genuinely feel I’ve learned a lot and I genuinely feel I’ve made good friends, and I didn’t think that I’d come away with that.
What are the main differences to being in Doctor Who and your role as a stand-up?
The longevity, the fact you spend so much time with them, you genuinely create bonds with people. And the fact you’re part of a team. Most of what I do is me, or “The John Bishop Show”- me on the stage on my own or leading something on my own. For this I was part of something, and I wasn’t the most important part which was good! It many respects the actors themselves are not the most important thing, there are so many other things that happen before that camera gets turned on and I came away with that appreciation for the skill of so many others.
How has the response been from fans so far?
So far it’s been positive but they haven’t met [Dan] yet! I think for me I have been given a glimpse that once you’re in Doctor Who, you’re fixed in time in the eyes of a lot of people because they’ll come to it at different times in their lives and at different ages.
And so of all the things I’ve ever done it might be the thing that lasts the longest.
Can you tell us a bit about Dan and what you liked most about him?
I liked his humility, his willingness to help people, when we first start off he is working in a food bank. I liked his vulnerability, he’s not really lucky in love, I liked his caring nature because he cares deeply for the Doctor and Yaz and wants them to be happy. I liked his sense of what’s right and what’s wrong. He’s really prepared to stand up to those who are doing something wrong.
How did you enjoy working with this year’s guest actors?
I loved spending time with Jacob Anderson, Kevin McNally was great – it’s like a masterclass all the time with Kevin. Paul [Broughton] and Sue [Jenkins], I had a few scenes with them and it was absolutely brilliant watching them work. During one scene, I had to remind myself they were acting!
Why should audiences tune into Series 13 and can you sum it up in three words?
Fast, energetic, and heartfelt.
Flux: The Halloween Apocalypse airs on BBC One at 6:25pm on Sunday October 31st 2021.
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Lancashire is famous for many things, including its diverse landscape, history, and food. It is also the home or birthplace of many celebrities, as there are many famous people from Lancashire. So, who are some of Lancashire’s celebrities? Here is our list of some of the most famous people from Lancashire.
Lancashire Celebrities: Film and Television (A-F)
There are multiple famous people from Lancashire who have appeared in film or television, along with those who have roles behind the camera. Here are some Lancashire celebrities from film and television.
Sam Aston: Chesney Brown in Coronation Street is played by Sam Aston, who was born in Burnley in 1993. Aston began playing Chesney in 2003.
Alex Bain: Alex Bain plays Simon Barlow in the long-standing soap opera Coronation Street. He has played the role since 2001. Bain was born in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Zoe Ball: Radio and television presenter Zoe Ball, daughter of presenter Johnny Ball, was born in Blackpool in 1970.
Roy Barraclough: British actor Roy Barraclough was born in Preston in 1935 and died in 2017. He is best known for playing Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street.
Jimmy Clitheroe: Comic entertainer Jimmy Clitheroe was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1921 and died in Blackpool in 1973. The 4’ 2” entertainer was best known for his BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid.
Lucy Fallon: Unless you are an avid Coronation Street fan, you may not have heard of Lucy Fallon from Blackpool, who played Bethany Platt from 2015 to 2020.
Dame Gracie Fields: Singer, actress, and comedian Gracie Fields was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. The film and music hall star was one of the world’s highest-paid actresses in 1937.
George Formby: Entertainer George Formby, known for playing the ukulele, was from Wigan, Lancashire.
Film and Television Stars from Lancashire H-Z
Russell Harty: One of the most famous people from Blackburn, Lancashire, is the late chat show presenter Russell Harty.
Jane Horrocks: Actress Jane Horrocks, known for her comedic performances, is from Rawtenstall.
John Inman: Preston-born Inman was known for playing Mr Humphries in ‘Are you Being Served?’
Barbara Knox: Best known for playing Rita Sullivan in Coronation Street, in which she first appeared in 1962. She was born in Oldham.
Sir Ian McKellen: The film and television actor is one of Burnley’s most famous stars.
Ian McShane: Lovejoy star Ian McShane is from Blackburn.
Eric Morecambe: Born as John Eric Bartholomew, Eric Morecambe used his middle name and birthplace to form his stage name.
Amy Nuttall: Born in Blackburn, Nuttall is known for her roles in Emmerdale and Downtown Abbey. She was also a competitor in Celebrity MasterChef.
Nick Park: The Wallace and Gromit creator is from Preston, Lancashire.
Steve Pemberton: Blackburn-born actor and comedian Steve Pemberton is best known as a member of The League of Gentlemen.
Daniel Whiston: Professional ice dancer Daniel Whiston, famous for his appearances on ‘Dancing on Ice,’ is from Blackpool.
Michael Winterbottom: Director Michael Winterbottom is from Blackburn. He is known for films such as 24 Hour Party People, Wonderland, and Welcome to Sarajevo.
Victoria Wood: Born in Prestwich in 1953, Victoria Wood is one of Lancashire’s most famous comedians. Although she is best known for her comedic work, she was also a talented actress, singer, composer, screenwriter, pianist, and producer. Sadly, Wood died in 2016.
Famous People from Lancashire in the Music Industry
It is not just stars of the screen who were born in the county. Here are some of the most famous people from Lancashire in the music industry.
Eddie Calvert: Trumpeter Eddie Calvert was born in Preston. He was at the height of his career in the 1950s when he had a series of hits.
Kathleen Ferrier: Opera singer Kathleen Ferrier was from Higher Walton, between Blackburn and Preston.
Kevin Simm: Liberty X member Kevin Simm was born in Chorley, Lancashire.
Robert Smith: The Cure frontman Robert Smith is from Blackpool.
Jessica Taylor: Jessica Taylor is another Liberty X member from Lancashire, as she was born in Preston.
Famous People from Lancashire: Sports
There are also famous people from Lancashire in the world of sports. Here is a selection of some of Lancashire’s sporting greats.
Bill Beaumont: A former rugby union player from Chorley, Lancashire.
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff: International cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff was born in Preston in 1977.
Sir Tom Finney: Another famous sportsman from Lancashire is the late footballer Sir Tom Finney who played for Preston North End and England.
Carl Fogarty: One of the most successful superbike racers of all time is Carl Fogarty from Blackburn.
Tyson Fury: Currently one of the most famous UK boxers, Fury lives in Morecambe with his wife, Paris, and their seven children.
Other Famous People from Lancashire
Brian Finch: Scriptwriter Brian Finch was born in Standish and died in Wigan. Both locations are in Lancashire.
Lisa Goodwin-Allen: Celebrity chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen is from Lancaster, and she is the head chef at Northcote in the village of Langho in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
Wayne Hemmingway: British designer Wayne Hemmingway was born in Morecambe.
William Lyons: The co-founder of Jaguar cars was born in Blackpool, Lancashire.
Myles Standish: One of the most famous people from Lancashire historically is Myles Standish, a military officer and colonist who was from Chorley.
Sir Henry Tate: Another famous person from Chorley, Lancashire, was Sir Henry Tate. He was a sugar merchant and philanthropist who established the Tate Gallery in London.
Celebrities with Links to Lancashire
Arthur Conan Doyle: Originally from Edinburgh, the Sherlock Holmes writer was educated at Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe.
Vernon Kay: Presenter and television presenter Vernon Kay is from Bolton, which was formerly part of Lancashire. However, it is now classed as Greater Manchester.
Peter Kay: Like Vernon, comedian Peter Kay is from Bolton. Despite sharing a surname, the two are not related.
JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings writer was born in South Africa. His link to the county is studying at Stonyhurst College near Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Marcus Wareing: Celebrity chef Marcus Wareing is from Southport, which was formerly part of Lancashire but is now in Merseyside.
Jason Queally: Although cyclist Jason Queally was born in Staffordshire, he then grew up in the village of Caton near Lancaster in Lancashire.
We hope you have enjoyed reading our list of famous people from Lancashire. If you know of any other Lancashire celebrities that you would like added to the list, then feel free to mention them in the comments section.
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