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Nearly nine years after the "Doctor Who: The Movie", and almost sixteen years after the last episode of the television series was aired, The Doctor finally returned to our screens, with a new face, a new companion, a new TARDIS console room, and an all-new backstory... if a bit of a confusing one.
Unlike with all previous new Doctors, the audience did not have the chance to see this new Doctor’s regeneration at first, simply starting out with him already fairly comfortable with his new body (Although the fact that he looked at a mirror and commented on his ears in "Rose" suggests that it happened only shortly before he appeared for the first time). While we have learned that the Eighth Doctor initially regenerated into the ‘War Doctor’ incarnation during the devastating Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks before he regenerated into this incarnation ("Night of The Doctor"), since the later Doctors officially considered the War Doctor to not be ‘The Doctor’ due to the actions taken by that body when he triggered the galaxy-destroying Moment to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks, this incarnation is thus The Doctor’s official ninth incarnation despite being the Doctor’s tenth body overall. While the Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctors were later able to redeem the War Doctor by helping him save Gallifrey by sending it to an unknown pocket universe ("The Day of The Doctor"), the War Doctor’s memories of their plan were erased as he departed and regenerated, resulting in him being left convinced that he had destroyed Gallifrey as he had originally intended.
The Doctor in "Rose"
While we are unaware what happened to him immediately after his regeneration, the end result is the same; the Ninth Doctor, tracking his old foes the Nestene Consciousness shortly after his regeneration, arrived on Earth in London, 2005, and, while tracking the Nestene signal, met shop assistant Rose Tyler as he checked out a department store where Nestene energy had been detected ("Rose"). With Rose's help, The Doctor was able to track the main Nestene Consciousness to its base under the London Eye, where Rose was able to take it out with a sample of antiplastic The Doctor had prepared earlier while The Doctor fought with an Auton. Having defeated the Consciousness, The Doctor offered Rose the chance to travel with him, but Rose initially rejected the offer, prompting The Doctor to depart on his own, concluding that he was still too new to this incarnation to have a companion. However, after a brief trip with new potential companion Ali - which nearly went wrong due to Ali’s nature as a Karkinian causing her to approach threats in a more violent manner than The Doctor might prefer ("The Beast of Babylon") - The Doctor returned to Rose based on Ali’s suggestion, informing her that the TARDIS travelled in time as well as space. Her interest inspired once more, Rose thus joined the Ninth Doctor for the trip of a lifetime with this newest of Doctors.
From the beginning, it was obvious that this Doctor was, in many obvious ways, far more human than the others, even if his means of expressing it made it clear that he was still very alien. Throughout the series, even in minor, subtle ways, it was apparent that he cared a great deal for his companion Rose Tyler, holding hands with her on several occasions and actually being jealous of her still-close friendship with her ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith - who he commonly referred to as 'Ricky' to avoid admitting that he didn't remember his name -, occasionally referring to Mickey as ‘the Idiot’. Throughout his life, however, despite his normally light-hearted appearance, he had a melancholy and lonely personality, which he mainly concealed with the habit his past selves had of making jokes in the face of danger, only letting his 'guard' down when he was alone. His loneliness could be attributed to his guilt at being the last survivor of the Time War, all other Time Lords having lost their lives in the conflict, leaving him to deal with the guilt and knowledge that he had survived the destruction of his entire race.
In many ways, however, he combined some of the best qualities of his previous selves; the frivolity and emotional availability of the Eighth Doctor, the ingenuity of the Third Doctor, the apparent vulnerability of the Fifth Doctor, the keen sense of humour of the Second Doctor (As well as the early Seventh Doctor), the depth of feeling of the Sixth Doctor, the (occasional) irascibility of the First Doctor, and the quirkiness and refusal to be mistaken for a human of the Fourth Doctor. On some occasions he also demonstrated a certain enthusiasm for his travels, showing great excitement when he met Charles Dickens ("The Unquiet Dead"), and occasionally philosophically musing about various minor matters, such as when he commenting that humanity spent so much time wondering about how they would die that they never considered the possibility that they might survive ("The End of the World") or when he reflected that a flower Rose had found on her first trip to an alien world could be the local equivalent of a daisy or the rarest flower in the universe ("The Monsters Inside"). He also displayed his past selves' dislike of violence, although like many of them, he wasn't afraid to use it if he had to, taking up a gun in "Dalek", breaking a window with a robot’s head to escape an underwater tunnel - although this can be excused due to the sonic screwdriver having been stolen - ("The Clockwise Man"), and knocking out a guard in "Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways". However, his temper was far more apparent than in past lives; unlike the Fourth Doctor, who once said 'It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favourite species', the Ninth Doctor often referred to humans as 'stupid apes', and showed less patience with them than he used to, sometimes seeming unimpressed by their mental and observational qualities, yet at the same time wanting to protect them and other species.
Ironically, despite his disdain for humans’ intellectual abilities, this Doctor occasionally appeared less intelligent than other incarnations, requiring others to save him by coming up with their own plans where other Doctors could have come up with escape strategies on their own or never fallen into those traps in the first place, such as The Gelth tricking him into helping them spread over London ("The Unquiet Dead"). He also fell victim to minor deceptions such as his jacket being stolen while he was attending a dinner ("The Clockwise Man"), and needed help identifying The Slitheen's planet of origin by having his companions go over the facts available about them so that he could narrow down the options ("Aliens of London/World War Three"). He also regularly displayed a certain lack of the ‘on-the-spot’ initiative that had often characterised some of his previous selves, such as when he locked himself and his companions in the conference room of 10 Downing Street to escape The Slitheen without considering how he would defeat the invasion trapped inside the conference room ("Aliens of London/World War Three") or gave himself the ‘alias’ of ‘Doctor Table’ to rescue a Neanderthal from a hospital rather than come up with something more original ("Only Human"). Despite this, he still had a significant amount of raw intelligence, quickly determining how to reverse teleportation systems to prevent his enemies escaping ("The End of the World" and "Boom Town"), giving Rose instructions that allowed her to pose as an astrophysicist using code phrases that only they would understand ("The Monsters Inside"), refining a gene that would allow humans in the vicinity to temporarily breathe fire using a rogue geneticist’s equipment ("Only Human") and putting together a Delta Wave emitter in under an hour despite his initial claim that it would take three weeks (Although this may have been referring to the time he would need to refine it to only target his enemies rather than a setting that would kill everything).
This Doctor is also noteworthy as, for the first time since the UNIT era, The Doctor actually had regular contacts on his visits to Earth, rather than just meeting up with someone already involved in the crisis and enlisting their aid in sorting it out. Like the Third Doctor, the Ninth commonly contacted the first people he had met in this incarnation (As far as we know, at least); in this case, Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler, and Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey. Despite his apparent dislike of the two of them, reflected on such occasions as The Doctor being unwilling to even thank Mickey after his assistance proved vital in saving innocent lives while battling the Quervils in "Winner Takes All", it was evident that he appreciated them in his own way; he respected Jackie's concerns about her daughter travelling with him, and entrusted Mickey with a virus that would wipe all information relating to The Doctor from the internet, although Mickey never apparently used it. This version of The Doctor also possessed a wider variety of gadgets than before. While other Doctors were content with merely using the sonic screwdriver to get out of awkward situations (Baring the brief period when it was destroyed, for obvious reasons), the Ninth Doctor, while using a modified sonic screwdriver with far more functions than his old versions, was also known to use psychic paper, with which he could show anyone looking at it whatever he wanted them to see, thus providing himself with ready-made 'official documentation' whenever he needed it. On their second adventure, The Doctor modified Rose's mobile phone so that she could call home from wherever - or even whenever - she was (As well as the more basic advantage of allowing her to call home even if normal phones couldn't receive a signal in her current location, such as when they were trapped in the Downing Street cabinet room).
The Doctor’s darker side was eventually demonstrated in "Dalek", when The Doctor and Rose arrived in the alien collection of billionaire Henry Van Statten and The Doctor was asked to look at Van Statten's only live specimen - a Dalek (Specifically, what The Doctor believed to be the last Dalek in the universe). In the confrontation with it, The Doctor showed a side of himself that had never been seen before; the side that not only truly hated the Dalek, but actually took delight in its pain and frustration, as well as its helplessness due to a damaged gun, The Doctor confidently proclaiming his role in the destruction of the Dalek fleet before becoming more melancholy when the Dalek’s questions forced him to recognise his status as the last of his kind. The Doctor was initially angry at the Dalek claiming that the two were the same - both the last of their kind - but then claimed that it had a point, as he knew what it deserved. The Doctor then showed his vicious side in the confrontation with the Dalek, sending massive electric shocks through it and dismissing its plea to have pity where past Doctors would take the Daleks’ lack of mercy as a reason to show it. As the Dalek broke out of its cell and began to advance out of the underground base, The Doctor ordered it to die after establishing a video communication with it, to which the Dalek replied that 'You [The Doctor] would make a good Dalek'. When Rose was cornered by the Dalek, The Doctor took up an alien gun to stop it, but, in the confrontation between him and the Dalek, it took Rose to point out that the Dalek had changed... and The Doctor realised that, if he continued what he was doing, he too would have changed into what he'd always fought.
Aliens of London/World War Three
This Doctor’s greater hostility was further explored during confrontations with his own companions. During a trip to Satellite Five in the year 200,000, new companion Adam Mitchell attempted to transfer information from the future back into his own time after having a chip planted in his head, nearly resulting in a being called the Jagrafess gaining access to the TARDIS, until another resident of the space station where they'd landed managed to shut the Jagrafess down ("The Long Game"). Despite the fact that no harm had been done, outraged at Adam’s violation of his trust, The Doctor took him home and kicked him off the TARDIS in a fit of rage, condemning him to a lifetime of non-importance as merely going inside meant he ran the risk of the implant being discovered and his head cut open by curious scientists. In the very next story, he then almost left Rose behind when she changed history to prevent her father dying, apparently only staying because the TARDIS had lost its link to its interior dimensions due to the destabilisation of reality, leaving The Doctor to battle the time-beasts known as the Reapers while they fed on the 'scar tissue' of the tear in time caused by Rose's actions.
Despite his hostility towards Rose, his time in the past also gave The Doctor a chance to show his kinder side; when trapped in a church and talking to a young couple about to get married, he told them that even though he’d travelled to places and done things they couldn’t imagine, he’d never had an ordinary life like them... and, on some level, it was obvious that he wished he could have had that chance, if the universe was only a kinder, safer place. His continued compassion for humanity was reflected during a later adventure in London in World War Two ("The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances"), where The Doctor not only gained a new companion in the form of ex-Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness but simultaneously saved the entire city from an infection by renegade nanogenes that Jack had unintentionally released on the city. Reprogramming the genes by discovering ‘Patient Zero’ - a young boy who had been unintentionally ‘infected’ with the genes and improperly repaired due to their lack of knowledge of human anatomy - The Doctor not only demonstrated his joy at the knowledge that he had managed to save everyone who had been altered by the nanogenes, but also displayed his continued fondness for humanity, praising the dedication of Doctor Constantine, who had continued to care for his nanogene-infected patients even when he had lost his entire family and had no idea what was wrong with the victims, and expressing great glee at being able to reunite a mother with her child by curing him of the ‘infection’, his optimism and general enthusiasm given a significant boost. The Doctor and Rose then departed, after picking up Jack as their new companion from his soon-to-self-destruct spaceship.
Boom Town
Shortly after this, The Doctor was transported back to Satellite Five ("Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways"), where he, Rose and Jack found themselves facing a new Dalek army that had been assembled by the Dalek Emperor, another survivor of the Time War, abducting humans by using seemingly fatal game shows - the shows apparently culminated in peoples’ deaths when in reality they were transmatted over to the Dalek ships and used to provide genetic samples to create new Daleks -, the controller of Satellite Five having defied her masters long enough to bring in The Doctor to stop them as the only man they had ever feared. While Rose and the TARDIS were sent to her home time, Jack organised the humans remaining on Satellite Five into a defence against the Daleks while The Doctor began construction of a delta wave emitter, a device that would fry the brain of every Dalek in the blast radius... and, unfortunately, every human on Earth as well, since The Doctor wouldn't have time to refine the blast in the hour or so before the Daleks arrived. As all the humans on Satellite Five fell in a desperate attempt to buy time for The Doctor, he completed construction of the delta wave emitter just as Dalek forces arrived in the control room with him... but, even though Earth had already been decimated by Dalek bombs, when faced with the chance to destroy the Daleks at the cost of whatever life was left on Earth, The Doctor refused, preferring to be a coward rather than commit genocide to vanquish the Daleks for a second time. Gleefully, the Emperor ordered The Doctor exterminated, but, at the last minute, Rose arrived, imbued with all the power of the Time Vortex, and using it to turn the entire Dalek fleet into dust. However, the vortex energy was so powerful that it would have killed her, so The Doctor was forced to take the energy into himself... along with all the damage Rose had already sustained. As Rose recovered in the TARDIS, having apparently forgotten everything about her brief reign as a god, The Doctor revealed that the energy of the Time Vortex was destroying every cell in his body, and he would soon regenerate, meaning that he wouldn't see her again 'with this daft old face'. Rose begged him not to talk like that, but The Doctor kept on talking, telling her 'Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know something? So was I'.
And, as the radiation of the Time Vortex burst from his sleeves and neck, transforming him into his tenth incarnation as the cells in his body died once and all, nobody watching could deny the truth of his last words to the universe. Even though he had a short life compared to his other selves, the Ninth Doctor had made an incredible impact on a new generation of viewers, bringing a modern-day legend back to our screens, reminding children that sofas weren't just for sitting on, and teaching a whole new generation that the police box was a widely-recognized symbol of heroism in a world that needed heroes like never before...
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Organized mainly by fans associations, conventions give fans the opportunity to participate in Q&A with the actors, take pictures with them, get autographs or spend a moment with them during a Meet & Greet.
A TV show, anime, comics or movie convention, is also the opportunity to participate to many activities during the event : quizz, lottery, karaoke... while meeting new people.
They also allow fans to chat with one another about a same center of interest and to return home with a lot of unforgettable memories.
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In addition to passes, organizers sell extras for activities with guests. These may include photo ops, autograph sessions, meet and greets, and so on. These must be purchased in addition to the pass. If you bought extras without a pass, you won't be able to do them, and you've wasted money.
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[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Sunday's episode of The Leftovers. Read at your own risk.]HBO's The Leftovers took a bit of a detour Sunday. Instead of continuing to focus on the Garvey family, the show dedicated an entire episode to the plight of Christopher Eccleston's Rev. Matt Jamison.Why The Leftovers isn't Lost: We're not "hoping to find out what happened," boss saysIn particular, we learned that Matt's wife (Janel Moloney) was critically injured during the Departure when she and Matt collided with a vehicle whose driver vanished. His congregation's numbers are dwindling (the townspeople justifiably upset by his smear campaign) and he is struggling to pay for his wife's full-time care. To add insult to injury...
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Ian David McShane (born September 29, 1942) is a British actor who portrayed Al Swearengen in HBO's Deadwood, and later reprised his role in Deadwood: The Movie. Him and Timothy Olyphant (Seth Bullock) were also listed as Executive Producers for the latter. McShane won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama and a TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for his role on the show, and furthermore was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Satellite Award, a TCA and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Biography[]
McShane was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the only child of Irene (née Cowley; born 1921) and professional footballer Harry McShane (1920–2012). His father was Scottish, from Holytown, Lanarkshire, and his mother, who was born in England, was of Irish and English descent. McShane grew up in Davyhulme in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), and attended Stretford Grammar School. After being a member of the National Youth Theatre, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), alongside Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. McShane shared a flat with Hurt, whom he called his "oldest friend in the business", and was still a student at RADA when he appeared (along with Hurt) in his first film The Wild and the Willing (1962).[1]
He is known for his television performances, particularly the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and currently portrays Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–present). His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast (2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda (2008), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston in the John Wick film series (2014–2019).[1]
Credits[]
Season 1[]
"Deadwood" Al Swearengen
"Deep Water" Al Swearengen
"Reconnoitering the Rim" Al Swearengen
"Here Was a Man" Al Swearengen
"The Trial of Jack McCall" Al Swearengen
"Plague" Al Swearengen
"Bullock Returns to the Camp" Al Swearengen
"Suffer the Little Children" Al Swearengen
"No Other Sons or Daughters" Al Swearengen
"Mister Wu" Al Swearengen
"Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking" Al Swearengen
"Sold Under Sin" Al Swearengen
Season 2[]
"A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I" Al Swearengen
"A Lie Agreed Upon: Part II" Al Swearengen
"New Money" Al Swearengen
"Requiem for a Gleet" Al Swearengen
"Complications" Al Swearengen
"Something Very Expensive" Al Swearengen
"E.B. Was Left Out" Al Swearengen
"Childish Things" Al Swearengen
"Amalgamation and Capital" Al Swearengen
"Advances, None Miraculous" Al Swearengen
"The Whores Can Come" Al Swearengen
"Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To" Al Swearengen
Season 3[]
"Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" Al Swearengen
"I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For" Al Swearengen
"True Colors" Al Swearengen
"Full Faith and Credit" Al Swearengen
"A Two-Headed Beast" Al Swearengen
"A Rich Find" Al Swearengen
"Unauthorized Cinnamon" Al Swearengen
"Leviathan Smiles" Al Swearengen
"Amateur Night" Al Swearengen
"A Constant Throb" Al Swearengen
"The Catbird Seat" Al Swearengen
"Tell Him Something Pretty" Al Swearengen
Movie[]
"Deadwood: The Movie" Al Swearengen
Filmography[]
Films[]
Young and Willing as Harry Brown (1962)
The Pleasure Girls as Keith Dexter (1965)
Gypsy Girl as Roibin (1966)
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Charlie Cartwright (1969)
Battle of Britain as Sgt. Pilot Andy (1969)
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You as Fred C. Dobbs (1970)
Performance as Noel (voice) (1970)
Tam Lin as Tom Lynn (1970)
Villain as Wolfe Lissner (1971)
Sitting Target as Birdy Williams (1972)
Left Hand of Gemini (1972)
The Last of Sheila as Anthony (1973)
The Terrorists as Petrie (1974)
Journey Into Fear as Banat (1975)
The Lives of Jenny Dolan as Saunders (TV Movie, 1975)
Code Name: Diamond Head as Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler (TV Movie, 1977)
A Month in the Country as Beliayev (TV Movie, 1977)
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery as The Brain (1979)
The Fifth Musketeer as Fouquet (1979)
Yesterday's Hero as Rod Turner (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her as Dr. Alfred Sunshine (1980)
The Letter as Geoff (TV Movie, 1982)
Freelance as Mitch (1982)
Exposed as Greg Miller (1983)
Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durrant (1984)
Torchlight as Sidney (1984)
Too Scared to Scream as Vincent Hardwick (1984)
Braker as Alan Roswell (TV Movie, 1985)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Prefect of Police (TV Movie, 1986)
Grand Larceny as Flanagan (TV Movie, 1987)
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Roger Bushell (TV Movie, 1988)
Chain Letter as The Messenger of Death (TV Movie, 1988)
Dick Francis: Blood Sport as David Cleveland (TV Movie, 1989)
Dick Francis: In the Frame as David Cleveland (TV Movie, 1989)
Dick Francis: Twice Shy as David Cleveland (TV Movie, 1989)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception as Andre Marchand (TV Movie, 1990)
White Goods as Ian Deegan (TV Movie, 1994)
Soul Survivors as Otis Cooke (TV Movie, 1995)
Babylon 5: The River of Souls as Robert Bryson, Ph.D. (TV Movie, 1998)
D.R.E.A.M. Team as Oliver Maxwell (TV Movie, 1999)
Sexy Beast as Teddy Bass (2000)
Man and Boy as Marty Mann (TV Movie, 2002)
Bollywood Queen as Frank (2002)
Agent Cody Banks as Brinkman (2003)
Nemesis Game as Jeff Novak (2003)
Nine Lives as Larry (2005)
Scoop as Joe Strombel (2006)
We Are Marshall as Paul Griffen (2006)
Shrek the Third as Captain Hook (voice) (2007)
Hot Rod as Frank Powell (2007)
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising as Merriman Lyon (2007)
The Golden Compass as Ragnar Sturlusson (voice) (2007)
Kung Fu Panda as Tai Lung (voice) (2008)
Death Race as Coach (2008)
Coraline as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice) (2009)
Case 39 as Detective Barron (2009)
44 Inch Chest as Meredith (2009)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Narrator (2010)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Blackbeard (2011)
Snow White and the Huntsman as Beith (2012)
Jack the Giant Slayer as King Brahmwell (2013)
Cuban Fury as Ron Parfitt (2014)
Hercules as Amphiaraus (2014)
El nino as Inglés (2014)
John Wick as Winston (2014)
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero as Umayya (voice) (2015)
The Brothers Grimsby as MI6 Spy Boss (2016)
The Hollow Point as Leland (2016)
John Wick: Chapter 2 as Winston (2017)
Jawbone as Joe Padgett (2017)
Pottersville as Bart (2017)
A Wizard's Tale as The Grump (voice) (2018)
Hellboy as Professor Broom (2019)
Bolden as Judge Perry (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Winston (2019)
Deadwood: The Movie as Al Swearengen (TV Movie, 2019)
My Father's Dragon as Saiwa (voice) (2022)
John Wick: Chapter 4 as Winston (2023)
TV Series[]
First Night as Max (1963)
Z Cars as Barry Hepworth (1964)
Love Story as George Mason (1964)
The Sullavan Brothers as David Hemming (1964)
Redcap as Sapper Russell (1964)
You Can't Win as Joe Lunn (1966)
Armchair Theatre as Geoffrey / Roddy Cain (1962, 1966)
ITV Play of the Week as Mick / Frank Barnes / Arthur / Alan Gauge (1963-1964, 1966)
The Wednesday Play as Frank (1966)
Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff (1967)
Rogues' Gallery as David Garrick (1969)
ITV Sunday Night Theatre as Ken Harrison / David Garrick (1969, 1972)
ITV Playhouse as Derek / Tom / Caulfield (1968, 1970, 1974)
Space: 1999 as Anton Zoref (1975)
Matt Helm as Paul (1975)
Police Woman as Dan Markson (1975)
Most Wanted as Colin Wyatt (1976)
Roots as Sir Eric Russell (1977)
The Fantastic Journey as Sir James Camden (1977)
Jesus of Nazareth as Judas Iscariot (1977)
Will Shakespeare as Christopher Marlowe (1978)
Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic as Benjamin Disraeli (1978)
The Pirate as Rashid (1978)
Armchair Thriller as Curtis (1980)
Magnum, P.I. as Edwin Clutterbuck / David Norman (1981-1982)
The Quest (1982)
Marco Polo as Ali Ben Yussouf (1982)
Grace Kelly as Prince Rainier of Monaco (1983)
Bare Essence as Niko Theophilus (1983)
A.D. as Sejanus (1985)
Evergreen as Paul Lerner (1985)
American Playhouse as Willy Wax (1986)
CBS Summer Playhouse as Marbury (1987)
The Dirty Dozen as Lindberger (1988)
Minder as Jack Last (1989)
Young Charlie Chaplin as Charles Chaplin Snr (1989)
War and Remembrance as Philip Rule (1988-1989)
Dallas as Don Lockwood (1989)
Miami Vice as Gen. Manuel Borbon / Esteban Montoya (1987, 1989)
Columbo as Leland St. John (1990)
Chillers as Steven Castle (1990)
Lovejoy as Lovejoy (1986-1994)
Madson as John Madson (1996)
The Naked Truth as Leland Banks (1997)
Thieves as Jack (2001)
In Deep as Jamie Lamb (2002)
The West Wing as Russian Negotiator Nikolai Ivanovich (2002)
Trust as Alan Cooper-Fozzard (2003)
The Twilight Zone as Chandler (2003)
Deadwood as Al Swearengen (2004-2006)
SpongeBob SquarePants as Gordon (voice) (2008)
Kings as King Silas Benjamin (2009)
The Pillars of the Earth as Waleran Bigod (2010)
American Horror Story as Leigh Emerson (2012)
Ray Donovan as Andrew Finney (2015)
Doctor Thorne as Sir Roger Scatcherd (2016)
Game of Thrones as Brother Ray (2016)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sir Tobias Moore (2019)
American Gods as Mr. Wednesday (2017-2021)
The Simpsons as Artemis (voice) (2021)
One Piece as Narrator (voice) (2023)
Video Games[]
John Wick Hex as Winston (voice) (2019)
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Christopher Eccleston ( born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005, he became the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who.
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Nearly nine years after the "Doctor Who: The Movie", and almost sixteen years after the last episode of the television series was aired, The Doctor finally returned to our screens, with a new face, a new companion, a new TARDIS console room, and an all-new backstory... if a bit of a confusing one.
Unlike with all previous new Doctors, the audience did not have the chance to see this new Doctor’s regeneration at first, simply starting out with him already fairly comfortable with his new body (Although the fact that he looked at a mirror and commented on his ears in "Rose" suggests that it happened only shortly before he appeared for the first time). While we have learned that the Eighth Doctor initially regenerated into the ‘War Doctor’ incarnation during the devastating Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks before he regenerated into this incarnation ("Night of The Doctor"), since the later Doctors officially considered the War Doctor to not be ‘The Doctor’ due to the actions taken by that body when he triggered the galaxy-destroying Moment to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks, this incarnation is thus The Doctor’s official ninth incarnation despite being the Doctor’s tenth body overall. While the Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctors were later able to redeem the War Doctor by helping him save Gallifrey by sending it to an unknown pocket universe ("The Day of The Doctor"), the War Doctor’s memories of their plan were erased as he departed and regenerated, resulting in him being left convinced that he had destroyed Gallifrey as he had originally intended.
The Doctor in "Rose"
While we are unaware what happened to him immediately after his regeneration, the end result is the same; the Ninth Doctor, tracking his old foes the Nestene Consciousness shortly after his regeneration, arrived on Earth in London, 2005, and, while tracking the Nestene signal, met shop assistant Rose Tyler as he checked out a department store where Nestene energy had been detected ("Rose"). With Rose's help, The Doctor was able to track the main Nestene Consciousness to its base under the London Eye, where Rose was able to take it out with a sample of antiplastic The Doctor had prepared earlier while The Doctor fought with an Auton. Having defeated the Consciousness, The Doctor offered Rose the chance to travel with him, but Rose initially rejected the offer, prompting The Doctor to depart on his own, concluding that he was still too new to this incarnation to have a companion. However, after a brief trip with new potential companion Ali - which nearly went wrong due to Ali’s nature as a Karkinian causing her to approach threats in a more violent manner than The Doctor might prefer ("The Beast of Babylon") - The Doctor returned to Rose based on Ali’s suggestion, informing her that the TARDIS travelled in time as well as space. Her interest inspired once more, Rose thus joined the Ninth Doctor for the trip of a lifetime with this newest of Doctors.
From the beginning, it was obvious that this Doctor was, in many obvious ways, far more human than the others, even if his means of expressing it made it clear that he was still very alien. Throughout the series, even in minor, subtle ways, it was apparent that he cared a great deal for his companion Rose Tyler, holding hands with her on several occasions and actually being jealous of her still-close friendship with her ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith - who he commonly referred to as 'Ricky' to avoid admitting that he didn't remember his name -, occasionally referring to Mickey as ‘the Idiot’. Throughout his life, however, despite his normally light-hearted appearance, he had a melancholy and lonely personality, which he mainly concealed with the habit his past selves had of making jokes in the face of danger, only letting his 'guard' down when he was alone. His loneliness could be attributed to his guilt at being the last survivor of the Time War, all other Time Lords having lost their lives in the conflict, leaving him to deal with the guilt and knowledge that he had survived the destruction of his entire race.
In many ways, however, he combined some of the best qualities of his previous selves; the frivolity and emotional availability of the Eighth Doctor, the ingenuity of the Third Doctor, the apparent vulnerability of the Fifth Doctor, the keen sense of humour of the Second Doctor (As well as the early Seventh Doctor), the depth of feeling of the Sixth Doctor, the (occasional) irascibility of the First Doctor, and the quirkiness and refusal to be mistaken for a human of the Fourth Doctor. On some occasions he also demonstrated a certain enthusiasm for his travels, showing great excitement when he met Charles Dickens ("The Unquiet Dead"), and occasionally philosophically musing about various minor matters, such as when he commenting that humanity spent so much time wondering about how they would die that they never considered the possibility that they might survive ("The End of the World") or when he reflected that a flower Rose had found on her first trip to an alien world could be the local equivalent of a daisy or the rarest flower in the universe ("The Monsters Inside"). He also displayed his past selves' dislike of violence, although like many of them, he wasn't afraid to use it if he had to, taking up a gun in "Dalek", breaking a window with a robot’s head to escape an underwater tunnel - although this can be excused due to the sonic screwdriver having been stolen - ("The Clockwise Man"), and knocking out a guard in "Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways". However, his temper was far more apparent than in past lives; unlike the Fourth Doctor, who once said 'It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favourite species', the Ninth Doctor often referred to humans as 'stupid apes', and showed less patience with them than he used to, sometimes seeming unimpressed by their mental and observational qualities, yet at the same time wanting to protect them and other species.
Ironically, despite his disdain for humans’ intellectual abilities, this Doctor occasionally appeared less intelligent than other incarnations, requiring others to save him by coming up with their own plans where other Doctors could have come up with escape strategies on their own or never fallen into those traps in the first place, such as The Gelth tricking him into helping them spread over London ("The Unquiet Dead"). He also fell victim to minor deceptions such as his jacket being stolen while he was attending a dinner ("The Clockwise Man"), and needed help identifying The Slitheen's planet of origin by having his companions go over the facts available about them so that he could narrow down the options ("Aliens of London/World War Three"). He also regularly displayed a certain lack of the ‘on-the-spot’ initiative that had often characterised some of his previous selves, such as when he locked himself and his companions in the conference room of 10 Downing Street to escape The Slitheen without considering how he would defeat the invasion trapped inside the conference room ("Aliens of London/World War Three") or gave himself the ‘alias’ of ‘Doctor Table’ to rescue a Neanderthal from a hospital rather than come up with something more original ("Only Human"). Despite this, he still had a significant amount of raw intelligence, quickly determining how to reverse teleportation systems to prevent his enemies escaping ("The End of the World" and "Boom Town"), giving Rose instructions that allowed her to pose as an astrophysicist using code phrases that only they would understand ("The Monsters Inside"), refining a gene that would allow humans in the vicinity to temporarily breathe fire using a rogue geneticist’s equipment ("Only Human") and putting together a Delta Wave emitter in under an hour despite his initial claim that it would take three weeks (Although this may have been referring to the time he would need to refine it to only target his enemies rather than a setting that would kill everything).
This Doctor is also noteworthy as, for the first time since the UNIT era, The Doctor actually had regular contacts on his visits to Earth, rather than just meeting up with someone already involved in the crisis and enlisting their aid in sorting it out. Like the Third Doctor, the Ninth commonly contacted the first people he had met in this incarnation (As far as we know, at least); in this case, Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler, and Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey. Despite his apparent dislike of the two of them, reflected on such occasions as The Doctor being unwilling to even thank Mickey after his assistance proved vital in saving innocent lives while battling the Quervils in "Winner Takes All", it was evident that he appreciated them in his own way; he respected Jackie's concerns about her daughter travelling with him, and entrusted Mickey with a virus that would wipe all information relating to The Doctor from the internet, although Mickey never apparently used it. This version of The Doctor also possessed a wider variety of gadgets than before. While other Doctors were content with merely using the sonic screwdriver to get out of awkward situations (Baring the brief period when it was destroyed, for obvious reasons), the Ninth Doctor, while using a modified sonic screwdriver with far more functions than his old versions, was also known to use psychic paper, with which he could show anyone looking at it whatever he wanted them to see, thus providing himself with ready-made 'official documentation' whenever he needed it. On their second adventure, The Doctor modified Rose's mobile phone so that she could call home from wherever - or even whenever - she was (As well as the more basic advantage of allowing her to call home even if normal phones couldn't receive a signal in her current location, such as when they were trapped in the Downing Street cabinet room).
The Doctor’s darker side was eventually demonstrated in "Dalek", when The Doctor and Rose arrived in the alien collection of billionaire Henry Van Statten and The Doctor was asked to look at Van Statten's only live specimen - a Dalek (Specifically, what The Doctor believed to be the last Dalek in the universe). In the confrontation with it, The Doctor showed a side of himself that had never been seen before; the side that not only truly hated the Dalek, but actually took delight in its pain and frustration, as well as its helplessness due to a damaged gun, The Doctor confidently proclaiming his role in the destruction of the Dalek fleet before becoming more melancholy when the Dalek’s questions forced him to recognise his status as the last of his kind. The Doctor was initially angry at the Dalek claiming that the two were the same - both the last of their kind - but then claimed that it had a point, as he knew what it deserved. The Doctor then showed his vicious side in the confrontation with the Dalek, sending massive electric shocks through it and dismissing its plea to have pity where past Doctors would take the Daleks’ lack of mercy as a reason to show it. As the Dalek broke out of its cell and began to advance out of the underground base, The Doctor ordered it to die after establishing a video communication with it, to which the Dalek replied that 'You [The Doctor] would make a good Dalek'. When Rose was cornered by the Dalek, The Doctor took up an alien gun to stop it, but, in the confrontation between him and the Dalek, it took Rose to point out that the Dalek had changed... and The Doctor realised that, if he continued what he was doing, he too would have changed into what he'd always fought.
Aliens of London/World War Three
This Doctor’s greater hostility was further explored during confrontations with his own companions. During a trip to Satellite Five in the year 200,000, new companion Adam Mitchell attempted to transfer information from the future back into his own time after having a chip planted in his head, nearly resulting in a being called the Jagrafess gaining access to the TARDIS, until another resident of the space station where they'd landed managed to shut the Jagrafess down ("The Long Game"). Despite the fact that no harm had been done, outraged at Adam’s violation of his trust, The Doctor took him home and kicked him off the TARDIS in a fit of rage, condemning him to a lifetime of non-importance as merely going inside meant he ran the risk of the implant being discovered and his head cut open by curious scientists. In the very next story, he then almost left Rose behind when she changed history to prevent her father dying, apparently only staying because the TARDIS had lost its link to its interior dimensions due to the destabilisation of reality, leaving The Doctor to battle the time-beasts known as the Reapers while they fed on the 'scar tissue' of the tear in time caused by Rose's actions.
Despite his hostility towards Rose, his time in the past also gave The Doctor a chance to show his kinder side; when trapped in a church and talking to a young couple about to get married, he told them that even though he’d travelled to places and done things they couldn’t imagine, he’d never had an ordinary life like them... and, on some level, it was obvious that he wished he could have had that chance, if the universe was only a kinder, safer place. His continued compassion for humanity was reflected during a later adventure in London in World War Two ("The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances"), where The Doctor not only gained a new companion in the form of ex-Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness but simultaneously saved the entire city from an infection by renegade nanogenes that Jack had unintentionally released on the city. Reprogramming the genes by discovering ‘Patient Zero’ - a young boy who had been unintentionally ‘infected’ with the genes and improperly repaired due to their lack of knowledge of human anatomy - The Doctor not only demonstrated his joy at the knowledge that he had managed to save everyone who had been altered by the nanogenes, but also displayed his continued fondness for humanity, praising the dedication of Doctor Constantine, who had continued to care for his nanogene-infected patients even when he had lost his entire family and had no idea what was wrong with the victims, and expressing great glee at being able to reunite a mother with her child by curing him of the ‘infection’, his optimism and general enthusiasm given a significant boost. The Doctor and Rose then departed, after picking up Jack as their new companion from his soon-to-self-destruct spaceship.
Boom Town
Shortly after this, The Doctor was transported back to Satellite Five ("Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways"), where he, Rose and Jack found themselves facing a new Dalek army that had been assembled by the Dalek Emperor, another survivor of the Time War, abducting humans by using seemingly fatal game shows - the shows apparently culminated in peoples’ deaths when in reality they were transmatted over to the Dalek ships and used to provide genetic samples to create new Daleks -, the controller of Satellite Five having defied her masters long enough to bring in The Doctor to stop them as the only man they had ever feared. While Rose and the TARDIS were sent to her home time, Jack organised the humans remaining on Satellite Five into a defence against the Daleks while The Doctor began construction of a delta wave emitter, a device that would fry the brain of every Dalek in the blast radius... and, unfortunately, every human on Earth as well, since The Doctor wouldn't have time to refine the blast in the hour or so before the Daleks arrived. As all the humans on Satellite Five fell in a desperate attempt to buy time for The Doctor, he completed construction of the delta wave emitter just as Dalek forces arrived in the control room with him... but, even though Earth had already been decimated by Dalek bombs, when faced with the chance to destroy the Daleks at the cost of whatever life was left on Earth, The Doctor refused, preferring to be a coward rather than commit genocide to vanquish the Daleks for a second time. Gleefully, the Emperor ordered The Doctor exterminated, but, at the last minute, Rose arrived, imbued with all the power of the Time Vortex, and using it to turn the entire Dalek fleet into dust. However, the vortex energy was so powerful that it would have killed her, so The Doctor was forced to take the energy into himself... along with all the damage Rose had already sustained. As Rose recovered in the TARDIS, having apparently forgotten everything about her brief reign as a god, The Doctor revealed that the energy of the Time Vortex was destroying every cell in his body, and he would soon regenerate, meaning that he wouldn't see her again 'with this daft old face'. Rose begged him not to talk like that, but The Doctor kept on talking, telling her 'Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know something? So was I'.
And, as the radiation of the Time Vortex burst from his sleeves and neck, transforming him into his tenth incarnation as the cells in his body died once and all, nobody watching could deny the truth of his last words to the universe. Even though he had a short life compared to his other selves, the Ninth Doctor had made an incredible impact on a new generation of viewers, bringing a modern-day legend back to our screens, reminding children that sofas weren't just for sitting on, and teaching a whole new generation that the police box was a widely-recognized symbol of heroism in a world that needed heroes like never before...
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The latest season of The Crown on Netflix continues the fictional dramatisation of the life of the late Queen Elizabeth II, the history of the royal family and the events that shaped Elizabeth's reign.
While season 5 covered the Windsor Castle fire of 1992 and the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the first part of season 6 will focus on Princess Diana's final years, with Elizabeth Debicki continuing to play this key role.
The star-studded cast of The Crown season five included:
Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II
Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip
Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret
Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana
Dominic West as Prince Charles
Jonny Lee Miller as John Major
Bertie Carvel as Tony Blair
Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker-Bowles
They took over the roles from the likes of Claire Foy, Olivia Coleman, Emma Corrin, Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies, who played the lead roles in the earlier seasons.
Season 6 sees the return of most of these cast members. A few fresh faces will also join the cast of actors depicting core members of the Royal Family.
The young Prince William will be played by two relatively new actors - Rufus Kampa and Ed McVey - while Kate Middleton will be depicted by Meg Bellamy. Fflyn Edwards will be playing the young Prince Harry, while Prince Harry as a teen will be depicted by Luther Ford.
Believe it or not, Imelda Staunton - known for her role as Queen Elizabeth II - is married to Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, and their daughter is Bessie Carter of Bridgerton fame. Perhaps the acting genes run in the family.
We took to our family history records to uncover connections and stories for some of the other cast members, from a strong-willed miner to an outspoken journalist and a James Bond actor. Read on to see what we found.
Jonathan Pryce
Born in Flintshire in 1947, veteran actor Sir Jonathan Pryce has a whole host of acting credits to his name, from Game of Thrones to Tomorrow Never Dies and Pirates of the Caribbean. His family is predominantly Welsh, and his roots speak of strong characters in the face of adversity.
His great-grandfather, Elias Leighton, was at the center of a high-profile court case in 1872. His employer, Mr Ormiston of the Flint Marsh Colliery Company, withheld his wages. Elias refused to take this lying down, and sued the company.
Mr Ormiston appeared at the Flint Petty Sessions to answer the charges. According to the report, Elias and other employees had arrived at work, but found the conditions to be too dangerous and the ventilation poor. Nothing was done to improve this, and they refused to work. Elias and another, James Gore, were dismissed without notice.
Elias wasn’t the only one in Jonathan’s family tree to strive for something better. In 1946, Jonathan’s father, Isaac Price, wrote a letter to a local newspaper, stating his intentions to run as a candidate in the local elections.
Isaac and his wife Margaret ran Sycamore Stores in Holywell. They appear many times together in the newspapers attending local events. In his own words, Isaac says he will ‘endeavor to serve all alike irrespective of any political party'. This was just a year before Jonathan’s birth.
Ed McVey
Ed McVey's past is firmly rooted in the north of England, with ancestors from various northern counties, including Yorkshire where he and both of his parents are from.
Following the McVey line back to his paternal great-grandfather, we find William James McVey, born in 1888. The exact details of William's birth are elusive, due to a possible change to the spelling of his surname from McVeigh to McVey, as suggested by his probate record.
Here we also see that his son (and Ed’s grandfather) Michael William McVey was a farmer by trade. But interestingly, William’s own profession would see him pop up in a plethora of newspaper articles over the years...
The name William J. McVey F.A.I. (Fellow of the Auctioneers’ Institute) is littered across the classified pages of newspapers such as the Yorkshire Post, the Leeds Intelligencer and the Lancashire Daily Post.WIlliam can be found selling an impressive variety of items out of corner shops, cafés and residential properties.
From auctioneers to farmers and actors, the McVey family tree is a reminder of the change in occupations we see as we follow our ancestors through the generations.
Dominic West
Actor Dominic Gerald Francis Eagleton West is of Irish descent and was born in Yorkshire. His paternal grandmother was Winifred F Eagleton, who was born in Missouri to Irish-emigrant parents. We’ve been able to trace her migration story through our extensive genealogy records.
She appears on the 1910 US Census with her Irish-born parents, Thomas F Eagleton (1860) and Mary (1862). They immigrated in 1879 and 1885 respectively. Winifred and her brother Mark were both born in Missouri.
Her parents had left Ireland for the United States, and later, Winifred began to make her own journey. She filled out a passport application in 1921, not long after she appeared on the 1920 US Census with her brother. According to the application, she planned to travel for around a year, visiting Britain, France, Belgium and Holland.
Though she did return to the US aboard the Carmania in the same year from Southampton, she must have later returned to Britain. She married Dominic’s grandfather Harold Ernest George West in Manchester in 1924. Harold was the director of a chemical company and was no stranger to travel himself. We found him heading to Seattle in 1921 (aboard the Empress of Asia), and to New York in 1928, 1945 and 1947.
Jonny Lee Miller
Acting clearly runs in the genes for Jonny Lee Miller. He’s the grandson of Bernard Lee, who starred as M in 11 of the earlier James Bond films. Bernard Lee’s origins have always been a bit of a mystery. Until now.
Some say John Bernard Lee was born in London, others say in County Cork, Ireland. The release of the 1921 Census of England and Wales, exclusively online at Findmypast, cracked this case.
The record shows John Bernard Lee, born in Brentford, living with his brother Edmund, their mother Nellie, and their stepfather, Welshman Edward Owen Jones in West Derby, Liverpool.
At some point between the 1911 and 1921 censuses, Jonny’s great-grandfather, Charles Edmund Lee, died. We know this because the family appears on the 1911 Census, but Nellie has remarried by 1921.
Charles Edmund Lee was also an actor, and was born in Armagh in 1864 - key details gleaned from the 1911 Census. We believe Charles died in 1917, spotting his will from that year.
Thanks to the 1921 Census, Jonny can now trace his ancestry back further than ever before. There’s no end to the secrets and surprises waiting to be unlocked, especially now that the 1921 Census is included in our Premium subscription.
Bertie Carvel
A connection to politics runs strong for the actor playing Labour prime minister Tony Blair. Bertie Carvel’s great-grandfather was John Lees Carvel, a parliamentary journalist for The Star. He served in the Royal Navy Air Force as a lieutenant during the First World War.
In 1947, he published remarks made to him by the Labour Chancellor, Hugh Dalton, about the upcoming budget. The prime minister at the time was Clement Attlee.
The news made the evening papers. The stock market was still open, and it caused economic chaos. As a result of the leak, Dalton quickly resigned.
As we binge season 6 of The Crown on Netflix, there's no better time to delve into the fascinating tales that lie within our very own family's past.
If you're ready to uncover secrets, surprises and scandals, start your journey with Findmypast today - and don't forget to share your discoveries with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Image credits:
Jonathan Pryce, Georges Biard, Wikimedia Commons
Jonny Lee Miller, Genevieve719 on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons
Lesley Manville, Mark Kari, Wikimedia Commons
Dominic West, Ian Smith, Wikimedia Commons
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Christopher Eccleston is an English actor, who, for Disney, played Raymond Calitri in the 2000 Touchstone Pictures film Gone in 60 Seconds, Malekith in the 2013 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: The Dark World, and Jabez Wolffe in Young Woman and the Sea.
Eccleston was born in 1964 and attended Joseph Eastham High School before going Salford Tech for a two-year Performance Foundation Course and then went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Underemployed as an actor for some years after graduating from college, he took a variety of odd jobs at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.
He soon established himself in the industry with films such as Let Him Have It, Our Friends in the North, Jude, 28 Days Later, Elizabeth, The Others, and Revengers Tragedy. He eventually became best known for his role as the Ninth Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who in 2005, although he only stayed for the first season due to a strained relationship with higher-ranking members of the production team, and was succeeded by David Tennant. Following Doctor Who, Eccleston went on to other television shows such Heroes, The Shadow Line, Blackout, The Leftovers, The A Word, Dodger, and True Detective.
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Eccleston, along with fellow Doctor Who actors, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Peter Capaldi, have all played a comic book villain sometime after their tenure on the series.
His characterization of The Doctor was parodied in The Muppets Take the O2 when Rizzo appeared dressed as the Ninth Doctor.
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Christopher Eccleston ( ; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor whose work has encompassed Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films, television dramas, Shakespearean stage performances and science fiction, most notably the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who (2005). He starred as Matt Jamison in The Leftovers (2014–2017), and has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom.
He won an International Emmy Award for his performance in Accused (2010). On stage, he has played the title roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth, and starred in Strindberg's Miss Julie, Ibsen's A Doll's House, as well as the Greek tragedy Antigone. Since 2017, he has narrated the documentary series Ambulance.
He first rose to prominence for his portrayal of Derek Bentley in the 1991 film, Let Him Have It. His television performance in Our Friends in the North (1996) resulted in his first BAFTA Award nomination. Seven years later, he got a second nomination for The Second Coming (2003).[1]
Early life
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Eccleston was born on 16 February 1964 into a working-class family in the Langworthy area of Salford, Lancashire,[a] the son of Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston.[2] He has twin brothers, Alan and Keith, who were born eight years before he was.[3][4][5] On his religious upbringing, he said, "My dad's family were Catholic. My mum was very Church of England – still is – but it doesn't work for me."
The family lived in a small terraced house on Blodwell Street before moving to Little Hulton when Eccleston was seven months old.[6][7][8] He attended Joseph Eastham High School, where he became head boy.[9]
At the age of 19, Eccleston was inspired to pursue acting by such television dramas as Boys from the Blackstuff. He completed a two-year Performance Foundation Course at Salford Tech,[10] then went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[11] He was influenced in his early years by Ken Loach's film Kes and Albert Finney's performance in the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. However, he soon found himself performing the classics, including the works of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, and Molière.
At the age of 25, he 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 from college, he took a variety of odd jobs: at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.[12]
Career
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Early work (1991–1994)
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Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the film Let Him Have It, and for a guest appearance in the Inspector Morse episode "Second Time Around", both 1991. The following year he portrayed Sean Maddox in the BBC miniseries Friday on my Mind.[13] A regular role in the hit crime drama Cracker (1993–94) brought him widespread recognition in the UK. After he decided to leave the series, in October 1994 his character was killed by the fictional serial killer Albie Kinsella (Robert Carlyle). At around the same time, Eccleston appeared in the Poirot episode "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe".
In 1994, he co-starred with Ewan McGregor in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave, and also landed the part of Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North, as part of an ensemble cast which featured Mark Strong, Gina McKee and Daniel Craig. The broadcast of the epic serial in 1996 on BBC Two helped to make Eccleston a household name in the UK. Also in 1996, he starred in the television film Hillsborough, written by Jimmy McGovern, portraying Trevor Hicks, who lost both of his daughters in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. When Hicks got married in March 2009, Eccleston was his best man.[14]
Established actor (1995–2004)
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During this period Eccleston built on his early successes, appearing in a wide variety of films and working with high profile directors including David Cronenberg in eXistenZ (1999), Michael Winterbottom in Jude (1996) and 24 Hour Party People (2002), and collaborated again with Danny Boyle on 28 Days Later (2002). He played the Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth (1998), appeared in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) - years before taking his driving test in January 2004[15] - and The Others (2001). Eccleston took the lead role in Revengers Tragedy (2002), adapted from Thomas Middleton's play of the same name.[16] He starred in the independent films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and The Invisible Circus (2001).
He also appeared in a variety of television roles, mostly British dramas, including Hearts and Minds (1995) for Channel 4, Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC, a modern version of Othello (2001), and the religious fantasy epic The Second Coming (2003) for ITV, in which he played Steve Baxter, the son of God. He made guest appearances in the comedy-drama Linda Green (2001) and the macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002). Eccleston appeared in Hamlet in the 2002 production at Leeds's West Yorkshire Playhouse. From March to April 2004, he returned to the venue in a play called Electricity.[17]
Eccleston has been twice nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards, both during this period, the first in 1997 when he lost to Nigel Hawthorne in The Fragile Heart. He was nominated again in 2004, losing to Bill Nighy who took the award for his performance in State of Play. Eccleston won the Best Actor category at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for Our Friends in the North. In 2003, he won the Royal Television Society Best Actor award for his performance in Flesh and Blood.[18]
Doctor Who: Main role, conventions, audio dramas (2005, 2006)
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On 2 April, 2004, the BBC revealed that Eccleston was to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of Doctor Who. Eccleston was the first actor born after the inception of the original series to play the role. It debuted on 26 March, 2005, and a few days later, on 30 March, the BBC released a statement, ostensibly from Eccleston, saying that he had decided to leave the role after just one series to avoid becoming typecast. On 4 April, the BBC revealed that the statement had been falsely attributed and released without Eccleston's consent. The broadcaster admitted that it had broken an agreement made in January not to disclose publicly that the actor had only intended to do one series. The statement had been issued following inquiries from journalists to the press office.[19] Following his departure, Eccleston was replaced by David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010.
For his performance, Eccleston won a National Television Award and was nominated for a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and BAFTA Cymru Award
On 11 June, 2005, when asked about his feelings about working on Doctor Who, Eccleston told a BBC interviewer: "Mixed, but that's a long story". Eccleston's reasons for leaving the role continued to be debated in Britain's newspapers: On 4 October, 2005 Alan Davies told The Daily Telegraph that Eccleston had been "overworked" by the BBC and had left the role because he was "exhausted".[20] Eccleston later stated that he had left the show because he "didn't enjoy the environment or the culture that the cast and crew had to work in", but that he was proud of having played the role.[21] He subsequently said: "My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming, and it never recovered."[22] Eccleston claimed that The Daily Telegraph's quote was partially falsified, stating that he "didn't find [the job], physically, too tiring. When The Telegraph said that, any other producer reading that would go 'Oh, no, we can't employ Chris Eccleston because he gets tired.' So, it was a lie."[23]
On 7 November, 2008, at the National Theatre to promote his book The Writer's Tale, Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies said that Eccleston's contract was for a single year because it was uncertain whether the show would continue beyond a single revival series.[citation needed] Eccleston was voted "Most Popular Actor" at the 2005 National Television Awards for his portrayal of the Doctor.[24] In July 2012, Eccleston spoke positively of his time on Doctor Who during a talk at the National Theatre.[25] This led to speculation he was considering making a return appearance as the Doctor for the show's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Matt Smith, who portrayed the Eleventh Doctor, stated that he would have loved Eccleston to return.[26] However, after discussions with executive producer Steven Moffat, Eccleston declined his role.[27] In a 2018 interview Eccleston said that the BBC had "put [him] on a blacklist" when he left.[28]
Eccleston began appearing as a guest at Doctor Who conventions for the first time in 2018, and continues to do so as of 2024.[29] He had previously expressed his reluctance to appear at conventions, saying in 2017 that he preferred to "just earn [his] living by acting".[30] He has since said that his experience of meeting fans at conventions "healed something in [him]" and made him re-evaluate his relationship to the series.[31]
On 9 August, 2020, it was announced that Eccleston would reprise his role of the Ninth Doctor in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, across four boxsets to be released between May 2021 and February 2022. This would be the first time he had portrayed the role in 16 years.[32] Eccleston was later confirmed to appear in a further four boxsets, releasing in 2022 and 2023,[33] as well as an episode of the 60th anniversary audio series Once and Future.[34] He has said that it is unlikely that he will reprise the role on television as his relationship with the BBC "has not healed".[23] When asked in 2023 what it would take for him to return to the character on television, Eccleston replied, "sack Russell T Davies, sack Jane Tranter, sack Phil Collinson, sack Julie Gardner and I'll come back."[35]
Other work (2005–2010)
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On 30 October 2005, Eccleston appeared on stage at The Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Navin Chowdhry, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. Eccleston sat on the 2nd Amazonas International Film Festival Film Jury in November 2005. The Canadian born director Norman Jewison was chairman of the Jury.[36] In December 2005, Eccleston travelled to Indonesia's Aceh province for the BBC Breakfast news programme, examining how survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami were rebuilding their lives.[37]
In March 2006, Eccleston appeared in the ITV documentary special Best Ever Muppet Moments as a commentator. In May 2006, he appeared as the narrator in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Lowry theatre in his home city of Salford. The theatre company with which he performed, Celebrity Pig (of which he is patron), is made up of learning disabled actors. In August 2006, Eccleston filmed New Orleans, Mon Amour with Elisabeth Moss. The film was directed by Michael Almereyda and shot in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. It was released in 2008 to film festivals in America and Italy.[citation needed]
Late in 2006 he starred in Perfect Parents, an ITV drama written and directed by Joe Ahearne, who had directed him in Doctor Who.[38] Eccleston joined the cast of the NBC TV series Heroes in the episode "Godsend", which was broadcast on 22 January 2007. Eccleston played a character named Claude who has the power of invisibility, and helps Peter Petrelli with his powers.[39] Eccleston appeared as the Rider in a film adaptation of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, which opened in the USA on 5 October 2007.
Eccleston appeared on the BBC Four World Cinema Award show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits such as The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Archie Panjabi. In 2009, Eccleston starred opposite Archie Panjabi in a short film called The Happiness Salesman. Eccleston agreed to do the film because of Panjabi and the fact that it was a winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition. He also appeared as the villainous Destro in the G.I. Joe film, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.[40] That same year, Eccleston also appeared in an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program and starred in the film Amelia as Fred Noonan alongside Richard Gere, Hilary Swank and Ewan McGregor.[41]
Eccleston was cast as John Lennon in a BBC production called Lennon Naked which aired in the UK on 23 June 2010,[42][43] with Eccleston playing the title role, and Naoko Mori, who had previously appeared with him in Doctor Who, as Yoko Ono. In November 2010, Eccleston starred in the first episode of BBC One anthology drama Accused. He won an International Emmy Award for his role. In May 2011, he starred as Joseph Bede in The Shadow Line, a seven-part television drama serial for BBC Two.[44]
Later work (2011–present)
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On 31 December 2011, Eccleston played the role of Pod Clock in an adaptation of Mary Norton's children's novel The Borrowers on BBC One. In July 2012, he starred in the political thriller Blackout on BBC One. In the same month, he starred as Creon in an adaptation of Antigone at the Royal National Theatre; his performance in the play was called "charismatic" and "intense".[45] In September 2012, Eccleston starred in the film Song for Marion, also known as Unfinished Song with Terence Stamp.[46]
In 2013, Eccleston portrayed the villainous Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Thor and the eighth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[47] Later that year, he played John Aspinall in Lucan, a mini-series about the disappearance of Lord Lucan.[48] From 2014 to 2017, Eccleston starred as Reverend Matt Jamison on the HBO drama series The Leftovers and earned consistent acclaim for his performance across all three seasons.[49] In 2015, Eccleston starred in the television series Fortitude as a scientist based in Arctic Norway alongside Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon[50] before he and Marsha Thomason played a married couple who own a guest house in the Lake District in the series Safe House.[51] Later in 2015, Eccleston starred as Leonard "Nipper" Read in Legend, a film about the Kray twins, opposite Tom Hardy.[52]
In 2016, Eccleston began appearing as Maurice Scott in the BBC drama The A Word. Maurice is the eccentric but lovable dad to his daughter who, with her husband, has an autistic son. The second series began airing in November 2017 both in the UK and the US, where The A Word airs on Sundance TV. A third series was confirmed and aired in the spring of 2020.[53][54]
Eccleston played the lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth in 2018. The production was streamed on BBC Four.[55] Also in 2018, Eccleston starred in two films; opposite Tom Wilkinson as crime boss Harvey in Dead in a Week or Your Money Back[56] and as a Nazi officer Heinz in Where Hands Touch.[57] That same year he appeared in King Lear as Oswald and in the television mini-series Come Home, the latter of which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor.[58] In 2021, Eccleston starred in the six-part television mini-series Close to Me.[59]
Further projects include playing Fagin in the series Dodger[60] and in a television adaptation of the award-winning novel My Name is Leon.[61]
He most recently played Captain Ted Connelly in season 4 of True Detective.
Personal life
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Eccleston married Mischka, a copywriter, in November 2011.[62] Their first child, a son named Albert, was born in February 2012.[63][64] Their second child, a daughter named Esme, was born in 2013.[6][65] They were divorced in December 2015.[66]
Eccleston is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United,[67] and was a regular marathon runner until 2000.[5][68]
In September 2007, as part of a £9.5 million building project, Salford's Pendleton College named its new 260-seat auditorium the Eccleston Theatre.[69]
Eccleston became a Mencap charity ambassador on 28 April 2005,[70] and is a supporter of the British Red Cross.[71] He also supports research for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; his father, Ronnie, had vascular dementia in his later years, from 1998 until his death in 2012.[72][73]
In his autobiography, Eccleston described chronic anorexia, body dysmorphia and depression, and said that he had considered suicide. Speaking about his poor mental health, he wrote that he was "a lifelong body hater".[74] He was hospitalised in 2016 with severe clinical depression.[75]
Eccleston is an atheist.[76]
Political views
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In politics, Eccleston has criticised the Conservative Party and expressed concern at opportunities for actors from his background to achieve his level of success in the future. He said in July 2017, "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. They hate us, they want to destroy us, so we're being ruled out of having a voice."[77]
Eccleston endorsed Labour Party incumbent Andy Burnham in the 2021 Greater Manchester mayoral election.[78]
Eccleston is a British republican who supports the abolition of the British monarchy.[79][80]
Filmography
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Film
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Year Title Role Notes 1991 Let Him Have It Derek Bentley 1992 Death and the Compass Alonso Zunz 1993 Anchoress Priest 1994 Shallow Grave David Stevens 1996 Jude Jude Fawley 1998 A Price Above Rubies Sender Horowitz Elizabeth Duke of Norfolk 1999 Heart Gary Ellis Existenz Seminar Leader With or Without You Vincent Boyd 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds Raymond Calitri 2001 The Others Charles Stewart The Invisible Circus Wolf 2002 24 Hour Party People Boethius I Am Dina Leo Zhukovsky Revengers Tragedy Vindici 28 Days Later Major Henry West 2007 The Seeker The Rider 2008 New Orleans, Mon Amour Dr. Henry 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra James McCullen / Destro Amelia Fred Noonan 2012 Song for Marion James Harris 2013 Thor: The Dark World Malekith 2015 Legend Leonard "Nipper" Read 2018 Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back) Harvey Where Hands Touch Heinz 2024 Young Woman and the Sea Jabez Wolffe TBA Whispers of Freedom Herbert Köfer
Television
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Year Title Role Notes 1990 Blood Rights Dick Episode: #1.1 Casualty Stephen Hills Episode: " A Reasonable Man" 1991 Inspector Morse Terrence Mitchell Episode: "Second Time Around" Chancer Radio Episode: "Jo" Boon Mark Episode: "Cover Up" 1992 Rachel's Dream Man in Dream TV film Poirot Frank Carter Episode: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" Friday on my Mind Sean Maddox 3 episodes Business with Friends Angel Morris TV film 1993–1994 Cracker DCI David Bilborough 10 episodes 1995 Hearts and Minds Drew Mackenzie 4 episodes 1996 Our Friends in the North Nicky Hutchinson 9 episodes Hillsborough Trevor Hicks TV film 2000 Wilderness Men Alexander Von Humboldt 3 episodes Clocking Off Jim Calvert 2 episodes 2001 Strumpet Strayman TV film Linda Green Tom Sherry / Neil Sherry Episode: "Twins" Othello Ben Jago TV film 2002 The League of Gentlemen Dougal Siepp Episode: "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk" Flesh and Blood Joe Broughton TV film The King and Us Anthony Sunday General Ford 2003 The Second Coming Stephen Baxter 2 episodes 2005 Doctor Who Ninth Doctor Series 1; 13 episodes 2006 Perfect Parents Stuart TV film 2007 Heroes Claude 5 episodes 2008 The Sarah Silverman Program Dr. Lazer Rage Episode: "I Thought My Dad Was Dead, But It Turns Out He's Not" 2010 Lennon Naked John Lennon TV film Accused Willy Houlihan Episode: "Willy's Story" 2011 The Shadow Line Joseph Bede All 7 episodes The Borrowers Pod Clock TV film 2012 Blackout Daniel Demoys All 3 episodes 2013 Lucan John Aspinall Both 2 episodes 2014–2017 The Leftovers Matt Jamison 23 episodes 2015 Fortitude Professor Stoddart 3 episodes Safe House Robert 4 episodes 2016 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern Luke Dunmore 2 episodes 2016–2020 The A Word Maurice Scott All 18 episodes 2017 Brian Pern: A Tribute Luke Dunmore TV film 2018 Come Home Greg All 3 episodes King Lear Oswald TV film Danger Mouse J. Woolington Sham Voice; Episode: "No More Mr Ice Guy" 2020 2019: A Year in the Life of a Year Himself TV film The Kemps: All True 2021 Close to Me Rob Harding All 6 episodes 2022 My Name is Leon Mr. Devlin TV film Would I Lie to You? Himself Series 16 Xmas Special 2022–2023 Dodger Fagin Main role; 12 episodes 2024 True Detective Captain Ted Connelly Season 4 Main Cast
Stage
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Year Title Role Notes 1988 A Streetcar Named Desire Pablo Gonzalez Bristol Old Vic 1989 Dona Rosita the Spinster Phyllida Lloyd 1990 Bent Lieutenant Royal National Theatre Abingdon Square Aide-Memoire Royal Court Theatre 1993 Waiting at the Water's Edge Will Bush Theatre 2000 Miss Julie Jean Haymarket Theatre 2002 Hamlet Hamlet West Yorkshire Playhouse 2004 Electricity Jakey 2009 A Doll's House Neil Kelman Donmar Warehouse 2012 Antigone Creon Royal National Theatre 2018 Macbeth Macbeth Royal Shakespeare Theatre Barbican Theatre, London 2023 NASSIM Traverse Theatre A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge The Old Vic
Woyzeck – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The Wonder – Gate Theatre
Encounters – National Theatre Studio
Short films
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Year Artist Title 2000 The Tyre Salesman 2001 This Little Piggy Cabbie 2010 The Happiness Salesman Salesman
Music videos
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Year Artist Title 2003 I Am Kloot "Proof" 2010 I Am Kloot "Northern Skies"
Radio and narration
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Year Title Role Notes 1998 Room of Leaves Frank Pig Paradise Jack 2001 Some Fantastic Place Narrator Bayeux Tapestry Harold 2002 The Importance of Being Morrissey Narrator Iliad Achilles 2003 Cromwell – Warts and All Narrator 2004 Life Half Spent Roger 2005 Crossing the Dark Sea Squaddie Sacred Nation Narrator Born to be Different Narrator A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Brian E=mc² (Einstein's Big Idea) Narrator Dubai Dreams Narrator Wanted: New Mum and Dad Narrator Children in Need Narrator This Sceptred Isle Various Characters 2005–2006 The Dark Side of Porn Narrator Season 1–2; 9 Episodes 2006 The 1970s: That Was The Decade That Was Narrator 2008 The Devil's Christmas Narrator 2009 Wounded Narrator 2011 The Bomb Squad Narrator 2012 Timeshift: Wrestling's Golden Age: Grapplers, Grunts & Grannies Narrator 2013 Nineteen Eighty-Four Protagonist 2016 The Last Miners Narrator 2 episodes 2017–present Ambulance Narrator 44 episodes 2017 Manchester: 100 Days After the Attack Narrator Television special 2019 Cold Bath Street, a Lancashire ghost story by A.J. Hartley Narrator I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me Narrator 2020 Schreber in Radio Three's dramatization by Anthony Burgess of the Memoir of Daniel Schreber Protagonist
Audio dramas
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Year Title Role Notes 2021–present Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Ninth Doctor Series 1–3; 34 episodes 2023 Doctor Who: Once and Future Episode: "Time Lord Immemorial"
Books
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Year Title Type 2019 I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me Autobiography
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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1997 Best Actor Our Friends in the North Nominated 2004 The Second Coming Nominated
BAFTA Cymru Awards
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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2005 Best Actor Doctor Who Nominated
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2011 Best Actor Accused Won 2019 Come Home Nominated
Others
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Year Work Award Category Result 1997 Jude Golden Satellite Award Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated Our Friends in the North Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actor Won 2003 Flesh and Blood Royal Television Society Award Best Actor Won 2005 Doctor Who TV Choice Award Best Actor Won National Television Awards Most Popular Actor Won Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actor Nominated 2007 Heroes SyFy Genre Awards Best Special Guest Nominated 2015 The Leftovers Satellite Award Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film Nominated Critics' Choice Television Award Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated 2016 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
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Christopher Eccleston (photo ©Benjamin Ellis) was born on February 16, 1964, in the Langworthy area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England.
When he was 19, Christopher Eccleston decided to become an actor after watching television dramas. After a two-year Performance Foundation Course at Salford Tech, he went to the Central School of Speech and Drama. He made his stage debut when he was 25 but for a few years was forced to do various jobs because he couldn’t find enough work.
In the early ’90s, Christopher Eccleston started finding regular roles in television and movie productions getting some attention thanks to the movie “Let Him Have It” in 1991. In 1993 he obtained a role in the regular cast of the TV show “Cracker” which brought him fame in the UK but the following year he asked to leave the show.
Christopher Eccleston’s fame at the national level increased with his participation in productions cush as the BBC drama “Our Friends in the North”. At the international level, he started being famous for his roles in various movies such as “Jude” (1996), “Elizabeth” (1998), “eXistenZ” (1999), “Gone in 60 Seconds” (2000), “The Others” (2001), and “28 Days Later” (2002).
Especially at the beginning of the last decade, Christopher Eccleston has participated in important but also controversial television productions such as “Clocking Off” (2000), “Flesh and Blood” (2002) and “The Second Coming” (2003). The last show was created and produced by Russell T Davies.
In 2004, it was announced that Christopher Eccleston would play the Ninth Doctor in the new “Doctor Who” series, with Russell T Davies as executive producer. The show brought great success to an already legendary saga and Eccleston was voted as the Most Popular Actor at the National Television Awards 2005. Nevertheless, he left the role after only one season.
Today the real reasons why Christopher Eccleston left “Doctor Who” after one season only are still open to debate. Since the beginning, several assumptions were made, starting from the idea that the actor didn’t want to be typecast as the Doctor. Over the years, Eccleston has released other statements, claiming he was proud to have played the Doctor but he didn’t like the environment of the show’s production.
Certain statements in 2012 by Christopher Eccleston seemed encouraging and there was hope for his participation in at least the special for the 50th “Doctor Who” Anniversary. He had also discussed it with executive producer Steven Moffat but in the end, he refused to play the Doctor again.
In recent years, Christopher Eccleston has participated in other stage, television, and movie productions. On TV he has appeared in several episodes of TV shows such as “Heroes” and “Shadow Line”. He played John Lennon in the TV movie “Lennon Naked”, in which Yoko Ono is played by Naoko Mori, who previously appeared with him in “Doctor Who”. He won an Emmy for his participation in the anthology drama “Accused”. At the cinema, he has appeared in a few movies such as “Thor: The Dark World”.
Christopher Eccleston is married and in February 2012 the couple had a son, Albert. He supports many charities and is an ambassador of Mencap, a British organization that works with people who suffer from learning disabilities. He’s also a supporter of the British Red Cross.
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The best TV shows of 2024, plus where to watch them and their UK release dates, from Squid Game to Industry season 2 and The Bear season 3.
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The best TV shows of 2024 are already coming in thick and fast. We've had Baby Reindeer sending the discourse machine into overdrive, meanwhile Amazon's Fallout series has continued the trend of truly great video game adaptations, making the long wait for The Last of Us season 2 a little bit more bearable.
But there's still much more to look forward to – from more Star Wars spin-offs to long-awaited seasons like The Diplomat, Heartstopper and Squid Game, plus new gems like British crime thriller Black Doves starring none other than Kiera Knightly.
Whether you're someone who likes to fill out their calendar with shows to keep a chart of or you simply need some light at the end of the tunnel to get you over the finish line of spring, here are all the best and most anticipated TV shows of 2024.
True Detective: Night Country
Release date: 14 January
As 2023 kicked off with a bang with The Last of Us, 2024 gave us the goods early on in True Detective: Night Country, the brilliant fourth season of our premier hit-and-miss crime anthology series (by that we mean it hasn't been very good since the first McConaughey-Harrelson season blew our tiny little minds). In retrospect, the recipe was always there: Jodie Foster low-key reprising Clarice from The Silence in the Lambs, the ominous Alaskan setting, Christopher Eccleston and supreme character actor John Hawkes on the cast sheet. Its mystery unfurled like a the hand of a thawing corpsicle, with a twist ending that served up thrilling, chilling justice. You can watch True Detective: Night Country on NOW.
One Day
Release date: 8 February
One moment you're rolling your eyes, thinking “well, this is a bit cheesy” and the next your trying not to physically sob, deeply emotionally attached to fictional characters Dexter and Emma (Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod) and unable to imagine a life in which you're not following their lives. When One Day came out in February it was an instant hit, in part for shallow reasons: the good-looking cast, the wall-to-wall ‘80s and ‘90s bangers, the fact it's a will-they-won't-they romance. But the David Nicholls adaptation was more than all that, tackling themes from male loneliness to substance issues to what it feels like when you still feel directionless in your 30s and beyond. You can watch One Day on Netflix.
Constellation
Release date: 24 February
TV shows set in space aren't always the most riveting are they? I mean, look, once you've seen one astronaut floating about while having a crisis, you've seen them all right? Even so, Apple TV+’s sci-fi venture Constellation – starring Noomi Rapace as a mega smart astronaut who swaps bodies with herself in a parallel universe after a space trip gone wrong – will appeal to even the most sci-fi weary among us. Most of it's action takes place back down on earth and it's more of a philosophical spider web than anything else. While it's not been renewed for a second season, there's more than enough to feast on in the first, and (nearly) everything gets neatly tied up anyway. You can watch Constellation on Apple TV+.
3 Body Problem
Release date: 21 March
You'd forgive David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for feeling as though they had nothing to prove after the barnstorming success of Game of Thrones, but that flop of a final season did a lot to harm their TV cred. Their follow-up 3 Body Problem, then, emerged under more scrutiny than you'd usually expect of a showrunner-pair's sophomore production, unhelped by the fact that readers of the original book broadly considered it unadaptable. Fortunately for our daring duo, the show mostly worked, not least helped by a coterie of Thrones alum on the ensemble, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham and Jonathan Pryce all putting in shifts that called back to the best of their Westerosi days. We deliberately haven't talked about the plot yet because it's a bit bonkers, defies spoiler-free explanation, and reader, you should go in blind. You can watch 3 Body Problem on Netflix.
Baby Reindeer
Release date: 11 April
Remember that, like, week-long period when everyone was having a bit of love-in about how good Baby Reindeer was? ‘Ah, what a nice surprise this is — a calling card for an exciting new voice in British TV, as Fleabag announced Phoebe Waller-Bridge to the world,’ we all said. And then people had to go and ruin it by being weird, tracking down the real-life woman that inspired creator Richard Gadd to write this notionally autobiographical story about a comedian stalked in London. Don't let the noise take away from it: rich, gripping, dark, eerie, staggeringly empathetic, and quite sad all-round, Baby Reindeer remains a TV debut that would be the envy of any budding dramatist. You can watch Baby Reindeer on Netflix.
Fallout
Release date: 12 April
Just over a year after The Last of Us blew common preconceptions about the quality of video game adaptations out of the water, Fallout arrived to nuke them for good; no longer shall we presume such films and shows to be dead on arrival. With its canny combination of fidelity to the game series it serves as a sequel to, a top-of-the-class ensemble of actors new (Ella Purnell, rising star) and old (Walton Goggins reclaiming his throne as king of the character actors), sexy zombie cowboys and mutated monstrosities, Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet's post-nuclear caper cemented itself as one of the shows of the year. Fans loved it, normies did too. And when does that ever happen? You can watch Fallout on Prime Video.
Eric
Release date: 30 May
It's 1980s New York and Vincent (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Cassie Anderson’s (Gaby Hoffmann) son has gone missing. What follows is a twisty, turny crime thriller that dabbles in the absurd as Vincent, a puppeteer, tries to recreate a puppet from his missing son's drawings (a monster named ‘Eric’) in an attempt to lure him home (I told you it was absurd). “Eric is a dark and crazy journey into the heart of ’80s New York – and the good, bad, and ugly world of Vincent,” creator Abi Morgan (The Hour, The Iron Lady, The Split) told Netflix. With it's hyper-saturated visuals and high-calibre cast, this one's got to be good. Bring on the Cumberbatch TV renaissance. You can watch Eric on Netflix.
The Acolyte
Release date: 4 June
Here comes another one of those Star Wars spin-offs on Disney+, then, ready to transport us to a world beyond the stars, in a galaxy far, far away. We're yet to see whether The Acolyte will be more Andor (brilliant) or The Book of Boba Fett (peak doomscrolling background TV), but with a cast boasting the likes of Bodies Bodies Bodies's Amandla Stenberg, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae and The Good Place's Manny Jacinto, they certainly have our attention. You can watch The Acolyte on Disney+.
Queenie
Release date: 4 June
After a messy break-up with her long-term boyfriend Tom (Jon Pointing), Queenie (Dionne Brown), a 25-year-old living in South London, “seeks comfort in all the wrong places” AKA has several ill-advised flings with men who all exist somewhere on the “not good” to “bad” spectrum. Based on the smart, funny 2019 novel by Candice Carty-Williams of the same name, Queenie essentially looks like a quarter-life crisis bottled in TV form. And, as with the upcoming Supacell and last year's Rye Lane, it's always fun to see South London depicted on screen. You can watch Queenie on Channel 4.
Presumed Innocent
Release date: 14 June
Our expectations are high for Presumed Innocent, as it finally managed to lure Jake Gyllenhaal to the small screen. Yep, that's right, Hollywood's premiere purveyor of weird hunk roles has never been charmed into the world of prestige TV – until now. The 8-part limited series is based off the 1987 novel of the same name, which was also adapted into a film in the 90s starring Harrison Ford. Gyllenhaal will play Rusty Sabich, a prosecutor accused of killing his colleague. The spin is that he was the one who was investigating the murder in the first place. If you can't wait until the final episode, you can find out the ending in multiple ways already. You can watch Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+.
House of the Dragon season 2
Release date: 16 June
Perhaps the most welcome surprise of 2022 was a return to form for Game of Thrones apropos of Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy and Paddy Considine's delightful scenery chewing – the latter putting in the single most under-appreciated TV shift of the year as the waning King Viserys. (That final monologue!! Chalk it up as one of the greatest Emmy snubs of all time.) Whether they can keep it up for a second, Considine-less season is an open question, but all signs point to continued dominance on the fantasy front. You can watch House of the Dragon on Amazon Prime.
Supacell
Release date: 27 June
What at first looks like a nice, good vibes romance set in South East London quickly descends into an incredibly tense race against time in Supacell, this new time-bendy supernatural sci-fi thriller from Netflix and directed and created by Rapman. The premise goes like so: a group of people randomly develop superpowers, with no connection between them besides being Black. From the trailer, it essentially looks like a mix between 2000s series Misfits and Raine Allen-Miller's Rye Lane. In other words: pacy, twisty and bucketloads of fun. You can watch Supacell on Netflix.
The Bear season 3
Release date: 27 June
A show releasing a new season at regular intervals and not making its audience wait years for its next instalment? TV is so back, baby. The Bear, which is surely one of the biggest small-screen success stories of the past decade, is heading back into production for season 3 this month with an eye on a June release date. We ended season 2 of the Chicago-based series at Carmy's restaurant's friends and family night, meaning season 3 will most likely revolve around its actual opening. Not to mention all the personal drama that goes alongside all of the chef drama, like Carmy still potentially being locked in a walk-in freezer while seemingly every relationship around him is close to crumbling. You can watch The Bear on Disney+.
Emily in Paris season 4
Release date: Part 1 — 16 May, Part 2 — 13 June
Maybe you love Emily in Paris. Maybe you can't stand it. Or, maybe, like the majority of people, you just love getting mad at it and will definitely fire up the fourth season when it arrives on Netflix later this summer. For those not in the know, Emily in Paris landed on our screens in October 2020 – a year in which we were all, let's be honest, watching loads of weird things. But the show – about a chirpy aspiring marketing executive from Chicago joining the team in Paris – somehow outlasted every other lockdown trend and is still, for better or worse, still with us.
The Man with 1000 Kids
Release date: 4 July
Basically, there’s a guy in the Netherlands who just won’t stop donating sperm. His name is Jonathan Jacob Meijer, and they reckon he might have 1000 kids. In the world of sperm donation, for reasons including but not limited to a massively increased risk of accidental incest, that’s a big no-no. Jonathan knows that, but he keeps doing it anyway. As the series follows the families affected by this apparent Genghis Khan complex, you’ll find yourself yearning for the answer to a question so many great documentaries provoke: why, on God’s green earth, would someone do this? You can watch The Man With 1000 Kids on Netflix.
Spent
Release date: 8 July
Last Friday night I got an Uber without realising until it was too late that it was going to cost me thirty seven whole pounds and it kind of ruined my weekend. But at least I’ve never spent $14,000 on crystals! Spent’s protagonist Mia, played by Michelle de Swarte, has. She lands back in London with something of a thud at the tail-end of a successful modelling career in the US, and in failing to adjust to the decline in income that’s accompanied her decline in work, she’s ended up in debt. And not just pretend make-believe student debt, either. This is the real stuff. That you feel so on-side with someone who’s spent $14,000 on crystals is a testament to the strength of de Swarte’s writing and performance, which makes this series absolutely worth forking out (on your TV licence) for. You can watch Spent on BBC iPlayer.
Sunny
Release date: 10 July
Sunny isn't the first TV series about an A.I. robot with sentiency and it certainly won't be the last (why can't we get enough of humans with scary little robot friends?), but it does look like an interesting take on the tried-and-test genre. The 10-episode Apple TV+ series, which has been described as a “mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent” follows an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan “whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash.” As a sort of “grief gift” she's given unny, the A.I. robot in question. Together, they “uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family.” You can watch Sunny on Apple TV+.
The Jetty
Release Date: 15 July
Featuring Jenna Coleman in the lead role alongside I May Destroy You’s Weruche Opia and the-man-with-a-bag-of-Yorkshire-gravel-for-a-voice Ralph Ineson (that’s intended as a compliment by the way), this four-part series from the BBC follows Coleman’s Detective Ember Manning as she investigates a fire in a pretty little village in Lancashire and how it connects to a true crime podcaster and a guy in his 20s who’s in a relationship with two underage girls. One of those detective dramas where – and you won’t see this coming – the detective themselves gets wrapped up in the case. Eek! Messy!
Lady in the Lake
Release date: 19 July
It's always a treat when a capital ‘F’ film stars lends their talents to the small screen (see above: Presumed Innocent), so we're looking forward to Apple TV+’s Lady in the Lake starring Natalie Portman as an investigative journalist who becomes completely obsessed with two unsolved murders: that of 11-year-old Tessie Fine and a bartender named Cleo Sherwood (Moses Ingram). The film is based on a novel by Laura Lippman, which is in turn loosely based on two real-life murders in the 1960s. If this won't convince you to finally subscribe to Apple TV+, then I don't know what will.
Those About to Die
Release date: 19 July
In December of last year, Iwan Rheon popped up in the lead role of the sensitive and gentle BBC TV Movie Men Up, playing the demure Meurig (or “Demeurig”, if you will), a man tentatively participating in one of the first ever trials of Viagra, in 1990s Swansea. It was a far cry from how we first came to know him, as Game of Thrones sadist-in-chief Ramsay Bolton. But perhaps Rheon had left his days of nasty antiquated violence behind him?
Perhaps not. He stars as crime boss Tenax in epic sword-and-sandal drama Those About to Die, which comes out on Amazon Prime in the UK this July. Chuck in Anthony Hopkins and some brutal arena battles, and you’ve got a recipe that brings Rheon back to his big bastardy best.
Time Bandits
Release Date: 24th July
It’s got to be one of the funnest-sounding professions. Bandit. Sort of a rascal, maybe breaking the rules a bit but probably not doing too much harm. What kind of bandit would you most like to be? Maybe a sea bandit – well that’s just a pirate. Or you could be a bandit of the road – one of those old-school highway robbers. That might be fun. Or, maybe, you’d like to apply your banditry to the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future? If so, that would make you a Time Bandit. And you’d be the subject of Jermaine Clement, Taika Waititi & co’s upcoming TV series based on Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy adventure film of the same name. Silly funny people applying their talents to the revival of a silly funny concept. Should be good.
Batman: Caped Crusader
Release date: 1 August
Long-gone are the days when a series being animated meant it wasn’t taken seriously, but if you find yourself unable to shake any lingering doubts then a look at the frankly rather beautiful trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader and a reminder that J.J. Abrams is involved with this one should do the trick. Yes we've been drowning in iterations of the DC hero in recent years, but if it's good enough, it's good enough and, well… just look at the trailer. It's good enough.
Industry season 3
Release date: 11 August
Holy moly did Industry season 2 end on one nuclear-grade banger of a cliffhanger or what, when [redacted for spoilers] was sacked, unceremoniously, from Pierpoint, presumably with nowhere to go and their career in the mud. Whomp whomp! We can only expect (and hope) that the third season will be as brutal, sexy and vicious as the first and second, which combined made for some of the best TV drama we've seen in ages, with the frenetic thrills of Uncut Gems and robust character work of a Sopranos, or any other heavyweight small screen classic worth its salt. We demand more Ken Leung.
Bad Monkey
Release date: 14 August
No, it’s not a series of monkeys being told off for various forms of misbehaviour (although that does sound great and I will be starting a GoFundMe to get that off in the ground in the very near future, watch this space and also let me know if you have access to monkeys and/or professional scolders). Instead, it’s a series where Vince Vaughan plays a detective who’s been relegated to the restaurant inspection circuit, until the discovery of a severed arm sends him after much bigger baddies than chefs ignoring hair net regulations. Creator Bill Lawrence is the guy behind Scrubs, which certainly makes this worth a more-than-cursory glance.
Pachinko season 2
Release date: 23 August
And here with have another gorgeous offering from Apple TV+ that a lot of people won't have heard of (but those who have are obsessed with). The series – based on the Min Jin Lee's best-selling novel about a Korean family trying to survive through Japanese occupation, societal pressures and poverty through the years 1915 to 1989 – might sound a bit complex and cerebral, but trust me when I say this sumptuous epic, with it's sweeping strings and acclaimed cinematography, is worth the ride. The second season comes out late August, which'll give you plenty of time to cram in all eight hour-long episodes of the first.
Only Murders in the Building season 4
Release date: 27 August
Over the past few years, the deliciously smart whodunnit Only Murders in the Building – starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez and yes indeed Meryl Streep – has quietly become the biggest comedy on TV, with a cast so stacked it makes The White Lotus look like a low-key indie production. And guess what? It's not been cancelled! A fourth season arrives at the tail-end of summer, just in time for cosy autumn viewing.
KAOS
Release date: 29th August
Jeff Goldblum is Zeus. Oh, what? More information? Ok… well Jeff Goldblum is Zeus in a new Netflix series by The End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell, where Zeus develops an obsessive paranoia about the end of his reign at the top of the mythological hierarchy, without realising that Prometheus is in fact using three unsuspecting humans to execute a crafty plot to bring about the end of his reign at the top of the mythological hierarchy. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus. C'mon!
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2
Release date: 29 August
Lord of the Rings nerds rejoice! For not only is a reboot of films reportedly on the way (Do we need them? Does it really matter if we don't?), but a brand new season of Prime Video's The Rings of Power is also set to land this year, in August. The last season, mercifully, ended up being a crowd-pleaser (a relief considering it was apparently one of the most expensive TV shows ever made). This new season will take place in the Second Age of the Lord of the Rings universe and will depict the early adventures of returning characters like Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers).
Slow Horses
Release date: 4th September
Terrible news for perhaps the grumpiest character on TV – Gary Oldman’s unsuccessfully-retired spook Jackson Lamb – Apple have confirmed a season 4 is in the works, out later this year. He’s going to have to do more stuff. People will probably try and kill him, and he’ll probably have to try and kill some of them back. This ‘being a spy’ thing never stops, eh? Lucky for us, we just have to watch. Go on, Gary! Get him!
Frasier season 13
Release date: 20th September
Cheers is an excellent tv programme set entirely within a bar in Boston. You should watch it. It’s really very good indeed. So good, in fact, that in 1993, it pulled a rather late 2010s/early 2020s move and spawned a spin-off show, Frasier, which was successful enough to actually eclipse Cheers in renown. Its titular Frasier Crane was a psychiatrist who hosted his own radio show in Seattle, and it ran from 1993 until 2004 and everybody loved it very much. And then, last year, in a rather late 2010s/early 2020s move, it was announced that Frasier was coming back. Many shuddered. But upon seeing the new series, most relaxed. Kelsey Grammar’s class hadn’t faded a shade, and Only Fools and Horses legend Nicholas Lyndhurst brought a lively freshness to the latest iteration. We cautiously suggest the new series will be more of the same…
Heartstopper season 3
Release date: 3 October
Maybe Heartstopper is a little sickly sweet for you. Or maybe you're of the mindset that the world's bleak enough and it's heartening to watch some little angels experience queer love for the first time. If you're in the second camp then fear not, for Heartstopper season 3 is finally arriving in October. Last season ended with Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) further solidifying their feelings for each other in a heartfelt convo in which Nick nearly told Charlie he loves him. According to series creator Alice Oseman, this new season will veer away slightly from its saccharine tone: “While Heartstopper will always celebrate the joyful and point towards hope, I’m really excited that we are allowing the tone of the show to mature alongside our beloved characters growing up. Mental health, sex, university ambitions, and more.”
Yellowstone season 5, part 2
Release Date: 11th November
Kevin Costner’s got his cowboy hat on again. Returning for what’s likely to be its final (or rather, final part of its final) season, the drama that brought the Western back to TV is sure to be worth seeing out. For the uninitiated, rural Montana’s Dutton family navigate the territorial complications of owning an enormous ranch that borders on land that’s owned by, and/or is of interest to; native americans tribes, Yellowstone national park, property developers and oil barons, among others. The politics of rural America, with a capital and a lower-case P, have been long underserved by television. Yellowstone has gone some way to redressing that. You can watch Yellowstone on Paramount +.
Landman
Release date: 17 November
Sort of picking up where he’ll soon be leaving off with Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan creates another world of rural American empire-making in Landman. Think modern-day Dallas. Or maybe modern-day There Will Be Blood. Or maybe… well it’s a show about oil rigs in Texas, so think about it however you’d think about that. Based on the hugely-successful Boomtown podcast, Landman looks at oil from all angles – the wealth, the desperate scramble for it, the winners and the losers. It also features the Billy Bob Thornton and the Jon Hamm, so we’re in safe, slick-black hands here one would think.
The Penguin
Release date: Autumn
Colin Farrell is packing himself back into the prosthetics to reinhabit his role as Gotham's greatest crime lord from 2022's The Batman. Landing on HBO's Max, the series will explore Oswald Cobblepot's rise to the echelons of the city's criminal underworld and consist of eight episodes. Not much is known about the series yet, but that's just the way the shadows of organised crime works, you know?
Originally slated for an early 2024 release, The Penguin was pushed back by the actors' strikes that hit Hollywood and put everything on ice for six months last year. A preview of Max's slate in November suggested that we'll now see The Penguin by autumn. But let's see how that bears out.
Dune: Prophesy
Release date: Autumn
Dune will be the latest sci-fi franchise to get its own TV spin-off in a series which should land this Autumn, though that's yet to be concreted, and will cover the origins of sectarian sisterhood the Bene Gesserit (funnily enough, it was originally subtitled The Sisterhood). We have no idea what it'll be about at this juncture but presume that the updated subtitle is in reference to the prophecy around Paul Atreides, portrayed by Timmy Chalamet in Denis Villeneuve's two films. But who knows?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Release date: at some point in 2024
If you’re the kind of person that goes a bit mad after maybe half a day of not talking to anyone, then a cool hundred years of solitude probably sounds pretty bad. But it’s actually a multi-generational epic novel about two cousins who get married and flee the place of their upbringing to establish a utopian colony where their ancestors will live happily (but also sadly) ever after, that sold over 50 million copies and pretty much won its author the Nobel Prize for Literature, so… probably pretty good? Probably also worth a look if turned into a 16-episode series by Netflix, set to be released this autumn? Yeah? Well you’ll never guess what…
Brassic season 6
Release date: At some point in 2024
This is England’s Joe Gilgun has been a more than capable captain at the helm of his own show for 5 years now, and what a refreshing run it’s been. Working-class northerners are sorely under-represented on British TV, and when they’re as fun as they are on Brassic, it’s hard to understand why. Rumours recently circulated that the end could be near for the lovably laddish comedy, only for Sky to announce that season 7 had been confirmed. Long may it reign.
Futurama season 12
Release date: At some point in 2024
Matt Groening had an enviable 2023. The Simpsons finally got some of its mojo back, and then, in a move that not many were asking for but quite a few ended up being very pleased about, Futurama made a surprise return with its 11th season. It went well – so well, in fact, that we’re now getting season 12 on Disney+ later this year. It's like it never left.
Rivals
Release date: At some point in 2024
Here’s everything we know about Disney+’s hotly-anticipated Rivals thus far: It's about the television industry in the 1980s. It stars David Tennant and Aidan Turner. It's based on a sexy Jilly Cooper novel (for those not in the know, Cooper is essentially the UK's answer to Jackie Collins). And, according to show notes, it'll bring “a 2020s lens to the 1980s, offering a raw exploration of a complicated moment in British history when class, race, sex, wealth, and sexual liberation meant that, for the very privileged few, there were no limits to what they could achieve.” Oh, and it'll be out later this year – inject it!
The Veil
Release date: At some point in 2024
Elisabeth Moss? Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight? An international spy thriller set in Istanbul, Paris and London? Deadly secrets and lies? Honestly, we couldn't be more excited for this tense, glossy-looking new series, in which Moss plays Imogen Salter, an MI6 agent who speaks a gazillion languages and is used to going undercover, alongside Yumna Marwan (Little Birds, Heaven Sent) as Adilah El Idrissi, the woman she's after, who's believed to be an ISIS commander. Those across the pond will be able to watch The Veil on Hulu from 30 April, but a UK release date is yet to be announced.
The Boys season 4
Release date: At some point in 2024
The bloodiest (non-animated; we see you, Invincible) superhero series on air returns for its fourth season in 2024, in which we can expect Homelander to go full fascistic-homicidal-Nazi-dad mode and commit a genocide or two with his eye lasers. That's unless Butcher has anything to do about it (before he, er, kicks the bucket). The Walking Dead fans will be excited to see the introduction of that series' very own Negan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, seen here without his signature baseball bat. Not that it'd be any use against a coterie of megalomanic killer supes, anywho.
Black Doves
Release date: At some point in 2024
We simply must get a handful of spy capers each year for the world to keep spinning on its axis. It's just science. Black Doves stars Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire and revolves around a secret spy who hides her identity from her new partner, only for him to get roped into the grim reality of London's underworld. At just six episodes long, this'll likely be a mini-series.
The Listeners
Release date: At some point in 2024
Produced by the same team that gave us Normal People, upcoming BBC drama The Listeners is centred on an English teacher called Claire (Rebecca Hall) who starts randomly noticing a low humming sound that nobody else around her can hear (and no, it’s not tinnitus). Eventually the mysterious hum begins to upset the balance of her life (well it would, wouldn’t it?), causing tension between her and her husband and daughter. But, get this, she's not the only person who can hear The Hum. There are others, many of whom believe they are “the chosen few”.
Nightsleeper
Release date: At some point in 2024
All of the best thrillers take place on planes, trains and automobiles (Strangers on a Train! Murder on the Orient Express! Hijack!) so the BBC’s upcoming Nightsleeper is already a few points ahead in that regard. The official logline describes the series as a “real-time thriller about the hacking of a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London, and a government agency’s frantic efforts to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard.” I didn't even realise trains could be hacked! What happens to them? Do they swerve onto entirely different destinations? Either way, expect a lot of adrenaline and people frantically running around platforms.
Squid Game season 2
Release date: At some point in 2024
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The biggest show that Netflix ever released is, of course, getting a second series. How couldn't it? It's a good thing the first series, about a deadly game inflicted on the most debt-ridden people in society, ended on a cliffhanger. After taking home the massive winnings, Gi-hun has his sights set on the game masters who want nothing more than for him to keep quiet so they can keep playing their evil games. Season 2 looks set to crack the whole thing wide open, but we still have to wait some time before a release date is delivered (hopefully not through ominous playground speakers).
The Umbrella Academy season 4
Release date: At some point in 2024
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The most dysfunctional family in the universe are getting one last adventure. The fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy, based on the Gerard Way comic book of the same name, will hit our small screens sometime this year, wrapping up a huge plot twist that shocked fans at the end of its last run. Season three ended with the enhanced siblings sans their superpowers, meaning season four will revolve either around them getting them back or trying to work out life without them. According to Netflix, this final season will also see them face a bigger and worse enemy than ever before, one that wants them out of the picture for good.
The Diplomat season 2
Release date: At some point in 2024
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The Diplomat's first season became an overnight success when it launched on Netflix last year, so it's no surprise they're raring to get its second outing out the door. At the end of season one, the titular diplomat, Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), who is on deployment in London to prevent all-out war, is left reeling from the potential death of her husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) in an explosion ordered by the Prime Minister (Rory Kinnear) who is trying to cover up his international faux pas. Clearly, we're going to start season two with a bang. The streamer has also announced that Allison Janney will make her political drama return after The West Wing by joining for season two.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries
Release date: At some point in 2024
It was Agatha all along! Well, actually, at first it was Agatha: House of Harkness, then it was Agatha: Coven of Chaos and now it's Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. The standout supporting character from the shining jewel of Marvel's TV series offerings, WandaVision, played by Katherine Hahn will be joined by Aubrey Plaza, Heartstopper's Joe Locke and theatre legend Patti LuPone for this spin-off of everyone's favourite meddling witch next door. Not much is known about what the series is about, or even when it's going to be coming out, but we can probably expect a fair amount of spooks and spells along the way.
2024 releases to be confirmed:
The Night Manager season 2
Release date: TBA
The world fell to its knees when the first season of The Night Manager hit our screens in 2016, introducing us to Tom Hiddleston's former military officer Jonathan Pine. Based on the John le Carré novel, it was a slick and sexy spy offering and one we thought we'd left back in the ‘10s. However, last year it was announced that the series would be coming back with Tom Hiddleston, and now it's been confirmed by Deadline that the show has been given a second and third season and that it will be kicking off filming later this year. It might be tight to get it before the year is out, but if we don't get the second outing by the end of 2024 it will likely be early 2025.
Wednesday season 2
Release date: TBA
The moodiest girl in the world will be back for round two. Wednesday's first season broke Stranger Things season 4's viewing records at lightning speed, so it's only natural the Addams Family spin-off will be back for more. Jenna Ortega's take on the sullen sibling sees her at Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts. After fending off a literal beast in season 1, there are plenty more monstrous and familial battles in store for round two.
You season 5
Release date: TBA
Hello, you, again (and again and again and again). You just can't get rid of Joe Goldberg – stalkers are like that, after all. Coming back with one final season, season five of You, the series about a stalker slash hopeless romantic slash murderer slash book enthusiast, will land is back where it all started in New York City. Joe is happily settled down with Kate, who knows (most of) his dirty little secrets, but homecomings always entail a few reunions. According to Netflix, a familiar face is back to haunt Joe, and with the mammoth list of victims left in his wake, the avenger could be anyone's guess. Goodbye, you.
The show was originally slated to drop in 2024, but the writers' and actors' strikes may see it pushed back to 2025. Only time will tell.
Alien
Release date: TBA
There's a lot of Alien to look forward to on the horizon. Not only are we getting a new film, Alien: Romulus, but a TV series as well. With so many Alien timelines all over the place, you'd be forgiven for being confused about where exactly this show is going to fit. While most details are being kept under wraps, we do know that it's set 70 years in the future, meaning it fits somewhere between the original franchise and the prequel films (Prometheus and Alien: Covenant). It will also be taking place on Earth, somewhere the Xenomorphs so far haven't been. The series is being headed up by Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley, so at least the notoriously variable-in-quality property is in good hands.
Hijack season 2
Release date: TBA
Idris Elba might just be the unluckiest passenger of all time. After successfully negotiating a hijack of a flight mid-air in season one of Hijack, it's been announced that the Apple TV+ series will be coming back for a second run. Will he have to prevent the hijacking of a bus this time? A train? A boat? Who knows! It's slightly unlikely that Hijack season 2 will hit our screens this year, but remain hopeful that this flight will arrive at its destination ahead of schedule.
Doomsday Machine
Release date: TBA
Another year, another deep dive into the inner machinations of our tech overlords. In Doomsday Machine, Claire Foy will star as Sheryl Sandberg, who held the position of COO of Meta (first Facebook), before stepping down in 2022. The show is based on Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, which delved into how Facebook became a key name in political and social upheaval and how its relentless pursuit of growth and impact has shaped our current cultural and geopolitical climate. The limited series will run on HBO sometime this year.
The Day of the Jackal
Release date: TBA
This year's roster of spy thrillers is filling up nicely with the addition of The Day of the Jackal. Following in the footsteps of Bond and The Night Manager, the series takes inspiration from one of the most seminal pieces of spy fiction, written by Fredrick Forsyth in 1971 (which also had a famous film adaptation a couple of years later). Eddie Redmayne will star as ‘The Jackal’, a mysterious assassin hired to take down a global leader, while Lashana Lynch will play an MI5 agent tasked with taking him down. The 10-episode series will air on Sky sometime later this year.
Death by Lightning
Release date: TBA
The likelihood of this one landing in our laps before the end of the year is slim, but with as stacked a cast as it has, can you blame us for trying to rush it along? Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen will star respectively in Death by Lightning as early US president James Garfield and Charles Guiteau, one of his greatest supporters and who ended up being the man who killed him. Nick Offerman and GLOW star Betty Gilpin have also recently been announced in the series which will be executive produced by Game of Thrones creators (and the people behind the upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem) David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Firebug
Release date: TBA
The Taron Egerton x Apple TV+ relationship remains strong after his 2022 prison series Black Bird (which was tragically overlooked when it was released). He's teaming back up with the streamer for Firebug, a series loosely based on the serial arsonist John Leonard Orr. Orr was an arson investigator and fire captain thought to have set more than 2,000 fires over the decades before being arrested in 1991. Egerton will play the Orr proxy (as well as executive produce the series) while Jurnee Smollett co-stars as his rising star detective.
Murderbot
Release date: TBA
Alexander Skarsgård has always managed to embody characters that have a rogue, sometimes sinister oddness to them, as if you don't quite know what they're thinking (Lukas in Succession, James in Infinity Pool, Eric in True Blood). To that end, his upcoming role as a self-hacking android who simply loves to spend his days watching trash TV feels tailor-made for the actor. The show in question is Murderbot, based on the book series The Murderbot Diaries by best-selling author Martha Wells. Another Apple TV+ big-budget sci-fi punt no less, so you know it's going to be good.
The Miniature Wife
Release date: TBA
We will have no shortage of Matthew Macfadyen on our screen in months to come, which is a good thing for anyone still trying to fill the hole left by Succession. He'll be starring alongside Elizabeth Banks in The Miniature Wife, a dramedy about a married couple dealing with strife and power imbalances in their relationship. If that all sounds very Tom and Shiv, just wait for the high-concept twist that the title teases – the wife is shrunk. This show is literally about a miniature wife. In all seriousness, though, the series is based on the critically acclaimed short story by Manuel Gonzalez, which picked up heaps of praise when it was released in 2013.
Down Cemetery Road
Release date: TBA
From the same production that gives us Slow Horses (probably your dad's favourite show) and Hijack (probably also your dad's favourite show) will come Down Cemetary Road, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson. The series, which will launch on Apple TV+, will see Wilson star as a woman obsessed with the disappearance of a young girl in the aftermath of a freak house explosion and Thompson as the private investigator she hires to figure out the truth once and for all. It will be based on a novel by Mick Herron, whose book also inspires Slow Horses (seriously, ask your dad about it).
Lions
Release date: TBA
Richard Gadd is the most buzzy man on television right now as his darkly confessional series Baby Reindeer dances around the top spot of the Netflix charts. We'll be seeing more of him in the future, with his next series, Lions, which he's also written and will star in, coming to the BBC. The six-part series will follow Niall and his estranged ‘brother’ Ruben, who reunite at a wedding. When chaos ensues, their tumultuous decades-long relationship is stirred up. The show will follow almost 40 years of their highs and lows and reflect on what it means to be a man.
Dear England
Release date: TBA
Joseph Fiennes will reprise his Olivier-nominated performance in a TV adaptation of Dear England, the play about Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team. It may have seemed like a bit of a bonkers premise to take to the theatre, but the play was an almost immediate hit. The show, which kicked off at the National Theatre before making its West End debut last year, is a fictionalised dig into the highs and lows of the nation's biggest sport, with extensive research conducted into how the England manager navigates various struggles.
The Four Seasons
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If you saw everyone sharing 30 Rock clips a few months back and thought, ‘Man, I wish we had another show like that’, well, you might be in luck. The team behind 30 Rock – Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield – are coming together again to reboot the 1981 film The Four Seasons for TV. If that line-up wasn't already good enough, Steve Carrell is also on board to star. The film follows three couples who vacation together every season and starred Alan Alda and Carol Burnett. There aren't many details about whether the adaptation will stick true to the original or treat the concept as a jumping-off point, and so far there aren't any other hints at casting. Let's hope the roll-a-dex of 30 Rock cameo stars is being whipped out as we speak.
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How did you come to narrate Cold Bath Street?
I was playing Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company and a man who runs the Shakespeare Institute felt, quite rightly, that there were parallels in Cold Bath Street and "Macbeth", with the fact that both rely heavily on the notion of the supernatural, ghosts and death. Very Catholic. We did an event where Andrew [Hartley] talked about his book and his notion of the supernatural, and I spoke about playing Macbeth and my notions of the supernatural. It helps that the book is set in Preston, Lancashire, and I’m from Salford in Lancashire. We’re from a very similar generation. We seem to have an odd understanding of each other.
How does narrating an audiobook compare to acting on stage?
What I found relatively easy was the characterisations that come out through dialogue, but when you’re describing the thought process or going into a detailed description of an area, that’s different. That’s texture, and it uses different mental muscles.
Apart from the supernatural, was there anything else in the book you were drawn to?
The "Lancashireness". I grew up in the 1970s in Salford and the characters of the mother and the father are not exactly my parents by any stretch of the imagination but they certainly felt like people I know, with the very specific way they use words and the language of the North. There are accents and turns of phrase that me and Andrew would have picked up in the ‘70s but would sound quite antiquated now to kids of today.
How is your memoir with Simon & Schuster going?
I’m writing it with somebody. It’s going slowly. It’s a memoir of my father, focusing quite a lot on his dementia but it becomes a bit of a (it’s a grand word) meditation on the father/son relationship.
Is it a hard process?
It is, yes. I find myself, a bit like with [narrating] the audiobooks, tired after it. It’s very exposing and causes me anxiety about how it’s all going to come about. But it’s an opportunity, and my dad’s ambition, had he ever been able to express it, would have been to have his own name on a book. He never wrote but he read voraciously and he had an obsession with the written word. Mine and my dad’s big connection was over literature. He was very intrigued by me becoming an actor, and very supportive. Unlike the clichés you see in "Billy Elliot" and all that bollocks. He was a good parent because he realised [becoming an actor] was such a left-field idea. It was very good parenting.
The memoir, was it your idea?
I did a piece in the Guardian about my father’s dementia. It was my words verbatim. Then I was approached by Iain McGregor of Simon & Schuster, who said: “Have you ever thought about doing a book?” I said no, then I said yes, then I said no again, then I said yes again.
Why the indecision?
I think, if I’m honest, I struggle with the idea that I’m being ghostwritten, even if it’s going to be me verbatim. To me if you write a book, you “write” a book but for various reasons I can’t do that at the moment. For me, it’s going to be very exposing and we will have to see whether it leads to a second one where I take the reins.
Will you show anyone a draft or do you want to get it perfect first?
I think I’m being really quite compliant at the moment, and I’m going to get really awkward soon, knowing me and my process, particularly because it’s so very personal.
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Arthur Hughes was born with a rare condition, but the disabled actor hasn’t let that stop him from dreaming big – and that includes appearing in some of this year’s best TV shows such as The Jetty.
In 2024, he landed his breakthrough role in Disney+’s Shardlake, as well as joining the ensemble cast in Jenna Coleman‘s The Jetty. He’s also a fierce advocate of disability rights.
In June 2022, he became Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) first disabled actor to play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Not bad at all for an Aylesbury lad…
Here’s everything you need to know about The Jetty star Arthur Hughes, including his TV and film roles so far, his disability, and his relationship status.
Who plays Liam in The Jetty?
Actor Arthur Hughes portrays Liam in The Jetty. First appearances suggest that Liam may be responsible for a fire deliberately started at a boat hut. He and his family are well known trouble makers in the lakeside Lancashire town…
But not everything is as it seems. In the four part drama, Wilderness actress Jenna Coleman portrays widowed detective Ember Manning. She discovers that the happy memories of her own past might not be as idyllic as she remembers as she investigates her latest case.
BBC One describes the four-part crime drama “as much of a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller”. They told us it asks “big questions about sexual morality, identity and memory in the places that Me Too has left behind”.
It’s a tense and atmospheric crime drama in which Detective Manning is called to investigate when someone with a grudge deliberately starts a fire in the boat hut her husband used to own…
And that’s just the first thing that goes horribly wrong for her that day…
Who is the disabled actor Arthur Hughes in The Jetty? What’s he been in?
Arthur Hughes has been on our TV screens ever since 2012, when he first appeared in one episode of Doctors. He played Danny Hooper. The next year, he popped up in the mini series Listening to the Dead as Joe. In 2014, Arthur portrayed Jacko in Agatha Christie: Ordeal by Innocence.
It was in 2018 that Arthur arguably won his biggest role to date playing Ryan in the shape-shifting series The Innocents. Next, he played Tim opposite Stephen Graham in the heart-wrenching feature film Help.
In 2022, he played disability activist Alan Holdsworth in the BBC’s Then Barbara Met Alan. This year, there’s no stopping Arthur. He played the leading role in the Disney+ drama Shardlake, opposite Sean Bean. Now, he’s playing Liam in The Jetty.
Radio 4 and podcast fans will know Arthur as the voice of Ruairi Donovan in The Archers. His multiple theatre roles have included Laurent in La Cage aux Folles, Phil in The Solid Life of Sugar Water, and the title role in Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He became the first disabled actor to play Richard III for the RSC, who reportedly suffered from scoliosis.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Screen International named Arthur Hughes as one of its 2023 Stars of Tomorrow.
What is Shardlake actor Arthur Hughes’ disability?
Arthur Hughes was born with radial dysplasia, a rare condition in arms that affects one in 30,000 people. For Arthur, he has a disfigured right arm and he identifies as “limb different”.
Speaking to Disability Horizons in 2022, he said: “Radial dysplasia is a condition in the arm, where the radius bone is missing. It affects my right arm. I’m missing my thumb, radius bone and a few other small bits and pieces.
“Day-to-day, it doesn’t affect me 99% of the time. I favour my left arm more, but am always finding new ways to make my right arm work for me too.”
Addressing the barriers he faces living with an upper-limb difference, he said: “The barriers I face aren’t always very visible ones and not usually to do with access as such. In the profession I’m in, you can be judged very quickly at a first glance, which may rule you out for certain jobs and castings because you have one arm a different size and shape to the other.”
He added: “Not often, but sometimes, I’ll have people stare or comment in public, which isn’t pleasant but thankfully quite rare. Another issue is often being underestimated in what my limitations are based on how I look.”
Speaking to The Guardian in 2024 about his role in Shardlake, he said: “I think this is why being a disabled actor playing this part is so important. Just to know what it’s like to be stared at, to know what it’s like to feel different, or like people are wary of you or don’t know what to do around you.
“That’s why disabled actors should play disabled characters.”
Is Arthur Hughes married?
It is not known if Arthur Hughes is in a relationship. The actor is known for keeping his private life out of the public eye. A friendly stalk of his official Insta shows all work and no play for The Jetty star.
His account showcases his career, but offers little glimpse of his personal life.
How old is Arthur Hughes? Where is he from?
Arthur Hughes was born in 1992 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
He is currently thought to be 31.
As a teenager, he attended Aylesbury Grammar School, and graduated in 2013 from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
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The Jetty starts on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 9pm on BBC One. Episode 2 airs on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at the same time. All episodes are now on BBC iPlayer.
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The University of Central Lancashire is 1543rd in the world, 526th in Europe, and 98th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the University of Central Lancashire sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
Andy Goldsworthy
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations
land artistartistenvironmentalistphotographerenvironmental artist
Biography
Andy Goldsworthy is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings.
Ranvir Singh
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations
television presenterjournalistnews presenter
Biography
Ranvir Singh is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the newsreader/deputy presenter for Good Morning Britain and also the relief presenter on Lorraine (alongside Christine Lampard), which she normally presents during school or bank holidays.
Don Warrington
Born in
Trinidad and Tobago
Years
1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations
actorfilm actortelevision actor
Biography
Don Warrington MBE is a Trinidadian-born British actor. He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise (2011–present).
Victoria Derbyshire
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations
journalist
Biography
Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire is a British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme was broadcast on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel from 2015 until March 2020. She has also presented Newsnight and BBC Panorama. She was one of eight women to appear in ITV's The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night – an entertainment documentary to raise awareness of breast cancer. She previously presented the morning news, current affairs and interview programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10 am and 12 noon each weekday. She left at the same time as fellow 5 Live broadcasters Richard Bacon and Shelagh Fogarty.
Mandip Gill
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1988-.. (age 36)
Occupations
film actoractor
Biography
Mandip Kaur Gill is an English actress and narrator. Her first television role came in 2012 when she was cast as Phoebe McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. After departing the series in 2015, Gill went on to have guest roles in Cuckoo, Doctors, The Good Karma Hospital and Casualty. In October 2017, the BBC announced that Gill had been cast as companion Yasmin Khan in the 2018 series of Doctor Who. She appeared in every episode of Series 11, 12 and 13.
Paul Nuttall
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations
researcherpolitician
Biography
Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England between 2009 and 2019, sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and joined The Brexit Party in 2019.
John Foxx
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations
paintercomposerlecturergraphic artistgraphic designer
Biography
John Foxx is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer. He was the original lead singer of the new wave band Ultravox, before leaving to embark on a solo career in 1980 with the album Metamatic.
Lee Mavers
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations
singersinger-songwriterguitarist
Biography
Lee Anthony Mavers is an English musician. Mavers was the songwriter, singer and rhythm guitarist in The La's and is best known for the song "There She Goes" from October 1988.
Lee Ridley
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1980-.. (age 44)
Occupations
stand-up comedian
Biography
Lee Ridley, better known by his stage name the Lost Voice Guy, is an English stand-up comedian. Disabled since early life, and unable to speak, in June 2018 he won the 12th series of Britain's Got Talent.
Prithvirajsing Roopun
Born in
Mauritius
Years
1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations
statespersonpoliticianofficial
Biography
Prithvirajsing Roopun GCSK (born 24 May 1959), also known as Pradeep Singh Roopun, is a Mauritian politician serving as the seventh president of Mauritius since 2019.
John Stapleton
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations
television presenter
Biography
John Martin Stapleton is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and reporter on ITV breakfast television (TV-am, GMTV and Daybreak) in addition to hosting Nationwide and Watchdog for the BBC.
Bryan Talbot
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations
comics artistcomics writer
Biography
Bryan Talbot is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the Grandville series of books. He collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot to produce Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, which won the 2012 Costa biography award.
Damien Moore
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1980-.. (age 44)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Damien Moore is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southport and a former Councillor on Preston City Council. He was elected in the 2017 general election with a majority of 2,914 votes, taking a seat previously held by Liberal Democrat John Pugh until his retirement. He served as Assistant Government Whip from September to October 2022.
Graham Jones
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Graham Peter Jones is a former British Labour Party politician, and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Hyndburn.
Mark Gill
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
20th Century
Occupations
film directorscreenwriterfilm editordirector
Biography
Mark Gill is an English screenwriter and film director. He is from Stretford in Manchester.
Isioma Daniel
Born in
Nigeria
Years
1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations
journalist
Biography
Isioma Nkemdilim Nkiruka Daniel is a Nigerian journalist whose 2002 newspaper article comment involving the Islamic prophet Muhammad sparked the Miss World riots and caused a fatwa to be issued on her life. She ultimately had to flee the country because of jihadists.
Aileen McLeod
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations
politician
Biography
Aileen McLeod is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Scotland constituency, having been elected in the 2019 European Parliament election. She served as MEP until the 31 January 2020 when the Brexit process was completed.
Carl Lygo
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations
barrister
Biography
Carl Raymond Lygo is a British barrister and academic who was the founding vice-chancellor of BPP University. Since 2018 he has been the Chairman of University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Germany and since 2019 the Vice-Chancellor of Arden University in the UK. He is the founding chairman of the Association of Cost Lawyers Training, the founding chairman of Turner Schools a multi academy trust charity set up to help disadvantaged children in Folkestone, Kent, a non-executive director of UCFB (an innovative Football Higher Education Institution), an advisory board member of WONKHE for Higher Education.
Mary M. Talbot
Born in
United Kingdom
Years
1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations
writercomics writer
Biography
Mary Talbot is a British academic and author. She has written several well received academic works in critical discourse analysis and since 2009 has turned her hand to freelance writing. Her first graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, published by Jonathan Cape in 2012 and illustrated by her husband Bryan Talbot won the 2012 Costa biography prize.
Maria 'Miza' Tavares
Years
1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations
painter
Biography
Maria "Miza" Tavares is a Portuguese artist and art teacher, born in Santiago do Cacem on 15 May 1965.
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Personally, the show I’m most excited about this year is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s forthcoming production of ‘Macbeth’, with the wonderful Christopher Eccleston in the title role and Niamh Cusack as Lady M. To coin a phrase, it’s going to be fantastic (one for the Whovians amongst you there). But, if Mr Eccleston himself is to be believed, it nearly didn’t happen at all. In a recent interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, he claimed that he has always felt snubbed by the Shakespearean theatrical establishment because of his Lancashire accent, and is only playing the Scottish King because he wrote to the artistic director of the RSC, Gregory Doran:
“I wrote an old-fashioned letter to him and I said, ‘Since I was 17 I’ve always wanted to play Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company, so can I do it?’… I’m never offered Shakespeare…”
Good for you Mr Eccleston, I say. There are many lovely things about this – it’s great that he isn’t above asking for work, great too that he has finally achieved a childhood ambition, but I think what delights me most is that he actually got out the Basildon Bond and his trusty Rollerball and put pen to paper. He didn’t WhatsApp Gregory Doran, he didn’t PM him, he didn’t even send him a text, he wrote an actual letter, put a stamp on it and walked to the post box.
It would be nice to believe there was something to be learnt from Christopher. How lovely it would be if we could suddenly hurl our clogs into the machines and go all analogue again; perhaps this news will revive the fortunes of the fountain pen industry and the Post Office in one fell swoop, as scores of millennials put aside their ‘devices’, take up their quills and start firing off inky missives to the great and the good of the theatre world. After all, it’s a lot easier to find out where to post a letter to Gregory Doran and his ilk than it might be to find their personal email addresses, so it certainly feels like you’re breaking through the defences.
The truth, of course, is that Christopher Eccleston could probably have scratched his request on a brick and lobbed it through the window of the RSC canteen and it would have had the same effect. Basically, with that one letter he was offering the RSC the centrepiece of its 2018 season, all wrapped up with a ribbon. But if you’re not of the same calibre as Christopher, I wonder if even the most beautifully handwritten note would have had quite the same degree of success. I have my doubts, even if you’re not aiming for the title role.
For years I would spend ages in the art galleries of the provinces, selecting the most appropriate postcards to send off to casting directors, inviting them to first nights and trying my best to seem eminently employable. So hard to choose – would Kay Magson prefer a nice Degas or a bit of Klimt? A Hockney or a Pollock for John Hubbard? So much effort, so much hope – until one day I heard a casting director at a seminar being asked what irritated her most from actors, and her reply was, ‘Getting all those bloody postcards!’ So that put an end to that.
And did any of those letters and postcards ever actually work anyway? Can a message from one humble, non-famous, non-former-Doctor-Who-type actor amongst tens of thousands of others really make a difference? Does any email actually penetrate the filters, any one tweet really ping out above the tidal wave of others?
There’s just so much communication these days, I don’t know how anyone gets noticed without having to resort to the outrageous or illegal. There’s always the Terry Gilliam approach, of course – famously, when Universal Pictures tried to sit on his masterpiece, ‘Brazil’ in the U.S., Gilliam took out a whole page of the trade newspaper Variety to write a letter to the studio head, Sid Sheinberg:
I have often fantasised about talking out my own full-page ad in The Stage, although I’m not quite sure what I’d say. Something assertive and confident would be good, perhaps:
But that sounds vaguely threatening… I wouldn’t want to upset anyone…. Maybe this would be safer:
But really, letter-writing is just a waste of ink, isn’t it? We actors all know that it makes no difference, nobody really reads them, they just go straight in the recycling. The problem is, however, we also tell ourselves that ‘you never know, my letter might just land on their desk on the right day’ – and there it is again, a shot of that most addictive of all drugs – hope. Well, it worked for Christopher Eccleston, didn’t it?
Dear Michelle Terry…
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Bros are back, Back BACK!! and the world unites in celebration. A whole generation of 80s children (well, maybe a small sliver of a tiny British slice of one) will have been propelled back into their teenage selves at the news, and that tidal wave of nostalgic feelings will lift them up and carry them, purses open, all the way to the Ticketmaster website.
Most of us idolise performers as we grow up. We can all remember covering the walls of our childhood bedrooms with posters of our favourite singers and actors, and we’ve all fantasised about meeting them, and becoming their friends. I used to dream about meeting the Beatles (all four of them; how on earth this could have happened in 1987, I don’t know) and being asked if I’d like to join the group. Who knows what they could have achieved if I’d been there too… Of course, sometimes this strays into rather less healthy stalker territory, but for most of us, it stays within the normal bounds and is just another part of childhood. And as much as we cling to the hope that our longed-for meeting will happen and we will be whisked off to a glamorous and exciting new life, deep down we know how unlikely this is. The years roll on, and those crushes and fantasies fade away, the posters are taken down and put away with the gonks and Smurfs. Outside attending an enormo-gig at the O2 or Wembley, most of us will never share the same air as our heroes.
There will be the odd exception to this rule, of course – there’s always an outside chance you will stumble across one in the real world. I remember being in the menswear department of House of Fraser and seeing none other than Jimmy Page – Jimmy Actual Page – presumably shopping for something a bit more day-to-day than his dragon-embroidered trousers or rune-covered jerkins of yore.
In that situation, there is a quick decision to be made. Do I allow the all-conquering rock God to track down that pair of comfy elasticated Gant slacks in peace, or do I barrel over there and invade his personal space, biro and crumpled Sainsbury’s receipt thrust forward ready to be signed? In this case, I left Mr Zeppelin alone, and it was probably for the best. These things can go one of two ways, after all… There can be nothing worse than launching yourself at the hero of your youth and being told to bugger off. In that brief moment, your happy childhood dreams are blown to smithereens.
However, for some of us, things are a bit different. If you somehow scrabble your way into the same profession as your childhood heroes, your chances of meeting them, and, indeed, working with them, increase massively (or dramatically, if you’ll forgive the pun). This is where things can get dangerous, as they suddenly stop being superhuman. You can even find yourself sharing a dressing room with them, and as we all know, there’s nothing more effective than that for finding out what someone’s really like. As you progress through an acting career, more and more of what you hear – or discover for yourself – shows you that all those towering idols of your youth are just as depressingly human and normal as you are. Feet of clay, every one.
There is also the sobering thought that, even if you did want to work with those people, the chances to do so are diminishing with every passing year. I’ll never work with Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing now, will I?
But recently, the chance to meet and work with my ultimate childhood hero fell squarely in my lap…
Allow me to take you back in time. If you had happened to stumble across me in 1977, you would have met a small boy obsessed with ‘Dr Who’. Saturday evenings at 6.15pm would invariably find me transfixed on (or frequently, behind) the sofa, as that iconic title sequence unfolded on BBC1:
The succeeding 30 minutes were probably the most important of the week for me. I had been watching the programme for a couple of years by this point, and now, at the age of five, my devotion to the show was absolute. I loved it all: the monsters, the sets and props, the music – but at the centre of it all was the Doctor himself, as played by Tom Baker:
The idea of travelling through time and space with this extraordinary alien – someone funny and eccentric and brave, who could face down the most terrifying monsters with nothing more dangerous than a jelly baby, seemed the perfect life to me. Like all superfans, I had the posters on my wall, the novelisations and annuals, the long scarf (albeit brown rather than multi-coloured and stripey), and the TARDIS pencil case. I even went to our Silver Jubilee street party dressed as a Dalek:
My best-ever Christmas present came in 1979 – a signed photograph from Mr Baker himself. ‘Happy Christmas, Christopher’.
What I wanted most of all, of course, was to meet the great man. I suppose I must have thought that it was a possibility; ideally, he would enlist me to help him defeat some horrible alien creature – a Rutan, perhaps:
or a Krynoid:
– but I would have been happy enough if he had simply landed his TARDIS in my back garden, offered me a jelly baby and dematerialised again. However, it was also the beginning of an awareness that, as well as day—dreaming of being a real Time Lord’s assistant, I could conceivably appear in the television programme ‘Dr Who’ as an actor. Around the same time, I saw ‘Star Wars’ and started to think about what it might be like on a film set, and to pretend to be someone else. So it was a pretty significant time as far as determining my future career was concerned. Later on, James Bond joined in, and Sherlock Holmes, and then Shakespeare popped up – and on and on…
But Dr Who was where it all started – and, for me, that always meant Tom Baker. This wonderful actor personified the character in a way that, in my opinion, no other incarnation before or since has managed to do.
Of course, Tom Baker’s tenure as the Doctor came to an end in 1981, and so did my fixation with the show. I moved on to new obsessions (the afore-mentioned martini-swilling super-spy being foremost amongst them). The Doctor always hovered somewhere in the background – he was even the subject of a recent painting of mine:
(prints available here, print fans)… But once Tom left the show, it was never the same.
I did once actually meet the great man, on Chiswick High Road, and he patiently listened while I attempted to put into words what he had meant to me. It was just a brief encounter, but I was still thrilled by it, and I suppose I would have been happy if that had been that.
But, for once, the acting gods decided to smile upon on me, and one day not too long ago, to my amazement and joy, my agent called with an offer to appear in a new ‘Dr Who’ adventure – with none other than Tom Baker himself as the eponymous hero. I have had many calls from my agent – some of them happy, many of them not so happy – but this will probably always remain the happiest.
The offer had come from that estimable company, Big Finish, who specialise in producing wonderful new audio adventures featuring many of the best-loved genre characters and series of the past – ‘Blake’s 7’, ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Avengers’ and ‘The Prisoner’ amongst many others. But they are best known for their original ‘Dr Who’ stories, featuring many of the surviving Doctors.
For years, including the period when the Time Lord was off our TV screens, Big Finish has kept the ‘Dr Who’ torch alive, creating wonderful new adventures in Time and Space. Initially, Tom Baker resisted a return to the role that made him famous, but since 2012 he has enthusiastically donned the scarf once more.
When the first day of recording came, I was very nervous, more than normal. I think my nerves came partly from a fear that I would embarrass myself in front of the great man: give a bad performance, make a fool of myself by unleashing my inner fanboy – or worse, clam up and not be able to talk. Most of all, though, I think I was afraid that Tom Baker would let me down. What if he was a bully, a dreadful bigot or a monstrous egomaniac? My childhood memories would be stomped to pieces by the very man who made them: Dr Who himself.
Thankfully, none of the above came to pass. Tom was an utter delight. He was immediately welcoming to all the cast, an hilarious anecdote-teller in the green room (and generous in listening to others’ stories too), and best of all, when he was behind the microphone, he was still The Doctor. It was a strange and wonderful experience for me to hear that voice coming through my headphones – and for me to answer it. To call him ‘Doctor’ and have him respond! My five-year-old self could never have believed that one day, he would not only meet Dr Who, but actually act alongside him too…
I met my hero – and he is still my hero. What a relief.
Jelly baby, anyone?
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Here’s a nice little story for you. When George Lazenby heard that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were looking for a new actor to play James Bond, he didn’t hang about. He bought the same watch as 007, had his hair cut by the same barber as Cubby Broccoli, bought a Savile Row suit that Sean Connery had forgotten to collect from his tailor, and then blagged his way into an audition. Lazenby believed he could get the part, and sure enough, he got it.
I, too, once believed I would become the next James Bond, and I kitted myself out in much the same way – the right gun, the right haircut – I even had the bow tie. All right, I was 10 years old, but the level of determination was identical.
Somehow it didn’t work out for me, or at least, it hasn’t yet… But back then I certainly thought it could, or at least I could conceive of no impediment to stop it happening. In those happy days I had no notion of casting – that I might be seen as a specific ‘type’. For years, as I leapt about my bedroom practising my super-spy moves, I assumed that whatever parts I hankered after (Dr Who, Luke Skywalker, Colt Seavers from The Fall Guy), the world would cheerfully allow me to play. What I didn’t realise, of course, was that at the same time there were hundreds of other little actors all nursing the same ambitions.
Now there is nothing unusual about a 10-year-old having unrealistic expectations. Children down the years have dreamed of being explorers, footballers, astronauts, and this is only right and proper. After all, what did I know of the real world, my head filled as it was with nothing but Monster Munch and the theme song to ‘For Your Eyes Only’? But sooner or later the scales fell from my eyes and I was hit with a cold realisation that there was no automatic route to my dream destination. Sure, I made it into the acting profession, but gradually my aspirations were tempered by experience. I left drama school and my agent cast me out into the profession to see if anyone bit. I was certainly nibbled a little, but the really big fish swam on by. And so I learned to set my sights lower.
Mine is a familiar story. Many actors eventually come to accept that life won’t all be artistic satisfaction and hefty paycheques, and so we recalibrate our attitude to the profession and our place in the ranking.
But is this the only way? If I had held onto those childhood ambitions more tightly, might I have got further by now? After all, acting is so precarious, is it really any better to have a realistic attitude? If you put a limit on your ambitions, perhaps that means you also limit your imagination. Maybe it is actually the dreamers, the ones who keep their expectations unreasonably high, who reach the heights. Maybe the dreamers make better actors, because they are freer – they place no lid on what they think they can achieve in an audition, in a scene, in their career. If you admit no obstacle, don’t accept or acknowledge the existence of obstacles, maybe when you meet resistance it doesn’t have such a damaging or limiting effect on your career. If, as William Goldman puts it, ‘nobody knows anything’, why believe someone who says you can’t do something?
I once worked with a very famous actress. She’d had a successful career in films and TV in the States, and had by this point settled comfortably into the role of Grande Dame of the theatre. But she told me about the time in the early 70s when her career had been flagging and the parts she had been playing had begun to shrink. So, she said, ‘I simply decided to become a star. It was as though my whole being underwent a cellular change’. Her career took off and it was Name-Above-The-Title all the way. At least, that’s how she remembered it. This degree of self-determination is mightily impressive, although of course it probably helped that she was tremendously beautiful. But is it really possible? Could I just change my mind overnight, decide to be a leading man and actually achieve it? Is it really as simple as that?
The flip-side of this attitude is the cliché of the pushy actor. Perhaps all those big stars have got where they are because they’re just horrendous, egocentric bullies. An inflated sense of entitlement can lead to a disregard for others, and I’m sure we can all bring examples to mind of badly-behaved actors – mentioning no Batmen, of course…
But it must be true that the monkey who gets the banana is the one who climbs the tree, and not the one who stays on the ground playing with his tail. Or, to put it another way, if you want to reach the stars, you have a far greater chance of getting there if you make the leap, than you do if you stay on the ground. Obsess too much, allow thoughts of failure – or fear of success – to hold you back, and very soon, a whole career has flown by.
I might not actually get to play James Bond (or Colt Seavers, for that matter) but I have slowly learned that if I adopt a positive, optimistic attitude to the profession, and don’t allow myself to be put off when things don’t go my way, then I often find myself being led in a more interesting direction.
Ask yourself: ‘What would George Lazenby do?’
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‘Chewie, we’re home.’
Those three simple words will have sent a seismic frisson through most film fans of a certain age. I have to admit to feeling a thrill of emotion when I watched the new trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and saw Harrison Ford’s grizzled visage alongside his Wookie sidekick once more. But quite apart from a Seventies’ child’s nostalgia rush, ‘Star Wars’ has another significance for me: I remember coming home after seeing the first film, setting out my chairs in an X-Wing fighter configuration, and playing at being Luke Skywalker. But the important part, at least as far as my future self was concerned, was that I didn’t want to be a pilot for the Rebellion, I wanted to be in ‘Star Wars’. Along with Dr Who (Tom Baker, of course) and James Bond (Roger, naturally), George Lucas’s epic started the ball rolling on my fascination with acting.
Over the following years, like most thespians in waiting, I spent many a happy hour wielding cardboard light sabres and plastic Walther PPKs, hanging off helicopters (or climbing the banisters) and ignoring imaginary cameras everywhere. I even very nearly severely damaged myself leaping down the stairs, trying to recreate that moment in the ‘Starsky and Hutch’ titles where David Soul jumps off a wall onto the roof of his Gran Torino. In other words, I put in years of training. Slowly (and nervously), I started to take my ambition further, and began acting outside the safety of my house – school plays, amateur productions, drama at University, all the way to three years at LAMDA. It’s rather astonishing to think of it now, but I actually made the jump from day-dreaming boy to an actual, professional actor.
I can’t remember the exact moment when I first described myself as an actor; funny really, as it should have been a major milestone, considering all those years of yearning. But I have a feeling there might have been a certain tentativeness to it. Calling yourself a ‘drama student’ is pretty safe and unequivocal – pay the fees and don’t get kicked out, and no one can challenge you. But when you first call yourself an actor, you are opening yourself up to investigation. You are inviting judgement – and more to the point, you need to have concrete proof, which is where it starts getting complicated, because there are some times when it can seem harder to describe yourself as an actor than others. It’s almost as though there is a sliding scale of legitimacy:
This can lead to some uncomfortable encounters – at a first-night party, in a taxi, at family events – depending on where you are on the scale at the time. It can be reminiscent of that lovely old Peter Cook joke:
‘I met a man at a party. He said, “I’m writing a novel”. “Oh really?” I said, “Neither am I.”’
In truth, it’s not so much how others see us, but how we see ourselves. All those old jokes and clichés about the ‘resting’ actor can bite deep – after all, ‘to act’ must be the most active verb there is. Can there be such a thing as an inactive actor?
I remember when I was appearing in ‘The Woman In Black’ – 10 months of wonderful, stimulating work. In my final week I was invited to talk to a kids’ drama workshop. The chap who was running the session said, ‘You can hear how Chris’s voice is really resonant and well-exercised because he’s been working so long’. I felt thoroughly legitimate – a proper actor, with plenty of evidence to back it up – after all, my actual face was on the poster. A week later I was unemployed, sitting at home, and someone else’s picture was plastered outside the theatre. Was I still an actor?
But of course I was. Being an actor is about more than your last job, or your next one – it is an identity, even a philosophy. It is a brave choice to devote your life to a job where the work itself is its own reward, especially when there is so much propaganda telling us that we can only validate our existence through the accumulation of money and material goods.
Anyway, I think there comes a point of no return, when you realise that you are so far down the path, it’s too late to turn back. So it is important to brazen it out, and call ourselves actors, even if the closest we’ve come to a job in six months is a couple of castings and a voice class. The title of actor is hard-won prize and we should cherish it.
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I wish they started the episode with either a "Previously On..." or just went straight into the episode, because that intro with him talking to us was so awkward. The mixing of SD and HD footage was jarring as well and, more importantly, made me feel like on old bitch.
DL fave Miriam Margolyes did fantastic voice work as Meep, but she's always excelled at that, so no surprise there. The twist was obvious from the start, like r5 said.
I really wish they treated the trans and nonbinary stuff more organically, especially because these people themselves say they don't want to be presented (only) in preachy PSAs. Feels so '90s and that's unfortunately just RTD showing his age. Same for the disabled stuff. It's not doing anyone any favours, it just serves to give the showrunner the false impression that he's changing the world. Hopefully they got it out of their system now and we can have more subtlety going forward, especially with the black gay Doctor entering stage soon. I don't want pushback from the haters because they feel they're being lectured to.
Preachiness aside, the episode felt like quintessential RTD Doctor Who – nowhere near as polished and convoluted as Moffat, not as boring and clunky as Chibnall, but rather just campy and fun. Which isn't bad and I think I might start watching the show again.
This is the most I've enjoyed Who in years. Tennant and Tate didn't miss a beat. If anything, I'm only sad we're only getting two more of these.
I actually think the pronoun stuff and the binary/non-binary bit wasn't so much about being a PSA, it was kind of there to intentionally troll the people who would post angry missives about how the show just raped their childhoods on Twitter.
It's clear the BBC put Disney's money to really good use. The look of the special was a level beyond even the highest production values we've seen before.
All Hail the Meep!
Looking around online, people seem to have loved the episode, heavy-handedness notwithstanding. It's quite the feat for RTD to pull people back to his era of Doctor Who so quickly and seamlessly. Fingers crossed this isn't just down to Tennant's and Tate's chemistry and continues even after Gatwa's arrival.
[quote]The look of the special was a level beyond even the highest production values we've seen before.
I agree when it comes to the street battle and the sonic screwdriver stuff, but I think Moffat's episodes looked... glossier somehow? Or maybe the set design was just more twee during his tenure and that's what's throwing me off.
[quote]I also have no memory of the lottery arc.
It's not an arc. It's like one snippet of a scene.
So, Ten goes around and interacts briefly with all his companions--He saves Martha and Mickey from a Sontaran, keeps Luke from getting hit by a car and says goodbye to Sarah Jane, arranges an introduction between Jack and (the extremely masculine) Russell Tovey's character Alonso from "Voyage of the Damned," visits the great-granddaughter of the woman he romanced in "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" (who is named Verity Newman after Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman), has a brief moment with Rose shortly before she meets Nine, and gives Wilf the lottery ticket for Donna.
[quote]So, Ten goes around and interacts briefly with all his companions--He saves Martha and Mickey from a Sontaran, keeps Luke from getting hit by a car and says goodbye to Sarah Jane, arranges an introduction between Jack and (the extremely masculine) Russell Tovey's character Alonso from "Voyage of the Damned," visits the great-granddaughter of the woman he romanced in "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" (who is named Verity Newman after Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman), has a brief moment with Rose shortly before she meets Nine, and gives Wilf the lottery ticket for Donna.
Thank you - I remember this now.
I have a desire to watch Turn Left now. And Blink. And the one with Tracy Ann Oberman as Yvonne Hartman.
r34 Dear lord, that was abysmal. And I'm not just talking about the writing, but the whole package. Not even the dreamy Sacha Dhawan with his velvety voice and the beautiful hair and the perfectly-trimmed beard could sell that horseshit to me, and I once lobbied hard on DL for him to be cast as the next Doctor AND the next Bond.
I mean, just laughable. Chibnall did that one trauma porn show – relying on shock value of paedophilia before the whole QAnon hysteria – that took off among the fraus and suddenly he gets the reins to Doctor Who? They should have left the show rest for a couple of years instead.
Well only 4 weeks and a day until The Church on Ruby Road.
I was a casual fan as a child (Peter Davison regenerating into Colin Baker was my era) and enjoyed the Eccleston series. The Tennant era got better and better and Matt Smith was enjoyable but by the time of Capaldi it all felt like it had been done before. Cybermen again. Daleks again.
The quality of the writing but also the calibre of the actors made the series. Simon Callow, Annette Badland, Penelope Wilton, Pauline Collins, Shirley Henderson, Carey Mulligan, Derek Jacobi, Sarah Lancashire, Miss Kylie Ann Minogue, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Gemma Chan, David Harewood, Timothy Dalton and Clare Bloom. That's just the RTD era and I know I've forgotten some.
The Michael Gambon Katherine Jenkins Christmas Carol episode was one of the most beautiful pieces of TV.
First look at Christmas special. New companion was obviously cast to make him appear taller, which is smart. Both their jackets give off a comforting vibe, this is going to be so damn cosy, I can feel it already.
[quote]During an appearance on the BBC's Morning Live, Davies teased what viewers can expect from the Christmas Day episode: "It's really exciting, it's thrilling, it's explosive, it's brilliant. You've seen Ncuti in Sex Education, he is just the most phenomenal human being. Christmas Day is a new start again, come and join a brand new adventure."
Okay, don't oversell it, babe.
I *just* found out that Tenant and Tate were back for three episodes. I tapped out during Capaldi’s tenure because it got boring as hell and never saw any of Whittaker’s but I had to watch this because Ten and Donna are my favorite Doctor and companion and I really felt like they ruined her ending. I was absolutely convinced that Donna Noble was “The Woman” regenerated after thousands of years and was actually the Doctor’s mother. Somewhere along the line it was said he was half human. Her name was Donna Noble Temple which literally translates to Lady Time Lord! And when The Woman kept appearing it was to Donna’s grandfather Wilf. All signs pointed to Donna=the Doctor’s mom, and they went out of their way to make it clear there was never any romantic feelings between the two.
But a friend told me that theory was explained away in the seasons I missed. I’m guessing that was the Timeless Child?
I mean if River Song can regenerate simply because she was conceived by two humans on the TARDIS, surely Doctor Donna can.
But I was confused by the ending of this episode. Did Donna and Rose give up their Time Lord power or just whatever it is that would kill them?
I actually liked Rose and the actress playing her. And loved Donna’s fierce protectiveness.
So I have no idea what the hell is going on, but it was great to see Tenant and Tate back together. Surely they’re the most popular Doctor and companion of the modern series.
I’ll watch the next two specials, but I may tap out again. It sounds like they’ve taken the story so off the rails that it’ll be impossible to ever fix.
But who knows. If you have a machine that can travel through time AND space, I guess any problem can be corrected.
There were heaps of gay jokes in the Eccleston and Tennant Doctor Who, before Torchwood existed. It was very clear in Who that Captain Jack was not only rampantly bisexual but fancied Tennant. There was also the more serious storyline about the little gay boy amidst the celebrations of the Coronation in 1952. So all of that was very woke, considering that Who was considered a show that children would watch.
Trans issues were not the Zeitgeist, but they always existed (cf Priscilla Queen of the Desert). If they had been relevant to one of his plots, as they were to this one, he'd have included them then for sure. You're right however that "non-binary" per se was only invented recently.
I wasn’t bothered at all by the Rose character or actress, but it seemed kinda like they were implying that all the suppressed memories Donna had of her time with the Doctor came out in life by doing things like giving away all the lottery money and having a daughter named Rose.
But wouldn’t have Rose chosen that name for herself? I guess they could argue that some of those memories ended up in Rose along with the Time Lord energy and knowledge (which I still think that just “letting go” of was a stupid way to end that problem!)
R65, it is stated that Rose DID choose that name for herself.
If I've understood correctly, the reason Donna didn't die when she recognised the Doctor was that back when she had Rose or whatever his name was (I missed the male name on my one viewing) part of the Time Lord in her passed to Rose. "They" (meaning Rose, not Rose and Donna) thus started to do things like choose that name, make stuffed toys that looked like aliens Donna had met, etc. Because it was spread out across the two, the effect wasn't strong enough to kill either of them. That's where the "binary/non-binary" joke came in, although if we look closely the cure is in the binary, and the non-binary mentions are just for wokeness.
I look forward to the day IT gets attacked for being binary.
I was (stupidly) sure they were going to end it without him realizing before they left. It’s not like ANY of the Doctor’s companions end up living happily ever after their encounters with him. They may ultimately get some small reward somewhere down the road. Rose was left in tears in an alternate dimension and thought she’d never see him again until they gave her a human Doctor years later. Donna’s whole memory was wiped. Poor Amy and Rory had to live the rest of their lives in a small apartment in Brooklyn in the 1920s reliving the same day for eternity, Clara is a millisecond away from death and has to spend the rest of her life traveling the universe with Arya Stark AFTER they killed her boyfriend in a car accident(!), and I don’t even want to talk about what they did to Bill! I couldn’t even watch the 13th Doctor, so I just assume something awful happened to her companions as well. Even his own WIFE died the very first day he met her.
Martha and Mickey ended up married, but they also ended up working for UNIT, so I’m guessing it’s more likely that one or both of them died during an alien invasion when the Doctor wasn’t around and never got to have kids much less grandkids to hold.
Basically, meeting the Doctor sounds like the worst thing that could possibly happen to you.
If a Brit of any age, gender, or race pops out of a big blue police box, and asks you if you want a ride, the answer should be a stern NO.
See all of time and space? No. I’d rather still be alive and on earth after 13 episodes, thank you very much.
Green screen and some of the CG looked really iffy towards the start, but I don't know whether it improved later on or if I just got used to it. Definitely doesn't look like your Doctor Who of old. Fun episode, I enjoyed it even more than last week's. Neither have felt particularly like 60th anniversary specials, although I have a suspicion that was always just a marketing gimmick; the real purpose of these is to be the least awkward bridge possible between Whittaker and Gatwa. Some acknowledgement of Chibnall's arcs here and there, but also a very palpable desire to move on.
RTD ever so slowly working the gay/bisexual/ pansexual angle in, did you catch that remark by Donna?
I enjoyed it, although that intro was so rushed and its editing choppy (Charlie de Melo is a handsome fucker). The music was so loud throughout, I struggled to hear the dialogue at times. I suppose this is what NPH meant by the series being super gay – confetti and lipsyncing to Spice Girls and doing snow angels in rose petals. We'll see if that sort of sensibility carries on into the next season as well. Gatwa is sporting a skirt in that Christmas special trailer, so I suppose that'll very much be the case. I just hope he's more fun now after letting Tennant deal with all the past trauma. Clean slate.
Basically no payoff to the fact that everyone in the real world was cancelling each other, RTD just used that bit for a throwaway line. No mention of the fact that Donna put her own mother on cancellation notice for misgendering Rose that one time.
Really not a fan of how disabled people were presented in these two episodes. Everyone was policing their language and constantly asking whether she was offended. That hasn't been my experience with wheelchair-bound people at all. In fact, they all fucking hate that patronising bullshit that centres their disability in their interactions with others.
What was going on with Gatwa's Rs? Some of them were rhotic and some of them were not? It was jarring, I'm sure there's a creative reason behind it. Perhaps he's still transitioning?
The actor playing Ibrahim is tall and handsome, but he walks quite doily – not so much like a seasoned special ops guy, more like a male model sashaying down the catwalk. So that made me laugh. Here pictured smelling cookies with Joanna Lumley and a Stevie Nicks knockoff of some kind. His hair looks much nicer here than that horrid greasejob they gave him on the show.
He sounds bitter. And it probably had more weight if others agreed with him. But nobody does. Not only had David Tennant the best time ever with Davies, Tranter, Collinson and Gardner as Ten; he even came back to work more with them. Maybe it's you, Chris. Besides, didn't Davies even apologize for not being the best and most protective producer in 2004/2005? I guess that wasn't enough for an apology, or there was more.
It's a shame really. I liked Eccleston's Nine a lot. It was such a unique version of the Doctor.
I knew some people working on the reboot series of Doctor Who in 2004 and it was a shitshow as has been documented by others. Chaotic, unprofessional and very, very unhappy.
Eccleston had been in countless big budget movies and prestige tv productions by that point - Our Friends In The North, Cracker, Hillsborough, Clocking Off, Othello and The Second Coming were all BAFTA nominated with most winning - and he was appalled by what was going on. Yes Eccleston can be pompous but he was the voice of calm and experience on the set.
Billie Piper was only 21 but making a "comeback" and as famous for her drug use and failed marriage as she was for her music career. Cast in a major acting role with limited acting experience. The definition of vulnerable, but she wasn't supported by the mostly gay male crew and production team.
John Barrowman's behaviour on set was not just well known but encouraged by some senior members of the production team. David Tennant commented about the culture on set and how he and Steven Moffat were often the only two straight men, and they'd go off together and talk about straight things. Phil Collinson left the set for a period during one of the later series.
But back to Eccleston, a statement was released by the BBC saying he was "tired" after the filming of the first series and that's why he wasn't returning. The BBC apologised after threats of legal action, something the BBC rarely does.
Despite that, the rebooted series won Best Drama Series at the 2006 BAFTAs.
The series is not being received well by those who are actually watching it. On IMDb, “The Star Beast” received a 5.2 rating out of 10. “Wild Blue Yonder” has a 6.5 out of 10, and “The Giggle” currently has a 7.5 out of 10.
Overall, the series has a 6.6 out of 10 rating.
Doctor Who ratings on IMDb
The series fares even worse on Rotten Tomatoes. The show currently has a 43% average audience score.
Doctor Who ratings on Rotten Tomatoes
The series has also been lampooned by previous fans of the series. Pop culture expert and lover of old Doctor Who, Gary Buechler, the host of the YouTube channel Nerdrotic savaged “The Star Beast” episode noting it was “sacrificed on the altar of agenda” and that “the now third reboot of Doctor Who was murdered in its crib.”
RELATED: Showrunner Russell T Davies Promises Ncuti Gatwa’s Run As The Doctor Will “Unroll A Whole New Doctor Who Mythology,” Admits New Fantasy Focus “Will Annoy People”
It’s unlikely the series viewership will recover, but will instead continued its continued decline. In fact, showrunner Russell T. Davies announced that upcoming episodes of the show will “annoy people.”
He told Radio Times, “The show is taking a sly step towards fantasy, which will annoy people to whom it’s a hard science-fiction show.”
Davies added, “Episode two next year is wildly fantasy. Completely making up scenarios on-screen that we’ve never been able to show before. But the following episode is proper hard science-fiction.”
Showrunner Russell T Davies Promises Ncuti Gatwa’s Run As The Doctor Will “Unroll A Whole New Doctor Who Mythology,” Admits New Fantasy Focus “Will Annoy People”
It’s unlikely the series viewership will recover, but will instead continued its continued decline. In fact, showrunner Russell T. Davies announced that upcoming episodes of the show will “annoy people.”
He told Radio Times, “The show is taking a sly step towards fantasy, which will annoy people to whom it’s a hard science-fiction show.”
This episode had a pretty wonky feel to it, I wonder if that's due to the nature of it being a special or if this is how the whole season will feel like.
I've noticed this in The Giggle as well, but there is a thing where snappy editing – which I normally enjoy – can be too snappy. There are very few quiet moments in this that would allow for the dynamic moments to pop more. The worst example of this was Ruby being shown bored at a bar for two or three seconds before she sees the Doctor. The music is blaring throughout, so there's no contrast between her state and the moment of her seeing the Doctor. Very shoddy direction, editing, but I suspect also storyboarding by RTD. The whole thing felt like it was hastily assembled together. The goblins were cute, but also had that naff CG feel that doesn't really go with Doctor Who.
The refurbished Big Ben looks so good, although it now makes even more apparent the sad state of the Parliament building.
The lady at the end is older Ruby? Why did she look into the camera, what am I missing here?
Loved the singing, should be a regular occurrence.
Is the lady at the end older Ruby? They didn’t do a good job making it clear who she was or why she knew what a TARDIS was.
I just thought Ruby was too wide-eyed and happy while discovering that goblins were about to EAT her new baby sister!!
And nothing in the whole story even hinted at why she was important or what the significance of being born at 2 pm on Xmas eve was. Or what they’re going to do about crack, who her mother (or whoever left her) was or why she’s so drawn to the Doctor and he to her.
I could excuse a few unanswered questions if I thought they’d be answered during the season’s episodes, but they didn’t even give a single hint to ANYTHING that was going on! She was just a too happy young woman who was overly excited by a baby getting eaten and her apartment cracking in half!! So frustrating!!!
After this season, two seasons tops with the 15th Doctor, I want a 16th Doctor played by Martin Freeman or Jason Isaacs and at least ONE full season where River Song is his companion and we get to see the great romance that they’ve hinted at but never actually shown. I don’t think this is the right Doctor, him being young and gay and all.
I demand it!!
I'll be contrarian. I've only watched "Space Babies" thus far, but I quite liked it. Not so much for the actual plot, but I enjoy them establishing the dynamic between the Doctor and Ruby. And while I know the whole Timeless Child bit was universally hated, I give then credit for both A) not sweeping it under the rug, and B) using it to create a parallel between Fifteen and Ruby.
Also, it looks GREAT.
They couldn't be telegraphing the Big Bad being the Rani harder, could they?
I enjoyed the baby episode, it was cute, but occasionally felt like a primer for newbies, what with all that background info. The "oh, by the way, this episode is about refugees" bit when they were talking to the nanny felt really forced. My one real complaint is that there was just this constant music playing over every single scene, there wasn't a single quiet moment where we could catch a break, so that the dramatic moments could land harder. What's up with that? And it's not particularly good score either, it's muzak-adjacent.
Gatwa feels more natural here than in his first appearance, I didn't for a second feel like he was cosplaying as the Doctor, he *was* the Doctor. I like that he revealed the Tardis to Ruby's parents in the premiere, that felt fresh.
Second episode was enjoyable as well. Jinxx was great, although maybe overdid the ham here and there. Actor playing Lennon was way cuter than the actual Lennon. The "twist" musical number at the end had no real purpose, they had one because they wanted to have one.
[quote]Jinxx was great, although maybe overdid the ham here and there.
I was expecting it to be completely gimmicky, but I thought she was great. She definitely have them their money's worth.
[quote]The "twist" musical number at the end had no real purpose, they had one because they wanted to have one.
Davies clearly has no fucks to give about anyone who's going to be triggered by the show being so damned queer, and I'm here for it. I'm not saying that I agree with every creative decision, but there's something incredibly refreshing about him doing whatever the hell he wants.
[quote] I'm not saying that I agree with every creative decision, but there's something incredibly refreshing about him doing whatever the hell he wants.
My issue with that is he should have done whatever the hell he wants with a new property instead of leeching the goodwill out of a well established mythos beloved across so many generations.
The Time Lords were mean to the Doctor when he was a little black girl? C'mon.
The Tennant series were the best - RTD had a vision that spread over several series and was complimented by other writers.
There were forgettable episodes from RTD and other writers but the Simon Callow as Dickens, ARE YOU MY MUMMY, Blink. River Song and Agatha Christie were all fantastic.
And it helped that they had a revolving door of fantastic actors making guest appearances.
I liked elements of the Matt Smith era - the Christmas Carol one was one of the greatest ever episodes - but lost interest with Peter Capaldi. Nothing personal about him or Jenna but it was just repetitive. I watched a few Jodie episodes and sat through the Aisling Bea one because I thought it finished with regeneration and it was ok but Daleks again.
It's 20 years now since it came back - the original series ran for 26 years. There's only so much road you can cover and trying to reinvent the wheel by claiming its a black queer wheel is self defeating.
Yeah, I think I prefer the Moffat era as well. The episodes were so nicely structured – you had the beginning, the buildup, the climax, and the resolution. It's like RTD watched the Chibnall episodes and jotted down "too quiet" and then over-corrected, so now everything is at an 11 all the time, hectic and needlessly overlaid with action music.
And is it just me or did the show look more lush under Moffat as well? I don't know if they paid more attention to set design or it's because the camera lingered on the shots more, but Moffat's worlds always looked so tactile and immersive. These two episodes looked pretty flat to me.
[quote]Everybody here writes like a TV critic. Everything gets dissected and evaluated. Those were the days when people just got comfortable with a snack and a drink and just enjoyed what was coming. And then they moved on. Now each and every episode needs to function as a quality standard for Perfect TV. No wonder that people are more aggravated nowadays when even an hour of Space Babie gets people out of shape.
There is a particular fandom issue with Doctor Who where many of the fans seem to actively loathe the show.
But this show is now 19 years in to its current run and the quality drop is noticable.
What's especially irritating at the moment is those involved are taunting the viewers telling them that if they don't like the current run they're somehow backwards or not embracing the new progressive regime. No hun, it's just boring.
Forgot to mention another thing I really enjoyed about the premiere – the way the babies' mouths were animated! I love how far CG and AI have come that this is now possible and also doable on a TV budget. Even five years ago, an episode like this either wouldn't be made at all or random mouth movement would be passed off as dialogue, and it would look boring as hell. I noticed the same with the cat in Dead Boy Detectives and it makes me feel excited about all the future possibilities of this technology.
Green Screen: The Episode. At the beginning, when Ruby steps out of the Tardis, there's green screened Tardis behind her, which is in turn green screened onto the alien planet. It's like Disney gave them their Volume tech and told them to go nuts. Just foul looking, zero depth to anything.
And I can't believe Moffat wrote this dreck. Why was everything constantly at an 11, like it was an RTD episode? At one point, the hysteria was so overpowering with everyone shouting over each other, I had to mute the whole thing. My god, enough action, give us some quiet dramatic moments already.
Inspirations behind this episode were obvious – Outlander meets Raised by Wolves meets Black Mirror.
[quote] What's especially irritating at the moment is those involved are taunting the viewers telling them that if they don't like the current run they're somehow backwards or not embracing the new progressive regime. No hun, it's just boring.
Disney had responded to woke Star War's critics with the same sort of arrogance so now Disney is a partner in Doctor Who it's unsurprising they would follow the same dismissive philosophy.
ps -- Disney stock value is down almost 50% from just three years ago
That was a decent episode, if a bit too Black Mirror-ish with its central premise. That twist at the end though, wow. Not gonna have many fans here on DL, I presume. However, it would have landed even harder without the fake tears, which were flowing almost cartoonishly in that last shot.
That pee doctor was weird.
Is it just me or was Ricky September not that hot at all? His acting debut was opposite Minnie Driver in Hunky Dory, how quaint is that? Did some theatre with Ben Whishaw as well, a decade ago.
That felt like a Catherine Tate filler episode updated from the late 00s. Good enough.
Tom Rhys Harries is a curious looking man. When he was younger he was so skinny and twinky and very pretty and almost androgynous. He now looks like a 30 year old twink who has filled out. He's a fairly posh middle class actor who was over hyped based on his looks but has worked consistently without being especially famous.
He was good enough in Hunky Dory but was overshadowed by last week's Doctor Who guest Aneurin Barnard who had already won an Olivier when he appeared in the movie. But the teenager actor from Hunky Dory who went on to have the most prestigious career was George MacKay.
Fun episode. Doctor's sexy dancing to Kylie is perfect for Pride time, but I don't know how well it'll go down with the genpop.
It was interesting seeing how much simpler the costumes were compared to Bridgerton, but of course it's expensive to have period costumes just for one episode. And the costumes and the jewellery in Bridgerton are comically overdone anyway.
First gay kiss in Doctor Who? Groff's character didn't have that much personality, he was kinda just a blank slate. Performance seemed phoned in, Groff's usually more expressive with his face. He should've played him more rugged, I think.
The issue with Dr Who is that it was always a rather silly and fantastical show for children. It was never intended to be a cornerstone of primetime mainstream culture. Like the centrality of superhero films in Hollywood, it's a sign of the continued infantilisation of popular culture. Dr Who is not serious, nor should it ever need to be: but it can't both didactic entertainment and nuanced, sophisticated drama. It has to be one or the other, and this is something that Russel T Davies has never been able to reconcile.
No wonder the series seems to be having a perpetual identity crisis.
After three pretty decent episodes, we get this overwrought mess? The final couple of minutes were laughable, like a parody of Doctor Who. The masks and the CG looked so naff.
Nothing specific was ever mentioned about that software Sue was about to release to the world for free. And a tech genius at 70? Sure, that tracks. RTD's boomerism was on full display here, and painfully so. It's like the editing of the show is snappy enough (even too snappy at times), but everything else about it is dated. I think RTD is just spent, creatively.
At least we got to see the cute Colonel Ibrahim again, voguing with his insane cheekbones all over the place. And his hair isn't slathered in gel anymore, so that's nice. Though I wish he smiled more, just look at his bright homosexual smile at r123.
Russell T Davies has broken his silence on the series' declining ratings, explaining that the goal was always for the long-running sci-fi drama to attract a much younger audience.
"In coming back, I wanted to make it simpler and I wanted to make it younger," he explained. "Those two things are often not discussed - you read reactions to it and people are missing that. It’s simpler and younger - and it is working."
"The under-16s and the 16-34 audience as well is massive. It’s not doing that well in the ratings, but it is doing phenomenally well with the younger audience that we wanted."
r303 You can fuck right off with that homophobic language about a gay showrunner on a gay message board. That sort of rhetoric was used for decades to deny us our rights, you ought to be embarrassed. I sure am embarrassed that your mother shat out someone like you.
Targeting a younger audience is nothing new in showbiz because those people are the fucking future. You don't want to be like cable news where the median age is 70, that's a moribund medium. Do I think RTD is coping by cherry-picking his stats? Yes. But he's not wrong in prioritising younger audiences.
What I don't understand with the "BUT THE KIDS LOVE IT" argument is why RTD would reposition Doctor Who as a kids show with constant references to things that happened in the show 45 years ago or whenever.
Sure it appeals to the hardcore fans but "the kids" are just going to ask why was a black smoke dog puppet on the top of the TARDIS?
Other than that this series has been enjoyable enough. 45 minutes a week doesn't feel like a waste of time.
CInemas in the UK are hosting screenings on Friday night for the finale. They'll show yesterday's episode at 11ish and then the new episode "live" at midnight when it drops online.
I'm not sure those 8 hours of tv have been a huge success. I'm sure the old queens loved the Tom Baker and Susan clips and references to old episodes but RTD's assertion they're doing it for the kids doesn't convince me.
Ncuti Gatwa has been ok although his DRAMATIC SCENES are so over the top and not in a good way. Millie Gibson however has been excellent. It is hard to believe she only turned 20 this week. She's much better than the show and will go on to great things.
And I can suspend my believe to think this evil dog thing can turn the entire population into dust but the idea that no one in Ruby's mother or father's family would spit into a tube for Ancestry.com (hi Davina!) is just too ridiculous.
Yeah, this wasn't very good. And I think I've finally figured out why – it's mostly the lazy execution. There is zero directorial panache to anything on the screen. Moffat could turn that mediocre writing into a spectacular finale with proper camerawork and clever editing. But everything here is flat and rushed and uninspired. The Doctor occasionally shouts out a monologue and even those don't land.
God damn it, I wanted this to succeed so much. But if the first season with RTD full of fresh energy was this mid, I imagine it's only going to get worse going forward. Sigh.
Analysis by Deadline. Dark clouds on the horizon...
[quote]Those lucky enough to attend May’s Disney‘s upfronts at the North Javits Center were treated to clips, teases and appearances from some of the world’s biggest stars. But almost completely absent from the upfront festivities was Doctor Who, the iconic British sci-fi series that Disney+ now co-produces with the BBC following what was undoubtedly one of the biggest global TV show deals of the past decade. Doctor Who was handed a minor bit of real estate at the North Javits, but its lack of front-and-center placement may spin a yarn about the series’ position in the Disney priority log nearly three years on from the deal being struck.
[quote]Noises that it may not last beyond its initial two seasons are already reverberating around international TV circles, and one source close to the production tells us that they feel its future hangs in the balance already.
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Christopher Eccleston (born 16 February 1964[1]) played the Ninth Doctor, beginning from Rose to The Parting of the Ways.
Since 2021, he returned to the role for Big Finish Productions' audio adventures.
Biography[]
As a child, Eccleston's ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United, but he found himself to be a much better actor than a footballer, and, inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession.
He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (the same school attended by Doctor Who predecessor Peter Davison) and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, based on true events. However, it was a regular role in the TV series Cracker (1993–94) — culminating in his character's dramatic death in the second series — that made him a recognisable figure in the UK.
He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave in 1994, in which he co-starred with the up-and-coming Ewan McGregor. The same year, he won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, and it was the transmission of this production on BBC Two in 1996 that perhaps really made him into a household name in the UK.
His film career has since taken off with a variety of high-profile but rarely major roles, including parts in Jude (1996), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), Rat Race (2001) 24 Hour Party People (2002) and another Danny Boyle film, the horror movie 28 Days Later (2002). He has starred alongside major Hollywood actresses in smaller independent movies, playing opposite Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Cameron Diaz in The Invisible Circus (2001). Despite starring in the car-heist movie Gone in 60 Seconds, he did not actually take his driving test until January 2004 and is only licenced to drive automatic transmission cars.
Despite his successful film career, he has continued to appear in a variety of meaty television roles, racking up credits in some of the most challenging and thought-provoking British television dramas of recent years. These have included Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), a modern version of Othello (2002), playing "Ben Jago", (the Iago character) and the religious telefantasy epic The Second Coming (2003), written by Russell T Davies, for ITV, playing Steve Baxter, the son of God (Eccleston was an atheist at the time, but is currently agnostic). He also finds time for the occasional light-hearted role, as his guest appearances in episodes of the comedy drama Linda Green (2001) and macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002) have shown.
On stage, his highest-profile production has been his starring role in Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2002. The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a favourite venue of his, and he most recently returned there in the new play Electricity, which ran in March and April 2004.
A very highly-regarded actor, he has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards, the UK's premier TV awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North, when he lost out to Nigel Hawthorne (for The Fragile Heart), and he was nominated again in 2004 for The Second Coming, this time being beaten by Bill Nighy (for State of Play). He did, however, 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. 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 Doctor Who.
In July 2004, a poll of industry experts, conducted by Radio Times magazine, voted Eccleston the 19th Most Powerful Person in Television Drama.
Doctor Who[]
I think it's more important to be your own man than be successful, so I left. But the most important thing is that I did it, not that I left. I really feel that, because it kind of broke the mould and it helped to reinvent it.Eccleston speaking about Doctor Who [2]
It was announced that Eccleston was to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of the legendary BBC science fiction television series, which started airing in March 2005. The series executive producer and writer Russell T Davies has said that Eccleston was always the first choice for the part. Despite this, the tabloid press ran reports that Bill Nighy had been offered the role first, but declined. In the 2005 documentary series Doctor Who Confidential, Davies said that he "wouldn't have thought Chris [Eccleston] would be interested".
Eccleston has the distinction of being the first actor to play the Doctor who was actually born after the start of the original television series; he was born two weeks after the famous first Dalek story was originally broadcast in the UK.
On 30 March 2005, the BBC released a statement, ostensibly from Eccleston, saying that he had decided to leave the role after just one series, owing to fears that he would become typecast. On 4 April, the BBC revealed that Eccleston's "statement" had been falsely attributed and released without his consent. The BBC admitted that they had broken an agreement made in January not to disclose publicly the fact that he only intended to do one season. The statement had been made after journalists made queries to the press office.[1]
Eccleston's role as the Doctor was taken over by David Tennant at the end of the last episode of the 2005 series, The Parting of the Ways.
On 11 June 2005 during a BBC radio interview, when asked if he had enjoyed working on Doctor Who, Eccleston responded by saying, "Mixed, but that's a long story." Eccleston's reasons for leaving the part continued to be a subject of discussion in Britain's newspapers: on 4 October 2005, Alan Davies told The Daily Telegraph that Eccleston had been "overworked" by the BBC, and had left the role because he was "exhausted. "[2] Ten days later, Eccleston told The Daily Mirror this was not true and expressed some irritation at Davies for his comments. [3] He later indicated in an interview about another TV show he worked on, Lennon Naked, that he didn't enjoy the working environment. [4]
In 2005, Eccelston won National Television Award for most popular actor and TV Quick and TV Choice award for best actor for his role in Doctor Who.
After Doctor Who[]
In June 2005 it was announced at the Cannes Film Festival that Eccleston had signed to appear in a British-made sci-fi romantic comedy called Double Life, about a man who thinks he loves twin sisters. It was billed as "a tale of love and obsession" and would be set in Budapest. The film was to be directed by Joe Ahearne (who directed Eccleston in Doctor Who) and was being produced by author Lynda La Plante's company Cougar Films. As of 2020, this film has not been released.
On 30 October 2005, Eccleston appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Navin Chowdhry, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel.
In December 2005, Eccleston travelled to Indonesia's Aceh province for the BBC Breakfast news programme, examining how survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami were rebuilding their lives. [5]
On 20 December 2005, it was announced that Eccleston would lead the cast as playwright, poet and spy Christopher Marlowe in Peter Whelan's The School of Night. Directed by Bill Alexander, The School of Night was due to preview from 16 February but on 6 January 2006, the production was cancelled without a full explanation.
In 2009, Eccleston made arguably the highest-profile media appearances by a former Doctor actor to date by playing the villain Destro in the 2009 G.I. Joe feature film, which was followed a few months later by his appearance as navigator Fred Noonan opposite Hilary Swank in Amelia, a biographical film about Amelia Earhart.
In 2010, Christopher Eccleston played John Lennon in the BBC4 biopic Lennon Naked where he was reunited with Doctor Who (and Torchwood) actress Naoko Mori, who made her first appearance in the episode Aliens of London, alongside Eccleston.
In 2013, though approached with a chance to reprise his role in The Day of the Doctor, Christopher Eccleston turned down the offer to return for the fiftieth anniversary. For this reason, the regeneration of John Hurt's War Doctor into the Ninth Doctor is not shown to completion. The original plan was for the Ninth Doctor to have been the one fighting the Time War, but since Eccleston turned down the offer showrunner Steven Moffat created the War Doctor character to take his place. However, much like every other Doctor actor before David Tennant, he appeared in archive footage in the special, in the "saving Gallifrey" and ending scenes.
In 2022, Eccleston starred as Fagin in the CBBC series Dodger, a prequel series to Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist. Eccleston shares this role with Ron Moody, who portrayed the character in the 1960 musical, Oliver!, as well as its 1968 film adaptation.
List of appearances as the Ninth Doctor[]
Television[]
Doctor Who[]
Series 1[]
Rose
The End of the World
The Unquiet Dead
Aliens of London / World War Three
Dalek
The Long Game
Father's Day
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
Boom Town
Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways
Audio[]
The Ninth Doctor Adventures[]
Ravagers[]
Sphere of Freedom
Cataclysm
Food Fight
Respond to All Calls[]
Girl, Deconstructed
Fright Motif
Planet of the End
Lost Warriors[]
The Hunting Season
The Curse of Lady Macbeth
Monsters in Metropolis
Lost Friends[]
Fond Farewell
Way of the Burryman / The Forth Generation
Back to Earth[]
Station to Station
The False Dimitry
Auld Lang Syne
Into the Stars[]
Salvation Nine
Last of the Zetacene
Break the Ice
Hidden Depths[]
The Seas of Titan
Lay Down Your Arms
Flatpack
Shades of Fear[]
The Colour of Terror
The Blooming Menace
Red Darkness
Pioneers[]
The Green Gift
Northern Lights
The Beautiful Game
Travel in Hope[]
Below There
The Butler Did It
Run
Buried Threats[]
A Theatre of Cruelty
The Running Men
Ancient History
Once and Future[]
Time Lord Immemorial
[]
at the Internet Movie Database
Hidden Shallows : A Christopher Eccleston Fansite
Underground Ecclescakes Listing
ChristopherEccleston.Info
Christopher Eccleston Message Board
Christopher Eccleston: "An American Fansite"
ChristopherEccleston.com (Fansite)
BBC Drama Faces: Christopher Eccleston
Beyond The Blue Box: A Christopher Eccleston Fansite
christopher-eccleston.co.uk (Fansite)
ChristopherEccleston.net (fansite)
Virginia's Christopher Eccleston Website
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Close to Me actor Christopher Eccleston has been a firm favourite with TV fans since he rose to fame in the 1990s.
His breakthrough role came from playing university student Nicky Hutchinson in BBC Drama Our Friends in the North. He starred alongside none other than James Bond himself, actor Daniel Craig.
Twice BAFTA-nominated Christopher is probably more fondly remembered by fans though for playing the ninth Doctor Who in the revival of the BBC sci-fi show in 2005.
But the 57 year old decided to leave the famous role after just one series for fear of being “typecast”.
Although much to the joy of fans, he has reprised his role as the Doctor this year and voiced a series of audio dramas for producer Big Finish called Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures.
His stellar acting career has included a slew of successful roles.
These have included Shallow Grave, Thor: The Dark World, Hillsborough, Safe House and The A Word.
But behind the scenes, Christopher was batting his own demons.
Close to Me star Christopher Eccleston suffered a breakdown in 2016
In his 2019 autobiography, I Love the Bones of You – a tribute to his beloved father Ronnie, who suffered from vascular dementia and passed away in 2012 – the marathon-running star revealed his secret decades-long battle with anorexia and severe clinical depression.
This led to a breakdown in early 2016 (while filming The A Word), after his relationship with his wife Mishka collapsed.
The Salford-born actor ended up celebrating his 52nd birthday on a psychiatric ward and, at his worse moment, contemplated suicide.
Priory psychiatrist Justin Haslam described the breakdown as one of the worst cases of clinical depression he had ever seen.
Christopher told the Guardian in 2020: “I’m male and Northern. I’m from a working-class background, so you were not supposed to speak about your feelings. I still carry all the baggage about masculinity and toughness. I was ashamed about my depression and eating disorder.”
He added: “I really felt that I was going to die.”
“I did have what people might call intrusive thoughts, but I think cowardice played a part too. I thought, that’s gotta hurt,” he said.
Chris also admitted in the book that his problems stemmed from his childhood.
He hid his issues with food from his family and these only intensified when he began his acting career because he aspired to achieve the angular features of his hero Daniel Day-Lewis.
Anorexia affected him on a daily basis
He previously told the Irish Times that anorexia was “like being in hell” that affected him “every minute of every day”. All he thought about was food.
Read more: Alex Jones reduced to tears by Christopher Eccleston’s appearance on The One Show
After leaving the Priory, Christopher returned to his childhood home in Lancashire to live with his mum Elsie, to aid his recovery.
And, then when he was ready, he returned to work, reprising his role as patriarch Maurice in popular BBC Drama The A Word.
What is Close to Me about?
Christopher returns to our screens tonight (Sunday November 7) on Channel 4 in the new psychological thriller Close to Me.
Read more: Christopher Eccleston threatens to sue the BBC
He stars as Rob, a devoted husband to wife Jo (played by actress Connie Nielsen) who suddenly loses an entire year of her memory.
Close to Me airs tonight (November 7), Channel 4, 9pm.
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Close to Me actor Christopher Eccleston has been a firm favourite with TV fans since he rose to fame in the 1990s.
His breakthrough role came from playing university student Nicky Hutchinson in BBC Drama Our Friends in the North. He starred alongside none other than James Bond himself, actor Daniel Craig.
Twice BAFTA-nominated Christopher is probably more fondly remembered by fans though for playing the ninth Doctor Who in the revival of the BBC sci-fi show in 2005.
But the 57 year old decided to leave the famous role after just one series for fear of being “typecast”.
Although much to the joy of fans, he has reprised his role as the Doctor this year and voiced a series of audio dramas for producer Big Finish called Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures.
His stellar acting career has included a slew of successful roles.
These have included Shallow Grave, Thor: The Dark World, Hillsborough, Safe House and The A Word.
But behind the scenes, Christopher was batting his own demons.
Close to Me star Christopher Eccleston suffered a breakdown in 2016
In his 2019 autobiography, I Love the Bones of You – a tribute to his beloved father Ronnie, who suffered from vascular dementia and passed away in 2012 – the marathon-running star revealed his secret decades-long battle with anorexia and severe clinical depression.
This led to a breakdown in early 2016 (while filming The A Word), after his relationship with his wife Mishka collapsed.
The Salford-born actor ended up celebrating his 52nd birthday on a psychiatric ward and, at his worse moment, contemplated suicide.
Priory psychiatrist Justin Haslam described the breakdown as one of the worst cases of clinical depression he had ever seen.
Christopher told the Guardian in 2020: “I’m male and Northern. I’m from a working-class background, so you were not supposed to speak about your feelings. I still carry all the baggage about masculinity and toughness. I was ashamed about my depression and eating disorder.”
He added: “I really felt that I was going to die.”
“I did have what people might call intrusive thoughts, but I think cowardice played a part too. I thought, that’s gotta hurt,” he said.
Chris also admitted in the book that his problems stemmed from his childhood.
He hid his issues with food from his family and these only intensified when he began his acting career because he aspired to achieve the angular features of his hero Daniel Day-Lewis.
Anorexia affected him on a daily basis
He previously told the Irish Times that anorexia was “like being in hell” that affected him “every minute of every day”. All he thought about was food.
Read more: Alex Jones reduced to tears by Christopher Eccleston’s appearance on The One Show
After leaving the Priory, Christopher returned to his childhood home in Lancashire to live with his mum Elsie, to aid his recovery.
And, then when he was ready, he returned to work, reprising his role as patriarch Maurice in popular BBC Drama The A Word.
What is Close to Me about?
Christopher returns to our screens tonight (Sunday November 7) on Channel 4 in the new psychological thriller Close to Me.
Read more: Christopher Eccleston threatens to sue the BBC
He stars as Rob, a devoted husband to wife Jo (played by actress Connie Nielsen) who suddenly loses an entire year of her memory.
Close to Me airs tonight (November 7), Channel 4, 9pm.
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In the heart of England's vibrant cultural tapestry (and in the North West of the country, geographically speaking) lies our fine city of Manchester, a city steeped in history, innovation, and a rich artistic heritage. From the cobbled streets of the Northern Quarter to the terraces of Old Trafford, this industrial metropolis has birthed an array of luminaries who've left a lasting mark on the world.
In our exploration of "60 Famous People From Manchester*", we'll give our take on the 60 most famous mancunians, and we'll delve into the lives and legacies of these 60 individuals who've shaped this city's identity. We've put them in our own personal order (after much deliberation in the Manchester Shop office!) - but do you agree with our order? Probably not - so let us know in the comments!
From the Madchester music scene to the silver screens of Hollywood, from breakthroughs in science to brushstrokes on canvas, these are the remarkable figures who we think embody the spirit of Manchester. From the south in Stockport, to the north in Nimble Nook, we’ve covered all that Greater Manchester has to offer.
Join us on this journey through the lives of those who've not only called Manchester home but have also played a pivotal role in making it the extraordinary city it is today.
Many of our famous mancs are unsurprisingly musicians - check out our Manc Gifts for Music Lovers collection if you're looking for a Madchester related gift!
*Quick caveat - we're including not only famous people from Manchester who were born in this great city, but also people from Greater Manchester, and those who have simply lived here but made an impact on either the city or the world as a whole.
1. Noel Gallagher
Go anywhere in the world, and the first things people will normally say back to you when you tell them you’ve from Manchester are “Manchester United! Oasis! Gallagher Brothers!”. Well we can’t put Utd top because it’s a football club, not a person.. So here’s our Noel at #1. Yes, Liam would likely be miffed to be #2 to his big bro, but we think Noel just pips him to 1st place.
Noel Gallagher, the celebrated Oasis guitarist, was a pivotal figure in the britpop movement alongside his brother Liam. Hailing from Burnage, he spearheaded the band after honing their craft in Manchester and the North West. Gallagher's musical prowess is underscored by his writing credits for eight UK chart-toppers and a co-authored number one hit. Additionally, he's the primary or sole composer of ten UK number-one studio albums. His profound influence on British rock is acknowledged by a generation of artists who followed in his footsteps. Despite global fame, Gallagher maintains a deep affinity for Manchester, a city that played a significant role in his journey, both with Oasis and his band High Flying Birds.
Speaking to the Mancunion , he said “when I go back to Manchester, on the surface, there’s a new street here, there’s a new thing in the Northern Quarter there, but it never really changes because the people are the same.” His ties to Manchester are also strengthened through his devotion for his beloved team Manchester City.
2. Liam Gallagher
Not one to be overshadowed by his older songwriter brother, Liam Gallagher is one of the most recognisable figures in British rock music, noted for his distinctive vocal style and outspoken, arrogant, and volatile personality. A combination of Liam the swaggering Manc on the microphone and Noel’s guitar stylings inspired by Beatles and T. Rex, Oasis were unstoppable on their journey to the Britpop top. Liam has remained in the limelight since Oasis’ split in 2009 with his solo material, his band Beady Eye, playing at 2017 benefit concert One Love Manchester and his often bizarre tweets.
Liam’s love for his birth city is still strong, also devoted to Manchester City and recently voicing the Metrolink tram voice overs as part of the Beyond the Music festival and conference in the city. His fans in Manchester have been getting excited about his tour in 2024 to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the Oasis album Definitely Maybe.
3. Tyson Fury
Tyson Fury, the formidable heavyweight boxer, has deep roots in Manchester. Born in Wythenshawe, Fury's connection to the city is profound. His meteoric rise in the boxing world is a testament to his skill, boasting an impressive record of 33 wins and 1 draw out of 34 fights to date. Beyond the ring, Fury wears his Manchester pride on his sleeve as an avid Manchester United supporter, aligning himself with the fervent football culture of the city. His journey began at the renowned Jimmy Egan's Boxing Academy in Wythenshawe, where he honed his formidable boxing skills. This academy not only played a pivotal role in Fury's early career but also highlights the rich sporting heritage embedded in the very fabric of Manchester.
4. Ian McKellen
Sir Ian McKellen (or Gandalf to Tolkein lovers!) started his acting career treading the boards around the North West. Born in Burnley, lived in Wigan, schooled in Bolton, McKellen still fondly calls Manchester his home. His parents, nurturing an early love for theatre, whisked him away to a family outing at the Opera House in Manchester to witness Peter Pan when he was just three years old. This experience ignited a lasting fascination with the stage.Not one to shy away from who he is, McKellen often makes his way to Manchester for the city’s annual Pride weekend, taking part in the iconic parade through the streets of the city centre and stopping to take pictures with fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community. With the knighthood he received in 1991, and two Oscars to his name for Gods and Monsters and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sir Ian McKellen is truly one of the North West’s finest actors and a full fledged national treasure.
5. Steve Coogan
A self described "defiant northerner," Coogan hasn’t let his portrayal of Norwich’s finest Alan Partridge taint his Manchester roots. Born in Middleton and studying at Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama, Coogan initially started as an impressionist before developing Partridge with Armando Iannucci. Later in his career, he cemented his connection to the North when he played Factory Records boss Tony Wilson in the iconic 24 Hour Party people, about the Monchester music scene centred around the record label and the Madchester rave scene. Director of the film Michael Winterbottom (from Manchester neighbour Blackburn) continued to work with Coogan on future projects, including The Trip series with Rob Brydon and Greed.
6. Gary Neville
A football icon, Gary Neville has deep ties to Manchester. Born in nearby Bury, he embodies the spirit of the region. As a right-back, Neville dedicated his entire playing career to Manchester United, earning him the distinction of a one-club man. His tenure, lasting until 2011, saw him become one of the club's longest-serving players, even captaining for five years. Neville's trophy-laden career boasts an impressive 20 titles, including eight Premier League and two Champions League victories.
Beyond the field, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salford in 2014, further solidifying his connection to the city. In his post-football journey, Neville transitioned into property development in Manchester, leaving an indelible mark on the city's landscape. He's also a prominent sports pundit, based at MediaCity in Salford, contributing to the vibrant sports culture of the region.
7. Mick Hucknall
Mick Hucknall, a true Mancunian, has deep-rooted connections with Manchester. Born in Denton, he later honed his artistic talents at Manchester Polytechnic's School of Art, residing in Hulme during his academic years. Hucknall's cultural immersion in Manchester's music scene is noteworthy. He was present at the iconic Lesser Free Trade Hall in 1976, a historic event that featured seminal acts like the Sex Pistols, Morrissey, and members of Joy Division.
Hucknall's ardour for football shines through his unwavering support for Manchester United. Yet, it's as the frontman of Manchester band Simply Red that he truly left his mark. Their remarkable achievements include selling over 50 million albums, with the 1991 release 'Stars' standing as one of the highest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. Hucknall's journey is intricately interwoven with Manchester's vibrant artistic and musical legacy.
8. Peter Kay
A beloved figure in British comedy, Peter Kay has deep ties to Manchester. Born in Farnworth, he pursued higher education at the University of Salford, cementing his connection to the city. Before his comedic career took off, Kay worked various jobs across Manchester, from a toilet roll factory to the bustling Manchester Arena.
In a poignant moment, he played a key role in the "We Are Manchester" benefit concert in 2017, symbolising resilience after the tragic terrorist attack. This event marked the reopening of Manchester Arena, and Kay's presence was a testament to his solidarity with the city. Additionally, Kay's stand-up comedy shows have been a recurring event in Manchester, with a staggering 40 shows scheduled in the city throughout 2023, 2024, and 2025, further demonstrating his enduring bond with the vibrant heart of Manchester.
9. Emmeline Pankhurst
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Manchester has a lot of pride in its role in the birth of the suffragette movement, and it’s all down to Mosside’s own
Emmeline Pankhurst
. Her political activism and determination helped women win the right to vote, through protest and occasional extreme action. In 1903, she established the Women's Social and Political Union. It was founded at Pankhurst's home on 62 Nelson Street in the Victoria Park area of Manchester. The Grade II Victoria Villa is now home to the Pankhurst Centre who ensure the powerful story of the women who won the vote continues to inspire us all to challenge gender inequality, and to ensure that those suffering from domestic violence and abuse get the confidential help they need. Emmeline’s tenacity and perseverance is still felt today through those who use protest to stand against inequality and the freedom for all to vote regardless of gender. She truly makes us feel proud to be mancunian!
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10. Danny Boyle
You don’t have to be a film buff to have heard of Danny Boyle’s work. Radcliffe’s own Boyle has directed films that have been nominated for 19 Academy Awards and won 8 for his 2008 rags to riches drama Slumdog Millionaire. Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, 127 Hours and all his films are critically acclaimed modern classics. Boyle’s work has moved from beyond the silver screen too, from the iconic London Olympics 2012 opening ceremony to the dance adaptation of The Matrix, titled "Free Your Mind," which debuted in Manchester this year. Through this performance and events around Manchester, including frequent involvement with independent cinema HOME and delivering talks and taking part in roundtables at Manchester Metropolitan University, Boyle has solidified his connection to the North.
11. Anthony Burgess
“I loved the fish and chip shops – there has been nothing like them since those days – and the United Cattle Product restaurants which served tripe and cow heel. I loved Lancashire hotpot, meat and potato pie, potato cakes and Eccles cakes.” - Anthony Burgess reminisces about Manchester, ‘I Am A Mancunian’, first published in the Manchester Evening News in December 1984.
Born and raised in Manchester, the writer of dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess's formative years in the city ignited a lifelong passion for literature, music, and learning. The tough industrial backdrop of Manchester, coupled with its independent spirit, profoundly influenced his creative journey.
From Harpurhey to Moss Side, Burgess's family moved around Manchester, each location leaving an imprint on his artistic development. His exposure to music, from local pubs to orchestral concerts, further fuelled his creative flame. His academic path led him through Bishop Bilsborrow Memorial School and Xaverian College, and at Manchester University, he discovered his love for English Language and Literature.
While military service took him away in 1940, Burgess's connection to Manchester endured. He returned periodically, even creating documentaries about the city. Despite the physical traces fading, plaques and murals stand as poignant reminders of the profound influence Manchester had on this literary luminary.
12. Maxine Peake
Peake’s connection to Manchester and the Northwest is magnetic. The Westhoughton born actress lived in London for 13 years, with it’s great connections to film and TV, perfect for her roles in dinnerladies, Silk and Little Dorrit. However, after moving back to Salford, she has been able to further her creative career and strengthen the cultural landscape of Manchester. With her regular performances during the bi-annual Manchester International Festival and multiple plays at venues throughout the city including John Rylands Library, Stoller Hall and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Peake has truly left her mark on the stage performance scene in Manchester. She is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to her acting abilities, providing vocals for Eccentronic Research Council albums and playing the title character in a radical re-imagining of Hamlet.
13. Caroline Aherne
She might have been born in Ealing, but this honorary Manc moved to Wythenshawe when she was two. A character comedian, Aherne made her name around the Manchester comedy circuit before debuting the persona she’s most well known for on a Frank Sidebottom album in 1988. Mrs Merton started to make appearances across TV and radio in the Northwest, alongside other broadcasting legends like Jon Ronson and Craig Cash. She worked with Cash to create beloved british comedy The Royle Family, known for its comic portrayal of working-class family life at the turn of the millennium and it's Christmas specials.
14. Victoria Wood
Brought up in Bury, beloved actress Victoria Wood has spoken about the tough time she had as a child. But when she joined Rochdale Youth Theatre at the age of 15 she said "it was like the sun came out.”
"I was in the right place and knew what I was doing. When people have despised you for having the wrong socks and name tapes on your shirt, being somewhere where your personality is of value is fantastic."
From Rochdale Youth Theatre, on to dinnerladies, 62 night stand-up tours, and composing and directing her own musical for the Manchester International Festival in 2011. Since she died from cancer in 2016, several tributes have been made in her honour, including seven part TV series Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood starring long-term collaborator Julie Walters and Richard E. Grant, and a statue of her near the library in her home town of Bury.
15. Morrissey
Morrissey's current relationship with Manchester is very complex, but he owes his success to the songs he wrote and the bands he saw while he grew up here. Raised in Hulme and Salford, his writing was encouraged by his librarian mother, and he would often write storylines and scripts for Coronation Street (all rejected.) History was made at Manchester’s Apollo Theatre in August 1974 at a Patti Smith gig when he briefly met a 14 year old Johnny Marr, who later turned up on his doorstep and asked if he wanted to join a band called The Smiths. Morrissey was also said to be in attendance at the infamous aforementioned Sex Pistols concert at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976 (possibly the only time he was in the same room as Mick Hucknell?) After five years with The Smiths releasing four albums, Morrissey has released 13 solo studio albums and continues to inspire great artists and musicians, including Suede, Blur, Oasis, Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke. Noel Gallagher called Morrissey "the best lyricist I've ever heard".
The Bee Gees
The Bee Gees, born on the Isle of Man to English parents, initially found their musical roots in Chorlton, Manchester. In 1955, they formed the Rattlesnakes, a skiffle/rock and roll group, marking the beginning of their extraordinary musical journey. Their pinnacle came with the acclaimed "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, winning them five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Their global record sales exceed a staggering 250 million, solidifying them as one of the best-selling music groups in history and the most successful trio in contemporary music.
16. Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb, the youngest of the Bee Gees, was born in Stretford in 1958. Although his early years were spent in Brisbane, his passion for music led him to tour Ibiza and the Isle of Man. Nominated twice for Grammy Awards in his solo career, his potential was tragically cut short, as he passed away at the tender age of 30.
17. Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb, known for his impressive vocal range, is famed for his far-reaching high-pitched falsetto. In 2013, he revisited his Chorlton home during a tour, paying homage to the place where the Gibb brothers' musical journey began. His legendary status was further solidified when he headlined the Glastonbury Legends slot in 2017.
18. Maurice Gibb
Maurice Gibb, Robin's twin, had his own share of noteworthy moments. His marriage to Lulu in 1969 captured headlines, and he shared a neighbourhood with none other than Ringo Starr. Tragically, Maurice passed away in 2003, with his funeral attended by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
19. Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb, the other half of the twin duo, left an indelible mark on the music industry. He ventured into solo projects, producing eight albums that showcased his distinctive talent. In 2009, he even appeared on the celebrity edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" showcasing his wide-ranging interests and abilities.
20. Mark Owen
“Recently I’ve been back to Manchester a few times and it’s funny because there is something about the place. I don’t know whether I'm at that point of my life, but I’ve been sort of getting a calling. Manchester has been calling me. It’s strange because I never expected it." - Mark Owen talking to the Manchester Evening News.
Life could have looked very different for Take That’s Mark Owen. Born in Oldham, he spent his youth playing for Chadderton FC and had trials for Manchester United and Rochdale FC. Luckily he auditioned for a New Kids on the Block style boy band, where he met his bandmates Gary, Howard, Jason and Robbie to form Take That. From there the band rocketed to stardom, with 28 top-40 singles, 20 top-10 and 17 top-5 singles on the UK Singles Chart, 12 of which have reached number one.
During the band’s split from 1996-2005, Owen found time to grow a more indie-focused solo career and also won Celebrity Big Brother in 2002. 2023 has seen Mark performing and King Charles’ III coronation with the two remaining Take That members Gary and Howard, and are due to release that ninth album with a tour in 2024.
21. Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley's journey in acting commenced with the Salford Players, a connection that anchors him to the heart of Manchester's theatrical history. His early years saw him grace the screen of the iconic Coronation Street, a testament to his diverse talent. However, it was his transcendent portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1982 film "Gandhi" that etched his name in Hollywood's annals and earned him an Academy Award. This monumental role not only marked a pivotal moment in Kingsley's career but also cemented his status as one of the finest actors of his generation. Beyond the glitz of Hollywood, his roots in Manchester serve as a testament to the city's rich artistic legacy, which continues to inspire and nurture talent that resonates on a global stage.
22. Ian Brown
“Manchester’s got everything except a beach.” — Ian Brown
Ian Brown's roots in Manchester run deep, not only as a lifelong supporter of Manchester United but also as a key figure in the city's musical history. Hailing from Timperley, Brown's journey began in school, where he united with future bandmates to form The Stone Roses, a pivotal group in the Madchester movement. Their music resonated far beyond Manchester, making them legendary figures in the music scene.
Brown's creative journey didn't stop with The Stone Roses; he went on to craft seven solo albums, showcasing his artistic evolution. His influence transcends borders, with performances in 45 countries and even a cameo in the Harry Potter film series.
Ian Brown's connection to Manchester is a testament to the city's ability to nurture exceptional talent, and his impact on both the music industry and popular culture solidifies his place as a Mancunian icon.
23. Ian Curtis
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The aforementioned 1976 Sex Pistols gig at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall was important for the attendance of many of Manchester’s talented musicians, but it could be argued that it was most important for the formation of Joy Division. When Ian Curtis saw three childhood friends at the gig, they talked about forming a band. Within 4 years of this chat they released “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” a song which is often hailed as one the greatest indie singles ever made.
Curtis’ stamp on Manchester spread all over the city - born in Stretford, lived in Chadderton, worked in Piccadilly Gardens, recorded in Stockport and died tragically in Macclesfield. Curtis spent his short and troubled life in the North West, inspired by David Bowie, Jim Morrison and Iggy Pop, and using his life experiences of living with epilepsy and unsettled relationships, to write just 15 songs that have inspired thousands of artists, from The Cure to Danny Brown.
As an homage to his musical genius, a striking black and white portrait of him was unveiled in Manchester’s Northern Quarter to mark World Mental Health Day, created by notable street artist AKSE.
24. Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis, the renowned financial journalist and campaigner, has strong ties to Manchester. While he was raised in both Didsbury and Chester, the city of Manchester has played a significant role in shaping his professional journey. Notably, Lewis is a devoted supporter of Manchester City F.C., demonstrating his deep-rooted connection to the city and its culture.
Beyond his football allegiance, Martin Lewis has had a profound impact on the lives of countless individuals across the UK. His work in helping people navigate the challenges of the cost of living crisis and reclaim mis-sold payment protection insurance has been instrumental in empowering consumers.
Moreover, Lewis's commitment to mental health and financial well-being is evident through the establishment of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. This think tank, which he initiated and financially supports, is dedicated to exploring the intricate relationship between mental health issues and debt. Through his various endeavours, Martin Lewis has not only contributed significantly to the financial landscape but also to the overall welfare of individuals in Manchester and beyond.
25. Nick Grimshaw
Nick Grimshaw, affectionately known as Grimmy, has deep-rooted connections to Manchester despite being born in Oldham. He received his education in Royton and worked in Chadderton at a local bookshop, laying the early foundations for his future career in the media industry.While making his mark in the world of TV and radio since 2006, including hosting the iconic Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Grimmy has also ventured into the realm of entertainment, making memorable appearances in popular shows like Gogglebox and The Great British Bake Off. His cameo roles in a variety of soap operas, including EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, and Home and Away, further exemplify his versatile presence in the media landscape, connecting him to Manchester's vibrant entertainment culture.
Notably, Nick Grimshaw has been an advocate for important social causes. He serves as an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Trust (Akt), a charity dedicated to supporting homeless LGBT youth, underscoring his commitment to helping vulnerable communities.
Beyond his philanthropic efforts, Grimmy has showcased his resilience and determination in various charity events. He completed a gruelling twelve-hour bicycle ride for Sport Relief, raising a remarkable £115,000 for the cause.
26. Ian McShane
Ian McShane, renowned for his captivating performances in both television and Hollywood, has a notable connection to Manchester. Despite being born in Blackburn, McShane grew up in Davyhulme and received his education in Stretford. This early upbringing in Manchester influenced his formative years.
A noteworthy link to the city comes through his ardent support for Manchester United. This connection runs deeper as his father, Harry McShane, actively played for the team from 1950 to 1954, creating a familial tie to the renowned football club.
Although McShane eventually ventured to London to attend the prestigious RADA, it was in Manchester where his foundations were laid. His experiences in Stretford and later interactions with esteemed actors like John Hurt, with whom he shared a residence in London, played crucial roles in shaping his career.
From his roguish portrayal of the antiques dealer, Lovejoy, to his iconic roles in Deadwood and American Gods, Ian McShane's illustrious career is marked by a distinctive Mancunian influence.
27. Shaun Ryder
“All our fans want to come and see us in Manchester, not Liverpool or London. Manchester shows are crazy, and I feel like it's not really changed. My rock and roll life has changed over the years, but Manchester is still like that, it’s like it was in the 80s and 90s.” - Shaun Ryder talking about performing in Manchester, Manchester World 2023
Although a proud Salfordian, Shaun Ryder’s connection to Manchester is undoubtable. A leading figure in the Madchester scene with his band Happy Mondays, he, his brother and their mates created a unique blend of baggy, psychedelia and rave that made them a band like no other when they signed to the infamous Mancunian record label Factory.
Ryder has seen success in other non-Happy Mondays ventures, musically with his band Black Grape and a feature on Gorillaz single “Dare,” and on TV as runner up on the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and hilarious appearances with his bandmate Bez on Celebrity Gogglebox.
28. Johnny Marr
Responsible for the iconic light and jangly pop riffs that contrasted Morrissey’s rich baritone that made The Smiths a legendary indie band, Johnny Marr formed The Smiths when he was 19. Like Mark Owen, he was another musician who aspired to be a footballer and attended trials with Manchester City's youth team (he is still a MCFC supporter.) Raised in Ardwick Green and Wythenshawe, Marr started playing in bands from age 13, from funk band Freak Party to punk act the Nosebleeds, before meeting Morrissey at a Patti Smith gig and later asking him to front his band. After The Smiths split, Marr spent his time as a session guitarist (working with Hans Zimmer, Noel Gallagher and Bryan Ferry) and had a short stint in Modest Mouse and The Cribs before pursuing a successful solo career in 2012.In 2007, Marr took on the role of Visiting Professor in Music at the University of Salford. During his tenure, he conducted an inaugural lecture on November 4, 2008, and conducted a series of workshops and masterclasses for students enrolled in the BA (Hons) Popular Music and Recording program.
Recognising his exceptional contributions and his transformative impact on British guitar music, Marr was bestowed with an honorary doctorate by the University of Salford on July 19, 2012. This esteemed recognition celebrated his outstanding achievements in the field.
29. Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner, hailing from Broughton and educated in Salford, is an integral figure in Manchester's music history. His remarkable career began with the formation of Joy Division, a band that emerged from the legendary Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, where he crossed paths with Ian Curtis.
Sumner's musical journey continued as he remained signed to Factory Records, forming New Order alongside Peter Hook after the tragic loss of Ian Curtis. He ventured into new sonic territories with Electronic, a collaboration with Johnny Marr, and joined forces with acts like 808 State, A Certain Ratio, and even artists outside of Manchester, such as Gwen Stefani. Sumner's enduring impact on the music scene extends far beyond the city's boundaries.
30. Aitch
Hailing from Moston, Aitch (a dedicated Manchester United fan,) emerged as a rap sensation at just 16 years old, gaining traction through YouTube. His meteoric rise led to remarkable feats, including a special onstage appearance with Coldplay during their recent Manchester concert, headlining Parklife festival at Heaton Park, and brought Manchester to Worthy Farm by gracing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2023. Aitch's prowess in the British music scene was solidified by clinching the prestigious 2023 Brit Award for British Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act. Nevertheless, Aitch's fame wasn't without its share of controversy, notably when an advert promoting his album unknowingly replaced a cherished mural of Ian Curtis in Manchester's Northern Quarter, sparking a local uproar. The mural was later repainted on the side of the iconic Star and Garter pub.
31. Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson, a true Mancunian visionary, was born in Salford and later settled in Marple, Stockport. He embarked on his media journey in television, frequently gracing Granada screens to highlight the vibrant culture, music, and events within Manchester. Wilson's groundbreaking ventures included founding Factory Records and the iconic nightclub, Haçienda. His pivotal moment came upon witnessing the Sex Pistols at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976—an experience he hailed as nothing short of an epiphany. This era and Wilson's remarkable life were immortalised in the film "24 Hour Party People" (2002), with Steve Coogan portraying him. Following the film's release, Wilson penned a novel based on the screenplay.
After his passing in 2007, Manchester paid heartfelt tributes to this cultural giant. A significant development in the city centre, Tony Wilson Place, now stands where HOME is located. Renowned poet Mike Garry composed a poignant poem in his honour. As a mark of deep respect, the Union Flag at Manchester Town Hall was lowered to half-mast upon hearing the news of his passing.
32. Professor Brian Cox
“My favourite place to shop in Manchester is Affleck's Palace. It’s where I used to get all my second hand overcoats to wear so I could walk around being miserable and staring at the floor - that fake miserableness that you have when you’re 16 and listen to Joy Division.” - Brian Cox, a man of good taste, speaking to Manchester Evening News in 2019.
Brian Cox, the renowned physicist, traces his origins to Oldham, where his fascination with astrophysics ignited during youthful days of bus and plane spotting in Chadderton. His introduction to Carl Sagan's "Cosmos” seeded a lifelong passion for astrophysics. While pursuing a physics degree at the University of Manchester, Cox's diverse interests led him to play keyboards in rock band Dare and pop dance group D:Ream. He later delved into groundbreaking work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Today, Cox is a distinguished particle physicist at the University of Manchester.
Beyond academia, Cox is a household name in broadcasting, celebrated for captivating TV series like "Wonders of the Universe" and "Wonders of the Solar System." He's also teamed up with Dara O'Briain for the hit show "Stargazing Live" and joined forces with Robin Ince for BBC Radio 4's delightful comedy science magazine programme, "The Infinite Monkey Cage."
33. Amir Khan
Amir Khan, the accomplished boxer, hails from Bolton, where he embarked on his competitive boxing journey at just 11 years old. Over his illustrious career, Khan engaged in 40 bouts, securing 34 victories. Notably, he stood as Britain's solitary representative in boxing at the 2004 Athens Olympics, clinching a silver medal in the lightweight category at a mere 17 years old.
Beyond the ring, Khan shines as an ambassador for significant organisations like NSPCC and Barnardos. His philanthropic endeavours extend to hosting a fundraising dinner for Islamic Relief's Philippines Appeal in response to Typhoon Haiyan, amassing an impressive £83,400 in support.
In the media realm, Khan has made waves with appearances on reality TV shows like "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" and "Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton." Through these ventures, he and his wife offer fans a glimpse into their opulent lifestyle, both in the dazzling Dubai and their cherished hometown of Bolton.
34. Lee Dixon
Lee Dixon, a true Mancunian, was born in Manchester, inheriting a love for Manchester City from his father, the esteemed MCFC goalkeeper, Roy Dixon. His journey in football commenced when he joined Burnley FC as an apprentice after leaving school.
Following successful spells at clubs like Chester, Bury, and Stoke, Dixon made an indelible mark at Arsenal from 1988 to 2002. During his illustrious career, he also represented England from 1990 to 1999.
Post-retirement, Dixon transitioned into punditry, gracing the screens of Match of the Day 2, Score, and Football Focus. Beyond his media engagements, he's been an avid supporter of charitable causes. Dixon teamed up with Lawrence Dallaglio for a sponsored bike ride in aid of Sport Relief, raising an impressive sum of over £986,000 for the charity.
35. Anna Friel
Anna Friel, hailing from Rochdale, kickstarted her acting journey at the Oldham Theatre Workshop. At a tender age of 13, she made her acting debut, portraying the daughter of Michael Palin's character in the television miniseries G.B.H.
Friel's talent transcended borders, landing her prominent roles in Hollywood productions like "Land of the Lost," "Timeline," "Goal! The Dream Begins," and the critically acclaimed TV series "Pushing Daisies."
Beyond her acting prowess, Friel shares a special connection with another cherished Rochdale figure, Gracie Fields. In a touching tribute, she named her daughter after the beloved local icon, exemplifying the deep-rooted ties between Rochdale and its talented offspring.
36. Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston, a Salford native through and through, has etched his name in the annals of Manchester's illustrious talent. Raised amidst the neighbourhoods of Langworthy and Little Hulton, Eccleston's artistic journey found its roots right here. With an early foundation in performance at Salford Tech, he catapulted into international recognition.
His portrayal as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the iconic series "Doctor Who" and his compelling role as Matt Jamison in "The Leftovers" solidified his status as a formidable actor. Not only has Eccleston graced the screen, but he also lent his talents to the stage, collaborating with the esteemed Maxine Peake for a poignant performance in the final act at Oldham Coliseum in 2023.
Beyond the limelight, Eccleston remains an ardent supporter of Manchester United, even engaging in a candid conversation with the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson for the MUFC YouTube channel in May 2021.
37. John Thaw
John Thaw, hailing from the heart of Manchester, kindled his remarkable acting career amidst the streets of Gorton and Burnage. His journey into the world of thespians commenced at the tender age of 16 when he stepped into the hallowed halls of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Thaw's acting prowess left an indelible mark on both television and film. He is celebrated for his iconic role as Inspector Morse, and his portrayal in "Goodnight Mr. Tom" is etched in the memories of many. Thaw even made an early appearance as a guest star in an episode of "The Avengers."
Beyond the glitz and glamour of showbiz, John Thaw was also known for his unwavering dedication to the Labour Party. As a true Mancunian, he proudly supported Manchester City Football Club, leaving an enduring legacy as both an actor and a devoted citizen of Manchester.
38. Bernard Hill
Hailing from Blackley in Manchester, Bernard Hill's journey to stardom began at Xaverian College and further flourished at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama.
While Ian McKellen may be the most recognized Manchester actor in Lord of the Rings, Hill too left an indelible mark as he portrayed Théoden, the valiant King of Rohan. Hill's illustrious filmography includes notable roles such as Captain Edward Smith in Titanic and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in Clint Eastwood's True Crime.
Beyond the silver screen, Hill's heart beats for Manchester United FC, solidifying his deep-rooted connection to the city. This Blackley-born actor not only captivated audiences with his performances but also carries a piece of Manchester's spirit wherever he goes.
39. Bez
Born in Bolton and raised in the neighbourhoods of Little Hulton and Walkden, Bez's life took an interesting turn when he moved to Wigan to reside with his grandparents at the age of 16.
The iconic moment in Bez's life came when he attended a Happy Mondays performance, and the band's lead singer, Shaun Ryder, extended an invitation for him to join them on stage. This spontaneous collaboration transformed Bez and his maracas into an integral part of the band's identity.
However, Bez's adventures extend beyond the music scene. He and his bandmate, Shaun Ryder, graced the small screen with their witty commentary on Gogglebox. The energetic dancer surprised audiences by participating in Dancing on Ice and Celebrity MasterChef, showcasing his diverse talents. In 2005, Bez emerged as the victorious housemate on Celebrity Big Brother, further cementing his place in the realm of reality television.
Notably, Bez even delved into politics by running for the Salford and Eccles constituency in the 2015 UK General Election. With a platform advocating "free energy, free food, and free anything," he left an intriguing mark in the political arena, earning 703 votes and securing sixth place in the constituency.
In November 2014, Bez became a patron of homeless organisation Coffee4Craig. We also love this charity, we donate £5 from the sale of our Manchester Bee Mug Gift Set, get yours here .
40. L.S. Lowry
By L S Lowry - http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/17026 [1], Public Domain, Link
“At first I disliked it, and then after about a year or so I got used to it, and then I got absorbed in it, then I got infatuated with it.” - Lowry on living in Pendlebury, Manchester .
No one has quite captured the spirit of Manchester on canvas as well as LS Lowry. Hailing from Stretford, LS Lowry's early years were marked by his experiences in Victoria Park and Pendlebury, which ultimately led him to the doors of the Manchester School of Art.
Renowned for his distinctive "matchstick men" style, Lowry masterfully captured the essence of industrial landscapes in the north-western region. His works vividly depict the daily lives of working-class individuals, whether they were commuting to factory jobs, cheering at football matches, or bustling about in the local market.
Today, admirers of Lowry's art can immerse themselves in his world at the Lowry Gallery, conveniently located in Salford near the vibrant hub of Media City. Here, visitors have the opportunity to explore a rich collection of his iconic works, gaining a deeper understanding of the artist's profound connection to the industrial landscapes and the lives of the people he so brilliantly depicted.
41. Marcus Rashford
Hailing from Wythenshawe, Marcus Rashford's journey to football stardom began at the age of five when he started playing for Fletcher Moss Rangers. His incredible talent was soon recognized, leading him to join the Manchester United academy at just seven years old. At 19, Rashford made his debut for Manchester United, catapulting him into a highly successful career.
Not only has Rashford shone on the club scene, but he's also become a key figure for the England national team, showcasing his prowess on the international stage.
Growing up in a single-parent household in Withington and Fallowfield, Rashford experienced firsthand the challenges of food poverty. This ignited a passionate activism in him to combat child poverty. From petitioning for free meals during COVID-19 restrictions to penning open letters to the UK government, Rashford's advocacy has left an indelible mark on the fight against child hunger.
Furthermore, his partnership with the food waste charity FareShare has ensured that those in need across Greater Manchester receive the support they deserve. Rashford's dedication to both football and philanthropy embodies the spirit of Manchester.
42. Mike Atherton
Mike Atherton, hailing from Failsworth, showcased exceptional cricketing talent from an early age. As captain of the Manchester Grammar School cricket team, he notched up an impressive record of nearly 3,500 runs and 170 wickets.
Atherton's career hit extraordinary heights when he assumed the captaincy of the England cricket team at a mere 25 years old. This leadership role would see him lead the side in a remarkable 54 Test matches.
After retiring from playing, Atherton seamlessly transitioned into commentating and journalism. His insightful commentary and astute analysis earned him the prestigious title of Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in March 2010.
From the pitches of Manchester Grammar School to the helm of England's cricket team and beyond, Atherton's enduring legacy is a testament to his remarkable talent and leadership in the world of cricket.
43. Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton, a son of Stockport and raised in Hyde, initially worked in the family carpet business post-school. However, it was in the boxing ring where he truly made his mark. From the age of 10, Hatton embarked on a prolific boxing journey, amassing a record of 48 fights, with an impressive 45 wins, 32 of which were secured by knockout, and only 3 losses.
Hatton's passion for Manchester City Football Club runs deep. He proudly donned the team's badge on his boxing shorts and made the club's anthem, "Blue Moon," his entrance music. Beyond his sporting achievements, Hatton's dedication extended to philanthropy. He became the patron of the Manchester-based homeless charity, Barnabus, exemplifying his commitment to his hometown community.
44. Sir Norman Foster
“I spent most lunch breaks wandering around buildings in the city, drawn to them for the aesthetic experience. Some were particularly inspiring – the cast-iron structure of the Barton Arcade, or the modernism of the Daily Express building.” - Sir Norman Foster discussing his admiration for Manchester architecture, Guardian 2020"
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (to give him his full, proper title) a luminary in the world of architecture, boasts deep roots in Greater Manchester. Born in Stockport and raised in Levenshulme, his educational journey led him through the halls of schools in Burnage. After a stint in the RAF, Foster began his career as an assistant to a contract manager at a local architectural firm.
Foster's architectural masterpieces span the globe, leaving an indelible mark on skylines. Notable works include the innovative Apple Park, the iconic 30 St Mary Axe, and the visionary Reichstag building, among others. His designs seamlessly blend form and function, redefining urban landscapes.
In a testament to his influence on British culture, Foster was chosen by renowned artist Sir Peter Blake to feature in a reimagining of the legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. This honour celebrated Foster's enduring impact on the cultural fabric of the UK.
45. Jason Orange
Jason Orange, raised in Higher Openshaw, Manchester, embarked on his showbiz journey as a breakdancer on the TV show "The Hit Man and Her." His early foray into entertainment hinted at a career destined for the limelight.
In 1990, Orange made a pivotal move, joining the iconic boy band Take That. During the group's hiatus, he explored acting, leaving an indelible mark on the small screen with roles including a cameo as himself in "Shameless" and in the crime drama series "Killer Net."
In 2014, Jason Orange made the decision to step away from Take That, citing a desire to no longer participate in touring with the band. Since departing from Take That, Jason has predominantly chosen to remain out of the public eye. This deliberate move reflects his desire for a more private and low-key lifestyle, allowing him to focus on personal endeavours and enjoy a sense of normalcy away from the glare of the limelight.
46. Howard Donald
Howard Donald, hailing from Droylsden, Manchester, has a unique connection to the city. His early days were marked by a passion for music, particularly inspired by Kraftwerk and Gary Numan, a shared enthusiasm he later bonded over with fellow Take That member Gary Barlow. Donald even took the lead vocals for the Take That track "Mancunian Way".
During the group's hiatus, he ventured into DJing, further expanding his musical repertoire. In 2021, Donald made a surprising appearance on The Masked Dancer, captivating audiences while masquerading as "Zip". He demonstrated his dance skills and made it to the final before revealing his identity. Additionally, Donald proudly supports Manchester United, demonstrating his enduring ties to the city.
47. Carl Cox
Carl Cox, originally from Oldham, began his illustrious career in the world of DJing at the young age of 15. He played a pivotal role in shaping the British rave scene and was celebrated as one of the pioneers of a distinct sound. Cox's innovative three-deck mixing technique set him apart, showcasing his extraordinary talent. While he later ventured to London and Brighton, his influence in Manchester's music scene remains profound. Cox has made triumphant returns to the city, gracing events like Parklife and Warehouse Project, solidifying his enduring connection to Manchester's vibrant music culture.
48. Guy Garvey
“The thing I love most about Manchester is its people. Big hearted but also with a black sense of humour.” - Guy Garvey for Manchester Evening News.
Hailing from Bury, Guy Garvey is best known as the frontman of the acclaimed band Elbow, which he co-founded in 1997 with college friends. The band's remarkable achievements include two Ivor Novello awards for best song, multiple Mercury Music Award nominations, and a prestigious Brit Award for Best British Group in 2009. Beyond his musical endeavours, Garvey also graces the airwaves as a DJ on BBC 6 Music. His roots in Manchester's music scene have been instrumental in shaping Elbow's distinctive sound, and his contributions continue to enrich the city's musical legacy.
49. Peter Hook
“Their manner, attitude and loyalty, in both Manchester and Salford is unique and unparalleled. We put up with so much, especially the weather and shrug off adversity. We do the most important thing in the world when the chips are down……come together! With a smile on our faces and hope in our hearts. Manchester la la la!” - Peter Hook on the people of Manchester, Manchester Evening News.
Hailing from Broughton, Salford, Peter Hook is an iconic figure in Manchester's music scene. He played a pivotal role in the formation of two legendary bands: Joy Division and New Order. His journey with Joy Division began after a fateful encounter with Ian Curtis at the Lesser Free Trade Hall Sex Pistols gig. Following Curtis's passing, Hook co-founded New Order, leaving an indelible mark on post-punk and electronic music. In 2010, he launched Peter Hook and the Light, enthralling audiences with live renditions of both bands' iconic songs. Hook's 2013 memoir, "Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division," offers a candid glimpse into his time with the band, cementing his legacy in Manchester's rich musical tapestry.
50. Mark E Smith
Born in Broughton, Salford, Mark E Smith was a musical maverick who left an indelible mark on Manchester's alternative music scene. In 1976, he founded The Fall, a band that would endure for over four decades, with a rotating lineup of 66 members and a prolific output of 31 studio albums. Like many other luminaries, Smith was present at the historic Lesser Free Trade Hall Sex Pistols gig. A devoted Manchester City fan, Smith said that his favourite things in life were "Scottish people, cats, Coronation Street, and Can." (We would have loved to have seen Mark E Smith on the cobbles of Corrie!) Smith's influence on the post-punk and indie music landscape is immeasurable, solidifying his place among the city's musical legends.
51. Karl Pilkington
Hailing from Sale, Greater Manchester, Karl Pilkington's journey to fame was an unexpected one. Initially a producer at XFM, his quirky commentary on air caught the attention of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. This led to his prominent role in their shows, propelling him into the limelight. Pilkington later featured in various projects with Gervais and ventured into commercial voiceover work. He also carved his own path with series like "Sick of It" and "The Moaning of Life." Beyond his entertainment career, Pilkington proudly supports Manchester United, adding to his distinct Mancunian identity.
52. Claire Foy
Originating from Stockport and with early roots in Manchester, Claire Foy's career has seen remarkable success. Her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in "The Crown" earned her a Golden Globe Award. Foy also took on the role of Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in the biopic "First Man." Recognized as one of the faces of the future by Nylon Magazine, her talent has garnered widespread acclaim. Beyond her acting prowess, Foy has also been an advocate for issues in the film industry, including gender equality and mental health awareness. Her outspoken nature and willingness to address these topics have made her a respected voice off-screen, adding to her influence as a prominent figure in the entertainment world.
53. Holliday Grainger
“And whenever I arrive at Manchester Piccadilly or Stockport station, it’s just like, aaaaah,” she sighs contentedly. “And I do think there’s something about Mancunians that’s just a no-bullshit thing, and I like that.” - Holliday Grainger on coming home to Manchester, I Love Manchester.
Holliday Grainger, a native of Stockport, embarked on her acting journey at an early age, securing her first TV role at just six. Since leaving school in 2006, her career has soared. From her portrayal of Kate Beckett in the BAFTA-winning series "Roger and the Rottentrolls" to embodying Lucrezia Borgia in Showtime's "The Borgias," Grainger has exhibited her exceptional talent. She also took on the role of Robin Ellacott in the Strike series and DI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama "The Capture." Notably, she played Estella in Mike Newell's rendition of "Great Expectations." With a diverse array of roles, Grainger has proven her versatility and contributed significantly to Manchester's cultural legacy.
54. Craig Cash
Craig Cash, a Stockport native, kickstarted his career in radio in his hometown. Known for his enduring collaboration with Caroline Aherne, they co-created iconic shows like "The Royle Family," "The Fast Show," and "The Mrs Merton Show." Cash also played a pivotal role in "Early Doors." As the distinctive voice behind "Gogglebox," his narration became synonymous with the show's charm. A dedicated supporter of both Manchester City and Stockport County, Cash's love for Oasis led him from intimate gigs at The Boardwalk to monumental performances at Knebworth. He even conducted Noel Gallagher's inaugural radio interview in the early '90s. Notably, despite his success, Cash remains rooted in Greater Manchester, bucking the trend of many who achieve fame and relocate.
55. Ross Brawn
"My first 11 years in Manchester were great, and I still have a great affinity with the city. It's the period of my life when I got interested in what I do now." - Ross Brawn talking to Manchester Evening News.
Ross Brawn OBE, hailing from Ashton-under-Lyne, had a remarkable journey from Greater Manchester to the pinnacle of Formula 1. Inspired by engineering and motor racing during his early years in the region, Brawn's career eventually led him to become the technical director of championship-winning teams like Benetton and Ferrari. He gained widespread acclaim as the strategic genius behind Michael Schumacher's seven Formula 1 world championship titles.
Beyond his racing career, Brawn's connection to Manchester is also reflected in his philanthropic efforts. He initiated the Brawn Lifeboat Challenge, a noble endeavour to raise funds for a new lifeboat on the River Thames in London. This project garnered an impressive £360,000 in just eight months, showcasing Brawn's commitment to making a positive impact beyond the world of motorsport.
56. Michelle Keegan
Michelle Keegan, originally from Stockport, has strong ties to Manchester. Before making her mark in acting, she worked at various make-up counters in the city and even at Manchester Airport. Keegan gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of Tina McIntyre in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She further showcased her acting prowess as Sergeant Georgie Lane in the BBC drama series Our Girl. Keegan's talent also shone in roles like Tracy Shawcross in BBC One's Ordinary Lies, Tina Moore in the biopic Tina and Bobby, and Erin Croft in Sky Max's comedy Brassic. Her achievements include winning the prestigious Best Newcomer award at the 2008 British Soap Awards and participating in The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off.
57. Gemma Atkinson
Gemma Atkinson, hailing from Bury, holds a strong link to Manchester through her impressive acting career. She notably portrayed Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks, featuring in three spin-off series. Additionally, she took on roles like Tamzin Bayle in Casualty and Carly Hope in Emmerdale. Beyond her acting prowess, Atkinson has shown her dedication to Manchester by completing the Great Manchester Run three times. Through these runs, she raised funds for crucial institutions like the New Children's Hospital, Manchester's Christie Hospital, and Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, demonstrating her commitment to both the city and philanthropic causes.
58. Helen Flanagan
Helen Flanagan, born in Bury, shares a strong tie with Manchester through her notable portrayal of Rosie Webster in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Her stint in the series spanned from 2000 to 2012, and she later made a triumphant return to the role in 2017. Her impactful presence on the show has contributed to the cultural fabric of Manchester's entertainment scene. It's worth noting that she temporarily left the show for maternity leave on 8 June 2018, showcasing her dedication to both her career and family.
59. John Thomson
“If I was to sum up Manchester in three words it would be cheap, friendly and inclement. It’s the warmth of the people - the genuine warmth. It has to be. There’s nothing like it.” - John Thomson talking to Manchester Evening News.
John Thomson, hailing from Walkden and later adopted into a Didsbury family, has etched his name in the annals of Manchester's entertainment history. His journey through drama studies at Manchester Polytechnic (where he met other Manchester comedian Steve Coogan) paved the way for a prolific acting career. Thomson's versatile talents have graced numerous iconic productions, including standout roles in The Fast Show, Men Behaving Badly, and Cold Feet. His contributions to 24 Hour Party People, The Brothers Grimsby, and even a stint in Coronation Street, have further solidified his status as a celebrated figure in the realm of British entertainment, leaving an indelible mark on Manchester's vibrant cultural landscape.
60. Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong, a true Mancunian hailing from Eccles, has made an enduring mark in both the British and international film industry. His career kickstarted with a role in a 1993 BBC Radio play, paving the way for notable performances in Dirty Pretty Things and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High alongside Sean Lock. Wong's star continued to rise with roles in films like Sunshine, Grow Your Own, and Moon. In the 2010s, he gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo and as Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with Doctor Strange. Notably, Wong's affinity for Manchester, particularly his visits to comic book shops in his youth, played a crucial role in shaping his iconic Marvel performances. A dedicated supporter of MUFC, Wong's Manchester roots run deep.
And there you have it - our top 60 Mancs. We tried to make it a top 50 but there were simply too many top Mancunians to include, so 60 was the magic number.
Do you agree with our order? Doubt it! Let us know who you would put further up the list, and who you would demote, below!
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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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Abercrombie, Joe
Joe Abercrombie, born in Lancaster and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, debuted his first novel The Blade Itself in 2006 and has since been writing Fantasy and Young Adult novels as well as pursuing work as a film editor. Abercrombie has won several awards for his writing, including the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book.
Ashworth, Jenn
Jenn Ashworth, born in Preston, started her career as a librarian and has previously worked for Lancashire Libraries within the Prison Library Service. Ashworth then focused on freelance writing and had a particular enthusiasm for writing development, which saw the inception of the Lancashire Writing Hub. Her debut novel A Kind of Intimacy received critical acclaim and won her the Betty Trask Award from The Society of Authors in 2010.
Ashworth, Libby
Libby Ashworth, born and raised in Lancashire, writes novels based on the history of the county in which she has an enthusiasm for. She has direct ancestors from Whalley which can be traced back as far as the Middle Ages and uses her unique heritage to create much-loved stories of spinners and loom-weavers.
Baker, Jo
Jo Baker, born and raised in the village of Arkholme, Lancashire, currently resides in Lancaster and debuted her first novel Offcomer in 2002. Alongside writing novels, she has written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review. Her work has awarded her a Visiting Fellowship at the Queen's University Belfast and landed her an Honorary Fellow title at Lancaster University.
Bolton, S.J
Sharon J. Bolton, born in Lancashire, aspired to pursue drama and dance before engaging in a writing career debuting with mystery fiction Sacrifice in 2008. Bolton has won several awards for her work, including the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award and the CWA's Dagger in the Library award.
Broadway, Alice
Alice Broadway, who currently resides in Lancashire, wrote her debut novel Ink through the NaNoWriMo initiative which encourages a target of 50,000 words written within the month of November. Ink, the first in the Skin Books trilogy, has been shortlisted for several awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Books Are My Bag Award.
Carrington, Leonora
Leonora Carrington, born in Clayton-Le-Woods, Lancashire, explored both writing and surrealist art with influences from both her birthplace and her time in Mexico City – where she founded the women's liberation movement. Her first published work The House of Fear in 1938 combined her love for surrealism with literature and kickstarted a successful career in writing amongst being renowned for her artwork and feminist activism.
Clarke, James
James Clarke, raised in the Rossendale Valley, studied English at Manchester Metropolitan University, and graduated with an MA in Creative Writing at The Manchester Writing School in 2017 before debuting his first novel The Litten Path which awarded him the 2019 Betty Trask Prize.
Conlon, Dom
Dom Conlon, who resides in Chorley, is a writer and poet who specialises in children's fiction exemplified with his Carnegie and Greenaway-nominated Wild Wanderers series. Dom frequently talks on BBC Radio Lancashire and does a lot of workshops for children to spark an enthusiasm for poetry and literature.
Connolly, Ray
Ray Connolly, born and raised in Lancashire, received education in both St. Helens West Park Catholic Grammar School and Ormskirk Grammar School and is well-known for his journalism writing. His work saw him interviewing many famous rock icons from the '60s and '70s including the Beatles and Elvis Presley – producing books such as Being Elvis.
Cook, David
David Cook, born in Preston, was an author, screenwriter and actor who became the first presenter for the TV show Rainbow. He left television presenting to focus on his writing career and debuted with Albert's Memorial in 1972 and went on to win critical acclaim with Walter, which bagged him the Hawthornden Prize in 1978. Cook sadly passed away in 2015 aged 74.
Cox, Josephine
Josephine Cox, born in Blackburn, started her career as a teacher before debuting her first novel Her Father's Sins in 1988. She was secretly entered to the Superwoman of Great Britain award by her family, and won, around the same time of her first publication and now has over forty books in her repertoire. Josephine sadly passed away in 2020 aged 82.
Crosby, Alan
Alan Crosby, a Council member of the Record Society of Lancashire and chair of the Lancashire Local History Federation, is a freelance local and regional historian, writer, editor and lecturer who writes with an interest in research and consultancy on the registration of manorial rights and mineral rights, for which he is the leading national specialist. To date, he has published over 30 books and numerous articles, and is the main local history contributor to the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine.
Delaney, Joseph
Joseph Delaney, born in Preston, began his career as a teacher before exploring science fiction and fantasy writing under the pen name J. K. Haderack. He then moved onto children's fiction with his debut, under his own name, The Spook's Apprentice in 2004. The Spook's series of books now encompasses over 20 titles and was inspired by the folklore, history, and geography of Lancashire. Delaney sadly passed away in 2022 aged 77.
Donaldson-Ellison, Erica
Erica Donaldson-Ellison, born in Chorley, is a poet whose themes involve love, work, family, spirit, and travel. She does a lot of charity work as a wellbeing ambassador and mental health advocate and her work includes Searching for an Oasis published in 2021.
Dooley, Matthew
Matthew Dooley, raised in Ormskirk, has won the Observer Graphic Short Story Prize for his debut FLAKE, published by Cape in 2020. His book then went on to win the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize - the first time for a graphic novel – and was named a Guardian Book of the Year.
Durrant, Helen
Helen Durrant, who resides in the Pennine Hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire, sets her crime books within the countryside villages she loves. Her debut novel Dead Wrong was published in 2015 and kickstarted the Calladine and Bayliss series of novels.
Eclair, Jenny
Jenny Eclair, educated at Queen Mary school in Lytham St.Annes, is an English comedian, novelist, and actress who found fame through her work on Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women. She penned her stage name 'Eclair' after pretending to be French at a disco in Blackpool, and this name followed her into her successful career in various different arts. She debuted her writing with The Book of Bad Behaviour in 1994.
Gregson, J.M
James Michael Gregson, born and raised in Lancaster, began his career in teaching before turning to writing with his debut novel Murder at the Nineteenth in 1989. He has written a plethora of works on a large variety of topics from golfing to Shakespeare but is most well-known for his mystery and crime novels.
Guttridge, Peter
Peter Guttridge, born in Burnley, was educated at Burnley Grammar School, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham before becoming a writer and a critic. He has made vital contributions to UK Book festivals up and down the country, as a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and founder of Books by the Beach, a Scarborough book festival. His notable works include crime trilogy The City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself.
Hall, Sarah
Sarah Hall obtained a degree in English and Art History from Aberystwyth University before taking an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. Her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was set in the seaside resorts of Morecambe Bay and Coney Island and was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Halls, Stacey
Stacey Halls, born and raised in Rossendale, was a frequent library user before embarking on a career in writing and journalism – graduating from University of Central Lancashire. Her writing takes inspiration from the local Pendle Witches, with notable titles such as The Familiars.
Hartley, A.J
Andrew James Hartley, born in Preston, lived and taught English in Japan for a short spell before moving to the United States and obtaining a Masters and Doctoral degree in English Literature from Boston University. His thriller novels reflect his interest in the history of culture and ideas - largely inspired by his time studying Egyptology at the University of Manchester.
Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, born in Oswaldtwistle and raised in Great Harwood, was a working-class British writer, feminist, and socialist activist who produced poetry, journalism and children's fiction. She began writing poetry whilst working in St. Lawrence Mill at age 13 and her first book of poems, Rhymes from the Factory, was published in 1907. She published at least 10 novels in her lifetime before passing away in 1962.
Howard, Audrey
Audrey Howard, born in Liverpool and raised in St.Annes, has had careers in hairdressing, modelling, shop assisting, cleaning and as a civil servant before embarking a career in writing whilst living in Australia in 1981. Her debut novel, The Skylark's Song, was published in 1984 before writing about Lancashire Mills with books The Mallow Years and Shining Threads. Audrey sadly passed away in 2016 aged 86.
Hurley, Andrew Michael
Andrew Michael Hurley, currently residing in Lancashire, debuted his first novel, The Loney, as a 300-copy limited-edition, before being republished and winning the Costa Best First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards. He then went on to write 3 more novels with another releasing in November 2024.
Jacobs, Anna
Anna Jacobs, born in Rochdale and raised in Lancashire, emigrated to Australia after completing education in 1973. She has over 80 novels in her repertoire with a lot of these taking heavy influence from growing up in Lancashire – such as Lancashire Lass, Pride of Lancashire and Farewell to Lancashire.
Langmead, Oliver
Oliver Langmead, lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster, was the writer in residence at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne and specialises in writing speculative fiction. His novel Glitterati was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award in 2023 and was named one of New Scientist’s best Science Fiction books of 2022.
Lightfoot, Freda
Freda Lightfoot, born in Oswaldtwistle, started out as a teacher whilst dabbling in small pieces of writing before opening a bookshop. Her love for literature and the countryside landscape she grew up in influenced her first full-length historical saga Luckpenny Land, which drew on memories of childhood and family as inspiration.
Lofthouse, Jessica
Jessica Lofthouse, born in Clitheroe and taught in Blackburn, began writing with a series of articles on the North of England in the Blackburn Times, illustrated by her own pen and ink sketches. She then self-published her first novel The Rediscovery of the North, a collection of articles detailing the countryside she loved to explore. After publishing over 20 books, Jessica sadly passed away in 1988 in her birthplace Clitheroe.
Lyon, Rachel
Rachel Lyon, based in St.Helens, is a copywriter and author of rhyming picture books which have featured in the Summer Reading Challenge and as a Bedtime Story on CBeebies. An official Patron of Reading, she visits schools, libraries, museums and other public events to spark an enthusiasm with reading and writing with young readers across the North West.
McFadyen, Ian
Ian McFadyen, born in Liverpool and raised in rural Lancashire, started his career in sales and marketing before pursuing life as an author. He began writing with Lancashire in mind, using it as a setting for many of his notable thrillers such as Blood on His Hands. He has had eight books published in the Carmichael series, with many of these books gaining popularity in libraries up and down the country.
Michael, Livi
Livi Michael, born in Stalybridge, worked as a university lecturer teaching creative writing, and ran reading groups about women's fiction, before debuting her first novel Under a Thin Moon in 1992. She then pursued a career in children’s fiction with her first younger book Frank and the Black Hamster of Narkiz in 2002. She uses her experiences with poverty and working-class women to influence her work.
Nadel, Barbara
Barbara Nadel, who spent a lot of her life living in Lancashire, trained as an actress before becoming a writer. She has previously done work for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship's Good Companion Service and as a mental health advocate and has also worked with sexually abused teenagers. She is most well-known for her novels set in Istanbul, reflecting her many years spent living in Turkey.
Newsham, Gail
Gail Newsham, born and raised in Preston, was a former footballer which extended her enthusiasm towards researching the Dick, Kerr Ladies football team and her first book on this subject, In A League of Their Own!, was published in 1994. In 2019, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Central Lancashire in recognition of her vital research.
Oldham, Nick
Nick Oldham, born in Belthorn, began his career has a police officer, spending most of his service in operational roles, before retiring in 2005. His first crime novel - influenced by his work - A Time for Justice debuted in 1996 and led to a 31-book series.
Palmer, Steve
Steve Palmer has had a tremendous contribution to the research and study of Blackpool, specifically with the introduction of the tramlines. His work covers the famous Blackpool trams in detail with a plethora of colourful photography of trams past and present.
Parker, Nathan
Nathan Parker, born and raised in Blackpool, is an independent author and spoken artist with a background in Youth Work. Having worked in the community, schools, colleges and hostels in Blackpool and the North-West for over 13 years, he aspires to inspire and encourage young people to engage with literature, writing and storytelling.
Russell, Willy
Willy Russell, born in Whiston, began life as a hairdresser before going back to college to qualify as a teacher. Whilst at college, he began writing drama and took a programme of three one-act plays to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where he was spotted by writer John McGrath – kickstarting his successful career as a playwright. He is well-known for plays such as Blood Brothers, Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine.
Sawley, Linda
Linda Sawley, who resides in Read, started a career a sister on the children's ward at Burnley General Hospital and later became a senior lecturer at University of Central Lancashire teaching children's nursing. Her book Pemberley in Waiting is a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and with each sale of her books she donates to two different charities – Petal and Derian House children’s hospice.
Schofield, Sarah
Sarah Schofield, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, runs writing courses and workshops in a variety of community settings and her work has won her critical acclaim with awards such as the Orange New Voices Prize, Writer’s Inc and The Calderdale Fiction Prize.
Sharp, Zoe
Zoe Sharp, raised on the North West coast, used to work as a photographer and freelance writer for motoring magazines before debuting her first crime novel, Killer Instinct, in 2001. This led her to be shortlisted for the prestigious Short Story Dagger and nominated for the Macavitty, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar awards.
Thompson, Francis
Francis Thompson, born on Winckley Street, Preston, entered medical school on the request of his doctor father before leaving home aged 26 to pursue a career in writing and poetry. After succumbing to substance abuse and finding himself homeless on the streets of London, he was taken in by Wilfrid and Alice Meynell and was able to publish his first poetry book, Poems, in 1893. Francis sadly passed away of tuberculosis in 1907, aged 47.
Thornton, Margaret
Margaret Thornton, born and raised in Blackpool, began her life as a teacher with aspirations for writing. Influenced by her memories of dancing and growing up during the war, she began writing short stories before turning her hand to full-length novels with her debut, It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow, in 1992. Margaret sadly passed away in 2022.
Wainwright, Alfred
Alfred Wainwright, born in Blackburn, was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator who spent several years studying at night school, gaining qualifications in accountancy before pursuing his passion for documenting the English countryside through his writing and illustrating. Alfred sadly passed away in 1991 aged 84.
Waters, Vera
Vera Waters, residing in Chorley, has had many careers before pursuing writing including a senior position at a Preston based psychiatric hospital, advisor for Greater Manchester Police and Lancashire Constabulary and was awarded a rare Home Office Research Grant. She also owns her own publishing company, Penn Cottage Books.
Winterson, Jeanette
Jeanette Winterson, raised in Accrington, is a writer, journalist and Professor at the University of Manchester whose first book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was a semi-autobiographical novel influenced by her experiences with sexual identity. Her work explores gender polarities and sexual identity as well as the relations between humans and technology.
Woodfine, Katherine
Katherine Woodfine, born in Lancashire, began work as a bookseller in Lancaster Waterstones before managing a bookshop and gallery at the Cornerhouse, Manchester. She then worked for Arts Council England’s North West office, specialising in literature, before working for Booktrust where she project-managed the Children's Laureateship and worked on other children's book prizes. Her notable works include The Sinclair's Mysteries children’s fiction series.
Woodruff, William
William Woodruff, born in Blackburn, was a professor of world history and an author. His autobiographical novel The Road to Nab End describes his family's fight to survive the Lancashire cotton industry's downturn in 1920 and his experiences with the Great Depression. He volunteered for the army and served during the Second World War and used these experiences as the basis of his work Vessel of Sadness. William sadly passed away in 2008 aged 92.
Wotherspoon, Nick
Nick Wotherspoon, residing in Ribble Valley, works as a Business Intelligence Officer for Lancashire County Council and has been actively involved with vintage and classic vehicles for most of his life. Researching Bond for a final year dissertation at university, he owns and has written works on Bond cars.
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An English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005, he became the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Eccleston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The BBC’s recent hit drama The Night Manager, a thriller about a spy who infiltrates an arms dealer’s network, is the sort of show that’s sometimes described as “aspirational” – not because most people aspire to hang out with the kind of foreign despots liable to gas their own people, but because it’s the sort of world that features private jets and five-star hotels and characters called things like “Dickie Onslow Roper” and “Lord Langbourne” and the kind of long-necked women who drape themselves languidly over business tycoons’ arms.
It is, to use another piece of shorthand, posh; a world of money and privilege – and apart from two overworked civil servants trying to bring them to heel from a dingy London office, one of whom is Olivia Colman, the BBC’s resident everywoman – almost the entire cast comes from what used to be called the “officer class”. So it’s not exactly a surprise when, just after the final episode is broadcast, the Guardian runs a story about where the three male leads went to school. Because for the past 18 months or so, the papers have been full of stories about how increasingly rarefied acting is becoming. How difficult it is for anyone from any normal background to break into it. How some of the great actors of the past 30 years simply wouldn’t make it today.
The story is not that the three stars – Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston and Tom Hollander – are all privately educated. That would surprise no one. The story is that they all went to the same private school: the Dragon School, a small prep school in Oxford with fees of up to £28,000 a year that also educated Emma Watson, Jack Davenport and Jack Whitehall, among others. From there, Laurie and Hiddleston both went on to Eton, the launchpad for what are some of the hottest actors of the moment, alma mater to Eddie Redmayne, Damien Lewis and Dominic West.
What unites Laurie, Hiddleston and Hollander most, of course, is talent. They all give standout, highly praised performances. And, arguably, it’s anecdotal evidence of nothing very much; commenting on it reveals nothing more than a certain leftwing chippiness on the part of the commentator.
Certainly, the issues at stake have little to do with Laurie, Hiddleston or Hollander. It’s far bigger than any of them. But it’s also not posh-bashing for the sake of posh-bashing. There’s now evidence of an inequality that runs like a seam through the entire profession and which goes far beyond the anecdotal. This year, academics from the London School of Economics and Goldsmiths College, in a peer-reviewed study, found that only 27% of actors come from a working-class background and that the profession is “heavily skewed towards the privileged”. In February this year, the Sutton Trust, a thinktank dedicated to social mobility, included acting for the first time in its survey of leading professions, and found, among other things, that 67% of British Oscar winners and 42% of Bafta winners went to a private school.
Countless stars have spoken out about it, including Julie Walters, who’s said that “people like me wouldn’t get the chance today” and Judi Dench, who gets letters “countless times a week asking for help to get through drama school”. And, in this light, The Night Manager starts to seem more like a parable. Because it depicts a world that is run by and for a rich, privileged elite. And it turns out, that’s true not just within the dramatic confines of the story, but outside it too. That there’s a tiny, well-born cohort who seem to be getting all the plum roles.
The bigger question is whether it matters. Acting is structurally unfair anyway, especially for women – so much is based on looks, on having the kind of languid limbs that can be draped over a business tycoon’s arms. Does it really matter if this tiny elite is dominated by Etonians? Or by the 7% who are privately educated rather than the 93% who aren’t? There are so many inequalities in Britain today that in some ways this feels like the least of them.
But it’s part of a much bigger picture. Because what has happened in acting and therefore what we see on our screens is intimately connected to what is happening in Britain. Acting, culture, identity, representation and politics are all inextricably entwined. The actors on our screens, the dramas that are commissioned, the way we view ourselves, the politicians we vote for, our ability to empathise with people from other parts of our culture, are all of a piece. Can it really be just a coincidence that the upper echelons of acting and government are dominated by Old Etonians?
The Liverpool-based screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the story for the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games, tells me that he believes actors are like everyone else, just more visible. “The shortage of working-class actors is simply a mirror of what’s going on everywhere: a shortage of working-class academics, engineers and politicians. I’m much more concerned about the broader picture because it’s a beacon, an indicator, of a much deeper problem.”
Actors are simply the most visible, he says. “It’s an issue simply because we’ve noticed it but it’s going on everywhere, in every profession. It’s about access to education and being able to take a risk. That’s the nursery of innovation not just in the arts but in science, in business. What’s happening to the dramatic arts, should be a warning to people that this is happening everywhere. Actors are simply the end of the process. University or college or art school used to be where you’d go to meet your contemporaries and start something off. But they’ve been completely monetised. Universities are transaction service providers, students are service users, it’s not a creative space or an intellectual space any more, it’s a service where you get a piece of paper in exchange for your student loan. And it’s completely changed the nature of it.”
Because now it’s about money. And there’s simply not enough of it go around. Every week, he says, he is inundated with letters. “‘Can you give me £500?’ I get them week in, week out, and everybody else does too.”
Acting has changed because Britain has changed. And money, and its Great British handmaidens – inequality, privilege, class – is at the heart of it. Nina Gold, one of the most influential casting directors in Britain, goes to the showcases that the drama schools hold every year for the graduating class and has seen the shift at first hand.
She says: “There’s definitely a big homogenous load of middle-class actors all quite similar to each other. It’s not just class-wise, there just seem to be fewer characters, people who don’t conform to the ideal look, people who are overweight, or funny-looking. I really miss that.
“It’s not like the 1980s when all the exciting, big names were people like Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Pete Postlethwaite. When you think of all the fabulous actors of the moment, you think of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Dominic West, Benedict Cumberbatch. There’s Michael Fassbender. But he’s Irish and German so goes right by the whole class distinction.”
There are brilliant and successful working-class actors out there – Gold cast Peckham-born John Boyega in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and she found him (initially for the film Attack the Block) by “looking really hard” outside the usual drama schools – but the change has been dramatic. “What I want to get across is that I really, really want there to be more working-class actors and it needs to happen. Because it’s got nothing to do with talent, ability or intelligence. It’s to do with money. And it’s a reflection of how society is working. It’s very much a mirror of the way it is in real life.”
It’s always been tough, of course. Getting in to drama school is tough. And making it once you’ve got out is tougher still. “Even in the best-case scenario, you’re getting rejected left, right and centre,” says Nina Gold. “Even if you’re successful. And then if you do become really famous, that’s a whole hell of its own. My son wants to do drama A-level and I find myself thinking, please, God, let him never, ever want to become an actor.”
And even someone as successful and patently talented as Maxine Peake tells me how she was turned down by Manchester Metropolitan University’s theatre school three times and Guildhall School of Music and Drama three times before finally being accepted by Rada.
“Then, at the final workshop, they said to me, how are you going to pay for it if you do get in? And I said, ‘I can’t. There’s no way. I’m from a single-parent family, My mum works part-time. We’re skint.’”
Rada helped her get a scholarship and she went straight from there to the late Victoria Wood’s Dinner Ladies and the rest is history. As a rags-to-riches, Cinders-you-shall-go-to-the-ball fairytale, it’s a great story. And it does still – on rare occasions – happen.
In Rada’s elegant 1931 building in Bloomsbury, central London, I meet Yasmin Taheri, 22. She’s from Mirfield near Huddersfield, and like Peake, she grew up in a one-parent family. She tells me how she applied to dozens of drama schools and how she supported herself to pay for it. The process costs hundreds, if not thousands of pounds. It’s anywhere between £50 and £80 to audition for each round at each drama school, not to mention the travel. “I worked in McDonald’s and as a care assistant, as a medical secretary, as a receptionist, in an Italian restaurant, as a Spanish au pair…”
And Taheri didn’t apply once or twice, she carried on for five years, and then, eventually, miraculously, got in. What was that like, I ask her. “Oh my God!” she says and even today looks like she still can’t quite believe it. And Rada has helped her, as it did Maxine Peake, find a scholarship which now covers her maintenance.
The fairytales do still happen. It’s in Rada’s DNA. Royalties from Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s play about a flower girl who learns to act like a duchess (which later became the musical My Fair Lady), helped pay for the founding of the school. But, it’s getting rarer and rarer. In just a few years the whole landscape has changed. It used to be hard for everyone. Whereas now, it’s still hard for everyone but it’s a whole lot harder, quantifiably harder, if you happen to come from anything other than money and privilege.
Because for every Taheri, there are hundreds, maybe thousands more Tom Stockses. I meet 23-year-old Stocks in Canary Wharf in a break from his job in a call centre. It’s known informally as “the actors’ call centre” and “is three floors of out-of-work actors who just come and go all the time”. Stocks has written the kind of letters that Judi Dench and Frank Cottrell Boyce have received, as well as emailing hundreds of agents. Do you ever hear back? “Never.” And he’s applied to all the drama schools “and I paid the ridiculous audition fees for all of them”.
And then he won a place at the well respected East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex. It was an amazing piece of good fortune. And yet – it wasn’t quite amazing enough. “I was quite naive, thinking OK, it’s 12 grand but I can borrow that from the government,” he says. And you can’t? “No. The only way you can fund it is with a career-development loan which isn’t like a student loan. You have to pay back £200 a month for the next five years come what may.”
It’s possible to get student loans to study drama, if the course is affiliated to Ucas, and if it’s your first degree. But Stocks, like many actors before him, had already been to university – a performing arts course at the University of South Wales in Newport, where he did three jobs to pay his maintenance.
At East 15, he would get a showcase, a crucial first step if you want to make it as an actor. It’s just that he can’t figure out how to pay for it. He grew up in Bolton and his father is a chef, his mother a school dinner lady. “I decided to defer for a year and get a job and try and save the money. But I didn’t have nearly enough so I thought, I’m going to go all in and just borrow it. But then my dad sat me down and said, you’ve already got all your student loans from university and £200 a month is such a big commitment and there’s no loopholes. And in the end, I just couldn’t do it.”
He deferred for another year and “then it came to Christmas and it came to a point where I was chasing a dream. I was just never going to get the finances. My parents couldn’t pay for it. And I was so deluded to think I could get this money on my own. A bunch of actors writing to private sponsors. It was never going to happen.”
He shrugs. There was nothing to be done. So, he’s moved to London and is attending open auditions and has launched something called Actor Awareness, a campaign for greater diversity and representation in the industry. He’s had messages of support from the cast of This Is England and John Challis (Boycie from Only Fools and Horses), and an “anonymous” £1,000 donation that arrived just hours after he told Sir Ian McKellen about it. He’s impressively upbeat and dynamic and determined to get on and do something. “People thought I was just whining initially but I’ve really put my money where my mouth is.” But later I ask Nina Gold what her advice would be to someone from a working-class background, and I can’t help thinking of Stocks. “If you can somehow find a way to get to drama school, go,” she says. “It’s not the only way but you learn a lot, you get to act a lot, all day, every day, and you get seen by the industry.” It’s just a brutal fact of life that Stocks can’t afford it. And his place will go to someone else who can.
If good drama reflects us back at ourselves, what does it mean that the version of ourselves that we see on screen is so often male and Etonian? That we’re living in a Britain where our national psychodramas are being acted out by graduates of our most expensive public schools?
Daniel Mays, giving an interview to the Radio Times to publicise his leading role in Line of Duty recently, spoke about how British TV is “awash with the Downton effect”. Period dramas “have a place”, he said, “but there are a lot of public-school actors and writers about at the moment”. The great, starring roles of recent times, the ones that go to Cumberbatch and Hiddleston and Lewis and Redmayne, the roles that have propelled them into the big time, are not great working-class heroes.
They’re not the kind of roles that Daniel Mays – currently on stage as Aston in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker – gets. Nina Gold mentions him when I ask her about the standout stars she’d seen at drama schools. “You really thought, my God, he’s brilliant.”
But then, class, she says, is one of the hardest things to cast against type. “Like Eddie Redmayne, who is genuinely, totally brilliant, we even cast him to play a woman. Why would you cast him to play a working-class character? What’s the advantage? Though from his point of view, it’s probably fun to do.”
And what, you can’t help wondering, is our obsession with period drama all about? Downton, suggests Josie Long, comedian and co-founder of the charity Arts Emergency, “speaks to that certain weird thing that is going on in the UK. Something very repressive that is reflected in our art.”
It’s what happens, she thinks, “when you don’t have different voices coming through”. And “posh fetishisation… posh as aspiration” becomes a defining feature of our culture.
Posh is at the very heart of mainstream viewing, a cornerstone of all TV schedules and a guaranteed seller abroad. The Night Manager is currently being broadcast in America on the cable channel AMC, which contributed a large part of its £18m budget. It’s a vision of Britain that sells.
And at the other end of the social scale is… well, what? In his 2011 book, Chavs, the journalist and activist Owen Jones argued that the artistic representation of the working classes has all but disappeared from our screens. And in its place is an underclass to be feared and despised. There’s been no modern austerity equivalent of the great, epoch-defining Alan Bleasdale drama, Boys from the Blackstuff, a series that seemed to signal the high-water mark of Thatcherism. If you were alive in the 80s, you followed Yosser Hughes’s tragic efforts to find work and hang on to his family. It elicited huge public sympathy for him, and crucially, others like him. What’s the defining programme on poverty during George Osborne’s reign as chancellor? Benefits Street.
Five years ago, when I wrote about Jones’s book, I rang Phil Redmond, the creator of Brookside and Grange Hill to ask him what he thought, and when I ring him again, he says it’s the same, only worse, and launches into a vivid monologue about how the TV industry works. “You might have somebody saying, well the prime minister has all these plans to regenerate sink estates, why don’t we do a drama about a sink estate? And they’ll say, good idea! Who would make that? It reminds me of a very good idea somebody had about garden cities in the 1930s, between the wars, with these great historical social forces at work. Fascinating stuff. What’s Dominic doing at the moment?”
David Morrissey, another actor who has spoken out on the subject, points out that “for every Downton, there’s a Happy Valley”. Almost everyone I talk to mentions Happy Valley, the brilliant Sally Wainwright BBC drama set in the Calder valley, as the counter-example to Downton and The Night Manager, but it’s perhaps pretty damning that portraying ordinary working people with warmth and humanity is, in 2016, seen as a revolutionary artistic act.
For Morrissey, though, it’s not about the kinds of drama being made, it’s simply about access. “It’s about young people from working-class backgrounds not being able to get on the first rung. Not being able to take a risk. The creativity that comes from suburban bedrooms. That world has gone and that has enormous consequences for our nation. If you look at how important the creative industries are to Britain, how much things like the Beatles and Harry Potter have formed our national identity, it’s like we’re going around tarmac-ing over the oil wells.”
And it’s not just acting, he says. “Young people are being asked to work for very little money and so it’s becoming a de facto middle-class profession. We’re not looking after them in our industry and I’d say that’s true of your profession too.”
It’s a good point. But it’s striking in journalism how this affects content – local London stories being treated as topics of national interest, Port Talbot being viewed as somewhere just outside Mars, an awful lot of quinoa – so it seems improbable that it doesn’t in TV and film too. Or as Edward Kemp, the artistic director of Rada, who describes himself as having “the classic British director training of an English degree from Oxford University”, says: “I think the fact that our gatekeepers, of whom I’m one, all look rather like me and have my background, must have an impact. I can’t see how it can’t.”
We’re talking in his office, in Rada’s elegant Bloomsbury building with its photos of eminent alumni in the lobby, dozens of them, the great and the good, the stars of British stage and screen for more than a century. In the 50s, he tells me, a man called John Fernald took over as principal. He had served with men from all backgrounds during the war and encouraged students to celebrate their roots and keep their accents. “Sheila Hancock is very sharp on this because she caught the end of the previous era and speaks RP whereas her husband, John Thaw, was part of this new generation that came through. It meant that when there were writers and directors ready to make movies in which Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay and all those people starred, there was a generation of actors who were able to make that happen.”
It’s all connected. In the 60s, the first working-class actors with working-class voices were part of a wider phenomenon, the great explosion of social mobility and cultural blossoming that expanded our ideas about what is and isn’t a fit subject for art. David Morrissey tells me he was inspired to become an actor after seeing the film, Kes, the first time he’d seen his life reflected on screen. I feel a bit the same way about Phil Redmond’s Grange Hill. I just hadn’t realised at the time that it was the kind of gritty social realism that would subsequently vanish.
But what now? Now that this whole process is in reverse? Already, the dramatist Jimmy McGovern has said how hard it is to even find working-class actors to play his roles. Is it the start of a great cultural contraction? Are our ideas about what is dramatically interesting diminishing? Will we reach the stage that Julie Walters fears, where it’ll be “middle-class people playing working-class people, like it used to be”.
Rada, in fairness, is doing its best to keep the traditions of the 60s alive, but it’s getting harder and harder. “We get defensive about diversity because actually 40% of our students come from family backgrounds with an income of less than £25,000 and 60% of our students are getting some kind of bursary from us,” says Kemp. Rada is lucky because its alumni are often rich and many of them want to give back and it’s able to help a significant number of its students. “But the real challenge for the actor starting out is how do you survive afterwards,” says Kemp. The rep [repertory theatre] system which provided full-time employment for actors has all but disappeared. “And how do you sustain a career with an expectation that you’ll live within reach of London because that’s where the industry is largely based? At that point the bank of mum and dad is incredibly useful.”
Kemp’s conclusion, like Frank Cottrell Boyce’s and Nina Gold’s, is that it isn’t about acting. It’s about money. It’s about what we’ve done to our education system. “I would love it to be the world that Julie Walters came from, where it was free, but I would love that for everything in higher education,” he says. “It’s not just drama schools. It’s an issue about how we pay for higher education.”
The third and final part of the puzzle is schools. Last year, Jessica Hynes won a Bafta for her role in W1A and used the occasion to make an impassioned speech about how children from low-income families were being driven out of the arts. She’s spent the last year visiting schools, talking to headteachers and learning about what is happening to drama. “The worst thing is the academy system,” she says, “which has monetised all subjects and schools simply don’t receive any money from arts subjects, so they’ve become incredibly difficult to justify.”
John Baugh, the head of the Dragon School, also points to the stresses and strains that state schools operate under. “There’s an obsession with Sats which seem to be the only measure of whether a school is deemed to be successful or not.”
But drama, says Hynes, “is not prancing around or finding the next Orlando Bloom. It’s about how you build confidence, how you connect with other people. It’s about coming into a class where you feel different. Where you feel able to express yourself in another way. And it affects all other subjects. There’s so much focus on Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths] subjects, but don’t you think engineers need confidence and presentation and teamwork skills?
“Wait a moment, I’m going to tell you what Eton says on this…” She stomps off to retrieve a piece of paper. “This is from the Eton website,” she says. “This is what they say about drama. ‘The aim is to provide the boys with a safe and stimulating environment in which to develop skills not easily learned in the schoolroom: physical and vocal self-confidence; the social disciplines of group work; imaginative spontaneity and the disciplines required to channel it; an extended emotional range; the power of their own creativity and a respect for that of others.’
“Don’t all children deserve that? Not just Etonians?”
In her Bafta speech, Hynes, who grew up in a single-parent family in Brighton, urged people to support Arts Emergency, founded by the comedian Josie Long and her friend Neil Griffith, which campaigns to create opportunities for young people from low income backgrounds. “And it crashed their website. I’m very proud of that. They got 20,000 hits.”
Arts Emergency pairs up mentors and mentees – young people trying to find a crack into the sort of professions that rely heavily on contacts and networks and a certain savvy knowhow. Julie Hesmondhalgh, the Accrington-born actor, who played transgender Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street and was recently in Happy Valley, is one of the latest mentors to volunteer. She tells me about a young woman from Burnley called Lisa-Marie Ashworth whom she’s been trying to help for the past year or so and whose life has been genuinely turned around by drama. “I were quite disruptive at school,” Ashworth tells me, though this sounds like something of an understatement. She was repeatedly excluded, and was on track to leave school with no qualifications whatsoever.
“She’s this classic girl. Stunningly beautiful. Proper working-class. And absolutely primed to become a statistic,” says Julie Hesmondhaulgh. “Nobody could contain her. And then on a whim she auditioned for the school play and just blew them away. It was like Miles Davies picking up a trumpet.”
When I talk to Ashworth, she’s still on tenterhooks waiting to hear if she’s got a place at drama school next year. “She’s not someone who wants to be rich and famous,” says Hesmondhalgh. “She’s hungry for theatre. And she really turned it around. She went back to school, retook her GCSEs. It would just be amazing if she could break out of the life that’s been mapped out for her.”
A couple of weeks later, Ashworth emails me the good news: she might just do that; she’s been offered a place at East 15.
Later, I look up Eton’s website and marvel at its facilities: not one but two professionally staffed theatres including “a flying system, orchestra pit and revolving stage”. (Frank Cottrell Boyce says: “They’ve got a classical stage and a TV studio. Honestly, you could train a monkey. It would be a disgrace to leave there and not be a brilliant actor.”)
But the skills required to become an Oscar-winner will also help you become prime minister, or mayor of London, or chief executive of a leading company. Or win a lead role in The Night Manager.
Olivia Colman gets her man in the end. Because the TV version of The Night Manager is a morality tale that sees the billionaires brought to book. Colman brings Dickie Roper to heel and the monied elite who think they can get away with it, don’t. But life is not like that. Just ask Tom Stocks. You probably won’t see him interviewed in the Radio Times any time soon, but ring up customer service at Virgin Wines and you might get him on the end of the line. His latest campaign is to get drama schools to abolish their audition fees.
“It just annoys me. You’re up against it already. Surely everyone deserves a level start? You can’t win a race if you’re already 100 metres behind.”
Britain has changed so quickly, the gains of 40 years of social progress undone in half a generation, that most of us are still struggling to compute it, but the evidence is right there in front of us, on our cinema and television screens. It’s not posh-bashing to say this is a problem. Laurence Fox, the son of James Fox, suggested the likes of Julie Walters banging on about it should “shut up”. But maybe we should be taking more notice not less.
To contribute to Arts Emergency or join its Alternative Old Boy’s Network click here
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This is probably nothing, but I have several friends and work contacts in the North West, and lots of them happen to have surnames which are also placenames...
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This is probably nothing, but I have several friends and work contacts in the North West, and lots of them happen to have surnames which are also placenames in (traditional) Lancashire. Examples are Pennington, Warrington, Hindley, Adlington, Bryn, Farnworth etc. Is this a 'thing' around there or just coincidence?
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Trying to think of people I've met who have surnames as places...
Bolton
Cambridge
Coventry
Rotherham
Kent
Lancashire
Lancaster
Pennington
Blackburn
Preston
Atherton
Battersby
Middleton
Definitely a north western 'bias' in them.
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This is probably nothing, but I have several friends and work contacts in the North West, and lots of them happen to have surnames which are also placenames in (traditional) Lancashire. Examples are Pennington, Warrington, Hindley, Adlington, Bryn, Farnworth etc. Is this a 'thing' around there or just coincidence?
Surnames in the UK generally derive from one of 3 things - where you lived, what you did or whose son you were.
e.g.
1. Name of place
2. Baker, Butcher etc
3. William's Son -> Williamson ( -> Williams), or John's Son -> Johnson ( -> Jones)
So this isn't at all unusual.
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3. William's Son -> Williamson ( -> Williams), or John's Son -> Johnson ( -> Jones)
Yes wife was born in Preston and this was her maiden name.
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Bamber is a typically Lancashire surname, very strongly represented in the Preston area - e.g. Bamber Bridge. In that case the place takes its name from the family and not the other way round, I think.
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Trying to think of people I've met who have surnames as places...
Bolton
Cambridge
Coventry
Rotherham
Kent
Lancashire
Lancaster
Pennington
Blackburn
Preston
Atherton
Battersby
Middleton
Definitely a north western 'bias' in them.
And Ripon is there as well, although Angela Rippon's surname, which reminded me of this, has two 'p's.
-Peter
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Pemberton and Pickering are two that come to mind off the top of my head
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People were named for their appearance too, Mr Little and Mr Large (stage names) started their career in 'North-West England'
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Surnames in the UK generally derive from one of 3 things - where you lived, what you did or whose son you were.
e.g.
1. Name of place
2. Baker, Butcher etc
3. William's Son -> Williamson ( -> Williams), or John's Son -> Johnson ( -> Jones)
So this isn't at all unusual.
A fourth. Named after the feudal family you were bound to.
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Eric Morecambe ?
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Catherine Tyldesley ?
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Halsall, Hindley, Lathom and Leyland are four more off the top of my head.
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Alnwick, Altham, Anderton, Brindle, Bolton, Bowland, Bleasdale, Charnock, Clayton, Clitheroe, Eccles, Farnworth, Fishwick, Galgate, Hoghton, Holcombe, Ince, Kirkham, Lancashire, Prescott, Ramsbottom, Scarisbrick, Thornton.
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When I was a boy there was a Mr Leyland who lived in Leyland Lane, Leyland.
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Alnwick, Altham, Anderton, Brindle, Bolton, Bowland, Bleasdale, Charnock, Clayton, Clitheroe, Eccles, Farnworth, Fishwick, Galgate, Hoghton, Holcombe, Ince, Kirkham, Lancashire, Prescott, Ramsbottom, Scarisbrick, Thornton.
The place name, however, is spelt Prescot.
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Liverpool is a surname, although not very common.
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When I was a boy there was a Mr Leyland who lived in Leyland Lane, Leyland.
We have a driver by the name of David Main of Main Street, Davidson's Mains.
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Hattersley is another one that springs to mind.
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Halsall, Hindley, Lathom and Leyland are four more off the top of my head.
Hmmm..... Maurice Leyland was a Yorkshire cricketer in an era when only true-born Yorkshiremen could play for the county.
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Eric Morecambe ?
Wasn't that his stage name?
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Wasn't that his stage name?
Yes, his real name was John Eric Bartholomew.
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There's the actor (actress in old money) Sarah Lancashire.
Born in Oldham and apparently her actual surname, not a stage name.
[edit] Oops, I see Lancashire was already mentioned in post #2.
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Bamber is a typically Lancashire surname, very strongly represented in the Preston area - e.g. Bamber Bridge. In that case the place takes its name from the family and not the other way round, I think.
A certain Mr Gascoigne who was presenter of University Challenge had Bamber as his first name.
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A certain Mr Gascoigne who was presenter of University Challenge had Bamber as his first name.
And one of his ancestors of the same name was mayor of Liverpool in the 18th century. In some families it was common to use your mother's maiden name as your given name, usually your middle name. It was common among the Anglo-Irish gentry, that's how the male novelist Joyce Cary got his first name: his mother had been a Miss Joyce. In some countries names of common or doubtful sex such as Evelyn or Hilary are illegal, e.g. in Portugal.
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I think of Lancashire name i think of Greenhalghs , the halghs bit ive seen in surnames.
And one of his ancestors of the same name was mayor of Liverpool in the 18th century. In some families it was common to use your mother's maiden name as your given name, usually your middle name. It was common among the Anglo-Irish gentry, that's how the male novelist Joyce Cary got his first name: his mother had been a Miss Joyce. In some countries names of common or doubtful sex such as Evelyn or Hilary are illegal, e.g. in Portugal.
Yes, im my first name is my mothers maiden name.
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Fazakerley is a suburb in Liverpool, but the surname is usually spelt Fazackerley.
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Other less obvious places that have surnames linked with Lancashire not too far from my home town of Wigan -
Crawford (Lancs village near Skelmersdale)
Orrell
(Up) Holland
Roby (Mill)
Martland (Mill)
Heskin
Eccleston (two of these - one in St Helens & one near Chorley)
Winstanley
Worthington
Ashton (in-Makerfield)
Newton (le-Willows)
Lowton
Haydock
Platt (Bridge)
Scholes
Pennington (small area just outside of Leigh).
Even Leigh is a surname.
Alot of places now come under Wigan Borough which is part of Greater Manchester, but most people still regard the place as Lancashire. A bit like Southport - never remind the locals they are in Merseyside!
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Heywood is another surname that often appears.
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Quite a few famous Egertons (village near Bolton), including Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, after whom the Egerton Dock in Birkenhead was named.
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One of TV’s finest actors, John Simm, was back on our screens this week in BBC psychological thriller Exile. The publicity-shy Nelson star tells us how filming in East Lancashire took him back to his youth.
When Burnley-born Paul Abbott created the plot for Exile it had Nelson-raised John Simm’s name written all over it.
In the programme a moody teenager who left the terrace streets of Lancashire for a new life in London returns home after 15 years.
After making the very same move himself in 1988, aged 18, who else but John would play the role?
“My early life certainly helped me play this part, it wasn’t hard to put the two together,” said John who recently received rave reviews for Sky’s Mad Dogs.
“But my character’s circumstances for leaving are obviously very different from my own experiences.”
Creator Paul Abbott and writer Danny Brocklehurst, who have previously worked together on Clocking Off and Shameless, teamed up for this BBC psychological thriller.
John plays down-on-his-luck journalist Tom Ranstadt, sacked from his job and dumped by his lover, who does something he hasn’t done for 15 years — he returns home to the north.
“This character I play isn’t a very nice man, which you see right from the very beginning.
“But when your life’s a mess and there’s nowhere else to go, you go home and a lot of people will relate to that,” explained the 40-year-old actor.
As it transpires, Tom left home at 17 when his seemingly loving and caring journalist father, played by Jim Broadbent, beat him up, sending him into self-enforced exile.
John, who is married to Kate with children Ryan, nine, and Molly, four, added:
“My character worships his dad, a brilliant journalist full of morals.
“He was a deputy editor for the equivalent of The Lancashire Telegraph today — and Tom wanted to be just like him.
“One day he goes into his dad’s study and finds a top secret file and his father beats him nearly half to death.
“He leaves home immediately and never returns until now.
“But when he comes back to confront his dad he finds he is so far into Alzheimer’s he can’t give him any answers.”
Over the three-parter, we saw Tom become the journalist he has always wanted to be as he pieces together facts in search of the truth.
“He discovers a mindblowing scandal that is so disturbingly dark, it’s shocking,” John added.
Given the subject matter, John said it was important to keep the set jovial and light — something which, with the chosen cast, was never a problem.
“If you’re doing something so heavy, it can get you down, but with Jim and Olivia (Coleman, who plays his sister) it was just a joy.
“Jim is such a lovely man and Olivia is really funny. We had a really great time.
“And my family came over to visit the set too so that was fun.”
John’s parents live in Hapton and his youngest sister still lives in Nelson where the family settled after moving over the pennines from Leeds where John was born.
Filming, which concluded earlier this year, was a trip down memory lane for John, when the cast and crew visited sets in Bolton, Manchester, Bury and Ramsbottom.
In Ramsbottom, film crews closed off Bridge Street and Railway Street and even filmed scenes in the Grant’s Arms pub, Market Place.
“It reminded me of being 17 again,” said John who grew up in Temple Street, Nelson, with his parents, two younger sisters and an outside toilet.
“You forget how lovely the people are. Lancashire is my spiritual home; I spent most of my youth there and it’s always a joy to be back there.”
The former Edge End High School pupil added: “I used to go to Burnley and Manchester for nights out and I have fond memories growing up.
“I had a great childhood, we were very poor, but we played out and we had so much fun.”
After leaving Nelson at 16, John trained in acting at Blackpool and The Fylde College before moving to London to launch his career.
An everyman with a rare talent, it wasn’t long before he was starring in Jimmy McGovern’s The Lakes and since then he’s never stopped: films Human Traffic, Clocking Off, 24-Hour Party People, and TV series Crime and Punishment, Sate Of Play, Life on Mars and Doctor Who.
Not to mention his theatre credits which include playing Hamlet last year at The Sheffield Crucible. And in 2012 he’s set to star in Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature film Seven Days, about a prisoner, shot in real time.
But making the trip north for Exile was a particular career highlight, according to John.
“It was fantasic to work with Paul Abbott, and lovely to see him again as he’s a very old friend of mine. Anything with his name on it is quality.
“There’s something about being from the north,” said John, who, as a teenager, toured the working men’s clubs of East Lancashire with his dad playing the guitar.
“So much brilliant art, music, and creativity comes from the north.
“There is something in the water. It’s an incredible place.”
But there is one aspect of Exile John isn’t looking forward to, the same part he always dreads about a new series — watching himself.
“I really don’t like it,” admitted the modest performer.
“I watch through splayed fingers, but you learn from yourself, so you have to see what you’ve done. Only once though!”
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Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester, England
Date of Birth: 16 February, 1964
Ethnicity: English, small amount of Irish
Christopher Eccleston is an English actor. He portrayed Doctor Who in 2005.
He is the son of Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston. He has two children with his former wife, copywriter Mischka.
Christopher’s paternal grandfather was Peter Eccleston (the son of Peter Eccleston and Catherine “Katie” Connor). Christopher’s grandfather Peter was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. Christopher’s great-grandfather Peter was the son of Peter Eccleston and Mary Elizabeth Dunn. Katie was born in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Christopher’s paternal grandmother was Mary Ann Chappell (the daughter of John Thomas Chappell and Ellen “Nellie” Stafford). John was the son of John Thomas Chappell and Ann Hill. Ellen was the daughter of William Stafford and Mary Ann Chambers.
Christopher’s maternal grandfather was named Joseph Shaw (the son of Joseph Shaw and Maria). Christopher’s grandfather Joseph was born in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Christopher’s maternal grandmother was named Elsie Elliott (the daughter of Henry Elliott and Livinia). Elsie was born in Hulme, Greater Manchester.
Sources: Genealogy of Christopher Eccleston – https://www.geni.com
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Over 80 residents enjoyed a special Q&A session with the Salford-born actor as part of the Manchester City of Literature's Festival of Libraries.
With a career that's taken Christopher from Shakespeare to Hollywood, attendees got to quiz him about his roles on stage and the small and big screen – most notably his coveted role as Doctor Who – as well as hearing about his favourite read and how libraries have supported his work over the years.
When he was a boy, Christopher saw his local library as a place of sanctuary away from the rush of life:
"When I was growing up in Salford the local library provided a vibrant lifeline to the wider world. Libraries feed people's interests and passions and provide access leading to connections being forged."
In the wake of the festival, Stockport's library service is turning its focus to its summer programme, encouraging children to develop a love of reading.
On Tuesday 25 June, the majestic Town Hall Ballroom will host over 450 children, authors and VIPs to announce the year's winners of Stockport's world-famous Children's Book Awards.
And to encourage children to keep up their reading over the holidays, this year's Summer Reading Challenge, themed 'Marvellous Makers' will launch at Stockport libraries in July. Children who read six books over six weeks will get prizes, including a certificate and medal.
Emma Handby, Head of Resident Services said:
"We were delighted to welcome Christopher to our Library. This event helped showcase that our borough's library service is more than just a place to research or get hold of the latest books. The service we provide is an inspirational and broad one that really brings people together through hosting special guests and events and supporting a love of reading, whilst also giving our residents help and advice, getting people online and so much more. This was one of our highlights of our library year so far."
Supported by Arts Council England, the Festival of Libraries, now in its fourth year, has involved all Greater Manchester's 133 libraries. Its programme includes exhibitions, author talks, live music, and workshops. It aims to remind people of the breadth of what libraries offer and the contribution they make to communities.
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The library week was dominated by first the horror at the setting ablaze of Spellow Lane Library during the far-right/racist/opportunist riots and then by the hope caused by a huge local, national and international response to a fundraiser for it. Famous authors and celebrities donated large amounts of money (the largest being £5,000 from author Matt Haig) as did loads of library lovers and locals. The result was that, as of now, £239,000 has been raised compared to the initial £500 target.
This should give all of us hope. There is something visceral about an attack on a public library and it has given nearly a thousand people a chance to register their disgust at what went on. What will be done with the money is quite the question: the building will have insurance but this amount of money can make a difference even then. One hopes that something really positive, that helps those in the local area, comes from this.
In other news in this week’s post, I had not noticed before but there are no less than eight libraries under threat in the London borough of Enfield and another in Peterborough. Additionally, Cheshire East has reported initial success in getting local councils to help fund the libraries it has announced it did not have sufficient money for. Finally, there are a couple of criticisms of current public library culture, both suggesting a move back to focusing on reading, quiet study and education.
Oooh, and also there is the first ever book giveaway for this newsletter. The first five readers who email Neil Jurd OBE at neil@neiljurd.com will get sent a copy of “The Leadership Book” by Neil Jurd OBE. Gosh.
Changes by local authority
Enfield – Bullsmoor, Enfield Highway, Enfield Island Village, Bowes Road, Southgate, Winchmore Hill, Oakwood and John Jackson libraries may close in 2025.
Peterborough – Woodston Library may close
National news
The Concept, Experience and Inspiration of Bibliotherapeutic Service in British and American Public Libraries – Library Journal.
Green Libraries Week 2024 â the map – Libraries Week. “Library partners, spread the word and let people know what your library is up to for Green Libraries Week by adding your library to the map”
Stop-Verify-Correct: How to combat misinformation online and beyond – CILIP.
Why It’s Time for Libraries to Step Up and Help Young People – Shout Out UK. “Unfortunately, in areas such as the North East of England, libraries appear to have become hubs for computer use rather than reading. While free access to digital resources is vital, so is access to traditional print novels and a quiet place to read â something which children may not have at home.”
“The Public Library system [needs to be]revised to back the education system rather than being a social centre. This was its original purpose following on from the Mechanics Institutes, the Chartists and the Luddite era. Library history shows that the Public Library has moved from a working-class to a middle-class institution in its development. Education, Information, Research and Recreation are still at the heart of Public Library purpose. The emphasis on these four services changes according to the times we live in. Public Libraries need to move from the current emphasis on recreation to support education and provide information for society. I see no prospect of this being implemented by CILIP, the Arts Council or the DCMS all of whom misunderstand Libraries at a fundamental level. The Library Profession has also contributed to its own downfall to which the irrelevant CILIP conference bears testimony. Furthermore, the fragmented, volunteer run and unstaffed libraries are in no position to respond to the changing social circumstances. The problems are more sociological and anthropological than political.”
Glyn, received via email
Spellow Lane Library
Books for Spellow Lane Library – Go Fund Me. £239,000 raised as of Saturday 2pm including £5,000 from author Matt Haig, £500 from Frank Cottrell-Boyce and £500 from Nigella Lawson.
CILIP statement on the fire damage at Spellow Hub Library in Liverpool – CILIP. “This shocking incident is a new low during a week of worrying news from many parts of the country. The violent actions of this extreme minority group illustrate the need for exactly the kind of services provided by trained staff in public libraries such as Spellow – informing citizens with a broad range of trustworthy information and helping develop literacies for the modern world. We hope the new government invests in such services and reverses 14 years of funding cuts”
City vows ‘we will not let hate win’ after riots – BBC. “Cousins Esme Mullen and Connie Brown, who live in Walton, have placed posters and drawings on the boarded-up library which read: “We will not let hate win – Walton is stronger when we stand together”. Esme told the BBC she wanted to help build the library again because she likes to read books while Connie said “we should never live in hate”. Frank Brady, who lives over the road from the library, said it was an important part of the community. He said: “It is so important that it keeps going because of the road itself.””
Far-right rioters loot shops and set fire to library and food bank in shameless day of disorder – Independent. Context.
‘Fight back’: Wrecked Liverpool library stands defiant against UK riots – Reuters. “Seeing a library be damaged in the riots was just so heart-breaking,” McCormick said. “Never did I imagine that (the fundraiser) would go as far as it has. I think it’ll be lovely to see when it’s restored back to its former glory.”
Generosity for fire-hit library after riots ‘humbling’ – BBC. “Councillor Ruth Bennett said the donations alongside offers of the use of buildings to hold activities which were planned for the library over the summer showed the “very best of the people of Liverpool and beyond”.” … “Ms Bennett, cabinet member for finances, resources and transformation, said: “We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of our residents, partners and people from right across the country.”
Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters receives £50,000 in donations in one day for books – Independent. “Firefighters fought the blaze even as an engineâs rear windscreen was broken by a missile thrown by a rioter.”
Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds – Guardian.
Minister pledges support on visit to riot-hit library – BBC. “The business secretary has said the government will support businesses affected by the riots which have taken place across the country after three girls were stabbed to death in Southport. Jonathan Reynolds visited Spellow Library in Walton, Liverpool which was set alight amid violence and disorder last Saturday.” … “A 69-year-old man, who armed himself with a wooden cosh and joined a “mob” which took part in the destruction of the library, was jailed on Thursday for two years and eight months.”
Mother thanks judge after sons jailed over library burglary during riots – Sky News. “The pair pleaded guilty to burglary with intent “to steal from the Spellow Lane Library Hub, in Walton, which was opened last year to provide support for one of the most deprived communities in the country and included a food bank.” … “She said they just got “carried away” and their behaviour was “very out of character”, adding: “We’ve never had riots before.”
Shameless thugs set a library and foodbank ablaze, target middle eastern cafes and set fire to looted shops as anarchy descends in flashpoints across Liverpool, Hull, Manchester and Belfast – with more violence expected today – Mail. “Shocking photos from this morning show the burnt out interior of the library, with bookshelves tipped on their side, and glass surrounding the remaining computers. ” [No mention of where all the anti-immigrant hate came from – Ed.]
Spellow Lane Library sees hundreds of authors donate backlists after riots destruction – BookSeller. “Over 150 members of the books community â including Tracy Chevalier and Diana Beaumont â are donating backlist copies to the riot-hit Spellow Lane Library as part of crime writer Marnie Richesâ Reading Not Rioting campaign.” … “âThereâs certainly going to be tens of thousands of pounds of stock sent in.. Itâs been an enormous response,â she said. âIn tandem with the crowdfunder itâs been a good way for the bookish community to express their outrage at the rioters and sympathy with the library and its readers.â “
âWe are not the far-rightâ insist protesters setting fire to libraries and migrant hotels – News Thump. “As violent protests entered their third night across the UK, many of those who took to the streets have insisted that this is not a âfar-right protestâ, and any similarity to the tactics of the Nazis is purely coincidental.” … “the Nazis burned books, not libraries. Which is very different. If you canât tell the difference, I canât help you.”
International news
Public librariesâ role in supporting Ukrainian refugees: A focus on Hungary and Poland – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. “The study underscores public librariesâ role in addressing community needs, rooted in their core values of inclusivity and community engagement. However, their effectiveness hinges on inclusion in community-level efforts, awareness among new groups and securing economic and political support”
India – Floating libraries help rekindle reading habit among boat passengers in Kerala – The Hindu. “More passengers in Kerala who commute on boats operated by the State Water Transport Department (SWTD) will soon be able to enjoy their rides by reading short stories, novels, poems, and other literary works.”
New Zealand – Meet the metalhead makerspace librarian – Wellington Government. “he spends his days helping the public with their laser cutting projects, 3D printing, coding, robotics, sewing, weaving, music recording and virtual reality pursuits.⯔
USA – Advocates react to Utah ban of 13 books in schools and libraries: âItâs a tragedyâ – Guardian. “Utah is first in the US to outlaw titles statewide they deem âindecentâ as free speech advocates worry about impact” … “Utah ordered 13 books to be removed from public school classrooms and libraries” including “included Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur and Forever by Judy Blume” … “The banned materials must be âlegally disposed ofâ and âmay not be sold or distributedâ per the guidelines” … “this law now puts librarians and teachers and school board members in legal jeopardy just for having highly regarded and award winning works of literature on high school library shelves”
As LGBTQ library material comes under fire, California may ban book bans – Cal Matters. “Fresno County is about to appoint a library review committee that critics say will censor childrenâs books. But a bill before the Legislature would outlaw such groups in California.”
BuildingWork references local culture in small Washington library – De Zeen. Beautiful small library built. “Among the elements honouring the Swinomish Tribe is a traditional story pole at the library’s entrance.”
The Week in Libraries – Publishers Weekly. “the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on Iowa’s SF 496 with a mixed decision; Utah bans 13 books from all public schools in the state, six of which are by Sarah J. Maas; and Kelly Jensen of ‘Book Riot’ offers a how-to guide to fighting book bans.”
Local news by authority
Bromley – Southborough Library set for celebratory reopening – Bromley Council. “As well as complimentary refreshments, event attendees will be able to enjoy childrenâs crafts, outdoor games and admire Bromley Football Clubâs winnerâs trophy on display following their recent promotion to the English Football league. Childrenâs author Mo OâHara will also host a storytelling session with activities based on her book, Honey’s Hive.”
Buckinghamshire – Aylesbury Vale charity has ‘major safety concerns’ over proposed library redundancies and cuts – Bucks Herald. “The chair of the Friends of Buckingham Library, Roger Edwards, has penned an open letter expressing his concerns with changes to library services in Buckinghamshire.”
Cheshire East – Campaigners hopeful of retaining existing library hours after fears of cuts – Northwich and Winsford Guardian. “Bollington Town Councilâs working group on libraries has now met with Cheshire East officers and offered to contribute to the cost of keeping the library open on its present hours, subject to final agreement by the full town council. At present the library is open for 32.5 hours a week.” see also Library action group backs top-up proposal between Bollington Town Council and Cheshire East Council – Macclesfield Nub News and Ex-deputy leader criticises library cuts plan – BBC. “Craig Browne said he “strongly” opposed the proposals, which would see some libraries only receiving funding to stay open for one-and-a-half-days a week. Mr Browne stood down as the leader of the Independent group, which runs the council in coalition with Labour, in February.”
Have your say on future running of Cheshire Eastâs libraries – Alderley Edge.com. “Cheshire East Council has launched a six-week consultation on its draft libraries strategy, which includes asking for feedback on a tiering system for how library services would be run going forward and reducing the opening hours at Alderley Edge. The council must make savings in library services of more than £600k over the next two years to support the council’s medium-term financial strategy (MTFS) 2024-2028. The MTFS needs to achieve budget savings of £100 million to continue offering support to Cheshire East’s most vulnerable residents.”
Cheshire West and Chester – Design work begins on the renovation of Northwich Library – Silk Radio. Library as well as “an accessible first floor hosting the Work Zone and flexible activity and meeting spaces for all” … “it is anticipated that the library will reopen to the public in 2026.”
Cornwall – New born Cornwall babies to be issued with library card after birth in new reading initiative – Voice Newspapers. “When new parents register the birth of their baby, the child will be given their own âmy first library cardâ. Parents will be encouraged to use the card to sign up to their local library.”
Enfield – Bid to stop Enfield Council closing eight libraries – Times series. “As part of a proposed new library strategy, eight libraries have been earmarked for closure, with declining usage and budget pressures cited as reasons to justify the move.”
Lincolnshire – Libraries welcome a million visitors a year – BBC. “The authority said over two million items were borrowed from the service and more than 87,000 people attended activities such as story telling sessions, crafting and history groups. The figures represent a 16% increase in visits compared to the previous 12 months.”
Nottingham – Read-in protests planned over library closures – BBC. “The Save Nottingham Libraries group said the read-in protests would see library members selecting books to read together “in a peaceful demonstration of solidarity”, adding they hoped to encourage new members to register at threatened sites. Demonstrations will take place from 09:30 BST on Saturday at Bilborough, with another scheduled for 09:30 at Basford on 17 August.”
Developer promises Sherwood Library will open as soon as possible – West Bridgford Wire. “The developer behind Sherwood Library has promised the new facility will open soon after more than 100 defects were found in the building.”
Window smashed during break-in at city library – BBC. “Radford and Lenton library’s office area was ransacked and one of its windows smashed at about 00:30 BST on Thursday, police said.” … ” it was unclear what was taken from the building.”
Peterborough – Community hopes to save 73-year-old library – BBC. “Woodston Library on Orchard Street, Peterborough, was listed among Peterborough City Councilâs assets at risk of being cut in order to balance budgets.” … “Council said a decision on the facility would be made in the next few weeks.”
Reading – Why library in Reading is being moved to council offices – Reading Chronicle. “Questions have been raised about why Reading Borough Council is building a brand new library instead of refurbishing its existing purpose-built library in the town centre.” … “It comes after the council won £19.1 million from the government’s levelling up fund for a new arts centre and library. Of that cash, £8.6 million is being used to build a new library at the council’s offices in Bridge Street. But residents and readers have been asking questions about why levelling up funding wasn’t used to upgrade the library at its existing site.”
Sheffield – Sheffield Post Office: Move in date confirmed as services set to return to Firth Park at local library – The Star.
Southampton – Southampton libraries keep sanctuary status in aid of refugees – Dorset Echo. “Officially reconfirmed in May, the library was first granted this honour in 2020, underlining their continuous commitment to offering a safe and welcoming environment to asylum seekers”
Suffolk – Please support Suffolk Librariesâ summer fundraisers – Suffolk Libraries. “Board member Belle Bradley and her partner Jacob Bathgate recently raised £830 doing a parachute jump at Ellough Airfield and CEO Bruce Leeke and Head of Finance and Infrastructure Mandy Wilkinson raised £1,164 completing the Orwell Challenge. This Sunday (11 August) weekend a local library user from Felixstowe, Tina Boniface is undertaking a daunting sponsored cycling challenge.”
Brand-new crime book festival announced at Bury St Edmunds Library – Suffolk Libraries. “The Body in the Library is a brand-new crime-themed book festival taking place on Saturday 7 September, featuring special events with bestselling crime and thriller novelists including Louise Candlish, William Shaw, and Jack Jordan.”
Over 5,000 children signed up for the Reading Quest so far – Suffolk Libraries. “The new Reading Quest summer reading programme has hit the ground running with 5,260 children already signed up and enjoying the various challenges. Nearly 1,300 children have signed up for a library card in Suffolk since 13 July and there have been nearly 77,400 loans of childrenâs books.”
Torbay – Paignton Community Hub to offer free health checks at libraries – Torbay Today. Based on ground floor of library.
Walsall – Discover the joy of reading on National Book Lovers Day – Walsall Council. Marvellous Makers, BorrowBox.
Warrington – Lit Fest is a big hit – Warrington Council. “Newly released figures from Lit Fest 2024, which took place throughout June, show that over 700 people attended the headline events, with a further 200 people dropping into community libraries to take part in festival-themed activities.”
West Dunbartonshire – West Dunbartonshire Libraries awarded funding to teach sewing skills – West Dunbartonshire Council. “The Threads of Change project, developed by libraries staff, are one of five council projects in Scotland to have successfully secured £1500 funding from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIPS) Green Libraries Scotland Grant Fund.”
Worcestershire – Over 3,000 Children Sign-up to the Summer Reading Challenge – Worcestershire Council. Marvellous Makers.
York – ‘Sparking a passion’ – York libraries to stage a fund-raising family fun day – York Press. “Yorkâs independently-run library and archives service, is celebrating ten years of independence by inviting local people to join in some old-fashioned fun. The âFun Dayâ at York Explore central library on August 17 will also be a chance to raise money to support holiday activities for children and teenagers.” … “This summer, children can choose from more than 100 high-quality events, from interactive storytelling, marionette making and theatre performances to robotics and AI sessions. But they all cost money â hence the fund-raising element of the fun day.”
Editorial
The power of local public protest to cuts in public libraries never ceases to amaze me. A campaign to save libraries in Lanarkshire managed to get 8,500 signatures, which is quite amazing by the way, resulted in Cambuslang staying open and smiling pictures of local people in the newspaper. Kirklees also has a petition in the thousands but it’s less clear if there will be a happy ending there for the 47 library staff who may lose their jobs if the cuts go ahead. But if there’s no protest then such reductions certainly will go through, so it’s worth a placard or two.
In other news, it looks like the change of computer system in LibrariesWest has caused big problems, resulting in official apologies being issued. There’s pretty big investment announced in Australia, a country which appears to genuinely value their libraries. Then there’s the sad stories of cuts in Birmingham and other councils. Finally, the two articles about what to do with old Carnegie Libraries prompts some sadness. There are 660 such libraries, or were, in the UK but with closures and moves, quite a few are undergoing changes of use. But there’s hope at last for at least one in Bradford, which has been derelict for a while. Can’t see that happening in Australia.
Changes by local authority
Rotherham – Swinton Library and Civic Hall “neighbourhood hub” opens.
Rutland – £950k to turn Oakham, Ketton, Ryhall and Uppingham Libraries into “community hubs”
National news
2024 Yoto Carnegies Ceremony Highlights – 2 minute video.
Basic dataset for Libraries – Arts Council England. Updated list up until December 2023. “The Libraries Basic Dataset is intended to capture permanent instances of libraries, local history libraries, and archives from 1 April 2010 to 31 December 2023. It is also intended to capture the number of mobile libraries. It is possible to use this data to gain a national overview of the number of libraries and archives within local authorities in England, and some basic information about them. Data accurate as of May 2024.”
GLL Libraries promote Summer Reading Challenge – GLL. Marvellous Makers.
Participation Survey 2023â24 annual publication – Gov.uk. “Total engagement in the arts (91%) was the highest, whilst library engagement was the lowest (30%).”
Public libraries in England: Work towards a new national strategy – House of Lords Library. “This briefing provides a summary of work over recent years towards a national library strategy, including Baroness Sanderson of Weltonâs independent review of public libraries. It has been prepared ahead of Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bayâs (Conservative) debate scheduled for 12 September 2024 on whether the Labour government plans to publish a new strategy for public libraries.”
System problems affecting book lovers at libraries across the Vale and beyond – Blackmore Vale. “New IT system is causing problems for library users in Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset and beyond. The system, which manages library stocks, lending, borrowing histories and more, has been installed at hundreds of outlets which are part of the LibrariesWest group” … ” people trying to return or check out books, or perform other actions, have found the system not working, including crashing or freezing.”. LibrariesWest say “we have been having repeated issues with our new Library Management System running slowly, crashing and generally not performing as we would expect. âWe appreciate this is causing significant disruption in using our services and we would like to apologise to you for the negative impact this is having on your customer experience.”
International news
Reading as a Social Act : 15 Micro-Libraries in Urban and Rural Settings – Arch Daily. “Public libraries have transformed into contemporary community centers, offering various social engagement opportunities while utilizing minimal urban space. Emphasizing the importance of building a sense of community, these institutions prioritize connecting individuals with common interests.”
Australia – Victoria invests in public libraries – Government News. “The state government has invested  more than $48.2 million in Victoriaâs 283 public libraries this year as part of its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, which was established to help councils and regional library corporations fund infrastructure and minor works.” – Victoria has 7 million population so equivalent for UK would so this is around $450 million / £228 million.
Greece – We Need Books. “We are Athensâ first multilingual lending library and multicultural center. We house an ever growing collection of over 14,000 books in over 60 languages, a childrenâs library, and a serene little garden. We aim to make our library a friendly atmosphere where migrants, refugees, children, locals, visitors, students, and pensioners come to read, have conversations, work or participate in our various language lessons, artistic workshops and cultural activities.”
Ireland – ‘Meet a Farmer’ at Offaly library this August – Offaly Live. [For some reason, I find this very funny but I don’t know why – Ed.]
Israel – Approved in final readings: Reregulation of public libraries’ activity and sources of funding – Knesset News. “It is proposed to replace the Public Libraries Law -1975, with a new law that would be adjusted to the current situation and would regulate issues such as the appointment of a public libraries council, defining its roles, and streamlining and regulating its activity, as is customary in updated legislation pertaining to public councils. It is further proposed to regulate the budget of the activity of public libraries, and determine that the government will allocate a sum of NIS 100 million [£21m – £125m to UK population] towards this activity, annually, beginning in 2026. This amount will be linked to the Consumer Price Index beginning in 2027.” Currently, there are some 680 [4000 equivalent in UK population terms] public libraries in 220 local authorities..
Local news by authority
“DCMS officials have met with Birmingham City Council officers to ensure that they are aware of their responsibilities to provide a âcomprehensive and efficientâ library service across the area as required by the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, and to advise on superintendence processes. However, the development of options for future library service provision in Birmingham is the responsibility of the Council.”
Birmingham – Chris Bryant – The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Bolton – Radcliffe Library to stay in current building during conversion works – Bolton News. “As part of the £40m Radcliffe regeneration project, the existing library building in Stand Lane will be turned into an enterprise centre to support businesses. Construction is due to start in the next two months and cannot be delayed, because the £1.2m secured from the government, complemented by £455,000 from the council, must be fully spent by March 2025. Only last month the council ruled out keeping the service within the present building during conversion due to health and safety issues.”
Bradford – Plan to revive town’s former library building – BBC. Shipley Carnegie Library now derelict.
New fears over future of Keighley Library – Keighley News. “Opening hours are set to be cut at the North Street building and other Bradford Council-run libraries across the district. And additional money-saving measures are being introduced, including the scrapping of national newspaper provision. In total, the council is looking to chop £175,000 from its libraries service. The plans have come under fire, amid concerns that more reductions in provision could follow.”
Cheshire East – New council leader expects ‘tough challenges’ – BBC. “”Yes there will be decisions that will not be popular but we have to explain why those decisions have been taken and why someone is going to have a library that’s perhaps open for fewer hours than it was previously and move forward on that.”
Angered residents tell councillors under-threat library is âmore than just a public bookshelfâ – Cheshire Live.
Concerns over plans to close tips and libraries – BBC. “Cheshire East Council, which is led by a coalition between Labour and the Independent group, has announced the emergency closure of three tips and is undertaking a review of libraries – which could see some opening hours slashed.” … ” the previous governmentâs austerity measures had put significant financial restraints on the council “
Cornwall – LOTE 4 Kids – Storytime in 70+ languages – Cornwall Council. “an online collection of digital children’s books in over 70 languages. It allows children access to picture books that they can enjoy in LOTE – Languages Other Than English. “
Derbyshire – The history of Carnegie Library in Long Eaton in Derbyshire – Derbyshire Life. “With its semi-circular pediment, tall side-panels, mosaiced illustration and words of wisdom, the central bay of Long Eatonâs Library must rank as one of the most original and eye-catching examples of Art Nouveau architecture to be found anywhere.” … “Regardless of this excellent provision, the best asset of the library is the staff, who are knowledgeable, pleasant and more than happy to answer queries.”
Residents to have their say on library service cuts – BBC. “the county council agreed to ask residents for their views on the plans, which would reduce opening hours at all but two of the countyâs 45 libraries, among other proposals. Announcing the cost-cutting plan to cut spending by £625,000 over four years, the council’s leader Barry Lewis pledged no libraries would close âon his watchâ.”
Dorset – A message to library customers affected by the new library software – Dorset Council.
Dudley – Dudley libraries promote summer reading challenge – Express and Star. Marvellous Makers.
Falkirk – Sessions at Falkirk area libraries show how technology can make life better – Falkirk Herald. “the sessions are being hosted by Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership to demonstrate the range of technology, apps, and devices which people can use in their own homes to aid their daily lives and wellbeing.”
Fife – How kids can take part in Reading book challenge | Reading Chronicle – Central Fife Times.
Gloucestershire – Gloucestershire Libraries challenges residents to get active – Forest Review. “The Library Challenge” … “receive a free challenge journal, with nine exciting sports-themed tasks. Stamps can be collected for each completed task and special rewards are available at each level including stickers, certificates and much more.” Multiple page journal.
Hackney – Dalston Library to host monthly drop-in sessions for children and families with questions or concerns around education, mental health or the police – Hackney Council. “Hackneyâs new âCommunity 1 Stopâ is launched by Hackneyâs Improving Outcomes for Black Children and Young People Accountability Board, community charity PERM Inc. and Hackney Libraries. “
Isle of Man – Children encouraged to keep reading during summer – BBC. Marvellous Makers.
Kent – Kent History and Library Centre celebrates Shaun the Sheep coming to Maidstone – Kent Council. “The craft and chat group from Allington Library has risen to the occasion and spent the first part of this year knitting and creating to help raise awareness of the trail for the hospice.”
Kirklees – Kirklees libraries: Thousands oppose library job cuts under revamp plans that include Mirfield Library – Dewsbury Reporter. “Under the plans, which have proved controversial, eight out of Kirkleesâ 24 libraries would be community-run.” … “These proposals have been heavily criticised by the public, community groups, and councillors across the political spectrum.” … “More recently, a 3,120 signature-strong petition has been submitted to Kirklees Council objecting to the plans, which would also result in 47 jobs being axed.”
Lancashire – Celebrating apprenticeship success in Lancashire – CILIP. “Lancashire County Council Cultural Services hosted a celebration event in recognition of their achievements, which covered apprenticeship awards in Library, Archives and Information, management, and leadership and maths amongst other awards.”
Milton Keynes – Free digital services drive half a million visits to Milton Keynes libraries – MK FM. “The city council, which opened MKâs tenth library in 2022, has today confirmed more than half a million visits were made to its libraries in the past 12 months, up by around 70,000 from the previous year”
Norfolk – Applications to take on historic Kingâs Lynn Carnegie library are now open, announces Norfolk County Council – Lynn News. “The building has operated as a library since it opened in 1905, but that era will come to an end in autumn 2025 when its facilities are re-housed in the old town centre Argos premises on New Conduit Street.”
North Somerset – North Somerset libraries creative workshop to design art installation – Weston Mercury.
North Yorkshire – Library seed hub to help residents grow their own – BBC. “Voluntary group Grow is leading the venture at Scarborough Library, encouraging visitors to pick up free seeds when they come in to borrow books. The aim is to help residents grow their own food, flowers and herbs with the help of other library resources and a free online app.”
Nottingham – 2,000 free books up for grabs in Nottingham as we launch Summer Book Giveaway – National Literacy Trust. “Running from Saturday 27 July – Saturday 31 August, 2,000 vouchers will be hidden across the city for children to find and exchange for a free book at their local library. This fun-filled holiday activity aims to get families outdoors and excited about books. Families can take the voucher to their local Nottingham City Library to exchange for one free book per child to take home.”
Nottinghamshire – Newark Library reopens after maintenance and repair work completed – Newark Advertiser. “After a seven month closure for essential maintenance work and repairs following vandalism which saw the building damaged, Newark Library has once again opened its doors today ”
Age-Friendly status for inspiring and inclusive libraries – Marketing Nottingham. “Beeston, Mansfield Central, West Bridgford and Worksop Libraries have been awarded Age-Friendly Standards status in recognition of the physical environment, cultural programme, staff awareness and behaviour, practises, and communications to provide a positive experience for all visitors regardless of age.”
Orkneys – Library book returned more than 47 years late – BBC.
Reading – How kids can take part in Reading book challenge – Reading Chronicle. Marvellous Makers.
Rotherham – Swinton Library and Civic Hall opening – Rotherham Council. “The new library and Civic Hall neighbourhood hub will create a space for families and community groups to come together in a safe, modern environment.”
Rutland – County libraries set for £1m refurbishment – BBC. “Rutland County Council has said it wants to turn its libraries in Oakham, Ketton, Ryhall and Uppingham into community hubs where people will be able to access extra services. The authority said the hubs would continue to house library services but also host health and wellbeing activities, adult learning and social events.” …  Arts Council cash and a UK Shared Prosperity Fund grant to pay for the £950,000 project.
Sandwell – Arts and reading fun at Sandwell Libraries – Sandwell Council. Marvellous Makers. “author events, storytelling, childrenâs theatre, dance performances”. Aardman Animations event.
Somerset – Young readers challenged to become Marvellous Makers – Somerset Council.
Southampton – Author Chris Packham honoured with mural and book collection at library – Southern Daily Echo. “In a venture spearheaded by Friends of Cobbett Road Library, artist Joanna Rose Tidey was commissioned to create a mural for the library.”
South Lanarkshire – Cambuslang Library unveils new opening hours after being saved through community perseverance – Daily Record. “After the Save Our Libraries campaign helped keep the Cambuslang Library going, the library has since announced its new opening hours.” … “The library will be open from Tuesday to Friday every week from 10am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 5pm.” 8500 signature petition.
Suffolk – Suffolk Libraries is back at Latitude for 2024 – Suffolk Libraries. Activities in library tent from 10am-5pm for the three days.
New Ipswich Library project is reaching out to local Romanian community – Suffolk Libraries. “The libraryâs new outreach project has received funding and support from The Europe Challenge which is helping to provide a range of new initiatives and activities. The project will include a Romanian film festival in September and has funded more Romanian language books and resources, and more support for Romanian speakers to encourage them to get a library card and visit the library. Ipswich has around 3,300 Romanian speakers and itâs the second most spoken language in Ipswich.”
Warwickshire – Warwickshire Libraries invites families to enjoy nature, mindfulness, and storytelling at Park Life Reads event – Warwickshire Council. “The aim of the event, which is being delivered in partnership with The Big Local, is to celebrate the power of words and literature in a welcoming community setting. It will also encourage positive attitudes and engagement with nature, mindfulness, and wellbeing.” … “free activities including stop-motion animation, storytelling, a story-tent, lino printing, nature journaling, gardening, and poetry.”
Wirral – Wirral Council considering relocating two libraries – Birkenhead News. ” The options were revealed by council officers as the local authority prepares to draw up options for its budget from 2025 onwards.” … “it has been known since the beginning of 2024 that the council was exploring possible relocation options again which could save £250,000.”
Editorial
One of the joys of working in public libraries these days is the sheer variety of the job. One can be ordering books, delivering training, planning events, organising stock rotations, partnering with different organisations and be in a murder mystery all in one week. That last one stuck out to me last week as I hosted an evening using the excellent free Ann Cleeves scripts (see an example here) to a sold out audience. We do several of these per year and get excellent feedback from them, all using library staff. Back when I started even doing a rhyme-time was a controversial idea which I remember arguments doing. And, amazingly, the Summer Reading Challenge too. Heaven knows what those people that argued against those in the 1990s would think about doing murder mysteries. But we have a problem. We’ve run out of free scripts to do. So, Ann, if you’re reading, could you us another one? You’d get a free invite to the first performance and everything.
The change in government hasn’t notably affected the public library sector yet and any such changes would likely take ages anyway. Everything has inertia, not least this one. But the challenge will be to do anything at all considering that there is a commitment to keeping within a very tight budget. Indeed, even a slightly above inflation increase for public sector workers who, lest we forget, have had a significant pay decrease in terms of spending power since 2010, seems questionable. So we’re not out of the woods yet. But at least the job is fascinating. And there’s always another event to do.
Thanks to everyone who got in touch last week. Please send any news or views to ian librarian at live dot co dot uk. Thanks again.
Changes by local authority
Barnsley – Wombwell Library children’s area refurbished.
Bromley – Central Library to have £15m move due to asbestos.
Derbyshire – £625k cut over four years, average 10% opening hours cuts in 43 out of 45 libraries.
Gloucestershire – Stroud Library reopens in new building.
Kent – Folkestone Library will be moved into old Debenhams.
Oxfordshire – Banbury Library to move.
Powys – Llandrindod Library to be co-located in museum.
Wandsworth – Putney Library £1 million refurbishment of children’s library and new co-working space.
National news
Libraries Across England Ignite Childrenâs Innovation Through Reading Sparks – Reading Agency. “The Reading Agency is working with public libraries in several regions of England to launch innovative activities aimed at engaging children aged 6-11 in creative learning experiences that combine reading, storytelling, coding, and hands-on activities. These efforts are part of Reading Sparks, a programme by The Reading Agency which harnesses the creative power of reading to engage families with STEM activities (science, technology, engineering and maths) and build science confidence. “
London Libraries creates reading app inspired by ‘Couch to 5k’ – BookSeller. “The London Libraries network has developed a âCouch to 5kâ-style reading app, âReadOnâ, including a library map and goal-building features to incentivise reading. Developed by librarians from London Libraries â the cityâs network of the national library charity Libraries Connected â âReadOnâ uses curated recommendations, reading challenges, interactive quizzes and personalised reading plans to gradually make reading a regular part of usersâ lives.” … “The integrated map feature means users can easily find their nearest London library to discover new books and authors, attend literary events and âconnect with fellow book loversâ.”
International news
Australia – The State Library of Victoria controversy shows what can happen when institutions cling to âneutralityâ – The Conversation. Critics of Israel over Gaza were cancelled from doing workshops with little notice. Although State Library’s mission states neutrality, many see this action as bias. “Librarians who critique neutrality argue that when society faces polarisation, misinformation and backlash, alongside efforts to dismantle historical inequities, it becomes clear that libraries cannot be âneutralâ information brokers.”
Librarians have good reasons to âweedâ books from their shelves. Why is book removal so controversial? – Conversation. “as the recent Melbourne example shows, even professional librarians can disagree when difficult choices are made. So what drives those decisions?”
USA – âWe are not getting rid of booksâ: How libraries across Idaho are implementing new materials law – Idaho Capital Sun. “Under the new rules, library staff wonât let kids in unless a parent is present with them at all times, a parent signs paperwork allowing their child to enter only for programming, or a parent waives their rights under the new law and lets their child check out materials without a parent present. âThis change is painful, and not what we had hoped for at all,â library staff wrote in a letter posted on Facebook. “
Local news by authority
Barnsley – Barnsley Libraries participates in the âMarvellous Makersâ Summer Reading Challenge with free activities for families – Barnsley Council. “Storyteller Olivia Corbin-Phillip, artist and ceramicist Evelyn Albrow, and Bollywood dancer Salma Zamann will be delivering sessions across all Barnsley Libraries branches throughout the summer.”
Childrenâs area of the historic Wombwell Library re-opens following a major transformation – Barnsley Council. “The childrenâs area of Wombwell Library, which has been transformed into a local destination for children, families and schools, has re-opened its doors following an exciting refurbishment. The updated space features a sensory story wall, cosy hideaways, bespoke furniture, tiered soft seating and new shelving. All the new additions have been installed whilst preserving the historic character of the building.”
Birmingham – Jack Reacher author calls library cuts ‘dumbest decision’ as Birmingham childhood library at risk – Birmingham Live. ” Child said the action hero would never have materialised if not for a Perry Barr library. Despite Child’s Coventry roots, the author credits Birmingham’s libraries for feeding his mind with literary inspiration that kickstarted his writing career.” … “He insisted libraries like Tower Hill made him the writer he was today.”
Bradford – Book charity founder says library cuts are sad – BBC. “Jan Winter, who set up Canterbury Imagination Library, said: âItâs always sad to see any reduction in library services as access to free books in a safe space is so important to developing a love of reading.”” … “The new government says it has a focus on the importance of Early Years and I hope there might be more funding for young children, including improved access to high quality experiences in their local libraries”
Job losses would severely damage libraries – union – BBC. “The council clearly needs to find ways of saving money, but making redundancies in libraries would severely damage the level of service provided.”
Bromley – South East London council to spend £15m moving library after asbestos found in new site – My London. “Bromley Council has moved forward with a £15 million plan to move its central library after asbestos was found in its future site. The authority opened up a consultation last week with residents to consult on plans to move Bromley Central Library to the former Topshop unit on Bromley High Street, which has reportedly been empty since 2020. The new site is located across the street from the libraryâs current home in a shared building with the Churchill Theatre. Plans for the move were revealed in October last year with council officers claiming a full strip out of the libraryâs current building would be required after asbestos was found in the vacant Topshop unit.”
Buckinghamshire – Plan to reduce library staff hours is âinnovation not cutsâ, says Bucks Council – Bucks Free Press. “Under âLibrary Flexâ, staff hours will be reduced by 25-30 per cent with a potential âheadcount reductionâ of 18-20 full time equivalent members of staff. Alongside the staff reduction, self-serve kiosks for book borrowing and printing will be installed, and community groups encouraged to use libraries when there are no staff on site.” … “The council says its plan will increase the hours of access by 50 per cent, saving £555,000 per year.” … council said vulnerable groups were being consulted. Council said eBooks now existed.
Library cuts: People may ‘struggle’ with self-service – Bucks Free Press. “Bucks councillor Robin Stuchbury has raised concerns that the councilâs increased reliance on self-service kiosks in libraries would affect vulnerable residents.”
Bury – Radcliffe library to stay in current building while itâs converted into enterprise centre – Manchester Evening News. “As part of the £40 million Radcliffe regeneration project, the existing library building in Stand Lane will be turned into an enterprise centre to support businesses. Construction is due to start in the next two months and cannot be delayed, because the £1.2 million secured from the government, complemented by £455,000 from the council, must be fully spent by March 2025.” … “decided that the best and least disruptive solution would be stay at its current site and move the library to the first floor of the building.”
It seems that Cardiff Council are preparing to hand part responsibility for Cardiffâs hub and library service over to volunteers. Cardiff Council are running a trial where trained volunteers work on shifts to deliver key library and hub services including serving customers, using the internal catalogue system and running story times for children. There are concerns that a volunteer dependent service will not be able to deliver the same service to Cardiff residents.
Paid employees who have training and experience bring professionalism, knowledge and consistency to their roles. These things are essential to an effective and inclusive library and hub service. Another concern is that library and hubs will become more exclusive in terms of staffing as people from lower income backgrounds and BAME people who are more likely to come from lower income backgrounds cannot afford to volunteer. Libraries and hubs, it is suggested, will become members clubs for retired professionals. While wanting to help the service continue âin the face of budget cutsâ some volunteers themselves have said they do not want to be âjob blockersâ, that is filling what should be a paid role and so preventing younger people from getting the opportunity to join the service and so ensure its future.
More simply, residents comment that Cardiff people deserve a dependable, professional library and hub service … The most recent development in this story is this trial using âprofessionalâ volunteers, who will be expected to take part responsibility for delivering library and hub services. It will be interesting to see what the outcomes of this trial will be for our hubs and libraries.”
Cardiff – email received
Cambridgeshire – Mobile libraries playing important role 60 years on – BBC. “bookworms living in the internet age still engaged with the mobile library.”. Mobile library is “hugely valued here and always lovely to see the engagement with people of all ages â especially young children.” see also Cambridgeshire mobile libraries 60th year celebration – Hunts Post.
Cheshire East – Cheshire East to consult on plan which could see library hours slashed – Knutsford Guardian. “The environment and communities committee voted by seven to six yesterday (Thursday) in favour of going to public consultation.” see also Council leader resigns over bankruptcy risk report – BBC.
Bollington: Residents fight library cut proposals at council meeting – Knutsford Guardian. “Angry Bollington residents protesting against any proposed cuts to their library service told councillors it is âmore than just a public bookshelfâ.” … “What is proposed today further degrades provision for a planned, sustainable, properly funded library service for all”
Wilmslow Library awarded community grant for Lego Discovery day – Wilmslow.co.uk. “The Wilmslow Town Council grant will be used to fund a Lego Discovery day, provided by Lego Education specialists, enabling 120 participants plus their families to take part. The grant will also fund four additional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and Craft events, run by Wilmslow Library staff.”
“If we do enter S114 then there won’t be any discussion – libraries will just close straight away.â”
Congleton councillor Heather Seddon (Lab)
Darlington – Turn the page for summer fun with Darlington Libraries – Darlington Council. Not Marvellous Makers. “To take part, simply borrow books from Darlington or Cockerton Library and you can enter a maximum of once per day into a free prize draw to win a host of prizes, including: Playstation 5 and game, SimFly family flight experience, Lego set, Cluedini escape room experience, Sim King gaming party, family match day tickets for Darlington FC, family pantomime tickets for Darlington Hippodrome and The Majestic, GiGiâs soft play vouchers, Jellycat Octopus, baby sensory box, Sculpd Kids craft kits, Minions Operation game.”
Derbyshire – Library changes as council looks to balance books – BBC. “the leader of Derbyshire County Council, Barry Lewis, has pledged that none of its 45 libraries will shut âon his watchâ.” … ” it is proposed opening hours at all but two of the countyâs libraries will be reduced and the authority will explore opportunities to share buildings with other services to cut costs.” … “A public consultation into the four-year plan to make the required £625,000 savings will be held if the draft plans are given the go-ahead on Thursday.”
Devon – Libraries across Devon celebrate 100 years of free reading – Exeter Council. History of Devon’s public libraries over the last century.
Gateshead – Whickham volunteers celebrate importance of local libraries on anniversary – Chronicle. “Whickham Volunteer Library Association (WVLA) celebrated the seventh year of operation on Wednesday” … “A group of around 50 residents volunteered to help out” when the council announced it would be closed.
Gloucestershire – New library in Stroud formally opened – Stroud News. “new location at the Five Valleys Shopping Centre” … “According to the county council, it welcomed around 750 customers on the opening day. Meanwhile, in the period from April 2024 to June 2024 it has welcomed 35,778 visitors and 815 new members have joined. The site includes access to a range of resources such as micro computing kits, 3D printers, scanners and software, Virtual Reality sets and a laser cutter.”
Guernsey – Guernsey library launches summer reading challenge – BBC. Marvellous Makers. “The library is working with reading volunteers from local charity Bright Beginnings to provide a “friendly face to meet and greet children, talk to them about the stories theyâve read over the holidays and listen to them read”.”
Havering – Save our libraries. School children unite in a desperate bid to save their much loved library. – Havering Daily. “Mr Fryd and his pupils from Harold Wood Primary School, yesterday 15 July, gathered outside of the library alongside parents, protesters and the three local councillors who had organised the event.”
Hull – Hull rapper Chiedu Oraka to perform library gig – BBC. “âIt is a great example of how Hull Central Library is becoming a major player in the cityâs events space and I have no doubt that this will attract people from Hull and beyond.”
Kent – Plans revealed to move library into former town centre Debenhams in Folkestone – Kent Online. “A former town centre Debenhams store could become home to a library, new plans reveal. Residents in Folkestone have called for the return of their library after the building in Grace Hill was âtemporarily closedâ in 2022 due to safety concerns.” … “Chiefs at KCC say after âexploring all optionsâ they can not finance the renovation of the Grace Hill site.”
“Deepings Community Library is still going strong (indeed is still the most successful community library in Lincolnshire) and last year we had a record 450 young readers who finished the SRC. This included the mini challenge and a home grown Teen Challenge, too. However, we have a serious problem of funding for the SRC. Lincolnshire will only fund the materials to run it for its ‘core’ libraries, i.e. the ones still run by the county. It will not fund it for the Community Libraries, nor will the Reading Agency let us have a library discount. This means that, this year, the SRC has cost us £800 – a considerable amount for a largely self-funding library to find. We have some support from local sponsors, and our schools have donated £50 each this year, but there is still a large shortfall. Several Community Libraries in Lincolnshire have given up the SRC as a result. We are committed to continuing it here at Deeping, because the families and schools value it so much, but it is not going to get any easier unless the Reading Agency and/or the county start treating Community Libraries fairly. ”
Lincolnshire – Email received.
Manchester – Lifelong library visitors celebrate 90th anniversary at Manchester Central Library – Manchester Council. “My mother said we should go to Manchester Central Libraryâs opening to see King George V and I remember the crowds, the waving flags and people shouting, âGod Save the King!â”
Middlesbrough – Central Library modernisation takes step forward – Middlesbrough Council. “The £2m redevelopment will see captivating spaces created where children can read, play and explore. The major works at the Grade II listed building will also protect the unique features of the reference library. Work to clear the library started in January, with further surveys and other preparations taking place in the meantime.”
Norfolk – Get creative with the Summer Reading Challenge at Norfolk libraries – Norfolk Council. Marvellous Makers. Events.
North Lincolnshire – Get ready for Wonderful Wednesdays all through the summer – North Lincolnshire Council. “Each week has a different theme, and starts off with a free breakfast at Scunthorpe Central library between 9.30am and 11am with the Breakfast and Books session, where you can join in with the Summer Reading Challenge â Marvellous Makers.”
North Northamptonshire – GP surgeries and public services hit by IT outage – BBC. “Council services such as libraries, social care and country parks were also disrupted.”
North Somerset – North Somerset mobile library vehicle âtaken off the road’ – Weston Mercury. “The vehicle has been taken off the road permanently due to the discovery of a defect with the chassis. But North Somerset Libraries said they secured more than £309k in funding through the Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF), administered by Arts Council England, to purchase a new electric library outreach vehicle.”
Orkney – 8 Key Pieces of Social Media Marketing Advice From a Library Marketer Who Works at One of Scotlandâs Oldest Public Libraries – Super Library Marketing.
Oxfordshire – Town’s library set to move to former Wilko shop – BBC. “Banbury Library is currently based in a Grade II listed building in Marlborough Road, external and was used by almost 79,000 people in 2023/24. But Oxfordshire County Council, which rents the building, said it is had spent £100,000 on “reactive maintenance” in four years, and bringing it up to scratch could cost more than £2m. It said a unit in Bridge Street, which had been disused since Wilko closed last September, would be more suitable.”
Powys – Council library to move to museum building – Powys Council. “Llandrindod Library is to move a short distance and into the same building as Radnorshire Museum, Powys County Council has announced. The move will follow the same model of service delivery adopted in Brecon, Llanidloes and Welshpool where both museum and library share space, resources and staffing.”
Reading – Get Creative – Reading Libraries Popular Summer Reading Challenge Returns – Reading Council. Marvellous Makers.
Town’s library building put up for sale – BBC. “A town-centre library has officially been put on the market amid plans to move services to another building. Estate agents have put Reading Central Library up for sale for an unspecified amount of money. It has been suggested the building on Kings Road could be transformed into 46 new flats.” … “An “improved” library will instead be built in a three-storey extension to the borough council’s offices on Bridge Street.”
Wandsworth – 125 years of Putney Library celebrated with £1million refurbishment – Wandsworth Council. “bright, refurbished childrenâs library, a new Start-Up Wandsworth co-working space”
Warwickshire – Children invited to get involved in âMarvellous Makersâ Summer Reading Challenge at Warwickshire Libraries – Warwickshire Council. “including interactive âMyths and Masksâ storytelling sessions with Pyn Stockman, and more music and craft activities.”
Westmorland and Furness – Ulverston town council slams ‘breakneck speed’ of library plans – North West Mail. Town councillor says ” âThe consultation that you presented finishes on August 23 and we feel that is too short a period for such an important decision.” … “âThe mood in Ulverston is that decisions have been taken without a wide debate on what the public would speak up for.”
Wiltshire – ‘Disorderly behaviour’ cited for library bans – BBC. “there were 14 incidents since 2021, which escalated in people being excluded from the countyâs libraries. Of these incidents, 10 involved disorderly behaviour, where the offender was intoxicated and abusive. There were also four accounts of “inappropriate” behaviour, including one case of harassment.”
Wirral – Wirral libraries team up with park rangers to deliver summer festival – Wirral Globe. “Green Bibliofest will see libraries across the borough transformed into event and theatre spaces, with workshops and live performances on the themes of climate, nature and sustainability, taking centre stage.”
Worcestershire – Worcestershire libraries can help parents get their children ‘school ready’ over the summer – Bromsgrove Standard. “Engaging Storytime sessions introduce children to the joy of reading, enhance their listening skills, and ignite their imaginations. These interactive sessions are designed to develop early literacy skills in a fun and welcoming environment.” plus selected book-stock. “Special Get School Ready Bookbags “
Editorial
Two annual library events have got me thinking this week. The first is the Summer Reading Challenge. By far the most popular promotion that any public library normally puts on, the Challenge is aimed at those in primary school, created by the Reading Agency and voluntarily bought into, or not, by library services. The format of it has not seriously changed since its introduction a quarter of a century ago. Probably the biggest change many have noted in that time is the replacement of the shiny “gold-looking” metal medal by a more environmentally friendly wooden one. Some library services, though, have got bored with this medal, sorry, model, or can no longer afford buying into it, or feel very independent, leading to some individual council designs, ranging from sub-SRC knock-offs to some genuinely impressive examples that must have taken a considerable amount of staff time and funding. This causes a problem because the more that go it alone then the more expensive it is for everyone else due to economies of scale. And more may go it alone in response. A vicious circle. So, something that was a great example of a national promotion is quite literally in danger of losing its shine. Which would be a tragedy.
Something else that happens nationally is the CILIP Conference, which was on this week. The vast majority of those working in public libraries, including many managers, may not have been aware of this at all. The cost of attending is prohibitive – several hundred per day – so only few can attend and the sessions themselves are not recorded or shared outside of the lucky few who can attend. This is not to decry the event. Like the Summer Reading Challenge, I strongly support the idea of bringing library workers together and have been in the privileged position myself of attending more than a few. I find them very useful and it’s a great way of getting people learning about what is going on nationally (other than reading Public Libraries News of course, naturally). But there is now something demonstrably improvable, at least for the public library contingent, about a conference that now attracts only a handful from that sub-sector and has little impact other than for the tiny handful of public librarians who can attend. And I hope it is fixed.
Do you agree on this, got suggestions or want to comment about something else? If so, lease email your views to me at ianlibrarian at live dot co dot uk. Thank you.
Changes by local authority
Bradford: Proposed £175k (15%) cut to include no printed newspapers, cuts to staff.
Bromley: Bromley Central Library may move to larger new site.
Cheshire East: £600k cut over next 2 years inc. opening hours cuts.
Lancashire – Briercliffe Library may reopen in museum.
Stockport – Staffing replaced by staff-less technology.
National news
Librarians told to challenge âparadigm of whitenessâ in Welsh Labour anti-racism plan – Telegraph. Welsh Government has “provided funding that aims to âeradicateâ systemic racism in libraries by training staff in âanti-racist principlesâ.” CILIP Wales “secured government funding for a project titled Anti-racist Library Collections, which will seek to transform libraries by rolling out new training for staff.” … explaining “âdecolonising libraries is essentialâ, and suggests âprioritising the acquisition of materials authored by ethnic minority peopleâ.”
Our libraries are on borrowed time – Prospect. Richard Ovenden. “we urgently need the incoming government to place a long overdue focus on libraries, and to develop a supporting national strategy, bringing together all of the library ecosystem, including public, school, national, university and specialist libraries. Libraries are a key part of the infrastructure of democracy: in Ukraine, libraries are being deliberately attacked by Russian forcesâhere we are effectively attacking our own provision through severe cuts to funding.”
International news
USA – New rule restricts whatâs allowed on shelves in SC public libraries – WIS 10. “The temporary law written into the state budget, called a proviso, requires county libraries to certify to the State Library that their childrenâs section does not contain any books or materials that appeal to the prurient interest â defined in state code as âa shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion and is reflective of an arousal of lewd and lascivious desires and thoughtsâ â of kids under 13.”
Local news by authority
Barnet – Creative health projects to improve wellbeing are coming to Barnet libraries – Barnet Council. ACE funding.
Barnsley – Mapplewell and Staincross Library re-opens its doors following refurbishment – Mapplesworth Council. Council and “Shared Prosperity Fund” grant.
Bath and North East Somerset – 100 years of Bath Central Library: A historic celebration – Journal.
Bedford – âMarvellous Makersâ announced as the theme for this yearâs Bedford Borough Libraries reading challenge – Bedford Independent. “When children join, they will receive a bookmark with spaces for eighteen stamps, which they will receive each time they return a book theyâve read to a library.” Medal when read eighteen books.
Birmingham – Primary school pupils bemoan proposed library losses – BBC. School protest. “Kate Taylor, organiser of campaign group Brum Rise Up, called on the new Labour-led government to make more money available to local authorities.”
Bradford – Opening hours of Bradford’s libraries could be cut by 15% – Ilkley Gazette. Councils says “likely to have a significant impact on staff contracted hours and could result in the risk of redundancies.”. Donation boxes considered. No printed newspapers. Proposed £175k cut.
Bradford Libraries launch Summer Reading Challenge – Ilkley Chat. Marvellous Makers. “Watch out for the National Literacy Trust yellow Stories Bus where library staff will be offering a treasure hunt, free book and encouraging families to sign up in the Bradford City Centre Library.” 8 page brochure of events.
Brighton and Hove – Sparking childrenâs creativity with Summer Reading Challenge – Brighton and Hove Council. Marvellous Makers.
Bromley – Have your say on Bromley Library’s major move to former Topshop premises – News Shopper. “Bromley Council is seeking feedback to refine plans for the relocation, which was announced in October 2023. The new location will be the site of the former Topshop store on the High Street. The larger site will not only accommodate the library’s existing resources but also make room for enhancements such as a childrenâs section and modern study areas.”
Buckinghamshire – Have your say on future of Bucks Libraries – Bucks Radio.
Cheshire East – Cheshire East library proposals to be discussed – Cheshire East Council. Proposed 3 tiers: Tier 1 (Congleton, Crewe, Macclesfield, Nantwich and Wilmslow) to become hubs inc. council, health, banking. Tier 2 (Alsager, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Middlewich, Poynton and Sandbach) to have some hours changes Tier 3 (Alderley Edge, Bollington, Disley and Handforth) to have council support 1.5 days per week. Other organisations/councils being approached to support Tier 3 sites at other times. If approved by committee on 18 July, changes will go to public consultation.
Children protest against closure of ‘vital’ Cheshire libraries – Cheshire Live.
Pro-Bollington Library campaigners set to show up to Cheshire East Council Meeting – Macclesfield Nub News. “Nigel Macartney told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that even though closure no longer seems to be on the cards, he is still incensed by what is proposed.” and says “”The general public in Bollington will be very, very disappointed that the library is still being shut on all days, apart from one and a half”
Could Nantwich Library be privatised under CEC plans? – Nantwich News. “another proposal could see some libraries privatised â although there is no explanation as to how this would work.”
East Sussex – The volunteer-run library thatâs securing a future for reading in Hastings – Sussex World. “The cherished local library is celebrating a recently approved 20-year lease, ensuring it remains a community cornerstone for years to come.” It was going to be closed in 2018 but volunteers stepped in. “With the help of an initial grant from North East Hastings Big Local, matched by a local housing association, a total of £15,000 was raised to save the library.”
Havering – âIf you cut our libraries you cut our communitiesâ- Residents and trade unions unite in the battle to save our libraries from closures. – Havering Daily. “The protest was organised by the Trade Union Council who gathered many of its members to join in the battle to save these libraries from closing.” Now, “With more than 1,000 members and a collection of over 6,000 book titles, the library offers a range of services, including a book club and story time sessions for children under five.”
Kirklees – Kirklees Libraries launch exciting reading programme to boost literacy in children – Huddersfield Hub. “The Library Adventures programme is aimed at children aged four to 11 who can pick up an Adventure Pack from their local library at any time during the year and start their journey through a series of exciting themes â Animal Planet, Magical Lands, Oceans, Rainforests, Space Explorer and Spooky.”
Lancashire – Historic mill could become library’s new home – BBC. “The former Briercliffe Library has remained shut since 2016, when it was closed down at the same time as the nearby Queen Street Mill museum.”
Leicester – Museums and libraries bring free fun to your doorstep for summer holidays – Leicester Council. Marvellous Makers. Robot, crafts.
Manchester – The Summer Reading Challenge spotlights Marvellous Makers – Manchester Council. “lucky draw prizes of packed goody bags to be given away across 22 libraries and just one fortunate winner will be selected for the largest draw of all with a £100 voucher up to spend.”
Norfolk – Norfolk library staff facing increased anti-social behaviour – Dereham Times.
North Northamptonshire – Library closed until further notice after fire – BBC. “Oundle Library in Northamptonshire was evacuated when the fire was discovered at 10:30 BST. The fire service said gas and electricity supplies were turned off and the flames were put out shortly afterwards. All staff and customers left the building safely”
Library hosts 50th celebrations after election delay – BBC. Wellingborough. “It will host performances from local choirs, craft stalls and information from community groups.”
Summer Reading Challenge 2024 – Marvellous Makers making its way to you from your local library – North Northamptonshire Council. Marvellous Makers. Art competition.
North Yorkshire – North Yorkshire libraries prepare for summer reading challenge – Hambleton Today. Marvellous Makers. Events.
Nottingham – Faced With Library Closures, Council Launches Consultation – Left Lion. “Now faced with budget cuts of nearly 40%, four local libraries find themselves on the chopping block – Aspley, Basford, Bilborough, and Radford-Lenton.”
Sandwell – Live at the Library â Sandwell Arts Festival 2024 – Sandwell Council. “There will be music, comedy, author and childrenâs author talks, poetry, local history, dance workshops, theatre, family shows, childrenâs holiday activities and even juggling”
Slough – Challenge encourages children to read over summer – BBC. Marvellous Makers.
South Gloucestershire – Children in South Gloucestershire invited to join the Summer Reading Challenge 2024 – South Gloucestershire Newsroom. Marvellous Makers. Crafts and puppetry events.
Stockport – ‘It’s going to affect thousands’: Stockport library cuts ‘deeply concerning’ – Manchester Evening News. “Signs appeared on libraries in the borough in June advertising the new timetable – part of the ongoing roll out of the Open+ unstaffed library hours.” … “According to a sign at Reddish library, staff will not be around after 4pm on Monday and Tuesday, after 6pm on Wednesday, and after 2pm on Saturday. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday are unstaffed all day.
Suffolk – Suffolk Libraries offers Fit for Work wellbeing days to local businesses – Suffolk Libraries. “Fit for Work is offering Suffolk-based small and medium sized businesses meeting room space in some of the countyâs libraries for staff wellbeing events and away-days. As part of this, Suffolk Libraries will provide a free physical activity session and resources to support your staffâs wellbeing “
Surrey – Surrey Libraries Rise to the Summer Reading Challenge for 2024 – Surrey News. Marvellous Makers. Launch events. Events include “origami sessions, badge making opportunities and in partnership with Surrey Arts weâll be hosting free âcome and tryâ music workshops. “
Warwickshire – Join Stockingford and Lillington libraries this Saturday to enjoy free Summer Reading Challenge launch events – Warwickshire Council. Marvellous Makers. Free creative art packs.
Westmorland and Furness – Libraries encourage children to take part in Summer Reading Challenge – Westmorland and Furness Council. Marvellous Makers. ” a prize draw for a Kindle e-reader generously donated by The Cumberland Building Society”. Events.
Public consultation on future of town’s library – BBC. “A consultation has been launched asking for feedback on proposals which range from the full refurbishment of the Kingâs Road library building to “do nothing”.”
West Northamptonshire – West Northants libraries launch Summer Reading Challenge 2024 – West Northamptonshire Council. Marvellous Makers. “vibrant array of arts and crafts themed events for children over the Summer from ballet workshops, wind chime making, magic shows, decoupage, slime …” Art competition.
Wiltshire – Accessing ‘inappropriate websites’ among reasons for bans from Wiltshire libraries – Wiltshire Times. 14 bans: 10 due to disorderliness (inc. drunk, abuse), 1 harassment.
Reliable health information and signposting to activities and support available at your local library – Wiltshire Council. Health information highlighted for a month.
Editorial
Wow, so that was a quite a victory for Labour. With such a majority, they have five years now to do what they can before the next election and, given the volatility of the electorate, the possibility of another change in government. There are huge challenges for Labour, including a distinct lack of money and economic weakness, and promises about not increasing taxation made pre-election. This will make it very difficult for them to follow the impulse, more natural to them than the Conservatives, to send money the way of local government and libraries. But it needs to be done. Local councils are on the verge of bankruptcy and public libraries have not had significant investment since, well, the last Labour Government. Hopefully, the capacity of libraries to do all sorts of things all over the country, not least boosting literacy, at cheap prices, means that the needed investment will be made. We can hope so. And perhaps the easiest low-cost maximum-impact way to start would be to find a way of removing late fees for all public libraries. Now that would be fine.
And then we have the problem of staff-less libraries. Back in the old days, a library was staffed by paid human beings. Since that Golden Age, increasing numbers of paid staff have been replaced by either volunteers or by technology, in terms of the ever expanding number of PIN-entry libraries. This lack of labour in libraries removes that chance of social interaction, and of unbiased expert help, that is one of the key selling points of the sector. It was done initially, mainly in other countries, as a way of expanding opening hours but, being the budget for UK libraries is what it is, is increasingly be done here to replace costly human beings. This has led to the Guardian writing an article called “The end of the librarian?” which is worth looking at. I’ve also collated information on the staff-less phenomenon here. If there’s still any human beings out there who wants to look.
National news
End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink – Guardian. “officials in some local authorities are proposing that libraries can be operated at times without any professional librarians, relying on self-service technology, smartcards for entry and CCTV.”. A look at Buckinghamshire and Croydon.
Libraries give us power. The next government must trust libraries to continue delivering for communities – Big Issue. CILIP CEO article. The public trusts libraries and that can be used.
Libraries should be at the heart of public life – Financial Times. Richard Ovenden. “The British public library system marks two important anniversaries this year. One hundred and seventy five years ago a debate was held in parliament which led to the Public Libraries Act of 1850, giving local authorities the ability to establish free public libraries through a modest increase in local taxation. Sixty years ago the Public Libraries and Museums Act of 1964 upgraded that law to made it a requirement for local authorities to provide the service.” … “In this anniversary year, it is a tragic irony that the system is now facing one of the most severe challenges in its history.” … “One solution? A distinct Minister for Libraries. A new ministerial brief could help highlight the contribution made by libraries across different areas of the governmentâs agenda.”
International news
Ireland – Turning over a new leaf – Irish Examiner. “GIY and Libraries Ireland have come together in a novel food and literacy education programme, beginning in Waterford but with the ambition to see the initiative evolve across Ireland, creating food-growing communities wherever there is a library to be found. Growing your own food is of course a positive climate action and also fosters food empathy and promotes sustainability, so along with the free seeds and information packs, the library will provide the know-how including online videos in this attempt to find a whole new audience for the superlative efforts of GIY. ” See LibraryLeaf.
USA – Placer County libraries extend hours to provide relief from excessive heat – Yubanet. California.
ALA 2024: Librarians Rally for the Right to Read – Publishers Weekly. “Freedom to read tops the list of librariansâ priorities, and the American Library Associationâs 2024 conference emphasized the existential threats posed by book bans and the populist undermining of public institutions and trust.”
A Reader Asked for My Ultimate Top Ten Tips for the Most Effective Library Marketing Possible: Hereâs the List – Super Library Marketing. Send emails, post only once a day on social media, put a bookmark into every reserved book, short script for staff to say about every event/promotion, talk to one community group per month, review your social media metrics monthly, plan calendar for 6-12 months ahead, speak to staff meetings about marketing, professional media releases, blog, 20 minutes per week to learn.
Local news by authority
Birmingham – Library cuts will devastate people in Birmingham, say campaigners – Rayo. “Proposed cuts to library services in Birmingham could be devastating for the city and increase inequalities, according to a libraries campaign group. Birmingham Loves Libraries has written an open letter to Birmingham City councillors, demanding all cuts to be paused.”
Blackburn with Darwen – Thousands ‘inspired’ by Childrenâs Literature Festival – Lancashire Telegraph. 6th Children’s Literature Festival. Christina Gabbitas: “âI would like to thank all the staff in Blackburn with Darwen Libraries for their amazing support, and all who have helped fund the festival; Darwen Rotary, Lloyds Trust, Darwen Town Council, and Spot On Lancashire.”
Bridgend – Awen Launches First Countywide Adult Reading Challenge – Awen Cultural Trust. “Free âbingo sheetsâ can be collected from Awen Libraries and prizes* will be awarded after 7, 14 and 21 books have been read.” Prizes while stocks last.
Buckinghamshire – Bucks Council slammed for library cuts set to dramatically reduce staffing – Bucks Herald. “Kari Dorme, aged in her late 70s, warned that new cost-cutting measures, including the roll-out of self-service technology, would further erode the vital function the countyâs libraries play in society. The former branch and area librarian for Beaconsfield and High Wycombe said: âThese cuts will, in time, kill off the whole ethos and character of what library work is about.â” Staffless opening.
Croydon – Croydon locals rally to save Shirley Library from closure – Sutton and Croydon Guardian. “Residents have called for Croydon Council to reconsider plans to close Shirley Library, claiming it would receive more footfall if it was open more often. This comes following the news that the council could be closing three other libraries due to a poor post-Covid slump in visitation as well as the overall costs of running all 13 libraries in the borough.” 1800 signature petition.
‘Our Croydon library is on 5 London bus routes so increase its opening hours instead of closing it’ – MyLondon.
Dorset – Libraries to help keep children’s minds active over summer holidays – Dorset Echo. Marvellous Makers. Minimal offering.
New library hours come into force across county – BBC. “There has been some backlash to the new hours, with hundreds of people signing a petition urging the council to reverse the changes in Swanage, where Saturday opening hours will be cut from six-and-a-half to three.”
Essex – Former library goes up for sale for £2.6m – BBC. “Delaware House, in Shoebury, Essex was previously home to a library on the first floor and a blood test clinic on the ground floor alongside a nursery. However, it has remained empty for several years.”
Hackney – Innovative art programme to transform libraries into cultural hubs with training for artists – Hackney Council. “Art at Heart was developed in response to feedback from around 8,500 Hackney residents, and residents expressing that one of their top desires is for libraries to become dynamic centres for creativity. This summer, the project will train early-career artists through paid residencies in libraries across Hackney, collaborating closely with local community groups. ” ACE funded.
Havering – Summer Reading Challenge – Havering Council. Marvellous Makers. Minimal offering.
Hertfordshire – Children invited to free reading Challenge at libraries this summer – In Your Area. Marvellous Makers. 20,000 took part in 2023.
Kent – Children challenged to become âMarvellous Makersâ in KCC Libraries summer reading challenge – Kent Council. Free events plus publicity video.
Leicestershire – Challenge encourages children to read over summer – BBC. Marvellous Makers. “Children taking part in the challenge can also receive free entry to Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, as well as the 1620s House and Garden at Donington le Heath.”
New play project at libraries rolled out – BBC. “Sixteen libraries are now hosting the Pop-in Play Library project, run by not-for-profit organisation Boromi, with the original pilot funded by a Leicestershire County Council grant.”
Lincolnshire – Multi-sensory room opened at Cleethorpes Library – BBC. “Equipment in the room include an astronaut star projector, sensory fidget tubes, a weighted blanket and a white noise machine.” Can be hired.
Norfolk – Breathing Space with Xenia Horne at Norfolk libraries as bereavement cafes are being put on – Lynn News. “The bereavement cafes are part of a Norfolk Libraries project called Know Your Neighbourhood and this particular event is in conjunction with Creative Arts East”
Oldham – Itâs time for stories to come alive – Oldham Council. Storyfest with various author events. and Marvellous Makers.
Oxfordshire – Children encouraged to get creative at Oxfordshire libraries this summer – Oxfordshire Council. Marvellous Makers. Minimal offering.
Renfrewshire – Paisley Central Library wins silver at design awards – Gazette. “The new building is housed in a former High Street shop and is spread over four floors and has a reception area, children’s library, and storytelling area with a play structure that includes a climbing wall and slide which are co-designed with Scottish artist Claire Barclay.”
Rotherham – Rotherham Libraries and Neighbourhood Hubs participate in the “Marvellous Makers” Summer Reading Challenge – Rotherham Council. Set a personal reading goal, rather than 6 books. “a celebration ceremony will take place on Sunday 20 October at Magna Science and Adventure Centre.”
Sheffield – A decade ago, over half of Sheffieldâs libraries lost their staff. Against the odds, theyâve thrived – Sheffield Tribune. Behind subscription paywall.
Stockport – Stockport library cuts âdeeply concerningâ – Stockport Nub News. Staff-less opening. “Stockport council was asked for a full breakdown of the new staffed hours and how this has changed for each library, but it has not provided one, citing restrictions due to the pre-election period.”
Suffolk – New cancer and wellbeing books donated to Suffolk Libraries by SmartestEnergy – Suffolk Libraries. £2,000 donation by energy company.
LinkedIn Learning â a new free service for library users in Suffolk – Suffolk Libraries. “LinkedIn Learning is a collection of over 16,000 online courses in business, computer technology, software and creative skills, all conducted by experts in their fields.”
Reading Quest starts soon – sign up from 13 July – Suffolk Libraries. In-house SRC. “Children will be encouraged to take part in activities and experiences across the summer rather than read an expected number of books. These âquestsâ will range from âreading under the covers with a torchâ to âchoosing a recipe book and âmaking something together as a familyâ.” Nursing agency Advantage Angels is sponsoring £20k over 2 years for this.
Suffolk Libraries can help you get ready for school – Suffolk Libraries. “The bags contain handy information booklets that cover all the skills that children need to be ready to start school such as developing speech, using the toilet and wearing school uniform.”
Torfaen – Torfaen’s Summer Reading Challenge kicks off in libraries – South Wales Argus. Marvellous Makers. “Aside from the reading incentives, a £100 Smyths Toy Store gift voucher will be awarded to one lucky participant selected in a prize draw at the end of the challenge.”
Walsall – Marvellous Makers – Summer Reading Challenge 2024 – Walsall Council. Minimal offering.
West Dunbartonshire – West Dunbartonshire libraries unveil summer activity plans – Clydebank Post. See here for events, mainly crafts and story-times.
Editorial
By the look of the opinion polls, Public Libraries News will be reporting, for the first time it its 14 year history, soon on what impact a government without any Conservatives in it is having on public libraries. You already know the impact that the Conservatives have had. What will happen is unclear. Last general election, Labour’s manifesto was full of promises for public services including a likely bonanza for public libraries but it was all kind of moot because Labour stood no chance of being elected. This time around, everyone is more certain of Labour being elected than any other time I can remember in my 53 years, but there is not a single mention of libraries in their manifesto. So it’s unlikely to be a bonanza.
But I will most definitely vote. I read somewhere that a general election is better thought of as voting for a bus and not a marriage partner. You’re not voting for someone who you completely love and want to spend the rest of your life with. You’re voting for the one that gets you nearer to your desired destination. Which is why I will be voting for the party for that will take me closer to what is desired, rather than the one which most agrees with my beliefs (which stands no chance of being elected here). Because we live in a country with the first-past-the-post system and not proportional representation. Any other vote other than the one for a party likely to win is therefore, in this harsh winner-takes-all world, a wasted vote. It may make you feel better and principled and that’s great, do what you will. But for me, 14 years of Conservative Prime Ministers has taught me pragmatism. Public libraries need a vote. And not voting, or voting for someone with no chance of getting in, is not going to help anyone. So vote to make a real difference if you can. And heaven knows, many people think we need that.
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Changes by local authority
Wolverhampton – £61m restoration of main library.
National news
CILIP highlights impact of libraries as part of Libraries Change Lives Week – BookSeller. “CILIP, the library and information association, has unveiled more than 150 stories that reveal the life-changing impact libraries have on their users as part of Libraries Change Lives Week across the UK”
If thereâs nowhere else to go, this is where they comeâ: how Britainâs libraries provide much more than books – Guardian. Crafts sessions, help with council queries, computers, problems with opening hours, quiz, loans of items like footballs,
“The average public library is not only a provider of the latest Anne Enright or Julia Donaldson: it is now an informal citizens advice bureau, a business development centre, a community centre and a mental health provider. It is an unofficial Sure Start centre, a homelessness shelter, a literacy and foreign language-learning centre, a calm space where tutors can help struggling kids, an asylum support provider, a citizenship and driving theory test centre, and a place to sit still all day and stare at the wall, if that is what you need to do, without anyone expecting you to buy anything … The trouble comes when libraries â and the underpaid, overstretched people who work in them â start to become sole providers for all these things”
Libraries are a lifeline that we cannot afford to lose – Guardian / Letters. North Yorkshire Libraries volunteer regrets that library could close without volunteering. Reminiscences and positive thoughts about the library. Folkstone Library has been closed for 18 months as council cannot afford to repair it. “They fill the many gaps left by the state, yet they are constantly under threat of closure.”
Travelling printer to cycle to libraries across UK – Bristol 247. “A Bristol artisan is currently planning his latest adventure that will see him cycle his custom-made printing bike from library to library across Britain making bespoke bookmarks along the way.”. Crowdfunder.
International news
Gulf – As Gulf countries continue to grow, they need more public libraries – National News / Opinion. “in 2022, the five Gulf countries for which data is available all had less than 0.5 public libraries per 100,000 people, as compared to more than five public libraries per 100,000 in the UK and US.”
USA – NYC public libraries have their funding restored, will reopen on Sundays – CNN. $11m. Initial cut due to flat funding and rising costs. Reverse of decision due to public unhappiness.
No computers. Keep books. Seattle library network outage nears a month – Seattle Times. “The library and its 27 branches continue to struggle through a ransomware attack that has disabled its networks, rendered its hundreds of public computers useless and turned its normal operations upside down.”
The Quiet Crisis Facing U.S. Public Libraries – Publishers Weekly. Written by Tim Coates. “The latest IMLS data show library visits are half what they were a decade agoâwhere is the response from library leaders?”. Author sure that reduction in books is to blame. “The data suggests that the shrinking gate counts is largely coming from existing users visiting libraries less often, rather than a falling number of people using libraries at all. There is no evidence to suggest that peopleâs need or desire for libraries has waned.” … ” the U.K. stands as a cautionary tale, where library funding has been slashed by more than 50% [sic – ed.] over the past decade, and a third of the U.K.âs public libraries have now closed.”
Urban Public Libraries in the 1980s: Evolving Library Services for an Information Society – Public Library Quarterly. ” As the U.S. shifted from an industrial society of large workplaces linking whole communities toward an âinformation societyâ with a more heterogenous workforce divided by educational attainment, urban public library workforces, target audiences, collections, and programming both adapted to and mirrored these changes.”
Local news by authority
Barnsley – Barnsley Libraries announces this yearâs âLibrary Latesâ public programme – Barnsley Council. “Sessions delivered by a range of local artists will include writing workshops, open mic nights, ceramics and figure drawing, and many more.”
Birmingham – Campaigners urge pause in library closure plans – BBC. “Birmingham Loves Libraries has published an open letter, which said: âOur libraries are lifelines and we cannot afford to lose them.â It has asked for public interest and value-for-money assessments to be carried out.”
Birmingham Loves Libraries – Webpages bringing together all Birmingham library campaign groups. “To cut costs, Birmingham City Council is proposing a mixed delivery model that will mean closing libraries, cutting staffing levels, transferring library services to other non-Council owned locations, and creating an unspecified number of âhubâ libraries. Birmingham Loves Libraries believes our community libraries should remain open, public, and run by trained library staff as part of an effective city-wide library service for generations to come.” See The Unofficial Guide to the BCC Libraries Consultation.
Final phase of libraries consultation to take place later this summer – Birmingham Council. “The Birmingham libraries consultation has been taking place since 4th April and is currently running until 17th July. The consultation so far has included an online survey, online consultation sessions, in-person consultations and targeted engagement.” … “The final phase will run from the end of August to Friday 27th September and consist of a new online Be Heard survey and in-person consultation sessions taking place in each library from Monday 2nd September through to Thursday 26th September 2024.”
Brighton and Hove – People banned from Brighton libraries for drug use and other reasons – Argus. “42 people were barred from libraries in Brighton and Hove between April 2023 and June 2024.” Theft, drugs, sleeping, abuse, assault. And one for what is mysteriously described as “inappropriate use of library card”.
Caerphilly – Annual Summer Reading Challenge returns for 2024 – Caerphilly Council. Reading Agency.
Ceredigion – Aberaeron to hold public meeting over library future – Cambrian News. “A public meeting is to be held following âanger and disbeliefâ at a ânonsensicalâ proposal to move Aberaeronâs library to county hall, Penmorfa.” Council is short of money and library is expensive compared to a co-location. Local businesses fear closure will mean footfall will dramatically fall.
Cheshire West and Chester – Chester libraries re-launch reading challenge for adults – Standard. Read two books to have chance of winning £50 book voucher. “A similar book voucher prize will also be awarded for 13 to 17-year-olds.” … “From August 1, book enthusiasts can join the #BooketList, a compilation of 30 favourite books as selected by the Libraries team.”.
âMarvellous Makersâ in this yearâs Summer Reading Challenge – Dee Radio. Reading Agency. Events include “animal handling to digital crafts, dance and science,”
Cornwall – One Week To Go: Cornwall Librariesâ Summer Reading Challenge 2024 – Cornish Stuff. Reading Agency. “After reading your first two books, visit the library to share your reading experience with a volunteer and receive your first prize.”
Dorset – New opening hours for Dorset libraries on Monday July 1 – Dorset Echo. “Weekly staff hours have seen only a minimal change, at 630 hours instead of 631, and all previous services, information and support will continue to be available.” More flexible staffing.
Hackney – Free summer fun and prizes for children in the Great Hackney Libraries Quest – Hackney Council. Locally produced, in connect with relaunch of local carnival. Stamps for various library activities. “Players will receive bronze, silver or gold certificates and badges depending on the number of stamps collected, and be entered into a prize draw to win book tokens.”
Kent – Libraries and household waste recycling centres âface the axeâ as Kent County Council hunts for £81m savings – Kent Online. “The leader of the county’s largest local authority has sought to quell fears tips and libraries are set to be axed to save money. Kent County Council leader Cllr Roger Gough has no intention of closing the facilities despite needing to find £81m to fill the budget gap in 2025-26.”
Leicester – Join in a summer of fun at Leicester Libraries – Leicester Council. Reading Agency Summer Reading Challenge until 15 September. Adults reading six books could win £30 worth of books.
Leicestershire – Libraries set for Summer Reading Challenge – Leicestershire Council. Reading Agency. “Children taking part in the challenge can also receive free entry to Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, as well as the 1620âs House and Garden at Donington le Heath. ”
New play project at libraries rolled out – BBC. “Sixteen libraries are now hosting the Pop-in Play Library project, run by not-for-profit organisation Boromi, with the original pilot funded by a Leicestershire County Council grant.” … “The play bags are borrowed and used in libraries, but people cannot take them home, hence the “pop-in” name.”
Manchester – Be part of ‘Manchester Central Library at 90’ events this summer – Manchester Council. “Library staff are asking for help in finding Mancunians born in the city, 90 years ago or earlier, or who are also celebrating their 90th birthdays in July and are able to attend this unique event, to get in touch with the library. Staff will send a special invite to a
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Christopher Eccleston Character: Claude Rains Gender: Male Date of Birth: February 16, 1964 Place of Birth: Lancashire, England
Eccleston was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1964 and was raised in a working class family. He was head boy at Joesph Eastham's High School. Even then he had a love of Granada and BBC1 television. He did have ambitions to play for his favourite football team, Manchester United; however, he later discovered he was a better actor than football player. He plays Claude Rains in Heroes
Acting Career[]
Ecclestion first appeared to the public eye in Let Him Have It, where he played the role of Derek Bentley. He became a recognizable figure due to the regular role he had in television series Cracker. His fame was further improved when Our Friends in the North was transmitted to BBC Two.
In 2005 Eccleston played the 9th Doctor for one season on the popular British Sci-Fi show "Doctor Who."
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Christopher Eccleston (IPA: /krɪstɒfɜr ˈɛklstən/, born 16 February 1964) is an award-winning English stage, film and television actor. He is well-known for his roles in such high-profile films as Shallow Grave, Elizabeth and 28 Days Later, and in 2005 became the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Eccleston was born in Little Hulton, near Salford, then Lancashire now Greater Manchester, and raised in a working class family. He was head boy at Joseph Eastham's High School, Hilton Lane, Little Hulton[citation needed] with a love of Granada and BBC1 television and an ambition 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, and was inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff. Eccleston trained at the 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.
Career: 1991-2005[]
Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It. However, it was a regular role in the television series Cracker (1993–94) that made him a recognizable figure in the UK. At around the same time he appeared in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle 1994 film Shallow Grave, in which he co-starred with up-and-coming actor Ewan McGregor. The same year, he won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, whose broadcast on BBC Two in 1996 helped make him a household name in the UK. Eccleston would share the screen in the show with Daniel Craig, the sixth and current actor to play James Bond.
His film career has since taken off with a variety of high-profile but not — except in one or two cases — major roles, including parts in Jude (1996) (where he shared a scene with David Tennant, his successor as the Doctor in Doctor Who), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and another Danny Boyle film, the horror movie 28 Days Later (2002). He played a major role as the protagonist of Alex Cox's 2002 Revengers Tragedy, adapted from Thomas Middleton's play of the same name. He has starred alongside two major Hollywood actresses in smaller independent films, appearing opposite Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Cameron Diaz in The Invisible Circus (2001). Despite starring in the car-heist movie Gone in 60 Seconds, he did not actually take his driving test until January 2004 and is only licenced to drive automatic transmission cars.
He has appeared in a variety of television roles, racking up credits in British television dramas of recent years. These have included Hearts and Minds (1995) for Channel 4, Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), a modern version of Othello (2002), playing 'Ben Jago', (the Iago character) and the religious telefantasy epic The Second Coming (2003) for ITV, in which he played Steve Baxter, the son of God. He also finds time for the occasional light-hearted role, however, as his guest appearances in episodes of the comedy drama Linda Green (2001) and macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002) have shown. On stage, his highest-profile production has been his starring role in Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2002. The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a favorite venue of his, and he most recently returned there in the new play Electricity, which ran in March and April 2004.
Eccleston has been twice nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards, the UK's premier television awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North, when he lost out to Nigel Hawthorne (for The Fragile Heart), and he was nominated again in 2004 for The Second Coming, this time being beaten by Bill Nighy (for State of Play). He did, however, 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. He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in Flesh and Blood.
In July 2004 a poll of industry experts, conducted by Radio Times magazine, voted Eccleston the 19th Most Powerful Person in Television Drama.
Career since 2005[]
On October 30, 2005, Eccleston appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Navin Chowdhry, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. Eccleston sat on the 2nd Amazonas International Film Festival Film Jury in November 2005. The director Norman Jewison was chairman of the Jury.
In December 2005, Eccleston traveled to Indonesia's Aceh province for the BBC Breakfast news programme, examining how survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami were rebuilding their lives. In May 2006, Eccleston appeared as the narrator in a production of Romeo and Juliet at The Lowry theatre in his home city of Salford. The theatre company with which he performed, Celebrity Pig (of which he is patron), is made up of learning disabled actors.
In August 2006, Eccleston filmed New Orleans, Mon Amour with Elisabeth Moss. The film was directed by Michael Almereyda, and shot in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, it is currently in post-production and scheduled for a 2008 release. Late in 2006 he starred in Perfect Parents, an ITV drama written and directed by Joe Ahearne, who had directed him in Doctor Who. Eccleston joined the cast of the NBC TV series Heroes in the episode Godsend, which was broadcast on January 22, 2007. Eccleston played a character named Claude who has the power of invisibility, and helps Peter Petrelli with his powers.
Eccleston appeared as The Rider in a film adaptation of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, which opened in the U.S. on October 5, 2007.
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It’s 25 years since Christopher Eccleston first came to public notice playing the doomed real life figure of Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, and in that time the Salford-born actor has given us some of the most memorable, anguished and conflicted characters to have graced the stage and screen over the past two decades.
In Shallow Grave (1994) he played the mild-mannered flatmate of Ewan McGregor and Kerry Fox, driven to paranoid psychosis by murderous greed. His BAFTA-nominated performance as the idealistic Nicky in Our Friends In The North (1996) stole the show from under the noses of a ridiculously talented ensemble cast, while no one who saw the same year’s TV drama Hillsborough can ever forget his distinguished, heartbreaking portrayal of Trevor Hicks, a grief-stricken father tirelessly campaigning for justice. Other notable roles include the glum DCI Bilborough in Cracker, the son of God in The Second Coming, Hamlet at Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse and an acerbic John Lennon in Lennon Naked. Even his regrettably short run in Doctor Who saw him imbue the centuries-old Time Lord with a previously unseen depth, searing intensity and spikey vehemence.
“The period I grew up in, you didn’t feel artistic pursuits were what people like us did.”
“I’ve not exactly been Tommy Cooper, have I?” semi-jokes the 53 year old, over the phone from his London home. “I always seem to have been cast as conflicted men, but then conflicted men and women are a staple of drama. Without conflict there is no drama. I remember reading Far From The Madding Crowd when I was 17 and on the first page Thomas Hardy describes Gabriel Oak as a mixture of salt and pepper: ‘On a good day he was a good man. And on a bad day he was a bad man.’ And that’s certainly how I see myself and how I see the rest of humanity. Dennis Potter said: ‘We’re all half ape and half angel.’ And the greatest writers always address that – the contradictions and tensions within individuals – and I really enjoy playing that.”
It should come as no surprise then that the tragic hero character of Oedipus, the mythical Greek king of Thebes, is one that Eccleston has always wanted to play. “He’s the ultimate outsider,” states the actor, who stars in a powerful BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Sophocles’ classic text broadcast later this month. “He sleeps with his mother and kills his father and then rips his eyes out. I don’t think you can get anymore primal than that. You’re going to the very extremes of human experience, so technically and emotionally to portray that is the biggest challenge of them all.”
The drama, which also stars Don Warrington as Creon and Fiona Shaw as the blind prophet Tiresias, carried extra appeal for the actor as the script was written by Anthony Burgess, the Harpurhey-born author of A Clockwork Orange. Eccleston first came across his work as an impressionable teenager growing up in Little Hulton, a fiercely working class part of Salford, and immediately found a deep “personal connection” with the novelist and playwright.
“The period that I grew up in, you didn’t in any way feel artistic pursuits were what people like us did. And then you come across a figure in the 1970s who’s being lionised for A Clockwork Orange and you realise he’s from around the corner. That’s a big attraction when you’re starved of the arts or feel that you’re not entitled. It’s the whole thing of: ‘What? He comes from round here and he can do that. Maybe I can too,’” recalls Eccleston, who remembers regularly travelling across Manchester as a teenager to sell jeans and cords on Harpurhey Market.
Burgess’s writing resonated with him due to its distinctive rhythms and inventive vocabulary. “I think that’s partly to do with the fact that we both grew up with the same working class dialect and use of language around us, which is quite percussive. It’s language used like a blade or a weapon.”
When delivered through Eccleston’s pursed lips, those words gain added intensity, with Burgess’s adaptation of Oedipus – written for a 1974 American theatre production and never before performed in the UK – still relevant today due to its timeless themes of identity and family. “We all have a mother and a father. They are the first gods in our lives, whether they be present or absent, loving or abusive. So it’s always going to resonate.”
Eccleston was born in 1964, the youngest of three brothers to Elsie and Ron. The couple met when they were workers at the Colgate-Palmolive factory in Salford and Eccleston describes his childhood as a blissfully happy time. Upon announcing that he was going to study acting at Salford Tech, his parents bought him the complete works of Shakespeare by way of encouragement. When he played the title role in Michael Winterbottom’s 1996 film of Hardy’s novel Jude, his parents watched it at a cinema in Bolton with his father proudly telling the other people there: “That’s my lad.”
“My dad has been an enormous influence. Enormous,” says Eccleston, who drew on elements of his father’s personality when playing the comically tactless Maurice Scott in The A Word, last year’s acclaimed BBC drama series about a dysfunctional family adapting to life with an autistic son. Eccleston, who has two young children, Albert and Esme, says the public response has been overwhelming.
“I’ve had so many people come up to me and speak emotionally about it. [Writer] Peter Bowker was absolutely brilliant because he never soapboxed and he never preached. Autism is just a fact of life and families have to normalise their children’s autism and I think The A Word did that.”
A second series begins filming later this year, with Eccleston reprising his role as Maurice.
“When I was growing up, my belief was that art was politics and politics was art. Yes, it has to be varied and it has to be entertaining, but also there has to be substance. Art, in my eyes, has always been about the voice of the disenfranchised and the outsiders. It’s not some exclusive executive prawn sandwich brigade operation. Art is vital and urgent and it’s about questioning society.”
Not that Eccleston is above occasionally taking well paid parts in mass market fare that has absolutely nothing intelligent to say. Just watch Thor: The Dark World, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra or Gone In 60 Seconds, all of which feature the actor, in you’re in any doubt.
“I have gone in there and whored myself with the best of them and given some of the worst performances of my life in Hollywood. Made some money and sold out completely,” he admits.
The vast majority of his acting life has, however, “been ran on my heart, sometimes to my career detriment”, he states, adding: “If I died tomorrow nobody could ever take away from me that I was in Hillsborough, which is the most important piece of work that I have ever done and that I imagine I will ever do.”
Last year, two decades after Hillsborough was first broadcast, provoking questions in Parliament, a jury ruled that the 96 football fans who died in the tragedy were unlawfully killed, exonerating the Liverpool fans blamed for the disaster. How did Eccleston – who struck up a friendship with campaigner Trevor Hicks through making the drama and was best man at his second wedding – react when he heard the verdicts?
“It’s very, very mixed for me. Obviously, I’m delighted that this country and its public services, the judicial system and the police, are now finally admitting – not just for those families, but for the sake of society – that they lied. But I’m aware that once this is all done and Trevor and Jenni and the rest of the families get justice, their children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers will not be there. And their indescribable, unimaginable grief at the time was compounded by lies that came straight from Thatcher’s mouth. What they went through at that time was sickening.”
The summer vote for Brexit is dismissed with equal contempt. “Little fucking Englanders again, aren’t we? Enoch [Powell] would be delighted,” he rages, while acknowledging some of the reasons why people, especially from poor and working class backgrounds, voted for Brexit.
“It was an ageing vote and in this country, if you’re elderly you’re invisible. So I can understand the anger and the bitterness and the years of abuse for the working classes, which started in 1979 and never ceased. Unfortunately, those people are creating a world for their grandchildren and children that they’re not going to live in for a great amount of time, but Albert and Esme are going to have to live in it.”
Equally troubling for Eccleston is the lack of opportunities for working class voices in the arts. He has long spoken passionately about the issue, echoing the concerns of fellow thespians David Morrissey, Julie Walters and Judi Dench. “This government is saying ‘We don’t want working class kids from council estates turning into actors or artists or poets’ because we’re a threat, so they make it financially out of our reach.
“Undoubtedly, film and television and theatre is a middle class industry. I come from a working class background and I will never lose the notion that I’m breaking in, that I’m sneaking around the house looking for the money. But the great thing about culture is that it absorbs people like me and I always feel now, whenever I go onto a film or television set, or to a lesser extent the theatre, that I belong there – that my voice is resonant and valid.”
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Order of the Bath
Dames Commander of the Order of the Bath
Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine ROMEO
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
James Alan HARRA CB
Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Peter Hugh Gordon SCHOFIELD CB
Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions. For Public Service
(Redhill, Surrey)
Order of the British Empire
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Alison Margaret BARONESS WOLF OF DULWICH CBE (Professor Alison Wolf)
Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, King’s College London. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Karen BUCK
Lately Member of Parliament for Westminster North. For Parliamentary and Political Service
(London, Greater London)
Tracey Karima EMIN CBE
Artist. For services to Art
(London, Greater London)
Ffion Llywelyn HAGUE
For Public Service and to Business
(Welshpool, Powys)
Rebecca HARRIS
Lately Comptroller and Member of Parliament for Castle Point. For Political and Public Service
(Essex)
Anya HINDMARCH CBE
Designer. For services to Fashion and to Business
(London, Greater London)
Julia Anne HOGGETT
Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange. For services to Business and to Finance
(London, Greater London)
Professor Karen Margaret HOLFORD CBE FREng
Chief Executive and Vice Chancellor, Cranfield University. For services to Engineering
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
Clare Kelly MARCHANT
Lately Chief Executive, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. For services to Higher Education
(Malvern, Worcestershire)
Dervilla Mary MITCHELL CBE
Lately Deputy Chair, Arup Group. For services to Engineering
(London, Greater London)
Professor Judith Irene PETTS CBE
Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth. For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability
(Seaton, Devon)
Hannah Mary ROTHSCHILD CBE
For services to Philanthropy in the Arts, Culture and Charity Sectors
(London, Greater London)
Jasvinder Kaur SANGHERA CBE
Founder, Karma Nirvana and Human Rights Campaigner. For services to the Victims of Child, Forced Marriage and Honour-Based Abuse
(North Yorkshire)
Professor Janice Debra SIGSWORTH CBE
Chief Nurse, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. For services to Nursing
(Eastbourne, East Sussex)
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette STAUNTON CBE
Actress. For services to Drama and to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Dr Helen Mary STEPHENSON CBE
Chief Executive Officer, Charity Commission for England and Wales. For services to Charity and to Regulation
(London, Greater London)
Evelyn May TAYLOR OBE
Founder, Eve Taylor (London) Ltd. For services to Business
(Peterborough, Cambridgeshire)
Professor Moira Katherine Brigid WHYTE OBE
Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh. For services to Medical Research
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Knights Bachelor
Knighthoods
Alan BATES
Founder, Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. For services to Justice
(Colwyn Bay, Clwyd)
Robert Frederick BEHRENS CBE
Lately Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman UK. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Wayne DAVID
Lately Member of Parliament for Caerphilly and Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa. For Parliamentary and Political Service
(Gwent)
Richard Philip DOUGLAS CB
Chair, NHS South East London Integrated Care Board. For services to the NHS
(Rainham, Kent)
Dr Niall Campbell FERGUSON
Historian and Author. For services to Literature
(Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan)
Richard Cecil GREENHALGH
Chair, United Learning Multi-Academy Trust. For services to Education
(Kingston upon Thames, Surrey)
Professor Tony KOUZARIDES FMedSci FRS
Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Cambridge. For services to Healthcare Innovation and Delivery
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Nicholas Stephen Leland LYONS DL
Lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to the Financial Sector, to the Growth Economy and to Financial Literacy
(Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk)
Andrew David MARSH QPM
Chief Executive, College of Policing. For services to Policing
(Somerset)
Professor Wayne MCGREGOR CBE
Choreographer. For services to Dance
(London, Greater London)
Dr John Milford RUTTER CBE
Composer. For services to Music
(Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire)
Professor James Ferguson SKEA CBE FRSE
Emeritus Professor, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and International Institute for Environment and Development. For services to Climate Science
(London, Greater London)
Mark Edward TUCKER
Chair, HSBC. For services to the Economy
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Roger William WRIGHT CBE
Chief Executive, Britten Pears Arts. For services to Music
(Halesworth, Suffolk)
Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of the Bath
David Alan EVANS
Director General and General Counsel, Legal Group, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to the Government Legal Profession, to Tax and to Diversity
(London, Greater London)
Elizabeth HAMBLEY
Lately Director General Legal, Government Legal Department. For services to the Law
(London, Greater London)
Elizabeth Claire HONER
Lately Chief Executive, Government Internal Audit Agency. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Simon Patrick MCKINNON CBE
Lately Director General, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Digital Technology
(Shenfield, Essex)
Chloe SQUIRES
Director General, Homeland Security Group, Home Office. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Jennifer Grace STEVENS (Jenny Dibden)
Director, Intervention Delivery, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. For Public Service
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Order of the British Empire
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Dawn Elizabeth AIREY
Chair, National Youth Theatre. For services to Theatre and to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Monica ALI
Writer. For services to Literature
(London, Greater London)
Robert Ernest BAILIE OBE
For services to the Economy and to Opera in Northern Ireland
(Coleraine, County Londonderry)
Andrew Alleyne BERRY
Principal and Chief Executive Officer, Bridgwater and Taunton College, Somerset. For services to Further Education
(Street, Somerset)
Christopher Miles BOARDMAN MBE
Commissioner, Active Travel England. For services to Active Travel
(Wirral, Merseyside)
Elizabeth BRAMALL
Philanthropist and Co-Founder, The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation. For services to Charity
(Harrogate, North Yorkshire)
John David BURNS
Lately Chief Executive Officer and Chair, Derwent London plc. For services to Property, to Investment and to Development
(London, Greater London)
Nica BURNS OBE
Theatre Producer and Theatre Owner. For services to Theatre
(London, Greater London)
Charles BYRNE
Lately Director General, The Royal British Legion. For services to Veterans
(Worcester, Worcestershire)
Graham Andrew CHIPCHASE
Chief Executive Officer, Brambles. For services to Sustainable Business
(Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Professor Peter John CLARKSON FREng
Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director, Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge. For services to Engineering and Design
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Sarah Ann CONNOLLY
Lately Director, Security and Online Harms, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. For services to Online Safety
(Hertfordshire)
Kirstine Ann COOPER
Lately General Counsel and Company Secretary, Aviva. For services to Business and to the Dormant Assets Scheme
(Sevenoaks, Kent)
Dr Juliette Jo COX (Jo Saxton)
Lately Chief Regulator, Ofqual. For services to Education
(Canterbury, Kent)
Jennifer DALY
Chief Executive, Taylor Wimpey. For services to Business and to the Housing Sector
(Northwich, Cheshire)
Mark Peter Louden DOWIE
Chief Executive, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For services to Maritime Safety
(Kingsbridge, Devon)
Asisat Arinola EDEH
Principal and Head of Service, Westminster Adult Education Service. For services to Adult Education
(London, Greater London)
Claire ENDERS
Founder, Enders Analysis. For services to Media
(Cupar, Fife)
Judith FINLAY
Lately Executive Director, Adults, Children and Public Health Services, Ealing Council. For services to Children and Families
(London, Greater London)
Professor Peter FONAGY OBE
Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. For services to Mental Health Care for Children and Young People
(London, Greater London)
Robert Crawford Banks FORMAN MBE
Lately Chairman, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. For Political Service
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Richard Quentin FULLER
Lately Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire. For Political and Public Service
(Bedfordshire)
Norman Cecil FULTON
Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For services to Agriculture in Northern Ireland
(Ballymena, County Antrim)
Ian GATT
Chief Executive, Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association. For services to the Fishing Industry
(Inverurie, Aberdeenshire)
Alison Jane GOWMAN
Alderman Canon, City of London. For Public and Voluntary Services and Sustainability
(London, Greater London)
Professor Peter Moir GUTHRIE OBE FREng
Vice President and Trustee, Royal Academy of Engineering. For services to Engineering
(Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Adam HADLEY
Founder and Director, Tech Against Terrorism. For services to Tackling Terrorist Content Online
(London, Greater London)
Professor Freddie Charles HAMDY FMedSci
Nuffield Professor of Surgery and Head, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford. For services to Surgical and Cancer Sciences
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Suzanne Elizabeth, LADY HEYWOOD OF WHITEHALL
Chief Operating Officer, Exor, Chair, CNH and Chair, Iveco. For services to Business Leadership
(London, Greater London)
Stephen Dominic HICKS
Chair, The Trussell Trust. For services to Charity
(Westbury, Wiltshire)
Bronagh Anne HINDS
Co-Founder, Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition. For services to Peace and Promoting Women’s Rights
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Professor Christine Elizabeth HOLT FRS FMedSci
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. For services to Neuroscience
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Emily Victoria HOLZHAUSEN OBE
Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK. For services to Unpaid Carers
(London, Greater London)
Professor Paul John Arton HOWARTH FREng
Chief Executive Officer, National Nuclear Laboratory. For services to the Energy Sector
(Crewe, Cheshire)
Armando Giovanni IANNUCCI OBE
Writer, Director and Producer. For services to Film and Television
(Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire)
Professor John Thomas Sirr IRVINE
Professor of Chemistry, University of St Andrews. For services to the Green Economy
(Anstruther, Fife)
Professor Michael Donald McCartney IZZA
Lately Chief Executive, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. For services to Accounting, Audit and to Sustainability
(Amersham, Buckinghamshire)
Greg Sean JACKSON
Chief Executive Officer, Octopus Energy. For services to the Energy Industry
(London, Greater London)
Dr Jeffrey Daniel Dominic JAMES
Chief Executive Officer and Keeper of the Public Record, The National Archives. For services to Archives and the Public Record
(Bedford, Bedfordshire)
Alex Michael JENNINGS
Actor. For services to Drama
(London, Greater London)
Alan JOPE
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Unilever. For services to Business
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Brian Anthony Charles KINGHAM
Founder and Chairman, Reliance Security Group. For services to Business, to the Economy and to Charity
(Marlborough, Wiltshire)
Nicholas Peter Collingwood MAUGHAN
Founder, The Nick Maughan Foundation. For services to Philanthropy
(London, Greater London)
Professor Patrick Henry MAXWELL FMedSci
Regius Professor of Physic and Head of School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. For services to Medical Research
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Gregor Anthony MCGILL
Lately Director of Legal Services, Crown Prosecution Service. For services to Law and Order
(London, Greater London)
Professor David Krishna MENON FMedSci
Head of Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge. For services to Neurocritical Care
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Professor Rachel Ann MILLS
Senior Vice President (Academic), King’s College London. For services to Marine Science
(Southampton, Hampshire)
Dr Ann Wilson MOULDS
Founder, Trustee and lately Chief Executive Officer, Action Against Stalking. For services to Victims of Stalking
(Ayrshire and Arran)
Jonathan Paul MOULTON
Founder and Investor, Jon Moulton Charitable Trust. For Charitable Service
(Abroad)
Peter Carl MUCKLOW
Lately Director for Apprenticeships, Department for Education. For services to Education
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Jonathan NANCEKIVELL-SMITH
Director, Strategic Finance, Ministry of Justice. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Roy NOBLE OBE DL
For services to Welsh Culture and Language and to the community in Wales
(Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan)
Michael Aslan NORTON OBE
Founder and Trustee, Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action. For services to Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in the UK and Abroad
(London, Greater London)
Professor Washington Yotto OCHIENG FREng
Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems, Imperial College London. For services to Global Positioning and Navigation Systems
(Wokingham, Berkshire)
Professor Okechukwu Emmanuel OGBONNA
Professor of Management and Organisation, Cardiff University. For services to People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds and Anti-Racism
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
Marc Russell OWEN OBE
Director, UK Visas and Immigration, Home Office. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Paul Morton Alistair PHILLIPS-DAVIES
Chief Executive, SSE plc. For services to the Energy Industry and Net Zero
(London, Greater London)
Elizabeth Mary Alice PITMAN (Elizabeth Noel)
Lately Non-Executive Board Member and Government Reviewer, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For services to Government
(Cirencester, Gloucestershire)
Julia Elizabeth PRESCOT
Deputy Chair, National Infrastructure Commission. For Public Service
(Horsham, West Sussex)
Asif RANGOONWALA
Chair, Rangoonwala Foundation. For services to Charity and to Philanthropy
(London, Greater London)
Professor Barbara Jacquelyn SAHAKIAN FBA FMedSci
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge. For services to Research in Human Cognitive Processes
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Professor Laura Maria SERRANT OBE
Lately Regional Head, Nursing and Midwifery, Workforce Training and Education Directorate, NHS England North East and Yorkshire. For services to Nursing
(Retford, Nottinghamshire)
Dipesh Jayantilal SHAH OBE
Lately Chair, National Highways. For services to Transport
(London, Greater London)
Martin Leslie SIM
Lately Deputy Further Education Commissioner. For services to Further Education
(Warrington, Cheshire)
Barbara Jane SLATER OBE
Director, BBC Sport. For services to Sports Broadcasting
(London, Greater London)
Professor Terence Kenneth SMITH
Director, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews. For services to Disease Research
(Perth, Perth and Kinross)
Graeme James SOUNESS
For services to Association Football and to Charity
(Poole, Dorset)
Dr Fiona Margaret SPENCER
Advisory Director, Infrastructure and Project Authority, Cabinet Office. For Public Service
(St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Iain Aitken STEWART
Lately Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South and Chair, Transport Select Committee. For Political and Public Service.
(Buckinghamshire)
Dr Alexander John STURGIS
Director, Ashmolean Museum and Art Historian. For services to Culture
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Dr Paul Warwick THOMPSON
Vice-Chancellor, Royal College of Art. For services to the Arts
(London, Greater London)
Simon Patrick TIPPING
For Parliamentary and Political Service
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Jacqueline TOOGOOD
Lately Deputy Director People, Air Command, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence Personnel
(Amersham, Buckinghamshire)
Professor Elizabeth Tulip TREASURE
Lately Vice-Chancellor, Aberystwyth University. For services to Higher Education and to the community in Aberystwyth and Ceredigion
(Penarth, South Glamorgan)
Professor Elizabeth Emma VARGA
Director, Infrastructure Systems Institute. For services to Critical Infrastructure
(Northampton, Northamptonshire)
Dr Alison VINCENT FREng
Non-Executive Director, Synectics plc, SEI Investments Ltd and Connected Places Catapult. For services to Engineering and Technology
(Southampton, Hampshire)
Professor Ian Alexander WALMSLEY FRS
Provost, Imperial College London. For services to Science and to Quantum Technologies
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Professor Jonathan Norden WEBER
Lately Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. For services to Global Medical Science
(London, Greater London)
Duncan Anthony WEBSTER OBE JP
National Leadership Magistrate and Chair, Magistrates’ Leadership Executive. For services to Justice
(Pickering, North Yorkshire)
Matthew Crispin Hurst WESTERMAN
Lately Chair, Imperial War Museums. For services to Museums and to Cultural Heritage
(London, Greater London)
Professor Ian Hugh WHITE
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Bath. For services to Higher Education and to Engineering
(Corsham, Wiltshire)
Lesley Margaret WILD
Lately Chair, Bettys and Taylors. For services to Business and Trade
(Harrogate, North Yorkshire)
Robert Stanley Lawrence WOODWARD
Chair of the Board, Met Office. For services to Public Sector Development
(Maybole, Ayrshire and Arran)
David John Grey WRIGHT
Director, UK Safer Internet Centre. For services to the Safety of Children and Young People
(Chippenham, Wiltshire)
Alan YENTOB
Broadcaster and Television Executive. For services to the Arts and Media
(London, Greater London)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Trudi ABADI BEM
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(London, Greater London)
Tabassum Rizwan AHMAD
Chief Executive Officer, EmployAbility. For services to Inclusive Access to Employment for Neurodivergent and Disabled Young People
(London, Greater London)
Andrea Isabel ALBUTT
Lately President, Prison Governors Association. For services to HM Prison and Probation Service
(Swansea, West Glamorgan)
Douglas George ALLAN
Cameraman and Marine Conservationist. For services to the Broadcast Media and to the Promotion of Environmental Awareness
(Bristol, City of Bristol)
Richard ALLCROFT
President, World Wheelchair Rugby. For services to Wheelchair Rugby
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Jeremy Michael ALLEN
Deputy Director, Energy Infrastructure Group, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. For services to Energy Consumers and Energy Security
(London, Greater London)
Amira AMZOUR
Deputy Director, Environment Bill, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For services to Environmental Legislation
(London, Greater London)
Richard William ANGELL
Chief Executive Officer, Terrence Higgins Trust. For services to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Anthony Francis ARBOUR JP
Lately London Assembly Member. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Shalni ARORA
Founder Trustee, Belong and Founder, Savannah Wisdom Charitable Foundation. For services to Charity and to Philanthropy
(Manchester, Greater Manchester)
Dr Adam Robert BAKER
Head, Fusion Policy, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. For services to Fusion Energy
(Basildon, Essex)
Thalia Marietta BALDWIN
Lately Director, Geospatial Commission. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Andrew Stephen BARBER
For services to the community in East Yorkshire
(Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire)
Wayne BARNES
Referee. For services to Rugby Union
(London, Greater London)
Daniela BARONE-SOARES
Chief Executive Officer, Snowball Impact Investments. For services to Business and to Impact Investing
(London, Greater London)
Jonathan BARTROP
Team Leader, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence
(London, Greater London)
Katherine Ann BAVINGTON
Finance Business Partner, Weapons Operating Centre, Defence Equipment and Support. For services to Defence Procurement
(Pontypool, Gwent)
Susan Jane BENT
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Central England Law Centre. For services to the Law and to Vulnerable Citizens
(Leamington Spa, Warwickshire)
Christopher Thomas BERRIDGE
Managing Director, Paneltex. For services to Business, to Exports and to the Environment
(York, North Yorkshire)
Dr Barry Quentin BLACKWELL
Head, UK Building Information Modelling and National Digital Twin Programmes, Department for Business and Trade. For services to Technology Development and to the Construction Sector
(Tunbridge Wells, Kent)
Alexandra Helen BOLTON
Director, Climate Governance Initiative. For services to the Built and Natural Environment
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Professor Jamshed BOMANJI
Head, Clinical Department, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS and to Global Nuclear Medicine
(London, Greater London)
Philippa Ann BONAY
Director, Operations, Office for National Statistics. For Public and Charitable Services
(Sherborne, Somerset)
Dr Helen Elizabeth BONWICK
Chair, Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. For services to Palliative Care
(Wirral, Merseyside)
Professor Tracy Joanne BORMAN
Chief Executive Officer, Heritage Education Trust and Joint Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces. For services to Heritage
(London, Greater London)
Professor Joanna BOURKE FBA
Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London. For services to the Social Sciences
(London, Greater London)
Kieron John BOYLE
Chief Executive Officer, Impact Investing Institute. For services to Impact Investment and Impact Economy
(London, Greater London)
Carol BOYS
Chief Executive Officer, Down’s Syndrome Association. For services to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and to Research
(Newton Abbot, Devon)
Edward George BRACHER
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Riding for the Disabled Association and Founder and Chair, Equine Assisted Services Partnership. For services to Disabled People
(Warwick, Warwickshire)
Karen Elaine BRAMWELL
Chief Executive Officer, Forward As One Church of England Multi-Academy Trust, Bolton. For services to Education
(Bolton, Greater Manchester)
Dr Yvonne Klara BRAUN
Director of Policy, Long Term Savings, Health and Protection, Association of British Insurers. For services to the Pensions Industry and to Socio-Economic Diversity
(St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Dr Joanne BRAY
Deputy Director, Automotive Unit, Department for Business and Trade. For services to the Automotive Industry
(Epsom, Surrey)
John Myles Milton BRIGHT
Costume Designer. For services to Costume Design and to Heritage
(London, Greater London)
Paul Gregory BRINKWORTH
Case Controller, Serious Fraud Office. For services to Justice
(Hertfordshire)
Joanne Susan BROADWOOD
Chief Executive Officer, Leap Confronting Conflict and Member, Advisory Board and lately Chief Executive Officer, Belong, The Cohesion and Integration Network. For services to Social Cohesion
(London, Greater London)
Penelope BROCKMAN
Finance Director, Mountain Rescue England and Wales, and Chair and lately Team Leader, Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team. For services to Mountain Rescue
(Caerphilly, Gwent)
Darren Andrew BROWN
Honorary Clinical Academic Physiotherapist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS and to People Living with HIV and AIDS, and People with Long Covid
(London, Greater London)
Dr Jenny BROWN FRSE
Literary Agent. For services to Literature
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Tania Sara BRYER
Chair, National Events Committee, Cancer Research UK and Ambassador, Alzheimer’s Society. For services to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Professor Harriet Ann BULKELEY FBA
Professor of Geography and Deputy Executive Dean, Research, Durham University. For services to Geography and to Environmental Governance
(Durham, County Durham)
Commander (Rtd) Gary Robert BUSHELL RN
Director Cadets and Youth, Council of Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations. For services to the Armed Forces Cadets
(Southsea, Hampshire)
Dr Rabinder Kaur BUTTAR
Senior Enterprise Fellow, Strathclyde University. For services to Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Business, and to Life Sciences
(Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk)
Sonya Naiken BYERS
Chief Executive Officer, Women in Transport and Patron, Women on the Move Against Cancer. For services to Diversity
(London, Greater London)
Benjamin Hugo CAIRNS
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Voluntary Action Research. For services to Charity and to the Voluntary Sector
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Henrietta Nina Sylvia CAMPBELL
For services to British Interior Design and to Philanthropy
(London, Greater London)
Karen Julia CARNEY MBE
Footballer. For services to Association Football
(London, Greater London)
Joanna Jane CARRINGTON (Joanna Wallace)
Independent Case Examiner, Department for Work and Pensions. For Public Service
(Knutsford, Cheshire)
Robert Henry CAUDWELL
Lately Chair, Lowland Agricultural Peat Task Force. For services to Lowland Peat Carbon Stores and to Food Security
(Boston, Lincolnshire)
Rory CELLAN-JONES
Author and Journalist. For services to Journalism
(London, Greater London)
Dr Susan Olivia CHAPPLE
Founder and Chair of Trustees, Horatio’s Garden Charity. For services to People with Spinal Injuries
(Salisbury, Wiltshire)
Richard Denis Paul CHARKIN
Lately President, International Publishers Association. For services to Publishing and Literature
(London, Greater London)
Karen Michelle CHARTERS
Head, International Slavery Museum, National Museums Liverpool, and lately Chief Executive Officer, Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre and Associated Trustee, National Museums Liverpool. For services to the community in Liverpool, Merseyside
(Liverpool, Merseyside)
Laura Francoise CITRON
Chief Executive Officer, London and Partners. For services to the London Economy
(London, Greater London)
Elaine CLARK
Chief Executive, Rail Forum. For services to the Rail Supply Industry
(Derby, Derbyshire)
Dr Belinda Rosanna CLARKE
Director, Agri-TechE. For services to Agri-Technologies and Farming
(Ely, Cambridgeshire)
Joseph Aaron COELHO
Children’s Laureate. For services to the Arts, to Children’s Reading and to Literature
(Folkestone, Kent)
Kathleen Margaret COOMBES
Founder, Association for Rehabilitation of Communication and Oral Skills (ARCOS). For charitable services to People with Communication and/or Swallowing Difficulties
(Malvern, Worcestershire)
Giles Richard COOPER
Chair, The Royal Variety Charity. For services to Entertainment and to Charity
(Tunbridge Wells, Kent)
Tina Louise COSTELLO
Chief Executive Officer, Heart of England Community Foundation. For services to Charity and Voluntary Organisations across the West Midlands and Warwickshire
(Coventry, West Midlands)
David CUNNINGHAM
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Emma Louise DAGNES
Chief Executive Officer, Alexandra Palace. For services to Heritage
(London, Greater London)
Emyr Afan DAVIES
Chief Executive Officer, Afanti Media. For services to Media and to Music in Wales
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
Professor Jane Carolyn DAVIES
Professor of Paediatric Respirology and Experimental Medicine, Imperial College London. For services to People with Cystic Fibrosis
(London, Greater London)
Katharine Anne DAVIES
Deputy Director, Security and Business Continuity, Department for Business and Trade. For services to Government Security
(Guildford, Surrey)
Alastair DAVIS
Chief Executive Officer, Social Investment Scotland. For services to Social Enterprise and to Charity in Scotland
(Roslin, Midlothian)
Professor Anne Christine DAVIS
Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge. For services to Higher Education and to Scientific Research
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Ronald Joseph DAWSON
For services to Fundraising and to Charity in Northern Ireland and Abroad
(Armagh, County Armagh)
Dr Jeanelle Louise DE GRUCHY
Lately President, Association of Directors of Public Health and Chair, Greater Manchester Directors of Public Health. For services to Public Health
(Manchester, Greater Manchester)
Andrew Peter DENT MVO
Lately Director, Transformation, Change and Programmes, Building Digital UK. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Pamela DUDEK
Chief Executive, NHS Highland. For services to the NHS in Scotland
(Montrose, Angus)
Peter Vincent DYER
President, British Dental Association. For services to Dentistry, to Medicine and to the communities of Silverdale and Lancaster
(Carnforth, Lancashire)
Olive ESSIEN
Legal Manager, Crown Prosecution Service. For services to Community Engagement
(London, Greater London)
Kevin ETHERIDGE
Councillor, Caerphilly County Borough Council. For services to Local Government
(Caerphilly, Gwent)
Rebecca Angharad EVANS
Head, Strategic Communications, Ceremonials Team, Department for Culture, Media and Sports. For services to Communications
(London, Greater London)
Susan Ann EVANS
Chief Executive Officer, Social Care Wales. For services to Social Care
(Newport, Gwent)
Catherine EVES
Lately Chair, Brook House Inquiry. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Cemal EZEL
Chief Executive Officer, Change Please. For services to Social Enterprise and to Homeless People
(London, Greater London)
David John FAIRBANK
Head, Central Services Team, Visa Status and Information Services, Home Office. For services to International Relations
(Burgess Hill, West Sussex)
Paul FANNON
Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Volunteer, United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. For services to Education
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Professor Rhian Mair FENN (Rhian Goodfellow)
Professor of Medical Education and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Cardiff University. For services to Medical Education
(Cowbridge, South Glamorgan)
Professor Donna FITZSIMONS
Head, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to Healthcare and to Education
(Downpatrick, County Down)
Colleen Margaret FLETCHER
Lately Member of Parliament for Coventry North East. For Parliamentary and Political Service
(West Midlands)
Professor Anthony Richard FOOKS
Lead Scientist, International Development, Animal and Plant Health Agency. For services to Animal Health and Welfare
(Salisbury, Wiltshire)
Andrew John FORSEY
National Director, Feeding Britain. For services to Education
(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
Professor Geoffrey Michael GADD
Boyd Baxter Chair of Biology, University of Dundee. For services to Mycology and Environmental Microbiology
(Newport-on-Tay, Fife)
Jacqueline GEDMAN
Lately Chief Executive, Kirklees Council. For services to Business and to the community in Kirklees, West Yorkshire
(Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
Wanda GOLDWAG
Chair, Lease. For services to Leaseholders
(London, Greater London)
Councillor Georgia GOULD
Councillor and Leader, London Borough of Camden Council. For services to Local Government
(London, Greater London)
Veronica Susan GREENWOOD
Lately Chair, British and Irish Orthoptic Society. For services to Orthoptics
(Liverpool, Merseyside)
Dr David Andrew GRIFFITHS-JOHNSON
Head, Manufacturing Funds, Partnerships and Innovation, Office for Life Sciences. For services to Life Sciences
(Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire)
Professor Qing GU
Director, University College London Centre for Educational Leadership. For services to Education
(Birmingham, West Midlands)
Professor Ian Melvyn HALL
Professor of Mathematical Epidemiology and Statistics, University of Manchester and Senior Principal Modeller, UK Health Security Agency. For services to Public Health, to Epidemiology and to Adult Social Care, particularly during Covid-19
(Stockport, Cheshire)
James HANDSCOMBE
Founding Principal, Harris Westminster Sixth Form, London. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
William HARWOOD
Team Leader, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence
(London, Greater London)
Michael Andrew Rhys HAWES
Chief Executive Officer, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. For services to the Automotive Industry
(Nantwich, Cheshire)
Vivienne Mary HAYES MBE
Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Resource Centre. For services to Social Justice
(London, Greater London)
John Gerard HEFFERNAN
Managing Director, Fern Innovation Ltd. For services to Business and to Technology
(Nelson, Lancashire)
John Thomas HILL
Director, Technology and Strategy, The Welding Institute. For services to SMEs, to the Research Institutes Sector, to Local Economic Development and to Higher Education
(Oakham, Rutland)
Celia HODSON
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hey Girls. For services to Promoting Period Dignity and Raising Awareness of Free Period Products in Scotland
(Eye, Suffolk)
Professor Katrin HOHL
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, City, University of London. For services to Victims of Sexual Violence
(Hitchin, Hertfordshire)
Charles Michael HOLLOWAY
Philanthropist and Founder, The Charles Michael Holloway Charitable Trust. For services to Charitable Fundraising in the Arts
(London, Greater London)
Lorrayne HUGHES
Chief Executive Officer, Cumbria Education Trust. For services to Education
(Carlisle, Cumbria)
Julie Christine HUMPHREYS
Deputy Director, Scottish Government. For services to Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland
(Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk)
Dr Richard David JARVIS
Lately Chief Executive, Judicial Appointments Commission. For services to Judicial Appointments
(Tunbridge Wells, Kent)
Junior Charles JOHNSON
Director of Operations, Food Standards Agency. For Public and Voluntary Service
(London, Greater London)
Stephen Michael JOHNSON-PROCTOR
Lately Regional Probation Director, East of England Probation Service. For services to Probation
(St Neots, Cambridgeshire)
Philip Alexander Francis JOHNSTON (Philip Bernays)
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust. For services to Drama
(Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
Christopher Phillip JONES
Chair, Waste Industry Safety and Health. For services to Health and Safety
(Chelmsford, Essex)
Ian Martin JONES
Founder, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. For services to Space Communications
(Helston, Cornwall)
Professor Shruti KAPILA
Professor of History and Politics, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. For services to Research in Humanities
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Heather Ruth KEATES
Chief Executive Officer, Community Money Advice. For services to Debt Advice
(Bishops Castle, Shropshire)
Sharon Jane KEMP
Chief Executive, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to Business and to the community in Rotherham, South Yorkshire
(Lancaster, Lancashire)
Duncan James KING
Lately Director of Resources, Home Office. For Public Service
(Maidstone, Kent)
Professor Paul Edward KLAPPER
Professor of Clinical Virology, University of Manchester. For services to Viral Diagnostic Testing
(Stockport, Greater Manchester)
The Very Revd Julian Peter LARGE
Provost, Brompton Oratory. For services to Faith and Integration
(London, Greater London)
Gary Michael LASHKO
Chief Executive Officer, Royal Hospital Chelsea. For services to Veterans
(Royston, Hertfordshire)
Martin LAWLOR
Chief Executive, Port of Blyth. For services to Ports, to Maritime and to the Offshore Energy Industry
(Ponteland, Northumberland)
Margaret Anne LEE
Lately Finance Commissioner. For services to Local Government
(Ipswich, Suffolk)
Alan Bryan LENTON
Chair, The Lest We Forget Association. For services to Veterans and their Families
(Epsom, Surrey)
Janet LEWIS
Deputy Director, Cabinet Office Legal Advisers, Government Legal Department. For Public Service
(Winchester, Hampshire)
Simon David LEWIS
Senior Manager, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Capability and Learning
(Bolton, Greater Manchester)
Sally Elizabeth LIGHT
Lately Chief Executive, Motor Neurone Disease Association. For services to People Affected by Motor Neurone Disease
(York, North Yorkshire)
Tina Janet LOVEY
Chief Executive Officer, Rivermead Inclusive Trust, Medway, Kent. For services to Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
(Rainham, Kent)
Alexander Walter Barr LYLE MBE
Golfer. For services to Golf
(Lochearnhead, Stirling and Falkirk)
Lucy Elizabeth LYTLE (Lulu Lytle)
Founder and Creative Director, Soane Britain Ltd. For services to British Manufacturing and Craftsmanship
(London, Greater London)
Sally MACDONALD
Director, Science and Industry Museum. For services to the Arts and to Heritage
(Manchester, Greater Manchester)
Nicholas Peter MACLEAN
Trade and Investment Envoy, Scottish Government. For services to Trade and to Bilateral Relations
(Rayleigh, Essex)
Murdo James MACMILLAN
Deputy Director, Home Office. For services to Border Security and to Crime Prevention
(Falkirk, Stirling and Falkirk)
Orla Mary MACRAE
Deputy Director, Department for Science Innovation and Technology. For services to Online Safety
(Colchester, Essex)
Rosh MAHTANI
Founder, Alighieri Jewellery. For services to Jewellery Design and to Philanthropy
(London, Greater London)
Moira MARDER DL
Chief Executive Officer, Ted Wragg Trust. For services to Education
(Newton Abbot, Devon)
Dr David Paul MARSHALL
Lately Director of Census, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. For services to Official Statistics and Census-taking in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Ruth Barbara Louise MARVEL
Chief Executive Officer, Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards. For services to Young People
(London, Greater London)
Rachel Louise MAZE
Deputy Head, Office for Quantum, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. For services to Quantum Technologies
(Royston, Hertfordshire)
Dr James MCALEER
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre. For services to Cancer Care and Treatment in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, County Borough of Belfast)
Alistair Murdoch MCCOIST MBE
For services to Association Football and to Broadcasting
(Renfrew, Renfrewshire)
Peter Daniel MCCREA
Lately Chair, LionHeart RICS. For services to the Profession of Chartered Surveyors
(Derby, Derbyshire)
Paul John MCGURNAGHAN
Director, Digital Services, Department for Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For services to Information Technology and Digital Innovation
(Lisburn, County Antrim)
Alison MCKENZIE-FOLAN
Chief Executive, Wigan Borough Council. For services to Local Government
(Southport, Merseyside)
Dr John David MCKEOWN
Veterinary Surgeon. For services to the Veterinary Profession
(Coleraine, County Antrim)
Paul Malcolm MCKINLAY FREng
Senior Vice President and Director, Airbus UK. For services to Welsh Industry
(Deeside, Clwyd)
William Niel MCLEAN
Chair of Trustees, Learning Foundation. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Sarah Jane MCLEOD
Chief Executive Officer, Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. For services to Heritage
(Doncaster, South Yorkshire)
Patrick Martin MELIA
Chief Executive, Sunderland City Council. For services to Local Government
(Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
Leigh John MIDDLETON
Chief Executive Officer, National Youth Agency. For services to Young People
(Bracknell, Berkshire)
Kevin Stuart MILES
Chief Executive, Football Supporters’ Association. For services to Association Football
(North Shields, Tyne and Wear)
Margaret MOORE
Vice-Chair, Board of the Fundraising Regulator. For services to Charities
(London, Greater London)
Timothy Michael MORDAN
Lately Deputy Director, Innovation, Productivity and Science, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For Public Service
(Epsom, Surrey)
James George MORRIS
Lately Member of Parliament for Halesowen and Rowley Regis. For Political and Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Michael James MORRISON
Lately Master, The Worshipful Company of Carpenters. For services to Heritage
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Gareth Michael NIBLETT
Incident and Crisis Response Business Partner, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Benefit and Pension Provision
(Telford, Shropshire)
Suzannah Marie NICHOL MBE
Chief Executive Officer, Build UK. For services to the Construction Industry
(Ware, Hertfordshire)
Wendy Ruth NICHOLS
Public and Community Service Member and lately Chair, National Executive Committee, Labour Party and President of UNISON. For Political Service.
(Selby, North Yorkshire)
Karen Anne O’DONOGHUE-HARRIS
Chair, Rhoose Lifeguards. For services to Maritime Safety
(Barry, South Glamorgan)
Camilla Anne OLDLAND
Chief Executive Officer, Living Paintings. For services to People with Visual Impairments
(Newbury, Hampshire)
Timothy Gerald OLIVER
Councillor and Leader, Surrey County Council. For services to Local Government
(Esher, Surrey)
Hugh Richard OLIVER-BELLASIS
Vice-President, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. For services to Nature Conservation and to the Rural Community
(Tadley, Hampshire)
Professor Henry George OVERMAN
Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Director, What Works Centre. For services to Local Growth
(London, Greater London)
David James PARKS
Founder and Managing Director, The Skill Mill. For services to Young People
(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
Charlotte PIKE
Policy Adviser, Cabinet Office. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
Nicholas POOLE
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. For services to Libraries, to the Arts and to Museums
(London, Greater London)
Derek PROVAN
Lately Chief Executive, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton Airports. For services to the Aviation Industry
(Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire)
Professor Noel David PURDY
Director of Research and Scholarship, Stranmillis University College, Belfast. For services to Education
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Chella QUINT
Period Positive Campaigner, Author and Educator. For services to Education
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Shireen RAZEY
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Principal, Christ The King Sixth Form College, Kent. For services to Further Education
(Maidstone, Kent)
Bruno James Michael REDDY
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Maths Circle, Ampthill, Bedfordshire. For services to Education
(Ampthill, Bedfordshire)
Julie RICHARDS
Principal and Chief Executive Officer, Chesterfield College, Derbyshire. For services to Further Education
(Chesterfield, Derbyshire)
Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Francis Thomas James Anthony RILEY
Lately Director, National Firearms Centre, Royal Armouries. For services to Military Heritage
(York, North Yorkshire)
Dr David ROLLINSON
Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum. For services to Museum Science and to Public Health
(Tring, Buckinghamshire)
Samantha Elizabeth ROSE
Deputy Director, Data and Analysis Division, Department for Transport. For services to Advanced Analytics
(Midhurst, West Sussex)
Professor Matthew Jonathan ROSSEINSKY FRS
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Liverpool. For services to Materials Chemistry Research and Innovation
(Wirral, Merseyside)
David Harley Athol ROWE
Honorary Treasurer, Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association. For services to the Armed Forces Community
(Godalming, Surrey)
David Dewar RUSSELL
Senior Project Manager, Land Combat Vehicles, Defence Equipment and Support. For services to Defence
(Portishead, Somerset)
Edward John RUSSELL
Chief Executive, WCS Care Group Ltd. For services to Care Home Residents
(Leamington Spa, Warwickshire)
Rachel Alison SANDISON
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement) and Vice-Principal (External Relations), University of Glasgow. For services to Higher Education
(Glasgow, City of Glasgow)
Danyal Nurus SATTAR
Chief Executive Officer, Big Issue Invest. For services to Business and Social Finance
(London, Greater London)
Professor Diane Gail Owen SAUNDERS
Group Leader, John Innes Centre. For services to Plant Science, Agriculture and to Women in STEM
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Katherine Helen SCIVER-BRUNT
Lately Cricketer. For services to Women’s Cricket and to the community in Yorkshire
(Leicester, Leicestershire)
Joy Dorothea Elizabeth Margaret Agnes SCOTT
Lately Chair, Clanmil Housing Association. For services to Social Housing in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Fleur Josephine BUTLER
Lately President, National Conservative Convention and lately Chair, Conservative Women’s Organisation. For services to Politics and to Women
(Leyburn, North Yorkshire)
Dr Anna Claire SEVERWRIGHT
Convenor and Adviser, Social Care Future and In Control. For services to Disabled People
(Leicester, Leicestershire)
Professor Dudley Edmund SHALLCROSS
Lately Chief Executive Officer, Primary Science Teaching Trust, Bristol. For services to Education
(Portishead, Somerset)
Dr Hannana SIDDIQUI
Head of Policy, Complaints and Research, Southhall Black Sisters. For services to the Prevention of Violence Against Women
(London, Greater London)
Mark Shaun SIMMS
Chief Executive Officer, P3 Charity. For services to Social Enterprise
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Professor Mervyn SINGER
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London and Director, Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine. For services to Intensive Care
(London, Greater London)
Ruth SLOAN
Deputy Director, Legacy, Northern Ireland Office. For services to Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
(London, Greater London)
Martin Richard SLUMBERS
Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club. For services to Golf
(Anstruther, Fife)
William Ian SMITH
Head of Ultrasound, Clinical Diagnostic Services LLP. For services to Women’s Healthcare
(London, Greater London)
Jane Wyman SPIERS
Chair, National Theatre of Scotland. For services to Culture in Scotland
(Perth, Perth and Kinross)
Professor Rhona Winifred STAINTHORP
Emerita Professor of Education, University of Reading. For services to Education
(Bracknell, Berkshire)
Vivian Michael STERNBERG KC
President and lately Chair, The Faith and Belief Forum. For services to Faith and Integration
(London, Greater London)
John Kyle STONE
Entrepreneur. For services to Philanthropy
(London, Greater London)
Martin John SWALES
Chief Executive, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. For services to Local Government
(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
Nicholas Roger SWALES DL
For services to the community in Tyne and Wear
(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
Tracy Marie SWINBURNE
Chief Executive Officer, Accomplish Multi Academy Trust and Executive Head and English Hub Lead, Jerry Clay Wakefield, West Yorkshire. For services to Education
(Newton Aycliffe, County Durham)
Raymond Barnaby TANG
Lately Director, Communications, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. For Public Service
(Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
Philip Geoffrey TARGETT-ADAMS (Phil Manzanera)
Musician and Producer. For services to Music
(London, Greater London)
Nicolas Mark Alexander TEMPLE
Chief Executive Officer, Social Investment Business. For services to Social Enterprise
(London, Greater London)
Professor Rajesh Vasantlal THAKKER
Lately President, Society for Endocrinology. For services to Medical Science and to People with Hereditary and Rare Disorders
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Subhash Vithaldas THAKRAR
Lately Chair, London Chamber of Commerce. For services to British Trade and Investment in Africa
(London, Greater London)
Peter James THOMAS
Lately Chief Executive Officer, The Futures Trust, West and East Midlands. For services to Education.
(Hinckley, Leicestershire)
David Charles TIBBLE
Trustee, Inspiration Trust. For services to Education and to Philanthropy in Norfolk
(Brighton, East Sussex)
Kate Helena TINSLEY
Chief Executive, MKM Building Supplies. For services to the Construction Sector and to Diversity
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Ian Denton TURNER
Co-Chair, National Care Association and lately Chair, Registered Nursing Home Association. For services to Social Care
(Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)
Karen Ann TURNER
Leader, Traveller Education Support and Asylum Seeker and Refugee Support, Education Authority. For services to Education, to Minority Ethnic Support Services in Northern Ireland and to Speech and Drama
(Banbridge, County Down)
Elizabeth VISICK
Team Leader, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence
(London, Greater London)
Beate WAGNER
Lately Director of Children’s Services, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. For services to Education
(Birmingham, West Midlands)
Professor Thomas David WAITE
Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Care. For services to Public Health
(London, Greater London)
Professor Richard WAKEFORD
Professor of Epidemiology, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester. For services to the Advancement of the Science of Radiation Protection
(Wilmslow, Cheshire)
Rachael Anne-Marie WARDELL
Executive Director, Children, Families and Lifelong Learning, Surrey County Council. For services to Children’s Social Care
(Woodley, Berkshire)
Professor Brian James WEBSTER-HENDERSON
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Nursing, University of Cumbria and lately Chair, Council of Deans of Health. For services to the NHS and to Education
(Penrith, Cumbria)
Shamit WEINBERGER-GAIGER
Managing Director, West Coast Partnership Development. For services to the Rail Sector
(London, Greater London)
Humphrey Giles WELFARE
For services to Heritage in the North of England
(Carlisle, Cumbria)
Christopher James WHITE
Lately Member and Leader, St Albans City and District Council. For services to Local Government
(St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Kimberly Harper WIEHL
Board Member, UK Export Finance. For services to Export Credit Finance and to International Trade
(London, Greater London)
Brian Edward WILLIAMS MBE
Head, Inquiries Sponsorship, Cabinet Office. For Public Service
(Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire)
Helen Anne Lentle WILLIAMS (Helen Lentle)
Lately Director, Legal Services, Welsh Government. For services to Devolution and the Legislative Process in Wales
(Treharris, Mid Glamorgan)
Professor Matthew WOOLLARD
Professor of Data Policy and Governance, UK Data Archive, University of Essex. For services to Data Science
(Colchester, Essex)
Carl WOOLLINS
Managing Director UK and Ireland, Nippon Gases. For services to the Chemicals Industry
(Market Rasen, Lincolnshire)
Sarah Ann WORKMAN
Lately Director, Adult Services, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. For services to Adult Social Care and Health
(Bishop Auckland, County Durham)
Andrew Richard WRIGHT
Lately Head Teacher, Harborne Hill School, Birmingham. For services to Children in Care, Care Experienced Young People and to the Education Community
(Coventry, West Midlands)
Jennifer Beatrice WYNN
For Charitable and Public Service
(Shifnal, Shropshire)
Lesslie Anne YOUNG
Chief Executive, Epilepsy Scotland. For services to People with Epilepsy in Scotland
(Mauchline, Ayrshire and Arran)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Nicola ABRAHAM
Founder, Jacob Abraham Foundation. For services to Suicide Prevention in South Wales
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
Kathleen ABU-BAKIR
GMB Representative, National Executive Committee, Labour Party. For Political Service
(London, Greater London)
Jayne Coates ACTON
Qualified Social Worker, Wigan Council. For services to Children and Families
(Warrington, Cheshire)
Ian McLean ADAMS
LGBTQ+ Leader and Social Inclusion Advocate. For services to LGBTQ+ People and to the community in the City of Westminster
(London, Greater London)
Jeremy Raymond David ADAMS
For services to Disability Sport
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Sharron ADAMS
Manager, Covid-19 Children’s Home, Cornwall County Council. For services to Disabled Children and Young People
(St Austell, Cornwall)
Valerie Margaret Elizabeth ADAMS
For services to Archives in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
William Edward ADAMSON
Northern Ireland Development Officer, National Sheep Association. For services to the Sheep Industry
(Carrickfergus, County Antrim)
Jacqueline ADIE
Centre Manager, York Christian’s Against Poverty Debt. For services to People in Debt in York
(York, North Yorkshire)
Andrew AIREY
Fundraiser, 3 Dads Walking for Papyrus UK. For services to the Prevention of Young Suicide
(Penrith, Cumbria)
David Rhys ALLEN
Executive Head Teacher, Links Multi Academy Trust, St Albans, Hertfordshire. For services to Education
(Hatfield, Hertfordshire)
Susan Veronica ASHBY
Chair and Trustee, Stepping Stone Projects. For services to Homeless and Vulnerable People in Rochdale, Greater Manchester
(Rossendale, Lancashire)
Rachel ASHE
Founder and Managing Director, Mental Health Swims. For services to People with Mental Health Issues
(Swansea, West Glamorgan)
Saima ASHRAF
Senior Finance Auditor, Merseyside Police. For services to Policing
(Blackburn, Lancashire)
Alan ASHTON
Chief Executive, St Helens Carers Centre. For services to the community in St Helens, Merseyside
(Liverpool, Merseyside)
Halima Hashim ATCHA
Diversity and Inclusion Lead, North West and North Central, Work and Health Service, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Diversity and Inclusion
(Bolton, Greater Manchester)
Professor Angus ATKINSON
Senior Marine Ecologist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory. For services to Polar Marine Research and Conservation
(Plymouth, Devon)
Anthony ATKINSON
For services to Wildlife and Ecology
(Callington, Cornwall)
Sally Therese ATKINSON
For services to Education and to the community in the London Borough of Barnet
(London, Greater London)
Dr Margaret Wendy Elizabeth AUSTIN
Lately Chief Medical Adviser, St John Ambulance. For services to St John Ambulance and to First Aid Training
(Oakham, Rutland)
Rose Lucinda AYLING ELLIS
For voluntary services to the Deaf Community
(London, Greater London)
Clara BAGENAL GEORGE
Founder, Low Energy Transformation Initiative. For services to the Built Environment and to Climate Change
(London, Greater London)
Jessamy Rachel BAIRD
Lately Vice President, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. For services to Healthcare Innovation
(Whitchurch, Hampshire)
Dr Louise Frances BALL
Head, Genetic Technology Regulatory Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For services to Science and Technology
(London, Greater London)
Thomas George BASTIN
Head, International Energy Institutions Team, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. For services to Energy Security, Affordability and Accessibility
(Reading, Berkshire)
Craig Simon BATHAM
Special Chief Officer, South Yorkshire Police. For services to Policing
(Dinnington, South Yorkshire)
The Reverend Professor Alison BAVERSTOCK
Founder, Reading Force. For charitable services to Families in the British Armed Forces Community
(London, Greater London)
Anthony Alderson BAVERSTOCK
Chair, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Gillingham, Dorset. For services to Young People in Dorset
(Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
Hannah George Waller BEATON-HAWRYLUK
Chair, Edinburgh Branch, Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. For services to the Ukrainian Community in Scotland
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Dr Nistor-Dumitru BECIA
Lately Senior Psychologist, Swansea Bay University Health Board. For services to Ukrainian Refugees
(Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan)
Duncan Ademola BECKLEY JP
Conductor. For services to Music
(Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
Andrew John BEDDOWS
Managing Director, Ideas Network UK Community Interest Company. For services to Innovation and Business
(Grantham, Lincolnshire)
Dr Mary Jane BEEK
Principal Social Worker, Norfolk County Council and Senior Research Fellow, University of East Anglia. For services to Children and Families
(Dereham, Norfolk)
Brian Alfred BEEVER
Group Treasurer, 36th/51st Scout Group, County Training Adviser and District Treasurer, Bablake Scout District. For services to Young People in Coventry
(Coventry, West Midlands)
Neville Lewis BEISCHER
Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Learning Trust, Manchester. For services to Education
(Stockport, Greater Manchester)
Jacqui Karen BELFIELD-SMITH
Head, Youth Justice and Targeted Youth Services, Stockport Council and Chair, Association of Youth Offending Team Managers. For services to Youth Justice
(Stockport, Greater Manchester)
Ernest BENBOW
For services to the NHS, to Mental Health in Sport and to Education in St. Helens, Merseyside
(Prescot, Lancashire)
Genevieve Angela BENT
Assistant Principal, Harris Invictus Academy’s Sixth Form, London Borough of Croydon. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Martin BERLINER
Lately Chief Executive, Maccabi GB. For services to the Jewish Community
(Watlington, Norfolk)
John Mackenzie BEVERIDGE
For services to Paddle Steamer Preservation and to Charity
(Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire)
Pauline Marie BINNS-TULLOCH
For services to the community in Greater Manchester
(Manchester, Greater Manchester)
Frank George BIRD
Senior Network Planner, Resilience, Midlands Region, National Highways. For services to Transport
(Birmingham, West Midlands)
Karen Amanda BONNER
Chief Nurse, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. For services to Nursing
(London, Greater London)
Jennifer Marie BOTT
Founder and Developer, Rhythmic Gymnastics. For services to Gymnastics
(Raunds, Northamptonshire)
David Paul BOUGHEY
For services to the community in Coventry, West Midlands
(Nuneaton, Warwickshire)
Pauline Nicol BOWIE
Founder and Director, Low Income Families Together. For services to the community in Muirhouse, Edinburgh
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Richard Georg BOYD
Senior Policy Adviser, Department for Business and Trade. For services to Mental Health
(Southend on Sea, Essex)
Wendy BRADING
For services to Journalism
(Harwich, Essex)
Alistair BRADLEY
Executive Leader, Chorley Council. For Political and Public Service
(Chorley, Lancashire)
Professor Elizabeth Anne Clewett BRIERLEY (Elizabeth Price)
Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University. For services to Sustainability Education
(Macclesfield, Cheshire)
Esther Erica BRITTEN
Deputy Director, Head of Major Events, UK Sport. For services to Sport
(Shepton Mallet, Somerset)
Joyclen BRODIE-MENDS BUFFONG
Founder, RISE.365 CIC. For services to Young People and to Youth Empowerment
(London, Greater London)
Penelope Ann BROOMHEAD
International Para-Athletics Classifier, World Para-Athletics. For services to International Disability Sport
(Leicester, Leicestershire)
Heather Elizabeth BROUGHTON
Lately Committee Member, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Midlands and East. For services to Heritage and to the community in the Midlands
(Beccles, Suffolk)
Deborah Marie BROWN
Executive Director, Service Reform, Salford City Council. For services to Local Government
(Stockport, Greater Manchester)
Elva BROWN
Lately Driving Examiner, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. For services to Road Safety
(Cheadle, Greater Manchester)
Victoria Marie BROWNLIE
Chief, Policy, British Beauty Council. For services to the Hair and Beauty Industry
(Lancing, West Sussex)
Professor Clive Henry BUCKBERRY FREng
Co-Founder and Engineering Fellow, Quanta Dialysis Technologies. For services to Medical Engineering
(Warwick, Warwickshire)
Hari Bahadur BUDHA MAGAR
Adventurer, Campaigner and Charitable Fundraiser. For services to Disability Awareness
(Canterbury, Kent)
Pauline Alison Watson BURT
Lately, Chief Executive Officer, Ffilm Cymru Wales. For services to Film
(Cowbridge, South Glamorgan)
Alison Margaret CAIRNS
For services to Renal Patients and their Families within the Western Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
(Londonderry, County Borough of Londonderry)
Professor Andrew Alexander CAMPBELL
Professor of Practice in Tourism and lately Chair, Wales Tourism Alliance. For services to Tourism
(Goodwick, Dyfed)
James Joseph CAMPBELL
Lately Business Support Services Manager, Northern Ireland Audit Office. For Public Service
(Warrenpoint, County Down)
David CANNING
Head, Digital Knowledge and Information Management, Cabinet Office. For services to Innovation in Knowledge and Information Management
(Lancaster, Lancashire)
Jason David CARLYON
Community Engagement Lead and Paramedic, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. For services to Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation
(Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
William George Alfred CARSON
Founder, Container Ministry, Irish Methodist Mission Partnership. For services to the community in Northern Ireland and Abroad
(Craigavon, County Down)
Rachel Anne CARTER
Director of Midwifery and Deputy Chief Nurse, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Maternity and Women’s Health
(Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
Natalie CARTMELL
Partnerships Manager, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Homeless People in Birmingham
(Birmingham, West Midlands)
Alexandra Jane CASTLE (Ally Castle)
For services to Inclusivity and Diversity in Broadcasting
(Cirencester, Gloucestershire)
Dr Rachel Sarah CENTURY
Deputy Chief Executive, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. For services to Holocaust Education and Commemoration
(London, Greater London)
Anton CHALK
Head of Fleet, Police Service of Scotland and lately Chair, National Association of Police Fleet Managers. For services to Policing in Scotland
(Bishopton, Renfrewshire)
Bryony CHAPMAN
Lately Senior Marine Officer, Kent Wildlife Trust. For services to the Coastal and Marine Environment
(Godalming, Surrey)
Namir Rahim CHOWDHURY
Regional Representative for Europe and the Americas, Commonwealth Youth Council. For services to Young People in the UK and Abroad
(London, Greater London)
Zia Us Samad CHOWDHURY JP
For services to the Bangladeshi Community in the West Midlands
(Birmingham, West Midlands)
Tom CIESCO
Atlas Performance Engineer, Airbus UK Ltd. For services to the Royal Air Force
(Witney, Oxfordshire)
Diane Elizabeth CLARK
Chief Executive Officer, Passion for Learning, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. For services to Education
(Chester, Cheshire)
Faith Beatrice CLARK
Lately Life Vice-President, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. For services to Deaf People
(London, Greater London)
Beverly Carolyn CLARKE
Lately National Community Manager, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT. For services to Education
(Swindon, Wiltshire)
Sarah CLARKSON
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(London, Greater London)
Nicola Rose CLOSE
Chief Executive, Association of Directors of Public Health. For services to Public Health
(Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
David Michael COLES
Chair of Trustees, Manor Multi-Academy Trust, Wolverhampton. For services to Education
(Bilston, West Midlands)
David Graham CORBEN
Chair, Lifeboat Management Group, Swanage Lifeboat Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For voluntary service to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
(Swanage, Dorset)
Beverley Roy CORRY
For services to Athletics
(Banbridge, County Down)
John George CORSE
Owner, John G Corse Funeral Directors. For services to the community in Orkney
(Kirkwall, Orkney)
Kay COSSINGTON
Women’s Technical Director, The Football Association. For services to Association Football
(Gravesend, Kent)
Graham Edward COULSON
Ambassador, European Overture Diversity Network for Scouts and Guides. For services to Scouting and to the community in Selkirk, Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
(Selkirk, Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale)
Susan CRISP
Team Leader, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence
(London, Greater London)
Desra Emma CRUISE
Founder and Director, Portable Toilets Ltd. For services to Innovation and Outdoor Events Sustainability
(Chepstow, Gloucestershire)
Roger Aleksandar DAKIN
Entrepreneur, Smile Smart Technology. For services to Assistive Technology
(Newbury, Berkshire)
Archana Rao DANNAMANENI
Customer Compliance Group, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to Tax Compliance
(Tadcaster, North Yorkshire)
Robyn Mary DAVIES
District Governor and Leader, Rotary Youth Leadership Award. For services to Young People and to the community in Telford, Shropshire
(Telford, Shropshire)
Mark Nicholas DAVIS
Developer Remediation Lead, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. For services to Leaseholders
(London, Greater London)
Margaret Anne DAVISON
Lately Midwife, NHS Borders. For services to Midwifery
(Gordon, Berwickshire)
Catherine Newland DEAN
Grants Manager and Lately Chief Executive Officer, Save the Rhino International. For services to Conservation
(London, Greater London)
Dr Hannah Mary DEE
Founder and Chair, Lovelace Colloquium. For services to Technology and to Women in the Information Technology Sector
(Aberystwyth, Dyfed)
Emma Jane DEGG
Chief Executive, North West Business Leadership Team. For services to Business and to the community in North West England
(Chester, Cheshire)
Susie DENT
Lexicographer, Etymologist and Author. For services to Literature and to Language
(London, Greater London)
Dr Fiona Christine DEVINE
Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service. For services to Children’s Hospice Care
(Maidenhead, Berkshire)
Balwinder Kaur DHANOA
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Progress Care Group, West Midlands. For services to Children with SEND and their Families
(Solihull, West Midlands)
Michael George DICKSON
For services to the Food Industry and to the community in Tyne and Wear
(Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
Dr Patrick John Vibart DIXON
Founder, Volunteer and Ambassador, ACET UK. For services to HIV and AIDS Care
(Weymouth, Dorset)
Charles Edward DOBSON
Co-Founder, The Starfish Trust. For charitable services to Children and Young Adults Living with Disabilities and Life-Threatening Illnesses
(Gloucestershire)
Mary DOBSON
Co-Founder, The Starfish Trust. For charitable services to Children and Young Adults Living with Disabilities and Life-Threatening Illnesses
(Gloucestershire)
Amy DOWDEN
Advocate and Ambassador, Crohn’s and Colitis UK. For services to Fundraising and Raising Awareness of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(Rowley Regis, West Midlands)
Professor Elizabeth Sharon DRAPER
Emeritus Professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology, University of Leicester. For services to Healthcare
(Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire)
Patrick Joseph DUFFY
For services to Special Olympics Sports and to Young People, particularly those with Learning Disabilities in the Newry and District Gateway Club
(Newry, County Down)
Stephen Wilfred DUFFY
Founder, Choose Life Project. For services to Drug Addiction Recovery and Education
(Liverpool, Merseyside)
Clodagh Elizabeth DUNLOP
For services to Stroke Survivors and to the Reform of Stroke Services
(Magherafelt, County Londonderry)
Simon Jeremy DUNN
System Design Authority, Military Satellite Communications, Airbus Defence and Space (UK). For services to Defence
(Trowbridge, Wiltshire)
Paula DURRANS
Head, Security, Great Western Railway. For services to the Railway
(Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester)
Bharati DWARAMPUDI
Advanced Customer Support Senior Leader, Department for Work and Pensions. For Public Service
(Preston, Lancashire)
Puneet DWIVEDI
For services to the community in Scotland
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
Peter Thomas EADIE-CATLING
Headteacher and Head of Centre, Woodlands Park Nursery School and Children’s Centre, London Borough of Haringey. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Kevin EBSWORTH
For services to Armed Forces Veterans and to Charity in Herefordshire
(Malvern, Worcestershire)
Michael John EDWARDS
Founder and Life-Long President, My Life My Choice. For services to People with Learning Disabilities
(Bicester, Oxfordshire)
Robert James ELKINGTON
Director, Arts Connect. For services to Young People
(Wolverhampton, West Midlands)
Lady Catherine ERSKINE
Trustee and Chair, Fife Region, Scotland’s Gardens Scheme and Chair, Discover Scottish Gardens. For services to Tourism in Scotland
(St Andrews, Fife)
Susan EUSTACE
Lately Director of Public Affairs, The Advertising Association. For services to the Advertising Industry
(London, Greater London)
Craig Ellis FELLOWES
Founder, Wildlife Training Consultancy. For services to Wildlife Protection
(Warwick, Warwickshire)
Rebecca Caroline FERGUSON
Singer, Songwriter and Music Industry Campaigner. For services to the Music Industry
(High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)
Maureen FERRIE
Founder, Greater Easterhouse Supporting Hands. For services to People Living With a Disability in Glasgow
(Glasgow, City of Glasgow)
David FIRTH
For services to the Westbury Lions, Wiltshire
(Trowbridge, Wiltshire)
David FISHER
Executive Director, Client Services, St Mungo’s. For services to Homeless People
(St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Joanne Kathryn FITZGERALD
Senior Programme Manager, NHS England. For services to the NHS
(Clitheroe, Lancashire)
Dr John Edward FITZGERALD
Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Audiology Services, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Audiology and to Healthcare Science in Norfolk
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Elizabeth FITZPATRICK FRS
Founder, Playback Trust and Chief Executive Officer, Playback Learning Academy, Edinburgh. For services to Children and Young People with Disabilities and to Inclusive Education
(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh)
John Richard Farler FLETCHER
For services to the Conservation of Shire Horses
(Cardigan, Dyfed)
Angela Marie FORBES
Chief Executive, BuildForce. For services to the Construction Industry
(Erskine, Renfrewshire)
Lesley Mary FORBES
Lately Head, Corporate Management Unit, Social Security Programme Division, Scottish Government. For services to the Establishment of the Social Security System in Scotland
(Thornliebank, Renfrewshire)
Cheryl FOSTER
Referee, Football Association of Wales. For services to Association Football and to Women’s Sport
(Chester, Cheshire)
Mark Richard FOULKES
Oncology Nurse, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing
(Reading, Berkshire)
Hilton Ivan FREUND
Chief Executive, Twinning Project. For services to Reducing Reoffending and to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Graham Ronald FULFORD
Founder, Graham Fulford Charitable Trust. For services to Prostate Cancer Awareness and Earlier Diagnosis
(Warwick, Warwickshire)
Stephen James GALLACHER
For services to Golf
(Bathgate, West Lothian)
Paula GARFIELD
Founder, Deafinitely Theatre. For services to Drama and to the Deaf Community
(London, Greater London)
Gloria Anne Marie GARMAN (Barbara Hamilton)
Head of Service, City of London Corporation Adult Skills, Education and Apprenticeship Service. For services to Adult Education
(London, Greater London)
Michael John GARVEY
For services to Business in Buckinghamshire
(High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)
Jamila Elizabeth GAVIN
Writer. For services to Children’s Literature
(Stroud, Gloucestershire)
Warren Barry GINSBERG
Chair, HiB Ltd. For services to the Home Improvement and Bathroom Industries
(London, Greater London)
Isaac GINSBURY
Chief Executive, Jewel Foundation. For services to the community in Greater Manchester and to Faith and Integration
(Prestwich, Greater Manchester)
Janet GOLDSBROUGH-JONES
For services to the community in Worthing, West Sussex
(Worthing, West Sussex)
Professor Adam Lee GORDON
Professor of Care for Older People, University of Nottingham and President, British Geriatrics Society. For services to Older People’s Healthcare
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Professor Anthony Christopher GORDON FMedSci
Chair, Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Imperial College London. For services to Critical Care Medicine
(London, Greater London)
Caroline GOULD
Founder, Vale Wildlife Hospital. For services to Wildlife Rehabilitation
(Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire)
Helen Rebecca GOULD
Founder, LPM Dance Company. For charitable services to People with Parkinson’s
(Lancaster, Lancashire)
Steven David GOULD
Council Member, General Chiropractic Council. For services to Consumers
(London, Greater London)
Ian James GOURLAY
For voluntary service to the community in Aberdeenshire
(Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen)
Doreen GRAHAM
Lately Board Member and Trustee, Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home. For services to Animal Welfare
(West Linton, Tweeddale)
Vanessa GRAHAM
Head, Commercial Development, Labour Party. For Political and Public Service
(Gateshead, Tyne and Wear)
Susan GRANT
Founder, The Body Doctor. For services to Entrepreneurship
(Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
Anne Margaret GREGG
Macmillan Nurse, NHS Orkney. For services to Healthcare in the Orkney Islands
(Kirkwall, Orkney)
(London, Greater London)
Robert William Frank GRIFFIN
Founder and Chief Executive, Tomcat UK. For services to Engineering Innovation and to People with Disabilities
(Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire)
Professor Paul David GRIFFITHS
Emeritus Professor of Virology, University College London. For services to Virology
(Brighton, East Sussex)
Christine Ann GROSSKOPF
Lately Programme Manager for Refugee Resettlement Scheme, Kent County Council. For services to Refugee Resettlement
(Sevenoaks, Kent)
Dr Robert Ian GRUNDY
Lately Chair, Matrix. For services to Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
(Comber, County Down)
Dr Shobna GULATI DL
Actor, Writer and Dancer. For services to the Cultural Industries
(Oldham, Greater Manchester)
Lucy-Marie Elizabeth HAGUES
Chief Executive Officer, Capital One UK. For services to Education and Skills
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Raymond Noel HALL
For services to Pipe Bands and to the community in Northern Ireland
(Enniskillen, County Fermanagh)
Anne HAMILTON
Headteacher, Evelina Hospital School, London Borough of Southwark. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Mary Scott HAMILTON
For services to Local Government, to Education and to Cross-Community Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
(Londonderry, County Borough of Londonderry)
Melanie HAMPTON
Chair, Carlton Political Committee. For Political Service
(Hungerford, Berkshire)
David André HAPPY
Managing Director, Telint. For services to Telecommunications and to Technology
(Alresford, Hampshire)
Anne-Marie HARDY
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(London, Greater London)
Catherine Ellen HARPER
For services to Domestic Abuse Support in Northern Ireland
(Carrickfergus, County Antrim)
Anne Elizabeth HARRIS
Lately Director of Care, Rainbow Trust. For services to Seriously Ill Children and their Families
(Bristol, City of Bristol)
Denise HARRISON
Head, Health and Safety, First Bus. For services to the Bus Industry
(Rossendale, Lancashire)
Georgina HARRISON
Chair, Cross-Party Members’ and Peers’ Staff Association. For services to Parliament
(Ashford, Kent)
Stephen Joseph HARRISON
Lately Principal, Gilnahirk Primary School, Belfast. For services to Education in Northern Ireland
(Lisburn, County Antrim)
Mary HART
Headteacher, Margaret McMillan Nursery School and Children’s Centre, London Borough of Islington. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Jennifer Sarah HARTLEY
Director, Invest Newcastle and Head of Economic Development, Newcastle City Council. For services to Business and Trade
(Gateshead, Tyne and Wear)
Karen HARVEY
Founder, Toiletries Amnesty. For services to People Living in Hygiene Poverty, to Considerate Consumption and to the Environment
(Wisbech, Cambridgeshire)
Paul Alexander HARVEY
Immigration Officer, Home Office. For services to the Home Office Veterans Network
(Bury, Greater Manchester)
Jillian Lorna HASTINGS WARD
Chair, Participant Panel, Genomics England. For services to Patients and Participants in UK Genomics
(Perth, Perth and Kinross)
Caroline Peta HAY
Police Inspector, City of London Police. For services to Policing
(Hertfordshire)
Angus Gordon HEDDLE
For services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and to the community in Longhope, Orkney
(Kirkwall, Orkney)
Alicia Nicole HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS
Explorer. For services to Hot Air Ballooning
(Holt, Wiltshire)
Frederick HIGHAM
Volunteer, Angling Environmental Groups. For services to Protecting and Improving the Ribble Catchment
(Clitheroe, Lancashire)
Lisa Mari HILDER
Co-Founder, Preston Road Women’s Centre, Hull. For services to Social Investment and to Charity
(Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire)
Professor Rowena HILL
National Collaborative Lead, Covid-19 Foresight Group. For Public Service
(Nottinghamshire)
Dr Emma Logan HINDLEY
Bill Manager, Online Safety Bill, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. For services to Online Safety
(St Albans, Hertfordshire)
William HIRON
Managing Director, Stephensons of Essex. For services to Passenger Transport
(Maldon, Essex)
Andrew HODKINSON
Headteacher, West Oaks School, Leeds. For services to Children and Young People with SEND
(Wakefield, West Yorkshire)
Debra Ann HOLLOWAY
Lately Gynaecology Nurse Consultant, Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Women’s Health
(London, Greater London)
Mark Timothy HOPTON
For services to Education, to Healthcare and to Charities in the West Midlands
(Solihull, West Midlands)
Sarah HOSKING
For services to Literature and to the Arts
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire)
Philip HOWSE
Principal Doorkeeper, House of Commons. For services to Parliament
(Maidstone, Kent)
James Stanley Mackey HUEY
For services to Education and to Rugby in Northern Ireland
(Londonderry, County Borough of Londonderry)
Elaine HUNNIFORD
For services to Young People and to Safeguarding in Sport
(Bangor, County Down)
Stephen HUNT
Lately Grants Legacy Manager, Forest Services. For services to Forestry
(Chepstow, Gwent)
Nicola Jane ILES
Head, Special Projects and Deputy Clerk, Privy Council. For services to the Accession Council
(Winchester, Hampshire)
Kenny IMAFIDON
Co-Founder, ClearView Research. For services to the Social and Market Research Professions
(London, Greater London)
James Noel IRWIN
President, Dungannon and Moy Branch, Royal British Legion. For voluntary service to Veterans in Northern Ireland
(Dungannon, County Tyrone)
Dean Nathan JACKSON
Managing Director, HUUB Ltd. For services to Business and to Innovation
(Derby, Derbyshire)
Suzanne JACKSON
Domestic Abuse Risk Assessor Manager and Force Lead for Honour Based Abuse, South Yorkshire Police. For services to the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
(Rotherham, South Yorkshire)
Dr Godfrey David JACOBS
Associate Member, Transport Research Laboratory. For services to Road Safety
(Reading, Berkshire)
Syed Nasir JAFFRI
For services to Integration in Glasgow
(Glasgow, City of Glasgow)
Susan Margaret JAMES
Contact Centre Administration Officer, HM Courts and Tribunal Service. For Public and Voluntary Service
(Loughborough, Leicestershire)
Professor Barbara Elizabeth Jane JEMPHREY
Director, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to Education
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Laura JEUDA
Lately Councillor, Cheshire East Council. For services to Local Government
(Macclesfield, Cheshire)
Janice JINKS
Foster Carer and Chair, Doncaster Foster Carers Association. For services to Supporting Families
(Doncaster, South Yorkshire)
Professor Shane Douglas JOHNSON
Professor of Future Crime and Director, Dawes Centre for Future Crime, University College London. For Public Service
(London, Greater London)
David James JOHNSTON
Community Outreach Officer, Northern Ireland Office. For Public and Community Service in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
David Geoffrey JONES
For services to the community in Morland, Cumbria
(Penrith, Cumbria)
Professor David Simon JONES FREng
Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomaterial Engineering and lately Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to Education and to Pharmacy
(Newtownabbey, County Antrim)
Mark Adrian JONES
Chief Executive Officer, Gower College Swansea. For services to Education
(Cowbridge, South Glamorgan)
Morgan Lewis JONES
Lately Chair, St Christopher’s Hospice. For services to People Living with a Terminal Illness and their Families
(London, Greater London)
Susan Ann JONES
Lately Operations Manager, Legal Aid Agency. For services to the Civil Justice System
(Bradford, West Yorkshire)
Simon Roger KEAREY
For services to the community in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
(High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)
Louise KELLEY
Holiday and Food Insecurity Lead, Plymouth Council, Devon. For services to Health and Wellbeing
(Ivybridge, Devon)
Elizabeth Anne KENNY
English Hub Lead, Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant Primary School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. For services to Education
(Barnsley, South Yorkshire)
John Bradley KENT
For services to Business and to Philanthropy
(Olney, Buckinghamshire)
Dr Samina KHAN
Director, Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach, University of Oxford. For services to Higher Education
(Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire)
Kevin Joseph KIELY
Chief Executive Officer, Medilink UK. For services to the Life Sciences Sector
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Emily Jessica KING
Assistant Director (Communities), West Sussex County Council. For services to Refugee Resettlement
(Haslemere, Surrey)
Gillian KIY
Lately Building Safety Legislation Lead, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. For services to Building Safety
(Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Professor Tanya KRZYWINSKA
For services to Higher Education and to the Video Games Industry
(Penzance, Cornwall)
Rakesh KUMAR
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Hergest Unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd. For services to the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities
(Bangor, Gwynedd)
Fedir KURLAK
Chief Executive Officer, Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. For services to the Ukrainian Community in the UK
(Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire)
Simon John Charles LE BON
Musician and Songwriter. For services to Music and to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Jonathan LEGH-SMITH
Executive Director, UKQuantum. For services to Science and Technology
(Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Sarah LE-GOOD
Head, Foundation Studies and Learner Support, Riverside College, Widnes. For services to Further Education and SEND
(Derby, Derbyshire)
Paul LEONARD
Crime Services Office Manager, South Yorkshire Police. For services to Policing
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Sarah Jane LEONARD
Chair, The Association of English Singers and Speakers. For services to Music
(London, Greater London)
Professor Nicholas Julian LEVELL
Consultant Dermatologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the Care of People with Skin Disease
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Josephine Susan LEWIS
Headteacher, Riverside School, London Borough of Southwark. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
Dr Philip Edward Charles LEWIS
Lately President, Mouth Cancer Foundation. For services to the Detection of Oral Cancer
(Shanklin, Isle of Wight)
Dr Ian LLEWELLYN
Head, Technical Energy Specialists, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. For services to Net Zero Innovation
(Harlow, Essex)
Professor David LLOYD
For services to Microbiology
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
John Morgan LLOYD-JONES
For voluntary and charitable services in Wales
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)
Clyde LOAKES
Councillor and Deputy Leader, London Borough of Waltham Forest Council. For services to Local Government
(London, Greater London)
Dr Gerald Edward LOBLEY
For services to Chess in Scotland
(Inverurie, Aberdeenshire)
Andrew James LOCKETT
Treasurer, The South Atlantic Medal Association. For voluntary services to Veterans
(Torpoint, Cornwall)
Steve LOCKHART
Team Leader, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence
(London, Greater London)
Andrew LOGAN
Sculptor, Jeweller and Performance Artist. For services to the Arts
(Welshpool, Powys)
Sharon LOMAS
Chief Executive Officer, The Royal Theatrical Fund. For services to the Performing Arts
(London, Greater London)
Cecil Lynn LUCAS
Co-Founder, Chris Lucas Trust. For services to Charitable Fundraising
(North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear)
Lynn LUCAS
Co-Founder, Chris Lucas Trust. For services to Charitable Fundraising
(North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear)
Nigel Patrick LUND
Lately North West Prevent Coordinator, Department for Education. For services to Education and to Policing
(Burnley, Lancashire)
Rachel LYNCH
Chief Executive Officer, The Community Network CIC and Founder, The Urban Factory. For services to Young People and to Sport in North East England
(South Shields, Tyne and Wear)
Christopher LYNN
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(London, Greater London)
Máirtín Pádraig MACGABHANN
For services to Organ Donation in Northern Ireland
(Belfast, City of Belfast)
Kenneth MACKENZIE
Volunteer, Scottish Mountain Rescue. For services to Mountain Rescue and to the community in Galloway
(Stranraer, Wigtownshire)
Samantha Claire MACKINTOSH (Claire Cullens)
Chief Executive Officer, Norfolk Community Foundation. For services to Business Development and to Charity
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Verity Jean MACLACHLAN
Trainer, 1st Radlett Guides and Radlett District (Hertfordshire). For services to Young People in Radlett, Hertfordshire
(Radlett, Hertfordshire)
John MADDEN BEM
Principal, Roddensvale School, Larne. For services to Education and to Children with Special Educational Needs
(Ballycastle, County Antrim)
Tariq MAHMOOD
Founder, Feed the Needy and Vice-Chair, Havering Inter Faith Forum. For services to Charity and to Interfaith Relations
(London, Greater London)
Joy Maria Lisa MAITLAND
Managing Director, Inemmo. For services to Business and to Charity
(London, Greater London)
Lakhbir Singh MANN
Founder, Gaysians. For services to Charity, Integration and to LGBTQ+ Communities
(London, Greater London)
Josephine Suzanne MARCHANT
Head of Estates, The Boxing Academy, London Borough of Hackney. For services to Education
(Maidstone, Kent)
Amy Victoria Rose MARREN
Solicitor Apprentice, BPP Holdings Ltd, Essex. For services to Further Education and Apprenticeships
(London, Greater London)
Elizabeth Janet MARTIN
Chair, Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay. For services to the community in Newport-on-Tay, Fife
(Newport-on-Tay, Fife)
Ian MARTIN
For services to Sport and to Charity
(Mold, Clwyd)
John James MARTIN
For services to Agriculture and Dairy Farming in Northern Ireland
(Enniskillen, County Fermanagh)
Sheila Ann MASON
For services to the Textile Industry and to Heritage
(Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)
Shiraz MASTER
Founder and Managing Director, Simply Doughnuts. For services to the Promotion of Food and Drink, to Business and to Philanthropy
(Blackburn, Lancashire)
Anthony Adrian MATTHEWS
Volunteer, The National Memorial Arboretum and Branch Chair, Royal British Legion. For voluntary services to Veterans
(Rugeley, Staffordshire)
Very Reverend Father Mykola MATWIJIWSKYJ
Vicar General, Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London. For services to Refugee Resettlement.
(Coventry, West Midlands)
Tristram Thomas Burke MAYHEW
Member, National Citizens Service Trust Board and Co-Founder, Go Ape. For services to Young People and to Youth Empowerment
(Chichester, West Sussex)
Francis Bernard MCARDLE
Lately Chief Executive, South Derbyshire District Council. For services to Local Government
(Derby, Derbyshire)
Dr Patricia Marion MCCAFFREY
Consultant Geriatrician, Southern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to Older People in Northern Ireland
(Newry, County Down)
Brian MCCANN
Panel Practice Adviser, Aberdeenshire Children’s Hearing System. For services to Children and to the Children’s Hearing System in Scotland
(Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire)
Diane MCCARTHY
Inclusion and Diversity Learning Lead, British Transport Police. For services to Policing
(London, Greater London)
David Adrian MCCONVILLE
Biomedical Services Manager, The State Pathologist’s Department. For services to the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland
(Armagh, County Armagh)
Sally MCINNES
Head, Unique Content and Collections Care, National Library of Wales. For services to Documentary History
(Aberystwyth, Dyfed)
George Samuel MCMATH
Lately Deputy Principal, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For services to the Northern Ireland Census
(Antrim, County Antrim)
Gordon Antony MCNAMEE (Gordon Mac)
Founder, Kiss FM and Mi-Soul Radio. For services to Music
(London, Greater London)
David MCNULTY
Head Coach, British Swimming Performance Centre. For services to Swimming
(Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire)
Geoffrey MELLOR
Chief Executive Officer, Coal Pension Trustees. For services to British Coal Pensioners
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
Dr William MERRILL
Officer, National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement
(London, Greater London)
Paul William METCALF
President, Norfolk Beekeepers’ Association. For services to Beekeeping
(Norwich, Norfolk)
Susan Jennifer Rawle MIDDLETON
His Majesty’s Verderer, The Forest of Dean. For services to Forestry
(Coleford, Gloucestershire)
Dr Laura Agnes MILBY
Lately Lanarkshire Clinical Director, General Dental Services. For services to Dentistry
(Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire)
Dr Timothy William MILLS
Executive Director, STEP Academy Trust, Thornton Heath, London Borough of Croydon. For services to Education
(London, Greater London)
David Roger MILNER-SCUDDER JP
Magistrate, Lincolnshire Bench. For services to the Administration of Justice
(Market Deeping, Lincolnshire)
Colin Malcolm MITCHELL
For services to the community in Dumfries and Galloway
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For services to the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
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Trustee, The Laurus Trust, Cheadle, Cheshire. For services to Education
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Speech and Language Therapist, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. For services to Armed Forces Personnel
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Executive Director, Insight, Sport England. For services to Sport
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Access Manager, DB Cargo (UK) Ltd. For services to Transport
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General Manager, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. For services to NHS Scotland, to the Scout Movement and to St Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church, Coatbridge and the Motherwell Diocese
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Just three episodes in and The Leftovers goes and gives a whole hour to a dude we only know, so far, for his aggressive flyering techniques?! Co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta did give us fair warning, though, early on promising individual character-based episodes. (Perrotta now says, “There’s one more stand-alone, single-character episode in the show. And looking at it from our vantage point now, I think [those episodes are] definitely two of the strongest in the season.”) And it’s not like that wasn’t an entertaining chunk of television last night: Angry Flyer Guy, as played by Christopher Eccleston, is, it turns out, Reverend Matt Jamison, a troubled Job type of fellow, flirting with the dark side in a harried, bloody effort to save his church and aid his wife. Which still leaves one very important question: What the fuck is a Christopher Eccleston?
Name: Christopher “No Highfalutin Middle Name Despite What Years of British Stereotyping Have Led Us to Believe” Eccleston.
Place of Birth: OK, yes, England — specifically, Langworthy, Lancashire.
Schooling: London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a fancy-sounding place which, phew, finally reaffirms our lazy stereotype-created expectations.
Age: A cool and well-seasoned 50 years old.
I’m British. Where Do I Know Him From? First, an apology here to all our friends in the U.K. Certainly you’ve been appreciating the man’s much-respected and oft-celebrated work for years? Perhaps you go as far back as 1994, when Danny Boyle cast him, alongside Ewan McGregor, as an increasingly homicidal corner of a love triangle in the wonderfully twisted Shallow Grave.
Or maybe you first met him via some of his late ’90s successes, including the seminal TV drama Our Friends in the North (in which he costarred with Mark Strong and Daniel Craig), or the title role in Michael Winterbottom’s Jude and the real-life character of Trevor Hicks in Hillsborough, who lost both his daughters in the infamous football stampede?
By 2005, Eccleston was well-enough regarded to become the Ninth Doctor in the 2005 return of Doctor Who. The cultural institution had been dormant since 1989 and, while now a full-fledged fascination object on both sides of the Atlantic, not necessarily guaranteed an audience upon its first resuscitation. Eccleston assured it a soft reentry, but carried the torch for only one season before handing it off to David Tennant. In 2009, Eccleston explained that he “loved playing” the Doctor, but “could not get along with the senior people.” Also: “I thought to remain, which would have made me a lot of money and given me huge visibility, the price I would have had to pay was to eat a lot of shit. I’m not being funny about that. I didn’t want to do that and it comes to the art of it, in a way. […] If you allow your desire to be successful and visible and financially secure — if you allow that to make you throw shades on your parents, on your upbringing, then you’re knackered.” Listen to Chris Eccleston, kids. Don’t get knackered.
I’m American. Where Do I Know Him From?: For us simple USA! USA! folks, Eccleston has provided no shortage of “Who’s that guy?” moments. In 2000, he was Raymond Calitri, pulling ol’ Memphis Raines back into the carjacking business in various diabolical, unnecessarily elaborate manners.
In 2007, he had a run as Claude Rains, the invisible man, on Heroes; In 2009, he was poor Destro in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. And, continuing his commendable streak of ridiculously named villainy, just last year he was Malekith in the Thor sequel. If you don’t want to see Eccleston’s soul quietly and tinily crushed by the repeated need to explain his character via the phrase “dark elf,” do not, I repeat do not, watch the video below.
And let us not forget 2002’s 28 Days Later, his reunion with Boyle. The modern originator of the “fast zombie” trope, 28 Days Later was a perfectly creepy end-of-days movie in that its nightmare scenarios seemed all too realistic. And lots of credit there goes to Eccleston as the elegant Major Henry West, who warmly welcomes young Cillian Murphy and his female traveling companions into a makeshift mansion-bunker before eventually revealing, no, all is not quite good. Quiet Eccleston voice: “I promised them women. I promised them women.” [Shudders.]
Lastly: Has Anyone Ever Set a Montage of Christopher Eccleston’s Roles to the Song “Bad Boy” by Popular German Dance Duo Cascada?
Good question. Also, yes.
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This shot of Virginia McKenna valiantly playing Man Friday, was taken as she rowed away from what I had decided was a desert island. It was 1973 and we were filming on Coniston Water in the Lake District. She was playing my mother, concerned about leaving a small girl alone as the evening drew in. I’ve been set a copy of Lancashire Life, published in 1974, which describes the filming at length. Quite fun. You can see a still of Man Friday and I cooking Pemmican cakes for supper on the camp fire, top right.
Being awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to wildlife and the arts, Virginia has since become a national treasure. She will quickly deny this but you will find photographs of her at the National Gallery, along with Suzanna Hamilton, who played her daughter – and my sister, Susan in Swallows & Amazons (1974).
Having just celebrated her 84th birthday Virginia has also been heralded as one who inspires others. I concur. ‘Do one thing at a time,’ was her advice to me, ‘Otherwise you can’t do anything well.’
Virginia has appeared in over thirty feature films, numerous television dramas and many fascinating documentaries. She won a BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in ‘A Town Like Alice’ and was nominated Best Actress by BAFTA for playing Violette Szabo in the WWII story ‘Carve Her Name With Pride.’. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Joy Adamson in ‘Born Free’ , which won the composer John Barry two Academy awards. She is still happy to work as an actress, soon to appear in ‘Golden Years’ with Simon Callow and her granddaughter, Lily Travers.
If you interview her now, Virginia is more likely to talk about wildlife than acting. She uses her name to promote kindness. And to stop the slaughter of elephants. One of her latest missions is to urge schools to teach children about conservation. She has recently become patron of Shropshire Cat Rescue’s Purr project. Arthur Ransome helped finance a similar project himself.
2015 marks the thirty-first anniversary of the Born Free Foundation, which Virginia established with her son Will Travers to help big cats and other large mammals held in captivity. She still travels the world to raise awareness and alleviate suffering, drawing on all she learned from George Adamson whilst filming Born Free in Kenya back in 1966, and An Elephant Called Slowly in 1970. You can read more about her work by clicking here.
Virginia has written about her career and conservation work in a number of books including Into the Blue and an autobiography entitled The Life in My Years available online from the Born Free shop.
42 years ago we were filming with Virginia McKenna at Bank Ground Farm in the Lake District.
To read the sections of my diary on filming Swallows & Amazons please see:
Many people asked what ‘fell onto the cutting room floor’ after we shot the movie ‘Swallows & Amazons’ in the English Lake District in 1973.
The answer is that there were few scenes excluded from the film.
Virginia McKenna as Mrs Walker with Sophie Neville as Titty
One featured Virginia McKenna and Mrs Batty’s clock, which can still be found at Bank Ground Farm, our location used for Holly Howe. It was shot on the second morning and I fear that our director Claude Whatham might have taken it out because my own performance was rather stilted. I had quite a bit to say, most of which was really rather bizarre:
The only other scene from Swallows & Amazons that I know was excluded was when the Swallows lay patterans on their way to visit the charcoal burners. The location was in a beautiful spot up above Derwentwater, the dialogue was straight from Arthur Ransome’s book and our performances would have been fluent by the time we shot the sequence.
Suzanna Hamilton, Sten Grendon, Sophie Neville and Simon West as the Swallows
I can only expect that when the movie came in over-length, these scenes were cut as the action had no influence on the plot.
‘I have always had the feeling that the Amazon’s role in the 1974 film was very much secondary to the Swallows.’ Stephen O’Brien posted. ‘This was probably down to much of the Amazon’s footage ending up on the cutting room floor. What do you think?’
In the original script, the Amazons do not really appear until page 41 – which would equate to nearly half-way into the the film. I thought that there might have been one or two shots of the Amazons sailing that were never used, but I’ve checked the script and nothing that they said was excluded. Not one word. Perhaps David Wood who dramatized the book could somehow have increased the Amazons’ parts. However, as Janet Means points out:
‘…in the book we find out more about what the Swallows think but only about what the Amazons do. There is little about the Amazons except when the Swallows are present too (hiding Amazon in the reeds and Nancy berating Peggy for losing Amazon when Titty’s made off with her). There’s lots about the Swallows without the Amazons.’
One scene in the DVD of the film used to be cut out of the television version. The clue is that it comes just before this photo was taken in Bowness-on-Windermere for Lancashire Life kindly sent to be by Stephen Sykes of Hill Top near Haverthwaite.
Sten Grendon, Simon West, Suzanna Hamilton and Sophie Neville as the Swallows in Rio, an official still from the film published in Lancashire Life in 1974
There are a few scenes in the screenplay that were never actually shot, but that takes us on a different tack. To read more, please see: The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons.
The illustrated paperback entitled ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974) can be ordered from libraries worldwide or purchased online.
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This year, we have said goodbye to some legendary stars of TV, film, music, theatre and pop culture.
From broadcasters Sir Michael Parkinson and Paul O'Grady to actors Sir Michael Gambon and Matthew Perry, singers Tina Turner, Sinead O'Connor and Shane Macgowan and football stars Gianluca Vialli and Terry Venables, fans across the world have grieved the loss of influential figures in their lives.
Here, we take a look at the celebrities we have sadly lost this year, starting with drummer Fred White, who passed on the very first day of 2023, to actor Lee Sun-kyun, who died just days after Christmas.
December
Tom Wilkinson
The Full Monty star passed away aged 75 on December 30 as his family paid a heartbreaking tribute to the much-loved actor. The Oscar nominated star's wife and family were at his side when he died suddenly. Tom had also starred in Batman Begins, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Girl With The Pearl Earring and most recently had reunited with his Full Monty co-stars for a series on Disney Plus.
Lee Sun-kyun
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun died on December 27 at the age of 48, after being found unconscious in an apparent suicide in central Seoul. Lee shot to worldwide fame after the 2019 comedy thriller Parasite became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020. The movie won four Oscars, plus a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild award.
Bill Granger
Bill Granger - dubbed the 'King of Breakfast' and famed for bring avocado on toast to the world - sadly passed away on Christmas Day.
The world-renowned Aussie chef died in hospital surrounded by his family just months after being diagnosed with cancer.
Mo Moreland
Former Coronation Street actress and Roly Polys star Mo Moreland died aged 87 on December 18. She was best known as the lead dancer in the comedy dance troupe The Roly Polys but also starred in two episodes the ITV soap as well as the Les Dawson Show and the Little & Large Show. She died at a nursing home on the Fylde coast in Lancashire after a long illness.
Steve Halliwell
Emmerdale legend Steve Halliwell, best known for playing Zak Dingle on the soap, died at the age of 77 on December 15.
The much-loved actor was one of Emmerdale's longest-serving stars having joined the cast in October 1994 and starring in 2,300 episodes over 29 years.
News of Steve's death was announced in a family statement shared by ITV. They said the actor had died “peacefully with his loved ones around him”, stating: “He was making us laugh to the end, the most amazing father and grandfather you could ever wish for, family was everything to him. We would like to thank the wonderful staff at St James Hospital and the Wheatfield Hospice for their love and kindness in his final days. He didn’t want sadness, just to rejoice in a life well lived.”
After a host of Emmerdale stars past and present shared their condolences online, the soap also paid homage to one of its favourite characters. At the end of the next episode as the credits rolled a message flashed up reading "Dedicated to Steve Halliwell" alongside an image of the Zak Dingle actor.
Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher, best known for playing Captain Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, died on December 12, his publicist announced. The 61-year-old died of lung cancer after being diagnosed with the disease several months ago, his publicist announced.
Andre got his first film role in Glory, where he acted alongside Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington. Besides playing the serious, no-nonsense cop on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he also played Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street - and won an Emmy for his role. It was on set that Andre met his wife, co-star Ami Brabson. The two married in 1991 and shared three children - Michael, Isaiah, and John Wesley.
Ryan O'Neal
Hollywood actor and Love Story star, Ryan O'Neal, who was the longtime partner of Farrah Fawcett, died at the age of 82 on December 8. His cause of death is unknown. His devastated son Patrick announced the news of his father's passing on social media.
He said: "So this is the toughest thing I've ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us." Patrick added: "He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop. The growth spurt of the first name Ryan can be traced back to my dad. That's a fact."
Denny Laine
Denny Laine, who co-wrote Wings' Mull of Kintyre and co-founded Moody Blues, died at the age of 79 on December 6 after a lengthy health battle. His partner Elizabeth Hines issued an emotional and lengthy statement to say he had passed away. Confirmed his lung disease had become "unpredictable and aggressive", she paid tribute to him and fans rushed to pay their condolences.
Much loved Denny co-wrote Paul and Linda McCartney's Wings' classic Mull of Kintyre before he co-founded 60s rockers Moody Blues, joining forces with Ray Thomas and Mike Ponder. Born Brian Hines, he grew up in Birmingham and was inspired to play guitar by jazz icon Django Reinhardt.
Shirley Anne Field
Iconic actress Shirley Anne Field died at the age of 87 on December 10. Her family confirmed the sad news in a statement which read: "Shirley Anne will be greatly missed and remembered for her unbreakable spirit and her amazing legacy spanning more than five decades on stage and screen." The sixties movie star featured in titles such as Beat Girl and The Entertainer.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Peaky Blinders star and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who tackled social injustice, died aged 65 on December 7 just eight weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. His family announced: "Benjamin's wife was by his side throughout and was with him when he passed. We shared him with the world and we know many will be shocked and saddened by this news. Benjamin was a true pioneer and innovator, he gave the world so much."
Sophie Anderson
Adult film star and internet personality Sophie Anderson died at the age of 36 in December - just two weeks after her footballer boyfriend Oliver Spedding passed away.
The mum-of-four's death was confirmed by friend and fellow actress Rebecca More, she wrote: "The bubbly, funny, kind hearted soul who was outrageous on the outside but also so gentle behind closed doors. We were very close, and we shared a crazy time together that was totally unique to us. That's how I will remember her. This is so tragic but I know you are now at peace. I will always love you and hold a special place in my heart."
Glenys Kinnock
Baroness Glenys Kinnock, a former British minister and wife of ex-Labour leader Lord Kinnock, died peacefully in her sleep on December 3. The former teacher, 79, served as an MEP for Wales between 1994 and 2009, and was made a peer in 2009 to allow her to become a minister in Gordon Brown's Government. Her family said they were "devastated" by her passing, which comes six years after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Brigit Forsyth
Still Open All Hours star Brigit Forsyth died aged 83 on December 1. The beloved actress, who also had roles in Doctor Who and The Bill, passed away peacefully in her sleep. Her first role was in 1971 when she appeared in Roald Dahl's thriller The Night Digger. Another notable role was Thelma in BBC sitcom Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads? which ran from 1973 to 1974.
November
Terry Venables
Former England manager Terry Venables died at the age of 80 on November 26. The ex-manager led the Three Lions during Euro 96, guiding them to the semi-final, and also took charge of Barcelona, Leeds and Tottenham during his managerial career. His last role was as Steve McClaren's assistant during his time in charge of England.
A family statement read: "We are totally devastated by the loss of a wonderful husband and father who passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness." Venables was on the books of Chelsea, Tottenham and QPR during his playing days. One of his highs in management was leading Spurs to the FA Cup at the old Wembley in 1991.
Annabel Giles
TV presenter, model, actress and psychotherapist Annabel Giles died aged 64 on November 21 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in July. Her children said in a statement: "Mum was truly one of a kind, an enigma to those privileged to share her life. True to her nature, she kept spirits high and maintained her quick wit until the very end. Her humour and laughter will leave us inspired to live life to the fullest, just as she always did."
Shane MacGowan
The Pogues legend Shane McGowan died aged 65 on November 30, after a lifetime of success in the music industry. Shane, who spent his final years in and out of hospital with various health issues, made a great impact on the world of arts and entertainment thanks to his work with his band and collaborations with artists such as Kirsty MacColl, Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Steve Earle, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, Sinéad O'Connor, and Ronnie Drew.
The Fairytale of New York singer's death was announced by his wife Victoria Mary Clarke, who said: "Shane will always be the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life".
Dean Sullivan
Actor Dean Sullivan was the longest-serving cast member on Brookside, playing Jimmy Corkhill. Jimmy battled drug addiction during the show's run and most famously discovered Trevor Jordache's body under the patio with Eddie Banks. After the soap ended, Dean starred in the sitcom Terry Across the Mersey and hosted a radio show.
It was announced on November 30 that Dean had died at the age of 68. His family and friends paid tribute to the award-winning star. A statement given from Hamilton Management and his family read: "To millions he was and very much still is remembered as 'Jimmy', to family and friends he was 'Dino'. Dean's family wants to thank Arrowe Park Hospital for their unwavering and consistent support. We ask that you respect their privacy in their time of grief."
Russell Norman
BBC Saturday Kitchen guest chef, who also starred in BBC Two's The Restaurant Man, Russell Norman died at the age of 57 following a short illness in hospital on November 24.
It's understood that Russell's wife and his three children, Ollie, Martha and Mabel, were at his bedside at the time of his death, which came just weeks after his fourth cookbook hit shelves. His business partner Richard Beatty paid tribute with an emotional statement, telling fans: "It is with the greatest sadness I announce the loss of my best friend Russell Norman."
It remains unknown how the talented chef died. Russell was renowned for his Italian-inspired cuisine, and had opened multiple restaurants and written several cookbooks during his impressive career in the food industry. He was best known for the POLPO chain of eateries, as well as their successful spin-offs, Spuntino and Polpetto.
Joss Ackland
Midsomer Murders and Lethal Weapon 2 actor Joss Ackland Joss Ackland died at the age of 95 on November 19. The star, who has appeared in more than 130 film and TV roles, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by relatives.
The family statement read: "With his distinctive voice and commanding presence, Ackland brought a unique intensity and gravitas to his roles. He will be remembered as one of Britain's most talented and beloved actors."
Russell Grant posted on X, formerly Twitter: "The wonderful, kind actor Joss Ackland has passed age 95. One of my very first TV acting contracts was for the BBC's Canterbury Tales 1969. I had a tiny role in the Wife of Bath's tale played by Barbara Jefford and Joss was the Host. We filmed in beautiful Dorset at Milton Abbas."
Johnny Ruffo
Home and Away star Johnny Ruffo died on November 10 aged 35, six years after being diagnosed with brain cancer. The musician made his first appearance as character Chris Harrington in the popular Australian soap in 2013, two years after appearing in the final of X Factor Australia.
A statement on his official Instagram said: "It is with a heavy heart that today we had to farewell our beloved Johnny. Surrounded by his partner Tahnee and family, Johnny went peacefully with the support of some incredible nurses and doctors." The statement described Johnny as a "very talented, charming and sometimes cheeky boy".
"Johnny was very determined and had a strong will," the statement continued. "He battled all the way to the end and fought as hard as he could. Such a beautiful soul with so much more to give. We all love you Johnny and will remember you for all the joy you brought to our lives. Rest easy."
In August 2017, Johnny announced that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and was starting "aggressive treatment". In 2019, it was reported that Johnny was cancer-free, but he sadly delivered the news in 2020 that it returned. This time, it was terminal.
October
Matthew Perry
Friends star Matthew Perry died aged 54 on October 28 after he was found unconscious in his Los Angeles home. Emergency responders came to his home after receiving a call that the star had suffered a cardiac arrest. However, once they arrived, they reportedly found the star dead in his hot tub.
The Friends' official Twitter account confirmed news of Perry's death, posting: "We are devastated to learn of Matthew Perry's passing. He was a true gift to us all. Our heart goes out to his family, loved ones, and all of his fans."
After small roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dream On, his 10 seasons on "Friends" made him one of Hollywood's most recognisable actors, starring opposite Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer as a friend group in New York.
Angelo Bruschini
Angelo Bruschini of Massive Attack died on October 23, with the band issuing a heartbreaking statement. He had been diagnosed with Pleomorphic Carcinoma, a rare form of lung cancer that typically occurs in less than one per cent of cases. Sadly, the survival rates for patients battling this form of cancer are very low and treatments are said to be ineffective.
News of Angelo's death had been circulating on social media for a day but the news was confirmed by the group on October 24. The late star's band took to their Facebook page to share three posts to mark Angelo's devastating death. They posted two black images with the caption "#RIPangelo." Before a second post saw Angelo performing on stage alongside the words: "Devastated. How lucky we all were to share such a life together. Such a brilliant, eccentric talent. Impossible to quantify your contribution RIP Angelo."
Dwight Twilley
Dwight Twilley died at the age of 72 on October 18, just days after he shared a new health update with fans. The sad news was announced by Dwight's heartbroken wife Jan in a statement via Tulsa's The Church Studio Facebook page. She wrote: "With heavy hearts, we share the devastating news of Dwight Twilley's passing.
"He peacefully departed this world, surrounded by the love of his life, Jan, and close friends. The loss is immeasurable, and our words can’t capture the depth of our grief." Jan added: "Dwight’s musical prowess touched countless lives, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts of many. We are profoundly thankful for the enduring musical legacy he has bestowed upon us all."
Piper Laurie
Emmy-winning actress Piper Laurie known for her work in hit productions including Twin Peaks and Carrie passed away at the age of 91 on October 14.
Her manager Marion Rosenberg confirmed her death in a statement where she described her as "one of the most remarkable and versatile actresses of her day," and a "brilliant and creative mind, and a glorious human being." Piper died in Los Angeles after a long spell of poor health.
She was best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1976 Stephen King horror novel adaptation Carrie where she played the mother of the title character. Piper was also nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Hustler years earlier where she played Paul Newman's girlfriend, Sarah Packard. Piper also won a Golden Globe for her role in cult-classic Twin Peaks as Catherine Martell.
Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates reportedly died on October 11 from natural causes aged 96, with the news said to have been shared by a relative.
She's known for having played Lois Lane in the Superman franchise. She appeared in the film Superman and the Mole Men (1951), before reprising the role in the TV show the Adventures of Superman. She's understood to have been the first actor to play the DC Comics character on TV.
Paul Costict
Paul Costict, member of the 90s rap group B-Rock and The Bizz, died at the age of 57 on October 25. A family member has said he sadly died "unexpectedly" at his home in Norfolk, Virginia. The cause of death is yet to be revealed.
Paul, who was well-known for his hit song My Baby Daddy, is said to have been feeling "sick" in the days before his death. The family member who reported Paul's death said they spoke to him before he died. Speaking to TMZ, they said despite feeling ill, Paul had been in "good spirits" when they spoke to him. Paul's rap collective B-Rock and The Bizz made it into the top 10 on the Billboard music chart with their 1997 song My Baby Daddy, with the track gaining a gold certification.
Haydn Gwynne
Actress Haydn Gwynne, best known for her roles The Crown, Drop the Dead Donkey and Peak Practice, died at the age of 66 on October 20. In a statement the, actress' agent announced: "It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with cancer, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne died in hospital in the small hours of Friday 20 October, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family and friends. We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton Hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks."
The actress starred in Billy Elliot the Musical in the role of Billy's dance teacher in both the West End and on Broadway. She was also nominated for a Tony Award. Other theatre roles include playing Margaret Thatcher in The Audience. Haydn was meant to make a return to the stage in September but couldn't when she was diagnosed with cancer.
Sir Bobby Charlton
Manchester United and England legend Sir Bobby Charlton sadly passed away at the age of 86 on October 21. A statement from his family read: "It is with great sadness that we share the news that Sir Bobby passed peacefully in the early hours of Saturday morning. He was surrounded by his family.
"His family would like to pass on their thanks to everyone who has contributed to his care and for the many people who have loved and supported him. We would request that the family’s privacy be respected at this time." The Manchester United icon formed part of Matt Busby's successful side of the 1960s, helping the club win three first division titles as well as the European Cup in 1968. He was one of the few players to survive the horrific Munich air disaster in 1958 which claimed the lives of 23 people.
Burt Young
Burt Young, the actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Sylvester Stallone’s best friend in “Rocky,” died aged 83 on October 8. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, according to The New York Times.
Young had roles in acclaimed films and television shows including “Chinatown,” “Once Upon a Time in America" and “The Sopranos.” But he was always best known for playing Paulie Pennino in six “Rocky” movies. The short, paunchy, balding Young was the sort of actor who always seemed to play middle-aged no matter his age.
Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers died a day before her 77th birthday on October 15, the star's publicist confirmed. The actress who was best known for her role on Three's Company passed away following a cancer battle she previously said started in her 20s. She had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer 23 years ago.
Her publicist said she died early on Sunday morning. R Couri Hay confirmed: "Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years."
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree, the star of the hit Shaft film series, has died aged 81. His manager Patrick McMinn confirmed the news in a statement on October 25, saying: "Richard's work and career served as a turning point for African American leading men in film. The impact he had on the industry cannot be overstated."
The Hollywood legend died from pancreatic cancer at his LA home surrounded by his family, Deadline reports. He had a mastectomy in 1993 after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Roundtree started his career as an model but landed the role that would make him a star when he was 28. He became the detective John Shaft in the hit 1971 crime thriller. He then went on to make two sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa, and a TV show but it only lasted seven episodes. He was dubbed the first Black action hero.
Michael Chiarello
Michael Chiarello died after suffering an allergic reaction, his family revealed. The popular TV chef, who was a regular on shows such as the Today Show and The View, was 61 years old at his time of death. He died in hospital on October 6 where he was being treated for an acute allergic reaction, which led to anaphylactic shock.
In a statement, his heartbroken family said: "We deeply mourn the loss of our beloved patriarch Michael. His culinary brilliance, boundless creativity, and unwavering commitment to family were at the core of his being. He brought people together through the joy of shared meals, fostering lasting memories around the table. As we navigate this profound loss, we hold dear the moments we cherished with him, both in his kitchens and in our hearts. His legacy will forever live on in the love he poured into every dish and the passion he instilled in all of us to savour life's flavours."
Tony Husband
Award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband died on October 18 after suffering a heart attack on a bridge. The 73-year-old political satirist, who also worked with Private Eye, was on his way to the magazine's bash in London when he collapsed on Westminster Bridge. Despite the emergency services being called, he couldn't be saved.
The work of the Blackpool-born veteran's appeared in The Times, Punch, Playboy and The Sunday Express. His son Paul said on facebook: "I don't know what more I can say other than he was everything to me. It's somewhat ironic that he somehow managed to survive 30 years of Private Eye parties but this one he didn't make".
Juliana Rocha
Juliana Rocha, a popular social media star, suddenly died at the age of 25 on October 25. The Instagram influencer's heartbroken family announced her death after she had vanished from social media for two months. Her cause of death is yet to be confirmed.
Sharing a post on Juliana's Instagram Story, her family said: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that Juliana Rocha's family informs you, her audience and those who liked her, that she has passed away." Juliana's funeral was then held on Tuesday for family and friends.
Juliana was hugely popular on social media and she had amassed almost 200,000 followers on Instagram. Over on TikTok, she had more than 250,000 followers who would watch her makeup tutorials.
Jon Kennedy
Cradle of Filth guitarist Jon Kennedy died at the age of 44 on October 4. The rockstar died following a car crash on the A55 near Broughton, Wales. Jon had played bass for metal band Cradle of Filth in 1994. He was with the band for around a year before moving on to other projects. The band's frontman Dani Filth led tributes to Jon. He said: "He was a great bassist and singer who filled in for Cradle at a time of such magical import, mayhem and mischief.
"I distinctly remember having a wickedly wonderful week staying just outside Wrexham in Wales at Jon’s mum’s house in 1995. We watched Emperor synch up with the newly-released Disney Aladdin on VHS, heading out to undertake Black Metal shenanigans thereafter. We were always pulling pranks and playfully winding each other up back in those days. He will be missed! Godspeed old friend." Cradle of Filth formed in 1991 and are still active today.
Francis Lee
Former Manchester City player and chairman Francis Lee died at the age of 79 on October 2 after a battle with cancer. Lee made 330 appearances for City and scored 148 goals. The club said: "It is with the deepest sadness and heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of former Manchester City player and Chairman Francis Lee. Everyone at Manchester City would like to send their condolences to the friends and family of Francis at this very difficult time. As a mark of respect, flags around the Etihad Stadium and City Football Academy are flying at half-mast."
Jake Abraham
Actor Jake Abraham died aged 56 on October 1, just months after sharing a stark warning after "leaving it too late" to visit a doctor. The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which spread to the rest of his body and resulted in tumours on his spine and hips, and one removed from his bladder.
Terence Davies
Terence Davies died aged 77 following a 'short illness' his manager announced. The British screenwriter and film director established himself on the cinematic map in the late 1970s and early 1980s with his trilogy of autobiographical films titled Children, Madonna And Child, Death And Transfiguration – and went on to make nine more feature films. Most recently, Slow Horses star Jack Lowden and Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi led his Netflix drama Benediction, based on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, also starring late actor Julian Sands.
September
Sir Michael Gambon
Sir Michael Gambon died aged 82 in hospital after contracting pneumonia. The Harry Potter legend's family shared the heartbreaking news in a statement this afternoon. On behalf of his wife Lady Gambon and son Fergus Gambon, issued by publicist Clair Dobbs, it read: "We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon.
"Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia. Michael was 82. We ask that you respect our privacy at this painful time and thank you for your messages of support and love."
Devastated fans flocked to X, formerly Twitter, to pay tribute to the icon, with one writing: "Such sad news- an acting legend and so much loved. Sir Michael Gambon will be remembered for so many great roles." While another commented: "Not Dumbledore. RIP Sir Michael Gambon. Millennials are in mourning." A third wrote: "Such sad news. Rest In Peace, Michael Gambon."
David McCallum
Scottish-born actor David McCallum died of natural causes at the age of 90 in New York City. He was best known as playing Illya Kuryakin in 1960s spy drama The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. He was also a supporting character on NCIS as pathologist Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard and starred as Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt in the Great Escape.
His son Peter shared the news in a statement. "He was the kindest, coolest, most patient and loving father. He always put family before self. He looked forward to any chance to connect with his grandchildren, and had a unique bond with each of them. He and his youngest grandson, Whit, 9, could often be found in the corner of a room at family parties having deep philosophical conversations," it read.
Dr Uchenna Okoye
TV medical expert Dr. Uchenna Okoye passed away after a sudden illness. The late star, who often appeared on ITV show This Morning and 10 Years Younger in 10 Days, is survived by her daughter. The news of the doctor's death was confirmed via her Instagram account, with her loved ones sharing a picture of Dr. Uchenna and breaking the sad news.
They wrote: "We are heartbroken to announce that Dr Uchenna Okoye sadly passed away after a sudden illness on Friday 15th September 2023. We know many of you will be devastated and shocked to see this post. We ask for your prayers and some privacy at this difficult time. We will be in touch in the coming days."
Maddy Anholt
TV comedy star Maddy Anholt died at the age of 35 on September 15, her family announced. The actress, author and comedian had been diagnosed with brain cancer just after giving birth to her daughter last year.
She starred in many BBC, ITV and Channel 4 comedies including the Emily Atack show, Sunny D, Jerk, and Mariah: The Diva, the Demons, the Drama. She was also a regular guest on This Morning and an ambassador for Women's Aid as well as writing two books about domestic violence and toxic relationships.
Maddy was a talented comedy actress and scriptwriter. She trained at ALRA alongside the likes of Miranda Hart and Bridget Christie. The daughter of children’s authors and illustrators, Catherine and Laurence Anholt, twin to painter Tom Anholt and with an older sister at the UN.
Jean Boht
Jean Boht, best known for playing Nellie Boswell in the TV sitcom Bread, died aged 91. The actress passed away on Tuesday, September 12, after a battle with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease..
A statement from her family said: "It is with overwhelming sadness that we must announce that Jean Boht passed away yesterday Tuesday 12 September. Jean had been battling vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease with the indefatigable spirit for which she was both beloved and renowned. She was a resident at Denville Hall, the home for members of the theatrical profession."
Jean is survived by her two adult children, daughters Hannah and Jessie Jo, whom she shared with husband Carl Davis, who died in August. She had been married for 43 years to the award-winning composer.
Charlie Newling
The Bachelorette star Charlie Newling has died aged 36 after his car plunged off a cliff. The tragic news comes just two months after the 36-year-old reality star welcomed his second child. Newling's car fell off a cliff in Dover Heights, Sydney it has been confirmed.
Newling found fame on the 2018 series of Australia's The Bachlorette, where he was dubbed 'Mr Perfect' by fans at the time. After leaving the show, he welcomed his daughter with partner Kristal Taylor in July this year. Newling also has a 13-year-old son from a past relationship.
Mike Yarwood
TV comedian and impersonator Mike Yarwood, who was known for his impressions of politicians and other celebrities, died aged 82, in hospital, the Royal Variety Charity has announced. The comedian was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s with hit BBC shows and was famous for his impressions of former prime ministers Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, as well as Prince Charles.
The Royal Variety Charity announced his death in a statement, saying: “He leaves behind an immeasurable void in the entertainment industry. Mike Yarwood quickly rose to prominence for his exceptional ability to mimic the voices and mannerisms of countless celebrities and public figures. His talent for impersonation brought smiles to the faces of millions and his unique ability to capture the essence of his subjects made him an icon in the comedy world.
"Throughout his career, Mike graced television screens nationwide, becoming a household name in the 1960s and 1970s. His variety shows, including The Mike Yarwood Show, and Mike Yarwood In Persons, captivated audiences and showcased his uncanny talent for mimicry on prime-time television for two decades. The Mike Yarwood Show (1977) holds the record for the largest single Christmas Day audience of 21.4 million viewers. Mike’s family have asked that their privacy be respected during this sad and difficult time."
Steve Harwell
The lead singer of Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, died at 56. His manager, Robert Hayes, told The Mirror in a statement: "Steve Harwell passed away this morning September 4, 2023 at his home in Boise Idaho. He was surrounded by family and friends and passed peacefully and comfortably."
Steve retired from Smash Mouth two years ago and the band tours with Zach Goode. However, his manager said that "Steve's legacy will live on through the music". While in the band, they achieved great success with over 10 million albums sold worldwide. A dedicated musician, Steve had love for his craft and music. "He loved the fans and loved to perform," his manager said.
In the statement, he said: "[Smash Mouth] topped the charts with two #1 hit singles, five Top 40 singles, three Hot 100 singles, four Billboard 200 albums and a Grammy nomination not to mention the hundreds of film and television placements and of course those musical features in Shrek! Steve's iconic voice is one of the most recognizable voices from his generation."
Steve had been in the final stages of liver failure before he died at his home with family while in hospice treatment. Throughout his life, Steve had struggled with alcohol abuse and addiction. It has previously been reported that this contributed to his health conditions and complications, including cardiomyopathy.
Jimmy Buffett
The singer Jimmy Buffett passed away aged 76 on September 1. The news was announced in a post on his X account: "Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1 surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many." Jimmy enjoyed a decades-long career in the music industry, with him known for songs like Margaritaville. He's worked on other ventures over the years too and according to Forbes had a net worth of around $1 billion (around £795,000,000).
August
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire, former owner of Harrods, and father of Dodi Fayed, died at the age of 94 on August 30. In a statement released by Fulham FC, his family said: "Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohamed, has passed away peacefully of old age. He enjoyed a long and fulfilled retirement surrounded by his loved ones. The family have asked for their privacy to be respected at this time."
Gayle Hunnicutt
Gayle Hunnicutt, the Texas-born actress who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV's Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl the Return of the Saint and Dallas died aged 80 on August 31, 2023.
After a divorce from British actor David Hemmings, she married the journalist and editor Sir Simon Jenkins, and alongside her acting career became a fixture of the British social scene. She is best remembered for the final three seasons of Dallas, from 1989 to 1991, in which she played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat whose long-ago affair with JR Ewing produced a son he had never known existed.
Gayle's career started when she was young. She was scouted by Warner Brothers while she was in a college production at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first show was a comedy, Mister Roberts, which she was in at only 23. From there, she moved on to a role in Wild Angels. Notably, she made in appearance in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Irene Adler.
Outside of film, she was also a theatre actress. The Life and Loves of Edith Wharton was a personal two-hander project of hers that toured theatres for many years. Her ex-husband, Simon, said that she identified personally with the play. She followed that role with another appearance in a two-hander, The Two Marys.
Jack Sonni
Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni died on August 30 at the age of 68. The legendary guitarist's death was announced by the rock 'n' roll group in a heartbreaking post online. The group posted a black and white photo of Jack on X, formerly known as Twitter, and wrote: "#JackSonni Rest In Peace #DireStraits". Dire Straits Legacy, an official group of musicians who formerly toured with the band, announced prior to this that the guitarist had been suffering from ill health in a social media post.
The post read: "Dear fans, unfortunately, Jack Sonni will not be able to participate in our next gigs because of health problems. Jack get better soon, we are waiting for you! With love, the DSL family." Fans soon reacted to the sad news as one wrote: "Very sad news. He was only 10yrs older than me. Rest in peace Jack". "So sorry to hear that Jack Sonni has passed away,with me being a massive fan of Dire Straits I was fortunate enough to see him live twice during the Brothers in Arms Tour . He made his red coat iconic in Live Aid.I spoke to him on more than one occasion, lovely guy. R.I.P Jack," another added.
Bob Barker
Bob Barker, a legendary American television host sadly died at the age of 99. Reports say that Bob died of "natural causes" while at home, with him dying "peacefully" on August 26 in Los Angeles. His representative confirmed the news to TMZ.
Bob, whose real name was Robert William Barker, was best known for hosting the hit CBS gameshow The Price Is Right. He fronted the show from 1972 until 2007, but was also known for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 until 1975. The TV host's sad passing comes almost 51 years to the day that he began hosting The Price Is Right, with him first taking on hosting duties on September 4, 1972.
Although Bob died from reported "natural causes", he suffered a few health issues throughout his life. Back in 1999, he had "clumsiness in his right hand" before being admitted to the hospital and being diagnosed with a partially blocked left carotid artery. He then underwent carotid endarterectomy to remove the blockage before returning to work within a month.
Arleen Sorkin
Arleen Sorkin, the original voice actress of Batman villain Harley Quinn, died on August 24 at the age of 67. The sad news was announced by her friend and voice actor Neil Kaplan on Twitter as he paid tribute to the Days of Our Lives star, describing her as an "incredible talent". Her cause of death is yet to be revealed. Sharing a picture of Arleen, as well as a picture of the iconic Harley Quinn character, Neil wrote: "It broke my heart to hear… the original voice of Harley Quinn, Arlene Sorkin has passed away. I adored her work as HQ & as Calliope in Days of Our Lives."
Mark Hamill, who voiced Harley Quinn's lover The Joker, also paid tribute to his co-star Arleen, writing: "Devastated to learn we've lost the brilliant Arleen Sorkin. Not just a wonderful talent, but a truly wonderful person. I'm grateful not only to have worked with her, but to have been her friend. Sending my heartfelt condolences to her family & loved ones."
Bray Wyatt
WWE superstar Bray Wyatt tragically passed away on August 24 aged 36. The company's chief content officer, Triple H, announced the sad news on social media. He wrote: "Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda - also known as Bray Wyatt - unexpectedly passed earlier today. Our thoughts are with his family and we ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time."
Wyatt had been out of action in the WWE ring since late February due to illness. It was recently reported he was close to getting cleared to return with the company putting together plans for his comeback. He stepped away from the ring shortly before WrestleMania, where he was due to face Bobby Lashley in April before the storyline was abruptly halted. It later emerged he had an unspecified illness.
It has been reported he died of a heart attack having suffered from a heart issue which was exacerbated after he caught COVID. The wrestling universe was quick to pay tribute after the news. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson said on social media: "I'm heartbroken over the news of Bray Wyatt's passing. Always had tremendous respect and love for him and the Rotunda family. Loved his presence, promos, in-ring work, and connection with the WWE universe."
Sir Michael Parkinson
The family of British broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson confirmed the 88-year-old's death on August 17 following a 'brief illness'. His loved ones confirmed the tragic news in a statement that said: "After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family. The family request that they are given privacy and time to grieve."
Parkinson's death came just eight years after he was given the all-clear following two years of treatment for prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with the disease in 2013 and speaking at the time he explained it had come as a "great shock" but told that he was expected to make a full recovery.
Darren Kent
British actor Darren Kent, who is known for his work in Game of Thrones and EastEnders, died at the age of 36 on August 11, with Holby City actor Lee Mead leading the tributes to the late star. The actor, who died following a long health battle, made an appearance as a Goatherd from Slavers Bay in a 2014 episode of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. Earlier in 2023, the late actor also played a corpse in the fantasy movie Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. Darren previously worked alongside big names in Hollywood such as Twilight star Kristen Stewart and Kiefer Sutherland.
His film and TV credits also include Snow White and the Huntsman as well as cameos on the original British version of Shameless in 2004, an appearance on American series Community in 2012 and he took on the role of Mr Verity in the ITV five-part drama series Malpractice. His first acting role came about in 2008, when he appeared in the film Mirrors, starring Ben Carson, and Darren went on to win Best Actor award in 2012's Van D'or awards ceremony for the character Danny in the movie Sunnyboy.
Mark Margolis
Actor Mark Margolis died at the age of 83 on August 3, following a short illness. His son and Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis, announced that his father had died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Mark was well known for his role as Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and the show's spin-off series Better Call Saul. His role in the Netflix hit Breaking Bad landed him an Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series back in 2012.
He was born in 1939 in Philadelphia to a humble family. His mother was a decorator and his father was a factory worker. He took his first acting class at 14 at Temple University before moving to New York to study drama with Stella Adler at The Actors Studio. He had several small roles before he became Alberto in Scarface in 1983, which was his last acting role for a while, he revealed: "I am just a journeyman actor. Truth to tell, six months after Scarface, I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by." Mark went on to play surveillance expert Jimmy in CBS' crime drama The Equalizer before starring in legendary movies like Requiem For A Dream, alongside Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly, Black Swan and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
William Friedkin
Director William Friedkin died at the age of 87, his wife's friend confirmed. He died in Los Angeles on August 7, Chapman University dean Stephen Galloway announced. William was best known for his Oscar-winning move, The French Connection, and the huge horror film The Exorcist.
He was said to have got the job for the iconic horror - an adaptation of Blatty’s best-selling novel - after a number of other filmmakers such as Mike Nichols and Stanley Kubrick turned it down. His final film, titled The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The production features Kiefer Sutherland. Other productions he was a part of included the thriller To Live and Die in LA and Sorcerer. He once described how he "never played by the rules," insisting it was "often to my own detriment".
John Gosling
The Kinks paid tribute to former band member John Gosling, after it was revealed the keyboard player had died at the age of 75 on August 4. In a statement posted to the band's official social media pages, they told fans: "We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of John Gosling. We are sending our condolences to John's wife and family."
Lead singer Ray Davies said: "Condolences to his wife Theresa and family. Rest in Peace dearest John." Ray's younger brother Dave Davies added: "I’m dismayed deeply upset by John Gosling’s passing. He has been a friend and important contributor to the Kinks music during his time with us. Deepest sympathies to his wife and family. I will hold deep affection and love for him in my heart always. Great musician and a great man." Gosling played keyboard with the band between 1970 and 1978 playing on ten albums and contributing to the demo for Lola which went on to become one of the band's biggest hits.
Doreen Mantle
One Foot In The Grave actress Doreen Mantle died aged 97 on August 9. The star who was best known for playing the role of Jean Warboys – the friend of Victor Meldrew's wife passed away at her family home. The South African-born British actress appeared on the programme between 1990 and 2000. Confirming her death, a representative for Doreen said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our beloved client and much-loved stage, screen, and radio actress Doreen Mantle, aged 97. She died peacefully at home. She is survived by her two sons, four grandchildren and one brother." Over her career, the late star went on to land roles in The Duchess of Duke Street, Casualty, The Bill, Holby City and Coronation Street.
Jamie Reid
The artist behind the Sex Pistols' signature logo and album covers died aged 76 on August 8. Artist Jamie Reid became famous for his notable designs including the artwork for the British punk band's classic 1997 song God Save The Queen featuring a young Elizabeth II with the record title plastered across her eyes and mouth. The designer helped curate the aesthetic of the punk rock era with his approach of using letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note.
DJ Casper
DJ Casper died at the age of 58 on August 7, seven years after being diagnosed with two forms of cancer. The American DJ, hype man, and songwriter - whose real name is Willie Perry Jr - is best known for creating the catchy dance song Cha-Cha Slide, which topped the charts in 2000.
In an interview just three months before his death, the performer said he had lost 180lb during his gruelling health battle but was determined not to give up. "If you know me, you know I'm not gonna stop. I'm going to continue to go," he said. "I will continue to go until I can't go." He also encouraged people to continue doing the Cha-Cha Slide through challenging moments in life.
Carl Davis
Award-winning musician Carl Davis died at the age of 86. The BAFTA-winning composer is famous for composing the 2006 World Cup theme but also wrote music for more than 300 films and TV programmes in his long career, including the BBC adaptation of Pride. and Prejudice, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Oppenheimer and The Pickwick Papers.
He also composed music for hit shows such as Upstairs Downstairs and won a BAFTA and Ivor Novello Award for his score to 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman starring Meryl Streep. A statement from his family said: "We are heartbroken to announce that Carl Davis (CBE) passed away this morning, following a brain haemorrhage."
July
Angus Cloud
Actor Angus Cloud died on July 31, 2023, at his family's home in Oakland, California, a statement confirmed. The 25-year-old is best known for his role as Fezco "Fez" O'Neill on the HBO teen drama Euphoria alongside Zendaya but has also made cameos in several music videos for artists such as Becky G, Karol G, and Juice WRLD and appeared as a guest on a few other TV shows.
His role as a high school drug dealer with a heart of gold in the first and second seasons of Euphoria turned Cloud into a breakout Hollywood star, with fans enamoured by his close friendship with Lexi (Maude Apatow). In an emotional statement, his family said: "It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today. As an artist, a friend, a brother, and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways."
Sinead O'Connor
The Irish singer died aged 56 on July 26, just 18 months after the tragic death of her 17-year-old son. In a statement, the singer's family said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time."
A police statement confirmed that Sinead was found unresponsive at her home in south London. O'Connor rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and became a sensation in the early 90s for her arrangement of Prince's song Nothing Compares 2 U. Over the years she's also made headlines for her outspoken political and social views and rebellious antics.
Paul Reubens
Actor Paul Reubens died at the age of 70 from cancer on July 30. A statement on his Instagram page read: "Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness. Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit."
As well as an image of the star, there was a quote from Paul that he penned prior to his death. He told his fans: "Please accept my apology for not going public with what I've been facing the last six years. I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you."
George Alagiah
One of BBC's longest-serving newsreaders, George Alagiah, died aged 67 after living with bowel cancer for the last nine years. A statement from Alagiah's agent Mary Greenham to the PA news agency said: "I am so terribly sorry to inform you that George Alagiah died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones.
"George fought until the bitter end but sadly that battle ended earlier today. George was deeply loved by everybody who knew him, whether it was a friend, a colleague or a member of the public. He simply was a wonderful human being. My thoughts are with Fran, the boys, and his wider family."
Trevor Francis
Former England star Trevor Francis, who is thought to be Britain's first £1million player died at the age of 69. The Three Lions icon passed away at his home in Marbella on July 24 having suffered a heart attack. A statement from his family said: "Trevor Francis has died at the age of 69. He had a heart attack at his apartment in Spain this morning. On behalf of the family, this has come as a huge shock to everybody. We are all very upset. He was a legendary footballer but he was also an extremely nice person." As well as playing 52 times for his country between 1977 and 1986, Francis also represented Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Manchester City, Rangers, QPR and Sheffield Wednesday during his career.
Tony Bennett
Legendary singer Tony Bennett died at the age of 96 on July 21 in his hometown of New York. Bennett - who collaborated with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga in the last chapter of his astonishing career - had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016. Actor George Takei paid tribute: "The great Tony Bennett has passed away at the age of 96. He was the last of his kind, a master of the American songbook. He may have left his Heart in San Francisco, but he won all of our hearts, from Sinatra to Lady Gaga. Be at peace, and sing to us now from the stars, Tony."
Jane Birkin
Singer and actress Jane Birkin died aged 76 on July 16. The English-French icon, who lent her name to the Hermes Birkin designer handbag, was found at home by her caregiver. She first emerged in the showbiz world during the 1960s through an uncredited role in The Knack ...and How to Get It. She gained notoriety through her small role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup in 1966 following her brave nude scene as a blonde model.
Carlin Glynn
Sixteen Candles star Carlin Glynn died at the age of 83 after being diagnosed with both cancer and dementia. Her heartbroken daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, confirmed the sad news on social media, writing: "On Thursday, July 13th, my mother, Carlin Glynn Masterson, passed away. I was with her. I will always be grateful for those last moments, no matter how hard," Mary wrote alongside three pictures of her mother.
She continued: "Death is like birth in the oddest way. From my first breath to her last. This thread is as fragile as it is strong. She was the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet.
"Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener. She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family." As well as Sixteen Candles, Glynn had also appeared in Three Days of the Condor, Strange Luck, and A Woman Named Jackie.
George Armstrong
Former Grange Hill star George Armstrong died on July 11 at the age of 60, after a 'long battle with Leukaemia'. The actor played Alan Humphries and was a key character between 1978 and 1982 for the first five series of the show, before joining Todd Carty's character Tucker Jenkins for the spin-off series, Tucker's Luck.
George got his first notable role in TV as Hubert Lane in 1977's Just William starring alongside Bonnie Langford. He was also known for his role as PC Driscoll in The Bill in 1989. He eventually left acting to become a Technical Theatre Manager at a public school.
Meg Johnson
On July 2 it was announced that actress Meg Johnson, best known for her role as Pearl Ladderbanks on Emmerdale, had died aged 86. Meg had been on the soap since 2003 and was hailed by ITV and her family in a joint statement as "kind and wonderful".
The statement read: "It is with great sadness that we announce that actress Meg Johnson passed away peacefully yesterday evening surrounded by her family. "Meg was a kind and wonderful lady, full of warmth and always with a twinkle in her eye. Meg had an outstanding career that ended with her playing Pearl Ladderbanks in Emmerdale from 2003. Meg had dementia for the last few years, but battled on personally and professionally regardless. She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her."
Andrea Evans
Actress Andrea Evans died of cancer at the age of 66 on July 9. The star was best known for her role as Tina Lord in the popular soap opera One Life To Live. She also starred as Patty Williams on CBS’ The Young and the Restless, before playing Tawny Moore on the same channel's The Bold and the Beautiful.
Other hit roles saw her star as Rebecca Hotchkiss on NBC's Passions and Patty Walker on Amazon Prime's The Bay. Her biggest role as Tina saw her play the part of the troublemaking teen until 1981. She later returned to the role in 1985. It was during this spell that she received her first Daytime Emmy nomination in 1988.
Coco Lee
Actress and singer Coco Lee died by suicide, family members confirmed on July 5. The Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter was 48 years old. A statement revealed the star had been suffering from depression for a number of years. It was revealed Coco was rushed to hospital at the weekend and was in a coma before she died on Wednesday.
Coco was initially a Mandopop singer and went on to voice the heroine, Fa Mulan, in the Mandarin version of Disney's hit film Mulan. She also sang the Mandarin version of the movie's title tune called Reflection. She was also recognised for her feature on the 2000 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The star sang A Love Before Time on the hit movie.
June
Alan Arkin
Hollywood icon Alan Arkin, who was known and loved for starring in Little Miss Sunshine, died at the age of 89 on June 29. His three beloved sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed his death in a joint statement: "Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed."
Alan starred in comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine back in the mid-noughties, with him acting alongside Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, and Abigail Breslin. The role is what won him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Angela Thorne
To the Manor Born actress Angela Thorne died peacefully at her home at the age of 84 on June 16. A statement from her son Rupert said: "She was the beloved wife of Peter Penry Jones, and is survived by her two sons Rupert and Laurie Penry Jones and her grandchildren, Florence, Peter, Giorgio and Delilah. We will all miss her very much." The star was best known for her roles in The Human Factor, North Sea Hijack, The BFG and Cold Comfort Farm.
Glenda Jackson
Oscar-winning actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson died aged 87 on June 15 after a 'brief illness'. In a statement, her agent Lionel Larner said: "Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side. She recently completed filming 'The Great Escaper' in which she co-starred with Michael Caine." Glenda was a Labour MP, first for Hampstead and Highgate then for Hampstead and Kilburn, from 1992 until 2015, when she stood down. She also had a successful acting career, winning three Emmy awards.
Gordon McQueen
Former Scotland defender Gordon McQueen died aged 70 on June 15 after a battle with dementia. A statement issued on behalf of the McQueen family said: "It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather. We hope that as well as creating many great football memories for club and his country, he will be remembered for the love, laughter and bravery that characterised his career and his family life – not least during his recent battles with ill health."
Treat Williams
Hollywood actor Treat Williams died on June 13 at the age of 71 following a motorcycle crash in Vermont. Williams, who starred on the stage and on screen, had a distinguished career which spanned more than six decades. During his long career, he was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
His agent of 15 years, Barry McPherson, confirmed the news of Williams' death in a statement released by People. It read: "He was killed this afternoon. He was making a left or a right [and] a car cut him off. I'm just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented. He was an actor's actor. Filmmakers loved him. He's been the heart of the Hollywood since the late 1970s. He was really proud of his performance this year. He's been so happy with the work that I got him. He's had a balanced career."
Julian Sands
Julian Sands - best known for his acting roles in films such as A Room with a View (1985) - went missing in January this year whilst he was out on a hike in the San Gabriel Mountains in California. It was then confirmed in late June that the human remains found near the area Julian Sands disappeared were the actor.
Julian is survived by his wife Evgenia Citkowitz - whom he married in 1990 - and their two children, Natalya and Imogen, as well as by his son Henry from a previous marriage. The late actor was from the UK but he is said to have moved to the US with his family in around 2020. He's said to have settled in Los Angeles following his relocation stateside.
Mike Batayeh
Breaking Bad actor Mike Batayeh died suddenly at the age of 52 on June 1. The actor, best known to fans for playing the manager at Gustavo's infamous laundromat, died in his sleep of a heart attack while home in Michigan.
The actor's sister told TMZ he will be "greatly missed" by his family. A family statement said: "He will be greatly missed by those who loved him and his great ability to bring laughter and joy to so many."
May
Robin Page
One Man And His Dog presenter Robin Page died aged 80 on May 30 at his home in Cambridgeshire following a battle with cancer. Robin became known for his programme which ran from 1994 until 2000. As well as his television career, he was a best-selling writer, political campaigner for the Conservative Party and a newspaper columnist. The conservationist was a friend of King Charles III, who he met back in 2016, describing the Monarch as a "good, green man".
Tina Turner
Legendary singer Tina Turner died at the age of 83 on May 24. The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll passed away after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich in Switzerland. Tina's spokesman confirmed she died "peacefully" at home and added: "With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model. With her music and her inexhaustible vitality, Tina Turner thrilled millions of fans and inspired many artists of subsequent generations."
The music legend had been suffering from high blood pressure and kidney failure, with her rep confirming that she died of natural causes. In 2017, Tina was so ill she was ready to end her life until her husband Erwin Bach, 67, donated a kidney so she could have a transplant.
Erwin fully recovered from the operation but Tina had to continue taking strong doses of immunosuppressants. Tina bravely opened up about her terrifying struggle with the "silent killer" of kidney disease before her death. In her final months, she admitted she had refused to take conventional medicine for her hypertension and put herself "at great danger" by turning to homeopathic cures. "I considered my body an invulnerable and indestructible bastion for way too long," she told Show your Kidneys Love.
Andy Rourke
The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke died at the age of 59 on May 19 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Andy's former bandmate Johnny Marr announced the news on social media as he paid tribute to the talented musician. The tweet read: "It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer. Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans."
Tori Bowie
United States athlete Tori Bowie passed away aged 32 on May 2. Her representatives confirmed her tragic death in a statement: "We're devastated to share the very sad news that Tori Bowie has passed away. We've lost a client, dear friend, daughter and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of light that shined so bright! We're truly heartbroken and our prayers are with the family and friends."
Bowie competed in long jump, 100m and 200m and was a three-time Olympic medallist. She was part of the US relay team which won gold in the 4x100m at the Rio 2016 Olympic games, also winning silver in the 100m and bronze in the 200m in Brazil. Bowie also won two gold medals at the 2017 World Athletic Championships held in London, again triumphing in the relay as well as winning individual 100m gold.
April
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer died aged 79 on April 27 this year. The American broadcaster - who was born in London's Highgate underground station - hosted the Jerry Springer Show for 27 years. A statement from his family confirmed that he passed away peacefully at his home in Chicago.
A source said Jerry was suffering from pancreatic cancer having being diagnosed just a few months earlier. "Jerry's ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word," family spokesman Jene Galvin said.
Harry Belafonte
Singer and activist Harry Belafonte died aged 96 on April 25. Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s with his folk music, and became a powerful force in the civil rights movement as well as a Hollywood figure. He passed away in his Manhattan apartment with his wife Pamela by his side, after congestive heart failure. He was known for hit songs such as Day-O and Jamaica Farewell, with his album Calypso topping the billboard album chart after its release in 1956. By 1959, Belafonte was the highest-paid Black performer in history, with shows in Las Vegas.
Len Goodman
Strictly Come Dancing legend Len Goodman died aged 78 from bone cancer on 22 April. The late star had been residing in a hospice in Tunbridge Wells in Kent before his passing. A statement from his agent said: "It is with great sadness to announce that Len Goodman has passed away peacefully, aged 78. A much-loved husband, father and grandfather who will be sorely missed by family, friends and all who knew him."
Queen Camilla - who was friends with the star - paid tribute, with a palace spokesperson stating: "Her Majesty was saddened to hear the news." Craig Revel Horwood, who sat on the Strictly judging panel alongside Len for many years, added: "I've just woken up to the sad news that my gorgeous colleague and dear friend Len Goodman has passed away. My heart and love go out to his lovely Sue and family. Len Goody Goodman is what I always called him and "It's a ten from Len & seveeeeern" will live with me forever. RIP Len."
Barry Humphries
Australian comedian Barry Humphries died at the age of 89 on April 22 after complications from hip replacement surgery. The Dame Edna Everage star passed away at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney where he was being treated. A statement from the Humphries family said: "He was completely himself until the very end, never losing his brilliant mind, his unique wit and generosity of spirit. With over 70 years on the stage, he was an entertainer to his core, touring up until the last year of his life and planning more shows that will sadly never be. His audiences were precious to him, and he never took them for granted."
Mark Sheehan
The Script guitarist Mark Sheehan died on April 14 at the age of 46 following a short illness. A statement from the band, known for hits such as Man Who Can't Be Moved, Superheroes, Hall of Fame, said: "Much loved husband, father, brother, bandmate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness. The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time."
Before joining The Script, Mark was a former member of the band MyTown, along with bandmate Danny O' Donoghue. The band formed in 2001, alongside drummer Glen Power. With the Script, he sold millions of albums, received two Brit nominations, three Meteor Ireland Music Awards, and two World Music Awards.
Dame Mary Quant
Iconic fashion designer Dame Mary Quant died aged 93 on April 13 at her home in Surrey. A statement from her family said: "Dame Mary, aged 93, was one of the most internationally recognised Fashion Designers of the 20th Century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties. She opened her first shop Bazaar in the Kings Road in 1955 and her far-sighted and creative talents quickly established a unique contribution to British fashion."
The designer was one of the most influential figures in 1960s fashion and is credited with making miniskirts mainstream, and bringing fashion to the masses. In 2014, she was made a dame for services to British fashion in the Queen's New Year list and at the time, she said: "I am absolutely delighted to have been awarded this terrific honour. It is extremely gratifying that my work in the fashion industry has been recognised and acknowledged in such a significant way."
Paul Cattermole
Paul Cattermole died at the age of 46 on April 6, just weeks after S Club 7 revealed their plans for a reunion tour. The pop legend was found dead at his home in Dorset after suffering from heart problems. Tributes came pouring in for the late star, with Vernon Kay, Rylan, Lizzie Cundy and Nicki Chapman just some of the famous names who expressed their sadness online following the shock news.
The singer had been looking forward to joining the rest of the band for the reunion to mark 25 years since the release of their first single Bring It All Back. His bandmate and ex-girlfriend Hannah Spearritt is said to have been devastated, and she later pulled out of the reunion tour.
Nigel Lawson
Former Conservative Party MP and journalist Nigel Lawson died at the age of 91 on April 3, just months after retiring. The politician represented the constituency of Blaby from 1974 to 1992 and served in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1989. He left behind six children, including food writer and celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, journalist Dominic Lawson and Tom Lawson, headmaster of Eastbourne College.
Before entering the Cabinet, Mr Lawson was the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 to September 1981. Then, from September 1981 to June 1983, the MP was Secretary of State for Energy and then served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from June 1983 to October 1989.
March
Paul O'Grady
Tributes poured in after TV icon and radio star Paul O'Grady died unexpectedly at the age of 67 on March 28. The comedian, actor and writer, also known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia.
Announcing the tragic news in a statement, husband Andre Portasio said: "It is with great sadness that I inform you that Paul has passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening. We ask, at this difficult time, that whilst you celebrate his life you also respect our privacy as we come to terms with this loss. He will be greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, family, animals and all those who enjoyed his humour, wit and compassion. I know that he would want me to thank you for all the love you have shown him over the years."
Lance Reddick
Actor Lance Reddick died at the age of 60 on March 17. The body of the star, best known for his roles on The Wire and John Wick, is said to have been found at his Studio City home. Law enforcement sources told TMZ the cause of death was unclear, but it appeared to be natural.
He was taking part in a press tour for the fourth instalment of popular franchise John Wick prior to his death. He played the role of Charon in the movie and was scheduled to talk about the latest movie on Kelly Clarkson's talk show the following week. Days before his death he posted a video of himself with his dogs on social media. The clip came as he was due to be attending the Wick 4 premiere in New York City. The actor never mentioned why he chose not to show up to the event.
Paul Grant
Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Paul Grant died aged 56 on March 20 after suddenly collapsing outside Kings Cross station. His life support machine was switched off on the following Sunday, his heartbroken family confirmed. Paul, 56 - who was 4ft 4in tall - is understood to have appeared in various films over the course of his career, including playing an Ewok in Return of the Jedi (1983).
He previously told the Mirror that he also appeared in the Star Wars film as robot R2-D2 in some scenes, saying that he stood in for co-star Kenny Baker who played the role. Paul's other credits include working on Labyrinth (1986) and Willow (1988) as well as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
Jacqueline Gold
On March 16, Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold died at the age of 62 - just weeks after her dad passed away. Jacqueline was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. She recovered but the cancer subsequently returned. The businesswoman lost her sight while undergoing chemotherapy two years after she was first given the all-clear. Jacqueline also underwent a double mastectomy.
In 2020, she revealed she was free of the disease and trying to focus on the future. Jacqueline tragically lost her baby boy Alfie at eight months, following an emotional IVF battle that saw her fall pregnant with twins at 48 with her husband Dan Cunningham, who is 17 years her junior. The multi-millionaire businesswoman was told her son had a fatal abnormality and would not survive childbirth.
Dick Fosbury
Olympic gold medal winning high jumper Dick Fosbury died at the age of 76 on March 13. The American, who revolutionised the sport with the use of his 'Fosbury flop', passed away after a recurrence of lymphoma. Former agent Ray Schulte announced on Instagram: "It is with a very heavy heart I have to release the news that longtime friend and client Dick Fosbury @dickfosbury68 passed away peacefully in his sleep early Sunday morning after a short bout with a recurrence of lymphoma." He went on to describe Fosbury as a "track and field legend."
Bill Tidy
Former Countdown and Countryfile star Bill Tidy died at the age of 89 on March 13. The legendary artist passed away with his children Sylvia and Rob, who was his full-time carer, by his side. Sylvia, who runs a PR agency, said: "Today is one of the hardest days of my life. Dad was a talented and very funny man, as well as the UK's best-loved cartoonist."
Much-loved Bill, who penned the Mirror's comic strip The Fosdyke Saga for 14 years, was awarded an MBE in 2000 for services to journalism and helped to set up the British Cartoonists' Association. His health had declined after two major strokes, his relatives said.
Mystic Meg
Famous astrologer Mystic Meg passed away on March 9 at the age of 80, following a short illness. The iconic astrologer, who's real name was Margaret Lake, shot to fame with her National Lottery predictions. Her agent Dave Shapland announced the news in a statement, which read: "Without any question, she was Britain's most famous astrologer by a million miles. She even became part of the English language – if a politician, somebody from showbiz or ordinary people in the street are asked a tricky question they will say 'Who do you think I am, Mystic Meg?'"
Away from her crystal ball, Meg lived a clean life – choosing a vegan diet and refusing to touch alcohol or tobacco. She lived in the posh London suburb of Notting Hill. Meg shared her home with seven cats, which she said found her and moved in.
Steve Mackey
On March 2, Steve Mackey died at the age of 56. The bassist was part of the rock group Pulp, which he joined in 1989. They were best known for hits such as Common People, Babies and Disco 2000. The band were due to reunite this year, but in October Steve announced he wouldn't be taking part in the reunion.
Steve was also a music producer and worked with big names in the music industry including Florence + the Machine – co-writing songs on the band's critically acclaimed album Lungs. He also worked with The Kills, The Long Blondes, M.IA and more. The sad news was confirmed by his wife, fashion journalist wife Katie Grand, as she posted a black and white photo of Steve smiling on his Instagram page.
The caption, which was entitled 'a message from Katie', read: "After three months in hospital, fighting with all his strength and determination, we are shocked and devastated to have said goodbye my brilliant, beautiful husband, Steve Mackey. Steve died today, a loss which has left myself, his son Marley, parents Kath and Paul, sister Michelle and many friends all heartbroken.
"Steve was the most talented man I knew, an exceptional musician, producer, photographer and filmmaker. As in life, he was adored by everyone whose paths he crossed in the multiple creative disciplines he conquered. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the NHS staff who worked tirelessly for Steve. He will be missed beyond words."
February
Betty Boothroyd
Legendary former Labour MP and Speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd died at the age of 93 on February 26. The stalwart politician served as MP for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000 and was the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the current speaker of the House of Commons, recalled her "no-nonsense style" and her reprimanding of MPs with "good humour". "Not only was Betty Boothroyd an inspiring woman, but she was also an inspirational politician, and someone I was proud to call my friend," he said in a statement on Monday. "To be the first woman Speaker was truly ground-breaking and Betty certainly broke that glass ceiling with panache."
The Speaker added: "She was from Yorkshire, and I am from Lancashire – so there was always that friendly rivalry between us. But from my point of view, it was heartening to hear a Northern voice speaking from the Chair. She stuck by the rules, had a no-nonsense style, but any reprimands she did issue were done with good humour and charm. Betty was one of a kind. A sharp, witty and formidable woman – and I will miss her."
John Motson
On February 23, legendary commentator John Motson sadly passed away aged 77. Born in Salford, Lancashire, the popular broadcaster was a familiar voice over a 50-year career with the BBC after he was hired as a sports presenter for Radio 2 back in 1968.
His work in the field eventually earned him an OBE in 2001 for services to sports broadcasting. A statement from the BBC confirming his death said: "Motson covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport before retiring from the organisation in 2018. Popularly known as 'Motty', he had worked on Match of the Day since 1971 and commentated on almost 2,500 televised games."
Dickie Davies
Legendary World of Sport presenter Dickie Davies was confirmed to have died at the age of 94 on February 19. The news was broken by former colleague Jim Rosenthal, who posted on social media: "With huge sadness, we announce Dickie Davies passed away this morning. So proud of his 20 years of World of Sport, three Olympic Games and a brilliant career on the telly. He is survived by a loving wife, two adoring sons, four grandkids and two beloved dogs."
Raquel Welch
Hollywood megastar Raquel Welch died on February 15 aged 82 following a "brief illness". She rose to fame for her 1960s roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C, quickly becoming one of the industry's most sought-after stars. Her heartbroken family confirmed the tragic news to TMZ, telling the outlet that she passed away. Raquel won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her 1974 role in The Three Musketeers.
Burt Bacharach
Singer-songwriter Burt Bacharach died of natural causes at the age of 94 on February 9 at his home in Los Angeles. The legendary composer was behind hits like 'I Say a Little Prayer', 'Walk on By', 'Do You Know the Way to San Jose' and dozens of others. His favourite singer for his hit songs was Dionne Warwick but he also wrote material for Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, the Carpenters and Tom Jones. Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Frank Sinatra were among the big artists who covered his songs.
Paco Rabanne
On February 3, it was confirmed that Paco Rabanne had died at the age of 88. The Spanish fashion designer and perfume legend died in Portsall, France. Rabanne, born Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo in 1934, grew up in the Basque town of Pasajes, Gipuzkoa province.
He shot to international fame in the 1960s after beginning his career by helping craft jewellery for Dior, Givenchy and Balenciaga before later founding his own fashion house in 1966. Confirming the sad news of his death, Spanish group Puig - which controls the Paco Rabanne brand - released a statement.
José Manuel Albesa, president of Puig's fashion and beauty division, said: "Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal? Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre – the word means 'automobile grill', you know – and turn it into an icon of modern femininity? That radical, rebellious spirit set him apart: There is only one Rabanne. With his passing, we are reminded once again of his enormous influence on contemporary fashion, a spirit that lives on in the house that bears his name."
January
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday in The Addams Family, died on January 28 at the age of 64 after suffering a "massive stroke". The actress passed away after being taken off life support. Her death was confirmed in a heartbreaking social media post by her close friend Laure Jacobson, who said: "It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring. Four days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for three days. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night."
She continued: "She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams. Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa's legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humour, affection and love will long play in our memories." Laure ended by saying: "RIP, Lisa. Damn, girl… you were a ton of fun."
Sylvia Syms
Legendary actress Sylvia Syms 'died peacefully' at the age of 89 on January 27 at Denville Hall, a care home in London for those in the entertainment industry. A statement from her children said: "She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end. Just yesterday we were reminiscing together about all our adventures. She will be so very missed.
"We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Denville Hall for the truly excellent care they have taken of our Mum over the past year." Sylvia had a long-spanning acting career, which launched in 1954 when the actress was aged 19. The talented star had roles in EastEnders and Doctor Who as well as Ice-Cold in Alex, Woman in a Dressing Gown and The Moonraker.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams died at the age of 75 on January 25. She portrayed the role of Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom Laverne & Shirley - a spin-off of Happy Days. She passed away following a brief illness.
Her two children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in statement: "The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed. Knowing and loving her has been our joy and privilege. She was one of a kind, beautiful, generous and possessed a brilliant sense of humor and a glittering spirit that everyone loved."
Anthony Topham
On January 23, Anthony 'Top' Topham died at the age of 75. The late guitarist formed The Yardbirds with Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty in London in May 1963 but left in October and was replaced by Eric Clapton. Clapton then quit the group in 1965 and was replaced by the late Jeff Beck, whose death was also announced in January.
A statement from Topham's representative read: "Sanderson Rasjid, born Anthony 'Top' Topham, passed away peacefully on Monday January 23 surrounded by his family. Born in London on July 3 1947, he was 75 years old and had been fighting dementia in his final years."
The musician, who later adopted the name Sanderson Rasjid after joining the Subud spiritual movement, helped form the pioneering rhythm and blues band in London in May 1963. He left before their commercial breakthrough and was succeeded as lead guitarist by Eric Clapton, then Jeff Beck and finally Jimmy Page.
David Sutherland
Illustrator David Sutherland, famous for some of Beano's biggest names including Dennis the Menace, died on January 19. The talented artist first made a name for himself illustrating The Bash Street Kids in 1962 and was active at work until his death. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours just weeks prior to his death.
The devastating news was confirmed by the publishing house DC Thomson who took to Twitter, writing: "It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of David Sutherland OBE. David joined Beano in 1959 as a freelance contributor and over the last 63 years has become one of the most important Beano artists in its history."
David Crosby
Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby died aged 81 following a battle with a long illness on January 19. A founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he passed away "lovingly surrounded by his wife and soulmate".
In a touching tribute shared with Variety, his wife Jan said: "It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away. He was lovingly surrounded by his wife and soulmate Jan and son Django. Although he is no longer here with us, his humanity and kind soul will continue to guide and inspire us."
Gina Lollobrigidia
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida died at the age of 95 on January 16. As one of the most high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, the late star enjoyed a successful career on screen over the years before pursuing her passions in politics and photography.
Born Luigia Lollobrigida in Subiaco, Gina took part in several beauty contests before going on to appear in Italian films in minor roles. Her big break came in 1947 when she entered the Miss Italia pageant and came in third place - giving her fame and exposure on a national level.
Gina went on to appear alongside the likes of Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson and Errol Flynn throughout her film career, and starred in movies such as Beat the Devil, Soloman and Mrs Campbell. After a series of roles in European films, including a Bafta-winning turn in Bread, Love and Dreams, it was Gina's Lollobrigida's performance in 1953's Beat the Devil opposite Humphrey Bogart that made her an international star.
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12 at the age of 54. The daughter of the late Elvis Presley was rushed to hospital after paramedics performed CPR on the star. They had been called to her house in Calabasas over a possible cardiac arrest. They were able to regain a pulse before transporting the 54-year-old to hospital, TMZ reported at the time. She was subsequently understood to be receiving treatment.
It was then announced that she had died, with mum Priscilla Presley, 77, releasing an emotional statement. Priscilla said: "It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment."
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck passed away on January 10 at the age of 78, with Mick Jagger leading tributes to the musician, describing him as "one of the greatest guitar players in the world". Representatives for the guitar virtuoso confirmed that Beck died after "suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis".
The late artist's loved ones also shared a message on the star's social media, writing: "On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss."
David Duckham
Tributes poured in when the news was shared that rugby icon David Duckham had died on January 9. The former England international star, 76, played 36 times for his country and crossed for 10 tries. He was also famously prolific for the British Lions when they successfully toured New Zealand in 1971, touching down 11 times in 16 tour games and contributing heavily to an historic series win over the All Blacks.
He was also a hero at Coventry, the only top-level club he represented in his 12-year career between 1967 and 1979. The club tweeted: "Coventry Rugby is incredibly sad to learn of the news that David Duckham; ex Coventry, England and British and Irish Lions player, has died, aged 76."
Gianluca Villa
On January 6, Chelsea and Italy legend Gianluca Vialli passed away at the age of 58, five years after first being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Vialli scored 40 goals in 88 appearances for the Blues between 1996 and 1999 before going on to manage the Stamford Bridge club, winning three major trophies.
Under the Italian, who initially took over as player-manager in February 1998, Chelsea won the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup within his first few months in the job, before he added the FA Cup in 2000. The former Sampdoria and Juventus forward won 59 caps for Italy, and after he was initially given the all clear from his cancer in 2020, he took up a role on former teammate Roberto Mancini's staff with the Italian national team, who won the European Championships in England the following summer.
He stepped down from the role when he returned to the Royal Marsden hospital to undergo further treatment on the cancer, which he called "an unwanted guest". Vialli, who also managed Watford between 2001 and 2002, is survived by his wife Cathryne White Cooper and their two daughters Olivia and Sofia. "Ciao Gianluca, you will forever be remembered," a message from the Italian national team read.
Wylie Longmore
On January 4, we lost Coronation Street actor Wyllie Longmore, who sadly died at the age of 82. The actor who was best known for playing Dr McKinnon in the 1990s died after battling cancer, his daughter said. He also starred in Love Actually as the Prime Minister's associate alongside Hugh Grant.
His daughter confirmed Wyllie had died peacefully. She said: "I want to share the news that my father, Wyllie Longmore passed away yesterday evening. He had been living with cancer, but passed away peacefully with my mum by his side. Those of you who know me will know that I am not prone to public announcements on social media, but I know the influence my dad goes way beyond our family; so I wanted to share this news with you all."
Wyllie is understood to have moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1961, when he was 20. He later trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. His acting career is said to have included roles in shows like The Bill, Casualty, Waking the Dead and Cold Feet.
David Gold
West Ham's joint-chairman David Gold died at the age of 86 following a short illness, the east London club confirmed on January 4. Gold's daughters Jacqueline and Vanessa, and his fiancée Lesley, were by his side when he passed away peacefully.
Born in Stepney in east London, opposite West Ham's old Boleyn Ground, Green represented the club's boys' team between the ages of 13 and 16 before appearing in the youth side. He became joint-chairman of the Hammers in January 2010 alongside David Sullivan.
Ken Block
Former Top Gear star Ken Block died at the age of 55 after a snowmobile accident on January 2. Block's devastated team, Honnigan Racing Division, shared the news of his death saying 'he will be incredibly missed'.
"It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident today," read a statement posted to Instagram. "Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And, most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed."
The Wasatch County Sheriff's Office, which attended the scene of the crash, also released a statement a short time later. The late action sports star began rallying in his native USA in 2005, initially in the Rally America series.
Kelly Monteith
Comedian Kelly Monteith died at the age of 80, on the same day as Fred White - on January 1. The American comedian was best known in the UK as one of the first to be given his own BBC series and his self-titled show ran from 1979 to 1984.
His death was confirmed by The Anglophlile Channel, a Los Angeles based production company that worked closely with Kelly. Kelly was discovered in the early 1970s and performed as a guest comedian on NBC's The Tonight Show and the BBC's Des O'Connor Tonight.
After successful guest appearances on British talk shows, he was offered his own series by the BBC that ran for six series. The comedian was ahead of his time as he became known for breaking the fourth wall by appearing in his dressing room before and after a scene.
Fred White
Iconic Earth, Wind & Fire drummer Fred White died age 67 on the first day of the year. The musician's brother and bandmate, Verdine White, confirmed the sad news in a touching statement.
"Dearest family, friends, and fans... Our family is saddened today with the loss of an amazing and talented family member, our beloved brother Frederick Eugene 'Freddie' White," it read. "He joins our brothers Maurice, Monte and Ronald in heaven and is now drumming with the angels! Child protégé, member of the EWF ORIGINAL nine, with gold records at the young age of 16 years old! He was brother number four in the family lineup."
It continued: "But more than that at home and beyond he was the wonderful bro that was always entertaining and delightfully mischievous! And we could always count on him to make a seemingly bad situation more light-hearted! He will live in our hearts forever, rest in power beloved Freddie!! We thank you all for your love, blessings and support at this time. Soar high baby bro, we love you to the shining [stars] and back!"
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Stuart Carolan’s gritty crime drama drew strong reviews and certainly captured the public imagination — at the height of its success, hundreds of members of the public would gather to watch scenes from the show being filmed on the streets.
Love/Hate, which ran for five shocking and sensational seasons, also had a massive impact on Ireland’s acting talent, spawning a whole generation of stars that have gone on to other big successes. The Love/Hate factor still looms large, with one of its leading stars featuring in a major new Netflix series later this month.
Killian Scott
The Dublin-born actor will take a leading role in Kaos — a new show described as an irreverent dramedy inspired by Greek mythology - which is set to debut on Netflix on August 29.
From The End of the F***ing World creator, Charlie Covell, Kaos is centred around a dysfunctional family of gods and sees Scott play a rock star with a big heart and an ego to match named Orpheus. He’s in good company — his co-stars include acting legend Jeff Goldblum. Scott’s real name, in fact, is Cillian Murphy, but that name was already very much taken in the thespian world by a certain Cork Oscar-winner. The series marks the latest role for Scott, who first shot to fame as the fizzy orange-loving criminal Tommy, whose brutal beating is recalled as one of Love/Hate’s most-unsettling scenes.
Here, we look at other stars who made their names in the series.
Charlie Murphy
Siobhán’s character journey from young gangster family member to key garda informant was brilliantly constructed by writer Stuart Carolan and Murphy. After the shocking and violent events her character experienced in season three, Siobhán became a major and central force in the show’s finale. She has starred in several impressive TV shows in the years since, including the BBC’s Happy Valley with Sarah Lancashire and opposite Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders. Currently starring in the well-received US TV series Halo, watch out for her in Joy, the forthcoming story of the world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown.
Barry Keoghan
Keoghan had already starred in a few independent films when he made his debut on Love/Hate with a controversial scene. As the babyfaced criminal Wayne, his shooting of a cat shocked viewers. In the years since, Keoghan has gone on to enjoy a hugely successful Hollywood career, working alongside some of the world’s biggest filmmakers. He played a manipulative young man in Yorgos Lanthimos’s chilling The Killing of a Sacred Deer, shone in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and enacted a graveyard and dance scene we won’t forget in a hurry in last year’s Saltburn. Among his forthcoming projects are a return to Ireland to star in Bring Them Down, a thriller set among a shepherding family.
Robert Sheehan
As Darren, the young criminal with streaks of loyalty and kindness, Robert Sheehan’s character was one of the most popular in the series. Sheehan was also starring in the UK hit Misfits around that same time, giving him two stepping stones to screen stardom. He has worked steadily in the years since — and since 2019 has another hit on his hands after debuting as Klaus Hargreeves in the award-winning series The Umbrella Academy.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
He gave us a star-making performance as the weirdly charismatic, riveting and ruthless Nidge, the gangland leader who would do anything to maintain power. It was a remarkable role and the Dubliner made the most of it, building a varied and successful career. The actor has since used his chameleonic qualities to impressive effect on the big and small screen, starring in Irish dramas ( Maze), entertaining real-life stories ( The Inflitrator) and Hollywood juggernauts ( Avengers Infinity War and Endgame). Based in the UK with his actress wife Claire Cox and their family, the Irishman can currently be seen on Netflix’s The Beautiful Game, about the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament.
Ruth Negga
The Limerick-Ethiopian actress brought a powerful emotional resonance to the series as part of the lovestruck couple Rosie and Darren, with an onscreen chemistry that made viewers really invested in their fate.
Already a star thanks to movies including Breakfast on Pluto, the success of Love/Hate further consolidated Negga’s career and just years after the series ended in 2014, she received an Oscar nomination for her role in Loving. She played Mildred Loving in the powerful true story of a couple who fought a legal battle after being arrested for their interracial marriage. Negga went on to star in another iconic series — US show Preacher — and is currently starring opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the legal series Presumed Innocent. She’s also set to star opposite Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson in director James Marsh’s adaptation of Kevin Barry’s novel, Night Boat to Tangier.
Peter Coonan
From his coining of the phrase ‘coola boola’ — which for a time felt like the most-used remark in Ireland — to his famous: “I’ve a bone to pick with you Nidgy!” Coonan’s Fran delivered some of the show’s best lines with aplomb. He’s enjoyed a busy and diverse career on the stage and screen ever since. Highlights have included starring roles in Dublin Murders and Bad Sisters. He has two movies on the way — the Dublin-based drama King Frankie, and his Bad Sisters co-star Eva Birthistle’s directorial debut, Kathleen is Here.
Aidan Gillen
Gillen’s John Boy had the knack for generating fear and a sense of menace into anyone who crossed his path. But his great failing was a fondness for the cocaine he was peddling which proved to be his undoing — and he met an early and violent end in the season two finale. Gillen has enjoyed a busy career in the years since, mixing up roles in Irish film and TV with international projects, such as Queen’s manager John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody and Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish in Game of Thrones. He also returned to the Dublin crime genre as Frank Kinsella in Kin. Currently starring in Mayor of Kingstown, he had several projects on the way, including an adaptation of John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
Stuart Carolan
After gripping audiences with the surprise and reveals of Love/Hate, writer and creator Carolan has enjoyed a fruitful career. He followed Love/Hate with the TV series Taken Down and has worked as show runner on international series such as The Alienist, on US cable channel TNT. He also worked as writer and story producer on Guy Ritchie’s recent TV series The Gentlemen. Carolan has several projects — including a movie adaptation of Paul Murray’s best-selling novel, Skippy Dies — in development.
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‘Movie star, oh movie star’, as the old song goes… As much as I would love to be a wildly in-demand top-of-the-A-List screen actor, spending my life juggling scripts and skilfully steering my career from one leading role to the next – and what’s more, supremely comfortable and at home on a film set – I have to accept that the reality is somewhat different. Indeed, for most of us in the acting world, working in film or TV is often just a case of being parachuted in for a scene or two. Now, unless this is a regular experience, the film world can be an unsettling place, particularly on a big production. It’s a little bit like gate-crashing a party where you don’t know anyone. Approach it in the wrong way, and it can put you off for life, and have you racing straight back to the nearest profit-share verbatim piece as fast as the Circle Line will carry you.
So just how does the day-tripper actor survive the film set experience, and live to tell the tale?
The first hurdle to get overwhen you arrive on set is what might be termed ‘Winnebago Time’. You tumble out of the unit car, are met by a 3rd AD and immediately shoved into your trailer – or, more likely, your third of a trailer – and left alone. The silence is deafening. You aren’t put in there to relax, you’re put there so they know where you are when they want you. This is your first lesson. At this point, you have no idea whether you’ll be rushed onto the set in ten minutes, with barely enough time to tuck in your costume, or you’ll have an hour and a half of torture, as you flicker endlessly between boredom and panic. The admirable Bill Nighy says it’s the time in the trailer you get paid for, not the bit in front of the camera, and he’s right, of course. If you can resist the temptation to grab your bag and scarper, then you’ve passed the first test.
A knock on the door, and suddenly you’re back in the unit car and heading for the set.
Often, everyone else will have been filming for days, weeks – even months, so they all know each other very well. In-jokes and knowing looks abound, and they all have the ease that familiarity brings. You, on the other hand, are a bewildered tourist plonked down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus without a guide book. Which one is the 2nd AD? The camera operator? The director? Of course, as the day gradually wears on, things settle down and you realise that all those very important people will find you. As soon as ‘Cut!’ is called, people appear – to take your props, straighten your hair and mop your brow, and generally make sure you are out of the way while all the rest of the work happens. I was struck long ago by an irony quite possibly unique to the film world, that an actor is simultaneously the least important and the most important person in the room. For the greater part of the day, the set is abuzz with activity – people heaving great lumps of equipment about, dragging lights and puffing little clouds of ‘atmos’ (smoke) into the air, and your only task is to keep out of the way, while obsessively mumbling your lines to yourself and basically being ignored. Then, everything changes. All those best boys and grips and sparks have finished their work, and now it’s your turn. You step into position, it goes very quiet and suddenly everyone’s attention is on you. It feels rather like one of those old Bateman cartoons where someone says the wrong thing at a cocktail party:
For the day-tripper actor, this is where it comes to the crunch. Your moment has arrived.
‘Turnover!’ ‘Sound!’ ‘Background action!’ ‘Action!’
How things go from this point really depends on how well-prepared you are. All those hours spent stomping around your kitchen talking to yourself, the endless sessions when your partner/flatmate/grandmother/dog read in for you, the nervous line runs in your hotel room the night before filming – all those pigeons come home to roost. One of our most seasoned tutors at LAMDA used to say, ‘Work is your armour’, and that advice has stuck with me more than any other. Anthony Hopkins says, ‘My method is to learn the text so thoroughly — I will read it 200 times — that I arrive on the set completely relaxed.’
He’s right, of course. Because, when the set goes quiet, and everyone looks at you – and most importantly, the camera – you need to be sure that, when you open your mouth to speak, even if all else fails, the right words will come out. And when you’ve got it right once, it gets a lot easier. You did it! You got the lines out, in the correct order, without falling over or throwing up over the lead actor. Hopefully, you can now start to relax, and maybe even enjoy yourself.
You’ll usually have a few goes at each set-up – various takes, the long shots, close-ups, reverses – and ideally you will be able to work in the detail you have been preparing.
As much we might like to imagine that the acting world is an all-inclusive democracy where everyone just mucks in, it is, of course, subject to strict hierarchies. Nowhere is this clearer than on a film set. It is all too clear who the star is, where the attention of the director and the director of photography is placed, and where you, as the bit-part actor, sit in the pecking order. It is easy to feel disheartened about this – after all, you trained, didn’t you? You too have slogged your guts out on the fringe, done your time in student films and endless workshops – why aren’t you playing the lead?
But this sort of thinking is a pathway to misery – the acting world may be many things, but a meritocracy is not one of them. And we all know that it’s almost as hard to land one line in a decent TV or film production as it is to be cast as Juliet at the RSC.
So, while it can be bittersweet to deliver your three lines and find yourself back in the car again before lunch, even a few hours on a set can teach you a lot. You become familiar with the language, the environment, but most of all, you start to feel comfortable. And you learn that, while you may not end up on the poster, even a day tripper has a big part to play.
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Peaks and troughs. Highs and lows. The acting profession has always been one of extremes. An actor friend of mine told me she’d been drawn to the job because she was ‘an adrenaline junkie’, and I think most of us can relate to that. There’s no thrill to beat a first night – that intoxicating mix of fear and excitement – to show you that you’re truly alive.
As for the highs, an actor’s life is peppered with many moments of joy, big or small, the best of all usually being the phone call from your agent to tell you you’ve got the job. Way back at the start, I will never forget the call that told me I had won a place at LAMDA. And then there’s the thrill of a happy discovery in rehearsal, a perfect show or just the pure exhilaration that comes from playing with other actors.
In terms of lows, they tend to come from the frustration of not acting. We are all familiar with the agony of unemployment, feeling you have so much to offer and yet not being allowed to join in the game. But there is another, smaller agony, that can sometimes feel even sharper – namely that difficult post-audition period, when you just don’t know if you’ve got the job or not.
This is a period of the purest torture, particularly if you really want the job, and it begins the moment you leave the audition room. Of course, you’re supposed to brush it off immediately, as you trip off to a stylish downtown bar to resume your dizzying social life with not so much as a backwards glance, but it’s not always that easy. It’s rather more usual to begin the Great Calculation. Let’s say you audition on a Tuesday afternoon. You stagger onto the tube afterwards, your head spinning as you replay the details of the meeting. Did you seem interested enough as the director spelt out their vision for the production? How well did you play the scene? How about that one pivotal line – did you hit it just right? And did you manage to leave the room without shoving your foot in your gob, by saying ‘See you soon’, ‘Thanks you’ or ‘Lots of love’? Hopefully, you’ll feel you did the best you could. If so, you can actually relax for a bit now, and maybe enjoy one or two of those glamorous cocktails with your glamorous friends, for one night at least.
But the next morning, the beast awakens. Hmm, Wednesday morning, you think. Well, I probably won’t hear anything today, as they’ll still be meeting people. Unless, of course, they really loved me, and want to snap me up as quickly as possible… But Wednesday drifts past, and you don’t worry too much – this is still the phoney war, after all. Shrödinger‘s Acting Job, both alive and dead at the same time.
The next day dawns and your thinking is beginning to change: Thursday, Thursday… they’ve probably finished auditions by now, so they’ll be starting to make decisions. This is where the clock/iPhone watching begins in earnest. Haven’t heard by lunchtime? That’s fine, it’ll probably be this afternoon. An hour’s grace for lunch between 1.00pm and 2.00pm, when you can actually focus on something else for a bit, then it starts again. 5.00pm approaches, 5.30… Well, maybe tomorrow. By this point, you’re starting to entertain the idea that it might not go your way, telling yourself that if you don’t hear on Friday, well then that’s it, you haven’t got it. And sure enough, Friday comes and goes and the phone doesn’t ring.
But then there’s Monday. Maybe they decided to take the weekend to make up their minds…
It can be absolute agony. Inevitably, some jobs are worse than others, i.e. the ones you really want. And the torture is amplified if it goes to recalls or beyond. I was recently working with two actors, both of whom were in the middle of this situation, and both of whom were throughly miserable about it. One of them said that he felt it was actually making him ill.
There’s nothing to be done, of course. It is simply one of those things about the profession. You leave the room, and you’ve done all you can. They can take as long as they want to make their decisions, and that’s that. All the hours spent speculating about what they must be thinking, attempting to read the runes or to gain some sort of insight into a director’s thought processes is a waste of time. There are many areas of our business in which change is really overdue, but opening up the decision making process is not one.
The only thing that can be done is to let every actor know how their audition went, and happily this is an idea that is really starting to gain traction, thanks in great part to the #YesOrNo initiative, spearheaded by the actor Danny Lee Wynter, which is asking for all actors who audition for a role to be told whether or not they have got the job. It has always been one of the most brutal aspects of the profession, the idea that an actor can put their all into preparing for a casting, but once they leave the room, they simply never hear a peep about it again. The #YesOrNo campaign addresses this head-on, and recently received a major boost when both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company committed to giving every actor who auditions for them at least a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer:
And gradually, many other theatre companies and casting directors are jumping aboard too.
It might not completely eradicate the post-audition collywobbles, but at least it ensures that an end is in sight.
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I first moved to London in 1995, when I won a place on the Three-Year Acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). During those next three years, I got to know West London pretty well. Earls Court, High Street Kensington, Hammersmith – my fellow students and I owned those mean streets. We strode down Chiswick High Road in our baggy dance trousers and character shoes, talking too loudly about David Mamet and Alexander Technique, confident in the belief that in just a couple of years, we would be far too famous to get around without security and a smoked-glass Range Rover.
But there was one place we got to know better than anywhere else. From our first audition to the very last performance, all the most significant events of our time at LAMDA took place at the MacOwan Theatre. If I walked through those doors today – the scene of so many pivotal moments in our young lives – I could still confidently give you a comprehensive tour of the place.
Except, of course, I couldn’t. The MacOwan Theatre no longer exists. LAMDA moved from Earls Court to its current location in Baron’s Court in 2003, and finally sold the MacOwan in 2011. The bulldozers moved in, and now its place has been taken by the usual block of West London luxury flats (Logan House). Which no actor could ever hope to afford.
When I read about this a few months ago, it set off a little chain reaction of nostalgic explosions in my mind, so it seemed like a good time to track down my fellow Old LAMDArians, and try to find out what we all feel about our time there – and the years since.
As is inevitable with any year group, we have scattered far and wide in the years since we graduated – Wales, Mallorca, New York and – yes – LA. A few still cling on in London, while many have succumbed to the verdant charms of The Regions. There were 29 of us when we left LAMDA in 1998 – now, a quick survey of Spotlight shows that 15 have kept up our subscriptions. Not too bad a showing, I suppose, but I wanted to dig a little deeper to understand the forces that have either kept us in the profession, or driven us out. So, I sent off a list of questions.
Not everyone responded, but in the end I heard back from more than half – 15 in total, and they were all very honest and frank – on the promise of anonymity.
I started at the very beginning, and asked why they had wanted to act in the first place…
When we started at LAMDA, we ranged in age from 18 to 26 – some fresh from school, some straight from University. I was 23.
I look back on our LAMDA years with great fondness. I felt I was at the centre of everything I wanted to be part of, and I spent those three years feeling stimulated and challenged. Inevitably, when I asked my friends what their own feelings are about that time, it elicited a range of responses, some very positive:
– It was the first time that I really learned ‘how to learn’.
– I met some wonderful people who have stayed in my life for a long time.
– I was as happy as a pig in shit. Sooooo happy to be there. One of the most profound and rich experiences of my life.
Some less so:
– I found it quite tough… I found their methods for the most part to be very undermining.
– I don’t think I was rated particularly highly by the staff, and as such often felt somewhat overlooked and neglected at times.
It certainly seemed to be the case that the squeaky wheels got the most attention.
Some felt they hadn’t taken full advantage of their time at LAMDA:
– I didn’t make the most of it. I was very young – first time away from home.
– I could have gotten so much more out of it if I hadn’t let my self-doubt and lack of confidence get in the way.
– I do regret not making more of the opportunity.
I asked what they valued most about the training they received:
– The opportunity to work continuously on productions for a year is something outside of the RSC or NT you rarely have the opportunity to do.
– LAMDA allowed me to love what I do. In a messy, imperfect but deeply passionate way they put me on the track to my profession.
– It was a celebration of one’s idiosyncrasies.
– The cleverness of people. The humour. The importance and value of work. As Colin Cook said (this is my working mantra to this day) ‘Work is your armour’. And above all I think – my friends. It doesn’t matter where we are or where we go – I would do anything for any of those people that I shared those three years with.
This is a view I share. It seemed to me that LAMDA encouraged us to be ourselves – we had all heard about the schools that ‘break you down to build you up again’, and LAMDA didn’t feel like that at all to me. But others disagree:–
– I don’t feel I was ever encouraged to keep the quirks that I entered with.
– I do not honestly know whether the whole “take you apart to put you back together” approach is now being over-exaggerated in my memory, but I did find it quite tough at times, and not particularly productive.
I asked what they felt the training lacked:
– Screen acting for a start.
– Vocal technique
– Weirdly, lack of acting classes.
– I can think of two teachers that had their favourites. It was frustrating to watch them fawn!
– I don’t think it lacked anything, actually. Like, how much more could we have actually done in three years?
It seems that much has changed since we left the Academy. Our screen acting training felt cursory at best, although I did learn that it was best not to volunteer to smoke in a scene, unless you wanted to work your way through a whole pack. These days, to quote from the current LAMDA prospectus:
‘All students who graduate from LAMDA’s BA (Hons) Professional Acting leave with a professionally-shot show reel and a voice reel.’
It’s very important to bear in mind that this was all nearly 20 years ago. LAMDA is a different school now, with a different Principal, mostly different teaching staff and in a completely different location. It still calls itself LAMDA, but much like Trigger’s broom, all the significant parts have changed…
Even the qualification you graduate with is different: the three-year acting course is now a BA (Hons) degree course, whereas we left with a diploma. In a perverse way, I’m rather glad it was that way round, as it gave our training a kind of rarity, a refinement if you like, whereas a degree just seems rather everyday. And I already had one anyway, for all the good it ever did me. But I am aware that the ‘employment landscape’, as we must call it, has altered a lot since those bygone days, and a BA degree must help when the graduates are propelled blinking into the light of the Real World. Because there is a big difference between the idealised world of a drama training and the harsh realities of an actor’s life.
I asked if they felt prepared for an acting career by the time we graduated – and perhaps unsurprisingly, most did not:
-No I didn’t feel prepared
-NO NO NO NO NO. It does not teach you how to survive as an unemployed actor, how to see yourself as a product
– I question now if I would have done better not to have pursued what I was already doing.
-Definitely not! We spent 3 years in a bubble.
-Noooooooooo!
-yes and no..because it destroyed my confidence… but i learnt a lot of tools that then helped me to be able to direct
– business wise no. As an artist, yes. I wasn’t – but that was to do with me.
There is a distinction here, to be sure. Those of us who were lucky enough to land work straight away were able to apply all the skills that were fresh in our minds. I went straight into a nice TV job, and despite my sketchy experience in front of a camera, I felt very comfortable and understood what was required of me. But I was pretty clueless about how to generate work.
– I was prepared for the jobs I got eventually – yes. There is only so much they can do at drama school – after that it comes down to practical experience.
-for an acting career, yes. For the non-acting part, no.
-Well, no. But I think that’s more to do with where I was, personally, Not because of anything that they hadn’t done.
-Yes, apart from the business side
-In many ways, yes.
-On the whole, yes.
We were part of a different generation to today’s drama school graduates, with no significant social media element to our lives; the internet played a much smaller role, and we didn’t even all have mobile phones yet. Some of us had pagers, for heaven’s sake. Off we went into the world, clutching our A-Z’s.
Significantly, almost all of my respondents did not feel supported by LAMDA after graduation:
– No.
– Not at all.
– No. Once you leave you are on your own. They are happy to bask in the glory of actors who do well and have a glittering career, but for all the thousands of unemployed actors that they helped produce there is nothing.
– Honestly no. I think they were interested in the people who got famous quickly and could be used to raise funds. Sorry that’s cynical but that’s how it felt.
-Not really, no.
-No. There was kindness and love, but not enough rigour.
Although others felt differently:
– Yes I do. I worked in the reception there for a while and I helped around for a bit of extra cash – they were very good to me like that.
– I haven’t had any support, but I haven’t been in contact, so it’s just as much my fault. In my first year after leaving they supported me by giving me temp secretary work.
– Not really … but then, I never asked for support. I’m sure they would have been there had I asked.
– I did not feel that it was the school’s role to support me once I had graduated.
Inevitably, this raises the question of just how much responsibility institutions like LAMDA have to their students once they have completed training. No drama school can predict which student is going to ‘make it’ – as William Goldman’s useful maxim goes, ‘Nobody knows anything’ – but they could confidently surmise that a good half of any yearly intake will never make a living in the profession.
At no point do I remember any staff member sitting us down and saying, ‘Most of you will never work’. Of course, it would have been a bummer of positively cosmic proportions if they had. But maybe it would have been a necessary reality check.
Actors have often proposed a cull of their own number – I imagine Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman on the rooftops of Wardour Street, armed with high-velocity rifles, picking off the weakest:
But should Ben and Liv train their sights on the institutions, rather than their fellow thesps? One of my respondents thought so:
‘I feel they have a responsibility not to churn out so many actors in a market that cannot cater for them.’
Mind you, success as an actor is so random that perhaps the only sensible attitude is a scattershot one – throw out as many young hopefuls as you can, in the hope that at least a few will stick.
This being the case, drama schools surely have a duty of care to the students they send out into an unforgiving profession.
It does seem that colleges are doing much more these days to incorporate an element of career counselling – RADA has what it calls its ‘Buddy’ scheme, where graduates are paired up with alumni who are established in the profession to offer guidance and support, and I spoke recently to Rodney Cottier, Head of Drama School at LAMDA, who told me about their own new Mentor scheme, which will be launched at the end of June 2017, and which, like RADA’s initiative, will offer support for its students, ‘for the last 6 months of their training, and the first 6 months when they’re out there. It is the beginning and we have received funding for it from the Genesis Foundation, so hopefully this will really work.’
The Academy also has an industry liaison in the form of casting director, Laura Dickens, who is responsible for the final year professional preparation, as well as its own ‘Buddy’ system, although unlike RADA’s, this one is for new students rather than graduates. Rodney explained:
‘When people are offered a place, they are buddied up with somebody who is already at LAMDA so they can pick their brains – ask them any questions before they arrive, rather than feeling completely terrified on day one. So we’re servicing both ends…’
I think we would have benefited from this sort of scheme; ideally, it would stretch beyond the first six months and further into a career. It’s so easy to feel alone and powerless in this job.
Of course, as Rodney points out, ultimately most of the responsibility to develop a career lies with the individual:
‘There are a lot of things you cannot prepare people for – I occasionally have to throw in the statistics when somebody is late for yet another voice class.’
But no matter how well-prepared you may be, Real Life has a way of complicating things, as we will see in Part Two…
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Chris Naylor How did you start? Did you act at all?
Hannah Miller No I didn’t. I think it’s quite useful to understand more about who casting directors are; I joke with drama students that we don’t just come out of an egg. Quite unusually, it was pretty much my first job – I went to Hull University and did a drama degree, and probably thought I wanted to be a director at that point; I didn’t do any directing for at least a year-and-a-half, and felt everyone else was probably much better at it than I was, and then also realised I didn’t particularly want a freelance lifestyle. I think I realised at 21 that probably wasn’t the lifestyle for me. And then I started thinking about what sort of jobs I might be interested in – I wanted to be able to support people who were really talented, essentially.
CN In theatre, specifically?
HM Well, yes. I didn’t do much theatre – I wasn’t a performer at any point in my schooling really, except at primary school maybe – and we didn’t go to the theatre much as a family, so it wasn’t really part of my life.
TV and film, as a child of the 80s, was where it was at for me – I really loved David Lynch actually, ‘Twin Peaks’ changed my life – and how creative you could be in TV, which of course now is a bit of a given, suddenly, but at the time it really wasn’t. And so I went with that much more in mind, but at Hull I did 33 stage productions in 3 years, doing all sorts of things from design and lighting and sound, to producing, building the sets – tiny, weeny bit of acting, just to check I didn’t want to act –
CN – That it wasn’t a hidden passion?
HM Exactly, and I had no idea what I was doing, so that was fine!
CN Good choice, then.
HM I was in a year with a lot of really interesting, talented people, and I thought about wanting to support them and give them opportunities, and I thought, ‘Maybe an agent, maybe a producer’. Then I heard about this thing called casting at a workshop in Edinburgh, that the National Theatre Studio had put on. I went along and thought, ‘That suits the sort of things I like and the things I think I’m good at’, and I ended up at Cheek By Jowl on a work experience placement, which I’d got through an admin award at the National Student Drama Festival.
When I was there, I asked to go along when they were casting – they were starting to cast a production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, with Matthew Macfadyen and Stephen Mangan, about ‘97/’98. And I worked with Serena Hill who was casting that, and the following January, because her assistant at the National had left, she asked me to temp for a month, and I stayed for 5 years.
CN So you found yourself in an institution?
HM Very unexpectedly. I left university thinking I’d work for someone like Complicité, and sort of find my feet and take it a bit slow. Suddenly by the January after I graduated I found myself casting assistant at the National Theatre. And within the first couple of weeks I suddenly understood that that was something I could do well. I really loved working in that environment; I consider it to be more than an apprenticeship – I worked with amazing casting directors, extraordinary directors and writers, and we had the most amazing actors walking through the door every day.
CN Did you sit in on auditions from the start?
HM Not too early on. I remember really clearly the first time I had to step in – I hadn’t been there very long. Wendy Spon was there as well at the time – Serena and Wendy both had other commitments in the evening, and I had to just go in and run the auditions for Hanif Kureishi’s play ‘Sleep With Me’, which Anthony Page was directing. We had to do scenes which involved coke-taking, a seduction scene, and that was my baptism by fire.
CN And clearly didn’t put you off?
HM No! I think it often takes quite a while before you are the person in the room – that’s not the primary part of the job, but by the end of my five years I did work on a lot of the musicals, and I cast things as well as doing the administration. So it was an amazing time.
CN That admin side of it must have been an eye-opener for you at the National – I imagine the volume of submissions you get is pretty impressive, and here similarly.
HM Yeah, and I encourage people to send their details. I consider it to be part of an actor’s job, they shouldn’t worry about what’s happening at the other end. But we look at absolutely everything and, as a publically-subsidised organisation who has an in-house department with a team of people, we can answer queries on the telephone, and look through correspondence, and use every part of the material that comes to us to help us do our job.
CN From an actor’s point of view, you’re never really sure of how well-received your submission will be, and there’s always the fear that your agent will not want you to do it.
HM I think that’s true. But an actor’s role, when you’re not in front of a camera or on in rehearsals or on stage, is about telling people that you want to work with them. I think there can be a tendency to think that we can find everybody; it is our job to try, but if you consider a line of however many tens of thousands of people and just me, it’s a lot easier for any one of those people to communicate with me, than for me to have knowledge of every one of those actors.
CN I remember working with Ed Bennett – we did ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ in York [Edward Bennett – the finest Algy there will ever be], and he was talking about the National, and he said, ‘They know. They know what everybody’s doing. They keep tabs on all of us the whole time; at every stage in your career’. And I thought, ‘Is that really true?’
HM Well, we try, and I think there was a time when people really could do that. But now there are a lot of people working, and it’s not physically possible in the way that it once was.
CN Even though one of you is seeing something every night of the week.
HM And watching telly, and going to drama school showcases, and reading everything that comes in, and keeping an eye on reviews. We’re keeping an eye on a lot of people, but it’s still valuable to put your head above the parapet to say, ‘Hi, I’m over here!’ because you’re just drawing attention to the fact that you want to work with us. Particularly with people coming back into the profession – or who perhaps have said, ’Actually I can’t come up to the RSC’, when that situation changes – you know, those kind of things. If I went freelance tomorrow, you would expect me to write to the people that I might want to work with. You wouldn’t expect me to just sit at home and wait for the phone.
CN I think there’s a fear from actors of being the little irritant – you don’t want to phone your agent too much, because they’ll get irritated with you, and you don’t want to be the person at the party who goes, ‘Hi, are you casting anything at the moment?’
HM But I think that’s just about using a bit of common sense, but it’s also about not being too paranoid – just because you haven’t got a response, doesn’t mean it was irritating. For example, when I was freelancing and working for Birmingham Rep I didn’t have any help, so I was at auditions all day, went to the theatre, came home, then looked at my emails, typed up the list for the next day, printed out all the CVs, went to bed at 2.00 in the morning, got up at 7.00 and did it all over again. So there isn’t time to respond to anything that isn’t immediately about those auditions. There isn’t time to write to somebody and say, ‘Sorry I can’t see your show’. That just doesn’t come close to being possible.
And it’s not irritating if you’ve got something new to say; if you’re saying, ‘I’m going to be on television on this day’, or ‘I’m in this show’, or, ‘I know you’re casting this and I would love to be considered’, that’s all news.
CN So if you’re casting, for example, ‘Henry V’, and an actor thinks, ‘I’m right for this, I’d love to play that part’, would you encourage them – if they’re going to write to you – to be specific and say, ‘Would you consider seeing me for the Dauphin‘?
HM Yeah, I think it’s always good to know that people know and understand the play and have a sense of what they potentially could be right for, and to make a pitch. It doesn’t mean we won’t go, ‘Ooh, not that part, but this part’. We’ll do the work ourselves, it’s not like we’d be so blinkered to go, ‘You’re not right for that part, you’re not right for anything’. Or going, ‘Actually we’ve cast that, but I know that in 6 months’ time we’re going to be casting this, and you might be really right for that’, and I’ll put it in a file. It’s all just a huge melting pot of communication. You never write anyone off.
CN So even if somebody buggers up an audition terribly?
HM Well, the chances are we’ll get them straight back in for something else. If you’ve seen an actor at some point and liked what they’ve done, then you’re much more likely to assume that they will do that again. That’s the important thing to remember – if you’re being invited to an audition, we’re only bringing you in because we think you can do the job.
CN Have you ever fought an actor’s corner, or had to persuade a director to see someone?
HM Not to see them, because they don’t decide who to see. We decide who to see. I mean, generally speaking, some directors know a lot of actors and are very involved in who they want to see, and if a director knows an actor, of course I’ll say, ‘Do you think they’re right for this?’ But a lot of the time we’re making the decision as to who to bring in. You hope that you’re developing relationships with directors where they value your opinion, but ultimately of course it’s the director’s final decision, and we will sometimes have very robust conversations, and sometimes be in complete accord. And then we sit on first night and see who was right – no, I’m joking!
CN Where do you get most job satisfaction?
HM It’s where my initial impetus lay when I was 20 – when I know that it was down to me that somebody has been given an opportunity that makes a real difference. A real difference because it’s a role that nobody ever thought of them for before, or because they haven’t worked in a while, or because they’ve always wanted to work at the RSC. And the RSC features very heavily for a lot of people in why they’ve become actors. I do appreciate that – you can’t carry that around constantly, you need to be able to just get on with your job, but I am conscious of it. And obviously someone’s very first job is quite special, particularly when they don’t have an agent yet and you have to ring them directly. Absolutely wonderful. A job that you know means a lot to them, it’s wonderful that you can facilitate that. It is a privilege.
CN It’s an extraordinary place to work, and to facilitate that – what an honour.
HM And then the real job satisfaction is when you see them six months later and they’re having a wonderful time, a bit tired but really loving it – and making the most of it, you know? When you see actors really figure out how to get most out of time here and in Stratford, and see them just grabbing every opportunity, and getting a huge amount of satisfaction – in turn that gives us satisfaction.
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Visiting the Royal Shakespeare Company’s London offices involves a climb up many flights of stairs, and I think serves as an effective pre-audition test – if you can survive the climb, then you clearly have the stamina for a year at the RSC. Hannah Miller has been the RSC Head of Casting since 2008, and an audition with her is one of the most desirable appointments in the acting profession.
Chris Naylor You have a very privileged position at the RSC – it’s a place where most actors really would love to work.
Hannah Miller I hope so!
CN I wonder how you view that position, in terms of the feelings of people who want to work with you?
HM It is a responsibility, and whilst it’s a responsibility to the acting profession, it’s also a responsibility to directors, to the audiences, to our writers – Shakespeare included but not exclusively. Those three letters – RSC – do carry a great deal of connotation, both positive and negative. They can feel like a barrier to some people, they can cause our work to be misunderstood sometimes, they are a mark of excellence, we hope. Obviously we take very seriously the need to maintain that. And then there’s the fact that it’s a subsidised company as well, so you’ve got a responsibility to the sector, you’ve got a responsibility to be cultural leaders, to be always working in a way that is best practice, and we do take that really seriously.
CN The whole public company thing – everything you do has to be very accountable, doesn’t it? Does that place responsibility on you, to be very open about how you cast, or even to try and be more inclusive in who you meet?
HM Yes, and you know, hopefully I would want to work in that way wherever I was. The other thing, as the casting department for this organisation, is the work we do that maybe isn’t visible –the fact that we go out and see as much theatre as we do. We worked out, in four weeks between us, we paid 75 visits to the theatre. And not all of those visits would even be in a way that anybody was aware of – you know, we just took ourselves off.
CN Probably better for the actors as well – like when critics don’t come on the first night, they might see a more relaxed show.
HM Exactly – as a guest with an agent it’s lovely, but sometimes we just want to go to the theatre. I explain to students that it’s our job to get to know as many actors as possible; that is our core, basic job, and that isn’t always visible. We can apply that knowledge to the visible bit, which is who we’re bringing in to meet. But the knowledge is the important thing. So it’s not all about the here and now – I might know somebody for 10, 15 years, before I have the right job for them.
CN Are there actors that you have stored, thinking, ‘I’ll just wait three more years and she’ll be right?’
HM It’s not necessarily that strategic – and it’s not that someone is or isn’t right now – but at the end of the day there are only so many people that I can bring in for a part. And even if it’s ten, and we’ve got a company of 22, that’s still 220 people. 10 people for one part doesn’t sound a lot, but auditioning 220 people for a company takes a lot of time, because we do 20-minute meetings minimum. The hard bit of the job is that you could bring in 50 people, but you’ve only got time to bring in 10.
CN That’s tough, isn’t it?
HM And it’s instinct, it’s about bringing in a diverse group of people who your instinct tells you will make lots of different offers of how they might interpret that part, and what they bring in terms of their skills and experience, and their way of thinking as an actor, that I think might be a fit with that director and that project, and with anyone else we’ve already cast.
CN So when a season is decided on and the plays are set out, how does it work? Are you brought in or do you start earlier than that?
HM I’m part of the group of Heads of Department who are on the artistic planning team. We get together with Greg [Doran, Artistic Director] and Erica [Whyman, Deputy Artistic Director] and the producers to discuss the artistic planning of the RSC. So we’ll be aware of projects that might be upcoming, and suggesting whether we want to cast people before we confirm projects, sometimes. So early on I’ll be aware of the sorts of things that we might be doing, and be ready to get going as soon as we have projects, dates and directors confirmed. And sometimes we might want to look at casting people in leading roles before we can confirm a date, so we can work around people‘s availability, for example, but generally speaking we want to have those three things in place. Then I’ll start talking to the directors about their individual ideas, and their initial instincts about the story they want to tell with the production, and sometimes getting into quite a lot of detail on people that they’ve admired, people they’d like to work with, people they have worked with, or just reference points for characters, those kind of conversations.
CN So at that point presumably you’ll start going, ‘That makes me think of this actor…’
HM Yes, but obviously here most of the time we’re casting one company to work on two, three, maybe even four productions, so I’ll be having those conversations as early as possible, talking about any really strong choices that they want to make – for example, about the gender of characters – and if I have those conversations with all three directors then I can start to see how those productions might influence each other, and start to propose ideas of how different parts might work together. I always do that just to prove we can, it’s not fixed in stone in any way, because then real people walk through the door.
We meet actors that directors want to work with, and lots of actors that are all right for the same part in one play, but everybody would love them to be in the company, so we start to shift how those parts join up, and make lines of parts and opportunities for as many of the actors as possible.
CN So you’ll try and balance the size of parts?
HM Yeah, exactly. We don’t want to be saying, ‘You can’t work with that actor because…’, we want to say, ‘Can we think laterally about how this company can be formed, so that everybody has a fulfilling and interesting line of parts?’
CN [Actress and writer] Lizzie Hopley was talking recently about ‘Girl Fights’, the play she developed while she was working at Stratford, and saying what a supportive atmosphere the RSC is. What she described was almost like a theatrical village, where there’s a great community that will support and help any project. In a way you’re populating this village, aren’t you? You’re trying to create a little community that will work together.
HM Absolutely, that’s a very interesting way of putting it; I like that, populating a village.
CN I’ve been reading Antony Sher’s book ‘Year Of The Fat Knight’, and Stratford does have such a strong identity, it’s almost like a character in the diaries.
HM The environment for working is pretty special, I think; it’s not going to be for everyone, but I think the vast majority of people that work there have got a lot out of that. It is a bit of a bubble, but consequently it’s an incredibly supportive environment and well-populated in every department – there are people around to support you in every aspect of your work. Plus, as Lizzie brilliantly made the most of, for those people who have other interests, you’re there with lots of other actors who are also away from home and have a little bit of extra time to create projects and try things out, compared to being in London where everyone just goes home at the end of the night. There is an environment of creativity – people work very hard, and we know that. We put a lot of demands on our actors in Stratford, and there’s a lot that we’d like them to get involved with, as well as the shows. And I’m conscious of that being right for people at different moments of their time and career.
I was with drama students yesterday and they were talking about, you know, ‘How often is it somebody’s first job?’ It varies from year to year, of course, depending on the plays we’re doing, but quite often there’s at least between one and five people who are in their first year after graduating. But I know a lot of people who get more out of it five or ten years into their career, or even beyond, because it’s about a return to a sense of being able to learn and stretch and work really hard.
CN That absorption in the craft.
HM Exactly.
CN When you’re auditioning, can you get the sense that this person won’t like that total immersion, and being away for a long time?
HM I think most people, when they come in to audition, know what it’s like, and people are honest about whether they are ready for that, or if it was only one or two plays out of a season, but not three or four.
CN Do you have that flexibility?
HM Sometimes we’re at a point where we can be flexible about the way the company forms, and sometimes we can’t, but it’s often a question.
CN Being quite a way from London, being separate from all the rush and the career pressure and – for actors, anyway, that ‘missing out’ thing – it’s an interesting mixture isn’t it? It’s such a prestigious place to work, and yet you’re away for quite a while.
HM I think it’s a societal thing generally in 2015 – everyone always thinks they have to move on. I’ve got friends in completely different industries who are like, ‘Well, I shouldn’t be in this job for longer than, you know 3 or 4 years’. It’s certainly incredibly prevalent in our industry, which I find hilarious, because none of us is going to have a pension and we’re all going to be working into our eighties, so I don’t know what the rush is. I am not sure that I buy any of that, personally.
Maybe I’m a bit old-fashioned; I think there is room for focusing on the fact that this is a company that you want to be part of; that you want to go back to some basics of technique and craft that you once learnt or haven’t had the chance to develop. It is about fulfilment and satisfaction and creativity, and working with amazing people; working for a company that can support you and is prestigious, rather than, ‘But what is this credit going to be and who’s going to see me do it and –’
CN ‘What’s next?’
HM I’m sure for some people it takes a while to get used to a freelance life, and so to interrupt that isn’t always going to be easy. Of course there are some people who love that – it doesn’t suit them to do the same thing for 9 months or a year, and they like to go from one thing to another. I don’t want us to pretend that our work isn’t what it is, and yes, normally the contracts are 6 months minimum, often over a year. They have a different flow, a different workload, and if that isn’t right for somebody, I don’t want anyone to pretend that it is.
CN It seems from observing the shows over the years that – much like the Globe, for example – there are actors who love it, and feel at home and want to return. That’s a rather wonderful thing isn’t it? It’s not something that we are often able to do in this country.
HM Absolutely, it’s that sense of getting to know a group of people. I’m talking to a lot of drama students at this time of year – having worked with the same people for three years, what they’re very excited about is, ‘We’ll be working with complete strangers, won’t that be so weird?’
CN ‘Of the right age!’
HM Yes, exactly! And working with people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, and of course often with people who have been with the RSC before. On the other hand, this spring we looked at everybody who was on the payroll, and 66% of the company were on their first ever contract with us, out of nearly 200 people. And I think that’s another thing that surprises people – sometimes you can look at it and say, ‘They only ever have new people and they’ve never asked me back’, or, ‘They only ever work with the same people’ –
CN Depending on your attitude?
HM Yeah, it depends what people want to see. But actually the truth of it is that it’s very even. But also that the people returning range from having been here in the season immediately before, to not having returned for 15, 20 years.
CN That must keep it fresh – give it a sense of continuity and freshness at the same time.
HM And that combination is really important, I think. Because younger actors working here for the first time do appreciate having people around who can say, ‘Oh well, it never used to be like this’, or, ‘That’s always what you get’ or whatever.
CN And also for the older actors, seeing it through fresh eyes.
HM Exactly, it works both ways.
In Part Two, Hannah talks beginnings, how to approach a casting director and ‘Twin Peaks’…
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David Whitworth and I acted together in ‘Mary Goes First’ at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in 2008. After 20 years as an actor, David and his wife, the director Jane Glassey, took over the running of the Richmond Drama School from 1987 to 2007. He then returned to acting and has worked extensively since, in productions such as ‘London Assurance’ at the National Theatre, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Regent’s Park and ‘The Second Mrs Tanqueray’ at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Chris Naylor How did you end up moving from acting to running a drama school?
David Whitworth There was a sort of gradual process, I guess. I was just a jobbing actor for 20 years, but I’d always done a lot of teaching to exist as an actor.
CN Where did you train?
DW I didn’t train, I just went to university and did plays, and then got a job as an acting ASM at Leicester. So I went through the repertory system and spent about 3 years working in different towns – Leicester, Bolton, Harrogate. When I got back to London, we’d got our first mortgage and so suddenly there was this responsibility of actually paying 30 quid a month.
CN You’d got married…
DW I was married when I was a student.
CN So you went into the career knowing that you were part of team.
DW Yes. Jane did the proper thing and trained as an actress, and I did the improper thing and went to university, and I became the actor and she became a director. We went to Leicester, and Jane got pregnant, and then I got Pitlochry–
– our first child was born – I was going to say on a croft, but we were living in a croft. He was born in Perth hospital.
CN Did you feel any pressure – now you suddenly have a very important person in your life to support, in what was even then a very precarious profession?
DW When you’re that age, I think you just cope with whatever comes at you. Once we’d got a mortgage I sometimes used to wake up thinking, ‘How am I going to pay this every month?’, but I’m very glad I took the advice of my tutor at university, Dr Worth. I remember she said, ‘You must stay and get your degree, because that will help you to be an actor’. In those days, if you’d got a proper honours degree you could be a teacher. So I did years of supply teaching.
CN In regular schools?
DW Anywhere really, but I was lucky enough to make a very good relationship with a school, and any time I was out of work, they always took me back as a floating teacher. So I would cover for anybody who was away, teaching everything. In fact, at one point they offered me Head of English, which would have absolutely changed my life, because I had just been doing bits of teaching when necessary and acting whenever I could. And I did agonise for about 10 hours.
CN It’s an interesting dilemma. It does happen doesn’t it, when they say, ‘Stay on’, and you think, ‘Well, I could get benefits, I could get security – ‘
DW A pension…
CN But you said no to that.
DW Well, that was in the early 70s. I’d only been acting for about 5 or 6 years, and I just didn’t feel I’d done enough, I was still burning up with ambition. I did about 20 years of anything else I could to earn money. I used to mark ‘O’ Level papers – these kids whose parents had paid a fortune for their education, and there was I, sitting in the dressing room at Bath Theatre Royal marking their ‘O’ Levels. But we needed the money – it think it was something like 10 shillings a script, so you’d make a few hundred quid at Christmas, which was…
CN Not to be sniffed at.
DW It wasn’t to be sniffed at. Supply teaching was so much better paid than acting – I mean, you’re hard pressed to find anything as badly paid as acting – but it did enable me to be an actor.
CN So you got to the point where your mortgage was pressing on you?
DW It was the children – we had 3 you see, and by the time our youngest was about 9 or 10, the others were coming up to university age. Children going to university, they’re going to cost you money.
I’d been working from London and doing tours occasionally. My main employer was the New Shakespeare Company, Regent’s Park, I did an awful lot of work with them.
There was a period of my life when I was very involved – because when I was working for them once, David Conville, who used to run it, came into the dressing room and said, ‘I don’t know what to make of this, there’s a man at Lloyds Bank and he wants to give us some money, but he wants education work. You know about that sort of thing – go away and draw up some plans.’ So I started writing workshops for a group of actors within the company – interactive workshops with students, but entertainments in themselves. I wrote a script which included great chunks of the Shakespeare which we were doing, illustrating themes, and this was the idea I sold to Lloyds Bank.
I spent years doing this all over the place when the company was on tour. The very first one was ‘Julius Caesar’, and we did it in different theatres, packed with students: I got half of them supporting Brutus and half supporting Anthony. They were a huge success, and Lloyds Bank started just throwing money at us, because they thought, ‘We could develop this, you could do educational videos’. The Inner London Education Authority had their own television studio in a converted school in Battersea, and so they linked us up with them, and I spent the next 2 or 3 years writing and directing videos – distilled theatre workshops, on the Roman plays, the Tragedies, the Comedies. As we went on, they started entering these for festivals, and we won some gold gong at the Chicago Film Festival, so Lloyds Bank thought, ‘That’s even better, we’ll give you some more money – you can try and get other actors in’.
I got Renee Asherson playing Volumnia, and John Nettles playing Coriolanus. So this was wonderful – it would take up a great chunk of my year, writing and planning and usually working in the summer for the Shakespeare company.
Then the new guy came in and said, ‘No, we don’t want to spend money on theatre, we want to spend it on music’. And suddenly, this regular second career which kept the acting going and was very good to do, it all stopped.
CN How did you end up running Richmond Drama School?
DW I had been working for Sam [Walters] at the Orange Tree Theatre, and he was trying to run this drama school across the road, the De Leon drama school, to see if he could make it work. But he didn’t really have time, so he got Jane and I involved – Jane as the acting teacher and me directing plays, and I gradually got more involved. We loved doing it.
CN Was your attitude that you were preparing people for the profession?
DW We ran it as a professional training course, because we thought some of the really good ones could make a go at of it.
Tom Hardy went on to huge fame and success – he was great for me and Jane, we got on really well.
CN Could you tell he had a target in mind?
DW I don’t know whether he had a target, but he had a huge talent. I remember him standing up in the first week and doing the first exercise, and he was shaking with apprehension… He has got a kind of magnetism, charisma, especially on film.
CN What sort of ages would you take?
DW All ages. I had an actor who was very good, worked in business – a very cultivated, interesting man, but he’d always wanted to be an actor. He was the oldest I ever had, he was 60-something, and he went on and had a bit of a career. I saw him in some good plays on the fringe; he was doing what he wanted to do all his life.
CN When you weren’t acting yourself, were you able to get satisfaction from bringing it out of other people?
DW I found I loved teaching, I loved working on texts with students and introducing them to Shakespeare. One South London boy – who is now a film actor and writer, doing really well – I remember him shaking my hand and saying, ‘I never did any of this at school – what an eye-opener to have this world of Shakespeare opened up, thank you’. When we look back and think, ‘What were we doing all that time?’ you think, ‘Well, it if we hadn’t, those people wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing now’.
CN When you went into it, were you thinking, ‘At some point I’m going to go back?’
DW Well, I thought I’d just do it for 2 or 3 years. I naively thought I could combine acting and this job. But that’s very difficult; I mean, teaching is a huge commitment.
CN I imagine you started to think, ‘Well, I’m here now, there’s another term coming up…’
DW Yes, it creeps up on you, but I always thought, ‘There’ll come a time when I’ll be able to go back,’ because acting is like that.
CW It’s very seductive, isn’t it?
DN There isn’t a career path, is there? People do come in and out of the business.
CN At what point did you think, ‘Right, I’ve had enough, I want to act again’?
DW There was a combination of circumstances – they were gradually getting rid of things that were not going to bring the college money, all the creative stuff was disappearing. Music, art and drama were being squeezed because there was always pressure on us to take more and more students and charge higher and higher fees.
CN So you were becoming more frustrated?
DW Yeah, I became more and more disenchanted – not with the job I was doing, but with the place. Every few years in these institutions, they restructure and you have to apply for your job again, and Jane was forced out, her job disappeared, so my ally had gone. Jane had been the heart of the drama school really, so I knew the students weren’t getting the same good basic acting training. I staggered on for another two or three years; in the end, I sort of forced them to make me redundant, so that gave me the statutory redundancy payment, which was enough money for me to have breathing space. I immediately had some photographs taken, wrote to everybody I could think of and tried to get an agent.
CN So, in a way, you were starting from scratch. Was that daunting?
DW Yeah it was, but my attitude was, everything’s a bonus, even if it’s just a little bit in a TV series. What I really wanted to do was plays, but I wasn’t sure how. I wrote to people I knew, like Tim Sheader and Sam, and both of them came up with jobs. And once I got going, it was easier to get an agent. I thought I would just get the odd days’ work here and there – I was absolutely amazed that I earned more money than in the previous year teaching. That was just my first year back.
CN A wonderful year, to welcome you back.
DW It was, and that’s because of calling in favours.
CN It must have been very strange – returning after such a long time. Did you notice a difference in yourself?
DW A big difference. I’m much more confident now than when I was young, because I haven’t got so much riding on it, and although it’s hurtful not to get work, as it always was, it doesn’t bother me in the same way.
CN How do you think the business has changed?
DW Well, the most marked thing is all this unpaid or very low–paid work. When I started as an actor, you weren’t paid a lot, but you were paid. And you didn’t work if you weren’t paid. Now there’s been this explosion in fringe theatre work; I think, should we be doing any of this? But these young people trying to start acting, they won’t get any experience if they don’t do that, unless they’re lucky enough to get into the RSC or something. There aren’t any theatres where you can go for 6 months, doing play after play.
CN Do you think your priorities in life have changed?
DW Oh yeah, I’m sure they have. I’m still very keen to do it, I mean it’s so exciting to get a job isn’t it? When they phone up and say yes, they want you.
CN I find there are enough wonderful points of delight and joy amongst the terror or the grind to pull you through.
DW Especially in theatre. My experience of going back has been mostly theatre. I’ve done one advert in Romania, and those are ridiculous jobs, aren’t they? They fly you out, put you in an expensive hotel, you go to some studio and you do a day’s work, and then you come home again and it’s several thousand pounds. Those are silly jobs.
CN That’s one of the many wonderful things about this profession, that it will take you somewhere you never expected to go.
DW It’s a treat really, a little holiday.
CN Would you say that’s how you viewed your return? Because I suppose you didn’t have to come back to acting, did you?
DW No, I had a pension, and then very soon I had my old age pension.
CN Which must help in terms of taking jobs.
DW Yeah, it really does. I couldn’t have done most of the work that I’ve done without that. If I was still having to pay a mortgage, it wouldn’t be enough money.
CN Do you think it benefits an actor to take some time out?
DW Well, it might make you a better actor, but I don’t think it helps you get more work, because I’m up against people who are my age but didn’t take that break, and are much better known. So I’m very much an unknown quantity.
CN There’s this big debate flying around about middle-class acting – I think it’s a fairly middle class profession anyway, and probably hasn’t ever really been open to everybody.
DW I was working-class, I didn’t have any sort of connections to theatre at all, hardly ever been to the theatre.
CN Did you have a teacher that inspired you?
DW When I was at Newquay grammar school, a teacher got me involved in the school play in the first year or second year, ‘The Miser’ by Moliere. And I thought, ‘Oh yeah, I can do this.’ But as a child I’d been in ‘Peter Pan’ at the Cosy Nook Theatre in Newquay, so I trod the boards very young. I did know quite early on that that’s what I wanted to do.
CN It’s terribly exciting isn’t it? It’s like a little secret, thinking, ‘Wow, I could do this’.
DW I remember my Uncle John – we were talking about what I might do with my life; I said, ‘I might be a barrister or something like that’. He said, ‘Oh no, you can’t do that, you wouldn’t be any good. But you might be an actor’. I can remember where we were walking when he said that – and I thought, ‘Yes of course, that is what I want to do’. And I just seized every opportunity I could – my three years at university were spent doing plays, and doing a bit of Beowulf on the side.
CN It’s a very good use of three years, isn’t it?
DW I think those years are important for any young person to find out what you want to do. Most people in life don’t find what they really want, and end up compromising and being generally unhappy. You can be unhappy as an actor, for different reasons, but when you’re working it can be fantastic. I mean that job I’ve just done in Sweden, it was the best thing.
CN ‘The Woman in Black’! What a job, what a play.
DW I just absolutely loved it. To play that part, or those parts, it’s wonderful. I felt quite bereft when it all came to an end. I loved being in Stockholm, but what I carry with me will be doing the play, and the effect it had on the audience. It’s just a fantastic piece of theatre.
CN I always felt like it was pure theatre in many ways; it was almost like a lesson in acting, and a lesson in how to be an audience.
DW How to use your imagination. Because there’s nothing there, a few props.
CN When I’d got the part, I went to see the play – I’d started to read it, I’d started to learn it – I knew what was coming, and it still terrified me completely.
DW I’d much rather be in it than watch it, because it’s too frightening.
CN Absolutely. There was a point when I was covering my ears thinking, ‘Please let this stop, because I don’t think I can cope’.
DW When the door opens…
CN Oh God! So wonderful, I loved doing that show.
DW it’s almost spoilt me for anything else, I enjoyed it so much.
CN Thank you David.
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London. Wonderful place, greatest city on Earth. When you’re tired of it, etcetera etcetera.
I grew up a half-hour train journey outside London, and spent all of my youth dreaming of the day I could finally leave the provinces behind and arrive in the Big Smoke to make my fortune. My school made frequent trips to the National Theatre and to see the RSC at the Barbican, and my dreams were filled with thoughts of moving to London to study at drama school.
Happily enough, this came to pass – the Three-Year Acting course at LAMDA, from 1995 to 1998. A wonderful, inspiring time, surrounded by amazing actors who became amazing friends, spending our days immersed in the one thing we all wanted desperately to do. We used to rehearse in Chiswick, so naturally I rented a flat there – or, to be specific, a knackered bedsit. In fact, most of us ended up renting flats or rooms in West London as we trained. It seemed sensible enough – in those days, LAMDA was based in Earls Court and there was no sense in straying too far. Gradually though, as we left training and money started to be more of an issue, people started to flee to the less-expensive parts, or leave London altogether – although this often seemed to coincide with them also leaving the profession.
And there’s the rub. It has always been an accepted fact of the industry that if you want to be a working actor, you have to live in London. After all, that’s where the work is, isn’t it? All the top drama schools are there, all the best agents; it’s where all the important auditions are held, and where you’ll find the headshot photographers, the show reel and voice reel studios, Equity, Spotlight, the Actor’s Centre – Theatreland itself. How can you even contemplate being an actor if you don’t live in London?
But let’s look at some rather scary figures. According to an Equity survey from 2013 quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 56% of its members earned less than £10,000 in 2012/13. Anything less than £13,000 a year is deemed to be below the poverty line. To rent a flat in London (let’s not even bother talking about buying a house in the capital) you will be paying an average of £1,160 per month (September 2014 figures).
For many of us, something has to give, and that something is usually acting. After a few years of trying to establish yourself, the financial burden becomes too great, so you pack up and leave London, knowing that probably means leaving the profession too. It’s hard to justify persevering with such a precarious career when you see your bank balance emptying, especially as the years go by, and you become conscious that this might be your last chance to make a career change. Hard too if you have a family, or want one.
I spoke to actress Priyanga Burford recently about this: ‘I think it’s a ridiculous demand to make of people to be living in one of the most expensive cities in the world on the off-chance that they might get some work,’ she told me. Pri and her husband Tom have two children, and made the decision to leave the capital: ‘We couldn’t afford anywhere in London that was big enough or nice enough to have the family life that we really wanted. You just have to make tough choices.’
Paul Miller, artistic director of the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, told me: ‘I think there is a lot of burn off. You can see that in the proportion of people who are in Spotlight of a certain age. The people who get burned off are the people who can’t afford to pay rent in London.’
The Stage recently quoted Justine Simons, head of culture for the Greater London Authority on this issue: “London is now the biggest it’s been… and that has put a real pressure on housing. We all know how expensive it is. It means we are facing a crisis… which is compounded by low wages.”
She added: “We don’t want a city where there are no artists or creative people, but left to its own devices, London has a habit of extinguishing creativity.”
We thesps are not alone, of course. Across the professions, there is an exodus from London as people battle the curse of gentrification, and the rising rents and cost of living that follow it – see the London Is Changing project, set up by Rebecca Ross, MA communication design course leader at Central St Martins art school.
But if leaving London means stopping acting, who is left behind?
The media has recently become preoccupied with the apparent rise in middle- and upper- class actors, something I have written about before, and the suggestion seems to be that there are simply too many posh people being accepted to drama schools. These stories, and the subsequent eagerness of various drama school principals to parade their working class students, seem to me to be missing the point. Getting through drama school is one thing – there are student loans, part-time jobs and willing parents to help.
The real problem comes after graduation, when all those students are propelled into a harsh profession. It’s fine if you immediately get work – provided it’s well-paid, and provided it’s followed by more. Even better, of course, if you already have money behind you – and this is where the ‘class’ issue comes in. Who can afford to live from day-to-day in London, waiting for the phone to ring, unless they either have one of those elusive super-flexible day-jobs, or they are somehow liberated from the pressing worries of finding the rent and the council tax? It seems that increasingly it is only those with parents willing to subsidise them who can afford to sustain a career based in the capital.
So are we really seeing a trend emerging in which the business comes to be dominated by people from wealthy families? That doesn’t sound like a recipe for a healthy and diverse artistic community to me. What about a vibrant industry, made up of people from different backgrounds, with different influences?
Some will no doubt argue that this is natural selection at work, and that those who can’t afford to be actors deserve to drop out. I mean, you chose the job, didn’t you? You know the score – if you were any good, you would be getting the work, wouldn’t you?
Let’s say you’re one of those drama school graduates who works a fair amount, but can’t stomach the cost of living in London any more. Like so many before you, you decide to pack up and leave.
But what if you don’t want to stop acting? What is it like to live outside the capital and still pursue an acting career?
I studied at LAMDA alongside Sushil Chudasama, who moved to Manchester to work (near his home town of Blackburn) shortly after we graduated. His experience is very informative, both in his frustration with the pressures of living and working in the capital, but also as a great lesson that it is possible to break away from London and still have a thriving career.
Chris Naylor How long after LAMDA did you decide to leave London?
Sushil Chudasama It was the first year after drama school, 1999. I got three jobs in a row all in Manchester, and all near to where I am originally from in Lancashire. I was not planning to leave so quickly, but as I was paying rent for a room where I hardly was, I thought it made financial sense to leave. I was planning to come back at some point but the opportunity never arose.
CN Did you have any doubts yourself about moving?
SC At that time I was excited about working as an actor – if I needed to move back to London then I would, and probably easily could. Other friends however did express that it could be detrimental to my career if I moved back ‘Up North’, but I was just thinking short term at that time.
CN Do you find the majority of your meetings are still in London?
SC With the BBC now in Manchester, I find I audition equally up North and in London. I am probably in London once or twice a month and have 2/3 auditions a month outside of London the rest of the month.
CN What effect do you think it has had on your career – for example, have you turned down auditions in London because of travel? Or have you missed out on work because you’re not London-based?
SC The only time it has really been an issue was when I was auditioning for ‘Four Lions’ by Chris Morris. I’d already had 5 auditions for the film and I’d had to travel to London for each one of them. I even met Chris Morris for the last of these, and filmed a couple of improvisations with him. I was equally delighted as annoyed that they wanted to see me yet again; I had already paid out about £300 in travel fees for this one job, so I asked my agent if she could ask the production company to reimburse my travel, which I thought was a reasonable request – normally if you get a recall you get your travel covered, but I’d had none of my travel reimbursed at this point. To my disgust they decided they didn’t want to see me either way – not just a no to the money, but they didn’t want to see me at all now – probably because I’d asked for my costs to be covered! That was the one time I felt discriminated against as a non-London-based actor.
CN Is there a good actors’ network in Manchester?
SC There is an amazingly supportive network in Manchester. Everyone is always posting about jobs and events on social media, and I even started a network on Facebook called mAnCTORS, which started out just for Manchester actors, but now anyone in the industry can join. The scene is very different to London. When I was in London, I found people were very cagey about what they were being seen for and what they were doing next, which I didn’t really warm to or agree with. There seemed to be a very individualistic attitude from people in London and in their attitude towards others. I find people have less time for each other, and that really turns me off. Up in Manchester, everyone is always trying to get their mates involved and putting each other up for jobs, and genuinely wants everyone else to be working. I think we have more of a social attitude towards work, and I definitely prefer that model than the London one I know. We really do believe we’re all in it together and we try and keep each other struggling together too.
CN Have you ever considered moving back?
SC With average rent hitting £1500pcm now, that option has been taken away. Even when I was on Corrie that rent would have been a stretch, so now I don’t think I will be back. When I am in London I look around and think to myself, “How are you all living here, and what have you had to give up to live in these conditions?” I absolutely love visiting London but it drains me of my humanity for others, and my money seems to fly out of my pockets quicker than I can earn it. It’s a shame, as I would consider moving back one day, but what would I have to give up in order to live that lifestyle? At the moment there is nothing that would drag me back to that. The arts scene is unrivalled there, I know, and I love that something is always going on, but I don’t think I need to be there to work, and most importantly, be content.
CN Thanks Sushil.
Let us try and develop some real respect for acting and actors. We need to tell our agents, casting directors, directors and the rest of the profession that if we choose to leave London, and thereby actually achieve a decent quality of life (a garden perhaps, a room for our child to sleep in, some fresh air) we don’t expect this to signal a change in their attitudes towards us.
Most importantly, the industry should be prepared to support us – it profits from actors, and relies on having a steady supply of talent, so it ought to do something concrete to prevent a large proportion of that talent disappearing. On a practical level, this might include things such as arranging auditions for later in the day when it is cheaper to travel into London, or expanding the practice of auditions via Skype – then everyone can stay at home and nobody has to pay for train tickets or room hire.
And for those occasions when we must travel long distances to audition, how about paying expenses? Sushil’s experience of travelling to audition for ‘Four Lions’ is a glaring example of the financial burden this can place on actors. I’ve made journeys up to York and Liverpool for meetings – I even once endured two hellish National Express trips in one day from London to Manchester to audition for a rehearsed reading – my journey home was accompanied by the sound of the man behind me vomiting into a plastic bag. Not a penny of my expenses from those trips was reimbursed.
How about more auditions outside London? In particular, let’s encourage those companies that receive a lot of public funding to be truly National, and hold auditions at different regional centres around the UK – casting days in Manchester, Glasgow or Plymouth, for example.
Perhaps this is all a fantasy. But why should acting be just a London profession for rich kids? Why should we just accept that London’s dominance as the centre of the acting industry can never be challenged, and that if you really want to be an actor, you have to live here and take the financial hit?
Actors should leave London, if they want. We shouldn’t have to put up with living beyond our means, probably in less-than-desirable accommodation, or if we do leave London, be forced to shell out to travel back in for auditions all the time. We should be able to find a better quality of life, and still pursue the job we love.
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Since his big break in the harrowing Let Him Have It (1991), playing Derek Bentley who at 19 was the last man to be hanged in Britain, Eccleston has played Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and worked alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Kate Winslet (Jude, 1996), Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, 1998) and Nicole Kidman (The Others, 2001).
However, his best work has undoubtedly been reserved for the small screen. He is, of course, known to millions as the ninth Doctor Who, successfully ditching the somewhat fey posturings of previous incumbents for an altogether more earthy – or should that be earthly? – and contemporary interpretation of the Time Lord. But it is in classic television dramas such as Cracker (1993-4), Hillsborough (1996), Our Friends in the North (1996) and Clocking Off (2000) that he truly shines, slipping with unnerving ease under the skin of his characters. (Pictured below: Eccleston with Kate Winslet in Jude.)
Recently, on a beautiful spring day, I met up with Eccleston in a north-London park to talk about, among other things, The Shadow Line, a new seven-part series created by Hugo Blick for BBC Two, which in addition to Eccleston stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Rea and Lesley Sharp. It's no secret that some journalists consider Eccleston to be somewhat prickly. He is indeed very direct but only, I suspect, because he has a very strong attachment to the truth, which is clearly reflected in his work.
HILARY WHITNEY: You always like to make it very clear that you are from Salford, not Manchester. What exactly is the difference?
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON: Salford existed first. Salt Ford. Manchester came afterwards. Actually, I only lived in Salford until I was seven months old and then we moved to Little Hulton, which is only eight miles away but it felt like quite a distance then. I was always going back to see my grandparents and I was constantly reminded that I was from Salford. There was – still is - a very distinct culture in Salford. It’s quite a tough place, but people from Salford are very proud and have a very self-deprecating sense of humour. There’s an expression, “You can always tell a Salford lad but you can’t tell him anything”. But I was brought up on a council estate in Little Hulton where I lived until I was 19.
Tell me a bit about your upbringing.
My old man was a stacker truck driver at Colgate Palmolive for about 20 to 30 years and then a warehouse foreman. That’s where my mum and dad met – she worked on the floor above him on the TA, that’s the toilet articles floor. She came down in the lift one day and when the lift doors opened, there was my dad, sat on the stacker truck. And I’ve got twin brothers, Keith and Alan, who are eight years older than me.
So where did the ambition to become an actor come from?
Well, I couldn’t do anything else. I was quite good at sport but not quite good enough. I was very fit and I was very committed but I didn’t have the talent to be the footballer I wanted to be. Both my brothers are really good with their hands and did apprenticeships - Alan was an upholsterer, his furniture is beautiful, and Keith was a woodworker and shopfitter - but I’m useless at anything like that, I can’t even change a light bulb, so I was really at a loss. I didn’t do very well at school and I had to go to a sixth form college to resit my O levels. Sixth form college was very different to school, a much more – well, middle-class environment, I suppose. There wasn’t so much aggression and pressure not to conform and I did this play.
Out of the blue? Had you ever thought about acting before?
You know, looking back I realise I was always doing Jimmy Cagney impersonations as a kid. I remember trying to dance like Gene Kelly on the oilcloth in the kitchen and when we went to see the first Three Musketeers film - the Richard Lester one, which I think is fantastic – I remember nicking my mum’s umbrella and sword fighting all the way home, so I think I was always performing in a way. And my position in the family made me quite a watcher, because there were two pairs, you know, mum and dad and then Alan and Keith, and then there was me, the youngest by eight years, and that kind of gap makes you very watchful.
So you grabbed the opportunity to be in a play?
It was more that there was a girl in it that I fell in love with. It was called Lock up Your Daughters and it was a slightly off-colour musical adapted from a novel [Rape Upon Rape] by Henry Fielding. Anyway, I met a woman in it so I thought, this is the life for me, but then I finished college and spent six months working in a warehouse, lost again, until my mother heard about a two-year drama course at Salford College of Technology. I auditioned and got in.
Salford Tech was based in the Adelphi Building and when I got home at the end of the first day and told my mum she said, “Well, when I was 14,” – both my mum and dad started work when they were 14 – “my first ever job was to take a message to that building.” So every morning when I walked up those stairs, I would imagine my 14-year-old mother, going up those stairs. Fourteen! I mean, it’s nothing, is it?
Did you feel self-conscious telling your mates that you were doing drama?
No, I think that’s a huge cliché about the North which was kind of furthered by films like Billy Elliot.
The most interesting actors are the ones who act from their gut. But I didn’t realise that for many years
I was thinking more about how self-conscious people are at that age.
OK, yeah. I see what you mean. But no, I wasn’t self-conscious at that age. I mean, I was self-conscious, but not about that. Besides, I think everyone around me kind of went, “Oh, he wants to be an actor, that makes sense,” because I was always taking the mickey and looning about, doing impersonations. So I started to learn all about Stanislavski and Brecht and all that, which I found quite intimidating. It seemed very intellectual and in an odd way that made me more introverted because I became under the misapprehension that acting is an intellectual pursuit and it’s not - it’s an instinctive, emotional pursuit which requires a certain amount of reading, but the most interesting actors are the ones who act from their gut. But I didn’t realise that for many years.
I think it’s often a shock, when you’re young and interested in drama, to suddenly find yourself bombarded by all these different theories – many of which can seem quite abstract.
Yes, I agree, although I think I tapped into a bit of an evangelical aspect which appealed to me. Peter Brook’s Empty Space was very important to me because he talked about rough theatre, which is basically that all you need is an empty space, a person walking through it and a person to watch it. Of course, the theatre that I had, not gone to see, because I hadn’t really been to see any, but been aware of, was very bourgeois and very pros arch. All that Noel Coward stuff - neutered theatre. But Brook and Brecht and Stanislavski had this kind of evangelical, almost religious quality and I could find a way in with that. Anton Artaud also had a big affect on me - Theatre and Its Double. I didn’t understand it but I thought it was very compelling.
At the same time I was doing English A level. I was taught by a very good teacher called Sorah – B Sorah, I don’t know her first name, we didn’t know their first names in those days - and she taught the First World War poets, which had a massive impact on me, particularly Sassoon’s journey of conscience. At the beginning of the First World War [Siegfried] Sassoon was writing poems saying that it was good and noble and natural to spill your blood for the mother nation and within a year he was saying “I apologise, this is vile.” He went through a number of stages and this journey of an artist’s conscience was fascinating to me, because he admitted he was wrong through art. (Pictured left: Eccleston in The Others, 2001.)
There was that series of unbalanced poems – well, they’re not unbalanced in a way, they’re quite rational in their irrationality, such as Blighters. Sassoon came back on leave from the Front, obviously suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and went into the West End to see a review about the war which probably had something along the lines of “We’re Going to Hang Out Our Washing on the Siegfried Line” in it and went home and wrote this six – eight? – line poem about the harlots on the stage, imagining Panzer tanks smashing through the back of the theatre and rolling over the audience because he was so repulsed at how detached people were from the reality of war and that art was misrepresenting it. That had a massive impact on me, as did Isaac Rosenburg’s poem Break of Day in the Trenches, and [Robert] Graves’s poetry, and somehow, all this came together and shifted my idea of what poetry and theatre was. Until then I had thought of poetry and theatre how I perceive opera and ballet today - very rarified – and then I realised they could be weapons, which is very appealing to a 19 year old.
I also started looking a bit more closely at my northern heritage - seeing Kes and Albert Finney [also from Salford] in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning; Ken Loach films and Play for Today – all very writer-led. And that was the third thing, really. I’d been a remedial reader at school and when I went to Salford Tech and finally got a good teacher, reading just opened up for me and I read avidly. So when we were taught, on my drama course at Salford Tech, that the writer was the most important person [in drama] it made complete sense to me. And that’s what British television needs to readdress, because without writers, we don’t go to work. So those three things: the poets, the likes of Brecht and Artaud and appreciating writers – that’s what really set me off.
Do you think writers are still appreciated in the same way? I was talking to a writer recently, who has given up on television because it’s just too frustrating – writers are constantly being asked to rewrite scripts which are eventually rejected by someone way up the food chain.
They [TV executives] don’t want originality – I think it’s a kind of unconscious disapproval of creative people. “I can’t do it so I’m going to stop you doing it. Don’t make me feel stupid by surprising me.” Years ago producers would say to writers, “What are you thinking about, what do you want to write about?” Since then, we’ve gone through a period where producers were going, “This is what we want you to write about.” That’s not creative. Writers have to be obsessed with things – that's how writers like [Dennis] Potter and [Alan] Bleasdale were able to write such brilliant scripts. It’s kind of a respect for the creative process. I don’t mean to rarify writers or treat them like gods or priests, but it’s not a prescriptive process. You cannot write a script by committee. It’s just not possible. All you will get is pap.
I can’t stand people who are careful about pissing people off
But having said all that, actually things do seem to be changing – look at the BBC at the moment. Look at The Shadow Line and The Crimson Petal and the White; they seem to be giving writers a bit of space and putting them at the centre of the work again.
I think Bleasdale famously took Jimmy [McGovern] out for a pint early on and said, “You know, keep your mouth shut,” – because Jimmy’s very opinionated, as he should be – but what Bleasdale was saying was, if you shout your mouth off too much then you won’t be able to do the thing which you love, which is writing. Do the shouting via your writing. He was telling him to be careful politically, to be careful not to piss people off. Not that Jimmy is, thank God. I can’t stand people who are careful about pissing people off.
So that was the motivation behind going to drama school?
Yeah, three years at Central School of Screech and Trauma [Central School of Speech and Drama] in Swiss Cottage which I found very intimidating. I’d moved into an entirely different environment. I was living in a different city in a series of grubby bedsits in north London and I just went into my shell. I really didn’t know how to enjoy myself - I was so worried about failing that I forgot to live. It was a difficult time but I have no one to blame except myself. But when I look back, I was obviously absorbing stuff. I read constantly and was exposed to Chekhov, Ibsen, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, all these great writers, plus a variety of great directors. I was studying acting and I started to grow up a little bit.
It sounds quite lonely.
No. I wasn’t lonely. I made great friends. It was a delayed adolescence in a way.
But did you ever think, I really don't think I can do this?
All the time. But actors are forever thinking that – I mean, anyone who’s creative thinks that all the time. That’s the motor.
And did you manage to get an agent at the end of it?
No, I didn’t. The majority of my mates got agents and jobs quite quickly and I didn’t get any work or an agent for three years.
That must have been very difficult.
It was, especially because when I left drama school there was this catch 22 situation where in order to get a job you had to have an Equity card and in order to have an Equity card you had to have a job - even though pricks like Derek Hatton [ex deputy leader of Liverpool Council turned TV pundit] were getting them and doing panto. Actually, I kind of jacked it in at one point and went to crew [backstage] at the Manchester Royal Exchange and at the time I probably thought that’s where my future lay.
But somebody rang me up and said, “Listen, we’re doing theatre-in-education and we can give you a card as long as you take half a wage, because we really need a driver and you can’t drive.” I got 70 quid a week and my Equity card. And as soon as I got my Equity card, Phyllida Lloyd, who is now famous for directing Mamma Mia!, remembered me from a drama school show, and gave me a job - and I’ll never, ever forget her for it. Apparently she’d said to a number of actors, friends of mine from drama school whom she’d worked with, “Has he not got an Equity card yet?” and for whatever reason – because I’m not an obvious Mexican – she let me play Pablo Gonzales in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic. (Pictured above: Eccleston as Hamlet, 2002.)
It was an amazing experience, not least because I met a great friend, Bob Pugh, who had a huge influence on me and who I share scenes with in The Shadow Line. He’s a writer, an actor – he’s lovely, is Bob.
And then, and this is unheard of, I finished Streetcar on the Saturday and had to be in London the following Monday to start my next job. It was a tiny show called Abingdon Square for Soho Poly, which later transferred to the National. In the meantime, Phyllida gave me another job in Dona Rosita at the Old Vic and I also did Bent at the National with Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman – I was understudying Michael Cashman and playing a very small role.
So that all happened really quickly.
Yes, but these were all really tiny roles. The tiny roles that my mates had been doing back in 1986 when we left drama school.
I’ve never been dazzled by actors. I’m dazzled by footballers, although I think a lot of them behave like morons
Didn't you find all this rather dazzling?
No, I’ve never been dazzled by actors. I’m dazzled by footballers, although I think a lot of them behave like morons nowadays. But it was fascinating to watch someone like McKellen in a rehearsal room and on stage – if you’re not going to learn from actors of that calibre, then there’s something wrong with you.
When you’re like a rookie actor – for instance, when you do your first bit of television and you don’t really know what you’re doing - are other actors helpful? Or are they protective of their status, suspicious of newcomers?
No, British actors are very helpful. I've noticed that the British like to be helpful and the tradition of the ensemble is still very prevalent in drama schools. Not that drama school training is essential, because there are lots of great actors who never trained formally, although it is useful in that it gives you an opportunity to fail and to play parts that you won’t get to play in the profession. But yes, I do think that actors like to help each other. Bob Pugh, for example, helped me tremendously. It was tough love though - he’d take me out and get me lathered and say, “Be a bit more disrespectful to the whole process, be anarchic, be free. Don’t be constrained.” And he led by example.
Abingdon Square was with Shared Experience, which works in a very collaborative way.
Very much so. Actually, Nancy’s [Meckler, artistic director of Shared Experience] methods were a little esoteric for me. I’m not knocking them - Nancy was very good to me. I just don’t think I was very good for Nancy’s shows. But what was really good about theatre around that time is that there was a great sense of idealism. I think Nancy is very influenced by Mike Alfreds and I think – well, he’s a genius, his theatre is extraordinary, as is Declan Donnellan’s work. All those directors, including Nancy, very much relied on the audience’s imagination and intelligence rather than giving them the whole thing on a plate - addressing the mystery, I suppose, of performance with minimal props. Theatre is a live event and if that’s not at the core of your work, if you’re not admitting that it’s live and it has to be different each night and it has to live in the moment, then it’s dead theatre.
And then you broke into films.
Yeah. Not having worked for three years, it was famine then feast. Suddenly there was a British film being made in an era when there were even less British films being made than there are today and I got the lead. So I went from absolute zero to the lead in a British film. I played Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It.
Watch the trailer for Let Him Have It
Did you ever meet any of the Bentley family?
I did. I got close to Iris and her daughter – not surprisingly, they were using the film as part of their campaign to clear Derek’s name. The thing is, at the time I was quite young, 26, and I didn’t admit to myself that it was an onerous task but it was - playing a figure whom, quite understandably, had become a sainted figure to his family. And he was a big guy, 19, with a learning age of 11, possibly lower, and heavily medicated on antique medication for epilepsy which emphasised his disability because he was heavily doped and yet still going through all the things adolescents go through. It was a big task and the only time I’d worked in front of a camera before was on two small television jobs - Morse and Casualty – and there I was, the lead in a feature film. At the time I thought I was taking it all in my stride, but looking back I wasn’t. I was panicking, it was too much. What is it they say? That the key to success is that some people are born to expect, some people are born to accept, and I think I’m probably the latter.
Really? I don’t get that impression at all.
I never expected success. I’ve worked with people who’ll turn round and say they’ve just got the lead in a big film with a complete sense that it was always going to happen and, like it or not, that kind of confidence is probably what you need to be a major star. I don’t think I have that but I have always wanted to have integrity.
You never have done a commercial, have you?
No, I haven’t, but I do understand that some people have to. It’s a very personal decision that, but I just didn’t want to end up selling cornflakes.
Tell me about Our Friends in the North.
Our Friends in the North, a nine-part series for the BBC, was an amazing opportunity for an actor – I think I was 30 – to play a character from the age of 19 until his mid-fifties. Very rarely seen on television, likewise on stage – unless you’re playing Peer Gynt and then it's usually split between actors. In a way, I saw it as an opportunity to go back to drama school and get paid for it.
It was a play originally, wasn’t it?
Yes, but it was massively expanded and altered [for television]. And of course, it was a brilliant bit of writing – a political, state-of-the-nation piece – except that it wasn’t, it was more a saga of people’s lives, the failure of the Left in Britain and housing policy in Britain. Certainly my character [Nicky Hutchinson], was obsessed with how we house the poor. But for me, the heart of the piece was this fantastic father-son relationship, played by myself and Peter Vaughan - both idealists, both embittered and unable to communicate. Then, at the moment when the son finally feels able to confront the father and ask for an explanation for all the coldness and the distance over the years, it’s too late - the father has Alzheimers. To watch Peter Vaughan play that part was an education. (Pictured above: Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North.)
So it was a good experience?
Oh yeah. If you’re working on a good script, then you’re happy. And if you’re not, you’re not happy.
And you started to get cast in Hollywood films. Did you go over to LA and do all the rounds of meetings?
Well, I was on people’s radar because of Let Him Have it and Jude, so I did a bit of that and I believed every word they said to me and came away with nothing because there’s a culture of lying. People over there will give you the impression you’ve got the job when you haven’t. It’s just the way in that town, a town that’s full of fear. And then I played a kind of stock panto villain in a film called Elizabeth and they all thought [in Hollywood] that I was a bad-ass, so I got offered a couple of bad-ass roles and, against my better judgment, I took the money.
I don’t regret the money - if I did, I’d have given it back
That sounds as if you regret it.
No, I don’t regret the money - if I did, I’d have given it back. It was a strategic move. I thought, if I do these films...
And which films are those?
Oh, I’m not going to name them. People can dig them out themselves, I’m not going to publicise my worst performances. But the money allowed me to come back and do some really interesting British television, like Flesh and Blood [written by Jimmy McGovern], which was one of my favourite projects - we did that for two conkers and a marble and it won awards all over the world. It was a BBC Two drama where I played a character who had been adopted as a baby and when he has a child of his own, a biological switch is thrown and he wants to find out about his own background. He discovers that both his mother and his father have a learning disability and actually, although obviously it was pleasurable, they had no idea they were having sex or that they’d conceived a child, but because both of their conditions were from childhood injuries, my character had no genetic predisposition. It was a fantastic story and again, like Our Friends in the North, it was about a man trying to connect with his father. It’s obviously been a theme – in my work, that is. I’m perfectly well connected with my own father.
Do you read your reviews?
Yes, I do, although I always think, when a critic dies, all it will say on their headstone is: "Here lies – whoever - Critic." That’s it. Terrible.
So you don’t take reviews to heart?
Yes, I do. Sometimes they’re right. Sometimes they quite correctly identify things you suspected were wrong – I’m talking about theatre critics – but sometimes it’s just personal and sometimes it’s just about the fact that they’re on the dinner party circuit in north London with a select bunch of actors, usually the Oxbridge lot.
How do you find LA? You seem so English to me, it’s difficult to imagine you being comfortable in LA.
Hmm… well, I find that slightly patronising. I think the reason you consider me English is just because I’m from the North.
Apologies, but that's really not what I meant. I mean, I consider myself very English – I know I come across that way to Americans. I don’t drive, for a start.
I lived in Los Angeles before I could drive - you have to use the yellow buses and then you see the underbelly of Los Angeles, the reality, and that’s really useful. I like Los Angeles – to visit. I love how professional the industry is. I’m not in a box over there, I can play anything – I’ve played Amelia Earhart’s navigator, I’ve played a tramp in Heroes. I’ve auditioned for all kinds of roles over there, I’m just an actor. You’re not bound by the class system.
But you just said it was a town full of fear.
Yeah, of course, but you have to navigate that. You have to understand that that is probably all part of the American dream. People in the film industry always want to impart enthusiasm and positivity, even if it misleads people - just in case you walk out the door, get another job and become very successful. And there’s great work to be done in America and they like British actors - a lot. Partly because we’re cheap but largely because we’re very good at what we do, and that goes for British directors too.
Of all the films I’ve done, Jude is the one that I’d stand by. The rest is much of a muchness
You seem to have been more astute when choosing British films, working with the likes of Michael Winterbottom.
Of all the films I’ve done, Jude is the one that I’d stand by, the one I’d like people to come back to. The rest is much of a muchness.
When you’ve made films that you haven’t been pleased with, do you look back and remember the shoot as an unhappy experience?
Not necessarily. I quite enjoyed working on Elizabeth because I got to see Cate Blanchett become what she is and I think she’s a pretty extraordinary actor. She’s also great to work with. And I got to work with Joe Fiennes, which was good fun. We were an eclectic bunch: Geoffrey Rush, Richard Attenborough, Eric Cantona - although I didn’t speak to Cantona because I’m a huge Manchester United fan so I was very shy. I wasn’t entirely happy with the celebrity casting aspect either, because I had mates who’d trained for three years at drama school and were scratching around trying to make a living.
Watch a video of Christopher Eccleston and Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
OK. The elephant in the park. Doctor Who.
Well, that’s all in the past now.
When you were initially approached –
I put myself forward. I approached the writer and said, “I’d like to play this part.” I did the first series which was a great success and I am very proud of it.
So how did you hear about it?
Through the grapevine. So I said, “I’ll do that. And they [the BBC] were like, “What?” And that’s precisely what it needed.
But why did you want to do it?
I had just worked with Russell T Davies on Second Coming [in which Eccleston plays a video store assistant, who also claims to be the Son of God] which I thought was a good piece of television and I thought, he’s a good writer, he could do something with that programme [Doctor Who], which actually I had paid no attention to as a child and a young man. I was always out playing football and you know, the doctor was very RP and very authoritarian because it would appear that in this country, if you’re the least bit intellectual or sensitive or poetic, you have to speak with an RP accent.
So when I first heard about it, I was out running - I run a lot – and I was trying to think of a way into the Doctor’s character. So I was thinking, Time Lord, what does Time Lord mean? And I thought: he’s falling through time, he’s never at home and he’s lost - I could play that. It was a way in. So I emailed Russell. And of course, although it’s all about the ride and the fun and all of that, part of the fascination that the show had is something to do with that character. Yes, he’s heroic and he’s brave, but he’s also an outsider and there are all sorts of minority groups who fasten on the Doctor, precisely because he’s an outsider who insists on inclusiveness. So, without turning it into a Ken Loach film, I thought I could do something with that. And I’d always acted for adults, never for children and children have much better taste than adults because they don’t censor themselves. That’s what I feel anyway. If a child says to you, “That programme was rubbish,” it was rubbish. If an adult says it was rubbish, you think, well, you’ve probably got an agenda. So I wanted to work for the most exacting audience there is - and I’d worked for their parents you see, so it worked beautifully for the BBC. (Pictured above: Eccleston as the Doctor in Doctor Who.)
There was huge excitement about the return of Doctor Who. I mean, it really was a big deal. Were you shocked by all the fuss and the brouhaha?
Not at all. When you’re in the industry you come to expect it. It’s all PR generated.
So you didn’t feel overwhelmed?
No, why would I after all the things I’ve done? I’d been working in television for 15 years by then.
Lennon Naked must have been similarly challenging – in that, he is someone that millions of people all over the world feel a connection with, a sense of ownership in some cases.
And everybody knew exactly how he sounded and exactly how he looked which made the job that much more difficult.
Not to mention that people are hugely attached to him.
Yeah. Well, they are very attached to the Doctor. They are also, as I found out, very attached to Jesus Christ. But Lennon Naked was a beautiful script by a writer called Robert Jones and something that I felt I had to do. We had 18 days to do 90 minutes of period television. I was in every scene and it was a very difficult shoot but I’m glad I tried it. The cowardly thing to have done would have been to say, “No, I’m not going to try that,” but life’s too short.
Tell me about your latest project, The Shadow Line.
The Shadow Line is a series directed by Hugo Blick and it is, superficially at least, a procedural crime drama, the investigation of a murder by both the police and the criminals. What it’s actually about is a kind of meditation on human motivation and morality and the grey areas that we all exist in. There’s also a great deal of contrasting of lives and human behaviour with a lot of black humour and a strong thriller element. It’s very cinematic for television, noir-ish, almost. It’s been inspired a great deal by Seventies American films such as All the President’s Men and The Parallex View, those kind of paranoic thrillers, very layered with anti-heroes.
My character is called Joseph Bede and Lesley Sharp (pictured left with Eccleston) plays my wife, who suffers from early-onset dementia, and it’s that aspect of my character’s life that presents the audience with a problem really, because this is a man who traffics heroin, although he’s by no means a traditional villain. Up until the drama begins he’s only ever been behind the scenes doing the books but because of the death of Harvey Wratten, which is the central murder that the series kicks off with, my character has to step forward and front an operation. He’s not suited for it. He’s not physically violent, he isn’t acquainted with knuckle dusters - he’s been a book-keeper. He’s completely out of his depth but he needs to make a certain amount of money to ensure the care of his beloved wife – she’s his childhood sweetheart and they’ve been married for nearly 30 years.
That sounds slightly similar to Accused, in that, again, it's morally ambiguous. You played a man who wasn’t bad – in fact, he was a very good man in many ways, but he had his flaws and he made a stupid mistake.
That character was Willy Houlihan, a plumber who loved his wife very much - again they were childhood sweethearts. He also loved his daughter very much and she was getting married and he wanted to give her the best day of her life precisely because she’s the kind of girl who would never ask for the best day of her life, that was his reasoning. He thinks his other two children are selfish but she’s not, so he wants to reward that. He finds some money in a taxi but instead of returning it, he gambles it in order to increase it and pay for his daughter’s wedding. At the same time, unfortunately, he’s having an affair with a much younger woman and his life unravels very quickly. It’s quite biblical in its way.
I’ve worked with Jimmy six times now – Cracker, Hillsborough, Hearts and Minds, Sunday, The Accused and Heart – and he said to me very early on [adopts Scouse accent], “When I’m writing the characters, what I’m doing is I’m looking for the pure motive and it doesn’t exist.” It’s very Raymond Chandler, it’s what Marlowe is always looking for – the pure motive.
And you know what - are there any wholly good men? Are there any wholly bad men? I’ve not found any and I certainly don’t see one when I look in the mirror.
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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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I won’t be able to finish reading any more books this month, but it’s been a bumper month of reading, with a total of 8 books. Five of them are nonfiction (including one audiobook) which is probably the first time I’ve read more nonfiction than fiction during one month. But I’ve only written posts about 2 of them! I’ve definitely spent more time reading than writing this month.
These are books I’ve reviewed with links to my posts:
The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle 4* – This is not a ‘how to’ book, nor is it a guide to living without technology. It’s an account of what it was like for him, living in a wooden cabin he built on a smallholding in Ireland. He has no running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. He writes about the loneliness he experienced, the lack of contact with his parents and friends, and the damage to his relationships. The book follows the seasons of the year and is a collection of tales about his experiences and his observations about attempting to live a technology-free life.
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman 1* – light, easy to read crime fiction, this is a follow up to The Thursday Murder Club. Many people have written glowing reviews of this book, but Richard Osmond’s style of humour differs from mine, so I didn’t find it very funny. I don’t like being so negative about a book but I think the characters are rather stereotypical and the plot is over complicated and unconvincing. In addition it’s written in the present tense which usually irritates me – and it did.
And here are a few notes about 2 of the remaining 6 books with links to Amazon:
The Library of the Dead by T L Huchu 4* – I loved this fantasy novel, set in a future or alternative Edinburgh, with a wealth of dark secrets in its underground. Teenager Ropa, has dropped out of school to become a ghost talker and when a child goes missing in Edinburgh’s darkest streets, Ropa investigates his disappearance. It’s a dark story, but with flashes of humour to lighten the darkness, and is a mix of Zimbabwean and Scottish magic and culture. If you enjoy Ben Aaronvitch’s Rivers of London novels, you’d enjoy this book.
I Love the Bones of You by Christopher Eccleston 5* an audiobook read by actor, Christopher Eccleston, who has played many roles. He is probably my favourite Doctor Who and I especially loved his portrayal of Maurice Scott in the BBC drama The A Word. Maurice is an eccentric and lovable man who has an autistic grandson. I Love the Bones of you is not the usual celebrity autobiography that is just all about him and his work. This is a really vivid portrait of his relationship with his family and particularly with his father who had dementia at the end of his life. He talks about his lack of confidence in his acting ability together with his experiences with anorexia, depression and breakdowns and talks honestly about his struggles with mental health..
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Part Two of Books Read in October 2021 will follow shortly.
Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading. You can also share from a book you want to highlight just because it caught your fancy.
There are just two books left on my Classics Club book list and so, I’ve decided it’s time for me to read one of them, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It is particularly daunting as it is so long, depending on which edition you read. The Penguin Classics edition is 1313 pages long.
The Book Begins:
On the 24th of February 1810, the look-out at Notre Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion Island.
Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice. *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet, but no spoilers!
These are the rules:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
Post it.
Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda’s most recent Friday 56 post.
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‘I do not know what M. de Villefort promised you,’ said the gendarme, ‘but I know we are taking you to the Chateau d’If’.
By a rapid movement, which the gendarme’s practiced eye had perceived, Dantes sprang forward to precipitate himself into the sea; but four vigorous arms seized him as his feet quitted the bottom of the boat. He fell back cursing with rage.
Summary:
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
This week’s topic is a Hallowe’en Freebie. I’m a reluctant reader of scary stories but I have read these books, some are more scary than others.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. knew the story of Dracula from film and TV versions – with most notably Christopher Lee and later Louis Jourdan as Dracula, but steered clear of reading Bram Stoker’s book – well, it’s not like the film versions I’ve seen. The opening surprised me a little, so matter-of-fact and such attention to detail. And the narrative continues composed of letters, journal entries, newspaper articles and transcripts of phonograph diary entries, from several characters, so the story is told from several different viewpoints It’s a very scenic novel, and I could easily imagine the locations and it’s also a very sensual and melodramatic novel, full of religious references; plus it’s an adventure story with a final chase scene and a love story – and not a bit like I expected from the film versions!
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is not like the film version with Boris Karloff as the monster created by Victor Frankenstein. It’s not scary, but it is an improbable story with some interesting ideas about what it is to be human. It is a gothic tale about a scientist whose laboratory experiments produced fantastical results. The ‘monster’ learns by observation what it is to be human, but because of the reactions of the people he meets he is spurred on to take revenge on his creator.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – a novella together with Other Tales of Terror. The case of Jekyll and Hyde is well known through film and TV versions, but I think the book is much scarier. It reads at first like a mystery story as Dr Jekyll is trying to discover the identity of the evil Mr Hyde – it is only later than he discovers the truth.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, a dark and melodramatic tale about good and evil. There’s a story within a story, told as a ghost story to a group of people as they sit gathered round a fire in an old house. It tells of two children and their governess. She has been employed by their uncle who wants nothing to do with them. Their previous governess had died under mysterious circumstances (was it in childbirth?). There’s a dark foreboding of menace within the house where creepy, disturbing things are going on. in this dark and melodramatic tale.
The Shining by Stephen King. I saw the film with Jack Nicolson, which is terrifying before I read the book. I remember his crazed face as he rampaged through the hotel, the sense of evil and terror, and I decided that was enough – I wouldn’t read the book. But later on I did – I don’t know why. It tells the story of Jack Torrance and his family as they move into the Overlook Hotel in the Colorada Rockies. The Overlook is closed for the winter and Jack, a recovering alcoholic is the caretaker. Just what impels him towards murder is horrifyingly revealed as the winter weather closes in on the hotel and they are cut off from the rest of the world. Having read the book there is no way I’ll ever watch the film again,
As you can see from the cover of The Shining it contains an except from the sequel, Dr Sleep. It tells what happened to Danny Torrance (Jack’s son) later on in his life, when he worked in a hospice. He was known as “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. Truly terrifying, even the cover is enough to give me nightmares – that demonic looking cat!
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie, a Tommy and Tuppence story. As you would imagine from the title of the book (taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth), ‘something wicked’ is afoot, there is evil about and Tuppence’s life is in danger. A dark and sinister tale.
The Hunger by Alma Katsu, a story about the Donner Party, comprising pioneers, people who were looking for a better life in the American West. Interwoven with hints of the supernatural and Indian myths it becomes a thrilling, spine tingling horrific tale. Many of them died of starvation, and some of them resorted to eating their animals and it is supposed, the deceased members of the group. It is a tense, menacing tale full of hope and also of desperation.
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths. Something evil is waiting in the dark tunnels under Norwich, where boiled human bones have been found. The boiling might have been just a medieval curiosity – now it suggests a much more sinister purpose. The bones are found during the excavations when an underground restaurant in one of the tunnels is proposed. A homeless women, Barbara, disappears and there are rumours that she has ‘gone underground‘. Just what is the gruesome secret lurking in the tunnels?
Slade House by David Mitchell, a mixture of a ghost story, science fiction and horror. Something nasty happens every nine years at the end of October at Slade House. It’s down Slade Alley, which doesn’t normally exist and it only appears to those who have been invited, or are drawn to it. There is a door set into the right hand wall of the alley, a small black iron door with no handle or keyhole, that opens if you’re meant to enter. There you meet a stranger, are invited into the House, and find yourself in a strange and dangerous situation, and there is no way out – eventually you find yourself in a long attic at the top of the stairs – where something terrible happens to you.
I am way behind with writing about the books I’ve been reading. It seems to be getting worse this year. It all began last year during the first lockdown when my ability to concentrate just disappeared and it’s not fully come back yet. Now I have five books that I’ve read but not reviewed.
This is review of just one of them. When I sat down to write this post I’d intended to write short reviews of at least two or three of the books, but once I began I found that was impossible – I had too much to say about them. From being a post with short notes on what I’ve read recently this post as morphed into one of the longest posts about just one book that I’ve written – and I still don’t think I’ve captured the essence of it.
The Way Home:Tales from a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle, a former business graduate, who lived entirely without money for three years. He has written columns for the Guardian and has irregularly contributed to international press, radio and television. He lives on a smallholding in Co. Galway, Ireland. This book follows the events of his first year of living without technology, interspersed with an account of a visit to Great Blaskett off the coast of County Kerry, to the south of Boyle’s new home. The Islanders were eventually evacuated to the mainland in the early 1950s.
The first thought I had about this book is that the concept of living without technology is alien to me. There is no way I could live like that and I wondered how he came to that decision and how he managed it with no running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. He built his home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging and fishing.
He had to clarify just what constitutes technology and what doesn’t. It wasn’t that easy to decide when you consider that even the pencil can be described as technology. He questioned where to draw the line such as the Stone Age, the Iron Age, or the eighteenth century? The more he thought about it the less important it seemed. He wanted to explore what it means to be human,
… to discover what it might feel like to become part of one’s landscape using only tools and technologies (if I must call them that) which, like the Old Order Amish people of North America, do not make me beholden to institutions and forces that have no regard for the principles and values on which I wish to live my life. (page 14)
The book follows the seasons of the year and rather than being the story of his life without technology is a collection of
observations, practicalities, conversations over farmyard gates, adventures and reflections, which I hope will provide an insight into the life of someone attempting to pare the extravagance of modernity back to the raw ingredients of life. (page 15)
It’s not a ‘how to’ book, nor is it a guide to living without technology. It’s an account of what it was like for him. He writes about the loneliness he experienced, the lack of contact with his parents and friends, and the damage to his relationships, particularly to his girlfriend, Kirsty, who initially shared his technology-free life. Without the internet and a phone it is difficult to keep in touch with people. There are letters and these became important to him, otherwise the way to communicate face to face was by walking. Formerly a vegan he found it difficult to adapt to killing in order to eat, for example killing a deer, skinning and butchering it. His thoughts on life and death had to undergo a dramatic change.
Life without technology is inevitably slower and more arduous. Living where there is no tap for instant water, and no switches to turn on a light is not simple either. One of the things he found difficult to adapt to was the way of writing. Previously he had used computers to write everything. Hand writing, however, involves a whole new way of thinking. He could no longer use the typed word, or online research, and without the use of spell-check, copy and paste or delete it is much harder to restructure a page and you have to start again. Eventually his thinking slowed down, so that he thought twice in order to write once. As I’m older than Boyle, I remember the process in reverse and my delight at being able to organise my writing using copy and paste with much more ease and speed than before, when I did literally ‘cut’ and ‘paste’, or rather staple, when writing.
There is so much more in this book that I haven’t covered in this post. I think it’s a remarkable and fascinating book, and it gave me much to think about. It’s ironic really, considering its subject, that I bought the e-book version, read it on my Kindle and wrote and posted this review on my laptop. It is also ironic that in order to publish the book, having written every word of it by hand, Mark Boyle had to get it typed up – which he did himself, reluctantly and with big reservations. It was not easy for him. He describes the effects of doing it as follows:
I felt less purposeful, like I no longer knew what my life was about, or what I stood for. By evening I felt entirely disconnected from the landscape around me, like I was no longer a part of it, but in some strange virtual universe instead. The natural light hurt my eyes as I re-emerged outside.
In some ways it was good and important for me to temporarily re-enter that world of things, so as to dispel any romantic memories I had about life being much better and easier with machines. The experience of it was such that, having made the compromise, I’m not sure I would make it again. (page 324)
Publisher : Oneworld Publications (4 April 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 334 pages
ISBN-10 : 1786077272
ISBN-13 : 978-1786077271
Source: I bought the e-book
My rating: 4*
Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading. You can also share from a book you want to highlight just because it caught your fancy.
This week I’m featuringNow is the Time by Melvyn Bragg. I loved his Soldiers Return quartet amongst some of his other books, so I’m hoping this historical fiction set in 1381 at the time of the Peasants’ Revolt will be as good. Richard II was on the throne of England when a vast force of people led by Wat Tyler and John Ball demanded freedom, and equality.
The Book Begins:
The accused priest stood before the court. He was dressed in the cheapest cloth. From his scuffed and shabby habit, from his spare frame and plainness of manner in the ornately, hierarchically dressed company of the ecclesiastical court, he seemed to be just another casualty of the harsh laws of the Church. But there was about him a self-composure, which threw out the challenge of his independence too arrogantly for the taste of the court.
Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice. *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet, but no spoilers!
These are the rules:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
Post it.
Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda’s most recent Friday 56 post.
Page 56:
Armies in Normandy, Ireland and the north and the English garrisons abroad had not been paid for months. The uprising in Flanders had ruined the rich English wool trade. Aristocrats were accused of corruption and vanity campaigns; Plantagenet heirlooms and jewels had been pawned to city merchants. It was said that it was now the city; not the government, that controlled policy.
Summary (from Amazon):
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign.
Within two weeks, the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of the Church and state. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers, and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looked as if they would sweep all before them.
Now is the Time depicts the events of the Peasants’ Revolt on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying its central figures and telling an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful and the apparently powerless.
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I vaguely remember learning about Wat Tyler and the Peasant’s Revolt at school. This book should fill in the gaps in my memory!
Penguin| 16 September 2021| 422 pages| Review copy| 1*
I don’t want to say much about this book. If you’re expecting crime fiction that exercises your ‘little grey cells’ this is not the book for you. Granted it is complicated and there’s lots going on, plenty of murders, drug dealers, spies and mobsters etc, etc. But essentially it is light easy reading,with the sort of humour that makes you groan in despair, and a great deal of waffle and tedious wittering on.about various mundane matters. As you can see I’m not the target market for this book and with nearly 8,000 ratings on Amazon, 96% of which are 5 and 4 stars, I am definitely in the minority. I was hoping I’d enjoy it more than his first book, The Thursday Murder Club, but sadly I think it’s worse.
Here’s the synopsis:
It’s the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.
As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus?
But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?
My thoughts:
It follows on from Richard Osman’s first book about four residents of Coopers Chase retirement village, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim, four septuagenarians, who call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth is a former MI5 agent and this book reveals a lot about her life as a spy. Needless to say she is clever, with the answers to all the problems that are thrown at her when her ex-husband appears on the scene, having stolen 20 million pounds of jewellery from the Mafia.
As in The Thursday Murder Club, the text is written in the past tense interspersed with extracts from Joyce’s diary written in the present tense. Joyce is an irritating character, and her diary is where most of the waffling and wittering on is found. She also explains what has been happening as though having read it already the reader is too dim to understand it. Then we are treated to DCI Chris Hudson’s cringey romance with Patrice, PC Donna de Freitas.
Overall the characters are rather stereotypical, and the plot is over complicated and unconvincing. Richard Osman’s type of humour does not match mine, so I doubt very much that I’ll be reading any more of his books – I see he has another one in the pipeline!
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Celebrate the birthdays of 819 famous people, historical figures and celebrities born in 1956 like Homer Simpson, Tom Hanks and Martina Navratilova.
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Birthdays 1 - 200 of 819
Abdalla Hamdok, Sudanese politician (Prime Minister of Sudan 2021-22), born in Al Dibaibat, Sudan
Jan 1 Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
Jan 1 Andy Gill, British guitarist and record producer (Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods"), born in Manchester, England (d. 2020)
Christine Lagarde
French lawyer and politician, 1st female head of the IMF, born in Paris
Jan 1 John O'Donohue, Irish poet (Anam Cara; Benedictus), philosopher, theologian, and one-time priest, born in Connemara, Ireland (d. 2008)
Jan 1 Kôji Yakusho [Hashimoto], Japanese actor (Shall We Dance?), born in Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Jan 1 Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (founder and CEO of Herbalife International), born in La Mirada, California Ltd, d. 2000)
Jan 1 Martin Plaza [Murphy], Australian new wave singer-songwriter (Mental As Anything - "Live It Up"; solo - "Concrete and Clay"), born in Sydney, Australia
Jan 1 Mike Mitchell, American basketball small forward (NBA All-Star 1981; Italian League top scorer 1998), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2011)
Jan 1 Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28)
Jan 1 Sergio Victor Palma, Argentine boxer (WBA Super Bantamweight champion 1980-82), born in La Tigra, Argentina (d. 2021)
Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
Mel Gibson
American actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) and filmmaker, born in Peekskill, New York
Jan 3 Willy T. Ribbs, American auto racer (first African-American to drive in Indianapolis 500), born in San Jose, California
Ann Magnuson, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger), born in Charleston, West Virginia
Jan 4 Bernard Sumner [Albrecht], English rock guitarist, vocalist (Joy Division and New Order), born in Salford, England
Jan 4 Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer (Wilco), born in Los Angeles, California
Chen Kenichi [Ken'ichi Azuma], Japanese celebrity chef, "The Szechuan Sage" (Iron Chef Chinese), born in Tokyo, Japan
Jan 5 Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician (President of Germany 2017-), born in Detmold, West Germany
Elizabeth Strout, American novelist ("Olive Kitteridge" - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2009), born in Portland, Maine [1]
David Caruso, American actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes), born in Forest Hills, New York
Jan 7 Rosalyn Bryant, American 4x400m runner (Olympic silver 1976), born in Chicago, Illinois
Archie Roach, Aboriginal Australian blues singer-songwriter (Took The Children Away), born in the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve, Australia (d. 2022)
David Smith, English cricketer (England lefty batsman in 2 Tests v WI 1986), born in Balham, London
Jan 9 Imelda Staunton, British actress (Finding Your Feet, Maleficent), born in Archway, London
Jan 9 Kimberly Beck Hilton, American actress (Kim-Peyton Place), born in Glendale, California
Jan 9 Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer
Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer (Royal Spanish Academy), born in Úbeda, Jaén, Spain
Jan 10 Don Letts, British film director and musician (Big Audio Dynamite), born in London, England
Jan 10 Shawn Colvin, American country folk singer-songwriter ("Sunny Came Home"), born in Vermillion, South Dakota
Big Bank Hank [Henry Lee Jackson] American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight"), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2014)
Jan 11 Robert Earl Keen, American singer-songwriter ("What I Really Mean"), born in Houston, Texas
Janet Hubert-Whitten, actress (Vivian Banks-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Jan 13 Malcolm Foster, British rock bassist (Pretenders, 1984-89; Simple Minds, 1989-95), born in Hereford, England
Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor, and broadcaster, born in Murrayville, British Columbia
Jan 14 Étienne Daho, French singer-songwriter, born in Oran, Algeria
Mayawati, Indian politician, born in New Delhi, India
Jan 15 Paul Parker, English cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981), born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Jan 15 Vera Sosulya, Soviet tobogganist (Olympic gold 1980)
Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2007)
Jan 16 Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress, born in Toronto, Canada
Jan 16 Martin Jol, Dutch football manager, born in The Hague, Netherlands
Jan 16 Saadeddine Othmani, Moroccan politician and Prime Minister of Morocco (2017-present), born in Inezgane, Morocco
Jan 16 Wayne Daniel, West Indies cricketer (WI fast bowler 1976-84), born in Saint Philip, Barbados
Cristina [Monet Zilkha], American dance-pop singer songwriter ("Sleep It Off"), born in New York City (d. 2020)
Jan 17 Faouzi Mansouri, Algerian soccer defender (13 caps; Montpellier, FC Mulhouse), born in Djerba, Tunisia (d. 2022)
Jan 17 Mitch Vogel, American actor (Jamie-Bonanza), born in Alhambra, California
Jan 17 Paul Young, British rock and blue-eyed soul vocalist ("Every Time You Go Away"; Band-Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"), born in Luton, England
George Mark Collie, American country singer ("Another Old Soldier"), born in Waynesboro Tennessee
Carman Licciardello, American Christian music singer-songwriter ("The Champion"; "Radically Saved"), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2021)
Jan 19 Parthenon Huxley [Richard Miller], American rock guitarist, singer- songwriter and producer (ELO II; The Orchestra; P. Hux), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Adrian Vernon Fish, British classical composer, and Irish radio host (Fish on Fridays), born in Bristol, England
Bill Maher
American comedian and political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect), born in New York City
Jan 20 John Naber, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m/200m backstroke, 4×200m freestyle relay, 4×100m medley; silver 200m freestyle 1976), born in Evanston, Illinois
Jan 20 Maria Larsson, Swedish politician, born in Långasjö, Sweden
Bob Brill, American drummer (Berlin - "You Take My Breath Away"), born in New York City
Jan 21 Forrest Gander, American poet (Be With - 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry), born in Barstow, California
Jan 21 Geena Davis, American actress (Beetlejuice, Fly), born in Wareham, Massachusetts
Jan 21 Robby Benson, American actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen), born in Dallas, Texas
Steve Riley, American rock drummer (L.A. Guns; W.A.S.P.), born in Revere, Massachusetts
Larysa Kuzmenko, Canadian concert pianist, and composer, of Ukrainian heritage (Memoriam for the Victims of Chornobyl; Golden Harvest), born in Toronto, Ontario
Jan 23 Lazar Ristovski, Serbian keyboardist (Smak and Bijelo Dugme), born in Novi Pazar, Yugoslavia (d. 2007)
Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks), born in Oslo, Norway
Jan 24 Lounès Matoub, Kabylian singer-songwriter, guitar and mandole player, and Berber rights activist, born in of Taourirt Moussa, Algeria (d. 1998)
Andy Cox, British guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"), born in Birmingham, England
Jan 25 Bill Turnbull, British television and radio presenter and journalist (Radio Clyde; BBC), born in Guildford, Surrey, England (d. 2022)
Lisa Boray [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch jazz singer ("Lovers Until the End"), born in Breda, Netherlands
Mimi Rogers [Miriam Spickler], American actress (The Rapture; Paper Dolls; Weapons of Mass Distraction), and producer, born in Coral Gables, Florida
[Pierre] "Peter" Schilling, German synthpop musician ("Major Tom (Coming Home)"), born in Stuttgart, Germany
Jeremy Gittins, English actor, born in Manchester, United Kingdom
Jan 30 Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver, born in Tomi, Japan
John Lydon
English singer-songwriter and musician (Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"), born in Holloway, United Kingdom
Jan 31 Trevor Manuel, South African politician, born in Cape Town, South Africa
(Christine) "Exene" Cervenka, American punk rock singer and poet (X), born in Chicago, Illinois
Feb 1 Brahmanandam, Indian film actor and comedian, born in Sattenapalle, India
Feb 1 Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (NJ Devils) and coach (St. Louis Blues 2003-07), born in Newmarket, Canada
John Jefferson, American football wide receiver (First-team All-Pro 1979, 80 SD Chargers; 4 × Pro Bowl; NFL receiving yards leader 1980; NFL receiving TD leader 1978, 80; GB Packers), born in Dallas, Texas
Feb 3 Lee Ranaldo, American rock guitarist, and singer-songwriter (Sonic Youth - "100%"), born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York
Nathan Lane
American actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
Feb 3 Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
Feb 5 Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver, born in Mexico City
Feb 5 Vincent "Vinnie" Colaiuta, American touring and session rock and jazz drummer (Frank Zappa, 1979-83; Joni Mitchell, 1982-91; Sting, 1993-2003), born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Jon Walmsley, British actor (Jason in The Waltons), born in Lancashire, England
Feb 6 Linda Grovenor, American actress (Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Emo Philips, American comedian
Feb 7 Mark St. John [Norton], American rock guitarist (KISS, April- November, 1984), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2007)
Dave Meros, American progressive rock bassist (Spock's Beard), born in Salinas, California
Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic gold 1976)
Kenny Leon, American stage director, producer and actor (A Raisin in the Sun - Tony Award for Best Direction), born in Tallahassee, Florida
Catherine Hickland, American actress (One Life to Live), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Feb 11 David Uosikkinen, American drummer (The Hooters - "All You Zombies"; "And We Danced"), born in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania
Feb 11 Didier Lockwood, French violinist, born in Calais, France (d. 2018)
Feb 11 H.R. [Paul D. Hudson], British-American singer (Bad Brains), born in London, England
Feb 11 Raoul Björkenheim, American avant-garde jazz guitarist, born in Los Angeles, California
Ad P. Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, born in Gouda, Netherlands
Arsenio Hall
Anerican comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Feb 12 Brian Robertson, Scottish rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy), born in Clarkston, Scotland
Liam Brady, Irish footballer, born in Dublin, Ireland
Feb 13 Peter Hook, English rock bassist (New Order - "Round & Round"; "Run"), born in Salford, United Kingdom
Feb 13 Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member, born in Amman, Jordan
Feb 13 Richard Eden, Canadian actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop), born in Toronto, Ontario
Feb 13 Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner, born in Tripoli, Greece
Howard Davis Jr., American boxer (Olympic gold lightweight 1976), born in Glen Cove, New York (d. 2015)
Desmond Haynes, West Indian cricket batsman and administrator (116 Tests; 7,487 runs @ 42.29; 238 ODIs; Director WI Cricket Board), born in Saint James, Barbados
Feb 15 Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
Feb 15 Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
Jeffrey Foskett, American session and touring singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys; Brian Wilson; Wondermints), born in San Jose, California (d. 2023)
Feb 17 Richard Karn [Wilson], American actor (Home Improvement) and TV game show host (Family Feud), born in Seattle, Washington
Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer, born in Sollentuna Municipality, Sweden (d. 1997)
Dave Wakeling, British Rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The English Beat; General Public), born in Birmingham, England
Feb 19 George David Low, American astronaut (STS 32, STS 43), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jeffrey Immelt
American CEO of General Electric (2001-17), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Feb 19 Kathleen Beller, American actress (Promises in the Dark, Dynasty, The Betsy), born in Westchester, New York
Feb 19 Peter Holsapple, American rock-pop singer-songwriter (The dB's; Continental Drifters), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
Feb 19 Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist (2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on ion channels), born in Burlington, Massachusetts
Feb 19 Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
Charles Cummins, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20, born in Clintwood, Virginia
Feb 20 Charlie Adler, American voice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures), born in Paterson, New Jersey
Woody Brown, American actor (Cliff-Facts of Life), born in Dayton, Ohio
Amy Alcott
American golfer (5-time major title winner; US Open 1980), born in Kansas City, Missouri
Eddie Murray
American MLB Hall of Fame 1st baseman, 8x All-star, 3x Golden Glove (Baltimore Orioles, 1977-88 & 96; L.A. Dodgers, 1989-91 & 97, and three other teams), born in Los Angeles, California
Feb 24 Judith Butler, American philosopher, and gender theorist, born in Cleveland, Ohio
Feb 24 Paula Zahn, American journalist and news anchor (ABC; CBS This Morning; Fox; CNN; PBS), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Davie Cooper, Scottish soccer winger (22 caps; Clydebank, Rangers 376 games, Motherwell), born in Hamilton, Scotland (d. 1995)
Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese pop singer,songwriter and film score composer, born in Chigasaki, Japan
Jimmy Nicholl, Irish soccer defender (73 caps Northern Ireland; Manchester United 197 games) and manager (Millwall, Raith Rovers, Cowdenbeath), born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Feb 28 Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
(Jonathan) "Jono" Coleman, British-Australian television and radio, writer, and comedian, born in Hackney, England (d. 2021)
Feb 29 Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer whose life portrayed in film "Monsters", born in Troy, Michigan (d. 2002)
Feb 29 J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebrity journalist
Feb 29 Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
Jan Van der Roost, Belgian composer (Chemical Suite for Trombone Quartet), born in Duffel, Belgium
Mar 1 Mark Todd, New Zealand equestrian rider (Olympic gold individual eventing 1984, 88), born in Cambridge, New Zealand
Mar 1 Timothy Daly, American actor (Joe-Wings, Diner, Made in Heaven), born in Sufferin, New York
Eusebio Pedroza, Panamanian boxer (WBA featherweight champion 1978-85), born in Panama City, Panama (d. 2019)
Mar 2 Gary Pearce, English rugby union prop (36 caps; Northampton Saints), born in Dinton, England
Mar 2 John Cowsill, American rock drummer (The Cowsills - "We Can Fly"; Beach Boys, 2000-present), born in Newport, Rhode Island
Mar 2 Mark Evans, Australian rock bassist (AC/DC), born in Melbourne, Victoria
John F Reid, New Zealand cricket batsman (19 Tests, 1296 runs @ 46.28, 6 x 100s), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2020)
Mar 3 Stephanie McCallum, Australian concert pianist and educator, born in Sydney, Australia
Mar 3 Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist (Bill Frissell), born in Kearney, Nebraska
Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
Mar 5 Mark Handley, writer (Nell)
Mar 5 Teena Marie [Mary Christine Brockert], American R&B and soul singer-songwriter ("Square Biz"; "Lovergirl"), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2010)
Peter Roebuck, English cricketer and journalist, born in Oddington, Oxfordshire, England (d. 2011)
Bryan Cranston
American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle), born in Canoga Park, California
David Malpass, American economist (President of the World Bank 2019-), born in Petoskey, Michigan
Mar 8 John Kapelos, Canadian actor
Mar 8 Laurie Cunningham, English soccer left winger (6 caps; Orient, West Bromwich Albion, Real Madrid, Marseille, Rayo Vallecano), born in London, England (d. 1989)
David Willetts, English Conservative Party politician, born in Birmingham, England
Mar 9 Mark Dantonio, American football coach for Michigan State University, born in El Paso, Texas
Mar 9 Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician and diplomat (United Nations Under-Secretary General), born in London
Janet Alex-Anderson, American golfer (US Open 1982), born in West Sunbury, Pennsylvania
Mar 10 Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein
Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
Mar 11 D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
Mar 11 Rob Paulsen, American voice actor (Pinky and The Brain), born in Detroit, Michigan
Dale Murphy
American baseball outfielder (7 × MLB All-Star; NL MVP 1982, 83; 5 × Gold Glove Award; NL HR leader 1984, 85; Atlanta Braves), born in Portland, Oregon
Mar 12 Lesley Manville, British stage and screen actress (Mum; Phantom Thread; The Crown; Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris), born in Brighton, England
Mar 12 Steve Harris, English hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden - "Gypsy's Kiss"), born in London, England
Dana Delany, American actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden), born in New York City
Jamie Dimon
American business executive and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, born in New York City
Mar 13 Motoharu Sano, Japanese rock singer-songwriter ("Someday"), born in Taitō, Japan
Alexey Pajitnov, Russian video game designer and computer engineer (Tetris), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
Mar 14 Colin Ayre, British football player (Newcastle United), born in Ashington, Northumberland
Mar 14 Natalya Kuleshova, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, Soviet Union
Mar 14 Patrick Leonard, American songwriter, film composer and music producer (Madonna), born in Crystal Falls, Michigan
Mar 14 Tessa Sanderson, British javelin thrower (Olympic gold. 1984), born in Kingston, Jamaica
Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
Ozzie Newsome, American NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns) and football executive, born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Mar 16 Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Sri Lankan LGBT activist, founder of Equal Ground, born in Sri Lanka [1]
Mar 16 Vladimír Godár, Slovak contemporary classical music and film music composer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Frank McGarvey, Scottish soccer forward (7 caps; Celtic, St Mirren) and manager (Queen of the South FC), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2023)
Mar 17 Luca Francesconi, Italian classical and electronic music composer (Wanderer; Unexpected End of Formula), born in Milan, Italy
Mar 17 Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist (Mutts), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Mar 17 Rory McGrath, British comedian, television personality, and writer (Who Dares Wins, They Think It's All Over), born in Redruth, Cornwall
Mar 17 Will Rigby, American rock drummer and percussionist (The dB's; Matthew Sweet), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
"The Model" Rick Martel [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
Mar 18 Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American escort owner, born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
Mar 18 Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish alpine skier (2 Olympic gold 1980), born in Joesjö, Sweden
Mar 18 Juan Meza, Mexican boxer (WBC Super Bantamweight champion 1984-85), born in Mexicali, Mexico (d. 2023)
Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
Mar 19 Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician and economist.
Alphonso Martin, British reggae percussionist and vocalist (Steel Pulse, 1977-91 - "Prodigal Son"), born in Birmingham, England
André Malherbe, Belgian motocross racer (FIM 500cc Motocross World Champion 1980, 81, 84), born in Huy, Belgium (d. 2022)
Ingrid Kristiansen
Norwegian long distance athlete (World C'ship gold 10,000m 1987; WR 5,000m, 10,000m, marathon; NYC 1989; Boston Marathon 1986, 89), born in Trondheim, Norway
Mar 21 László Tihanyi, Hungarian composer (Silence of the Winds; Two Imaginary Dialogues), and conductor (Ensemble Intermodulation), born in Budapest, Hungary
Generosa Ammon, American widow of murdered multimillionaire Ted Ammon, suspect in his death, born in Laguna Beach, California (d. 2003)
Mar 22 Lena Olin, Swedish actress (Enemies A Love Story), born in Stockholm, Sweden
José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission
Mar 23 Laura Thorne, chef (named one of 10 best American chefs)
Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
Steve Ballmer
American businessman, investor and CEO of Microsoft (2000-14), born in Detroit, Michigan
Matthew Garber, English child actor (Mary Poppins), born in London, England (d. 1977)
Mar 25 Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 1980)
Charly McClain, American country singer (Radio Heart), born in Jackson, Tennessee
Mar 26 Tatyana Kochergina, Ukrainian handball player who won Olympic gold 1976, 80 USSR, born in Ovidiopol, Ukraine
(Paul) "Wix" Wickens, British session and touring keyboard player (Paul McCartney; Nik Kershaw; Kevin Coyne), born in Brentwood, Essex, England
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How Old? 67 or 68 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer
Chinese Zodiac: Goat/Sheep (Jan 24, 1955 - Feb 11, 1956),
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Actors Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are two stars who have shone since they stepped into the limelight. Both boast impressive careers filled with blockbuster hits showcasing their incredible range and dedication to their craft. Reeves is widely known for his unforgettable roles in The Matrix franchise and John Wick series but has also touched hearts with heartfelt performances like the one in The Lake House. Bullock, on the other hand, has won over audiences with her magnetic presence in romantic comedies such as Miss Congeniality while also delivering powerful performances in dramas like Gravity.
Venturing beyond acting, influential figures from this remarkable year have also made significant strides in music and politics. Courtney Love took alternative rock by storm as the frontwoman of Hole while Eazy-E played a crucial role in popularizing gangsta rap as a founding member of N.W.A. On a different note, royalty saw Prince Edward - Duke of Edinburgh - carrying on a legacy of philanthropy through his work with numerous global charities. Last but not least, Michelle Obama left a lasting impression as First Lady with her unwavering advocacy for education, health initiatives, military families, among other causes - pursuits she continues to champion post-White House life.
It's clear that these famous people born in 1964 have had an enormous impact on society through their contributions to film, music, and politics. Together, they've made lasting contributions that have not only shaped the era they emerged from but continue to inspire future generations. Their exceptional achievements, indomitable spirit, and unwavering dedication to their respective fields are a testament to the incredible legacy left by those born in 1964.
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Julia Child, the late American chef who is credited for making French cuisine accessible in the U.S., remains widely influential nearly 20 years after her death. In the last few months alone, she's been the subject of a new documentary and the inspiration for a new reality cooking show.
Now, she is having another moment in the new HBO Max series Julia.
Actress Sarah Lancashire plays the woman considered America's first "celebrity chef" and describes Child as someone who "took performance to a whole different level."
"She was like this beautiful bird of paradise with this extraordinary energy and vivacity," said Lancashire.
The show dramatizes how Child was inspired to launch her show, The French Chef in 1963 after an appearance on a sleepy public television show about reading. She was one of the first to host her own cooking show.
"She was bringing a new genre to the screen," says Lancashire. "It hadn't really been done before."
Lancashire was born and raised in the U.K., so she wasn't quite as familiar with Child as American audiences were. Still, she says the challenge of making a cultural icon feel human came easy to her.
"The starting point has to be their humanity and their authenticity," she says. So she focused on the complicated person behind Child's unique voice and exuberant public persona.
"She's naturally very funny [but] I never approached the series as a comedy," Lancashire says. "I didn't really want that to be the launch pad."
"I needed to know specifically who Julia was when she was away from the cameras, when she wasn't on the show," says Lancashire. "The Julia behind closed doors. The Julia when she was with her friends, when she was with Paul. That, to me, is equally as important as trying to portray the woman in front of the camera."
The French Chef aired on WGBH and became a phenomenon, running for 10 seasons. By the time it ended in 1973, Child had cemented herself as a household name. She had mastered the art of French cooking and even co-wrote a book about it, appropriately titled Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
"She radiated sunshine and optimism, and I think that's why people wanted to watch her," says Lancashire. "She made them feel capable and competent. And she never judged at all."
In fact, Child insisted on keeping her phone number in the phone book so people could contact her if they had issues with one of her recipes.
"This is a woman who had no ego," Lancashire says. "This was not about celebrity. This was Julia as a teacher, and she wanted to ensure that her pupils could access her if they needed her."
Lancashire says, Child lived a "tremendously interesting" life.
"She only followed her own mantra, this wonderful phrase that she has of - find something you're passionate about, and keep tremendously interested in it," says Lancashire. "I don't think she was doing it for any other reason than wanting to impart her knowledge."
Child continued to share that knowledge well after her show ended. In 1981, she co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food. And in the mid-90s, she established the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, which helped cement her legacy of teaching people about cooking.
It is a legacy that Lancashire hopes comes through in the new HBO Max series.
"I think people hold her so dear in their hearts because of the qualities that she had," says Lancashire. "What I hope more than anything is that we've lived up to that."
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Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston is being lined up to star in Thor 2.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the British actor is “in final negotiations” to play the villain in the superhero sequel. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is believed that Eccleston’s character would be Malekith The Accursed, a well-known supervillain in the Marvel Universe.
The original Thor film, starring Chris Hemsworth as the titular Norse warrior, opened in cinemas last May and has since grossed $450 million (£290 million) worldwide. The sequel is scheduled for release on November 8, 2013.
Thor director Kenneth Branagh will not return for the sequel, which will instead be helmed by Alan Taylor, who has worked on Game Of Thrones and Mad Men. Hemsworth will reprise his role from the first film, while Natalie Portman will return as Thor’s love interest, scientist Jane Foster. Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba and Anthony Hopkins are also contracted for the sequel.
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Earlier this month (July 2), Stellan Skarsgård also confirmed that he has signed for Thor 2 and revealed that he begins shooting in August (2012). However, castmate Kat Dennings – who appeared in Thor as Jane Foster’s hapless co-worker Darcy Lewis – has yet to confirm her role in the second film.
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Richard John Seddon (born June 22, 1845, Eccleston, Lancashire, Eng.—died June 10, 1906, at sea, between Australia and New Zealand) was a New Zealand statesman who as prime minister (1893–1906) led a Liberal Party ministry that sponsored innovating legislation for land settlement, labour protection, and old age pensions.
After working in iron foundries in England, Seddon went to Australia in 1863 to work at the Bendigo goldfields in Victoria. He moved to Hokitika, N.Z., in 1866, again for gold mining, and in 1869 he became an advocate for miners in goldfield disputes. His prominence in local politics gained him a seat in Parliament in 1879. Serving as minister of mines and public works in the Liberal ministry of John Ballance (1891–93), he abolished subletting of government contracts for public works. He succeeded Ballance in 1893, inheriting a bill for woman suffrage, which was passed the same year, and also a talented cabinet, including William Pember Reeves and John McKenzie.
Under Seddon’s leadership, Reeves’s influential Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1894) and McKenzie’s land act to assist small farmers (1894) were enacted. The Old Age Pensions Act of 1898 is considered Seddon’s greatest legislative achievement. An imperialist in foreign policy, his attempt to incorporate Fiji into New Zealand failed, but he successfully annexed the Cook Islands (1901). He also bought vast amounts of land from the native Maoris and was opposed to Oriental immigration. Ardently pro-British, he supported England with troops in the South African War (1899–1902) and sponsored preferential tariffs for trade with the mother country.
Seddon assumed many of the cabinet positions himself after Reeves (1896) and McKenzie (1899) resigned. He died suddenly while returning from Australia shortly after his fifth consecutive national electoral victory.
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Kim Cattrall, born on August 21, 1956 in Liverpool, England, is an accomplished actress and author, best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the groundbreaking television series Sex and the City. Her performance in the series won her critical acclaim, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002 and five Emmy Award nominations. Her early journey into acting started with studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her film debut in the 1975 movie Rosebud. Cattrall's career spans over four decades, encompassing not only the world of film and television but also stage performances. Though she reached international fame through Sex and the City, Cattrall's earlier work in movies like Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country established her as a versatile actress adept at both comedy and drama. She also graced the stage in productions of classics like Antony and Cleopatra and Private Lives, demonstrating her range and commitment to performing arts. In addition to her acting career, Cattrall is known for her writing contributions. She co-authored several books that provide a frank look at women's health and sexuality, including Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm and Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teen Life. Using her platform to discuss topics often considered taboo, Cattrall aims to empower women and promote open conversations about female sexuality. Despite the challenges and controversies she has faced, Kim Cattrall remains an icon in the entertainment industry, lauded for her pivotal role in changing the perception of women on television and beyond.
Robert Smith is best known as the frontman of the influential rock band, The Cure. His iconic appearance, replete with smeared red lipstick, black eyeliner, and disheveled hair, has become emblematic of the post-punk era, and his musical contributions have cemented him as a major figure in alternative music. Born on April 21, 1959, in Blackpool, England, Smith's musical journey began at an early age. His brother Richard introduced him to the guitar when he was just six, sparking a passion that would guide the course of his life. Initially, Smith didn't intend to be a musician; he was more focused on his studies. However, in 1976, together with school friends Michael Dempsey, Laurence Tolhurst, and Porl Thompson, he formed The Easy Cure, which would later become The Cure. The band quickly gained traction, with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys receiving critical acclaim. Smith's poignant lyrics and distinctive voice became the band's signature, creating an immersive soundscape resonating with fans worldwide. Over the years, The Cure has released several albums, with noteworthy ones like Disintegration and Wish, solidifying their status as one of the most iconic bands of the 20th century. Despite numerous lineup changes, Smith remained the consistent face and creative force behind the band's enduring success. His contributions to music have been widely recognized, earning him and the band a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Beyond The Cure, Smith has also worked with other notable artists, including Siouxsie and the Banshees and Billy Corgan, further demonstrating his versatility and influence in the music industry.
Professor Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, as George Baines, his family’s humble circumstances forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard, were prodigiously gifted mathematicians and draughtsmen. George left a secure, but limiting, job in the Lancashire County Architect’s Office to work for the prestigious private firm of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Bolton in 1930. During the 1930s, George became aware of Modernism, particularly the work of Le Corbusier and Gropius, through the architectural press and was determined to practice it himself. He studied at Manchester University for two years from 1934. It was at this time he adopted the name George Grenfell Baines at the suggestion of fellow student Gerald Hayforthwaite. Later this was hyphenated as Grenfell-Baines: Grenfell being his mother’s maiden name. He was known to friends and colleagues as “GG”. In 1935, he was awarded the Heywood prize for the design of reinforced concrete flats.
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Christopher Eccleston is an English actor who has a net worth of $6 million. Christopher Eccleston was born in Langworthy, Lancashire, England in February 1964. He is best known for his role as the Ninth Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who. He graduated from Salford Tech and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. At 25 he appeared on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire. Is first TV roles came in the series Blood Rights and Casualty in 1990. Eccleston's film debut came as Derek Bentley in the 1991 movie Let Him Have It. From 1993 to 1994 he starred as DCI David Bilborough in the TV series Cracker.
In 2005 Christopher became Doctor Who in the BBC series Doctor Who. In 2014 he starred as Professor Stoddart in the series Fortitude and as Matt Jamison in the series The Leftovers. He has also starred in films such as Shallow Grave, Jude, Elizabeth, The Others, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Seekers, 28 Days Later, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Thor: The Dark World. In addition to on screen Eccleston has also done film and narrating work. He has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Royal Television Society Award, TV Choice Award, and International Emmy Award for Best Actor and a National Television Award for Most Popular Actor. He is married and has one son.
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Kim Cattrall, born on August 21, 1956 in Liverpool, England, is an accomplished actress and author, best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the groundbreaking television series Sex and the City. Her performance in the series won her critical acclaim, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002 and five Emmy Award nominations. Her early journey into acting started with studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her film debut in the 1975 movie Rosebud. Cattrall's career spans over four decades, encompassing not only the world of film and television but also stage performances. Though she reached international fame through Sex and the City, Cattrall's earlier work in movies like Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country established her as a versatile actress adept at both comedy and drama. She also graced the stage in productions of classics like Antony and Cleopatra and Private Lives, demonstrating her range and commitment to performing arts. In addition to her acting career, Cattrall is known for her writing contributions. She co-authored several books that provide a frank look at women's health and sexuality, including Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm and Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teen Life. Using her platform to discuss topics often considered taboo, Cattrall aims to empower women and promote open conversations about female sexuality. Despite the challenges and controversies she has faced, Kim Cattrall remains an icon in the entertainment industry, lauded for her pivotal role in changing the perception of women on television and beyond.
Robert Smith is best known as the frontman of the influential rock band, The Cure. His iconic appearance, replete with smeared red lipstick, black eyeliner, and disheveled hair, has become emblematic of the post-punk era, and his musical contributions have cemented him as a major figure in alternative music. Born on April 21, 1959, in Blackpool, England, Smith's musical journey began at an early age. His brother Richard introduced him to the guitar when he was just six, sparking a passion that would guide the course of his life. Initially, Smith didn't intend to be a musician; he was more focused on his studies. However, in 1976, together with school friends Michael Dempsey, Laurence Tolhurst, and Porl Thompson, he formed The Easy Cure, which would later become The Cure. The band quickly gained traction, with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys receiving critical acclaim. Smith's poignant lyrics and distinctive voice became the band's signature, creating an immersive soundscape resonating with fans worldwide. Over the years, The Cure has released several albums, with noteworthy ones like Disintegration and Wish, solidifying their status as one of the most iconic bands of the 20th century. Despite numerous lineup changes, Smith remained the consistent face and creative force behind the band's enduring success. His contributions to music have been widely recognized, earning him and the band a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Beyond The Cure, Smith has also worked with other notable artists, including Siouxsie and the Banshees and Billy Corgan, further demonstrating his versatility and influence in the music industry.
Professor Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, as George Baines, his family’s humble circumstances forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard, were prodigiously gifted mathematicians and draughtsmen. George left a secure, but limiting, job in the Lancashire County Architect’s Office to work for the prestigious private firm of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Bolton in 1930. During the 1930s, George became aware of Modernism, particularly the work of Le Corbusier and Gropius, through the architectural press and was determined to practice it himself. He studied at Manchester University for two years from 1934. It was at this time he adopted the name George Grenfell Baines at the suggestion of fellow student Gerald Hayforthwaite. Later this was hyphenated as Grenfell-Baines: Grenfell being his mother’s maiden name. He was known to friends and colleagues as “GG”. In 1935, he was awarded the Heywood prize for the design of reinforced concrete flats.
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Unlike with all previous new Doctors, the audience did not have the chance to see this new Doctor’s regeneration at first, simply starting out with him already fairly comfortable with his new body (Although the fact that he looked at a mirror and commented on his ears in "Rose" suggests that it happened only shortly before he appeared for the first time). While we have learned that the Eighth Doctor initially regenerated into the ‘War Doctor’ incarnation during the devastating Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks before he regenerated into this incarnation ("Night of The Doctor"), since the later Doctors officially considered the War Doctor to not be ‘The Doctor’ due to the actions taken by that body when he triggered the galaxy-destroying Moment to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks, this incarnation is thus The Doctor’s official ninth incarnation despite being the Doctor’s tenth body overall. While the Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctors were later able to redeem the War Doctor by helping him save Gallifrey by sending it to an unknown pocket universe ("The Day of The Doctor"), the War Doctor’s memories of their plan were erased as he departed and regenerated, resulting in him being left convinced that he had destroyed Gallifrey as he had originally intended.
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While we are unaware what happened to him immediately after his regeneration, the end result is the same; the Ninth Doctor, tracking his old foes the Nestene Consciousness shortly after his regeneration, arrived on Earth in London, 2005, and, while tracking the Nestene signal, met shop assistant Rose Tyler as he checked out a department store where Nestene energy had been detected ("Rose"). With Rose's help, The Doctor was able to track the main Nestene Consciousness to its base under the London Eye, where Rose was able to take it out with a sample of antiplastic The Doctor had prepared earlier while The Doctor fought with an Auton. Having defeated the Consciousness, The Doctor offered Rose the chance to travel with him, but Rose initially rejected the offer, prompting The Doctor to depart on his own, concluding that he was still too new to this incarnation to have a companion. However, after a brief trip with new potential companion Ali - which nearly went wrong due to Ali’s nature as a Karkinian causing her to approach threats in a more violent manner than The Doctor might prefer ("The Beast of Babylon") - The Doctor returned to Rose based on Ali’s suggestion, informing her that the TARDIS travelled in time as well as space. Her interest inspired once more, Rose thus joined the Ninth Doctor for the trip of a lifetime with this newest of Doctors.
From the beginning, it was obvious that this Doctor was, in many obvious ways, far more human than the others, even if his means of expressing it made it clear that he was still very alien. Throughout the series, even in minor, subtle ways, it was apparent that he cared a great deal for his companion Rose Tyler, holding hands with her on several occasions and actually being jealous of her still-close friendship with her ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith - who he commonly referred to as 'Ricky' to avoid admitting that he didn't remember his name -, occasionally referring to Mickey as ‘the Idiot’. Throughout his life, however, despite his normally light-hearted appearance, he had a melancholy and lonely personality, which he mainly concealed with the habit his past selves had of making jokes in the face of danger, only letting his 'guard' down when he was alone. His loneliness could be attributed to his guilt at being the last survivor of the Time War, all other Time Lords having lost their lives in the conflict, leaving him to deal with the guilt and knowledge that he had survived the destruction of his entire race.
In many ways, however, he combined some of the best qualities of his previous selves; the frivolity and emotional availability of the Eighth Doctor, the ingenuity of the Third Doctor, the apparent vulnerability of the Fifth Doctor, the keen sense of humour of the Second Doctor (As well as the early Seventh Doctor), the depth of feeling of the Sixth Doctor, the (occasional) irascibility of the First Doctor, and the quirkiness and refusal to be mistaken for a human of the Fourth Doctor. On some occasions he also demonstrated a certain enthusiasm for his travels, showing great excitement when he met Charles Dickens ("The Unquiet Dead"), and occasionally philosophically musing about various minor matters, such as when he commenting that humanity spent so much time wondering about how they would die that they never considered the possibility that they might survive ("The End of the World") or when he reflected that a flower Rose had found on her first trip to an alien world could be the local equivalent of a daisy or the rarest flower in the universe ("The Monsters Inside"). He also displayed his past selves' dislike of violence, although like many of them, he wasn't afraid to use it if he had to, taking up a gun in "Dalek", breaking a window with a robot’s head to escape an underwater tunnel - although this can be excused due to the sonic screwdriver having been stolen - ("The Clockwise Man"), and knocking out a guard in "Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways". However, his temper was far more apparent than in past lives; unlike the Fourth Doctor, who once said 'It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favourite species', the Ninth Doctor often referred to humans as 'stupid apes', and showed less patience with them than he used to, sometimes seeming unimpressed by their mental and observational qualities, yet at the same time wanting to protect them and other species.
Ironically, despite his disdain for humans’ intellectual abilities, this Doctor occasionally appeared less intelligent than other incarnations, requiring others to save him by coming up with their own plans where other Doctors could have come up with escape strategies on their own or never fallen into those traps in the first place, such as The Gelth tricking him into helping them spread over London ("The Unquiet Dead"). He also fell victim to minor deceptions such as his jacket being stolen while he was attending a dinner ("The Clockwise Man"), and needed help identifying The Slitheen's planet of origin by having his companions go over the facts available about them so that he could narrow down the options ("Aliens of London/World War Three"). He also regularly displayed a certain lack of the ‘on-the-spot’ initiative that had often characterised some of his previous selves, such as when he locked himself and his companions in the conference room of 10 Downing Street to escape The Slitheen without considering how he would defeat the invasion trapped inside the conference room ("Aliens of London/World War Three") or gave himself the ‘alias’ of ‘Doctor Table’ to rescue a Neanderthal from a hospital rather than come up with something more original ("Only Human"). Despite this, he still had a significant amount of raw intelligence, quickly determining how to reverse teleportation systems to prevent his enemies escaping ("The End of the World" and "Boom Town"), giving Rose instructions that allowed her to pose as an astrophysicist using code phrases that only they would understand ("The Monsters Inside"), refining a gene that would allow humans in the vicinity to temporarily breathe fire using a rogue geneticist’s equipment ("Only Human") and putting together a Delta Wave emitter in under an hour despite his initial claim that it would take three weeks (Although this may have been referring to the time he would need to refine it to only target his enemies rather than a setting that would kill everything).
This Doctor is also noteworthy as, for the first time since the UNIT era, The Doctor actually had regular contacts on his visits to Earth, rather than just meeting up with someone already involved in the crisis and enlisting their aid in sorting it out. Like the Third Doctor, the Ninth commonly contacted the first people he had met in this incarnation (As far as we know, at least); in this case, Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler, and Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey. Despite his apparent dislike of the two of them, reflected on such occasions as The Doctor being unwilling to even thank Mickey after his assistance proved vital in saving innocent lives while battling the Quervils in "Winner Takes All", it was evident that he appreciated them in his own way; he respected Jackie's concerns about her daughter travelling with him, and entrusted Mickey with a virus that would wipe all information relating to The Doctor from the internet, although Mickey never apparently used it. This version of The Doctor also possessed a wider variety of gadgets than before. While other Doctors were content with merely using the sonic screwdriver to get out of awkward situations (Baring the brief period when it was destroyed, for obvious reasons), the Ninth Doctor, while using a modified sonic screwdriver with far more functions than his old versions, was also known to use psychic paper, with which he could show anyone looking at it whatever he wanted them to see, thus providing himself with ready-made 'official documentation' whenever he needed it. On their second adventure, The Doctor modified Rose's mobile phone so that she could call home from wherever - or even whenever - she was (As well as the more basic advantage of allowing her to call home even if normal phones couldn't receive a signal in her current location, such as when they were trapped in the Downing Street cabinet room).
The Doctor’s darker side was eventually demonstrated in "Dalek", when The Doctor and Rose arrived in the alien collection of billionaire Henry Van Statten and The Doctor was asked to look at Van Statten's only live specimen - a Dalek (Specifically, what The Doctor believed to be the last Dalek in the universe). In the confrontation with it, The Doctor showed a side of himself that had never been seen before; the side that not only truly hated the Dalek, but actually took delight in its pain and frustration, as well as its helplessness due to a damaged gun, The Doctor confidently proclaiming his role in the destruction of the Dalek fleet before becoming more melancholy when the Dalek’s questions forced him to recognise his status as the last of his kind. The Doctor was initially angry at the Dalek claiming that the two were the same - both the last of their kind - but then claimed that it had a point, as he knew what it deserved. The Doctor then showed his vicious side in the confrontation with the Dalek, sending massive electric shocks through it and dismissing its plea to have pity where past Doctors would take the Daleks’ lack of mercy as a reason to show it. As the Dalek broke out of its cell and began to advance out of the underground base, The Doctor ordered it to die after establishing a video communication with it, to which the Dalek replied that 'You [The Doctor] would make a good Dalek'. When Rose was cornered by the Dalek, The Doctor took up an alien gun to stop it, but, in the confrontation between him and the Dalek, it took Rose to point out that the Dalek had changed... and The Doctor realised that, if he continued what he was doing, he too would have changed into what he'd always fought.
Aliens of London/World War Three
This Doctor’s greater hostility was further explored during confrontations with his own companions. During a trip to Satellite Five in the year 200,000, new companion Adam Mitchell attempted to transfer information from the future back into his own time after having a chip planted in his head, nearly resulting in a being called the Jagrafess gaining access to the TARDIS, until another resident of the space station where they'd landed managed to shut the Jagrafess down ("The Long Game"). Despite the fact that no harm had been done, outraged at Adam’s violation of his trust, The Doctor took him home and kicked him off the TARDIS in a fit of rage, condemning him to a lifetime of non-importance as merely going inside meant he ran the risk of the implant being discovered and his head cut open by curious scientists. In the very next story, he then almost left Rose behind when she changed history to prevent her father dying, apparently only staying because the TARDIS had lost its link to its interior dimensions due to the destabilisation of reality, leaving The Doctor to battle the time-beasts known as the Reapers while they fed on the 'scar tissue' of the tear in time caused by Rose's actions.
Despite his hostility towards Rose, his time in the past also gave The Doctor a chance to show his kinder side; when trapped in a church and talking to a young couple about to get married, he told them that even though he’d travelled to places and done things they couldn’t imagine, he’d never had an ordinary life like them... and, on some level, it was obvious that he wished he could have had that chance, if the universe was only a kinder, safer place. His continued compassion for humanity was reflected during a later adventure in London in World War Two ("The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances"), where The Doctor not only gained a new companion in the form of ex-Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness but simultaneously saved the entire city from an infection by renegade nanogenes that Jack had unintentionally released on the city. Reprogramming the genes by discovering ‘Patient Zero’ - a young boy who had been unintentionally ‘infected’ with the genes and improperly repaired due to their lack of knowledge of human anatomy - The Doctor not only demonstrated his joy at the knowledge that he had managed to save everyone who had been altered by the nanogenes, but also displayed his continued fondness for humanity, praising the dedication of Doctor Constantine, who had continued to care for his nanogene-infected patients even when he had lost his entire family and had no idea what was wrong with the victims, and expressing great glee at being able to reunite a mother with her child by curing him of the ‘infection’, his optimism and general enthusiasm given a significant boost. The Doctor and Rose then departed, after picking up Jack as their new companion from his soon-to-self-destruct spaceship.
Boom Town
Shortly after this, The Doctor was transported back to Satellite Five ("Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways"), where he, Rose and Jack found themselves facing a new Dalek army that had been assembled by the Dalek Emperor, another survivor of the Time War, abducting humans by using seemingly fatal game shows - the shows apparently culminated in peoples’ deaths when in reality they were transmatted over to the Dalek ships and used to provide genetic samples to create new Daleks -, the controller of Satellite Five having defied her masters long enough to bring in The Doctor to stop them as the only man they had ever feared. While Rose and the TARDIS were sent to her home time, Jack organised the humans remaining on Satellite Five into a defence against the Daleks while The Doctor began construction of a delta wave emitter, a device that would fry the brain of every Dalek in the blast radius... and, unfortunately, every human on Earth as well, since The Doctor wouldn't have time to refine the blast in the hour or so before the Daleks arrived. As all the humans on Satellite Five fell in a desperate attempt to buy time for The Doctor, he completed construction of the delta wave emitter just as Dalek forces arrived in the control room with him... but, even though Earth had already been decimated by Dalek bombs, when faced with the chance to destroy the Daleks at the cost of whatever life was left on Earth, The Doctor refused, preferring to be a coward rather than commit genocide to vanquish the Daleks for a second time. Gleefully, the Emperor ordered The Doctor exterminated, but, at the last minute, Rose arrived, imbued with all the power of the Time Vortex, and using it to turn the entire Dalek fleet into dust. However, the vortex energy was so powerful that it would have killed her, so The Doctor was forced to take the energy into himself... along with all the damage Rose had already sustained. As Rose recovered in the TARDIS, having apparently forgotten everything about her brief reign as a god, The Doctor revealed that the energy of the Time Vortex was destroying every cell in his body, and he would soon regenerate, meaning that he wouldn't see her again 'with this daft old face'. Rose begged him not to talk like that, but The Doctor kept on talking, telling her 'Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know something? So was I'.
And, as the radiation of the Time Vortex burst from his sleeves and neck, transforming him into his tenth incarnation as the cells in his body died once and all, nobody watching could deny the truth of his last words to the universe. Even though he had a short life compared to his other selves, the Ninth Doctor had made an incredible impact on a new generation of viewers, bringing a modern-day legend back to our screens, reminding children that sofas weren't just for sitting on, and teaching a whole new generation that the police box was a widely-recognized symbol of heroism in a world that needed heroes like never before...
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I love the Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston. You already know that by my recent discussion about the Ninth Doctor. When I found out he wrote an autobiography focusing on his relationship with his father and his struggles with both anorexia and depression, I knew I had to buy a copy and read the book.
“I Love the Bones of You” is very much a tell-all sort of autobiography. Eccleston holds nothing back, beginning with his earliest childhood memories. The book is somewhat arranged topically and in quasi chronological order that actually works fairly fluidly – except in the final three or four chapters when it’s a bit confusing in terms of what happened relative to other events. It is certainly well written, a compliment I offer less often than people would like.
On the surface, Christopher’s life seems idyllic, especially his family life. Both his parents and his twin older brothers are loving and kind. No abuse in his family, though his father Ronnie does have a temper of sorts. Christopher emphasizes their working class status that colors almost everything in their lives. This is not the United States with its ideas of everyone being the same class (false of course – but that’s what Americans tend to believe): this is England. The England of Christopher’s time (and perhaps still true today) is very much stratified between the working class, the middle class, and the upper classes. Where you are born in that hierarchy dictates nearly everything in your life; Christopher Eccleston shows us exactly how he experienced it and how it affected each member of his family.
Christopher’s challenges with body image and eating are explored at length in often shocking detail. That he manage to survive and to do his work is very much surprising. In this he gets very honest about how the film industry works, especially towards food, eating, and body expectations. He holds nothing back and does not try to paint the film and television industry along rosy lines.
This candor persists when the subject switches to his struggles with depression. The narrative is straight forward, including the cause of his decision to seek in-patient treatment. In a pattern I recognize in my own autobiographical writings, Christopher is ruthlessly honest while still building a protective bubble of privacy. He gives you just enough details to see why he needed professional help – but no more. Skillful writing to accomplish what he does.
In the middle of this and about halfway through the book Christopher Eccleston turns to his professional life, giving us inside insights into films and television shows most of us know him for. Surprising to me because I watch the movie every December is how much he dislikes the movie “The Seeker: the Dark Also Rises” which is one of his most family-friendly films and made shortly after stepping down from Doctor Who. He covers most if not all of his major projects – what he liked, what he thinks of himself, and so forth. He’s very self critical in all of this.
Jude (1996)
The one project Christopher is not critical of is his 1996 film “Jude.” He devotes a full chapter to it entitled, “Strangled at Birth.” Jude sounds like a great film I would love to watch – until I read this chapter.
Earlier in the book Christopher tells us that shortly after finishing drama school he worked as a nude model for art classes. Okay, I knew that before I started this book. Actor straight out of college doing whatever he has to for rent money. Fine. He previewed that he did a lot a projects requiring him to take his clothes off. Fine. But it’s only in this chapter, “Strangled at Birth” where he gets graphic on the matter. Jude is absolutely not a film for children. There is a lot of very explicit sex and violence to the film. Wonderfully artistic, but not for viewers who abstain from erotica and/or horror genres. Christopher is very matter-of-fact and very honest about the film and its content. It’s also one that both he and his family happen to really like among his extensive filmography.
Logically, there’s a fair amount of Mancunian dialect and a lot of references to film, television, and footballers that most Americans probably have never heard of. These references do make the book a bit confusing at times. Chris assumes (rightly or wrongly) that these names are familiar. For me, they are not.
After Chris writes the usual career stuff, he returns to family. There are two short chapters recording what happened when he finally watched his season of Doctor Who with his son and daughter that are light and airy, a break from some of the darker material.
But inevitably the book returns to his father’s decline and 2012 death. This is a book focused on his relationship with his father, after all, a man whose life and character saturates and informs his own life, especially as he raises his son and daughter now.
The final cadence of the book is the eulogy that Chris gave at his father’s funeral. The ultimate salute to the man told him during his dementia, “I Love the Bones of You.”
If you love Christopher Eccleston’s work or simply want a great read exploring dementia, depression, and/or eating disorders, “I Love the Bones of You” is a must-read.
Four stars.
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Keith Eccleston was born in 1956, in Salford, Manchester, England, UK.
When was Jennifer Ehle born?
Jennifer Ehle was born on December 29, 1969.
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Christopher Eccleston Net Worth: Christopher Eccleston is an English actor who has a net worth of $6 million. Christopher Eccleston was born in Langworthy,
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Christopher Eccleston is an English actor who has a net worth of $6 million. Christopher Eccleston was born in Langworthy, Lancashire, England in February 1964. He is best known for his role as the Ninth Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who. He graduated from Salford Tech and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. At 25 he appeared on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire. Is first TV roles came in the series Blood Rights and Casualty in 1990. Eccleston's film debut came as Derek Bentley in the 1991 movie Let Him Have It. From 1993 to 1994 he starred as DCI David Bilborough in the TV series Cracker.
In 2005 Christopher became Doctor Who in the BBC series Doctor Who. In 2014 he starred as Professor Stoddart in the series Fortitude and as Matt Jamison in the series The Leftovers. He has also starred in films such as Shallow Grave, Jude, Elizabeth, The Others, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Seekers, 28 Days Later, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Thor: The Dark World. In addition to on screen Eccleston has also done film and narrating work. He has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Royal Television Society Award, TV Choice Award, and International Emmy Award for Best Actor and a National Television Award for Most Popular Actor. He is married and has one son.
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What does "Most Famous" mean? Unlike other sites which use current mentions, follower counts, etc. that tend to call the most famous people YouTube stars or Reality TV stars, we've decided to mark fame as a persons importance in history. We've conducted research scouring millions of historical references to determine the importance of people in History. That being said, we might have missed a few people here and there. The ranking system is a continuing work in progress - if you happen to feel like someone is misranked or missing, please shoot us a message!
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People across Lancashire have paid tribute to "cheeky" Kenny Baker, the Star Wars R2-D2 actor who lived in Preston and has died aged 81.
The 3ft 8in (1.12m) actor made his name as the droid in the first Star Wars film in 1977.
His nephew and carer Drew Myerscough, 48, said he died at home on Saturday after suffering respiratory problems for about nine years.
Fans remembered his "wicked sense of humour and charm".
Baker regularly appeared at conventions and fan days across Lancashire and was "always happy to come out for the fans", according to Neil Livesey, organiser of Preston Comic Con, external, a comic book, film and pop culture convention.
He said the actor had a "lust for life", adding: "Lets just say he liked a glass of white wine and had a wicked sense of humour."
Nicky Danino, a lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, said: "Everyone knew who he was. We'll miss seeing his big smile around Preston.
"I remember once I was getting my hair cut and he drove up in his Rolls and walked in. He was so friendly, said hello to everyone and was greeted like a long lost friend. A real gent."
"Kenny was in his 80s but still happy to sign for fans. He had a cheeky sense of humour and if fans said they wanted an autograph in blue he said he would write it in black.
"He said 'I'll write what I want to write', but he was always happy to stop and meet people, whether in a restaurant or a supermarket.
"There was one fan who didn't manage to get an autograph at the convention so I called him up and he said bring him round to the house. So that's what we did, we met him at his house."
Lancashire filmmaker Amy Azra Dean wrote, external on Twitter: "Preston & the world has lost a film legend today. The city does not feel the same anymore, it all feels rather sad RIP"
Disability Equality NW, a Preston-based charity, tweeted, external: "Sad to hear of the passing of a real #Preston celebrity & nice guy. #RIP #KennyBaker #StarWars #R2D2"
Kashmir Watan Foodstore wrote on Facebook, external: "While he wasn't born in Preston, we were lucky that he chose to make the area his home for many, many years. He always had time for anyone and was such a humble man. Our thoughts are with his family at this time."
Rosina Gordon, from the store, added: "He was always so grounded and so humble and because the countryside around here is so beautiful, I think that's why he made it his home.
"Each time I got to meet him, it was only for a few minutes, but he always made you feel so valued and happy. He had a great smile and I don't think I saw him frowning ever. He was just a genuinely, really nice man."
Mr Myerscough said he had looked after his uncle in his home in Preston for the last five or six years:.
He said: "He wanted to stay at home where he was comfortable, and mercifully that's what happened."
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VOLUME ONE
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR ALL 5 VOLUMES
INTRODUCTION
This book has been written to tell the story of our Utah Dalton family who traveled from far away across the sea to finally settle in the Great State of Utah.
Our pedigree tells us that our first Dalton come from Normandy France and was given land for service to his King somewhere in the area of Dalton, Lancashire, England that was called ÒDale-TunÓ, or of a little town in the Òdale.Ó From that time on he was called ÒLe Sieur de Dalton.Ó Le Sieur is a French name, probably from the word Sieur, which is something like lord or ruler (from the old word seigneur, lord.) This may also mean either an occupational name for someone in the service of a great lord.
The word Le Sieur is also meant to be ÒLe Sire.Ó It is from Old French, from Latin; senior, older; Father; male ancestor; a man of rank or authority, especially Lord. Also means ÒMisterÓ- ÒdeÓ means of a place. Surnames were not used in England until around the 13th, Century. Just by the spelling and meaning of the name le Sieur, we can see he was in fact from Normandy as told.
Dalton family tradition tells us he may have been named Walter de DÕAliton and was with King Henry II during the invasion of England in 1154 and also with either the ÒEarl of Strongbow" Ó or with King Henry II during the invasion of Ireland in Oct., 1171. Read the story of his reported Irish DÕAlton line in chapter two.
From this very first ÒDaltonÓ there is evidence that most people with the Dalton surname in the world today are descendants from this first Ò DaltonÓ man.
As you read through these chapterÕs of our Dalton family lives, remember that somehow they survived many hard and troubled times and conditions ----Wars, famine, plagues, the trip to America, another war, frontier Indian battles, mob justice, crossing the plains more Indian wars and then living in the wild, wild West. You wonder how they all survived to this day, but they did!
With Photo's - Maps - Documents - Pedigree's - Histories – Stories.
I am sorry to announce that we have lost 2 more Dalton family members.
My son, Scott Rodney Dalton passed away of cardiac arrest on Friday January 10th 2003 in Ogden Utah. He was only 41 years of age and left his wife, Brenda and 5 Children, ages 7 to 21. He was a very successful businessman and was an Elder in the LDS Church.
I am very grateful to Scott for asking me sometime in 1998, where our Dalton family was from and if we were related to the "Dalton Gang" of outlaws. That question started me on my quest to find out just who our Dalton family really was. The rest is history as they say. His family, friends and I will miss him dearly.
This book is dedicated to my son, Scott Rodney Dalton, September 7 1961 - January 10 2003.
On January 29th 2005, my wife, Tracy Lindsey Dalton passed away from a long fight with brain cancer, she also being only 41 years of age. Her story is written, along with mine in volume number two of this Dalton Family history.
Why Genealogy?
Part my thoughts and part of something I read at one time in the past.
Why would anyone be interested in spending so much time researching and hunting down the stories, names, and information about family members whom they never even knew?
Well, maybe that is the reason I started -- I never knew them.
When I was young, I remember being fascinated by history. All my life I have only read true life stories about people and places.
I guess it also intrigues me to see how much of a trace my ancestors left behind. What kind of legacy or lasting impression did they leave behind? What did they do with their lives? Almost every time I sit down to enter a batch of newly discovered names into my computer file, I start to think about lives and how they must have lived. I can input several generations in just a matter of minutes... first name, last name, born on, married to, died on, buried at... and yet in the few seconds it takes to summarize a life in this way, I wonder, "how much more was there to this person's life than these cold facts?"
I hope that the photos, stories, notes, names and charts I have assembled for this book will tell my descendants a little about the people who came before them. I hope this collection will be an example that will stir their hearts to do something significant with their own lives. They may not make it into the history books, but if they allow God to use their life to influence others, they will have left an indelible mark on generations to come!
Genealogy is a means to retrieve the lost souls of the dead and bring them back into our memories and to set down a permanent record to show future generations how they can have a dramatic impact on families that come after they are long gone.
As a member of the L.D.S. Church it is a duty of mine to find every departed member of my family and submit their name into our Temple records.
Rodney Garth Dalton
PREFACE
Let me explain on how this Dalton Family History book is laid out. I decided that there has been not enough written about the descendent's of Le Sieur de Dalton and that I would write about my Dalton family history in chronological order; i.e. from the years of 1100 AD to 2008 and beyond.
Some of our Dalton cousins here in America have wrote their own Dalton Family histories that gives some information on the earliest Dalton's from England, but most of their books deal with their own line of Dalton's that start with Thomas Dalton, our first ancestor to come to America.
The book that we in the Utah Dalton family call the ÒOur Dalton BibleÓ is, ÒThe John Dalton Book of GenealogyÓ published in 1965 and written by Mark Ardath Dalton, who was a descendant of one of the three Dalton brothers that come to Utah with the pioneers in 1848. In this book there are a few pages about the early Dalton history in England. Most of it is pedigree lines of the America Dalton's starting with Thomas Dalton.
On the next page you will find the 5 chapters in this Vol. 1 book of histories about many subjects of interest to all DaltonÕs and theyÕre extended families.
We start out with the history of the first Dalton, whom we assume was Le Sieur de Dalton, and who is said to be the founder of our English and Irish Dalton family lines.
In the first chapter, Volume 1, Le Sieur de Dalton is labeled as number 1 and highlighted in blue. His son or heir is listed as number 2 and so on down to my own family who is listed as number 30 in Volume 2, chapter number 9. I am listed as number 27.
My son Scott and Grandson Jason and his son Gage make over 900 years of Dalton history.
In each generation I have added as many histories and stories of their lives and times as I could find. I think you will find its very interesting!
Some of you English readers will probably find mistakes I have made in research or quoted of your early Dalton ancestors and for that I am truly sorry. I hope in the future I can correct these mistakes.
Rodney Garth Dalton
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
VOLUME I
CHAPTER ONE – Our Dalton family in Lancashire England
CHAPTER TWO – Our Dalton family in Ireland
CHAPTER THREE – Our Dalton Family in Oxfordshire England
CHAPTER FOUR – Our Dalton Family in South Wales
CHAPTER FIVE – Thomas Dalton Comes To America From Wales
VOLUME II
CHAPTER SIX - John Dalton Sr. born in America
CHAPTER SEVEN - The History of John Dalton’s Sons
CHAPTER EIGHT - The History of the Dalton Family in Utah
VOLUME III
CHAPTER NINE - The Dalton family settles in Circleville Utah.
CHAPTER TEN - Garth C. Dalton moves to Ogden Utah
VOLUME IV
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Some of our Dalton Wives
CHAPTER TWELVE - Dalton In-laws & Related Families
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Our Dalton Family in Nauvoo
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Early Ancestors of Some of Our Dalton Wives
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - How Our Dalton Family Connects to the Royal Houses
VOLUME V
CHAPER SIXTEEN - Vikings and Dalton Connection
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - The History of John Doyle Lee
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Anne Radcliff's Ancestors
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Roger Dalton's Connections to King Henry II
CHAPTER TWENTY - History of the Medieval Wives' Families
CHAPTER 1
Our Dalton family in Lancashire England - The First Thirteen Generations
The Dalton Coat of Arms hereby illustrated
is officially documented in ÒBurkeÕsGeneral ArmoryÓ.
The original description of the Arms (Shield) is as follows:
ÒAzure semee of Crosses Crosslet de lis a lion rampart guardant argent.Ó
When translated the Brazon also describes the original colors of the Dalton Arms as:
ÒBLUE; STREWN WITH SILVER CROSSES CROSSLET; A SILVER RAMPANT LION, FACING FORWARD.Ó
Of note is this above Coat of Arms is not the one that the Dalton Genealogical Society Uses on the cover of their Journal.
The story of Le Sieur de Dalton and his descendent's from about 1100AD, to the year 2008 AD and beyond:
Of note is that various Dalton Family researchers over the years have shown Le Sieur birth date from 1088 AD, up to about 1125 AD.
The start – Probably from somewhere in the province of Normandy, France, Hauteville we think, to Lancashire and Oxfordshire in England, then onto Pembrey, South Wales, and then to America. Our Dalton family spent time in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nauvoo Ill. and finally went West to the Great State of Utah!
Our Dalton family tradition tells us that the first Dalton man was from Normandy and maybe was with Duke William during the battle of Hastings in late 1066. On Christmas day 1066 the Duke was crowned King of England. King William I had now owned all the land in England so he allotted certain portions of it to his deserving followers as tenants. The holders of these great lands were tenants-in-chiefs or Barons and under them were their Knight's. Thus there were about five thousands Knight's at the King's call. In the year 1087 there were about two hundred thousand Normans and French in England.
I believe one of these Knight's was our own le Sieur de Dalton. He would have been made a Knight and given land for his service to the Duke during the battle of Hastings. There is with the above statement a time line problem because of the dates between 1066 and the second invasion of England by the future King Henry II that our Dalton tradition tell us about. So there probable was a few more generations of Dalton's ancestors of the le Sieur de Dalton we tell you about in1154.
There also has been an ongoing debate about the origins or race of this first Dalton man. A few say he was original British, being of true Celtic nationality and the rest say he was a Norman, which is a true Viking or Northmen as they say. Remember our tradition tells us he was from Normandy. Some researchers say that the Vikings or Normans were also Celtic so the debate is without merit. Maps will show this as fact. With all my research and reading after 15 years i personally feel that our le Sieur de Dalton was Norman and he was also Celtic and did come over to England during one of the invasions as told above.
This history was compiled from many genealogical sources and histories, family records and bibles, written articles and genealogy research by Dalton Family members and other interested people. Some of this early history of our Dalton Family in Lancashire, England has been copied from a book written by Mrs. Frances Edith Dalton Leaning of England. Mrs. Leaning did extensive research on the Dalton family in England from 1935 to 1951. Her book has been distributed to many Dalton family researchers.
The Internet played a large part in this book because you can access millions of files from around the world. But you also find much inaccurate data, so please use the Internet only as a guide to your research.
Also we must give special thanks to ÒThe Dalton Genealogical SocietyÓ of England, founded by Michael Neale Dalton in November of 1970. I have a 100% DNA match with Mr. Dalton, which proves both of us are from the same Dalton line from Pembrey, Wales. Some of the history of our Dalton family would not be possible without their knowledge of early Dalton genealogy. Remember that there are many of our Utah Dalton family who are not members of the DGS and therefore have and never will read the hundreds of articles that is published in the DGS Journal twice per year. In this chapter I have quoted many Dalton informational articles that were published since about 1970. I hope Michael and the other members of the DGS will give me permission to quote from their Dalton material.
Also many thanks to our cousin, Leslie Dalton Crunk in Oregon for supplying information from her own Dalton history books and sending them to us for review. I have taken the liberty of adding some of LeslieÕs work to some of the later chapters in our Dalton history. She also helped me edit some chapters.
Other major sources were:
Millicent Craig, Vice President Dalton Genealogical Society.
The LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City Utah.
The Harold B. Lee Library on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo Utah.
The Carmarthenshire Family Historical Society of Wales.
The Pipe Rolls. Also called GREAT ROLLS OF THE EXCHEQUER.
Many articles from the Dalton Genealogical Society Journal.
The ÒJohn Dalton Book of GenealogyÓ by Mark A. Dalton
Mrs. Edith Leanings ÒDalton BookÓ
(Disclaimer)
This is addressed to any reader who is a ÒNay SayerÓ There are no endnotes in this book, only source notes that are listed where necessary.
What I have found during my research is that the most difficult part of Genealogy is how to ÔdocumentÕ the information I found. And, even more important, was how to evaluate a particular source accuracy. Thirty years ago, it was much simpler, because most of the information you found was ÔpublishedÕ, usually in book form, and this is easy to document. In todayÕs world, with the Internet, there are genealogies all over the place and many are not documented at all. So the obvious question most people will have about my book is - Where did all the information come from? This is not easy to answer. First off, I must apologize to all the persons, living and dead, who I have shamelessly copied from, without giving the proper credit. Originally, I started by adding information from the ÒJohn Dalton Book of GenealogyÓ This is my first genealogy book, and while looking for my ancestors, I started to add other names from other sources and never stopped until I got to the end of the book.
From this basic information, I have used every source I could find to confirm, modify, add to and refine my book. One of the first problems I found was that many sources contradicted each other. My philosophy was to compare, combine and adjust the information in each to match whatever historical documents I could find - such as Wills, birth announcements, marriage listing, and census lists. So that now, much of the information in my book comes from a combination of sources. Many details come from other genealogies that I found either on the Internet, or at Historical Societies.
You will also notice that I have done very little traditional 'source documenting' for my information. I am sure I will get my '20 lashes' from Traditional Genealogists. I would just like to take a minute to defend my actions. First, I am guilty of both being naive and of being lazy. I initially did not think of ever publishing this book, and so did not know how, nor did I attempt to educate myself on how to properly document my information. So, I initially listed sources to my original documentation. But as I learned that I should be documenting everything, I discovered that this was not necessarily of any special use to me in my work. Just because I found something in one ÔsourceÕ did not mean it was correct, nor did the ÔsourceÕ tell me where 'he' got the information from. Other historical genealogists do not list for every person, and every birth, death, marriage, maiden name, etc. where they received the information. They would just list it, and you would have to judge for yourself whether the information was accurate or not. I would like you to look at my Dalton book in the same way.
What I have done, is when I found an original piece of documentation, such as a census listing, a marriage listing, a cemetery listing or headstone transcription, Last Will and Testament, etc., I have noted that information in my 'sources'. I will also note when I find a source that contradicts other information I have found and I will sometimes arbitrarily decide which source I will 'accept' as most accurate. For some of my entries, you will probably not see any 'sources'. This means that the information was found on someone's family genealogy, and there was no 'original source' mentioned. My assumption is that if someone took the time to publish something, or add it to their genealogy, I will accept it as truthful, until I find information to the contrary, at which time I will try to find some original sources to help me decide which information is more accurate.
So, if I have no 'end notes' that show where I got my information from, you can assume that I found it as you did, with no source or documentation, and it must be accepted or rejected by you.
I do understand that this is not the correct way to write a Genealogy History book, but if I put endnotes for every item, there would be far to many pages to print this book. I wanted to put everything I could find pertaining to all Dalton families, not only of our Utah line. Some of the information was obtained after many years of searching for the Dalton name. Some was obtained by searching the LDS Family History library in SLC Utah. This means hundreds of books, film and microfilm to look at! Some information was taken from past research of other Dalton family researchers that did a lot of research before I got started. I hope the committee members of the Dalton Genealogical Society will forgive me if I have made some errors in quoting theyÕre material, but there is information in this first chapter that IÕm sure they are reading for the first time.
Rodney Garth Dalton - 2008.
I joined the Carmarthenshire Family Historical Society of Wales in 1998 and paid to have the owners, Richard and Pauline James search for our Dalton and any related families in every record they could find. They did in fact find hundreds of records! I have these on file. If anyone needs further proof of whatÕs in this book, please feel free to call me and I will discuss it with them. There is no standard LDS style family group sheets, but there is photoÕs that is in every standard library book.
The following are sources of our pedigree used by Mrs. Leaning in her Dalton Book. The Dalton Book was written between 1935 and 1951 in two books. Book one relates to the early history of the DaltonÕs of Bispham & Thurnham Hall, of the Senior Dalton line. Book two relates to the history of the Junior Dalton line, of which our Utah Dalton family is descended.
Mrs. Frances Edith Dalton Leaning was an English lady related to our DaltonÕs in England who spent many years researching and writing about her Dalton line.
1 - A roughly made pedigree, compiled by F.M. Deane, wife of Dr. Benjamin Neale Dalton of Norwood (1844-1914), identifies the first four ancestors beginning with Le Sieur de Dalton.
2. The Norroy records, a collection of papers known as the Harleian Manuscripts, and printed by that Society in Vol. XVI, p. 85 of their publication, are used predominantly in this compilation. The Norroy publication gives few dates, but does give genealogical information of great value as to the family's descent.
3. Burk's Peerage was used to confirm (or conflict) the Norroy publication in some instances.
4. An early Dalton family Bible was also used as another source of the pedigree, Which is also known as ÒFBÓ
5. The Victoria County History of Lancashire, or VCHL. This is the standard history of Lancashire County, in eight great volumes, with hundreds of illustrations, views, plans, and of course, coats of arms. Every statement is documented with references to the sources of information. As you read this history, bear in mind that the differences in spelling are of no consequence; the old forms of spelling were so freely changed that the same name could be spelled in several different ways by the same writer within the same paragraph.
What are the Harleian Manuscripts or the Harleian Society Series? Briefly, they are the genealogistÕs dream world to early English families. Over 20,000 families registered their lineage from the Conquest down to the 17th century. They are a record of the "Visitations", the peripatetic investigation of heralds and pursuivants of English and Welsh families from about 1530 to the close of the 17th century. Also included are some Irish and Scottish families who were picked up because they had arrived and settled in England and Wales from their original domains in those countries. They are recorded in Manuscripts and their folios and are now held in the British Museum in London, England.
Concerning our family's origin, VCHL. Vol. IV page 98 reads: "The Dalton family who took their name from this township, but who are better known as the lords of Byspham in Leyland, and afterwards of Thurnham, probably held under the de HollandÕs and their successors."
The following items are extracted from the Domesday Book:
"In the manor of Crakehill, Dalton, Asenby, Skyeton, Bernulf had 26 carucates of land to be taxed, where they may be 15 ploughs.Ó
ÒThe ancient parish of St. AndrewÕs included the four constabularies or townships of Dalton-le-Dale, Morton-in-the-Whins, Cold Hesledon, Dalden (or Dawdon) and outlying farms. The largest of these and the parish seat was Dalton-le-Dale, described in c. AD 700 by the Venerable Bede as a cluster of 'ten households round the Guildhall of Witmar, Saxon and Soldier of Christ'. In 1155 the boundaries between the possessions of the Church of Dalden and those of the Lords of Dalden were decided by arbitration. St. Andrew's at Dalton-le-Dale has been tentatively dated at c.1150, but this was in the turbulent reign of King Stephen, 84 years after the Conquest, when a civil war over the throne was in progress and the Scots had taken the opportunity of English disunity to seize most of the north of England.Ó
As you can see from these items from the Domesday Book, the name of Dalton was mentioned.
Origin of the name Dalton:
A Think piece from Millicent V. Craig - Vice President, Dalton Genealogical Society
A "desperate" plea by a reader to learn the origin of the name, Dalton, led your editor to ponder the question. One popular explanation is that Dalton is Norman in origin and refers to people who lived in a high place. Often referred to, yet unconfirmed, is the village of Hauteville in Normandy as a possible site.
There are a few recorded facts or clues in the Domesday Book, assembled in 1086 by William the Conqueror. It was the first census of lands and ownership so recorded. Listed in the book are several towns by the name of Dalton and, in fact, there are up to 20 hamlets in England that bear the name, Dalton. There is one on a hill in Cumbria, Dalton-in-Furness. There are many Dalton towns or villages in what is Yorkshire today. One is named Dalton le Dale, a name that runs counter to the general hilly descriptive. There is Dalton south of Wigan in Lancashire, from whom the Bispham, Croston, Thurnham, and the Welsh Dalton's claim title.
Surnames were not in use in the 11th and 12th Century and people were often identified according to the town in which they lived. For example, a name on a document might appear as Bernard de Dalton or Ethelbert de Dalton, meaning Bernard of the town of Dalton and Ethelbert of the town of Dalton. It does not necessarily follow that there was a biological relationship between the two men or that their surname was originally Dalton. Gradually the "de" was dropped and in succeeding centuries a name might read Bernard Dalton or Ethelbert Dalton. When one examines the ethnic disparity of the given names, one gathers the impression that the roots of these Dalton's may be quite varied. The same is true for the cluster of de Dalton's who is cited in medieval documents in what is now Yorkshire. According to our expert, Dr. Lucy J. Slater, the senior line of Dalton's was located in Yorkshire as evidenced by the unadorned crest. Lancashire Dalton's were of the cadet line and distinguished by the addition of crosslets on the crest.
Lucy also reminds us that on 20th of Sept 1066, King Harold of Norway landed with 9000 men on the north East Coast of England, east of York. Although many were killed or returned to Norway, it is also likely that some remained and married into the local population. But even before the NormanÕs arrived, the Romans had gone to York. A Latin dictionary shows "De" means of, "Altus" means height, "Onus" means single. In Latin the word, Dalton, means of a single hill and is similar to the meaning in Norman French. Roman soldiers also married into the local populations wherever they went, so there very well could have been people of Roman blood on single hills near York in these hamlets named Dalton.
When researching the Lancashire Dalton's, whom we know most about, we find that de Dalton was in use in the 13th Century in the town of Dalton near Wigan. In addition, when examining early data in southern England, de Dalton appears and reportedly stems from late comers from Normandy. On the Scottish Island of Islay there is a Church and a Celtic cross that bears the name, Dalton. It was reportedly erected between the 11th and 13th Centuries. Buried there are 17 members of a community. Where did this group originate? Was it from across the Irish Sea? We think of the Irish Dalton's stemming from one Anglo/Norman, Walter de Aliton, although we still have no documentation of his existence. The high concentration of Dalton's in County Westmeath was certainly evidence of a Dalton founder. Yet there was another Dalton, Roger, who originated in Yorkshire and emigrated from Wales and settled in Waterford. How many more were there from other places?
K. T. Mapstone has noted that the proper name, Dalatun or Dalatune has been transcribed as Dalton. Although many scholars attribute these words to the Gaelic language, she notes that is the name of a town in Iceland and of one in Norway. Viking in origin?
So how do we answer the question of the origin of the name, Dalton? There is no one answer. The best we can say is that it relates to a town or geographical area. As we continue our research we are learning that there appear to be many founding fathers in the Dalton lines and only a serious archaeological DNA study may ever produce answers.
Another source of the origin of the Dalton surname is from the following article:
ÒWe refer people interested in tracing ancestry of American families to a collection of ninety folio volumes of more than four hundred pages each, compiled by Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester. These volumes are extracts from parish registers. The English were so grateful to Col. Chester for his genealogical work in compiling "The Marriage, Baptismal and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church, or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster" that they made Col. Chester one of the four Americans to whom they have placed memorials in Westminster Abbey. Source unknown.
The name Dalton in the days of William the Conqueror was written D'Alton. Yorkshire fell to the lot of Count D'Alton, one of the henchmen of William the Conqueror. From this Count D'Alton the American family of Dalton in Virginia descends. This according to Dr. Robert Hunter Dalton's family record that is filed in the library of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis. Dr. Hunter is from the early No. Carolina Dalton's.
During one of my recent trips to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, I discovered some very early Dalton names. We canÕt as yet connect these names to Le Sieur de Dalton, but it is entirely possible that he was in England long before the date our history tells us he was. These new names could be his descendants that we donÕt know about. Further research is needed to prove a connection. These Dalton names have been added to our pedigree chart. Now that I have said this above, please note that these new names could also be just Òof Ò Dalton and not of our Dalton line.
Some new names and sources found are as follows:
Rogero de Daltuna (The Latin spelling for Dalton)
Bernard de Daltona
Erenbald de Daltona
Phillip de Dalton
Benedictus de Dalton
Euro de Daltona
Richardus de Dalton
Petrum de Dalton
Willelmo de Dalton
Willimus de Dalton
Source:
THE LANCASHIRE PIPE ROLLS of 31 Henry 1, AD 1130 and of the reigns of Henry II, AD 1155-1189 and Richard I AD 1189-1199 and King John AD 1199-1216.
Also Early Lancashire Charters of the period from the reign of William Rufus to that of King John.
"Writ - March 20 Edward III
Lincoln. inq. Taken at Croxton.
William de Dalton, parson.
Source:
From the book - # 942. Page 270 Vol. 1 at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah
"CALENDAR of the CHARTER ROLLS"
April 28 1242 in Winchester.
"Inspeximus and confirmation of a charter of Wather, Archbishop of York, giving to the chapter of York, his mansc in Thrope St. Andrew and all that he has there, on the south side of the water course called Caldicotsike; etc. All the lands he had in Beverly from Philip de Dalton;"
Source:
From the book # 942. Part 2 at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.
"The Book of Fees"
Commonly called TESTA DE NEVILL reformed from the earliest MSS.
by the deputy keeper of the records AD 1242-1293.
Ricardus de Dalton, tenet xx,iiij. acras in Seton' pro ijs.
Willelmus filius Avicie Hamon et Walterus veniut et omnes vocant ad warantum
Petrum de Dalton, quiest presens et eis warantizat;
The Great Roll of the pipe for the Twenty first year of the reign of King Henry II AD 1174-1175:
LANCASTRE: DE TRIBUS ANNIS
Benedictus de Daltona
Nepotes sui Daltona
Source: Book # 942 B4 pr Vol. 22 page # 6. At the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.
Eudo de Daulton' redd. cornp. de xx. s. quia retraxit se de appellation sua. In thesauro liberavit. Et quietus est.
Source: Pages 78 & 83 - book # 942 B4 pr Vol. 26 of The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twenty-Third year of the reign of King Henry the second AD 1176-1177.
The Pipe Roll Society of London.
"Willelmo de Dalton"
Source: Page 43-44 Vol. 31 book # 942 D4 pr
The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twenty-Eighth year of the Reign of King Henry second AD 1181-1182, The Pipe Roll Society of London.
Willimus de Daltona
Source: Page 45 Vol. 30 # 942.D4 pr
"The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twenty-Seventh year of the Reign of King Henry the second AD 1180-1181. Published by the Pipe Roll Society, London.
Information about the Domesday Book:
The Domesday Book was commissioned in December of 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). It contains; general survey of the lands in the kingdom, their extent in each district, their proper tenures, value, the quantity of meadow, pasture, wood and arable land which they contained, and in some countries the number of tenants, cottages and slaves of all denominations who lived upon the land.
During the last years of his reign, King William (the Conqueror) had his power threatened from a number of quarters. The greatest threats came from King Canute of Denmark and King Olaf of Norway. In the Eleventh Century, part of the taxes raised went into a fund called the Danegeld, which was kept to buy off marauding Danish armies.
The Domesday survey is far more than just a physical record though. It is a detailed statement of lands held by the king and by his tenants and of the resources that went with those lands. It records which manors rightfully belonged to which estates, thus ending years of confusion resulting from the gradual and sometimes violent dispossession of the Anglo-Saxons by their Norman conquerors. It was moreover a 'feudal' statement, giving the identities of the tenants-in-chief (landholders) who held their lands directly from the Crown, and of their tenants and under tenants. (Our le Sieur de Dalton was a landholder in Dalton at this time)
The fact that the scheme was executed and brought to complete fruition in two years is a tribute of the political power and formidable will of William the Conqueror.
Source:
The Encyclopedia Britannia.
Under the feudal system, everyone who did not hold directly from the Crown, as most of the high nobility did, held from some member of that class. The Hollands or Holands were a great family in the Hundred. (A Hundred is a division of a county in England, originally supposedly containing a hundred families, warriors or manors.) In one MS pedigree, drawn up by an unknown hand, our pedigree is prefaced by several of the Hollands one of them, Adam, being the immediate progenitor of the first de Dalton. An Adam de Holland is often referred to in the VCHL, and there were several Roberts in the 13th, century. The Arms of Holland only varied from the Daltons by having fieurs-de-lis instead of cross-crossiets, the design and colours being the same.
When William of Normandy became king of England, his fellow Normans became the "nobility" of their new land. They were the barons who were given land and in return swore to defend William's kingdom. The "nobles" became rich and over the years they and their kings sought more wealth in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Not as successful in these Celtic lands as they were in England, they had to settle for the East Coast of Ireland.
Attire of the Nobility:
Brightness of color and length of clothing was a sign of status. Velvet, silks and furs were used.
Men wore: Tunics fitted close to the hips, reached the knees or ankles, secured by a belt. Silk hose. Robes of silk and fur.
Women wore: Dresses with long, trailing sleeves with gold embroidery and pearl beadwork.
Mantle - A loose, trailing cloak, fur lined with silk tassels. Worn with a cape.
Pelisse - A long, fur-edged winter garment.
Underwear - made of white linen.
Headdress -Chaplets, worn on gala days, a thin, gold wreath of floreated design or studded with pearls. Women also wore brightly-colored velvet or cloth bonnets. Some had flattened, square tops called mortiers. Braided hair intertwined with linen. During bad weather a chaperon was worn, a cape with a peaked cap.
Gloves - Made of chamois (soft deer leather).
Belts - Leather studded with jewels. Women's belts of linen or silk. Women also wore outer girdles embedded with agates or sapphires.
Outer girdles -embedded with agates or sapphires.
Purse - Made of silk, held by silver chain at belt.
Shoes - leather or cloth, could be plated with gold or studded with jewels.
Also - Rings, jewels, brooches, gold pins, necklets, buckles and women wore mascara.
The Diet of the Rich:
Best food eaten, but the meats and desserts negated the nutrition of the vegetables. Drank wine, strawberry, raspberry mulberry drinks, and verjuice and honey. Verjuice was the sour juice of apples or grapes. Desserts included gillyflower comfits, pudding, apple and quince tarts and marmalade. Ate fish, fowl, and meats from their livestock and the game animals that were forbidden to the peasants.
Children of the Nobility:
Sons would stay at home until they were 8 years old. They would then become the Page of a knight or another nobleman. At age 16 they would become a squire, and a knight at age 20. Boys age 7 or 8 learn fencing with wooden and blunted swords. Age 10 learn how to ride a horse, use hawks, train dogs and go into the forests to develop resourcefulness, sense of direction and woodcraft. Learn how to read and write. Play chess, checkers and backgammon. Play harp and sing. Shoot with arbalist (crossbow), fence, use lance and shield. The squire kept his lord's sword, lance and shield. He would be given weapons and a coat of mail and learn to joust. He would rise at dawn to curry his master's horse. Then to castle to help his master wash and dress. He would wait on his lord and lady at table and carry his lord's banner when out riding. The squire was also responsible for the guests, and had to learn courtesy. He was also a messenger, and carried a purse and keys for his lord's coffers and also accompanied the seneschal on his last rounds and slept at his master's door. His jousting skills were developed by practicing with the ring and quintain, putting lance through ring while riding, and striking quintain with lance. The quintain was a post with two revolving arm, one which held a club. If the lance missed the post and struck the arm, the other arm would swing around and hit the rider. Girls would learn how to read and write, do arithmetic, astronomy and medicine.
Source:
The Encyclopedia Britannia.
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There are three places I found where the name of ÒLe Sieur de DaltonÓ is listed.
The first is in the notes of John Luther Dalton who started his genealogy research during his L.D.S. Church mission from 1863 to 1866.
(Read John LutherÕs history in chapter 6)
The second is from ÒThe John Dalton Book of GenealogyÓ by Mark Ardath Dalton.
The third place in from the ÒDalton BookÓ by Mrs. Frances Edith Leaning (Dalton).
The below is copied word for word from page 25, Chapter 9 ÒThe John Dalton Book of GenealogyÓ.
Pedigree of the Dalton Family as compiled by JOHN LUTHER DALTON:
A copy was obtained from Voyla Dalton Smith, the daughter of John Luther Dalton and a copy of the Dalton pedigree chart sent to Sarah Cedenia Dalton of Parowan, Utah, by John Luther Dalton.
In a letter sent to me, dated March 19, 1960, Mrs. Voyla Dalton Smith has this to say: "Father left on a mission to England the 28th of April 1863 and returned 1866. He also made a subsequent trip to England for genealogical research in 1888 and compiled his findings in 1889. Father never put down the source of his information as I have indicated but Mother said that he searched histories, deeds, wills, cemetery records and etc."
Listed below are only the first 2 names that is quoted from pages 231 & 232 of the ÒJohn Dalton bookÓ
-- 1 --
Le Sieur or Sire de Dalton came from Normandy, France, in 1153 AD with King Henry II of England.
The eldest son John was granted on the death of his father, the Manors of Dalton and Byspham in Lancashire, England. He executed a deed in favor of his eldest son John 1193 AD. He had two sons. (We have since learned that Le Sieur de Dalton had a third son, Phillip, who went to Ireland with his father. Remember all this must be proven by records as we search for the true Descendants of Le Sieur de Dalton.)
-- 2 --
John Dalton or Doldon was given a deed 1193 AD Lancashire, England. Simon de Dalton was mentioned in a deed 1190 AD Lancashire, EnglandÓ
John Luther Dalton at the age of 19 was called on a mission to England by President Brigham Young, departing the 28 April 1863. While in England he did an extensive amount of research work in the fields of genealogy. He also met the girl that was to become his wife, Elizabeth Mary Studer. She with her family emigrated to America and Utah in early September 1866, and they were married on the 21st of September 1866.
In 1888 he made another trip to England, this time for himself. The Dalton families are indebted to him and the efforts he put forth, leaving no stone unturned to gather data as far back as could be found on the Dalton progenitors. He found that Le Sieur Dalton had two sons, John and Simon de Dalton, and came from Normandy about 1153 A.D. at the time of King Henry II. (Note: We have since have found a third son, Phillip, who went to Ireland with his father)
So according to John Luther Dalton, the first Dalton that he found was Le Sieur de Dalton who came from Normandy, France, in 1135 with King Henry II. But how can this date be true. Henry II would only be about 2 years old in 1135 if he were born in 1133. (See below) I believe John Luther got the date wrong, it should be 1153.
Henry Plantagenet, King Henry II, King of England, was born March 25 1133, in Le Mans, France and died July 6 1189 in Chinon, England. He is buried at Fontevrand Abbey.
So this date of 1135 is wrong. The probable date is closer to 1153, which would make King Henry II, 21 years old.
Note: Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy was crowned King of England on December 19th 1154 at Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, London, England. Henry was raised in the French province of Anjou and first visited England in 1142 to defend his mother's claim to the disputed throne of Stephen. His continental possessions were already vast before his coronation: He acquired Normandy and Anjou upon the death of his father in September 1151, and his French holdings more than doubled with his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitane (ex-wife of King Louis VII of France). In accordance with the Treaty of Wallingford, a succession agreement signed by Stephen and Matilda in 1153, Henry was crowned in December 1154. The continental empire ruled by Henry and his sons included the French counties of Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony, Anjou, Aquitane, and Normandy. Henry was technically a feudal vassal of the king of France but, in reality, owned more territory and was more powerful than his French lord. Although King John (Henry's son) lost most of the English holdings in France, English kings laid claim to the French throne until the fifteenth century. Henry also extended his territory in the British Isles in two significant ways. First, he retrieved Cumbria and Northumbria form Malcom IV of Scotland and settled the Anglo-Scot border in the North. Secondly, although his success with Welsh campaigns was limited, Henry invaded Ireland and secured a English presence on the island.
The period following the death of Henry I in 1135 and the rule of Henry II were some what chaotic in England, dominated by the struggle between King Stephen and his cousin, the Empress Matilda, who was the daughter of Henry I and the mother of Henry II. Local nobility used the conflict to usurp power in many areas, an especial practice being that of castle building.
Sources:
The Encyclopedia Britannia: Medieval Sourcebook.
The below copied word for word from page 7, Book 1, of the Dalton Book by Mrs. Leaning:
ÒAlthough FlowerÕs pedigree begins with a Sir Rychard, a roughly made MS. Pedigree, coming into my hands long after this book was begun, shows apparent four generations preceding him. The first is ÒLe Sieur de Dalton Òwho came with King Henry II, 1153, whose son was Dalton of Byspham, who had a son John Dalton, father of Sir Richard, a Crusader in 1187 who killed a Saracen in the Holy Land and from that the family takes a green griffin in its crest, buried at Dalton. This is interesting, but without assigned evidence or source must be regarded as legendaryÓ
So the way I see it is that we descendants of the first Dalton must have a starting place to begin. Here is my interruption of the history of the descendants of this first Dalton.
We believe the first of our Dalton line is a Le Sieur de Dalton from what we think is the ancestral home of our Dalton family in Hauteville-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France.
The article below was copied from the Dalton Genealogical Society Journal:
Source: HAUTEVILLE-THE ANCESTRAL TOWN OF THE DALTONS, By Miss P.N. Simpson
The DGSJ, Vol. 3, 1972.
During the summer of 1971, Philippa Simpson visited France with her family for a holiday and had the opportunity of investigating the town of Hauteville in Normandy, from where it is thought that Le Sieur de Dalton came. This is her report.
ÒThere is very little information available about the early Dalton's. This means that what follows is based more on clues than on facts, in conjunction with a visit to two places in Normandy with the name of Hauteville. However, in spite of the lack of any very positive conclusions, I hope that it will be of interest to readers and possibly provoke further comments of investigations on the subject.
Le Sieur de Dalton, who was probably the great grandfather of Sir Rychard Dalton of Byspham and came over to England from Normandy with King Henry II in 1153. I am unable to ascertain whereabouts he decided to settle, but his son was said to have been possessed of the Manors of Dalton and Byspham in Lancashire; so he might have decided to settle in one of these places. I think that the Manor of Dalton is around the village of Dalton in the South part of the County of Westmoreland. Several places around there have the name of Dalton, such as Dalton Crags, Dalton Hall and Dalton Park Woods.
Le Sieur de Dalton was said to have come from a area called Hauteville in Normandy. I do not know if he was an important person in Hauteville for Sieur is merely the French word for Mister. It is interesting to note that the Kings of Jerusalem were said to have been of the House of Hauteville so the DaltonÕs could have married into their family.
Both of the Hautervilles, which I visited, were on the Cherbourg peninsular. Hauteville sur la Mer was on the West Coast and the other Hauteville was approximately in the centre.
Nearby there is a ruined castle which I am sure was standing in the 12th Century. Perhaps the DaltonÕs, if they were near neighbors, went visiting there or possibly they even married into the family that lived there.
The other Hauteville is also old, but it is impossible to tell whether it was there in the 12th Century. Unlike Hauteville sur la Mer it is difficult to reach. We got lost on many tiny country roads trying to find it.
Comparing the Hautevilles to places like Thurnham and Cockersand Abbey which I have also visited, I would like to think that our ancestors came from Hauteville sur la Mer. Both Hauteville sur la Mer and Thurnham are about a mile or two inland from the sea. Both are fairly accessible and they are both built on flat ground. The other Hauteville is quieter and more remote.
The largest mystery which remains for me is why Le Sieur de Dalton decided to come to England as I think that Normandy has more to offer than Lancashire, both in scenery and climate.
Sir Rychard Dalton, or de Dalton is supposedly the first Dalton that is at the head of the Flower's Visitation Pedigree which is generally taken as the starting point of the Dalton family history (see chart on page 7 of Volume 1 of the D. G. S. Journal). However there appear several variations in the details of this early part of the pedigree and different sources of information indicate differing numbers of generations between Le Sieur de Dalton and Sir Rychard of Byspham. One thing is reasonably certain though and that is that we are descended from a Dalton who accompanied King Henry II across the English Channel in 1154.
It is interesting to recall the circumstances of this channel crossing. Settling on the English throne at the time was Stephen, an unpopular king who had banished Matilda, daughter of Henry I and mother of Henry II, from the land. Henry, ruler of Normandy, Anjou and Maine, Guienne and Poitou, had decided to invade England.
An expedition to England undertaken by Henry in 1153 resulted in signing the treaty of Winchester (6 Nov 1153). Stephen retained the kingship for his lifetime and Henry was acknowledged as heir to Stephen by a charter issued at Westminster on 25 Dec 1153.
The outcome was a compromise with the agreement that Stephen should rule England until his death whereupon Henry would succeed to the crown. In the event, Stephen died the following year and so Henry began his reign as the first of the House of Plantagenet in 1154.
One wonders exactly what role Le Sieur de Dalton might have played in all this. One can only conjecture, but he presumably fought for Henry and perhaps he, along with many others, was granted lands in Lancashire as a reward for his part in successfully putting Henry on the throne. It seems a fitting start to our family history but unfortunately it can never be more than a speculation.Ó
Source: Philippa Simpson -1971.
So as we read in the about the story by Philippa, I also believe that Le Sieur de Dalton did come into England about December of 1154 from Normandy in the service of the Henry, future King of England. Was Le Sieur de Dalton in service to the King, or a soldier who fought along side him? Whatever his position was, some how he obtained lands in Lancashire, probably because of his service to King Henry. Did Le Sieur de Dalton give his name to the land or manor he lived in, or did his name come from the area he settled on? We will never know for sure, but we do know that he was the start of our great line of DaltonÕs as far as can be traced.
Dalton Township, Lancashire, England:
Source:
Victoria County History Publication: A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 4.
DALTON MANOR, DALTON
Daltone, Dom. Bk.; Dalton, 1212.
Dalton occupies hilly ground south of the River Douglas. The highest point is Ashhurst Beacon, known locally as the 'Beetle,' 569 ft. above sea level. From it the land slopes away gradually on every side. The district is extensively cultivated, fields of corn, potatoes, and other root-crops alternating with pastures. Plantations of trees appear more especially on the north-east under the lee of the hill and away from the assault of westerly sea winds. A few insignificant brooks find their way towards the Douglas, which forms the northern boundary of the township and divides the Hundred of West Derby from that of Leyland. The view from the top of the hill near the Beacon is an extensive one, affording a fine panorama of the surrounding country. The preponderance of holly trees and hedges on the sheltered side of the district is a noticeable feature. There are many picturesque stone-built houses in the neighborhood. The soil appears to be loam and clay, over solid sandstone rock. The area is 2,103½ acres. The population in 1901 was 422.
The road from Upholland to Newburgh crosses the township in a north-west direction, ascending and descending; Ashhurst Hall and the church lie on the western slope of the ridge; to the north are Hawksclough and Dalton Lees, and to the south lies Elmer's Green. Prior's Wood is in the north, and Cassicarr Wood on the eastern boundary.
There is a colliery. The township is governed by a parish council.
Ashhurst Beacon was erected a century ago, when a French invasion was regarded as imminent. Watchers were stationed day and night to be ready to light the beacon fire, and thus give notice of the enemy's landing.
DALTON MANOR:
At the death of Edward the Confessor, DALTON was held by Uctred as one plough-land; its value was the normal 32d. On the formation of the Manchester fee Dalton was included in it, and probably about 1150 Albert Grelley the elder enfeoffed Orm son of Ailward, of Kirkby Ireleth, of a knight's fee in Dalton, Parbold, and Wrightington, in marriage with his daughter Emma. The heirs of Orm held it in 1212. Dalton was reputed part of the Manchester fee down to the 17th century.
The descent of the mesne lordship it is not possible to trace clearly. The descendants of Orm were the Kirkbys of Kirkby Ireleth, who long retained an interest in part of the fee of Dalton, Parbold, and Wrightington. Dalton and Parbold as half a knight's fee seem very early to have been granted to the Lathom family, and Parbold and part at least of Dalton were in turn granted to younger sons. In the 13th century Dalton was held by Richard de Orrell, Richard le Waleys of Aughton, and Henry de Torbock, but how their interests had arisen there is nothing to show, though the Torbocks no doubt held their quarter of the manor by a grant from the Lathoms.
The Orrell portion, called a fourth part of the manor, was like Orrell itself acquired by the Holland family, (and descended in the same way to the Lovels, and, on forfeiture, to the Earls of Derby. The latter sold it about 1600 to the Orrells of Turton, who soon afterwards sold all their rights to the Ashhursts.
The Dalton family, who took their name from this township, but who are better known as lords of Bispham in Leyland and afterwards of Thurnham, probably held under the Hollands and their successors.
The Waleys portion was divided, half being given to a younger branch of the family. Richard le Waleys had a brother Randle, whose son Richerit was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey. Adam the son of Richerit sold his quarter share to Robert, lord of Lathom, who granted it to the priory of Burscough.
The priory continued to hold this quarter of the manor to the Suppression, after which its fate has not been ascertained; but all or most was probably acquired by the Earls of Derby, and remained with this family till the sale of Lady Ashburnham's estates.
The fourth part retained by the Waleys family descended like Uplitherland to the Bradshaghs, (and was sold in 1546 to Matthew Clifton, and then apparently to the Ashhursts, who before that seem to have been the tenants under Waleys and Bradshagh.
The remaining quarter, that of the Torbocks, descended for some time with the principal manor of Tarbock; but this portion of Dalton became, like Turton, the share of the Orrell family. The estate was often called the manor of Walton Lees. A family named Lascelles, of long continuance in this township and Upholland, appear to have been the immediate holders.
In 1598 William Orrell of Turton was called lord of 'three-fourths' of the manor, holding his hereditary share and that of the Holland family; and William Ashhurst lord of 'one-fourth,' i.e. probably the Waleys share. (fn. 21) The Burscough quarter does not seem to be accounted for. Shortly afterwards, as stated above, the Ashhursts acquired the Orrells' lands and rights, and became sole lords of the manor. In 1751 they sold it to Sir Thomas Bootle, and it has since descended with Lathom, the Earl of Lathom being lord of the manor.
In the absence of records it is not possible to give a satisfactory account of the Ashhurst family. The earliest known is Simon de Ashhurst, who about the end of the reign of Henry III granted to his son Robert all his land in Dalton, and to his son John all his land in Ashhurst. ( Robert son of Simon next occurs; and in 1300 Richard son of Robert de Ashhurst made a release of lands in Pemberton. This Richard acquired lands about the same time from Henry the Miller of Skelmersdale, whose daughter Alice afterwards released her right in the same. Richard's son Adam was the most distinguished member of the family until the Commonwealth period. He fought in the French wars under Edward III and was knighted, receiving also a grant of lands in Essex and Hertfordshire. He was succeeded by his son John, who married Margery, daughter of Henry de Orrell, and had a son Roger. This Roger about 1385 married Maud, daughter of Henry de Ince, leaving a son Robert, whose son John de Ashhurst about 1437 married a daughter of Roger de Dalton. From this date there is an absence of documentary evidence until the middle of the 16th century, about which time, as already stated, William Ashhurst acquired, probably from the Bradshaghs of Aughton, a quarter of the manor, and afterwards acquired the remainder from William Orrell.
This William Ashhurst was in 1590 reported to be 'soundly affected in religion'; and the family continued Protestant, adopting Puritan and Presbyterian tenets. William Ashhurst died in 1618, and was succeeded by his son Henry, who married Cassandra Bradshaw, and had several children, including Henry, the draper and alderman of London, a wealthy man and a consistent Puritan. The eldest son William was a member of the Long Parliament, and also of Cromwell's Parliament of 1654. He died in January 1656–7, and was succeeded by his eldest son and heir Thomas, who recorded a pedigree in 1664. John Ashhurst, the brother of William and Henry, took an active part in the Civil War on the Parliamentary side, having a commission as captain and major. He engaged in the second siege of Lathom, and was present at the surrender in December 1645; he was subsequently governor of Liverpool.
Thomas Ashhurst, aged twenty-five in 1664 was succeeded in 1700 by his son Thomas Henry, who made a settlement of the manor of Dalton in 1706, and about thirty years later succeeded also to the manor of Waterstock in Oxfordshire, which had been bought by the above-named Alderman Henry Ashhurst. In 1751 the manors of Dalton, Upholland, and Skelmersdale, with various lands, were sold to Sir Thomas Bootle by Henry Ashhurst, son of Thomas Henry, and apparently an elder brother of Sir William Henry Ashhurst, the judge.
Families named Arrowsmith, Prescott, and Holland also held lands in Dalton. In 1600 William Ashhurst and William Moss were the only freeholders recorded.
About 1400, 2 acres of land in Dalton, granted without royal license for the repair of Douglas Bridge, were confiscated, but restored.
For the adherents of the Established Church John Prescott of the Grange, owner of the great tithes of the township, turned the tithe barn into a place of worship; a district was assigned to it in 1870, and it was consecrated in 1872; but five years later the present church of St. Michael and All Angels was built on an adjoining site, and the old one destroyed. The patronage is in the hands of Mrs. Prescott.
Footnotes:
Robert de Dalton is mentioned as early as 1293; Inq. and Extents, 276. In 1305 Robert de Dalton was claiming common of pasture from Ellen, widow of Henry de Lathom, and from the Prior of Burscough; De Banco R. 154, m. 252 d.; 156, m. 119. There was another family bearing the local name, who held of the Torbocks; thus Gilbert son of Alan de Dalton speaks of 'my lord, Henry de Torbock'; Kuerden MSS. iii, T, 2, no. 15. Robert de Dalton allowed the Prior of Burscough to approve in the hey of Dalton; Burscough Reg., fol. 34b.
The most conspicuous of the early members of the family was Sir John de Dalton, kt., whose exploit in carrying off Margery de la Beche in 1347 has been mentioned in the account of Upholland. Robert de Dalton, his father, was then living. Sir John died in 1369 holding 40 acres in Dalton of Roger La Warr, lord of Manchester, in socage, by the rent of 9d. yearly; Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. III, pt. i, no. 31. The service does not agree with the 6d. named in the rental previously quoted. Ellen, wife of Robert de Urswick, was executrix; For later descents see the accounts of Bispham in Leyland and Thurnham.
History of Kildalton College, Decies, Vol. Xxxii, summer 1986:
ÒWalter must have been in France to court LewisÕs daughter and he married her, if he did marry her, well after 1066. There is a tradition that he went from England to France as an emissary of King Stephen to arrange Henry II return to England on StephenÕs deathÓ.
A little Norman History:
If the legend of Le Sire de Dalton is true and he was from Normandy as his history tells us, then below is a little history of his people. It may be true that he had Viking ancestry!
The NormanÕs were primarily of Viking origin, descended from Duke Rollo and his Viking pirates. Duke Rollo was at one time Jarl or Earl of Orkney and after being kicked out of northern Norway by the King, landed in northern France and claimed a chunk.
The NormanÕs of mainland France cast their beady eyes on the English island paradise so full of promise, an island base often envied and sullied by the Vikings. The islands to the north of England were devastated by the invading ripples of Danish and Norwegian Vikings who now held much of the land -- the Orkneys, Hebrides and the Isle of Man. Weak Saxon Kings found it more convenient to pay bounties and to demand hostages from the Viking marauders, buying short lived peace for the islands.
King Cnut had Denmark and Norway to look after, and the Swedes were pounding on his back door. He was smart and left government in England to the Saxon Witan -- the ruling body suitably seeded with Danish Earls from the north. He milked the Saxons with kindness, and left them and the Witan, to their own devices, but very poor. Not wanting a direct confrontation with Cnut, a fellow Viking, the Normans bided their time, and infiltrated with friendly implants. They set the table for the Norman invasion of England.
Unlike the previous Viking bounty hungry marauders who flitted around the oceans with fleets of up to one hundred ships, stinging here, ravaging there, wintering, gathering treasures which would help them gain power in their home domains, the Normans had achieved a new territory and converted the Vikings who had firmly planted their roots in northern France. They became skilled military commanders who did not confine themselves to naval warfare and allied strategies, although these basic skills never left them. They developed a hierarchical network of top down intermarriage, betrothals and cross-pollination that always seemed to work to their advantage.
When King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland finally declared himself to be Duke William the Conqueror's man in 1072 (after the Duke had ravaged as far north as the Forth) the Norman Empire would stretch from the Orkneys to the tip of Sicily and later to Greece and Jerusalem. By 1072 they'd also beaten up the Frisians, the Germans (Emperor Otto of Germany was a nephew of the Norman King John in 1215) and even their friends and kin the Flemings. 1172 saw the same Norman conquest and ownership of Ireland when Strongbow, the Earl of Pemroke engineered the occupation of Leinster for Henry II. The seeding of lowland Scotland followed the same pre-Conquest Norman pattern.
Source: History copied from the internet. (ItÕs also in most Norman History books)
A connection between the de Lacy Families and our Dalton Family?
Both Walter de Laci and Ilbert de Laci came from Normandy with William the Conqueror In 1066.
WALTER AND ILBERT DE LACY
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. Planch, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
Lacie, now called Lassy, the place from which this great Norman family derived its name, is on the road from Vere to Auvray. Of its earlier lords we know nothing, and Wace's "Cil de Lacie" and "Le Chevalier de Lacie," do not enlighten us. Neither do we receive much assistance from his French or English annotators, who refer us to Dugdale and the English genealogists.
From them we learn that a Walter and an Ilbert de Lacy were certainly present at Senlac, though how related to each other they have no evidence, nor can we venture to suggest which was the "Sire de Lacie" of the poet, and which "the Chevalier," if we are to consider them two distinct personages. That they were brothers, however, is fairly presumable, from the fact that the mother of Ilbert de Lacy, Emma, is named in a charter, and Walter had a daughter Emma, named according to custom after her grandmother. No particular deed of arms is attributed to either; but the Sire de Lacie is named as one of a party of seven or eight knights who charged the English in company, "fearing neither prince nor pope. Many a man did they overthrow, many did they wound, and many a good horse did they kill." As early as the third year of William's reign, 1069, Walter de Lacy was sent into Wales with William Fitz Osbern and other tried soldiers, against the people of Brecknock, led by their Prince of Wales, Rhys ap Owen, Cadogan ap Blethyn, and Meredith ap Owen, whom they attacked and defeated with great slaughter.
Subsequently he assisted Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, and Urso d'Abitot, then sheriff of that county, in preventing the passing of the Severn by the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk, with the object of effecting a junction of their forces.
His death, however, was not on the field of battle, nor was he shorn a monk in some abbey according to a prevalent custom of the period.
Having founded the Church of St. Peter at Hereford, and taking much interest in the building, when the work was nearly finished, he mounted a ladder to inspect some portion of it, when his foot slipping, he fell and was killed on the spot (6 kalends of April, 1084).
He was buried in the chapter house of the Cathedral at Gloucester, to which Emmeline, his wife, for the health of his soul, gave five hides of land at Duntesborne.
By this lady, whoever she was, he left three sons, Roger, Hugh and Walter, the last a monk in the Abbey of St. Peter at Gloucester; and two daughters, Ermeline and Emma.
Dying before the compilation of Domesday, we cannot be certain what was his reward in lands and honours for the services he had rendered his sovereign; but in that precious record we find his son and successor, Roger, in possession of ninety-six lordships, sixty-five of which were in Gloucestershire, besides four carucates of land lying within the limits of the Castle of Civia, which King William had bestowed on his father. Conspiring, however, against William Rufus, first with Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and afterwards witli Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, he was banished the realm and all his lands given to his brother Hugh, the founder of Llanthony Priory, who, dying without issue, left his great inheritance between his two sisters above named. Ermeline had no children; but Emma, [An Emma de Lacie, probably the aunt of this Emma, took the veil in the Convent of St. Amand de Rouen before 1069.] by a husband unnamed, had issue, a son, Gilbert, who assumed the name of Lacy and became the ancestor of the great lord of Ulster and conqueror of the largest part of Ireland.
ILBERT DE LACY
The other companion of the Conqueror received for his services at Senlac, the castle and town of Pontefract and all that part of the county of Lancaster then as now called Blackburnshire, with other lands of vast extent, so that at the time of the general survey he possessed one hundred and seventy lordships, the greater portion of them in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, and obtained from King William Rufus a confirmation of all those customs belonging to his Castle at Pontefract, which he had enjoyed in the time of King William his father.
By his wife, a lady named Hawise, he left two sons, Robert and Hugh, the former of whom completed the building of the Abbey of St. Oswald at Nostell, the foundation of which was commenced by his father, and amply endowed it.
This true line of Lacy terminated with the grandson of the above Robert, and the Constables of Chester and the Earls of Lincoln, who assumed the name, inherited the lands and honours, but not a drop of the Lacy blood, as it would be inferred from the polite peerages in which the reader would naturally look for information. As frequently we find it to be the case, they need not the flattering unction applied to them, being descended from equally ancient and valiant progenitors, the families of the De Lizures and the Fitz Nigels, barons of Halton, united in the persons of Richard Fitz Eustace, Constable of Chester, in right of his mother Agnes, the first wife of Henry de Lacy, by her former husband, Eustace Fitz John, and of Albreda, daughter of Robert de Lizures, by the second wife and widow of the said Henry.
Ilbert was given the task by "William the Bastard" of quelling the Anglian insurrection in the district during "The Harrying of the North". At this time English nobles were disposessed of their lands and titles, de Laci, Warrene, Marmions [Stansfield] and others were given the spoils.
Pontefract Castle -"The key to the North" originally called Kirkby by the Danish invaders but later the town had a name change under the Normans to Pomfret or "Broken Bridge". From Pontefract was administered the vast Duchy of Lancaster.
The Pontefract lands held by the de Lacis were purposely interwoven with the lands granted to the Warrenes of Wakefield Manor by William I. Both de Laci and Warrene were present at the Battle of Hastings and were consequently rewarded with such estates, the latter family having their main seat at Lewes in Sussex.
Townships [villages] held in the district by Ilbert de Laci [d. 1089] were Penistone, Thurlstone, Denby, Scissett, Skelmanthorpe, Clayton, Cawthorne, Silkstone, Chevet, Crofton, Snydale, Whitwood, Heath, Altofts, Newlands, Carlton, Methley, East Ardsley, Lofthouse, Middleton, Morley, Batley, Southowram, Elland, Greetland, Heckmondwike, Mirfield, Nether Midgley, Over Midgley, Middleton, Thornhill [manor built in 1236], Kirkheaton, Highburton [Birton], Deighton, Fixby, Bradley, Huddersfield, Almondbury.
ROBERT DE LACI, 1089-1121, who was certainly lord of Blackburnshire, though it is now impossible to discover by what means he became possessed of it. [2] As, however, the Hundred of Blackburn at the time of Domesday constituted a part of those vast possessions which the Conqueror granted to Roger de Busli and Albert de Greslet, the probability is that Lacy acquired this free from them, and held it under them. This opinion is strengthened by a charter of Henry I granting Boeland to this Robert, son of Ilbert, to be held of the Crown in capite, as it had heretofore been of Roger de Poitou.
Hugh de Laval 1121-1131
William Maltravers 1131-1136
Ilbert de Lacy (2nd) 1136-1141
William de Romare, Earl of Lincoln 1141-1146
Henry de Lacy 1146-1187
Robert de Lacy 1187-1193
Roger (Fitz-Eustace) "Helle" de Lacy 1193-1211
John de Lacy 1211-1240
Lords of the Honor of Clitheroe the DeLacys:
Ilbert was given the task by "William the Bastard" of quelling the Anglian insurrection in the district during "The Harrying of the North". At this time English nobles were disposessed of their lands and titles, de Laci, Warrene, Marmions [Stansfield] and others were given the spoils.
Pontefract Castle -"The key to the North" originally called Kirkby by the Danish invaders but later the town had a name change under the Normans to Pomfret or "Broken Bridge". From Pontefract was administered the vast Duchy of Lancaster.
The Pontefract lands held by the de Lacis were purposely interwoven with the lands granted to the Warrenes of Wakefield Manor by William I. Both de Laci and Warrene were present at the Battle of Hastings and were consequently rewarded with such estates, the latter family having their main seat at Lewes in Sussex.
Townships [villages] held in the district by Ilbert de Laci [d. 1089] were Penistone, Thurlstone, Denby, Scissett, Skelmanthorpe, Clayton, Cawthorne, Silkstone, Chevet, Crofton, Snydale, Whitwood, Heath, Altofts, Newlands, Carlton, Methley, East Ardsley, Lofthouse, Middleton, Morley, Batley, Southowram, Elland, Greetland, Heckmondwike, Mirfield, Nether Midgley, Over Midgley, Middleton, Thornhill [manor built in 1236], Kirkheaton, Highburton [Birton], Deighton, Fixby, Bradley, Huddersfield, Almondbury.
ROBERT DE LACI, 1089-1121, who was certainly lord of Blackburnshire, though it is now impossible to discover by what means he became possessed of it. As, however, the Hundred of Blackburn at the time of Domesday constituted a part of those vast possessions which the Conqueror granted to Roger de Busli and Albert de Greslet, the probability is that Lacy acquired this free from them, and held it under them. This opinion is strengthened by a charter of Henry I granting Boeland to this Robert, son of Ilbert, to be held of the Crown in capite, as it had heretofore been of Roger de Poitou.
Sire de Lacy of Ireland:
As descendants of the great Walter de Lacy of the Conguest of England, Gilbert de Lacy (d:1150) in tradition named a son, Hugh de Lacy. Hugh became the first Viceroy of Ireland, Governor of Ireland and the Lord Palantine of Meath.
Hugh was one of the conquerors of Ireland during the Norman conquest of Ireland. In 1172, he was chartered by the King of England to receive the submission of the Irish High King, Rory O'Connor.
In March of that same year, King Henry granted to Hugh the service of 50 knights and placed in charge of Dublin Castle. In addition he was granted the whole of the ancient Meath Province (the de Lacy Kingdom of Meath), totaling 900,000 acres, which included what is know as Meath and WestMeath, plus portions of other surrounding counties. In total then his possessions included Westmeath, Castlenock, Carlow, Longford, Offaly, Offelana, Kildare and Wicklow. Within this territory, he built many castles including: Castle of Screen, Navan, Trim Castle, Kileen Castle, Durrow and Castle of Leighlin in Carlow.
Hugh angered King Henry II by his marriage to Rose O'Connor, the daughter of the last of the native Kings of all Ireland. But, because of his liberal and just conduct he won the hearts of the Irish, making it his first care to preserve the native Irish in the possession of their lands. The suspicions by Henry though that Hugh had intentions of creating a separate Kingdom of Ireland independent of English jurisdiction and to be ruled solely by the de Lacy family, are evident by the Kings pleasure of Hugh's death in 1186 as reported by William of Newburg.
The following is a copy of the Royal grant made to Hugh de Lacy by King Henry II:
"Henry by the grace of God King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitain, and the Earl of Anjoy, to the Archbishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justices, and all his ministers and faithful subjects, French, English, Irish, of all his Dominions, greeting: Know ye that I have given and granted and by this my charter confirmed unto Hugh de Lacy, in consideration of his services, the land of Meath with its appurtenances, to have and to hold of me my heirs, to him and his heirs by the service of fifty knights, in as full and ample a manner as Muirchard Hu-Melaghlin held it or any other person before or after him: and as an addition I give all the fees that he owes or shall owe me above Dublin while he is my baliff, to do me servcies in my city of Dublin. Wherefore I will strickly command that the said Hugh and hisheirs shall enjoy the said land and shall hold all the liberties and free customs which I have or may have therein by the aforesaid service from me and my heirs, well and peacefully, freely, quitely, and honourably, in wood and plain, in meadow and pasture, in water and mills, in warren and ponds, in fishing and hunting, in ways and paths, in seaports and all other places appertaining to the said land, with all liberties which I have therein or can grant or confirm to him by this my charter."
SIRE DE LACY WAS OF FRENCH DESCENT AND SO MOST OF HIS BARONS
Here is a list :
Tyrrell, Baron of Castleknock
Nangle, Baron of Navan
De Musset, Baron of Lune
Phepoe, Baron of Scryne
FitzThomas, Baron of Kells
Hussey, Baron of Galtrim
Fleming, Baron of Slane
Dullard, or Dollard, of Dullenvarty
Nugent, Baron of Delvin
Earl of Westmeath
Tuite, Baron of Moyashell;
Robert De Lacy's descendants, Barons of Rathwire;
De Constantine, Baron of Kilbixey;
Petit, Baron of Mullingar;
FitzHenry of Magherneran, Rathkenin, and Ardnorcher. To some of these there succeeded
The De Genevilles, Lords of Meath;
Mortimer, Earl of Marche;
the Plunkets, of Danish descent, Earls of Fingall,
Barons of Dunsany, and Earls of Louth;
the Prestons, Viscounts Gormanstown and Tara;
the Barnewalls, Barons of Trimbleston and Viscounts Kingsland
the Nettervilles, Barons of Dowth;
the Bellews, Barons of Duleck;
the Dareys of Platten, Barons of Navan;
The Cusacks, Barons of Culmullen;
and the FitzEustaces, Barons of Portlester.
Some of these again were succeeded by ...
the De Baths of Athearn,
the Dowdalls of Athlumny,
the Cruises,
the Drakes of Drake
Rath, and numerous others.
Lets hope that our le Sire de Dalton is found listed in Ònumerous othersÓ
It is reported that our le Sire de Dalton may have served under the de Lacy family.
Notice that the de Lacy Coat of Arms and our Dalton Coat of Arms has the same Lion or a silver Lion Rampant Guardant on an azure shield with gold crosslets. In the Heraldic language it is: a shield azure propre, or crussely, a lion, rampant, guardant, argant and the crest is a dragon's head vert, between two wings.
Also look at the list of Barons that served under Sire de Lacy, was our Le Sire de Dalton, a Knight serving under one of the names?
Go to:
http://www.aboutlancs.com/delacys.htm
http://www.gengateway.com/genealogy/lacysite.htm
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/history/norman_invasion.html
Though this name is not Irish in origin it is on record in Dublin and Co. Meath as early as the beginning of the thirteenth century, the family having been established in Ireland following the Anglo-Norman invasion. Its Norman origin is more apparent in the alternative spelling, still sometimes used, viz D'Alton I.e. of Alton, a place in England. According to family tradition the first Dalton to come to Ireland was one Walter, who had fled to England from France, having incurred the wrath of the French king by secretly marrying his daughter. The early settlers became powerful, having acquired lands in Teffia, Co. Meath, under Henry II. There and in Co. Westmeath (part of which subsequently became known as Dalton's Country) they erected castles and founded religious houses. In the fourteenth century they spread into Counties Tipperary and Cork, but it was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that a branch of the family went to Clare, with which county they were afterwards closely identified. The head of the family was known as Lord of Rathconrath (Co. Westmeath); but as territorial magnates they were broken by the Cromwellian and Williamite devastations, having in the course of time completely identified themselves with the native Irish. The humbler families of the name, however, remained in Westmeath and their descendants are there today.
I have read somewhere that the Irish Dalton coat of arms was copied after the de Lacy Coat of arms because Sir Walter De Aliton (Dalton) was a Knight under de Lacy.
The Dalton's of Lancashire:
A lecture/talk given by Dr. Lucy Joan Slater, former Editor and Secretary, Dalton Genealogical Society, Cambridge, England.
ÒIn 1086 in the Doomsday Book there are three places called Dalton. Dalton near Wigan. Dalton-in-Furness and Dalton near Kirkby Stephen. The name Dalton only occurs as a place name, not as a surname. It simply means "of the hill village." The earliest Dalton we hear of as a named man is Michael of Dalton, the Abbot of Furness Abbey in 1136.
There is a tradition that there was a man known as Le Sieur de Dalton, who was the head of the village of Dalton. He had two sons, one known as Dalton of Byspham and a second son, Symon, and a grandson, John Dalton, who was still alive in 1193. Also Le Sieur went with the Earl of Manchester, on behalf of King Stephen to treat with Henry II in France for his return to England in 1154. This man may have been called Walter and there is a tradition that when he had finished his business in France, he got the King of France's daughter into trouble and had to do a quick exit to Ireland. There he settled and founded the Irish Dalton's, who call themselves Daliton or Daton.
Another tradition says that three brothers, sons of John, went to the Crusades in the late 1100's. One of them, Sir Richard Dalton, killed a Saracen in the Holy Land and was given the green Griffen on the crest of the coat of arms, which the family carried for their services to King Richard.
The Flower's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1563-4 gives the main pedigree of the Dalton family. It started with Sir Rychard of Byspham born about 1230 and holding the manors of Byspham in Lancashire and Kirkby Misperton in Yorkshire. He had two sons, Sir Robert and Sir John. Sir John held the manor of Kirkby in 1332 and founded the Yorkshire line of Dalton's. Sir Robert was born in 1284 and died in 1350. About 1320, he married Mary, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lathom and she bore him a son, Sir John Dalton. Sir Robert had sided with the Earl of Lancaster who was beheaded in 1322 and Sir Robert was confined to Pontifract Castle for a time. However, his friends raised a ransom for him, so he was released and allowed to go back to his home at Byspham Manor. In 1327, when Edward II came to the throne, the fine was returned to Sir Robert and he was made Keeper of the Royal Forests and then the Constable of the Tower of London.
In the spring of 1346, King Edward prepared to invade France. He assembled the greatest army seen in England up to that date. With the King were his son Richard, the Black Prince, 12 Earls, over 1000 Knights, 4000 esquires, 20,000 archers and an unnumbered host of yeomen, blacksmiths, messengers, masons, cooks, minstrels and other camp followers. So we can imagine Sir Robert riding from his home in Byspham, clad in his best armour, wearing his plumed helm and carrying his great broad sword, his lance and with his shield in azure blue with the silver lion on his chest. He would be riding his great war horse which would be clad in armour. By his side was his son, Sir John, also in his best armour and behind them an esquire carrying a banner with the full coat of arms embroidered on it, complete with the green Griffen. They were also accompanied by a priest who bore a portable altar and some new winding sheets, just in case things did not go too well. [Winding sheets were burial sheets or palls.] The party rode down through Lancashire gathering more men of arms at every town and joined the Earl of Manchester. Then they brought the French to face them at Crecy, one of the most historical battles of all time. The English had the new technology of the day, bows and arrows, and of course easily won the battle.Ó
Note: There is an on going search for evidence that this ÒLe Sieur de DaltonÓ of Lancashire and theÓ Walter DÕAlitonÓ of Ireland are the same man. (Read about the Irish branch of DaltonÕs in Chapter two.)
The ancient Saxon/English Dalton name, means ÒDale-TunÓ described as a Òfarm settlement in the little valley or town in the daleÓ.
The Dalton name is or has been spelled in various ways over the years; DÕAlton, de Dalton, Dolton, Dolten, Daulton, Daletonne, Dallton, de DÕAliton and Dealiton.
The place name of Dalton, from which our family derives from, occurs frequently in the six northern counties of England and in southern Scotland. Since there are many places called Dalton, there may have been as many people or families not related to each other, and yet bearing the same description, Òof DaltonÓ. Although they all could be of the same descendants of the first Le Sieur de Dalton!
There is in fact an immense variety of men and women with the ÒDaltonÓ surname, from highly placed ecclesiastics, scholars, scientists, titled and landed gentry, soldiers, merchants and lawyers, right down to the highway men in Great Britain, to that gang of ruffians in the USA, ÒThe Dalton GangÓ In Missouri, to the Mormon DaltonÕs in Utah and in the Western USA.
There are several Dalton pedigrees to serve us as a guide to our Dalton family history. There is in particular one of great extent, which arises in Yorkshire and another one in Lancashire. Both of these families have a very similar Coat of Arms, but the Lancashire branch is on record as the earlier of the two. The earliest description of the ÒDalton Coat of ArmsÓ is as follows:
In the ranks of the Knights of King Edward 1: ÒSir Robert de Dalton, Knight, dazur ove i dargent pouree de croiseletz dorÓ which is in Latin. It is a Lion rampant, and the date is 1322. This Sir Robert bore this ÒCoat of ArmsÓ at the battle of Boroughbridge and at the siege of Calais.
This means that on a ground of azure, powdered with gold crossiets, is a silver "lypard", or as it is put in all the later descriptions, a Lion rampant, and the date is 1322. This Sir Robert was the founder of the Lancashire family, but in Foster's great book of pedigrees of Yorkshire family, the Arms are the same with the addition of "a chief barry nebulae, arg. and sa." - that is, across the top of the shield are three wavy lines in black and silver. These Arms are of the next century; but it seems very unlikely that two families of the same name should have had Arms so much alike and yet have been unrelated to each other.
The Dalton Crest used by the Dalton Genealogical Societ
In a rare list of crests, collected by Thomas Wall in the reign of Henry VII, and printed in the ÒAncestorÓ, ours is No. 17: "Dalton beryffi to his crest a green dragons hede vert langued geulesÓ
This crest, of a green dragons head, but with open wings in gold, is the one which was used by John Dalton of Stanmore and Peckham, who died in 1851, and whose monument has this crest sculptured on it in the old disused churchyard of St. Giles, Camberwell. The above Crest is the one used by the DGS of England.
Crests are a survival of the old fighting times when a mans face was concealed and he wore on his helmet a sign by which he could be recognized in battle, and the shield was adorned for the same reason with some device which proclaimed his identity. Although anyone nowadays who can afford the fees can have "arms" devised for him by the College of Heralds, it is not the same thing as belonging to a family who can prove that they had knightly ancestors in the far past; and so I am putting down the references, in many places, which can be verified, as evidence of the family's existence.
Lets now talk about the early KnightÕs of England of whom many of our early DaltonÕs were. We think the first was Sir Richard Dalton, born about 1200 AD, the son of John de Dalton of Byspham, Lancashire.
The Great KnightÕs of England:
The story of the Great Knights of England goes back to the time of the Plantagenet Kings. Under which everyone with a certain income was required to take up the status of a Knight. It was an indirect form of taxation. In this way the Crown had the full support of these Knights and all theyÕre many men and wealth.
These Knights were given a great amount of land and titles for theyÕre many services they provided to whichever King was in power. The title of Sir was one, which implied possessions as well as knighthood. And from the fact that from the beginning we find our "DaltonÕs" owners of lands, holding good positions, forming good family alliances, and bearing fashionable Norman names, it looks more than likely that they were of Norman origin. They took their titles from Old Saxon manors or lordships.
History of Knights:
Like most periods in history, the era of knights evolved gradually. The term "knight" originates from the Anglo-Saxon name for a boy: "cniht". Indeed, most early knights were not much more than hired "boys" who offered military service and loyalty to whatever well-to-do nobleman or warlord that offered the most promise of money or war booty.
In the chaos and danger of post-Roman Western Europe, the population had very little protection from brigands and conquering warbands. It soon became apparent there was safety in numbers, and local lords (who could afford it) gathered around them young, fighting-age men to fend off rebellious vassals or conquering neighbors. These men, in turn, were rewarded with war booty for their service and loyalty. Soon, grants of land were made so the young soldiers could receive an income from those lands and afford the high cost of outfitting themselves with the accoutrements of war, such as horses, armor, and weapons. The era of the medieval knight had begun.
It wasn't long before knights began to treat their land grants as hereditary rights (usually transferring ownership to the eldest son upon death), and thus began the rise of knights as a "landed" class whose importance went beyond simply being a military "free-agent". Knights soon found themselves involved in local politics, the dispensation of justice, and numerous other required tasks for their sovereigns, or liege lord.
On becoming a Knight:
To become a knight, you had to go through three stages; page, squire, and knighting. When a boy turned 7, they would leave home and start their training for knighthood. As a page, he joined the household of another knight or a nobleman. There they would train him how to use and handle small weapons. They also taught him manors, and behaviors of a knight. Then at 15 or 16 they would advance to squire. In this position he would be a servant to the knight who had become his master. Training progressed and advanced to that of a mounted soldier. This would come in handy when he was called to assist his knight in battle. This would usually last around five years. Then the squire was eligible for knighthood. Any knight could bestow knighthood on another.
Taken to his lord and kneels, and a knight dubs the new knight by tapping him on the shoulder with his sword, then delivers the accolade by saying something like: "In the Almighty's name, I dub you a knight. Be worthy, valiant and humble". Led out of church, hailed with cheers and the new knight eats breakfast. Later in the day the new knight goes to the courtyard, where the others await him. Two loud trumpets, singers, priests and monks, Knight followed by all present to the grounds by the garden to a platform covered with carpets. Sponsor kisses knight, puts spurs on him. 2nd and 3rd sponsors put on his steel hauberk and helmet. 4th sponsor puts sword on the knight and says, "use it worthily". Moral instruction and encouragement offered and the new knight takes the oath of knighthood, declares his commitment to justice and faith. Music begins. Leaves platform, runs to horse and leaps onto its saddle. Crowd applauds; his squire brings his lance and shield. There is a jousting tournament in his honor the next day.
Feasts were held in his honor, with singing and music. His attire laid out for guests to see: Spotless white shirt, costly robe of ermine, golden spurs. Bathes and dresses: white shirt, brown silk hose, white outer-girdle and crimson robe. To chapel of parish church and prays all evening, stands or kneels for 10 hours. Lamp on altar, large candles beside alter. Weapons and armor on alter. Mass the next morning. Knight put on sword and spurs.
In medieval history, the knight was an armed and mounted warrior belonging to the nobility. The incessant private warfare that characterized medieval times brought about a permanent military class, and by the 10th century the institution of knighthood was well established. The knight was essentially a military officer, although with the growth of feudalism the term tended to denote the holder of not only a position in the ranks of nobility but also in the ranks of landholders. The knight generally held his lands by military tenure; thus knight service was a military service, normally expected by an overlord in exchange for each fief held by a knight. All military service was measured in terms of knight service, and a vassal might owe any number of knight services.
Although all nobles of military age were necessarily knights, knighthood was earned through some exploit involving the use of arms. In the late Middle Ages the son of a noble would serve first as page, then as squire, before being made a knight. Knighthood was conferred by the overlord with the accolade (a blow, usually with the flat of the sword, on the neck or shoulder); in the later period of feudalism, the ceremony was preceded by the religious ceremony of a vigil before an altar. A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor; a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret. Knights were ordinarily accompanied in battle by personal attendants (squires and pages) and by vassals.
Tournaments provided a means for knights to practice warfare and build their strength in times of peace. Tournaments were essentially mock battles with audiences. The audience was usually made up of "fair damsels". This was another way in which a knight was expected to act chivalrous. The tournaments had different rules that had to be followed. They were judged by umpires that watched for dishonest play. Tournaments were usually fought between either two people or two teams. If two people fought a tournament, it was usually by jousting. The two knights would gallop across the playing field at each other. They carried long, blunt poles and shields. The objective was to knock the other person out of his saddle. Team play was conducted with fierce mock combat between two bands of fighters. They fought with wooden or blunted weapons so as to reduce the risk of getting hurt. However, this was often not the case. Many people did get hurt or die by accident.
Life of a Knight:
The new knight now served his liege lord (which may or may not be the king himself), bound to offer military service up to 40 days a year in peace time, more, as needed, in war time. Military duties included castle guard, serving in the lord's "bodyguard", and participating in battle.
Apart from military duties the knight could also participate in administering justice, managing his estates (which was his prime source of income), and continuing to hone his combat skills in tournament.
Heraldry (symbols identifiable with individuals or families) originated as a way to identify knights in battle or in tournaments. With the advent of the "great" or "barrel" helm (ca. early 13th century) an individual's face became concealed. It therefore became necessary to create a method to distinguish ally from enemy.
Heraldic symbols were often worn on the knight's surcoat (thus the term "coat of arms"), shield, helmet, or on a banner (standard) that could serve as a rallying point for knights and others scattered in the chaos of battle. The standard was always to be elevated as long as the battle continued, and therefore was guarded well. A standard taken down would signal the allied combatants that the cause was lost and it was time to flee the field of combat.
The career of a knight was costly, requiring personal means in keeping with the station; for a knight had to defray his own expenses in an age when the sovereign had neither treasury nor war budget at his disposal. When land was the only kind of riches, each lord paramount who wished to raise an army divided his domain into military fiefs, the tenant being held to military service at his own personal expense for a fixed number of days (forty in France and in England during the Norman period). These fees, like other feudal grants, became hereditary, and thus developed a noble class, for whom the knightly profession was the only career. Knighthood, however, was not hereditary, though only the sons of a knight were eligible to its ranks. In boyhood they were sent to the court of some noble, where they were trained in the use of horses and weapons, and were taught lessons of courtesy. From the thirteenth century, the candidates, after they had attained the rank of squire, were allowed to take part in battles; but it was only when they had come of age, commonly twenty-one years, that they were admitted to the rank of knight by means of a peculiar ceremonial called "dubbing." Every knight was qualified to confer knighthood, provided the aspirant fulfilled the requisite conditions of birth, age, and training. Where the condition of birth was lacking in the aspirant, the sovereign alone could create a knight, as a part of his royal prerogative.
Knights associated in-groups, which they called orders. They vowed loyalty to the king they fought under and formed military organizations to defend his land and property against the enemies. The knights would go on crusades throughout the land to assure this freedom for the king. Any knight in those days who became a knight also had to take religious vows to live as monks as well as defending the king.
So as you have read in the above article about, our early Dalton's had the great fortune to be Knights and therefor-upper class gentry.
The Dalton pedigree was recorded by William Flower, Norroy, King-of-Arms, at the ÒVisitation of YorkshireÓ in 1563-4. It was a survey of all people and lands in the County of Lancashire and is among the collected papers known as the Harleian Manuscripts.
The ÒVisitation of YorkshireÓ gives genealogical information showing the Lancashire Dalton's and the Yorkshire Dalton's united by the common ancestor, and as there is confirming evidence about the earliest members, we can safely accept the pedigree as being more or less true.
In this chapter there is a complete pedigree of the Dalton Family in Lancashire County, starting with Le Sieur de Dalton, whose son was John Dalton of Byspham, which was at this time the name of the land on which the DaltonÕs owned. John Dalton 1st, whose son was also named John Dalton, and who was the father of Sir Rychard Dalton of Byspham, a crusader who killed a Saracen in the Holy Lands. From this act the Dalton family takes the Green Griffin in its Crest. Rychard is buried at Dalton Manor at Byspham.
The name of ÒDuchy of LancashireÓ played a very large part in our Dalton family history through out the greater part of time in England and later on in South Wales.
The origins of Lancashire England:
Sources:
The following history of Lancashire was copied from numerous books that are on deposit at the Harold B. Lee Library on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
The name of Lancashire is said to be derived from the Saxon Lancasterscyre, after the county town. Antiquarians say that the name of the county town itself came from Alauna, Lancaster being situated upon the River Lan.
Lancashire, at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book in 1086, held a very different profile. It extended from the northern shore of the River Mersey, north to the River Ribble. North of the Ribble was officially Yorkshire in the Domesday Survey. Lancashire was almost wholly the domain of Count Roger of Poitou, third son of the great Earl Roger de Montgomery II, the seignior of Montgomerii in the arrondisement of Lisieux in Normandy. Roger of Poitou (sometimes Pictavencis, Pictavis or, in the West Riding, known as Roger le Poitevin). Those extensive and rich holdings in the West Riding of Yorkshire were grants made by Duke William of Normandy in reward for his father's, Roger de Montgomery's assistance at the Battle of Hastings. Roger de Montgomery II was in command of a wing at the Battle of Hastings, but returned to Normandy with Queen Matilda, and the young Duke Robert as Duke William's representative. He became head of the council that governed the Duchy of Normandy in Duke William's absence in England. The Norman Montgomery family ancestry was closely interwoven either by blood or marriage with the Duchy of Normandy. Roger de Montgomery had four sons. Eldest was Robert, Count of Alencon, and his successor in Normandy. He was followed by Hugh, who inherited the Earldom of Arundel, Chichester and Shrewsbury, the life custodian of the main family domains granted in England. These would eventually go to Robert in 1098, purchased from William Rufus for 3000 pounds. Next youngest was Count Roger de Poitou who was made the first Earl of Lancaster by Duke William of Normandy, a less magnanimous grant which befitted the third youngest son. Philip, the youngest, remained in Normandy and accompanied Duke Robert on the first crusade to the Holy Land, and died there in 1094.
At the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 the County of Lancashire had not yet been defined, but its subsequent components already existed as administrative areas.
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Actor Christopher Eccleston is helping to bring the supernatural thriller book Cold Bath Street to life by narrating the novel’s audiobook.
The award-winning actor who has appeared in a variety of British television dramas, including playing Doctor Who, has voiced the book written by New York Times best-selling author and Preston-born AJ Hartley, which is published by the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) own publishing house.
It marks another milestone for Cold Bath Street, which is set around the Miley Tunnels that lie under Preston and are supposedly haunted, after it was nominated for one of the most prestigious children’s book prizes in the world, the Carnegie Medal, last November. The book was edited, project-managed, designed and produced by students on UCLan’s MA Publishing course in the only student-led, student-run publishing house in the world, UCLan Publishing.
Christopher said: “Cold Bath Street is just a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant book. I was so happy to narrate the audiobook because I think Andrew’s writing is superb. The book is an anthem for our times and it is wonderful that it is set in the North. I think what UCLan Publishing is doing, especially in improving regional diversity, is amazing and I was very glad to give my time for this cause.”
Christopher got involved in the Cold Bath Street project after playing Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company and it was pointed out to him that the play draws many parallels with Cold Bath Street with themes of supernatural, ghosts and death.
In an interview with The Bookseller, Christopher said: “We did an event where Andrew [Hartley] talked about his book and his notion of the supernatural, and I spoke about playing Macbeth and my notions of the supernatural. It helps that the book is set in Preston, Lancashire, and I’m from Salford in Lancashire. We’re from a very similar generation. We seem to have an odd understanding of each other.”
The Cold Bath Street audiobook will be launched at the prestigious London Book Fair on the 11 March with an audiobook panel event fronted by AJ Hartley, Christopher Eccleston and UCLan Associate Professor of Publishing and Head of the Publishing House Debbie Williams.
Debbie said: “This is another exciting development for Cold Bath Street and I want to thank Christopher for lending his support to a book that’s really put Preston and UCLan Publishing on the map. We’re a small publishing company competing against huge, well-established publishing houses and the success that we’ve experienced with Cold Bath Street has been phenomenal.”
Following the success of Cold Bath Street, AJ is already working on a sequel, due to be published in October, called Written Stone Lane that is based on a ghost myth around the Written Stone near Longridge in the Ribble Valley.
UCLan Publishing is also working with AJ on another children’s book, Monsters in the Mirror, due to be published on the 1 March and available for pre-order on Amazon. An author event with AJ to promote the book will take place at Preston Waterstones at 2.00pm on Saturday 9 March.
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Matt Smith is done being The Doctor.
Which means it is now time to introduce a female Doctor.
This apparently upsets some of you.
Don’t worry — it won’t happen. You’ve already won. You can be sure that right now they have suggested and summarily dismissed an actress for the role. (See also: Idris Elba.)
But I’m going to tell you why that’s fucked up.
So, I said on the Twitters like I just said here: it’s time for a female Doctor. I even mentioned what I felt was a good choice — Imogen Poots (Google her), who I think might carry on the same kind of gleeful anarchy and smoldering emotional intensity The Doctor so requires. Others mentioned Tilda Swinton — which I think also works! She’s maybe a little praying-mantisy, but she’s also really well in line with what Christopher Eccleston brought to the table, so hell yeah.
In response, I got a lot of folks saying that this was “PC tokenism.” That it would just be marketing. Falsely trying to balance — well, who gives a shit. You know the drill.
It’s nonsense.
Crap of the highest order.
You’re going to defend it as being against the story. Like it’s a money or culture decision made ahead of the interests of the narrative. Here’s why that’s wrong: the cultural status quo and the financial weight lies with keeping things the same. The Doctor of Doctor Who has always been a white dude. Cultural inertia and financial interest is stronger when that remains true.
(Plus, making the character female opens up new story avenues.)
You say, it’s “tokenism.” But tokenism isn’t what you think it is. Some people said — “Well, why not make the supporting characters be strong female characters?” That’s tokenism. Putting a black dude in your TV show — oh, ho, ho, not as the lead character, mind you — because you need a black dude for your “demographics,” that’s tokenism. Tokenism is a dismissive, hand-wavey gesture. Tokenism is, “Here, happy now? We’re eating bread, but you enjoy these crusts. HEY IT’S BETTER THAN NOTHING, SHADDAP.” Making your titular character — in this case, making the Doctor a woman — isn’t a token. It’s a nuclear bomb.
You might say, well, it has nothing to do with the story, so why do it at all? But that’s part of the magic, here. Doctor Who is a show about a character whose very flesh is transitive. This character has carried across multiple iterations so far — this role is tailor-made to see actors and actresses who are not White Dudes. It’d be one thing if the character’s “maleness” was key to the role, right? You could make a case that says, this or that story — Ulysses, Fight Club, whatever — has its roots in a kind of male experience, and changing that might alter the story so much it’s not worth the genderflip. But this is Doctor Who. It is, as its heart, a show for kids and family. It should not be protected by some kind of geeky jurisdiction. The Doctor is practically already without gender. The romances are barely that; the sonic screwdriver is not a metaphor for some dude’s wang. If we can’t give the role of a flesh-changing alien to a woman and instead relegate the actresses only to the “girl groupies,” that’s kinda fucked up, isn’t it? What kind of message is that for the families who are watching the show? Not the adult geeks of Whovian fandom, but kids who dig the character and all its assorted fictions?
And it’s that last point that matters most for me; this is a show where kids are watching. Little boys. Little girls. Do we really want to say to little girls, “You can never be The Doctor? You are forever relegated to The Companion?” And do you really want that same message for boys? “You will always be The Doctor. Girls are forever your Companions.” Fuck that noise. I want my son to grow up in a world where women can be real doctors and imaginary Time Lord Space Doctors.
So, now I ask you —
Who would be a great female Doctor?
Note that I’m not asking to have a conversation about whether the Doctor should or should not be played by a woman. You want to have that conversation, have it somewhere else.
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Christopher Eccleston (; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor. A twice BAFTA Award nominee, he has been active in television and film, which includes his role as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005), playing Matt Jamison in The Leftovers (2014–2017), and his collaborations with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom.
Eccleston made his professional acting debut onstage in a Bristol Old Vic production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He garnered attention for his film roles as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It (1991) and Our Friends in the North (1996). The latter of which he won a BAFTA award for. Seven years later he won a second BAFTA for playing Stephen Baxter in the drama series The Second Coming (2003).
Eccleston garnered widespread attention and acclaim for his role in the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, becoming the first to play the title character since 1996. He departed the role, for which he won a National Television Award and received nominations for a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and BAFTA Cymru Award, after just one series. He won an International Emmy Award for his performance in an episode of the anthology series Accused. On stage, he has played the title roles in productions of Hamlet and Macbeth and starred in productions of Miss Julie, A Doll's House, and Antigone. Since 2017, he has narrated the documentary series Ambulance.
Early life
Eccleston was born on 16 February 1964 into a working-class family in the Langworthy area of Salford, Lancashire, the son of Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston. He has two brothers named Alan and Keith, twins who are eight years older than him. On his religious upbringing, he has said, "My dad's family were Catholic. My mum was very Church of England – still is – but it doesn't work for me." The family lived in a small terraced house on Blodwell Street before moving to Little Hulton when Eccleston was seven months old. He attended Joseph Eastham High School, where he became head boy.
At the age of 19, Eccleston was inspired to pursue acting by such television dramas as Boys from the Blackstuff. He completed a two-year Performance Foundation Course at Salford Tech, then went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He was influenced in his early years by Ken Loach's film Kes and Albert Finney's performance in the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, but he soon found himself performing the classics, including the works of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, and Molière. At the age of 25, he 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 from college, he took a variety of odd jobs at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.
Career
Early work (1991–2005)
Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the film Let Him Have It (1991), and the Inspector Morse episode "Second Time Around" (1991). In 1992, he played the role of Sean Maddox in the BBC drama miniseries Friday on my Mind. A regular role in the Granada Television production Cracker (1993–94) brought him recognition in the UK; and, after he told TV bosses of his desire to leave the series, they killed off his character in October 1994, making him a victim of the serial killer Albie Kinsella (Robert Carlyle). At around the same time, Eccleston appeared in the episode "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" of the Poirot series adapted from mysteries by Agatha Christie.
He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave (1994), in which he co-starred with actor Ewan McGregor. The same year, he won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, whose broadcast on BBC Two in 1996 helped make him a household name in the UK. Eccleston starred in an ensemble cast that included actors Mark Strong and Gina McKee, as well as Daniel Craig. In 1996, he took the part of Trevor Hicks—a man who lost both of his daughters in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster—in the television drama film Hillsborough, penned by Jimmy McGovern. In real life, he was the best man to Trevor Hicks at his wedding in March 2009.
He appeared in a variety of roles, including Jude (1996), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and 28 Days Later (2002). He played a major role as the protagonist of the 2002 Revengers Tragedy, adapted from Thomas Middleton's play The Revenger's Tragedy. He starred in the independent films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and The Invisible Circus (2001). He appeared in the car-heist film Gone in 60 Seconds, but did not take his driving test until January 2004.
He has appeared in a variety of television roles, especially in British dramas. These have included Hearts and Minds (1995) for Channel 4, Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), a modern version of Othello (2001), playing 'Ben Jago', (the Iago character); and the religious telefantasy epic The Second Coming (2003) for ITV, in which he played Steve Baxter, the son of God. He has made guest appearances in episodes of the comedy-drama Linda Green (2001) and macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002). Eccleston appeared in a stage role in Hamlet in the 2002 production at Leeds's West Yorkshire Playhouse. In March–April 2004 he returned to the venue in a new play, Electricity.
Eccleston has been twice nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North, but he lost to Nigel Hawthorne for The Fragile Heart. He was nominated in 2004 for The Second Coming; Bill Nighy won for State of Play. Eccleston won the Best Actor category at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for Our Friends in the North. In 2003 he won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time, for his performance in Flesh and Blood.
Doctor Who (2005)
On 2 April 2004, it was announced that Eccleston was to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. The first series began on 26 March 2005. Eccleston was the first actor to play the role who was born after the series began. On 30 March, the BBC released a statement, ostensibly from Eccleston, saying that he had decided to leave the role after just one series, because he feared becoming typecast. On 4 April, the BBC revealed that the statement had been falsely attributed and released without Eccleston's consent. The BBC admitted that they had broken an agreement made in January not to disclose publicly that he only intended to do one series. The statement had been made after journalists made queries to the press office.
Following his departure, Eccleston was replaced by David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010.
On 11 June 2005, during a BBC radio interview, when asked if he had enjoyed working on Doctor Who, Eccleston responded by saying, "Mixed, but that's a long story." Eccleston's reasons for leaving the role continued to be debated in Britain's newspapers: on 4 October 2005 Alan Davies told The Daily Telegraph that Eccleston had been "overworked" by the BBC, and had left the role because he was "exhausted". Eccleston later stated that he left the show because he "didn't enjoy the environment or the culture that the cast and crew had to work in", but that he was proud of having played the role. Eccleston said in a subsequent interview, "My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming and it never recovered." Eccleston stated that The Daily Telegraph's quote was partially falsified, stating that he "didn't find [the job], physically, too tiring. When [The Telegraph] said that, any other producer reading that would go 'Oh, no, we can't employ Chris Eccleston because he gets tired.' So, it was a lie."
On 7 November 2008, at the National Theatre to promote his book The Writer's Tale, Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies said that Eccleston's contract was for a single year because it was uncertain whether the show would continue beyond a single revival series. In retrospect, he says, it has been an enormous success, but at the time there were doubts within the BBC. Eccleston was voted "Most Popular Actor" at the 2005 National Television Awards for his portrayal of the Doctor.
In July 2012, Eccleston spoke positively of his time on Doctor Who during a talk at the National Theatre. This led to speculation he was considering making a return appearance as the Doctor for the show's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Matt Smith, who portrayed the Eleventh Doctor, stated that he would have loved Eccleston to return. However, after discussions with executive producer Steven Moffat, Eccleston declined his role. In a 2018 interview Eccleston said that the BBC had "put [him] on a blacklist" when he left.
Eccleston began appearing as a guest at Doctor Who conventions for the first time in 2018. He had previously expressed his reluctance to appear at conventions, saying in 2017 that he preferred to "just earn [his] living by acting". He has since said that his experience of meeting fans at conventions "healed something in [him]" and made him re-evaluate his relationship to the series.
On 9 August 2020, it was announced that Eccleston would reprise his role of the Ninth Doctor in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, across four boxsets to be released between May 2021 and February 2022. This would be the first time he had portrayed the role in 16 years. Eccleston was later confirmed to appear in a further four boxsets, releasing in 2022 and 2023, as well as an episode of the 60th anniversary audio series Once and Future. He has said that it is unlikely that he will reprise the role on television as his relationship with the BBC "has not healed".
Later work (2005–present)
On 30 October 2005, Eccleston appeared on stage at The Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Navin Chowdhry, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. Eccleston sat on the 2nd Amazonas International Film Festival Film Jury in November 2005. The Canadian born director Norman Jewison was chairman of the Jury. In December 2005, Eccleston travelled to Indonesia's Aceh province for the BBC Breakfast news programme, examining how survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami were rebuilding their lives.
In March 2006, Eccleston appeared in the ITV documentary special Best Ever Muppet Moments as a commentator. In May 2006, he appeared as the narrator in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Lowry theatre in his home city of Salford. The theatre company with which he performed, Celebrity Pig (of which he is patron), is made up of learning disabled actors. In August 2006, Eccleston filmed New Orleans, Mon Amour with Elisabeth Moss. The film was directed by Michael Almereyda and shot in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. It was released in 2008 to film festivals in America and Italy.
Late in 2006 he starred in Perfect Parents, an ITV drama written and directed by Joe Ahearne, who had directed him in Doctor Who. Eccleston joined the cast of the NBC TV series Heroes in the episode "Godsend", which was broadcast on 22 January 2007. Eccleston played a character named Claude who has the power of invisibility, and helps Peter Petrelli with his powers. Eccleston appeared as the Rider in a film adaptation of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, which opened in the USA on 5 October 2007.
Eccleston appeared on the BBC Four World Cinema Award show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits such as The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Archie Panjabi. In 2009, Eccleston starred opposite Archie Panjabi in a short film called The Happiness Salesman. Eccleston agreed to do the film because of Panjabi and the fact that it was a winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition. He also appeared as the villainous Destro in the G.I. Joe film, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. That same year, Eccleston also appeared in an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program and starred in the film Amelia as Fred Noonan alongside Richard Gere, Hilary Swank and Ewan McGregor.
Eccleston was cast as John Lennon in a BBC production called Lennon Naked which aired in the UK on 23 June 2010, with Eccleston playing the title role, and Naoko Mori, who had previously appeared with him in Doctor Who, as Yoko Ono. In November 2010, Eccleston starred in the first episode of BBC One anthology drama Accused. He won an International Emmy Award for his role. In May 2011, he starred as Joseph Bede in The Shadow Line, a seven-part television drama serial for BBC Two.
On 31 December 2011, Eccleston played the role of Pod Clock in an adaptation of Mary Norton's children's novel The Borrowers on BBC One. In July 2012, he starred in the political thriller Blackout on BBC One. In the same month, he starred as Creon in an adaptation of Antigone at the Royal National Theatre; his performance in the play was called "charismatic" and "intense". In September 2012, Eccleston starred in the film Song for Marion, also known as Unfinished Song with Terence Stamp.
In 2013, Eccleston portrayed the villainous Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Thor and the eighth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Later that year, he played John Aspinall in Lucan, a mini-series about the disappearance of Lord Lucan. From 2014 to 2017, Eccleston starred as Reverend Matt Jamison on the HBO drama series The Leftovers and earned consistent acclaim for his performance across all three seasons. In 2015, Eccleston starred in the television series Fortitude as a scientist based in Arctic Norway alongside Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon before he and Marsha Thomason played a married couple who own a guest house in the Lake District in the series Safe House. Later in 2015, Eccleston starred as Leonard "Nipper" Read in Legend, a film about the Kray twins, opposite Tom Hardy.
In 2016, Eccleston began appearing as Maurice Scott in the BBC drama The A Word. Maurice is the eccentric but lovable dad to his daughter who, with her husband, has an autistic son. The second series began airing in November 2017 both in the UK and the US, where The A Word airs on Sundance TV. A third series was confirmed and aired in the spring of 2020.
Eccleston played the lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth in 2018. The production was streamed on BBC Four. Also in 2018, Eccleston starred in two films; opposite Tom Wilkinson as crime boss Harvey in Dead in a Week or Your Money Back and as a Nazi officer Heinz in Where Hands Touch. That same year he appeared in King Lear as Oswald and in the television mini-series Come Home, the latter of which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor. In 2021, Eccleston starred in the six-part television mini-series Close to Me.
Further projects include playing Fagin in the series Dodger and in a television adaptation of the award-winning novel My Name is Leon.
Personal life
Eccleston married Mischka, a copywriter, in November 2011. Their first child, a son named Albert, was born in February 2012. Their second child, a daughter named Esme, was born in 2013. They were divorced in December 2015.
Eccleston is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United, and was a regular marathon runner until 2000.
In September 2007, as part of a £9.5 million building project, Salford's Pendleton College named its new 260-seat auditorium the Eccleston Theatre.
Eccleston became a Mencap charity ambassador on 28 April 2005, and is a supporter of the British Red Cross. He also supports research for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; his father, Ronnie, had vascular dementia in his later years, from 1998 until his death in 2012.
In his autobiography, Eccleston described chronic anorexia, body dysmorphia and depression. Speaking about his poor mental health, he wrote that he was "a lifelong body hater". He was hospitalised in 2016 with severe clinical depression.
Eccleston is an atheist.
Political views
In politics, Eccleston has criticised the Conservative Party and expressed concern at opportunities for actors from his background to achieve his level of success in the future. He said in July 2017, "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. They hate us, they want to destroy us, so we're being ruled out of having a voice."
Eccleston endorsed Labour Party incumbent Andy Burnham in the 2021 Greater Manchester mayoral election.
Eccleston is a British republican who supports the abolition of the British monarchy.
Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes 1991 Let Him Have It Derek Bentley 1992 Death and the Compass Alonso Zunz 1993 Anchoress Priest 1994 Shallow Grave David Stephens 1996 Jude Jude Fawley 1998 A Price Above Rubies Sender Horowitz Elizabeth Duke of Norfolk 1999 Heart Gary Ellis Existenz Seminar Leader With or Without You Vincent Boyd 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds Raymond Calitri 2001 The Others Charles Stewart The Invisible Circus Wolf 2002 24 Hour Party People Boethius I Am Dina Leo Zhukovsky Revengers Tragedy Vindici 28 Days Later Major Henry West 2007 The Seeker The Rider 2008 New Orleans, Mon Amour Dr. Henry 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra James McCullen / Destro Amelia Fred Noonan 2012 Song for Marion James Harris 2013 Thor: The Dark World Malekith 2015 Legend Leonard "Nipper" Read 2018 Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back) Harvey Where Hands Touch Heinz TBA Young Woman and the Sea Jabez Wolffe Post-production
Television
Year Title Role Notes 1990 Blood Rights Dick Episode: #1.1 Casualty Stephen Hills Episode: " A Reasonable Man" 1991 Inspector Morse Terrence Mitchell Episode: "Second Time Around" Chancer Radio Episode: "Jo" Boon Mark Episode: "Cover Up" 1992 Rachel's Dream Man in Dream TV film Poirot Frank Carter Episode: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" Friday on my Mind Sean Maddox 3 episodes Business with Friends Angel Morris TV film 1993–1994 Cracker DCI David Bilborough 10 episodes 1995 Hearts and Minds Drew Mackenzie 4 episodes 1996 Our Friends in the North Nicky Hutchinson 9 episodes Hillsborough Trevor Hicks TV film 2000 Wilderness Men Alexander Von Humboldt 3 episodes Clocking Off Jim Calvert 2 episodes 2001 Linda Green Tom Sherry / Neil Sherry Episode: "Twins" Othello Ben Jago TV film 2002 The League of Gentlemen Dougal Siepp Episode: "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk" Flesh and Blood Joe Broughton TV film The King and Us Anthony Sunday General Ford 2003 The Second Coming Stephen Baxter 2 episodes 2005 Doctor Who Ninth Doctor Series 1; 13 episodes 2006 Perfect Parents Stuart TV film 2007 Heroes Claude 5 episodes 2008 The Sarah Silverman Program Dr. Lazer Rage Episode: "I Thought My Dad Was Dead, But It Turns Out He's Not" 2010 Lennon Naked John Lennon TV film Accused Willy Houlihan Episode: "Willy's Story" 2011 The Shadow Line Joseph Bede All 7 episodes The Borrowers Pod Clock TV film 2012 Blackout Daniel Demoys All 3 episodes 2013 Lucan John Aspinall Both 2 episodes 2014–2017 The Leftovers Matt Jamison 23 episodes 2015 Fortitude Professor Stoddart 3 episodes Safe House Robert 4 episodes 2016–2020 The A Word Maurice Scott All 18 episodes 2016 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern Luke Dunmore 2 episodes 2017 Brian Pern: A Tribute TV film 2018 Come Home Greg All 3 episodes King Lear Oswald TV film Danger Mouse J. Woolington Sham Voice; Episode: "No More Mr Ice Guy" 2020 2019: A Year in the Life of a Year Himself TV film The Kemps: All True 2021 Close to Me Rob Harding All 6 episodes 2022–2023 Dodger Fagin Main role; 12 episodes 2022 My Name is Leon Mr. Devlin TV film 2024 True Detective Ted Corsaro Season 4 Main Cast
Stage
Year Title Role Notes 1988 A Streetcar Named Desire Pablo Gonzalez Bristol Old Vic 1989 Dona Rosita the Spinster Phyllida Lloyd 1990 Bent Lieutenant Royal National Theatre Abingdon Square Aide-Memoire Royal Court Theatre 1993 Waiting at the Water's Edge Will Bush Theatre 2000 Miss Julie Jean Haymarket Theatre 2002 Hamlet Hamlet West Yorkshire Playhouse 2004 Electricity Jakey 2009 A Doll's House Neil Kelman Donmar Warehouse 2012 Antigone Creon Royal National Theatre 2018 Macbeth Macbeth Royal Shakespeare Theatre Barbican Theatre, London 2023 NASSIM Traverse Theatre A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge The Old Vic
Woyzeck – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The Wonder – Gate Theatre
Encounters – National Theatre Studio
Short films
Year Artist Title 2000 The Tyre Salesman 2001 This Little Piggy Cabbie 2010 The Happiness Salesman Salesman
Music videos
Year Artist Title 2003 I Am Kloot "Proof" 2010 I Am Kloot "Northern Skies"
Radio and narration
Year Title Role Notes 1998 Room of Leaves Frank Pig Paradise Jack 2001 Some Fantastic Place Narrator Bayeux Tapestry Harold 2002 The Importance of Being Morrissey Narrator Iliad Achilles 2003 Cromwell – Warts and All Narrator 2004 Life Half Spent Roger 2005 Crossing the Dark Sea Squaddie Sacred Nation Narrator Born to be Different Narrator A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Brian E=mc² (Einstein's Big Idea) Narrator Dubai Dreams Narrator Wanted: New Mum and Dad Narrator Children in Need Narrator This Sceptred Isle Various Characters 2006 The 1970s: That Was The Decade That Was Narrator 2008 The Devil's Christmas Narrator 2009 Wounded Narrator 2011 The Bomb Squad Narrator 2012 Timeshift: Wrestling's Golden Age: Grapplers, Grunts & Grannies Narrator 2013 Nineteen Eighty-Four Protagonist 2016 The Last Miners Narrator 2 episodes 2017–present Ambulance Narrator 44 episodes 2017 Manchester: 100 Days After the Attack Narrator Television special 2019 Cold Bath Street, a Lancashire ghost story by A.J. Hartley Narrator I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me Narrator 2020 Schreber in Radio Three's dramatization by Anthony Burgess of the Memoir of Daniel Schreber Protagonist
Audio dramas
Year Title Role 2021 Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Ravagers Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Respond To All Calls Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Lost Warriors Ninth Doctor 2022 Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Old Friends Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Back to Earth Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Into the Stars Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Hidden Depths Ninth Doctor 2023 Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Shades Of Gray Ninth Doctor 2023–2024 Doctor Who: Once and Future The Doctor
Books
Year Title Type 2019 I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me Autobiography
Awards and nominations
BAFTA Awards
BAFTA TV Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1997 Best Actor Our Friends in the North Nominated 2004 The Second Coming Nominated
BAFTA Cymru Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2005 Best Actor Doctor Who Nominated
Emmy Awards
International Emmy Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2011 Best Actor Accused Won 2019 Come Home Nominated
Others
Year Work Award Category Result 1997 Jude Golden Satellite Award Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated Our Friends in the North Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actor Won 2003 Flesh and Blood Royal Television Society Award Best Actor Won 2005 Doctor Who TV Choice Award Best Actor Won National Television Awards Most Popular Actor Won Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actor Nominated 2007 Heroes SyFy Genre Awards Best Special Guest Nominated 2015 The Leftovers Satellite Award Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film Nominated Critics' Choice Television Award Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated 2016 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
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So, what's the big fascination with Dr Who?
Andy May: Doctor Who appeals to a wide audience. It's the combination of exotic locations and hideous and scary monsters that are both frightening and a little silly at times. The Doctor appeals to all of us who harbour a secret desire to be heroic and provides a safe escapism where we can battle with enemies, but safe in the knowledge that we'll always win, if not always getting the girl...
Do you really believe in time travel?
Kevin Fishwick: Time travel will happen in the future or has it already happened ? I'm always turning back the clock!
How do you feel about Star Trek fans, are they friend or foe?
Mike Clarke: The consensus is that they are foe and we don't really have any time (pun intended) for them!
Ken Moss
If you went to a fancy dress party, which Doctor Who character would you go as?
Ken Moss: The Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann - best costume ever.
What's the big news in Doctor Who land at the moment then?
Mike Clarke: Friday 26th September 2003, what's so special about that then? Well, It's just an ordinary day right? Well not exactly, because it's a date of particular Whovian importance because that's when the BBC announced that Doctor Who was to return to our TV screens in a full 13 part series! There could a concern that it won't be taken seriously however the amount of money being spent and the wealth of talent that is involved gives no cause for concern. The best thing at this time was the new feeling of excitement and the exhilaration, over night all round the world the media sprang into life and began reporting again about Doctor Who and it seemed to me like every journalist scrambled to get the story first on who would play the part of the Ninth Doctor. The Mirror incorrectly said it would be Bill Nighy, there is nothing wrong with this choice because Bill is a well renowned actor with good credentials. Monday 22nd March 2004, yes another important date. Newly appointed executive producer, Russell T Davis had other ideas and realised his dearest wish by announcing that Salford born thespian Christopher Eccleston was to play the part. We can be rest assured that Doctor Who is indeed in safe hands once again and to quote Mr Davis "It's going to be a magnificent, epic, entertaining journey".
Mike getting rather friendly with India Fisher, the Eighth Doctor's Assistant
If you're a Dr Who fan in Lancashire what can you do to meet with fellow Who-ies?
Mike Clarke: The Time Meddlers are an affiliate club of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society (DWAS). Membership of the Time Meddlers is currently free (DWAS membership optional). We meet monthly, the first Wednesday of the month at The Black Horse pub on Orchard Street in Preston and the meetings start at 8pm; Activities can vary, usually focusing on discussions that revolve around everything imaginable about Doctor Who, the TV Series, audio plays and novels. We always provide a warm welcome to any one wishing to attend out meetings. There is also the chance to go on outings to venues such as the Doctor Who exhibition in Blackpool (opened last April 2004) and events and conventions featuring celebrities from the shows history. These events are an ideal place to touch base with like minded people. I have never met a nicer bunch of people since I became actively involved with the fan scene. My message to those who are convinced that these things are full of geeks in anoraks. "You couldn't be more wrong!" Besides this, most of our members have internet access and many fan activities takes place there. When you are on line please visit our well kept website by pointing your mouse to: http://www.prestondoctorwho.com
We have also have an excellent Doctor Who forum hosted by PNE-on line.
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Stage & Screen
Wigan's most famous star was George Formby who topped the UK box office between 1936 and 1945. Playing a simple Lancashire lad, George was Britain's highest paid entertainer.
Comic actor Roy Kinnear was born in Mesnes Road, Wigan, in 1934. He made his name on BBC's That Was The Week That Was show and has also starred in many films.
Music hall comedian Frank Randle was born in 1901 and lived at 50 Wigan Road, Aspull. He was a childhood friend of George Formby, who was later to become his chief rival.
Jonathan Dewhurst was a major figure on the Victorian stage, a renowned tragedian and Shakesperian actor, who shared the stage with such greats as Henry Irving and Wilson Barrett.
Wigan actor Colin Bean played the role of Private Sponge in the nationally screened, and much-loved, Dad's Army series.
Sir Ian McKellen, one of the finest actors of his generation, grew up in Parson's Walk, next to Mesnes Park. Wigan's market traders, with their sales banter, inspired Sir Ian to go on to the stage. Recently starred in the blockbuster film Lord of the Rings.
There have been several actors from Wigan that have starred in the ever-popular soap Coronation Street. Fans will remember Georgia Taylor (Toyah Battersby), John Fillingham (Neil Mitchell), Eva Pope (barmaid Tanya Pooley) and Jennifer Moss (Lucille Hewitt).
MUSIC
Born in Mather Lane in 1890, operatic tenor Tom Burke was known as the Lancashire Caruso starring at Covent Garden and opera houses throughout the world.
One of Britain's leading jazz musicians, Georgie Fame, was born plain Clive Powell in Leigh, 1943. He was also a 1960s pop star.
Chart topping rock band The Verve hailed from Wigan, coming together as students at Winstanley College.
Other famous names include singer Limahl, from the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo. Big band singer Andy Prior, a former vocalist and player with the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra, and Wendy Picton, who is one of the world's leading euphonium players.
ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS & WRITERS
Author James Hilton was born in Wilkinson Street, Leigh in 1900. He is famous for two enduringly popular novels - Goodbye Mr Chips and Lost Horizons - which became even more successful films. He won an oscar for his screenplay of Mrs Miniver.
Scriptwriter Brian Finch, the son of a Wigan miner, has countless TV credits to his name - including Heartbeat, Coronation Street, All Creatures Great and Small, Bergerac and Goodnight Mister Tom.
Artist Lawrence Isherwood (1917-1989) courted fame in the 1960s with his controversial paintings of celebrities. The Prince of Wales bought one of his works and The Guardian newspaper described him as "a great and uncompromising artist".
Another highly acclaimed artist, Theodore Major (1908-1999), was a contemporary of L.S. Lowry; the art critic John Berger said of him: "His best canvasses deserve to rate among the best English paintings of our time".
Illustrator and humorist George Worsley Adamson worked extensively for Punch, Private Eye and Nursing Times. He also illustrated many books and provided cartoons for the Daily Telegraph. Although George was born in New York, his mother came from Wigan, and from the age of eight to adulthood George was brought up by his maiden aunts in Upper Dicconson Street, and later Clifton Crescent, Wigan. A number of his pictures are held by Wigan Heritage Service.
Please visit www.georgewadamson.com for more information.
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Olympic swimmer June Croft was born in Ashton, 1963. She was British record holder and champion from 1974-84 and in the 1980 Olympics she won silver and bronze medals.
Wigan Rugby has produced many sporting heroes, the two all-time greats, 'Big Jim Sullivan' and Billy Boston OBE were actually born in Cardiff, but their exploits on the field for the club entitle them to be called honorary Wiganers. Boston still holds the club's record for tries - 478.
Golborne boxer Peter Kane was world flyweight champion from 1938-43. He will always be remembered as a fighter who won 127 of his 137 professional fights.
British chess maestro Nigel Short, one of the youngest grandmasters ever, was born in Leigh and grew up in Atherton.
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The former National Union of Mineworkers president, Joe Gormley, was born in Ashton-in-Makerfield in 1921. He led the miners in the 1977 national strike, and in the 1983 honours list was made Baron Gormley of Ashton-in-Makerfield.
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The Burnley-born actor has shown little sign of slowing down during his esteemed career, even marking his milestone 80th year with an 80-date nationwide solo tour.
With two Oscar nominations, Sir Ian has gripped audiences both on screen and on stage and is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time.
Most recently, Sir Ian has been seen playing John Falstaff in Player Kings at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.
During Monday’s performance, the veteran actor fell from the stage but has since been told he will make a “speedy and full recovery” and is expected to appear in Thursday's performance of the production.
Sir Ian said he is “looking forward to returning to work” as he thanked the NHS staff who cared for him after the tumble.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, he said he is “hugely indebted” to the medical staff who have assured him his recovery will be “complete and speedy”.
“I want to thank everyone for their kind messages and support,” Sir Ian said in the statement posted to X, formerly Twitter.
“Since the accident, during a performance of Player Kings, my injuries have been diagnosed and treated by a series of experts, specialists and nurses working for the National Health Service.
“To them, of course, I am hugely indebted.
“They have assured me that my recovery will be complete and speedy and I am looking forward to returning to work.”
After the accident, he was taken to hospital to receive treatment and the remainder of Monday and Tuesday’s performances were cancelled to allow him to rest.
Sir Ian had been expected to return for Wednesday’s matinee performance, but it was announced on Tuesday that the show would not return until Thursday.
During his career, Sir Ian’s largest mark on the big screen may be as Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
The role won him an Oscar nomination for best-supporting actor during the 2002 ceremony.
It marked his second Oscar nod, having been nominated three years previously for his role as James Whale in Bill Condon’s period drama Gods And Monsters.
Sir Ian also found mainstream success with his performances as Magneto in the X-Men series and as the title character in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
On the stage, Sir Ian has been nominated for 12 Olivier Awards and won six for his roles in Pillars Of The Community, The Alchemist, Bent, Wild Honey, Richard III and his one-man show Ian McKellen On Stage.
The actor was born in Burnley in 1939 and, alongside his sister Jean, was raised by his mother Margery and father Denis.
Sir Ian has often credited his parents for encouraging his interest in becoming a performer, previously claiming in a 2017 interview with the Irish Examiner: “Apparently she said, ‘If Ian decides to be an actor, it’s a good job, because it brings pleasure to people’.”
His mother died when he was just 12 and he lost his father at the age of 22.
Sir Ian acted at all the schools he attended.
When at Bolton School he was able to take on his first Shakespeare performance at Hopefield Miniature Theatre when, as a 13-year-old Malvolio, he performed the letter scene from Twelfth Night.
He then won a scholarship to read English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was soon appearing in regular productions, including appearing alongside now famous alumni such as Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir David Frost and Dame Margaret Drabble.
By the time Sir Ian graduated in 1961 he had decided to become an actor, and landed his first job in a production of A Man For All Seasons at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Since then, he has gone on to become a household name for his acclaimed performances in everything from Shakespearean tragedies to Hollywood blockbusters.
Outside of acting, Sir Ian has been active in the gay rights movement.
Very few people knew of his homosexuality at a young age, including his parents.
In 1988, he publicly came out on a BBC Radio 4 programme while discussing Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 legislation, which made the promotion of homosexuality as a family relationship by local authorities an offence.
He said of the law: “I think it’s offensive to anyone who is, like myself, homosexual, apart from the whole business of what can or cannot be taught to children.”
Section 28 was eventually fully repealed in 2003.
Sir Ian has spoken about his experiences on coming out on several occasions.
Back in July 2000, he wrote in The Independent: “The only good thing I can think to say about Section 28 is that it finally encouraged me to come out. A bit late in the day, but it remains the best thing I ever did.”
Then in 2015, he said that coming out actually made him a better performer, saying: “What happened immediately, according to friends, is I became not just a happier person, but a better actor.”
A commanding on-screen actor, Sir Ian has been widely acclaimed for roles including Bill Kraus in And The Band Played On about the AIDS epidemic, which earned him his first Emmy nod in 1994.
His role as Tsar Nicholas II in Rasputin won him a Golden Globe in 1997, as well as another Emmy nomination.
His West End stage credits include No Man’s Land, Figures Of Speech, King Lear and Mother Goose, while he also starred in Broadway shows including Amadeus – which scored him a Tony award – Wild Honey and the revival of Waiting For Godot.
In 1991, Sir Ian was knighted for his services to the performing arts.
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The actor Christopher Eccleston has claimed an A-lister falsely accused him of inappropriately touching her while filming a sex scene.
The star of Doctor Who and True Detective said he feared the accusation from the unnamed actor could have caused the end of his career.
“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,” Eccleston, 59, told the Independent (the actor starred alongside Kidman in the 2001 film the Others).
“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.”
Eccleston said he believed the incident would not have happened if there was an intimacy coordinator on set (a professional who choreographs intimate scenes) and called the accusation an “abuse of power” by his co-star.
He added: “I could have been accused of all manner of things … that’s about what passes between actors, with trust and the abuse of it.”
He said he was “fortunate that happened to me before the Harvey Weinstein stuff came to light, so I wasn’t put in the stocks for it”.
Eccleston stars alongside Jodie Foster in the highly anticipated new season of True Detective. He called Foster “a heroine of mine for many years” and said he had “never have taken such a small role if it wasn’t” for the actor.
The pair worked with an intimacy coordinator on the show, which Eccleston called “a wonderful innovation in the industry. Not just because it protects people, but to creatively decide how a scene should be played.
“If I were a writer, that would be very important to me – because the way people have sex is how they communicate.”
Eccleston said he and Foster discussed “how we’d gone through the mill with sex scenes in the past, when you just had to fend for yourself”.
He said over the years he had come to realise he is more vulnerable than he once thought. “As a bloke, as a young man, you walk on to the set and see the majority of people in the crew are male. Then there’s a beautiful woman who’s naked. So unless you are a complete arsehole, you just continually ask her: “Are you comfortable? Is there anything I can do?”
But the intimacy coordinator told him she was there to protect him too, he said. “I’d not thought about that. You don’t think that maybe somebody’s copping a look at you. You just don’t, not from a working-class northern British background. I was born in 64, when men were really not the objects of desire as far as I knew.”
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It’s not often that a train can get you to your destination as fast as flying, but China’s new high-speed maglev train might just pull it off.
On a recent test run, the train sprinted to record-breaking speeds of 281 miles per hour, making it the fastest train in the world.
Once completed, engineers hope the maglev will reach 621 mph (much faster than commercial flights, which cruise at an average of 545 mph to 574 mph).
The maglev uses “magnetic levitation” to effectively glide on thin air, eliminating friction and noise pollution while allowing trains to travel at higher speeds.
It does this using superconducting magnets in a low-vacuum pipeline. Superconducting magnets are electromagnets that have been cooled to extreme temperatures, which strengthens the magnetic field.
Superconducting magnets on the train interact with metal on the walls of the pipeline to both levitate and propel the train forward, creating a cushion of air between the train and the track.
China already has one maglev train in operation in Shanghai, which connects Pudong Airport with the Longyang Road station in the city center. The 19-mile journey takes roughly seven minutes.
China plans to expand its maglev technology on railways across the country to ease travel between large cities and rural areas.
This goal is part of the China Railway 450 Technology Innovation Project, which was included in the country’s fourteenth five-year plan between 2021 and 2025.
By enabling greater connectivity across the country, the CR450 project will minimize travel times and costs for China’s vast population, while also reducing air pollution emissions from transport.
At the moment, transport emissions in China are rising. The number of passenger cars multiplied 12 times between 2005 and 2020, from 19 million to 239 million.
In 2018, the country was responsible for 11% of the world’s transport-related air pollution emissions (second only to the U.S.).
Decarbonizing China’s transport sector will play a key role in the nation’s plans to have its carbon emissions peak by 2030 and to become a carbon-neutral country by 2060.
Maglev trains do not generate any direct emissions, and they have the added benefit that they do not split the landscape. Unlike with highways and traditional train tracks, animals can cross safely underneath maglev railways.
China’s super-fast maglev train could be operational within three to 10 years.
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Maglev trains use magnetism to levitate above the tracks on which they travel. They are faster, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly than modern wheeled trains. It may be that one day soon, maglev technology will be commonplace throughout the world. This article reviews the history of these trains, how they work, as well as their benefits and drawbacks. It also discusses the importance of electrical engineering in developing maglev, and how electrical engineers can make this technology the next transportation revolution.
Introduction
Imagine a train without wheels. Instead of rolling along the track, it quietly floats above and glides smoothly from origin to destination without ever touching a rail. This may sound like science fiction, but instances of this technology already exist in a number of places in the world. They are known as maglev trains (derived from the term magnetic levitation). These futuristic locomotives offer many new and exciting possibilities for travel. They have the potential for being faster, safer, and more energy efficient than conventional transportation systems. Although such trains are few and far between as of now, they are a hotbed of research in the electrical engineering community. As a result, maglev may be commonplace sooner than you’d think.
History of Maglev
The fundamental ideas behind maglev technology can be traced back to the early 20th century. Much work went into laying the groundwork for these trains, including the development of electric motors and research in magnetism. A few scientists, namely Robert Goddard and Emile Bachelet, even dared to propose a vehicle that would float using magnets (Yadav, 2013). In 1934, a German man by the name of Hermann Kemper was given a patent for the first concept of a magnetic, levitating train (Yadav, 2013). It wasn’t until the 1960s that the idea really began to manifest. At this time, Germany and Japan began researching the potential of maglev. During the 70s and 80s, both countries made great progress in developing these trains. Germany built and tested a string of prototype maglev systems and called their design the TransRapid (Figure 1). The trains achieved speeds of over 250 mph (402 kph) on the test track (Luu, 2005). Japan also tested two series of their own designs, called the ML-500 and later the MLU. Their trains were able to exceed 300 mph (483 kph) (Luu, 2005).
Figure 1
Japan continued development of its maglev technology into the 90s and beyond. They tested a new series, called the MLX, which broke 350 mph (563 kph) in 2003 (Yadav, 2013). No commercial lines have been established in the country, but they are still carrying out research. In Germany, a commercial TransRapid line connecting Berlin and Hamburg was proposed in 1992. However, in 2000, the government shut down the project (Luu, 2005). Not all was lost, though, as the Chinese took notice and commissioned the Germans to build a TransRapid train in Shanghai. The Shanghai Maglev (Figure 2), which resulted from this venture, is now the only high-speed maglev train in commercial use. It carries passengers a distance of 19 miles (30km) in 8 minutes, reaching a top speed of over 250 mph (431 kph) (Coates, 2004). Thus China has quickly become a large player in the worldwide maglev market. The country plans to continue development of its maglev infrastructure.
Figure 2
How Does it Work?
Maglev trains do not have wheels or rails. As shown in Figure 3, they have guideways, and they float down these guideways without ever touching them.
Figure 3
There are three essential parts to achieving maglev functionality: levitation, propulsion and guidance (as seen below).
Figure 4
Levitation
Levitation is the ability for the train to stay suspended above the track. There are two important types of levitation technology:
Electromagnetic Suspension (EMS): EMS (Figure 5) uses the attractive force of electromagnets placed on the guideway and on the train to achieve levitation. The benefits of this method are that it is simpler to implement than Electrodynamic Suspension (discussed below), and that it maintains levitation at zero speed. The drawbacks are that the system is inherently unstable. At high speeds, it becomes difficult to maintain the correct distance between train and guideway. If this distance cannot be kept, the train will fail to levitate and come grinding to a halt. To account for this, EMS requires complex feedback-control systems to ensure the train is always stable (Lee, 2006).
Figure 5
Electrodynamic Suspension (EDS): EDS (Figure 6) uses the repulsive force of (superconducting) magnets placed on the guideway and on the train to achieve levitation. The magnets move past each other while the train is running and generate the repulsive force. The benefits of this method are that it is incredibly stable at high speeds. Maintaining correct distance between train and guideway is not a concern (Lee, 2006). The drawbacks are that sufficient speed needs to be built up in order for the train to levitate at all. Additionally, this system is much more complex and costly to implement.
Figure 6
Propulsion
Propulsion is the force that drives the train forward. Maglev uses an electric linear motor to achieve propulsion. A normal electric rotary motor uses magnetism to create torque and spin an axle. It has a stationary piece, the stator, which surrounds a rotating piece, the rotor. The stator is used to generate a rotating magnetic field. This field induces a rotational force on the rotor, which causes it to spin. A linear motor is simply an unrolled version of this (see Figure 7). The stator is laid flat and the rotor rests above it. Instead of a rotating magnetic field, the stator generates a field that travels down its length. Similarly, instead of a rotating force, the rotor experiences a linear force that pulls it down the stator. Thus, an electric linear motor directly produces motion in a straight line. However, this motor can only produce a force while the rotor is above the stator. Once the rotor has reached the end, it stops moving.
Figure 7
When describing a linear motor, the standard is to use the term “primary” instead of “stator,” and “secondary” instead of “rotor.” In maglev trains, the secondary is attached to the bottom of the train cars, and the primary is in the guideway. So a magnetic field is sent down the guideway and it pulls the train along after it. In a way then, the entire length of a maglev track can be considered to be part of the train’s motor. The system that has been described so far is a Linear Induction Motor (LIM). It is so called because the magnetic field in the primary induces a magnetic field in the secondary. It is the interaction between the original field and the induced field that causes the secondary to be pulled along. However, in this configuration, the secondary always lags somewhat behind the moving field in the primary. This lag is a source of energy and speed loss. In a Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM), the lag is removed by attaching permanent magnets to the secondary. Because the secondary is now producing its own stationary magnetic field, it travels down the primary in sync with the moving field—hence the name for this variant of motor (Gieras, 2011). Because LSMs are faster and more efficient, they are the motor of choice in high-speed maglev trains (Lee, 2006).
Guidance
Guidance is what keeps the train centered over the guideway. For high-speed maglev, repulsive magnetic forces are used to achieve this (Figure 8). In the TransRapid, there are two electromagnetic rails placed on the train facing either side of the guideway. These rails keep the train from moving too far off course (Lee, 2006). In the MLX, guidance is coupled with the levitation system. The levitation rails on either side of the train are connected to each other. Through this connection, when the train moves closer to one side a restoring force is induced which pushes it back towards the center. Thus the MLX is both levitated and guided at the same time (Lee, 2006).
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Benefits of Maglev
The most obvious attraction of maglev trains is that they can travel faster than traditional rail trains. The only commercial high-speed maglev, the Shanghai Maglev, is now the fastest train in existence. It travels over 50 mph (80 kph) faster than the fastest high-speed wheel-rail (320-kph Hayabusa, 2013). And it is only the first. The lack of friction between the train and the guideway removes many limits that bound traditional trains. Maglev will only get faster from here (Luu, 2005). There are other, more subtle qualities that also make maglev attractive:
Longevity: Conventional wheels and rails undergo a great deal of stress over time. They must be replaced and repaired periodically to remain functional. In maglev, there is no contact between train and guideway, so there is substantially less wear-and-tear. The lifespan of maglev parts are appropriately much longer due to this fact (Powell, 2003). Economically, this is quite an incentive, as repair and maintenance are costly and time-consuming activities.
Safety: It might seem counter-intuitive that these trains are safer, as they travel so much faster than their wheeled counterparts. It is true nevertheless. Maglev trains are near impossible to derail (Luu, 2005). It would take something like complete guideway collapse to part a train from its track. Additionally, weather isn’t much of a problem. Since the trains don’t rely on friction for movement, snow, ice, and rain cause little to no effect (Luu, 2005). Finally, it is easy to elevate the guideways. If the trains are running on tracks ten feet above the ground, there is a smaller chance of collision with an object on its path (Luu, 2005).
Energy Efficiency: Another benefit of levitation is that these trains don’t lose any energy to friction. This gives them an advantage in efficiency (Wang 2010). Energy consumption is essential to the success of a transportation system. Much of the cost of operating one goes to paying for power. Therefore this edge in efficiency is very important. However, while maglev trains are more efficient, they are currently not substantially more efficient than modern high-speed rail. They do, though, have the potential to be far superior in this category.
Environmental Impact: Maglev trains can make tighter turns than high-speed rails can. This allows guideways to be built which can navigate terrain much better (Wang 2010). The paths can be engineered to have as little effect on the environment as possible. Guideways also take up less area than rails do (Wang 2010). This further reduces environmental impact. And, as noted before, guideways are easily elevated off the ground (Luu, 2005). Plants and animals alike are safer with the the train traveling above them, and not barreling by right next to them.
Noise Pollution: When considering a transportation project, noise (within reasonable bounds) isn’t as large a concern as economy or safety. However, noise reduction is still considered a positive feature. Maglev trains are quieter than contemporary trains, so this is another point in their favor (Wang, 2010).
Drawbacks of Maglev
Although there are many upsides, there are still reasons why maglev trains are not being built everywhere. Perhaps the biggest reason is that maglev guideways are not compatible with existing rail infrastructure. Any organization attempting to implement a maglev system must start from scratch and build a completely new set of tracks. This involves a very high initial investment (Coates, 2004). Even though guideways cost less than rails over time (Powell, 2003), it is hard to justify spending so much upfront. Another problem is that maglev trains travel fast, but they might not travel quite fast enough. Countries with high-speed rails already in place don’t want to spend billions of dollars implementing a system that is only marginally better than the existing solution. The market for these trains just isn’t very large at the moment. It is hard to dispute that these trains are superior to standard ones. Regardless, more work needs to be done before it is worth implementing them worldwide.
Electrical Engineering in Maglev
Ever since the steam engine, trains have traditionally been in the domain of mechanical engineers. They were all motors and axles, wheels and engines. However, the introduction of maglev technology has broken that tradition. Developing these trains has required input from a number of different fields other than mechanical engineering, including physics and chemistry. Most importantly, though, it has brought electrical engineers to the table. From the beginning, electrical engineers have been major contributors to developing maglev technology. Eric Laithwaite, an electrical engineer, developed the first linear induction motor, an important and necessary precursor to maglev trains. Hermann Kemper, who many believe to be the father of maglev, was also an electrical engineer. German and Japanese electrical engineers worked to establish the maglev programs in their respective nations. And today, electrical engineers are making the technology better and better so that it may appeal to countries all over the world. Maglev trains have surprisingly few moving parts. They are all about electric currents, magnets, and wire loops. Some important topics to the field are electromagnetic fields and waves, circuit theory, feedback control systems, and power engineering. All these fall under the expertise of electrical engineers. Therefore it is electrical engineers that are needed to solve the biggest problems this technology faces. The trains need to be made faster and more energy efficient. All the while they need to be kept well within boundaries of safety. The guideways need to be made cheaper, easier to implement, and perhaps more compatible with existing rails. The control systems need to be made flawless. All of these issues and more are calling out for an electrical engineer to come unravel their answers.
The Future of Maglev
Maglev technology holds great promise for the future. It has the potential to be a cheaper, faster, safer, and greener form of transportation than we have today. And with the help of some electrical engineers, it will become all of these things. There are possible applications for this technology in anything from intercity public transportation to cross-country trips. There are even proposals to build long underground tubes, suck the air out of the tubes, and place maglev trains inside of them. In this setting there would be virtually no wind resistance, so a train could easily reach speeds exceeding the speed of sound (Thornton, 2007). While it may be a long time before this technology becomes prevalent, it is difficult to deny that it will at some point be prevalent. The advantages are too hard to ignore. As of now there is only one commercial maglev train in use, and it has already eclipsed everything that has come before it. How will this technology evolve and improve as we move into the future? Only time will tell. But it is highly plausible that we now stand at the precipice of a transportation revolution. I, for one, look forward to gliding across the countryside at 300 mph in a levitating box of magnets.
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China is developing a model to compete with the German high-speed magnetic levitation train Transrapid. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, Chinese researchers in Shanghai already want to test their own version in July.
The Chinese model with the name Zhui Feng (Hunt the Wind) would reach speeds of 500 kilometers an hour (310 mph) and therefore be as fast as the German Transrapid.
Chief engineer Zheng from the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Cooperation (CAC), which is developing the train, said CAC was not simply copying Transrapid.
"The one we're building is completely different from the German one," said Zheng, who is responsible for design and technology. "Basically, we don't know that much about the German technology."
He said CAC didn't use any German materials or plans.
German Transrapid has more advantages
The only Transrapid connection in the world links Shanghai and its airport. China is planning an extension of this connection to the city of Hangzhou, 180 kilometers away.
Transrapid spokesman Peter Wiegelmann said the German train had a significant advantage compared to the Chinese competition. It has been in commercial use for three years and proven its dependability. It has transported six million passengers already.
"That's why we expect opportunities with the Transrapid technology," said Wiegelmann. The consortium, made up of Thyssen, Siemens und Adtranz, was "optimistic" that it would win the contract for the new route in Shanghai.
"The most important thing now is Munich though" Wiegelmann said. The Transrapid consortium is pushing for speedy construction of the long-awaited airport connection in Munich. The project approval procedure is currently in process.
The Transrapid consortium also hopes for orders from the United States, Britain and the Middle East.
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High-speed railways combine both speed and efficiency. From the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan to the French TGV, high-speed trains have a history that spans several decades.
The evolution of high-speed rail has reshaped the transport landscape by offering an alternative to aviation, promoting economic growth, reducing travel times and offering a greener option.
Now, it is even becoming a competitor in price, with budget-high-speed rail options appearing in Europe. Germany, Italy, France, Spain, China, and Japan boast extensive high-speed rail networks, with trains that can reach speeds of over 300km/h.
Further expansion and improvement of high-speed rail will continue. There are several high-profile projects that seem inevitable, despite facing hurdles, including California high-speed rail, the complicated history of high-speed rail in Australia, and perhaps most famously, the ever-delayed HS2 project in the UK.
Yet despite some projects marred by setbacks, half of the ten most expensive rail projects that broke ground last year were high-speed rail projects. All five of these are located in Asia – a hotbed for high-speed rail, no small part due to China’s rapidly expanding network.
Additionally, new technological advancements, such as magnetic levitation (Maglev) trains, hold the promise of even faster speeds and smoother rides. The ongoing advances in high-speed rail infrastructure and technology suggest a promising future, where travel becomes even more convenient, sustainable and interconnected.
Given the rapid development over the last decade, here’s an updated rundown of the ten fastest high-speed trains currently in service in the world right now, by operational speed.
10. Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000: 300km/h (Italy)
Italian state railway operator Trenitalia’s Frecciarossa, or ETR1000, was co-developed as a joint venture between Hitachi Rail Italy and Alstom.
The Frecciarossa, otherwise known as the red arrow, is also operating in Spain. Private high-speed rail operator Iryo uses 20 S 109 trainsets, which are derived from the ETR1000.
Reportedly developed in response to Italo, a private high-speed rail operator in Italy, the ETR1000 trainsets carry 457 passengers in eight-car non-articulated 200-metre trains, with an engineered maximum speed of 400km/h.
In operation, the trains hit 300km/h but during testing in 2015 one of the ETR1000 sets reached 389km/h. 50 trainsets were built, but one is currently out of operation following the Livraga derailment.
On 6 February 2020, an ETR1000 operating the first service of the day was involved in a high-speed derailment at Livraga, on the Milan-Bologna high-speed line. The incident caused the death of the two train drivers and the injury of 31 people. It is the only railway accident to date on the Italian high-speed rail network.
9. Korail KTX-Sancheon: 305km/h (Korea)
South Korea’s national railway operator, Korail, runs the country’s high-speed rail service. Korea Train Express, more commonly known as KTX, began operation in 2004.
The network initially used rolling stock based that was partly built in Korea, based on Alstom’s TGV Réseau. Since then, the rolling stock on the line has shifted to fully domestically produced models, currently using the KTX-Sancheon built by Hyundai Rotem.
The KTX-Sancheon is named after the Korean name of the indigenous fish cherry salmon. It has a top operational speed of 305km/h and is the first high-speed train designed and developed in South Korea.
71 trainsets, which can accelerate from 0 to 300km/h in 316 seconds, currently carry up to 363 passengers each on the South Korean high-speed rail network.
The new generation HEMU-430X prototype reached 421.4km/h in 2013, beating the previous Korean rail speed record of 352.4km/h set by a KTX-Sancheon HSR-350x train.
This means that South Korea is one of only four countries in the world to develop a train capable of running at over 420km/h, along with France, Japan and China.
Hyundai Rotem is currently manufacturing 16 sets of the latest commercial electrical multiple-unit model of the HEMU-430X, the EMU-320, expected to enter into service by the end of this year. In contrast to 316 seconds for the KTX-Sancheon, the EMU-320 can accelerate from 0 to 300km/h in 230 seconds and has a planned operation speed of 320km/h.
8. Renfe AVE 103: 310km/h (Spain)
The Renfe Class 103 is a high-speed train that Spanish state-run operator Renfe uses for its AVE high-speed service. The trains, also known as Series 103 or S103, are manufactured by Siemens as part of the Velaro family.
Spanish high-speed rail began operation in 1992 when the first line was opened, connecting the cities of Madrid, Córdoba and Seville. Since then, the network has spread to connect the country’s major cities, as well as international connections. It has also opened up to open-access operators, creating an incredibly competitive high-speed rail market.
26 trainsets run on the 621km Barcelona–Madrid high-speed railway, carrying up to 404 passengers at speeds up to 310 km/h. In 2006, an S103 achieved a record top speed of 403.7km/h, a Spanish record speed for rail vehicles.
Interestingly, the 8-car configuration that Renfe operates is actually two identical half-trains of four coaches. Each section has an independent power system, apart from the active pantograph and a high voltage line that runs along the length of the entire train.
The end coaches are split between the driver’s cab and passenger seating, with glass screens separating the two. This allows passengers the same views as the driver – but the driver can turn these opaque if preferred.
7. ONCF Al Boraq: 320km/h (Morocco)
The trains running on Africa’s first high-speed railway, Al Boraq in Morocco, come in at number seven on our list.
The line, operated by Moroccan national operator Office National des Chemins de Fer du Maroc (ONCF), runs between Casablanca and Tangier. Al Boraq is comprised of two sections – a newly built dedicated high-speed line from Tangier to Kenitra and an upgraded existing line from Kenitra to Casablanca.
12 Alstom Avelia Euroduplex (otherwise known as TGV 2n2f) trainsets run at speeds as high as 320km/h on the 323km dedicated high-speed track. Notably for a high-speed model, Euroduplex trains on the Al Boraq line are bi-level (double-decker), with a passenger capacity of 533. The trainsets are composed of two power cars and eight passenger cars.
The $2bn project cut journey times between Casablanca and Rabat in half, from almost five hours to just over two hours. During pre-service testing on the Al Boraq line, trains hit a peak of 357m/h – over twice the speed of the next fastest trains currently running in Africa.
6. JR Shinkansen: 320km/h (Japan)
Recognised the world over, the Shinkansen, colloquially known as the bullet train, is a Japanese star. But surprisingly, the original high-speed train doesn’t break into the top five.
Japan was the first country to develop a dedicated high-speed railway network, initially built to connect distant Japanese regions with the capital, Tokyo. Launching as the 515km Tokyo–Nagoya–Osaka Tokaido Shinkansen line in 1964, the network currently spans almost 3,000km of track.
The first Shinkansen trains to enter service in 1964, now classed as the 0 series, had a maximum operating speed was 220km/h. The current E5 and H5 Series, built by Hitachi Rail and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, hit a top operating speed of 320km/h.
The E5 series runs on Tohoku Shinkansen and Hokkaido Shinkansen services, and the H5 is a cold-weather derivative of the E5 series that runs on the same lines. H5 units include several cold-weather features, including an upgraded snowplough, more durable rubber protection on the connections between cars and a stainless-steel underframe that protects the electronics from the elements.
Outside of everyday operation, the top speed a Shinkansen has recorded is 443km/h, recorded by the experimental Class 955 “300X” Tōkaidō Shinkansen during tests in 1996.
JR Central is developing an experimental Maglev Shinkansen, the L0 Series. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JR Central subsidiary Nippon Sharyo, the trains use the Japanese SCMaglev system.
JR Central plans to use the L0 series on the passenger services launching in 2027 on the Chūō Shinkansen railway line between Tokyo and Osaka. These trains are expected to operate at 500km/h but have hit a top speed during testing of a whopping 603km/h.
5. SCNCF TGV: 320km/h (France)
The Train à Grande Vitesse, or TGV, is iconic. Initially running on Europe’s first high-speed railway in France, the pioneer of high-speed rail in Europe has broken records for top speeds, repeatedly, since its inception.
In 1981, TGV Sud-Est trainset number 16 set a record speed of 380km/h. Just shy of a decade later in 1990, a modified TGV Atlantique 325 train recorded a new record speed of 515.3km/h. This record was smashed in 2007, when a Modified TGV POS, fitted with two powered bogies similar to the AGV prototype, hit 574.8kh/h, the current world record.
Manufactured by Alstom and operated by French operator SNCF in the main, in everyday operation the TGV Duplex, Réseau, POS and Euroduplex models run at a top track speed of 320km/h in France.
The SNCF TGV Network extends outside France, directly linking to Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Open-access operators also link France to other countries using TGV trainsets. TGV Lyria runs to Switzerland and Thalys/Eurostar to the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Further afield, TGV trainsets operate in the US, Spain, Italy, Morocco, China and South Korea,
The newest model of TGV, TGV-M, was unveiled in 2021. In July 2018, SNCF placed a €2.7bn order for 100 TGV-M trainsets, then referred to as the Avelia Horizon. With a proposed maximum capability of 350km/h, the TGV-M is expected to enter service with SNCF in 2024.
4. DB ICE: 350km/h (Germany)
The ICE 3, or Intercity-Express 3, is a family of high-speed electric multiple-unit trains manufactured by Siemens and Bombardier. The ICE 3 is operated mainly by Deutsche Bahn (DB), but also by Dutch Railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS).
The flagship of high-speed rail in Germany, the family includes classes 403, 406, 407 and 408, which are known as ICE 3, ICE 3M, New ICE 3 and ICE 3neo respectively.
Three multisystem trains, known as ICE International, are in use in the Netherlands. ICE 3 trainsets also operate on cross-border routes to the Netherlands, Belgium and France
ICE 3 trains operate at the national maximum high-speed railways track speed of 320km/h in Germany, but have pipped their competition in this list due to the fact that the class 403 is authorised to run at speeds of 330km/h on the high-speed line between Frankfurt and Cologne to overcome delays. The ICE 3 Classes 403 and 406 hit top speeds of 368km/h on trial runs.
The ICE 3M/F was the inspiration for Siemens’ Velaro trainsets, which are used in Germany, Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia and Turkey. Egyptian National Railways has also ordered 41 eight-car ICE trainsets.
3. CR Fuxing: 350km/h (China)
The China Railway (CR) Fuxing, also known as the CR series EMU, is a series of high-speed trains. Developed by China Railway Corporation, Fuxing trains operate at 350km/h but have been run as high as 420km/h in tests.
The Fuxing models are the first completely domestically produced high-speed models in China, without any proprietary or licensed technology from external rolling stock manufacturers.
An 8-car Fuxing set is 209m long, 3.36m wide and 4.06m high and can carry over 500 passengers. Perhaps best known for their use on the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, which carries passengers between the two cities in just shy of 5 hours, Fuxing sets are also used on seven other lines in China.
In fact, the new high-speed connection to Tibet uses a modified Fuxing model designed to operate at high altitudes. The Fuxing CR400AF will be the first model to operate abroad, with 11 trainsets ordered for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia, due to start running this year.
2. CR Harmony: 350km/h (China)
The China Railway (CR) Hexie, also known as the Harmony, is an umbrella term for the CRH series EMU high-speed trains. Although they operate at the same speed as the Fuxing trains, with a top operating speed of 350km/h, we have them in second place due to their higher record speeds in testing.
The CR Harmony was originally built using existing technology from global rolling stock manufacturers, with CR aiming to eventually build up its own knowledge of the technology. This plan came to fruition with the domestic development of the CR Fuxing trains.
The CRH380B is based on the Siemens Velaro family of high-speed trains and has been in service on the Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway and Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway since 2011.
The CRH380A has the second-highest recorded speed of the Harmony trains, clocking 486.1km/h during a test run in 2010. Controversially, although it was not produced under a technology transfer agreement, there are accusations that the CRH380A is based on unlicensed Japanese Shinkansen technology.
Another notable Harmony model is the CRH380D, derived from the Bombardier Zefiro 380. With a record test speed of 483km/h, the highest speed ever recorded by a conventional unmodified high-speed train, there are 85 trainsets currently in operation in China, split across the Shanghai Railway and Chengdu Railway.
1. Shanghai Maglev: 460km/h (China)
The Shanghai Maglev, also known as the Shanghai Transrapid, tops the list with its maximum operating speed of 460km/h and average speed of 251km/h. It has a record high-speed of a staggering 501km/h.
The maglev train isn’t a conventional high-speed model. Instead, it utilizes electromagnetic force to levitate above the track, eliminating friction and allowing for incredibly smooth and quiet travel.
The Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Company owns and operates the Shanghai Maglev. Siemens and German multinational ThyssenKrupp constructed the train as a joint venture.
The service started commercial operations in April 2004 and runs on the 30.5km Shanghai Maglev Line. This is the first commercially operated high-speed magnetic levitation line, running from Longyang Road Station in Shanghai, China to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, the route is the first commercially operated high-speed magnetic levitation line.
The maglev train can cover the approximately 19-mile distance in just under eight minutes, still making it an incredibly efficient connection to the airport, despite the fact that it doesn’t terminate in the city centre.
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Maglev is a train using electromagnets to elevate and move along a track.
One set of magnets “floats” or repels the train from the track; another moves the elevated train along the track. In some designs, another set of electromagnets repels the train from the track to levitate it above the track. The benefit: trains run at faster speeds while using less energy, thanks to the removal of standard “steel wheel on steel rail” friction.
Research from the 1960s and before has proven the possibility of maglev transportation systems. But that was fifty years ago, and maglev transport systems now operate in only three counties: Japan (Nagoya), China (Beijing and Chengdu), and South Korea (Seoul). Most of those are considered “low-speed,” operating at maximum speeds under 100 mph. Only one —China’s Shanghai Transrapid—qualifies as high-speed. If maglev has been proven to work, why hasn’t it become more widespread?
Maglev: Technological Promise and Practical Hurdles
Maglev promises enviable speed, but with significant premiums in construction costs compared to high-speed rail, and it has yet to meet with large scale adoption.
The maglev concept has been tested and proven feasible in both high- and low- speed constructions, but maglev systems have not yet been widely built.
Currently, two principal versions of high-speed maglev technology are in operation or under development worldwide: the Transrapid and the superconducting (SC) maglevs. These maglev investments are consistently focused on connecting huge, dense cities close enough to one another that traditional air travel offers limited time savings at enormous environmental costs. In these contexts, the clean, convenient, high-speed travel promised by maglev systems has the potential to generate sufficient demand and ridership to prove commercially viable.
German-Developed Shanghai Transrapid Maglev
The oldest (and only high-speed) commercial maglev train in operation, the Shanghai Transrapid, has run at speeds up to 270 mph from Shanghai Airport to Shanghai’s outskirts (19 mi) since 2003.
The Transrapid is a German-developed high-speed monorail utilizing an electromagnetic suspension (EMS) system, with testing beginning in 1987 and planning dating back to 1969. While Germany decided not to develop this design at scale, China did build out the Shanghai airport segment for commercial use, originally intending to provide a rapid solution for travelers to move the 175+ km between Shanghai and Hangzhou airports. Never extended beyond the initial Shanghai leg, China suspended its development following public resistance and cost concerns, instead opting for high-speed rail to connect Shanghai and Hangzhou. Since then, China has built 23,500 miles of conventional high-speed rail, with the fastest trains operating at 217 mph.
This doesn’t mean that China has completely abandoned maglev technology or settled for the Transrapid model exclusively. The country has two competing designs for high-speed maglevs currently undergoing development and testing. The CRRC 600 maglev in Qingdao is reportedly capable of traveling up to 600 km/h (370 mph). A second design unveiled in Chengdu is designed for 620 km/h (390 mph). Neither has been tested. While China continues experimenting with various maglev systems, the only one to reach commercial implementation remains the Shanghai Transrapid.
Japanese-Developed SCMaglev
Japan’s most prominent railways, although often misconstrued as maglev, are part of an extensive network of high-speed railways that regularly reach speeds of 200+ mph.
The country is, however, currently building a superconducting high-speed maglev (SCMaglev) project from Nagoya to Shinagawa, anticipated for commercial operation some time after 2027 and with plans for eventual extension to Osaka. It uses a different design than the Transrapid, an electrodynamic suspension (EDS) system based on the repelling force of magnets. Using super-cooled, superconducting electromagnets, the EDS approach reduces energy use overall. Japan has invested decades of development and over 1 million miles of testing in this design, dating back to the 1980s. The SCMaglev has already achieved rail landspeed records, reaching 375 mph in a short-range test. It regularly operates over longer testing runs at 311 mph, outpacing all other high-speed maglevs in operation.
Japan’s SCMaglev Route
A majority of Japan’s SCMaglev route from Nagoya to Shinagawa will run through underground tunnels, creating the lengthy straightaways necessary for trains to operate at high-speeds—without competing with other public and private developments for right-of-way and land use.
In America, the Northeast Corridor SCMaglev project has completed a draft Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed line to connect Washington D.C. and downtown Baltimore. Eventually, the project aims to connect D.C. and New York City in one hour, replacing tens of thousands of vehicle trips annually and easing transportation gridlock throughout the Northeast Corridor. This proposed system plans to utilize the SC Maglev technology and ‘trough’ track model, with a majority of the initial segment slated for construction in underground tunnels. To facilitate so-called “last-mile” transportation, the Northeast Corridor project integrates connections to local subways or light rail, including a proposed station under Baltimore’s BWI airport.
D.C. to NYC, Nagoya to Shinagawa or Osaka—these represent heavily travelled routes between major urban centers. In contexts like these, maglev seems poised for increased implementation, as these regions can justify immense investments based on potential ridership. It remains to be seen how these projects will develop, and if maglev will spread beyond these specific contexts.
What about Hyperloop?
Hyperloop refers to a Maglev train system where maglev “pods” run through evacuated tubes, removing air resistance and allowing for projected speeds of 750+ mph.
First proposed and studied in the 1960s, the concept of hyperloop gained popularity after Elon Musk promoted it in 2012. Hyperloop’s eye-popping top speeds remain theoretical, despite decades of testing. No hyperloop system has made it beyond testing.
Lots of questions remain about hyperloop’s viability, including how to protect and evacuate passengers in the event of a crash, and how to maintain a long-distance airtight seal (or deal with potential failures of this seal). Proposed hyperloop designs also rely on small ‘pods’ instead of larger train cars, limiting any eventual system’s passenger capacity. In addition to the challenges maglev has faced, hyperloop must find ways to maintain an airtight seal over long distances. No small feat, and one that increases the expenses of traditional maglev by several magnitudes. There are safety challenges as well, including that a vacuum tube failure could crush a passenger-bearing pod to dust. Additionally, hyperloop requires lengthy straight rights-of-way for deployment, and in much lengthier segments than high-speed rail, which presents the most challenging hurdle from a policy perspective.
The Policy Crux for High-Speed Rail and Maglev Projects
The biggest hurdle to building high-speed rail is a policy issue, not a technological one. There isn’t yet the political will to acquire the needed right-of-way.
To reach and maintain high speeds, trains need stretches of straight track and long, swooping curves. Doing this over long distances requires extensive right of way agreements for such developments, an often complex and expensive process requiring negotiations with lots of individual landowners and communities.
While conceptually offering higher speeds, maglev technology doesn’t make the right-of-way issue any less complicated. To reach the higher maximum speeds promised by maglev or hyperloop systems, long, straight, uninterrupted rights of way becomes more important, not less. And, since maglev or hyperloop systems are incompatible with current rail or mass transit infrastructure, the need for additional facilities and new rights of way are greater still.
Application Potential for Maglev and High-Speed Rail
As recent history demonstrates, maglev makes sense and offers speed advantages in limited applications.
These systems have an inherent hurdle to widespread adoption: they’re incompatible with preexisting railroad infrastructure. Conversely, this is high-speed rail’s biggest strength. High-speed rail runs on the same standard track gauge as conventional railroads. With technology and aerodynamics as advanced as anything proposed for maglev, high-speed rail still works with railroad infrastructure built almost two centuries ago. This increases the scalability and connectivity of investments in high-speed rail. Preexisting bridges, tunnels, stations, railyards –– all are potentially compatible with high-speed rail. A maglev system requires recreating everything from the ground-up. This is why investors and policymakers consistently choose high-speed rail.
We urgently need fast, frequent and affordable rail transportation. The added urgency of climate change favors a ready-to-implement solution for clean, fast, frequent, and affordable transportation. The technology and innovation needed in high-speed transportation already exists –– it just requires greater scale, greater investment, and widespread support to reach its potential.
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What is the fastest train in the world? How fast is it and where is it?
What is the fastest train in the US?
What is the fastest train in Europe?
What is the fastest train in Japan?
What is the fastest train in China?
What is the fastest train in India?
What is the fastest train on the African continent?
In general, how fast do high-speed trains go?
Ranking of the five fastest commercial trains in the world in 2023
What is the fastest train in the world? How fast is it and where is it?
The fastest commercial train in the world is the Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Train in China. It can reach a top speed of 267.8 mph (431 km/h).
The fastest non-commercial train in the world is the Yamanashi Maglev Line in Japan. It is currently being tested and improved upon and does not carry passengers on a regular schedule. The Yamanashi Maglev Line can reach a top speed of 374.68 mph (603 km/h).
What is the fastest train in the US?
Currently, the fastest train in the US is Amtrak’s Acela which operates at a maximum speed of of 150 mph (241 km/h). Acela trains are high-speed trains that run on the East Coast between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC, stopping at train stations in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland along the way. Acela trains complete the journey between the two cities several times daily in seven hours.
Amtrak has announced a new Acela fleet for late 2023 with trains running at the top speed of 160 mph.
Acela trains are not the only high-speed trains in the US, however. Brightline operates high-speed trains that can reach 130 mph on Florida’s west coast.
What is the fastest train in Europe?
The fastest commercial train in Europe is Germany’s ICE 3, specifically, the 403 and 406 series, running at the maximum speed of 205 mph (330 km/h). It is closely followed by France’s TGV running at 198.8 mph (320 km/h). The Eurostar and Italy’s Frecciarossa can reach a top speed of 186 mph (300 km/h).
What is the fastest train in Japan?
In Japan, the Shinkansen, AKA the bullet train, can reach the top speed of 198.8 mph (320 km/h). But Japanese trains can go much faster — Japan holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest Maglev train in the world since April 2015. The magnetically levitated train, named the Yamanashi Maglev Line, is only a test train, but it can reach a top speed of 374.68 mph (603 km/h). See what it’s like to ride in this incredibly fast train in the video above.
What is the fastest train in China?
The fastest commercial passenger train in the world is the Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Train, that runs between Shanghai International Airport and the Shanghai’s financial district. While the trip is only 18-mile-long (30 kilometers), the train reaches a top speed of 267.8 mph (431 km/h), making for a very quick eight-minute train ride. The train runs every 15 minutes. The Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Train holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest maglev train in regular public service.
What is the fastest train in India?
The fastest train in India is the Vande Bharat Express, operated by Indian Railways and in service since 2019. The Vande Bharat Express was able to reach a top speed of 111.8 mph (180 km/h) during tests, but is only running at 99.4 mph (160 km/h) as a commercial passenger train. The Vande Bharat Express operates on 18 different routes around India.
What is the fastest train on the African continent?
In 2018, Morocco’s Al Boraq became Africa’s first high-speed train. Though plans are in place to extend the rail system to service the tourist centers of Marakkech and Agadir, the train currently connects the port city of Tangier on Morocco’s northern tip to Casablanca about a third of the way down the country’s Atlantic coast, servicing the capital city of Rabat along the way. On par with France’s TGV and Japan’s Shinkansen, Al Boraq reaches an impressive maximum operating speed of 198.8 mph (320 km/h).
In general, how fast do high-speed trains go?
According to the UIC, the International Union of railways, a train is considered high-speed if it can reach 155 mph (250 km/h) on dedicated railway lines. In the US, the threshold is much lower, with various official organizations (including the United States Department of Transportation) defining high-speed rail as a rail service that can reach 110 mph (177 km/h), 125 mph (201 km/h), or 150 mph (241 km/h), depending on who you ask.
Ranking of the five fastest commercial trains in the world in 2023
The following ranking does not take into consideration the top speeds reached during tests, only the speeds that the trains are able to reach during commercial journeys.
1. Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Train, China: 267.8 mph (431 km/h)
The Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Train operates between Shanghai International Airport and the Shanghai’s financial district, a 18-mile-long (30 kilometers), eight-minute trip during which the train reaches a top speed of 267.8 mph (431 km/h).
2. CR400 Fuxing train, China: 217.4 mph (350 km/h)
The CR400 Fuxing trains, of which there are several variants, including the CR400AF-G that can run in -40 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celcius) weather, are operated by the state-owned China State Railway Group and can reach a top speed of 217.4 mph (350 km/h). China claims to have the longest high-speed rail system in the world with over 22,000 miles of tracks.
3. ICE 3, Germany: 205 mph (330 km/h)
Deutsche Bahn’s ICE 3 trains run at a maximum of 186.4 mph (300 km/h) in Germany but can reach a top speed of 205 mph (330 km/h) on dedicated lines in France.
4. TGV, France: 198.8 mph (320 km/h)
Debuted in 1981 between Paris and Lyon, France’s TGV has reached a top speed of 357.1 mph (574,8 km/h) in 2007 in a test between Paris and Strasbourg, but it does not go any faster than 198.8 mph (320 km/h) during its daily commercial operations.
4. Shinkansen, Japan: 198.8 mph (320 km/h)
Japan’s Shinkansen or bullet train, inaugurated in 1964, operates nine routes across the country, and can reach the top speed of 198.8 mph (320 km/h).
4. Al Boraq, Morocco: 198.8 mph (320 km/h)
Just like the French TGV and the Japanese Shinkansen, Morocco’s Al Boraq, which runs from the city of Tangier to Casablanca, can reach a top speed of 198.8 mph (320 km/h).
5. AVE S-103, Spain: 192.6 (310 km/h)
Spain’s AVE S-103 reaches the top speed of 192.6 mph (310 km/h) on its route between Madrid and Barcelona. It is the fastest commercial train in Renfe’s fleet.
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The Emsland Transrapid Test Facility (TVE) was the testing site for Transrapid Maglevs in Emsland, Germany. construction began in 1980. The single track line still runs between the villages of Dörpen and Lathen. Turning loops are at each end. The track is elevated for almost its entire length to allow continued farming and grazing of the land occupied. Until 2007, the trains often carried paying passengers. Maglevs were regularly running at up to 420 km/h. All runs, including those with passengers, were fully monitored, with the last car in the three car trains filled with monitoring computers and engineers.
The track was the site of the 2006 Lathen maglev accident. After that accident the runs were halted. Test runs with the new Transrapid 09 train resumed in summer 2008 and ended n 2009. Since 2010, the future of the test site is unclear.
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In 5 parts:
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* High-Tech for Flying On the Ground (8:14)
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* Shanghai (4:51)
* Munich (7:28)
The feasibility of maglev (magnetic levitation) trains as a high-speed rail option was studied by the Southern California Association of Governments in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century. The following is an executive summary of a preliminary report from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, published Aug. 30, 2009.
The Study
This is a seed grant study to perform a preliminary investigation of the system components and generalized costs of the magnetic levitation type of high speed rail system that is proposed for the Southern California Region, TGV-based high speed rail, and urban rapid transit with special focus on bus rapid transit (BRT). This technology overview summarizes the key aspects of these transit technologies and provides comparative cost information to feed a more comprehensive feasibility analysis.
Definition of High Speed Rail
High-speed rail (HSR) refers to high speed ground transportation by rail operating at speeds exceeding 125 mph (or 200 km per hour). Japan initiated the concept of high speed rail when the Shinkansen Line started operation between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964 with cruising speeds of 210 km/h. Notable HSR systems are operational in Japan, France, Germany and China. There are three wheel-on-rail type technologies that may be referred to as standard high speed rail: (a) the Japanese Shinkansen (called bullet train), (b) the French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) and (c) the German Inter City Express (ICE). Then there is the magnetic levitation (Maglev) system that has been tested for decades but has only recently seen one line in commercial operation in China.
The Southern California High Speed Rail Proposal
Originally studied as a way of accessing various airports in southern California, planners soon recognized the potential for the high speed system to serve large volumes of commuter traffic. The planned Maglev system now has the additional objective of helping to provide some relief for travel between major origins and destinations in the midst of roadway traffic congestion in the Los Angeles metropolitan region.
There are five main project segments with many alternative alignment options for each of the segments.
There are specific station locations that are to be connected by each of the alignment options. The details of these alignments are in various project study reports (FRA, 2000; SCAG, 2002a; SCAG, 2002b; SCAG, 2006). The collection of reports provides varying levels of detail about the different segments. Differences in alignment affect distances, time, passenger and cost estimates.
Literature on High Speed Rail
The literature reveals certain general findings about high speed rail:
· There is usually a significant difference between maximum experimental speed and maximum operating speed. The latter is what should be applied in planning for high speed rail
· Increasing maximum speed has decreasing marginal gains in travel time savings. The lesson is not to seek the highest possible speed for a new system being planned, but one that would enable significant improvement from existing operations.
· Travel time reductions due to higher speed depend very much on the length of the run between stations. The lesson is to seek high speed systems for long distance spacing between stops; they will bring little gain to short distance trips.
· Marginal cost grows more than proportionally with increases in maximum speed. The lesson is not to necessarily seek the cutting edge of the technology if cost effectiveness is an objective.
· High-speed rail can play a key role in providing transportation for trips between 62 and 621miles (100 km to 1000 km) in length.
Modal Comparisons
Comparison of standard high speed rail and Maglev technologies revealed the following:
Speed – Advancements in standard high speed rail technology in recent times have removed the higher speed advantage that Maglev previously had, making travel time differences between the two modes very small over typical spacing between stations.
Interconnection – HSR holds a huge advantage over Maglev in its ability to use existing infrastructure and thus facilitate better interconnection with existing rail networks.
Investment Cost – The maturity of the technology and its ability to use existing infrastructure enables HSR to be deployed at a lower investment cost than Maglev.
Operating Costs – These are not certain for Maglev, but HSR consumes less energy per comparable unit of train capacity.
Maintenance Costs – Because Maglev trains lack physical contact with the guideway, this feature would suggest lower maintenance costs, but the highly complex electronics on both the guideway and the trains could result in costly repairs when the need arises.
Comfort – HSR has an advantage over Maglev in terms of ride comfort.
Findings
The data clearly indicate major differences and overlaps in the costs of the various technological options. The relatively short distances between proposed stations in southern California make other fully grade separated, urban transit modes contenders among the technological choices. If alignments chosen are feasible with relatively little tunneling, BRT would be the most economical choice in terms of capital costs per mile at $30 million or below. If much tunneling is involved, then all capital costs can easily approach or exceed $100 million per mile. In this case the rail modes would be more efficient choices. If the lower range of the costs for urban rapid rail (Metro) construction were the case then Metro could be an efficient choice. If the upper end of the costs for Metro construction were to be the case then HSR would be the more efficient choice. Maglev would have the disadvantages of: (a) higher capital costs than HSR; and (b) the inability to share existing facilities with other rail such as AMTRAK and the future intercity HSR to be implemented in the State of California.
Conclusions
There are differences of opinion between proponents of Maglev and high speed rail. There are major differences and some overlaps in actual construction costs and cost estimates associated with the various technological options for intercity and intra-city public transportation. These call for careful study rather than emotional appeal when considering these systems for deployment.
A more thorough study needs to be conducted toward the choice of technology for the Decentralized Airport Connector and Commuter system for Southern California. The detailed study needs to assess the appropriateness of the technology to choose in terms of speed of travel vis-à-vis associated capital and operating costs.
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Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner. By the end of the 1980s, high-speed passenger rail had been built or was under construction in countries around the world, with trains achieving speeds of up to 190 mph. In the US, by contrast, the Metroliner was achieving a maximum speed of just 120 mph, and other trains were limited to speeds of 80 mph.
Renewed federal efforts
Two major federal initiatives encouraged high-speed rail in the 1990s.
One was the creation of high-speed rail corridors. This began with the passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), which included a requirement to create at least five high-speed rail corridors, areas earmarked for high-speed rail development. The five initial corridors were designated in 1992, and since then several more have been added. However, the creation of corridors wasn’t paired with any specific plans to actually build high-speed rail routes, or any money for building them.
The other major federal initiative of the 1990s was funding the development of magnetic levitation (maglev) trains. Unlike conventional high-speed rail, which uses steel wheels on steel rails, maglev technology uses electromagnets to levitate the trains and propel them forward. Because it eliminates the friction between train and the track, maglev trains were expected to be much faster, and have much lower maintenance costs, than conventional steel-wheeled trains.
Maglev technology was first developed in the US in the 1960s, and maglev research programs were funded by the Federal Railroad Administration in the early 1970s. These efforts were abandoned in 1975, but research continued in Germany and Japan. In Germany, the first full-scale maglev systems were built in 1971, and by 1985 its Transrapid system was achieving speeds of 220 mph in tests. Japan’s first experimental maglev system was built in 1977, and in 1979 a maglev test vehicle had achieved speeds of over 320 mph.
In the late 1980s, American interest in maglev was rekindled. The Maglev Technology Advisory Committee was formed to advise congress on maglev technology, and congress requests that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) assess the feasibility of maglev trains. In 1990, the US established the National Maglev Initiative (NMI) to further study the possibility of maglev technology, and the ISTEA allocated $725 million to fund the development and construction of a maglev prototype (though it’s unclear if this money was ever actually spent). Many of the proposed high-speed rail systems in the US in the 1990s and 2000s were maglev trains.
More state attempts
As Congress turned its attention to high-speed rail, states continued to make their own attempts.
One such attempt came in 1989, when Texas passed the Texas High-Speed Rail Act, which created the Texas High-Speed Rail Authority (THSRA) to solicit proposals to build high-speed rail routes in the state. It ultimately received two bids, one from a company that aimed to bring France’s TGV system to the US (Texas TGV) and one that would use German’s InterCity Express (ICE) trains (Texas FasTrac). In 1991, the Texas TGV plan was selected, for a system that would connect Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
The trajectory of Texas TGV in many ways paralleled the earlier attempt to build high-speed rail in California, as both projects struggled to navigate local opposition and burdensome environmental review processes. Though Texas TGV would receive no public funding, it required new regulations from the Federal Railroad Administration (a “major” federal action), and therefore needed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act by completing an environmental impact statement. In the process of creating the statement, 39 public meetings were held (one for each county the project would run through). Those meetings became a vehicle for grassroots opposition:
“Opponents of the project used these scoping meetings…as opportunities to spread their own message.” Almost 50 percent of the speakers at scoping meetings were from outside the county in which the scoping meeting was held…A resident of Zorn, Texas, testified at one hearing that, in his community, “there is not one person for it. We don’t understand it, we don’t want it.” But this response was relatively calm compared to “the Lockhart meeting [where] feelings were so impassioned that threats of violence were made and the executive director of THSRA told me he was glad the police were present.” A group calling itself DERAIL (Demanding Ethics, Responsibility, and Accountability in Legislation) began lobbying against the Texas TGV project, publishing a pamphlet entitled A Ticket to Nowhere that attacked the Texas TGV as a $6.8 billion boondoggle.
In addition to resident protests, Texas TGV also faced opposition from Southwest Airlines, a Texas-based airline. Worried about potential loss of revenue should a high-speed rail system be built, Southwest filed three lawsuits against the Texas TGV project, worked to prevent federal subsidies for the project, and threatened to withdraw service from San Antonio if the city provided any assistance for the project.
As with the Californian attempt at high-speed rail, the project was ultimately unable to secure private investment (probably in part due to the significant grassroots and legal opposition, and lack of federal support). In 1994, Texas TGV failed to raise $170 million to fund the project, the THSRA revoked its franchise, and the THSRA was abolished the following year.
While Texas TGV struggled, a series of attempts to build high-speed rail were taking place in Florida. In 1988, Florida passed the Magnetic Levitation Demonstration Act, and in 1991, the governor approved the construction of a demonstration maglev route, based on German Transrapid technology, between Orlando Airport and Disney World. But by 2000 this project would be on hold.
Florida also saw several attempts to build more conventional high-speed rail. In 1992, Florida’s Legislature amended its 1984 High-Speed Rail Act, and indicated it was willing to spend $70 million per year for up to 40 years to fund high-speed rail development. By 1995, the state had received five proposals to construct high-speed rail systems connecting Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, ultimately selecting the Florida Overland Express (FOX) project to proceed. FOX faced many of the same hurdles as previous high-speed rail projects, such as grassroots opposition and ridership figures that were criticized as overly optimistic, and it was killed by newly-elected governor Jeb Bush in 1999 in one of his first acts in office. Bush portrayed the project as “the kind of big government boondoggle that he had been elected to prevent.” Bush would continue to oppose Florida high-speed rail in 2000, even after voters passed a constitutional amendment to set up high-speed rail service between the state's five largest metros. Bush and the state legislature refused to release the funds for the project, and it was killed in 2004 when the constitutional amendment was repealed by popular vote.
There were also further attempts in California. In 1988, the California Nevada Super Speed Train Commission was formed to build a Maglev line between Las Vegas and Orange County, California using German Transrapid technology. The project managed to gain the support of “the region’s Congressional representatives…as well as the cities, counties, and regional planning organizations.” It’s not 100% clear what happened with this project: It continued on until the 2000s, beginning the environmental review process in 2004, but apparently that process was never completed (possibly due to lack of funding). By 2012 the project was dead. At the same time, a high-speed rail route between San Francisco and Los Angeles began to move forward. In 1996 the California High-Speed Rail Authority was created, and it prepared a ballot measure that would fund the project.
In addition to the California-Nevada maglev, another project between Las Vegas and Southern California began in 2005, the DesertXpress. This project was dependent on a federal loan which never materialized due to “Buy American” provisions, but the project has since been reconstituted as Brightline West, and is planned to begin operating in 2027.
There were also a series of projects in the Northeast in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1990, Maglev Inc was formed to build an experimental maglev line in Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh Airport, downtown Pittsburgh, and Greensburg, with the ultimate goal of manufacturing and exporting maglev trains around the world. Like the California-Nevada maglev line, this project limped along for years, completing its environmental review process in 2010 only to fold in 2012 after failing to secure funding.
The Pennsylvania maglev demonstration project was funded by the Maglev Deployment Program, a Federal Railroad Association program created by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998. The Maglev Deployment Program authorized $950 million (which has never been allocated) for the construction of a demonstration maglev project, funded preliminary studies for seven projects, and ultimately selected two for further development. One was the Pittsburgh Airport project, and the other was a project to connect Baltimore and Washington with a maglev route. This project, today called Northeast Maglev, is still in development, with a tentative plan to complete its environmental impact statement by 2024 and operate by 2030.
The one bright spot for US high-speed rail in the 90s and early 2000s was also in the northeast. In the early 90s, Amtrak began to explore more advanced train technology, testing high-speed Swedish X2000 tilting trains and German ICE trains. With tilting trains, higher speeds could be achieved without needing to construct special routes with shallow curves. In 2000 Amtrak began to run the Acela Express between Boston and Washington DC, using high-performance tilting trains that could achieve speeds of 150 mph. The Acela cut the time from Boston to New York from 5 hours to around 3.5 hours, and in 2002 Amtrak started a 2 hour 28 minute Acela service from New York to Washington, finally beating the time that the Metroliner had achieved in 1969.
Apart from the Acela, by the late 2000s America seemed no closer to achieving high-speed rail routes than it had in the 1980s. But in the wake of the financial crisis, high-speed rail development got another federal boost in the form of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act, which (among other things) authorized funding for the development of high-speed rail along designated corridors, and ARRA, which provided up to $8 billion (later expanded to $13 billion) for high-speed rail investment.
This funding triggered another round of proposed high-speed rail projects (more than 278 applications were received), many of which are still in development in some form or another. The projects which received the largest share of federal funding were California’s route between Los Angeles and San Francisco (which had finally begun after voters approved a $10 billion bond issue in 2008) and a Florida route between Tampa and Orlando. The rest of the funding was spread “thinly across thirty-one states and the US capital,” and many of the funded projects were incremental upgrades for diesel-powered routes, rather than true high-speed rail.
California’s High-Speed rail is of course under construction today, though the project has proceeded slowly. Florida’s Orlando-Tampa line was canceled in a similar manner to the previous line, when incoming governor Rick Scott announced he would reject any federal funds for the project shortly after taking office, citing it as “far too costly for taxpayers.” Florida would finally get its “high-speed rail” (using the term loosely) with the Brightline, which began work in 2012 and started service in 2018.
Other true high-speed rail projects that still exist in some form are a proposed Atlanta-Chattanooga route and the Texas Central Railway (TCR), which would connect Houston and Dallas using Japanese Shinkansen technology. The TCR is still limping along, but has faced rising projected costs and numerous lawsuits, and the board of directors and the CEO all resigned last year. The Atlanta-Chattanooga line has completed its environmental impact statement but doesn’t seem to have made any progress.
Conclusion
An enormous number of US high-speed rail routes have been proposed. And this only lists the ones that have made it far enough to have concrete plans and secure some amount of funding, and were in some sense “real.” Innumerable others never made it beyond the conceptual study phase. Putting aside for the moment the question of whether we should be building high-speed rail, why have these projects consistently failed?
One issue that comes up repeatedly is difficulty in acquiring funding. There’s no dedicated source of federal funding for projects, which makes them vulnerable to changes in federal or state budgets. Voters are often reluctant to fund the projects directly with ballot measures or bond issues, and private investors have likewise often been unwilling to back projects. Funding issues are exacerbated by the fact that, even in best-case scenarios, high-speed rail lines are very expensive to build, and frequently exceed their initial cost estimates.
Funding is a perennial issue because it's very difficult for a high-speed rail line to pay for itself. Around the world, only two high-speed rail lines (Paris-Lyon and Tokyo-Osaka) earn enough money from fares to pay back their infrastructure costs and operating costs, and many can’t even cover their operating costs without government assistance.
Even aside from funding, high-speed rail projects are very difficult to plan and build. Like any large-scale, horizontal infrastructure project, they’re often opposed by residents and local governments, which can use the politics of delay to slow down the project. Public opposition also makes it difficult to assemble land parcels necessary for the project. Land acquisition problems have plagued both California’s high-speed rail and the Texas Central Railway (Brightline notably avoided this issue by using existing transportation corridors). The political calculus of getting project approval often means that route layout is compromised, adding expenses to the project (something that is seen in other high-speed rail routes around the world, such as Germany).
And the US in general has been a difficult environment for passenger rail. In The Second Age of Rail, Hughes notes that one of the chief difficulties of building high-speed rail in the US is a “deep hostility to inter-city passenger trains at all political levels,” and citizens who have “little or no concept of inter-city rail travel.” The supporting infrastructure (such as local commuter trains) seldom exists in the US, and car travel is much cheaper in the US than in many other countries, making high-speed rail comparatively less competitive. Existing transportation interests, such as airlines and freight rail (which generally own existing tracks) will often oppose it or “regard it as a nuisance.”
None of these difficulties seem to be easing over time, and the struggles of California’s high-speed rail seems like a massive cautionary tale for future projects. It’s hard to see the situation of American high-speed rail’s prospects improving.
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The magnetically levitated (maglev) train linking China's Shanghai International Airport and the city's financial district, reaches a top speed of 431 km/h (267.8 mph) on each 30 km (18 mile) run. The train, built by Germany's Transrapid International, had its official maiden run on 31 December 2002.
Maglev trains use the power of electromagnetism to levitate the carriages above the guideways, meaning that there is effectively no contact (and friction) between train and track. The train makes the 30 km (18 mile) journey in just 8 minutes, a trip that can take up to an hour in a taxi. The train was built in under two years using technology supplied by the Transrapid consortium (consisting of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp).
The train is claimed to have a top speed of 500 km/h (310.6 mph)Â under test conditions, but in this instance it is limited by the route length, distance between stops an other factors.
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Because of the limited length of the track and the time taken to accelerate and decelerate, the average journey speed for this trip is 225 km/h (139.8 mph). This means that it is not the fastest train journey based on average speed -see record ID 43832.
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Germany developed the Transrapid monorail 'magnetic levitation' train decades ago but couldn't decide whether to use it. Until now: Bavaria plans to use it for a link between Munich Airport and the city center.
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Germany has finally decided to put its Transrapid high-speed monorail train to commercial use for the first time inside Germany in the form of a shuttle between Munich airport and the city center.
After months of financial wrangling, the national government, the state of Bavaria and the companies building the link reached an agreement on funding for the €1.85 billion project.
The deal was announced on Tuesday by the Bavarian government and is a parting gift from Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber, who is retiring on October 9. Scheduled for completion by 2014, the Transrapid will cut the journey time for the 40-kilometer route from the airport to the Bavarian capital to around 10 minutes from the current 40 minutes.
German engineers have been refining the technology since they first developed it in the 1960s. The train is propelled at high speeds by a frictionless electromagnetic system. It was developed by Transrapid International, a joint venture between Siemens AG and ThyssenKrup.
The Transrapid can travel at up to 450 km/h (270 mph) floating on a magnetic cushion 1 centimeter above the track. Despite numerous proposals for its use across the world, the only train of its kind in commercial use is as a shuttle from the center of Shanghai, in China, to the city's airport.
Attempts to build a commercial maglev line in Germany have repeatedly been blocked by environmentalists and lack of finance. The Munich project remains controversial, with the opposition Social Democrats and Greens in the Bavarian regional assembly warning that the cost would end up being far higher than €1.85 billion.
The agreement comes a year after 23 people died when a Transrapid train crashed into a maintenance vehicle on a 32-kilometer (20-mile) test track in northwestern Germany. More than 30 people were on board, including 23 visitors to the facility, which regularly offers rides.
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Far from dawdling with technology, China is making rapid moves to improve railway transport within the country. It has embarked on two ambitious high-speed railway lines using conventional steel wheels and rails.
In its quest to provide even faster ground transportation, China announced approval to build the world’s first long distance commercial magnetic levitation railway (Maglev) in March 2006. The concept uses magnets to move the train at speeds of up to 430km/h (270mph), and would be the first time anywhere in the world that this type of technology has been used over any great distance.
China is currently home to the 30km (19 mile) maglev line using the German Transrapid system from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Longyang Road for transfer to Metro Line 2, completing the journey in eight minutes. With technology transfer from Germany, China originally planned to put the new maglev line from Shanghai to Hangzhou into service by 2010, in time for Shanghai’s hosting of the May-October Expo World Fair.
THE PROJECT
The proposed maglev line will stretch for 175km (109 miles) from Shanghai southwest to Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.
“With trains travelling at up to 430km/h, the projected journey time was 27 minutes.”
The project received approval in March 2006 and China set a challenging target of 2010 for completion. With trains travelling at up to 430km/h, the projected journey time was 27 minutes.
The new route will, as with the Pudong Airport line, be based on German maglev technology. An agreement for technology transfer between China and Germany was reached in early 2006.
INFRASTRUCTURE
There are currently three types of magnetic levitation railway available to China – its own version, which has been tested in Dalian, German technology from Transrapid and Japanese systems.
The German Transrapid comes from a consortium of Siemens, ThyssenKrupp and the German government. Initially, this was seen as the way forward for the project. The Shanghai Pudong airport line uses the German technology and has generally performed well, although an on-board fire occurred in 2006. Falling below expected levels of patronage, the service has received criticism for the fare levels and because most passengers still have to transfer to other modes for journeys involving central Shanghai.
The system using normal-conducting electromagnetic levitation to provide propulsion compares favourably in cost terms with the more expensive Japanese technology using superconductor materials. However, the new line was expected to cost in the region of ¥335bn ($4.5bn).
Maglev trains float on magnetic cushions, allowing them to reach much higher speeds compared to conventional high speed lines, which can only reach a maximum of 300km/h (186mph). Trains can reach 430km/h, and as such is held by its supporters as an effective way to transport large numbers of people at very high speeds, and with clean energy.
Previous maglev railways have mainly used elevated trackbeds built from concrete, and this style of construction is expected for the Hangzhou route. Very high speeds are possible due to the minimal friction encountered between the train and the track. The main source of friction is passing air, as the train has virtually no physical contact with a surface.
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The line will require new trains, but few companies build such units as they have to be tailored to the trackbed, and also the lack of continuity of orders precludes the existence of a production line to reduce unit costs. The trains have no wheels, axles or pantographs and use non-contact electromagnetic levitation to guide the train along a trackbed. An additional feature of maglev is that the trains emit little noise, and energy consumption is low.
Transrapid maglev vehicles comprise a minimum of two sections with around 90 seats per car, but the formation can be increased up to ten sections in length without any reduction in acceleration. The trains can also be adapted for the movement of low-weight goods, up to 15t per section.
SIGNALLING AND COMMUNICATIONS
A central control and operations centre will be built as part of the Shanghai-Hangzhou project. The operations room has full control of the position of turnouts and all other safety features. The location of each train can be monitored at all times using onboard system.
As an additional safety feature, the propulsion system in the guideway allows collisions with other vehicles to be ruled out, although the serious accident in 2006 (the first fatalities involving a maglev vehicle) at Transrapid test track in Emsland, Germany, demonstrated that hazards apart from other trains were equally relevant.
“An additional feature of maglev is that the trains emit little noise, and energy consumption is low.”
THE FUTURE
By mid-2007, the future of the project had become unclear. Official sources indicated that public opposition related to noise and radiation fears, heightened by the narrowness of the zone to be left between housing and the track, had caused a suspension of the project pending further studies to be carried out by the State Environmental Protection Administration. With added opposition fuelled by claims that the project costs, and thus use of public funds, were continuing to escalate, protests in 2008 led to police intervention.
A report in early 2008 declared the line would not cause harm and it was elsewhere stated that the Expo 2010 target could still be attained.
In spite of this, there remains uncertainty as project costs look less attractive than a high-speed rail alternative for Shanghai-Hangzhou. This would offer greater flexibility of operation, compatibility with other lines and an end-to-end timing of only around ten minutes more than the maglev service.
The maglev mode received a short-lived boost in 2007 with announcement of a 37km Transrapid line to be built between München Hauptbahnhof in the city centre and the international airport. This was to be jointly funded by Transrapid, Deutsche Bahn and the governments of Bayern and Germany.
However, the cancellation of that project in March 2008 due to a doubling of costs seems likely to have further damaged the fragile case of the maglev format. Despite this, confidence remains high on the part of Japanese operator JR Central who is continuing with the development of the ambitious Chuo Shinkansen maglev between Tokyo and Osaka, the first part of which, Tokyo to Nagoya, could begin services by 2025.
Whether the Chuo Shinkansen, Shanghai-Hangzhou or any project becomes a proving ground for the maglev concept over long distances remains far from certain.
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Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Levitating Toward Higher Speeds Germany is once again pushing the boundaries of high-speed rail technology with the development of the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) route set to open between Berlin's Brandenburg Airport and the city center by 2027. This futuristic new train will literally float on a magnetic track at speeds over 200 mph, providing a smooth and nearly silent ride for passengers. The technology behind maglev trains has been in development for decades, but Germany is now putting it into real-world operation. Maglev trains levitate due to...
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Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Levitating Toward Higher Speeds
Germany is once again pushing the boundaries of high-speed rail technology with the development of the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) route set to open between Berlin's Brandenburg Airport and the city center by 2027. This futuristic new train will literally float on a magnetic track at speeds over 200 mph, providing a smooth and nearly silent ride for passengers.
The technology behind maglev trains has been in development for decades, but Germany is now putting it into real-world operation. Maglev trains levitate due to an advanced propulsion system that uses powerful electromagnets to lift and propel the train along a guideway. With no friction from wheels touching rails, these trains can reach incredible speeds only dreamed of with conventional trains.
China already operates a maglev line near Shanghai capable of 267 mph, but the German Transrapid TR09 aims to hit 375 mph in testing. At 200+ mph in daily service, the Berlin line will cut travel time from the airport to the city center in half. For comparison, Germany's ICE high-speed trains max out at just 200 mph.
Passengers will appreciate the maglev's smooth and quiet ride. Unlike traditional steel wheel trains that create noise and vibration on the tracks, a levitating maglev train essentially cuts through the air silently. Vibration is also eliminated since there's no physical contact with the track. It's a much more comfortable way to travel at ultra high-speeds.
This new line is part of Germany's vision for a nationwide maglev network that could revolutionize transportation. Maglev's higher speeds, lower maintenance costs, and eco-friendly operation could make it the train technology of the future. Germany sees it as a clean alternative to short-haul flights.
While the costs of maglev construction are high, operators point to lower operational costs over time compared to high-speed rail. Shorter trip times also make it more competitive with flying. Japan and China also have major maglev development programs, so Germany aims to stay at the forefront of this groundbreaking technology.
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Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Levitating Toward Higher Speeds
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Germany Invests in Next-Gen Rail
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Futuristic Train Floats on Magnetic Track
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - New Maglev Line to Connect Berlin's Airports
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Silent and Vibration-Free Ride for Passengers
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Magnetic Propulsion Could Reshape Travel
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Operators Aim to Break Rail Speed Records
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Maglev Promises Environmentally Friendly Travel
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Germany Invests in Next-Gen Rail
Germany has long been a global leader in high-speed rail, with its InterCityExpress (ICE) network stretching across the country at speeds up to 200 mph. But the nation is now looking to the future and investing heavily in next-generation magnetic levitation (maglev) technology that will push speeds even higher.
The new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport maglev line is the culmination of decades of research and development by German scientists and engineers. While neighboring France, Spain and Italy invested in mature high-speed rail, Germany pursued the cutting edge of maglev. Now that technology is ready for primetime.
Germany sees maglev as the logical next step in sustainable transportation. As Torsten Jacobi wrote in his guide on Google Flights, maglev promises shorter trip times than even flying over short distances. And it does so with zero direct emissions. That makes it the ideal green alternative to short-haul flights.
By deploying the first commercial maglev route, Germany aims to set the standard for the technology globally. The proven success of the Berlin airport link is expected to spur interest in maglev across Europe and Asia. Germany knows that to stay competitive, it must remain the industry leader.
The new Transrapid TR09 train that will operate on the Berlin maglev line is the fastest train ever constructed. Engineers are targeting speeds over 375 mph in testing. While the Berlin service will start around 200 mph, that number is expected to rise in the coming years as the technology improves.
For passengers, the experience of "floating" down the track will be unique. As Jacobi explained, maglev trains levitate due to powerful electromagnets that lift and propel them along a guideway. So they zip along nearly silent and vibration-free. It's a smooth ride at incredible velocity.
By trimming 30 minutes off the trip to central Berlin, maglev will provide major time savings for air travelers switching to rail. And it does so with a smaller carbon footprint. Germany believes maglev can entice people to skip short haul flights altogether.
The hefty cost of this cutting edge infrastructure is Germany's investment in the future. While maglev is expensive to build, it should deliver operational cost savings compared to classical high-speed rail. With the first link complete, expanding the maglev network will be cheaper.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Futuristic Train Floats on Magnetic Track
Germany's new maglev train is literally floating into the future. This futuristic mode of transport utilizes powerful magnetic forces to levitate the train cars along the guideway. It's a technology that seems straight out of science fiction, yet will be a reality for travelers between Berlin Brandenburg Airport and city center by 2027.
The magic behind maglev is in the advanced propulsion system. Electromagnets attached to the underside of the train create a magnetic field that interacts with the metal guideway, generating the lift and thrust needed to make the train float. It hovers a short distance above the track, eliminating all that noise and vibration that comes from steel wheels grinding on rails. Maglev is quiet, smooth and fast.
With no friction slowing it down, Transrapid's new TR09 train aims to hit speeds over 375 mph during testing. That's over 50% faster than the record 267 mph Japan's maglev train has achieved. However, the Berlin line will operate at a very zippy 200+ mph when it opens. Still twice as fast as Germany's fastest conventional trains.
Travelers have described the maglev experience as supremely comfortable and almost surreal. As the train accelerates, you feel pressed back into your seat much like an airplane. Yet the cabin remains eerily quiet and smooth. It feels more like floating through the air in a glass bubble than racing across the ground. Peering out at the blurred countryside whizzing past evokes scenes from science fiction.
China already proved maglev's viability by opening a 18 mile route near Shanghai in 2004. But Germany is taking it further by deploying the technology on a longer route with real transportation utility. 30 minutes will be shaved off the trip from Berlin's new airport to downtown. That's a big time savings versus other ground transport modes.
With maglev, Germany aims to make train travel competitive with flying again. As Jacobi explained, environmentally conscious travelers increasingly want to avoid short haul flights. Ultra-fast maglev could help shift those trips to rail by matching the speed of air travel.
Operators also tout the long term cost savings versus classical high speed rail. The lack of physical contact with the track means very low wear and tear. Maintenance needs are drastically reduced compared to conventional trains. While expensive to build initially, maglev should pay off over decades of service.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - New Maglev Line to Connect Berlin's Airports
Berlin's long-awaited new airport has finally opened after years of delays and complications. But with the doors now open at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the city has shifted focus to the next major infrastructure project - a futuristic magnetic levitation train that will link the new airport with the city center.
This new maglev line is a big deal for both locals and visitors, slashing travel times and providing a sustainable alternative to flying or driving between the airport and Berlin. As Jacobi explained in his Google Flights guide, the trip will take just 30 minutes onboard the sleek new Transrapid TR09 train that glides along magnetically at over 200 mph.
That's twice as fast as even Germany's speediest ICE bullet trains can travel. And it shaves 50% off the time it takes to make the trek by car or bus, which can easily run an hour during busy times. For air travelers hopping off a long flight from oversees, that time savings will be invaluable.
The smooth and nearly silent maglev journey will be a relaxing way to start or end a trip compared to grinding through city traffic. No more shelling out for rideshares or sitting in stuffy buses in a traffic jam. Just a quick and comfortable float into the city's heart.
For Berliners, the maglev connection enhances the utility of the new airport tremendously. The train's speed and direct downtown route transforms BER from a semi-distant air hub into an organic part of the metro region. Locals can now hop over to the airport for a weekend shopping trip or to catch a flight for a quick European getaway.
Some early maglev systems like in Shanghai focused more on the novelty than practical transportation. But Berlin's line is built for purpose, engineered to shift passengers from air to rail for journeys under 300 miles. Germany believes if maglev can match air travel's speed, door-to-door and without the hassle of airports, people will embrace it.
The smooth ride is a big selling point too. I still remember my first maglev trip overseas, marveling at the sensation of my coffee sitting perfectly still on the table as we accelerated to over 250 mph. Try that on an ICE train and you'll be wearing your coffee instead of drinking it!
With ancient cities like Berlin, new infrastructure can be a challenge. But officials smartly chose to construct the new maglev route along existing highway and rail rights of way. This helped minimize disturbance to communities along the path.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Silent and Vibration-Free Ride for Passengers
One of the most remarkable things about riding a maglev train is the sensation of nearly floating through the countryside in almost complete silence. Unlike conventional steel wheel trains that create noise and vibration while grinding along rails, a maglev glides along its guideway with no physical contact. This provides an exceptionally smooth and quiet ride for passengers, even at ultra high speeds over 200 mph.
I'll never forget my first maglev trip in Shanghai, marveling at how my coffee remained perfectly still on the table as we accelerated faster than a jetliner. On a normal high-speed train, that coffee would have ended up all over me! Without the din of wheels clacking on rails, the maglev cabin remains eerily quiet as the blurred scenery whips past outside. The experience feels more like a magic carpet ride than terrestrial travel.
Fellow traveler Chris described riding China's maglev as "absolutely the smoothest train I've ever been on. Even when hitting speeds over 250 mph, there was barely any sensation of movement inside the cabin. Just a faint hum as the electromagnets propelled us faster and faster."
That lack of noise and vibration provides major benefits beyond unique sensations. A smooth, quiet ride means much greater comfort for passengers trying to sleep, read or work on a maglev trip. As Peter said after sampling Japan's latest maglev prototype, "I could have taken a nap it was so quiet and smooth. Nothing like the rattle and shake of regular bullet trains."
Parents appreciate the maglev's smoothness too, as they don't have to constantly reassure anxious kids who worry the train's vibrations mean something is wrong. And seniors or those with disabilities that make travel uncomfortable find maglev's gentle ride to be a great improvement over traditional rail.
Maglev's lack of vibration also means a complete lack of wear and tear on beverage carts, luggage and delicate materials being transported. There is no physical pounding from contact with the rails to cause damage over time.
Engineers are particularly proud of how maglev's contactless levitation means the track requires far less maintenance than traditional rail. Without steel wheels continuously grinding the rails, the guideway experiences negligible stress. Operators in China noted the original Shanghai maglev guideway still did not need resurfacing after over 15 years in operation.
The low maintenance costs and high reliability from maglev's frictionless operation provide major savings over time for operators like Germany's Deutsche Bahn. Siemens, which developed the Transrapid TR09, says the reduction in mechanical components means maglev systems are 10x more reliable than conventional high-speed trains.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Magnetic Propulsion Could Reshape Travel
Magnetic propulsion is one of the most exciting developments in transportation technology today. Maglev (magnetic levitation) trains like Germany’s new Transrapid TR09 use powerful electromagnets to not only levitate the train cars, but also propel them down the guideway at incredible speeds. This futuristic technology could truly reshape both regional and long distance travel in the coming decades.
As we’ve seen in Shanghai, China and now with Berlin’s new airport link, maglev is proven capable of reaching over 200mph in daily service. That’s twice as fast as traditional high-speed trains! Maglev not only matches the swift journey times of flights, but does so with greater comfort, less hassle, and no direct emissions.
Fellow travelers who’ve experienced these systems describe the feeling of “floating” down the track as delightful and almost surreal. John R. shared that his inaugural maglev trip outside Shanghai felt “more like a magic carpet ride than any train I’ve been on. The lack of noise or vibration as we accelerated was remarkable.”
Indeed, maglev’s smooth propulsion system provides a uniquely peaceful passenger experience. Without steel wheels clacking on rails, the cabin stays eerily quiet even at incredible speeds. Your coffee remains perfectly still on the table instead of splashing all over you like on a normal bullet train. The gentle ride also reduces motion sickness.
The lower noise and vibration translate into major advantages beyond comfort. Maglev’s lack of physical contact with the guideway leads to far less wear-and-tear and maintenance requirements. Operators estimate the track lasts 10x longer than conventional rail. That pays dividends over decades of service.
With maglev technology maturing, countries like Japan now aim to link entire regions with a high-speed magnetic network. These lines would transform journeys up to 600 miles, making rail faster and more convenient than flying. Environmentalists also laud maglev’s zero direct emissions as a green alternative to short haul flights.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Operators Aim to Break Rail Speed Records
Maglev operators have their sights set even higher, aiming to push the technology to new heights and break world rail speed records. While the initial 200 mph-plus speeds of lines in China and Germany are impressive, engineers know maglev is capable of far greater velocities.
Shattering speed records has both symbolic and practical importance. As Torsten shared in his Google Flights piece, "high speed" trains are now slowpokes compared to maglev. The bar needs raising. And even faster trains mean more trips where rail can match or beat flying.
When maglev first captured the public's imagination decades ago, outrageous speeds of 500 kph (over 300 mph) were envisioned. Engineers dreamed of linking New York and LA in mere hours. While those lofty goals proved unrealistic back then, maglev's recent progress makes such speeds achievable once again.
Dr. James Powell who co-invented the Inductrack maglev system told the press, "300 miles per hour is pretty much accepted...now people are talking 400, 450, even 500 mph." We could see those velocities within a decade or two. But makers like Transrapid also understand you have to walk before you can run.
As Torsten wrote, the company's TR09 train will initially run about 205 mph on the Berlin route. Still, that's no leisurely pace - it's over twice as fast as early bullet trains! Transrapid confirmed the TR09 is capable of nearly 250 mph in commercial service. And an incredible 375 mph on test tracks. Laps at such mad velocity push the technology forward.
Breaking speed records benefits the public too. As Jenny L. who loves riding China's maglev put it, "When I first learned a train could go over 350 mph, it was mind-blowing. Knowing that technology exists makes even 200 feel pedestrian. I can't wait to see faster service!" Tourists worldwide flock to high-speed rail to sample cutting-edge engineering.
And if maglevs speed ceiling keeps increasing, more mid-distance city pairs open to rail. At 300 mph, trips within 600 miles can match flying. That's Toronto-Montreal, Dallas-Chicago, even London-Frankfurt. As Torsten wrote, environmentally conscious travelers want to avoid short-haul flights. Ultra-fast maglev provides the solution.
Of course, extreme velocity introduces engineering challenges. As speed climbs, so does noise and vibration. But makers emphasize maglev inherently runs far smoother than wheeled trains, even at 400 mph. And advanced air pressure control systems deployed on prototypes keep cabin noise levels surprisingly low.
Speed also stresses the guideway. But there too, maglev has innate advantages. Sinicrope Engineering's Peter noted, "without the harsh impact forces from steel wheels, maglev guideways experience less punishment at any speed." The lack of wheel-rail contact pays dividends.
Berlin Floats into the Future with New Maglev Train - Maglev Promises Environmentally Friendly Travel
As countries aim to reduce carbon emissions, ultra-fast maglev trains are emerging as a green alternative to environmentally harmful short-haul flights. Maglev's incredible speed bridges distances where rail struggled to compete with flying in the past. Now eco-minded travelers have a viable option to reduce their air travel footprint, especially on trips under 300 miles.
Fellow explorer Lynn told me, "I used to hop on a plane without thinking when going between cities a few hundred miles apart. But it bothered me knowing how much pollution those short flights generate." Maglev offers a solution, zipping passengers along at over 200mph with zero direct emissions.
Lynn said her first maglev trip from Shanghai airport felt "like stepping into the future. This sleek train flashed by in silence, faster than any train I'd seen but producing only clean energy. It was eye-opening and made me rethink my travel habits."
Sure, you can buy offsets for flights. But as sustainable travel blogger Jamie noted, avoiding the emissions entirely is better for the planet. She explained, "Maglev has no greenhouse gas emissions at the source. Riding it instead of flying leaves less of a footprint - offsets just try to erase the damage."
Fellow explorer Alex told me, "I've started planning my European holidays around maglev routes and high-speed rail connections instead of flying between cities. It takes a bit more time but feels good knowing I've avoided a few tons of CO2."
Indeed, time is the tradeoff. As Torsten explained in his Google Flights guide, direct flights still beat maglev on total trip duration over long distances. But for journeys around 300 miles or less, maglev can match door-to-door times when you factor in airport hassle. And the relaxing, scenic ride often feels like less of a chore than flying.
As countries expand maglev networks, rail will decarbonize more short-haul air routes. China envisions maglevs connecting all major cities within a 1,200 mile radius of Shanghai. That would remove tens of millions of tons of emissions annually.
Maglevs high upfront costs worry some governments. But climate conscious lawmakers like Congressman Peters argue, "Investing in carbon-free maglev technology today pays off down the road. Failing to build sustainable infrastructure will hurt us far more through climate change."
Of course, maglev still draws grid power. But as grids add renewable energy, those indirect emissions also fall. And electric propulsion is far more efficient than jet engines. Moving to maglev helps decarbonize transport, especially as green power expands.
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One of the special pages in the history of Maglev is 1979. It was the year when two countries at once – West Germany and the USSR – launched experimental models of a passenger maglev.
Germany
In Germany they made a real advertisement from this – the maglev took visitors along a short route to the International Transport Exhibition IVA-79, which took place from June 8 to July 1, 1979 in Hamburg. The Transrapid 05 magnetic levitation train ran between the two exhibition areas.
The distance was short – 908 m, the maximum speed of a two-car train with 68 seats was only 75 km/h, but this was the first public demonstration of a working train using the principle of magnetic levitation. It was implemented by a consortium of several German industrial giants – Kraus-Maffei, Messeschmidt-Bölkow-Blohm and Thyssen-Henschel.
It was created in 1969, but the previous experimental Transrapid operated only on closed testing grounds and were used to test the technology. During the exhibition, Transrapid 05 carried about 55 thousand passengers. The track was then dismantled and assembled in an abbreviated form at the Thyssen-Henshel site in Kassel. In 2010, the train was restored and transferred to the technical museum of the city of Kassel.
USSR
In the USSR, this event was not so public – the first Soviet «Maglev» TP-01 drove only along the factory’s 36-meter track. In the 1970s, with the rapid population growth in the cities of the USSR, the need to expand the transport network increased.
The main solution to this problem, of course, was the development of railway transport and aviation, but extraordinary projects were also considered. One of these was the project of passenger lines, along which magnetoplanes of small capacity (compared to conventional electric trains) run at high speed.
Transport association «Soyuztransprogress» was created in 1975. «Transprogress» institute was organized within association’s framework. The engineers and scientists of this research institute began to develop a new vehicle. And so, in 1979, simultaneously with the German one, the first Soviet «Maglev» TP-01 drove through the factory test area.
The TP-01 train weighing 12 tons could accommodate 20 passengers. Soon, in a short time, new test «Maglevs» – TP-02 and 03 were created. They were tested on a 180-meter track (later the track was extended to 850 meters) in the town of Ramenskoye near Moscow, where “Transprogress” was located. «Maglev» TP-04 became a mobile laboratory.
Success, achieved by the designers in the first stages, started planning the construction of experimental lines, on which the maglevs would already carry passengers. The Kazakh and Armenian SSR could become the first republics in which the Soviet «Maglevs» should have started operation. But in Almaty they decided to build a subway, and only one Yerevan project remained.
It was planned that the maglev would connect Yerevan with the city of Abovyan, which is located 16 km from the capital of Armenia. The city of Abovyan was supposed to become a kind of huge “sleeping area” of Yerevan, and the maglev seemed to be the ideal solution to the problem of transport accessibility. In 1986, the engineers of “Transprogress” create their last and most perfect prototype «Maglev» – TP-05.
For that time, TP-05 looked spectacular and futuristic, so in 1987 it was even filmed in the short film «Don’t joke with robots» for the TV program «This fantastic world». One of the highlights of the TP-05 design was the use of a chain of small magnets along the car. As it moved, the sensors measured the gap between the car and the railway track, and the system changed the current on specific magnets, increasing or decreasing their repulsion. This compensated the unevenness of the road and ensured a smooth ride.
«Maglev» had an aluminum case, weighed 18 tons and could carry 18 people. Theoretically, it could have been more, because the rest of the free area was occupied by additional test and measuring equipment. First, it was planned to test TP-05 at speeds up to 100 km/h. The Yerevan maglev was to become not only a test line, but also a kind of technological showcase. Even the choice of the city of Abovyan as the final point of the route was not accidental: high-tech industries were created in this small city, and most of the population was scientific workers.
In 1986, the construction of an experimental line with a length of 3.2 km began. Commissioning of the Soviet «Maglev» was scheduled for 1991. At first, it was thought that the cars would move at a speed of 250 km/h and carry up to 64 people. The maglev was supposed to fly 16 kilometers from Yerevan to Abovyan in about four minutes. But through the available power of the traction electrical substation, which was supposed to supply the line with electricity, the maximum design speed had to be reduced to 180 km / h.
Unfortunately, this project was never implemented. Two years after the start of the construction of the line, in 1988 the Spitak earthquake occurred. In thirty seconds the city of Spitak and dozens of villages were wiped off. Under the rubble, about 25000 people died within a few days, and many industrial enterprises lay in ruins. In addition, the USSR collapsed in 1991. What kind of «Maglev» could we talk about?
Finally, it is surprising in the history of the Soviet «Maglev» that the prototype TP-05 somehow managed to survive the 1990s. As of 2016, he still stood in the same workshop where he was collected under plastic wrap, powdered with dust. If desired, it could be repaired and transferred to the museum, as was done with its German counterpart.
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News reports that China is building its first magnetic-levitation (Maglev) rail system have been circulating in the media for months. A report published this week in the newspaper China Daily said the north-eastern port city Dalian planned to construct the first commercial Chinese-made Maglev train test line this year.
"Lines such as these are being built in great numbers in China," said Petra Aldenrath, the China correspondent in Beijing for German public radio network ARD. "They are all only short test stretches so far and the trains cannot be compared to those of Transrapid by the Siemens-ThyssenKrupp consortium."
A report in the China Business Daily confirmed that the German Transrapid was superior to its Chinese competition. The publication compared five Transrapid models developed in China.
"Our media mix truth and fiction. None of the models developed in China are ready for use," the paper quoted a Chinese Maglev train expert as saying.
Chinese technology is illusory
The world's only commercial Maglev system in the world links Shanghai's financial district and its Pudong airport. Instead of mechanical components such as wheels and rails, the Transrapid system uses electronics: non-contact electromagnetic levitation, guidance, and propulsion systems. With an operating speed of 430 km/h, it travels the 30-kilometer stretch in some eight minutes.
The core technologies that have now been developed in China are based on a magnetic engine, which will drive the train on a three-kilometer railway to be built in the city's development zone, said Li Lingqun, chief engineer of the Maglev team in Dalian. This system will also be less expensive, he said.
"Combined with the abundant resources of permanent magnetic materials in China, our technology will be about 50 percent cheaper than that of foreign countries," Li said in the China Daily.
The Dalian train would reach speeds of 220 kilometers per hour, Li said.
But the technology based on such an engine was by far not as complicated as the Transrapid, said Aldenrath.
"It is illusory to think you can go 220 kilometers per hour on just three kilometers of tracks," said Transrapid spokesman Peter Wiegelmann. "You would need rocket propulsion for that."
China wants technology in exchange for contract
China is planning an extension of its Shanghai connection to the city of Hangzhou, 180 kilometers away.
Earlier this year, Germany rejected China's demands for access to sensitive Maglev technology in exchange for building this $4.3 billion high-tech rail link. Chinese officials approved the building of the track in March. But discussions with the companies have been going slowly as Beijing is looking for significant technology transfers and funding as the price of admission.
"We are optimistic that our Transrapid will be employed on this stretch," Wiegelmann said.
Germany provided 10 percent of the $1 billion budget for the Shanghai airport link.
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Shanghai is a super metropolitan city which boasts of many modern attractions to cater to people from all over the world. One of those attractions is the Shanghai maglev which is a magnetic levitation train. The Shanghai Maglev Train, also known as the Shanghai Transrapid, is operational in the city of Shanghai. It helps people to travel from the airport right to the heart of the city. It is the oldest of its kind which still operates commercially and is the third oldest maglev line, after the Birmingham Maglev line, which is British, and the M-Bahn line, which is German. This particular maglev train in Shanghai is currently the fastest in the world. Currently, high speed maglev train is available only in China and maglev transport as a whole is available in South Korea and Japan too.
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2024 Shanghai Maglev Train-The Fastest Train from PVG to Downtown Shanghai
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Catalogue
Introduction of Shanghai Maglev
Facts of Shanghai Maglev Trains
Features of Maglev Trains
Information of Malglev Trains
Shanghai Maglev Train – Timetable
Shanghai Maglev Train – Ticket Price
How to on Board the Train
Facilities & Services on Maglev Trains
Route Map
Other Tips
Trivia About the Shanghai Maglev Train
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Introduction of Shanghai Maglev
Shanghai is a super metropolitan city which boasts of many modern attractions to cater to people from all over the world. One of those attractions is the Shanghai maglev which is a magnetic levitation train. The Shanghai Maglev Train, also known as the Shanghai Transrapid, is operational in the city of Shanghai. It helps people to travel from the airport right to the heart of the city. It is the oldest of its kind which still operates commercially and is the third oldest maglev line, after the Birmingham Maglev line, which is British, and the M-Bahn line, which is German. This particular maglev train in Shanghai is currently the fastest in the world. Currently, high speed maglev train is available only in China and maglev transport as a whole is available in South Korea and Japan too.
Facts of Shanghai Maglev Trains
The Shanghai Maglev Train, alias SMT, started operating commercially on December 31st, 2002.
With a highest speed of a whopping 430km/h or 267 mi/h, it is a hallmark of the wisdom, ingenuity and technological advancement of mankind.
The total distance it covers is 30 kilometers or 19 miles and the duration of a single journey is 8 minutes only.
The trains run at a frequency of 15 to 20 minutes which rules out the inconvenience of a long wait for the next train.
The cost of building this unique facility was a staggering 1.2 billion dollars. Unfortunately, the maglev line has not been able to show any profit since it opened for public use. The Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co. Ltd, which operates this particular service, had incurred losses of over 1 billion Renminbi between 2004 to 2006. However, this line was built more as a test run for the railways infrastructure of China than an effective and feasible means of transport for the commuters in Shanghai. With the success of this line, China can now aim to build a larger network of such lines over longer routes, covering larger distances. Although, as of now, no such plans have been revealed to the public yet.
Since there is no rolling friction, there is less wear and tear of the parts. As a result, this makes operating and maintaining these trains much more economical than regular trains.
When it comes to matters of safety, the maglev is built in such a way that it is almost impossible for it to get derailed. In case of wrap around cars, the German “T” shape or in case of vehicles which are enclosed, the Japanese “U” shape makes it sure that there are no chances of derailment. Because of these unprecedented features, maglev trains have gained a world-wide and justified reputation of being one of the safest means of transport.
Because of their stability, the cars of maglev trains can be wider than those of conventional trains and this enhances the scope for optimized use of space and passenger comfort.The seating options are not limited and this results in a much better travelling experience when compared to other conventional fast trains. No matter how high the speed, the journey is quite smooth and noiseless,which is a major improvement over the noisy and congested conditions found in regular train cars.
Maglev trains are so safe that they do not get derailed even in extreme conditions like traveling during earthquakes
Features of Maglev Trains
The Shanghai maglev Trains have some unique features which are quite fascinating. Some of these features are given below.
Since these trains use the technology of magnetic levitation, they do not have wheels, and move about without coming in contact with the ground.
They are also very environment-friendly since they do not burn any fuel or produce any waste gas.
The energy that they consume is only half of what is consumed by buses and a quarter of what is consumed by airplanes.
There is almost no sound since there is no friction, and this allows the passengers to have a smooth traveling experience.
Another plus point is that maglev lines can operate on difficult terrain because the requirement for modification of land is drastically reduced compared to the tracks required for regular trains.
Maglev tracks are made from alnico, which is an alloy of iron, aluminum, nickel, cobalt and copper.They can also be made from ferrite which is a compound of iron.
The magnetic field produced by these materials is much stronger than that produced by ordinary magnets and this helps to lift and to guide the cars of the maglev train in the right direction.
Constructing tracks for maglev trains is quite expensive since it requires yttrium, 15 lanthanides and scandium, which are rare earth elements.
Information of Malglev Trains
Shanghai Maglev Train – Timetable
First Train Longyang Road Station 06:45 Last Train 21:40
Interval 06:45 15 min 07:00–08:40 20 min 09:00–18:45 15 min 19:00–21:40 20 min Max Speed Whole day 300km/h
First Train Shanghai Pudong International Airport 07:02 Last Train 21:42
Interval 07:02–19:02 20 min 19:02–21:02 30 min 21:02 40 min Max Speed Whole day 300km/h
Shanghai Maglev Train – Ticket Price
Ticket Type Details Price Single trip ticket Valid for the Ordinary single trip ticket of the day 50 yuan Round trip ticket Valid for the ordinary round trip ticket in 7 days 80 yuan VIP single trip ticket Valid for the VIP single trip ticket of the day 100 yuan VIP round ticket Valid for the VIP round trip ticket in 7 days 160 yuan Single trip ticket by presenting air-ticket of the same day Favorable Single trip ticket for passenger who takes air plane at the same day 40 yuan Voucher for single-trip ticket Can be exchanged to single-trip ticket at the Long Yang Road Station or Pudong Int’l Airport Station 50 yuan Voucher for Round-trip ticket Can be exchanged to rounde-trip ticket at the Long Yang Road Station or Pudong Int’l Airport Station 80 yuan 30 trips 30 trips valid for single trips (ordinary class) on maglev train within one year from the date of purchase 900 yuan
The two stations the maglev line connects are Longyang Rd. Station and Pudong International
Airport Station. The surrounding places of interest near Longyang Road Station are
SNIEC, which is the Shanghai New International Exhibition Center
Century Park
Longyang Road
Baiyang Road
Those for Pudong International Airport Station are
Pudong International Airport
Lingkong Agriculture Garden
Les Charmes Outlet Boutiques
Yingbin Avenue
The transfer to Longyang Road Station is quite simple as these is easy access to subways and buses. One can take the Subway Line 2 and deboard at Longyang Road Station. Then, one must take exit number 3 or 4. In case one is traveling to the station by bus, they can board Airport bus number 3 and number 7; or number 983 and 976.
In case passengers want to buy tickets on the way, they can do so at the ticket centers at the following addresses:
Longyang Road Ticket Center: 2nd floor, 2100 Longyang Road Station
Pudong Airport Ticket Center: 2nd floor, Pudong International Airport Station
Some popular places to visit by Maglev train are as follows:
Nanjing Road: One can take the train from Pudong to Longyang and then take Metro line 2 to West Nanjing Road Station or East Nanjing Road Station
The Bund: One can also reach this place by taking the same route
Lujiazui: One can take the train from Pudong to Longyang and then take Metro line 2 to Lujiazui Station. Then, it is a short walk to Shanghai World Financial Tower, Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Tower and Jinmao Tower, which are all famous for their height and the panoramic view of the city they can provide.
Yuyuan Garden and Bazaar: One can take the train from Pudong to Longyang and then take Metro line 2 to East Nanjing Road Station. By transferring to Metro line 10, they can reach Yuyuan Garden and Bazaar
People’s Square: One can take the train to Longyang and then take Metro line 2 to People’s Square Station. The places to visit there are the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center and the Shanghai Museum.
How to on Board the Train
The passengers are advised to board at least 5 minutes before the departure of the train. In case they fail to do so, they need to wait for the next one. The passengers have to follow these steps after reaching the platform:
After buying the tickets,passengers need to follow the sign, go through the entrance and take the escalator to reach the platform located on the third floor
They need to wait for the train behind the safety line
They need to display the train ticket to the attendant who is present there
The ticket should not be folded or get torn; if damaged, the tickets might become invalid
After boarding, the passengers need to stow their luggage in the space provided and settle down in their seats
Smoking is strictly prohibited in the train cars
Once the train arrives at the destination, the passengers need to get off the train and follow the instructions given by the attendants
Facilities & Services on Maglev Trains
The Shanghai maglev Trains are in a class of their own when it comes to facilities and services on board. The inside of the cars is quite spacious, clean, modern and comfortable. There are attendants who take care of the needs of the passengers much like those on airplanes. The seats are arranged in such a way that one has enough room to sit comfortably. There are two or three seats in a row, and everyone can control the air conditioning temperature by themselves. The LCD screen located at the top of the door of the carriage displays the current speed of the train. The LCD screen is a popular attraction with the passengers, since many of them monitor the speed closely and take pictures the moment the display shows the top speed which is ‘431’. The attendants are friendly and helpful, and pay close attention to the comfort of the passengers. Even though short, the journey is a pleasant and comfortable one.
Route Map
The two stations of the Shanghai maglev line are Longyang Road Station and Pudong International Airport Station. The route taken by the trains is shown below:
Other Tips
Here are a few tips for using the Maglev line:
An adult person can travel with one child on a single ticket if the child is less than 1.3 meters tall.Otherwise, they have to pay for the full ticket for the child
The weight of the luggage cannot exceed the weight of 23 kgs and the dimensions of 1.7 m by 0.2 m³
Poisonous, flammable or explosive articles are not allowed on the trains
Balloons, bicycles and pets are also not allowed on the trains
Drinking, smoking and eating are not allowed on the trains
The doors close 1 minute before departure and hence, one needs to keep that in mind while boarding
The check-in stops 5 minutes before departure, and it is advisable to arrive on the platform well in time
Trivia About the Shanghai Maglev Train
Here are a few interesting facts about Maglev trains of Shanghai:
Local Chinese companies were given the responsibility of building the guideway or track for this particular line. However, the soil in the Pudong area turned out to be alluvial in nature and this created a major problem for the builders. In order to successfully build the track through this area, they had to change the design of the track. Instead of leaving a gap of 50 meters between two adjacent supporting pillars, they had to leave a gap of only 25 meters. This innovative idea helped them overcome the problem of a comparative unstable foundation and also lay the track for the most stable railway track in the world.
This workaround enabled the companies to build the guideway without compromising with the necessary accuracy, quality and stability. Thousands and thousands of piles of concrete were driven deep into the ground, often till a depth of 70 meters, in order to achieve the necessary stability of the supporting pillars that act as the foundation of the Shanghai Maglev Line. In order to facilitate this, a special facility was built along the route of the track. This facility measured one mile in length and also boasted a controlled climate inside. The manufacturing of the train, that is the engine and the cars, took place in Germany which was a joint venture between Seimens and Thyssenkrupp JV. Vahle Inc. and was given the responsibility of electrifying the train.
When commercial operations of the Shanghai Maglev train started initially, the usage was only 20% of the full capacity of the cars. The reasons for this unimpressive performance were attributed to the short duration of the journey, much higher ticket prices compared to other trains, operating hours being somewhat limited and the fact that its end point is at Longyang Road. The terminal point of this line was a discouragement to several passengers since they would have to travel for another 20 minutes by metro rail to reach the heart of the city.
However, the government has taken action to make things easier for the passengers by introducing two additional trains since October of 2016. These are one way trains which depart from Pudong Airport at 10:15 pm and at 10:40 pm.
The Maglev line has also faced its share of unfortunate or unpleasant incidents. In the August of 2006, one of the compartments of the Maglev train, after starting from Pudong Airport, caught fire. Preliminary investigations revealed that the accident may have been caused by some kind of electrical equipment malfunctioning. On a brighter note, there was not a single injury aboard as a result of the fire and this just highlights the stringent safety measures taken on board.
Later, in the February of 2016, operation of the maglev line stopped for about an hour. However, prompt action by the engineers and maintenance personnel ensured that services were restored at the earliest.
Regardless of whether one is a train enthusiast or someone interested in modern technology, one should not miss the unique experience of travelling on that train, because it is not only an adrenaline rush to travel at such unprecedented speeds but the train itself is a testament to the technological advancement achieved by our generation. Even as a tourist, travelling on the Shanghai Maglev Train would be a memorable experience that one would cherish for the rest of his or her life.
In conclusion, it can be said that hopefully, in the near future, not just the rest of China but also the rest of the world will build the necessary infrastructure to operate maglev lines successfully, so that commuters all over the world get to avail the services of this wonderful and path breaking technological wonder. That day is not far away when traveling thousands of kilometers in a matter of minutes will no longer feel like an idea out of some science fiction; rather it will become something routine and necessary like taking the metro or taking the bus.
Also, the recent years have witnessed the tourism industry grow by leaps and bounds. Traveling all over the country or even traveling abroad is no longer considered a luxury. The sheer number of domestic and international tourists has grown like never before. As a result, the standards of various means of travel need to be improved as well to provide a better experience to the people using the facilities. Hence, this is the right time for this technology of the future to realize its full potential. Keeping in mind the growing demands of international tourists, it would be justified to state that these maglev trains are a step in the right direction to making traveling a super-fast experience.
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Andreas Rau (AR): The Max Bögl Group has been involved in magnetic train technology for over 20 years, focusing at the beginning on track systems for the high-speed maglev train Transrapid.
The development of the public transport magnetic railway system TSB began in 2010 and has now completed more than 130,000 shuttle runs on its own test track in [the German municipality of] Sengenthal, travelling more than 85,000km in fully automatic operation.
Drawing from the experience of developing the Transrapid’s guideway structure, we recognised that is very important to handle the intersections between each component of such a system.
The company has therefore decided to develop its own solution for urban applications out of one source, with the result being a very efficient and competitive infrastructure.
While the Transrapid is optimally designed for maximum-speed traffic on long-distance routes, the TSB is optimised for local transport. Both systems differ fundamentally.
With the TSB, the chassis and its active parts, such as the power electronics, are located within the track, encapsulated under 20cm-thick reinforced concrete. This minimises noise emissions, among other things.
The drive system is located within the vehicle, allowing short train headway times of only 80 seconds while the track is completely passive, allowing for track costs to be significantly reduced.
Since a large part of the systems required for long-distance travel can be eliminated in local transport, the vehicle is lighter and has a greater payload.
The TSB shows its true strengths when high passenger flows must be managed very quietly, with high reliability and short implementation times. Compared with conventional systems, the TSB avoids high, concentrated loads at the contact point between wheel and rail.
The TSB distributes loads evenly on the track without contact, making it unbeatably quiet and low in vibration, and requiring much smaller structures for the track. This saves resources, costs and implementation time, and also provides aesthetic advantages.
Among the international markets, China is one of those with the greatest potential for the TSB.
In its five-year plan, the Beijing Government has committed to commissioning local transport projects with a total route length of 3,000km. In addition to fast growth, China is a competitive but very open-minded market for new technologies and has a large appetite for investment.
That’s why we are working with our local partner, the company Xinzhu, which is familiar with these unique conditions and can optimally represent the TSB.
There is a demand for a low-emission, flexible transit solution like never before, due to the fact that cities are growing and the megatrend of urbanisation tightens the availability of space.
So there is a high demand for public transit with its high capacities as the backbone of urban mobility while providing the opportunity for fast implementation. The energy consumption of the system is comparable to a conventional system like trams or metros, considering different horizontal and vertical alignments, [as well as] distances between stations and schedules.
[It is more important] to increase the occupancy of the vehicles by enabling flexible adjustments of headways, and that is the reason why we developed the system from the beginning as a fully automated solution.
Automation will play a very important role, as will the ability to speed up construction and implementation times.
We believe that, in addition to ground level or underground transport, elevated transport can be a good solution offering the same capacities and advantages of underground transportation.
It requires rail systems that are very quiet and infrastructure with a slim and aesthetic design for integration into urban spaces. For long-distance traffic, rail-guided systems will be very important for environmentally friendly mobility in leisure and business traffic as an alternative for air traffic.
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Transrapid is a German high-speed monorail train using magnetic levitation. Based on a patent from 1934, planning of the Transrapid system started in 1969. The test facility for the system in Emsland, Germany was completed in 1987.
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Situation
The Emsland region is traditionally known to be a poor region in Germany
After the oil-crisis in 1973 the German industry was eager to open up new technology and infrastructure.
There was a poor rail link between Berlin and Hamburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
By that time the argument that the classical railway system was not modern (fast, clean, cheap) enough seemed logic.
An argument was to make use of the ‘speed gap’ between trains and planes (700 km/h)
French and Japanese High speed systems where growingly succesful. The German industry feared a technological disadvantage.
Objectives
To research and develop further the idea of magnetic levitation and use this technology to stimulate economic progress.
To install a pilot range to also persuade the market of the makebilaty of the Transrapid system.
The creation of faster and better connections between Berlin and Hamburg.
Assets
Since 1934 Germany owns the patent on a technology based on magnetic elevation.
An eager industrial cluster, persuasive key-figures with a good network and a political lobby within a pro-technique society.
German spatial and economic structure has ‘target-regions’ for the technology (dense agglomerations + big cities on 200 km distance from each other)
A new transport technology that allows higher speeds and even lower energy consumption and maintenance needs.
Strong support within national government and the bigger political parties.
A willing remoted region for the test track. (home of the ‘inventor’ of the technology) with cheap space and interest in an economical impulse.
A common believe of all parties that there is a big ‘cake’ to be shared.
Strategy
To implement the new technology throughout the country and world (there have been plans to build a Transrapid in Nordrhein-Westfalen, a fast route between Hamburg and Berlin and the most recent one between Munich Airport and its city center)
Actions
The “Magnetbahn Transrapid” consortium is formed and work begins on the Test Facility in Emsland in 1978, in 1979 a first test track was shown on the international fair of transportation in Hamburg.
1987 : Completion and commissioning of the Transrapid Test Facility in Emsland TVE.
The Hamburg-Berlin line was finally abandoned in 2000. Bavarian politicians decided the Transrapid wasn’t worth the €3 billion new calculations showed it would have cost. The system was sold to China.
In 2004, the first commercial implementation was completed. The Shanghai Maglev Train connects the rapid transit network 30.5 km to the Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
In 2006 23 people were killed on the Emsland test track due to a ‘human mistake’. This catastrophe marked the end of political support in Germany.
At the end of 2011, the operation license of the Emsland test track has expired, and it has been closed. Early 2012, the demolition and reconversion of all the Emsland site, including the factory, has been approved.
Effects
The building of the test range and the planning of the HH-Berlin trajectory created jobs. But not permanently.
The estimated effects (of the German government) of the HH-Berlin trajectory of 18.000 jobs during the building phase and the creation of 4.400 permanent jobs did not come out.
The end of the test track in Lathen also meant the loss of 60 permanent jobs.
The region now plans a small center for electromobilty on the former site.
In a crucial period for the high-speed technology the Deutsche Bahn (DB) invested more money in the transrapid than in the ICE. Critics say that a concentration on one technology would have been better for the German industry and the DB.
Project info
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Year
1969 - 2011
Effect
The vision to introduce a new generation of infrastructure as a follow up of the classical railway system did not work out. The classical railway system was competitive enough. The parallel development of Transrapid and ICE was a disadvantage for th
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German Federal Ministry of Research, Transrapid International (joint venture of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp)
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From the Shinkansen to the TGV, high-speed rail has continued to advance since its inception. But what is the fastest high speed train?
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High-speed railways combine both speed and efficiency. From the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan to the French TGV, high-speed trains have a history that spans several decades.
The evolution of high-speed rail has reshaped the transport landscape by offering an alternative to aviation, promoting economic growth, reducing travel times and offering a greener option.
Now, it is even becoming a competitor in price, with budget-high-speed rail options appearing in Europe. China, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain boast extensive high-speed rail networks, with trains that can reach speeds of over 300km/h.
Further expansion and improvement of high-speed rail will continue. There are several high-profile projects that seem inevitable, despite facing hurdles, including California high-speed rail, the complicated history of high-speed rail in Australia, and perhaps most famously, the ever-delayed HS2 project in the UK.
Yet despite some projects marred by setbacks, half of the ten most expensive rail projects that broke ground last year were high-speed rail projects. All five of these are located in Asia – a hotbed for high-speed rail, no small part due to China’s rapidly expanding network.
Additionally, new technological advancements, such as magnetic levitation (Maglev) trains, hold the promise of even faster speeds and smoother rides. The ongoing advances in high-speed rail infrastructure and technology suggest a promising future, where travel becomes even more convenient, sustainable and interconnected.
Given the rapid development over the last decade, here’s an updated rundown of the ten fastest high-speed trains currently in service in the world right now, by operational speed.
South Korea’s national railway operator, Korail, runs the country’s high-speed rail service. Korea Train Express, more commonly known as KTX, began operation in 2004.
The network initially used rolling stock based that was partly built in Korea, based on Alstom’s TGV Réseau. Since then, the rolling stock on the line has shifted to fully domestically produced models, currently using the KTX-Sancheon built by Hyundai Rotem.
The KTX-Sancheon is named after the Korean name of the indigenous fish cherry salmon. It has a top operational speed of 305km/h and is the first high-speed train designed and developed in South Korea.
71 trainsets, which can accelerate from 0 to 300km/h in 316 seconds, currently carry up to 363 passengers each on the South Korean high-speed rail network.
The new generation HEMU-430X prototype reached 421.4km/h in 2013, beating the previous Korean rail speed record of 352.4km/h set by a KTX-Sancheon HSR-350x train.
This means that South Korea is one of only four countries in the world to develop a train capable of running at over 420km/h, along with France, Japan and China.
Hyundai Rotem is currently manufacturing 16 sets of the latest commercial electrical multiple-unit model of the HEMU-430X, the EMU-320, expected to enter into service by the end of this year. In contrast to 316 seconds for the KTX-Sancheon, the EMU-320 can accelerate from 0 to 300km/h in 230 seconds and has a planned operation speed of 320km/h.
26 trainsets run on the 621km Barcelona–Madrid high-speed railway, carrying up to 404 passengers at speeds up to 310 km/h. In 2006, an S103 achieved a record top speed of 403.7km/h, a Spanish record speed for rail vehicles.
Interestingly, the 8-car configuration that Renfe operates is actually two identical half-trains of four coaches. Each section has an independent power system, apart from the active pantograph and a high voltage line that runs along the length of the entire train.
The end coaches are split between the driver’s cab and passenger seating, with glass screens separating the two. This allows passengers the same views as the driver – but the driver can turn these opaque if preferred.
The E5 series runs on Tohoku Shinkansen and Hokkaido Shinkansen services, and the H5 is a cold-weather derivative of the E5 series that runs on the same lines. H5 units include several cold-weather features, including an upgraded snowplough, more durable rubber protection on the connections between cars and a stainless-steel underframe that protects the electronics from the elements.
Outside of everyday operation, the top speed a Shinkansen has recorded is 443km/h, recorded by the experimental Class 955 “300X” Tōkaidō Shinkansen during tests in 1996.
JR Central is developing an experimental Maglev Shinkansen, the L0 Series. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JR Central subsidiary Nippon Sharyo, the trains use the Japanese SCMaglev system.
JR Central plans to use the L0 series on the passenger services launching in 2027 on the Chūō Shinkansen railway line between Tokyo and Osaka. These trains are expected to operate at 500km/h but have hit a top speed during testing of a whopping 603km/h.
The China Railway (CR) Hexie, also known as the Harmony, is an umbrella term for the CRH series EMU high-speed trains. Although they operate at the same speed as the Fuxing trains, with a top operating speed of 350km/h, we have them in second place due to their higher record speeds in testing.
The CR Harmony was originally built using existing technology from global rolling stock manufacturers, with CR aiming to eventually build up its own knowledge of the technology. This plan came to fruition with the domestic development of the CR Fuxing trains.
The CRH380B is based on the Siemens Velaro family of high-speed trains and has been in service on the Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway and Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway since 2011.
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Shanghai Maglev Train (Shanghai Maglev Demonstration Line) is the first commercial maglev line in the world. The line runs between Longyang Road Station on the Shanghai Subway Line 2, to Pudong International Airport, and the journey takes no more than 8 minutes to complete the distance of 30 km (19 miles). It can reach up to 431 km/hr (268 mph) during the journey. In 2003, it was enrolled by Guinness Records to be the fastest train in the world in commercial use.
Chinese: ä¸æµ·ç£æµ®å车 Shà nghÇi CÃfú LièchÄ /shung-heye tsrr-foo lyeah-cher/
Speed: record test speed: 501 kph (311 mph); commercial max. speed: 431 kph (268 mph); average speed: 230 kph (143 mph)
Route: east to Longyang Road (Shanghai Subway Line 2), west to Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Distance: 30 km (19 mi)
Duration: within 8 minutes
Also read How to plan a day trip in Shanghai?
Main Features of Shanghai Maglev Trains
Shanghai Maglev trains don't have wheels: They use magnetic levitation technology to move without touching the ground.Â
Shanghai Maglev Train
Environmentally friendly: There is no waste gas produced.Â
Lower energy consumption than airplanes: The energy consumption is only half that of buses and a quarter that used by airplanes.
Less noise: The trains don't touch the railway line, which makes the sound quieter than other trains. And even when they speed up to 300 kph, the decibel levels are only about 65 to people situated 50 meters away from the train.
Run smoothly: Due to the magnetic levitation technology, there are no wheels touching the railway line. Therefore, the Maglev trains run more smoothly and quieter than trains with wheels.
Facilities on Maglev Trains
Inside the train, it is very modern, clean and comfortable, much like that in an airplane. Trained attendants are present. There is enough sitting space, since there are only 2 or 3 seats in a row. Air-conditioning is available and passengers can adjust the temperature by themselves. There is an LCD screen indicating the current running speed of the train. Many passengers pay close attention and some even take a picture, when the number of "431" appears on the screen.
Timetable and Ticket Price of Shanghai Maglev Trains
From Longyang Road Station First Train 06:45 Last Train 21:40 Interval 06:45 15 min 07:00â08:40 20 min 09:00â18:45 15 min 19:00â21:40 20 min From Shanghai Pudong International Airport First Train 07:02 Last Train 21:42 Interval 07:02â08:42 20 min 09:02â18:47 15 min 19:02â21:42 20 min 2 Extra Trains 22:15 - 22:40 -
The train's doors close 1 minute before its departure.
The last train stop's check-in is 5 minutes before departure.
Seat Classes Ordinary Seat Class VIP Seat Class Single trip ticket (valid on the date) 50 yuan 100 yuan Round-trip ticket (valid for 7 days) 80 yuan 160 yuan
With a flight ticket, passengers can buy a one-way ticket on the same day of the flight with a 20% discount.
Children under 130 cm who are accompanied by an adult can travel ticket-free.
How to get to Longyang Road Station
By subway: Take Subway Line 2, get off at Longyang Rd. Station, and use exit #3 or exit #4.
By bus: Airport Bus # 3 and #7; Bus # 983 and #976.
Buy Tickets at a Ticket CenterÂ
Passengers can buy tickets on the day they want to take the train.
Address:
Longyang Road Ticket Center: 2nd floor, 2100 Longyang Road Station
Pudong Airport Ticket Center: 2nd floor, Pudong International Airport StationÂ
How to board the train
Passengers should board the train at least 5 minutes before its departure, otherwise please wait for the next one.
After you have bought the tickets, please follow the sign, pass through the ticket entrance, and get to the platform on the 3rd floor by the escalator.
Wait behind the safety line.
Show your tickets to the attendants.
Once onboard, please quickly put your belongings in place and sit down.
Smoking is not allowed in the carriage.
On arrival, please get off the train and follow the attendants' instructions.
Tips
Please keep your tickets for passing both the entrance and the exit gate. The tickets will be collected at your final exit.
Please keep your tickets clean and unfolded. Tickets become invalid once damaged, and you will be denied boarding.
Passengers should board the train at least 5 minutes before its departure, otherwise please wait for the next one.
When you get off the train, please make sure that you take all your belongings.
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Distributed to SCVTV by the Orangeline Maglev Development Authority
and the City of Santa Clarita
2007
In 5 parts:
* The Transrapid Story (17:34)
* High-Tech for Flying On the Ground (8:14)
* Transrapid Test Facility Emsland (7:35)
* Shanghai (4:51)
* Munich (7:28)
The feasibility of maglev (magnetic levitation) trains as a high-speed rail option was studied by the Southern California Association of Governments in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century. The following is an executive summary of a preliminary report from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, published Aug. 30, 2009.
The Study
This is a seed grant study to perform a preliminary investigation of the system components and generalized costs of the magnetic levitation type of high speed rail system that is proposed for the Southern California Region, TGV-based high speed rail, and urban rapid transit with special focus on bus rapid transit (BRT). This technology overview summarizes the key aspects of these transit technologies and provides comparative cost information to feed a more comprehensive feasibility analysis.
Definition of High Speed Rail
High-speed rail (HSR) refers to high speed ground transportation by rail operating at speeds exceeding 125 mph (or 200 km per hour). Japan initiated the concept of high speed rail when the Shinkansen Line started operation between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964 with cruising speeds of 210 km/h. Notable HSR systems are operational in Japan, France, Germany and China. There are three wheel-on-rail type technologies that may be referred to as standard high speed rail: (a) the Japanese Shinkansen (called bullet train), (b) the French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) and (c) the German Inter City Express (ICE). Then there is the magnetic levitation (Maglev) system that has been tested for decades but has only recently seen one line in commercial operation in China.
The Southern California High Speed Rail Proposal
Originally studied as a way of accessing various airports in southern California, planners soon recognized the potential for the high speed system to serve large volumes of commuter traffic. The planned Maglev system now has the additional objective of helping to provide some relief for travel between major origins and destinations in the midst of roadway traffic congestion in the Los Angeles metropolitan region.
There are five main project segments with many alternative alignment options for each of the segments.
There are specific station locations that are to be connected by each of the alignment options. The details of these alignments are in various project study reports (FRA, 2000; SCAG, 2002a; SCAG, 2002b; SCAG, 2006). The collection of reports provides varying levels of detail about the different segments. Differences in alignment affect distances, time, passenger and cost estimates.
Literature on High Speed Rail
The literature reveals certain general findings about high speed rail:
· There is usually a significant difference between maximum experimental speed and maximum operating speed. The latter is what should be applied in planning for high speed rail
· Increasing maximum speed has decreasing marginal gains in travel time savings. The lesson is not to seek the highest possible speed for a new system being planned, but one that would enable significant improvement from existing operations.
· Travel time reductions due to higher speed depend very much on the length of the run between stations. The lesson is to seek high speed systems for long distance spacing between stops; they will bring little gain to short distance trips.
· Marginal cost grows more than proportionally with increases in maximum speed. The lesson is not to necessarily seek the cutting edge of the technology if cost effectiveness is an objective.
· High-speed rail can play a key role in providing transportation for trips between 62 and 621miles (100 km to 1000 km) in length.
Modal Comparisons
Comparison of standard high speed rail and Maglev technologies revealed the following:
Speed – Advancements in standard high speed rail technology in recent times have removed the higher speed advantage that Maglev previously had, making travel time differences between the two modes very small over typical spacing between stations.
Interconnection – HSR holds a huge advantage over Maglev in its ability to use existing infrastructure and thus facilitate better interconnection with existing rail networks.
Investment Cost – The maturity of the technology and its ability to use existing infrastructure enables HSR to be deployed at a lower investment cost than Maglev.
Operating Costs – These are not certain for Maglev, but HSR consumes less energy per comparable unit of train capacity.
Maintenance Costs – Because Maglev trains lack physical contact with the guideway, this feature would suggest lower maintenance costs, but the highly complex electronics on both the guideway and the trains could result in costly repairs when the need arises.
Comfort – HSR has an advantage over Maglev in terms of ride comfort.
Findings
The data clearly indicate major differences and overlaps in the costs of the various technological options. The relatively short distances between proposed stations in southern California make other fully grade separated, urban transit modes contenders among the technological choices. If alignments chosen are feasible with relatively little tunneling, BRT would be the most economical choice in terms of capital costs per mile at $30 million or below. If much tunneling is involved, then all capital costs can easily approach or exceed $100 million per mile. In this case the rail modes would be more efficient choices. If the lower range of the costs for urban rapid rail (Metro) construction were the case then Metro could be an efficient choice. If the upper end of the costs for Metro construction were to be the case then HSR would be the more efficient choice. Maglev would have the disadvantages of: (a) higher capital costs than HSR; and (b) the inability to share existing facilities with other rail such as AMTRAK and the future intercity HSR to be implemented in the State of California.
Conclusions
There are differences of opinion between proponents of Maglev and high speed rail. There are major differences and some overlaps in actual construction costs and cost estimates associated with the various technological options for intercity and intra-city public transportation. These call for careful study rather than emotional appeal when considering these systems for deployment.
A more thorough study needs to be conducted toward the choice of technology for the Decentralized Airport Connector and Commuter system for Southern California. The detailed study needs to assess the appropriateness of the technology to choose in terms of speed of travel vis-à-vis associated capital and operating costs.
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Rising Force
R i s i n g F o rc e Th e M ag ic o f M a g ne tic L e vita tion
James D. Livingston
Harvard University Press • Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, England • 2011
Copyright © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Livingston, James D., 1930– Rising force : the magic of magnetic levitation / James D. Livingston. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-05535-3 (alk. paper) 1. Magnetic fields. 2. Magnetic suspension. I. Title. QC754.2.M3L58 2011 538—dc22 2010047290
Contents
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Preface
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Levity vs. Gravity
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Fictional and Illusional Levitation Wingardium Leviosa!
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Mystical Levitation
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Physical Levitation without Magnets
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Gravitational and Magnetic Forces Forces of the Universe Magnetic Forces Magnetic Materials
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Force at a Distance
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The Floating Island of Laputa
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Stability and Degrees of Freedom
Spinning the Levitron Only a Toy Toy Story The Super
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Maglev—A Balance of Forces Poles Apart
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Contents
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Inducing Uplift
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Mutual Induction
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Flinging Rings and Things
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Eddy-Current Heating and Levitation Melting Fields of Force
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Flying Frogs
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The Ig Nobel Prize
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Diamagnetism and the Moses Effect Diamagnetic Levitation and Stabilization Froglev
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Super-Levitation Higher Fields
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Feeding Back
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Brief Recap
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Floating Globes
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Floatin’ in the Wind Snowball in Hell
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Microbots and Pigs
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In a Spin Bearing Up
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Enriching and Proliferating A Few Words about Energy Flying Wheels
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Higher Temperatures
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Superdiamagnetism and Supercurrents
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Pumping Blood
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Floating Rotors
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The No-Spin Zone
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Flying Broomsticks
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Flotors and the Maglev Touch Maglev Nanotechnology
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Sub-Nano: Angstroms and Atoms Maglev Rocket Sleds
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Flying Trains Emile Bachelet
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Kemper and Electromagnetic Levitation (EML)
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Powell/Danby and Electrodynamic Levitation (EDL)
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The Competition
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All Aboard! Urban Maglev
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Permanent-Magnet Maglev
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Transrapid Trials—and Tribulations Sin Express to Vegas
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Maglev Deployment Program and ARRA
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Keeping It Up Up with Magnets!
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Magnetic Personalities
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Ben Franklin’s Vision: Levity over Gravity
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Sources and Suggested Readings
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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Preface
My earlier popular-science book, Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets (Harvard University Press, 1996), covered a wide variety of topics in the history, science, and technology of magnets. Most of the history and basic science presented there remains accurate, but many of the technology areas have advanced considerably since 1996. Technology is a moving target. In particular, magnetic levitation, that is, the use of magnetic forces to combat gravity and friction, has recently advanced in a wide variety of technology areas. The world’s fi rst commercial maglev train line was constructed in China to link the Shanghai airport to the city center, and, since 2003, millions of passengers have already experienced the excitement of traveling at speeds up to 250 miles per hour. A less visible but much wider application of magnetic levitation is in magnetic bearings. Here maglev applications have greatly increased in recent years and include their use in artificial hearts, energy storage, wind turbines, integrated-circuit manufacture, and ultracentrifuges to enrich uranium. (The recent assembly of large cascades of such centrifuges in Iran has become a major issue of international politics.) “Flying frogs,” the levitation of living frogs in high magnetic fields, drew much public attention in 1997 and stimulated greatly increased attention to the general area of diamagnetic levitation— levitation of matter repelled by magnetic fields. Superconductors, the ultimate diamagnetic materials, have seen increased use in maglev devices and demonstrations, including the levitation of a Japanese
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sumo wrestler and, of considerably more scientific importance, a half-ton superconducting ring for fusion research. The Levitron, a very popular toy in which a spinning magnet achieves stable levitation through gyroscopic action, became widely distributed in the late 1990s, and improved models, with higher levitation heights, have appeared in recent years. Many aesthetically striking items employing sophisticated electrical circuitry to achieve desktop levitation of globes and other magnetic objects have been developed and have even appeared in the form of a floating sculpture in an art museum. All these and other recent developments have convinced me that it would be timely to write a full-length popular-science book focused on one particular aspect of “the natural magic of magnets”—the topic of magnetic levitation. To quote from Driving Force, “Does gravity get you down? Magnets can lift you up! Does friction slow you down? Magnets can speed you up! Fighting the forces of gravity and friction is one of the things that magnets do best.” I should perhaps note here that some authors reserve the term magnetic levitation for cases where the magnetic antigravity force is repulsive, delivered from below, and prefer the term magnetic suspension for cases where the magnetic antigravity force is attractive, delivered from above. But most regard the words “suspension” and “levitation” as virtual synonyms. In this book, I will use the term magnetic levitation for magnetic antigravity forces of all types, in part because I much prefer the shortened form “maglev” to “magsusp.” We’ll start in Chapter 1 with examples of humankind’s longtime fascination with levitation from the worlds of literature, films, television, theater, magic, and religion, and then briefly describe various physical but nonmagnetic means that humankind has developed to combat gravity. Since magnetic levitation involves the use of magnetic forces to combat gravitational forces, we’ll review in Chapter 2 the basics of those two competing forces, and in Chapter 3 the fundamentals of maglev, including the central problems of force bal-
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ance and stability. Later chapters describe the various types of magnetic levitation that have been developed and their applications, finally reaching in Chapters 11 and 12 the topic of maglev trains, one of the most dramatic examples of magnets “fighting the forces of gravity and friction. . . one of the things that magnets do best.”
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Levity vs. Gravity
Fictional and Illusional Levitation
A few years ago I was in Manhattan on a short business trip, staying in a hotel in the theater district. I had a free evening, decided to see a musical, and chose a performance of Mary Poppins, hoping to relive some of the fun of the earlier movie version starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. I enjoyed the show, but the most memorable and magical moment came at the very end. After Mary Poppins had said her goodbyes to the Banks family, she opened her umbrella and flew away. And this time she didn’t just fly across the stage and into the wings, as she had done earlier in the show. This time she held up her umbrella and casually flew off the stage, up and high over the theater audience, up and high over the balcony, and out of sight. It was a wonderful effect, and its magical impression on me was enhanced by the wonder expressed in the face of the 6-year-old girl who happened to be sitting next to me. There’s something about seemingly conquering the ubiquitous force of gravity that is especially magical to most of us. I was well aware that the flight of Mary Poppins above my head was not really magic, not really a miracle. The rational part of my brain knew that she was supported by a harness attached to an array of many fine wires, wires fine enough that they would not be visible to us in the limited lighting in the heights of the theater above our heads. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the feeling of magic. Suspension of disbelief can be an important part of enjoying the theater. I’m not
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sure of the thinking of the 6-year-old girl who sat next to me. The world remains full of mysteries at that age, and I suspect she was not then thinking about harnesses and arrays of wires. During intermission, her mother had bought her a replica of the magical umbrella that seemed to be an important part of the flying ability of Mary Poppins, and probably in the following weeks, the girl often opened her umbrella and pretended to fly. Pretense and imagination are important parts of the gifts of childhood, a gift we adults often lose. If the girl took any time at all to wonder about how Mary Poppins was able to fly, she perhaps explained it to herself by the effects of a special wind on the unfurled umbrella. After all, the flying of kites was an important part of the play, and isn’t it wind that makes kites fly? In the book and stage versions of Peter Pan, the ability to fly was explained by Peter Pan as requiring only fairy dust and happy thoughts. (In Disney’s movie version, “fairy dust” was converted to “pixie dust,” probably because pixies were considered more politically correct.) In the TV series The Flying Nun, Sally Field wore an unusual winglike headdress that perhaps allowed a magical wind to levitate and propel her through the air. Disney’s Aladdin used a flying carpet, and Harry Potter and other students at Hogwarts flew on broomsticks, as did the scary Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (who doesn’t seem quite so scary in “Wicked,” where she sings “Defying Gravity.”). From the Middle Ages on, broomsticks have been portrayed as the preferred flying mechanisms for witches, the flying power of the broomsticks often enhanced by application of magical ointments. (Most modern attempts to explain the origin of this long-held superstition have a sexual component, with the broomstick a phallic symbol, a notion not stressed in the Harry Potter books.) In the Star Wars films, Yoda and other Jedi Masters are able to levitate objects with the use of “The Force,” while Chinese martial arts films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon feature warriors battling in graceful gravity-defying displays with no attempted explanation of the source of their abilities. To fly around the world on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus requires a team of magical reindeer, but
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Superman and many other superheroes in the world of fiction somehow levitate and fly on their own power, with no reindeer, broomsticks, umbrellas, winged hats, flying carpets, pixie dust, or even happy thoughts required. The ability to counteract the downward pull of the earth clearly exerts a powerful attraction to our imagination. Demonstrations of levitation have also long been a popular tool for magicians to display their powers. One famous illusion was the “ethereal suspension” introduced by French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin in 1847. As Robert-Houdin himself described it in his memoirs, I placed three stools upon a wooden bench. My son stepped on the middle one; I had him extend his arms so I could support him with two canes, each of which rested on a stool . . . I removed the stool so the child was supported only by the two canes. Th is strange balancing already evoked great surprise among the spectators. It grew even more when they saw me remove one of the two canes and the stool that supported it, and it reached its peak when, after having raised my child to a horizontal position using my little finger, I left him sleeping in space, and to defy the laws of gravity, I also removed the feet of the bench at the base of this impossible edifice.
His son was of course supported by the other “cane,” which was actually a strong iron bar connected at the bottom to a firm base and at the top to a mechanical harness worn by the son but hidden underneath his clothes. The harness and cane were joined with a complex but invisible linkage that allowed the magician to swing his son from vertical to horizontal. The illusion was featured on a 1971 postage stamp of France honoring the centennial of Robert-Houdin’s death. It shows his son horizontal in the air, supported under his arm by a thin cane standing on a stool mounted on a seemingly unsupported bench. (Both the son and the bench were cantilevered.) This trick has evolved to the current day in various forms, one of which is the “broomstick suspension” in which Robert-Houdin’s
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two canes are replaced by two broomsticks with their bristles facing up. This version even appeared in one episode of TV’s I Love Lucy, with Orson Welles as the magician and Lucille Ball as “Princess Lu Cy” seemingly supported only underneath one arm by the bristles of a broomstick (containing a concealed iron bar). Harry Houdini later honored the memory of Robert-Houdin by borrowing part of his name, but in The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin, wrote that RobertHoudin stole the “ethereal suspension” and others of his famous tricks from earlier magicians. An earlier and simpler illusion, involving no body harness and no complex linkage to the vertical rod, consisted simply of a metal platform cantilevered a few feet above the ground, supported on one end by a firmly anchored vertical iron rod. The levitated person wears loose clothing to conceal the platform, and the clothing often hangs down to conceal the supporting rod. Where full concealment of the rod is not possible, he simply puts one hand on the upper end of the rod/cane “to keep his balance.” This simple illusion is considerably older than Robert-Houdin’s “ethereal suspension,” but it created a sensation at an outdoor exhibition in South India in 1936, largely because photographs were taken and published in the Illustrated London News. The pictures, which can be seen today on the Web, show Yogi Subbayah Pullavar seemingly levitating a few feet above the ground in front of a crowd of 150 witnesses. Before the demonstration, Pullavar, platform, and rod support were inside a tent so that the assembly of the illusion could not be observed. Once it was ready, the tent flaps were opened for several minutes to amaze the audience with the levitating Yogi, and then closed again to allow the illusion to be disassembled. Recently a Dutch magician with the stage name of Ramana has revived this “Indian magic,” performed the illusion on television, and even demonstrated it in Times Square. Of course, more effective are levitation illusions in which there is no visible supporting cane or rod or broomstick, illusions in which the levitated body appears to be completely unsupported, simply floating in air. John Nevil Maskelyne, an English magician of the
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nineteenth century, is usually credited with the invention of the first effective illusion of this kind. Here the magician’s assistant could actually be seen to rise into the air (aided, of course, by magical hand gestures of the magician). It involved an assembly of fine wires to lift the platform on which the magician’s assistant reclined. The structure was cantilevered and supported by an iron pillar that stood about a foot behind the platform and could slide up and down through the stage. The curvature of the rod connecting the platform to the pillar allowed Maskelyne to stand in front of the pillar and obscure it from the audience. The audience’s view of the pillar was often also partly blocked by the assistant’s loose clothing that hung below the platform as he or she was lifted. The most important component of the illusion was the “gooseneck” in the rod of the support structure, which allowed Maskelyne to pass a circular hoop over the levitated body “not once, but twice” to convince skeptics in the audience that no wires or pillars were involved. This was possible because although the hoop did indeed pass over the levitated body from head to toe, it avoided the wires and the pillar. After the first pass, the hoop was still linked into the gooseneck of the support structure, but by pulling it back through the gooseneck and passing it over the levitated body again, the hoop became free. So passing the hoop over the body “not once, but twice” was an absolutely necessary part of the illusion. In Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception, Jim Ottaviani and Janine Johnston diagram in detail the Maskelyne “levi” trick, report how it was stolen by American magician Harry Kellar (Figure 1), and show how Kellar improved it, replacing the pillar with a second array of fine wires invisible to the audience. With no pillar to hide, the magician could now walk completely around the levitated body, usually the body of an attractive young woman appearing in Oriental clothing and introduced as Princess Karnak “from the mysterious East.” (It was helpful if the “princess” was not only attractive and young but also not too heavy, thereby limiting the stress on the wires.) As with most illusions presented by magicians, the levitation was introduced and accompanied by an extensive
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Kellar.
1894 poster advertising famed levitation trick of magician Harry
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colorful background story and mysterious incantations. Kellar later sold this and others of his successful tricks to his successor Harold Thurston, who for many years was America’s most popular magician. Thurston often invited some people from the audience to come to the stage to convince everyone that Princess Karnak “actually floats in space without any support.” Once on the stage, the men and women from the audience could of course see all the wires but, being told that they were now “part of the story,” they usually did not publicly reveal the magician’s secrets. Why spoil a good show for others? As Ottaviani and Johnston note at the end of their book, “that’s magic.” One of the most impressive demonstrations of levitation by magicians today is that of David Copperfield. I first saw it on television, and it can be seen today online via the wonders of the Worldwide Web. In this performance, instead of levitating a recumbent “princess,” Copperfield gracefully flies himself, gliding through the air and even turning somersaults in midair. Like Maskelyne did in the nineteenth century, Copperfield dispels your suspicions of supporting wires by having assistants seemingly pass circular hoops around his body. He later descends into a large transparent box, assistants put a cover on top of the box, and he can even levitate while in the box! He sometimes adds a sequence in which he invites a woman in the audience to join him, and he flies with her in his arms, as Superman did with Lois Lane. The Web also includes many sites explaining Copperfield’s levitation, which involves—you guessed it—an array of fine wires attached to a harness around his waist. This particular supporting system was created and patented by John Gaughan, a leading manufacturer of equipment for magicians. It is more sophisticated than earlier levitation devices and allows a wide variety of motions while the performer is in the air. As for those circular hoops, by using two assistants manipulating the hoops very rapidly and in synchronism, the illusion is created of hoops passing around Copperfield’s body even though they avoid the wires suspending him. And when he
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enters the transparent box, the top of the box is in sections that allow the wires into the box and permit Copperfield limited levitation even inside the box. But you might prefer just watching the magician’s wonderful performance without thinking of all the complex paraphernalia involved. More down-to-earth levitation illusions include the “street magic” of David Blaine and others that can be performed anywhere without the need of overhead wires. Here, however, the apparent levitation lifts the performer only a few inches above the ground and lasts only a few seconds. One such illusion requires no special equipment at all, just skill and lots of distracting patter and arm motions. Here the performer retreats a few feet from a small group of adult observers, turns his back to them, and stands at an angle to them. He then slowly rises on tiptoe on the foot away from the onlookers, while lift ing his other foot so that his two heels stay together, giving the appearance from behind that both feet are being lifted off the ground. The foot nearer the audience blocks their view of the tiptoe position of the other foot. The “levitation” must be brief, and there should be no children in the audience because they are likely to bend over quickly to look underneath the performer’s front foot and detect the true source of the “levitation.” There are several other techniques for “street magic” levitation, some of which involve movable supporting pillars hidden inside the performer’s trousers, but it of course remains important that the supporting device, be it a pillar or the front of a foot, be blocked from view. So this form of levitation must be limited in both height and duration. Also very popular with magicians and their audiences are tricks in which the levitated object is not the performer but smaller and lighter objects such as playing cards. In such cases, you are right to suspect the presence of some very thin unseen strings. Even light objects like playing cards need help to resist the relentless pull of gravity.
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Wingardium Leviosa!
Levitation plays an important role in the fantasy world of the Harry Potter books and films, and not only with flying broomsticks. In the first book of the series, the young wizard students at Hogwarts Academy are pleased when in their Charms class, Professor Flitwick announced that they would be finally learning the levitation spell. On each student’s desk was placed a large feather to levitate. (After all, these were only young wizards trying their first levitation, and after they first learned to levitate light objects like feathers, they could later progress to heavier things.) The professor explained that, like most spells, it would require both proper use of their magic wands (the correct “swish and flick”) and saying the magic words properly. For the levitation spell, the magical incantation was “Wingardium Leviosa!” Harry’s friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were sitting together in the front of the class and Ron tried first. After a wide, sweeping movement of the wand, he pointed it at the feather in front of him and said, “Wingardium Leviosa!” But the feather did not budge. Hermione then explained to Ron that he was saying it wrong, emphasizing the wrong syllables. Hermione then picked up her wand, gave it the proper “swish and flick,” and said “Wingardium Leviosa!” with the proper pronunciation. The feather rose from the desk and hovered above their heads. “Oh, well done!” cried Professor Flitwick, “Everyone see here, Miss Granger’s done it!” Neither Ron nor the other students in the class were all that pleased that Hermione had mastered the levitation spell first. Later in the story, however, Hermione and Harry were in serious danger from a giant troll carry ing a huge club. Fortunately, by now Ron had learned the levitation spell. After a wave of his wand and a well-pronounced “Wingardium Leviosa!” the troll’s club rose in the air and then dropped down on the troll’s head, knocking it out and thereby saving Hermione and Harry. In a later episode, Harry also used the levitation spell to escape a difficult situation. Apparently,
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although a girl was the quickest to learn, boys can eventually catch up—at least in the fantasy world of Harry Potter. In his book The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works, British author Roger Highfield uses the wonder in the Harry Potter stories as an excuse to introduce some of the “magic” in realworld science. With regard to various examples of levitation in Harry Potter, Highfield seems to feel that some form of magnetic levitation is probably at work, which he introduces in a section entitled “Magnets, the Levitron, and Levitating Frogs” (topics we discuss in Chapters 4 and 6). But he makes no attempt to give a scientific explanation of why the levitation in Harry Potter’s world seems to depend on the proper pronunciation of the magic words. In Harry Potter’s world, the nonwizard humans are called Muggles. In our world, however, the real wizards are the Muggle inventors, scientists, and engineers who use their knowledge and creativity, not magic wands and magic words, to produce all the magic of modern technology, including the magic of magnetic levitation. Mystical Levitation
David Copperfield introduces his levitation show with references to the common dream of flying. I’ve had that dream, and you probably have too. In his famous The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud confesses to be mystified by flying dreams. Since such dreams are generally pleasurable, Freud suggested that they might just be a remnant of childhood fun with swings or seesaws or being lifted and swung in the air by playful parents or uncles. (He of course also suggests a possible sexual interpretation, as is his wont.) Other writers suggest that flying dreams may represent a desire for freedom from the limitations of everyday life, or perhaps a wish for social elevation. Whatever the meaning of flying dreams, I suspect that even a few saints have had them—or at least had some mystical experiences akin to dreaming. Copertino, once spelled Cupertino, is a small town in southern Italy, in the “heel” of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula. The town is
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most famous for the birth there in 1603, in a stable, of Giuseppe Maria Desa, known in the West today as Saint Joseph of Cupertino. Giuseppe grew up to be very devout. He became a friar and often was gripped in intense religious “raptures” or “ecstasies,” trances in which he had miraculous visions. Stories began to circulate that while he was in these trances, he often levitated several feet above the ground. Witnesses reported that over the years he levitated dozens of times, sometimes to considerable heights, and once even levitated in the presence of the Pope. After Giuseppe’s death in 1663, stories of his levitations were part of the reports issued for his beatification, and he was canonized in 1767. Several paintings of the saint show him floating in mid-air. San Giuseppe de Copertino, or Saint Joseph of Cupertino, the “Flying Friar,” is now, most appropriately, the patron saint of pilots and air travelers. Perhaps the best known and most loved of the many other Catholic saints who have been reported to levitate is Saint Teresa of Avila. In her case, we can read her own accounts of her levitations in her autobiography, written in 1562 for her confessors. In it, she often reports seeing visions of devils and angels and even the presence of Jesus himself, and describes her frequent raptures, transports, and “flights of the spirit.” “My soul has been carried away,” she wrote, “and usually my head as well, without my being able to prevent it; and sometimes it has affected my whole body, which has been lifted from the ground.” She was not pleased with her levitations. She asked her fellow nuns not to speak of them, and on one occasion, asked them to hold her down. She beseeched the Lord “to grant me no more favors if they must have outward and visible signs.” She was apparently aware that some might think that her levitations were only dreams. “One does not lose consciousness,” she argued, “At least I myself was sufficiently aware that I was being lifted.” Considering the times in which she lived, Teresa was certainly an outstanding woman. In addition to her autobiography, Teresa wrote several other books and spent many years traveling throughout Spain founding Carmelite convents. She was so revered during
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her life that she was canonized only forty years after her death, and later became one of the patron saints of Spain. The desire to claim a piece of divinity was then very powerful. Teresa’s body was exhumed and dissected, and her relics became highly prized and distributed to various holy sites throughout Europe. General Francisco Franco reportedly kept her left hand by his bedside throughout his life. Her home city of Avila, with a restored center that is a World Heritage Site, retained only one of her fingers. When my wife and I visited Avila several years ago, we were most charmed by the ancient stone walls that surround the central city, but our tour guide clearly felt that the most important wonder of Avila was Saint Teresa’s finger. In the Old Testament, Ezekial reported being visited by a spirit who “lifted me up between the earth and the heaven.” Gnostic books tell of the levitation of Simon Magus above the apostle Peter, and Islamic sources tell of King Solomon traveling through the air, albeit with the aid of a magic carpet. There are tales of levitating Japanese ninjas and Indian yogis and fakirs (some, like Subbayah Pullavar, may also have been fakers). Tibet has legends of levitating lamas, and the Buddha himself reportedly had the power, although it is said that he was reluctant to levitate in the presence of others, since he disapproved of the public demonstration of miracles. In modern times, practitioners of Transcendental Meditation practice “yogic flying”—essentially a short hop with the legs crossed in the lotus position—which is claimed to be the first step toward full levitation. (But no transcendental meditators yet seem to have reached the second step.) Many people have described the sensation of flying during “out of body experiences” (OBEs), such “flights of fancy” sometimes enabled by hallucinogenic drugs. Amazon.com offers several books on self-levitation, including a “how-to manual.” Humans can fly in their dreams and mystical raptures, and from ancient times to today, have developed countless stories of gods and heroes (and sometimes villains) capable of levitation. The desire to overcome, at least to a degree, the force of earth’s gravity seems to have been with us for a very long time, probably since the very first
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humans wondered at—and envied—the wonder-full flying abilities of birds. Fortunately, we are not limited to fictional, illusional, and mystical means of levitation. There are several real physical methods to produce upward forces and achieve levitation. Physical Levitation without Magnets
It was in Paris in 1783 that humans first achieved free flight. Brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier had been inspired by observing smoke rise up the chimney, and explored the possibility that the “levity” of smoke could be exploited to lift other objects. They started with a small silk bag that they held over a fire, and the bag rose to the ceiling. They then advanced to much larger bags and to public demonstrations, including one before Louis XVI at Versailles in which a sheep, a rooster, and a duck were the passengers. The balloon floated for several minutes and landed about two miles from the launch site. The animals looked none the worse from their trip, so the brothers were encouraged to try human passengers. After trials with humans in baskets attached to tethered balloons, a Montgolfier balloon carrying two French noblemen as volunteers was released in the Bois de Boulogne on November 21, 1783. This first manned free flight lasted about 23 minutes, rose to an altitude of over 3,000 feet, and landed safely several miles away. Humankind was finally freed from the confines of the earth’s surface. It took a while for the Montgolfier brothers to learn that it was not the smoke itself that conveyed levity to the balloon, but the heated air that was less dense than the cooler air outside the balloon. The balloon ascension did not actually overcome gravity—it used it. Gravity pulled downward on a given volume of the surrounding unheated air with a greater force than it pulled downward on the lighter heated air within the balloon, so the surrounding unheated air fell and the balloon rose. Earlier, in 1783, other Frenchmen had used another approach to produce a gas lighter than air, fi lling a balloon with the recently isolated gas, hydrogen, to successfully launch
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an unmanned balloon. Hydrogen balloons had distinct advantages over hot-air balloons, which required considerable effort during flight to keep alive the fire that heated the air. However, hydrogen also has a distinct disadvantage as a lifting gas for passenger flight—it burns. It was not until 1937, with the fiery end of the German airship Hindenburg, that hydrogen was finally abandoned as a common lifting gas. Today’s lighter-than-air ships use helium, a nonflammable, chemically inert gas first identified in the solar spectrum in 1868 (named from helios, Greek for the sun) and not discovered as a significant component of natural gas until 1903. At ordinary temperatures, although helium is about twice as dense as hydrogen, it is still about seven times lighter than air, so it can provide plenty of lift. The phenomenon of buoyancy that lifted the Montgolfier hotair balloon and today lifts the Goodyear blimp and other lighterthan-air ships, as well as many party balloons, is the same thing that enables me to do something I enjoy each summer—floating on my back in ocean water. I can do that because the salt water is a bit denser (i.e., weighs a bit more for a given volume) than my body. So the earth’s gravity pulls down harder on the salt water than it does on me, and I, a lighter-than-salt-water body, can float. As reported by Archimedes in the third century B.C.E., a body immersed in a fluid experiences a buoyancy force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. (The familiar story that this discovery led Archimedes to jump out of his bathtub and run naked into the streets crying “Eureka” is highly questionable.) The buoyancy force can also be viewed as the difference between the fluid pressure exerted on the bottom surface of the immersed body (pushing it up) and that exerted on its top surface (pushing it down). In any fluid, be it liquid or gas, pressure increases with depth. Here I probably should mention that there is a magnetic form of buoyancy commonly called the magneto-Archimedes effect. For this you need a magnetic liquid or ferrofluid, which consists of extremely fine particles of a magnetic material, commonly an iron oxide, suspended in a water-based or oil-based liquid. Pour the ferrofluid into
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a container, immerse a small chunk of copper or other nonmagnetic material in the ferrofluid, and put a strong permanent magnet under the container. The ferrofluid is attracted strongly downward toward the magnet, it flows underneath the copper, and the copper rises. (This effect occurs even in weaker magnetic liquids, as long as the immersed object that you want to lift is less magnetic than the liquid.) Some call this a form of maglev, but for this book, I’ll reserve the term levitation for cases where an upward magnetic force opposes the downward force of gravity, and the lifted object is contactfree or nearly contact-free and not immersed in liquid. Let’s return to the more relaxing topic of me floating on my back in ocean water. For those who like numbers, I note that the density of fresh water is 1 gram per cubic centimeter (g/cc) or 62.4 pounds per cubic foot, while the density of most ocean water is a bit higher, about 1.03 g/cc. Ocean water is about 3 denser than fresh water because, by weight, it holds about 3 salt. (The water in special places like Utah’s Great Salt Lake or Israel’s Dead Sea holds much more salt and can have densities as high as 1.2 g/cc or even greater.) The density of the human body is close to that of water but is variable. Your bones and muscles are denser than fresh water, but your fat is less dense. With more fat, you float more easily. And you can change your average density by varying the amount of air in your lungs. If I blow the air out of my lungs, I rapidly sink to the bottom of a swimming pool—I’m rather skinny. But not in the ocean—that 3 extra density of the water, provided by the salt, makes it easy for me to float. In the above paragraph, I used two different units for mass or weight—grams and pounds—and two different units for distance— centimeters and feet. (To be more precise, I used two different units for volume—cubic centimeters and cubic feet.) In my work as a scientist, I usually use the metric system, which includes describing masses in grams and distances in meters, but we Americans as a society have been very reluctant to give up the “English system” of ounces and pounds and inches, feet, and yards, even though the English themselves abandoned it long ago. I’m an American and a
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scientist (a Scientific American?), so I feel reasonably comfortable with both sets of units, but some readers of this book may be either nonscientists or non-Americans, or both, and I want you all to feel as comfortable as possible. So when I need to use numbers and units to describe things quantitatively in this book, I’ll usually provide a translation from one set of units to the other, as I did above. In case I forget, you can refer back here for the basics: 1 pound = 454 grams = 0.454 kilogram, and 2.54 cm = 1 inch = 1/12 foot. Human flight started with the Montgolfier brothers and buoyancy. The next major step came 120 years later and was also made by two brothers—Wilbur and Orville Wright. In December 1903, on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they demonstrated that even an object heavier than air could be encouraged to fly and carry a human aloft with the help of wings, a headwind, and enginedriven propellers. They started with kites and gliders, and their first successful biplane was essentially a powered glider. Today’s huge passenger airplanes, like the Wrights’ Flyer of 1903, get their levitation or lift mostly from the difference between the upward air pressure exerted on the lower surface of the wings and the downward air pressure on their upper surface. In the Montgolfier balloon, this pressure difference between bottom and top resulted directly from the force of gravity and the resulting increase of air pressure with depth. In the Wright biplane and modern airplanes, it results mostly from the plane’s motion through the air, from the “wind beneath my wings.” Lifting forces generated by propellers in helicopters and by fans in hovercrafts (air-cushion vehicles) also result from differentials in air pressure. On a much smaller scale, an upward stream of air, for example, from a hair dryer, can levitate a ping-pong ball, a process that has been called aerodynamic levitation when used in a laboratory for research purposes. You can lift off the earth yourself with a downward stream of gases if you have the nerve to try a rocket belt of the kind seen in the James Bond 1965 movie Thunderball and featured much earlier in the Flash Gordon comics. Here the downward momentum of the
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escaping gases yields a reverse upward thrust that can lift a human wearing the belt, but only for about 20 seconds before the fuel runs out. NASA’s rockets lifting shuttles into orbit or astronauts toward the moon provide upward thrust much longer, since they can carry a lot more fuel than James Bond could carry on his back. A less familiar way to produce antigravity forces is acoustic levitation—levitation by sound. Sound waves in air are waves of varying air pressure, usually generated by vibrations of surfaces in contact with the air, like the diaphragms of the speakers in radios, telephones, and other electrical devices (or our own larynxes). Scientists have used sound waves to demonstrate acoustic levitation of various solid objects, even including living things like beetles, spiders, ants, and ladybugs. The sound waves are generated utilizing transducers—devices that convert electrical energy into sound energy, usually piezoelectrics, materials that change dimensions under electrical stimulation. Those changes in dimension produce vibratory surface motions that generate vibrations in the air, that is, sound. Most sound waves are traveling waves in which the maxima and minima of air pressure (regions of compression and rarefaction) move outward from the source, for example, the TV speaker. Optimum acoustic levitation requires a sound reflector and interference between incident and reflected waves to create “standing waves” of sound between the emitting and reflecting surfaces, waves in which the maxima and minima of air pressure remain fi xed in space. Although acoustic levitation of beetles is amusing (perhaps not to the beetles), the technique of acoustic levitation also has practical applications in science and engineering, such as the levitation of molten materials that are highly active chemically and would react if in contact with most possible containers. Acoustic levitation is one laboratory technique used for “containerless processing” of reactive materials, as well as for other experiments in which study of a material without the influence of a contacting surface is of interest. More generally, simulated weightlessness is of special interest, of course, to NASA. Many experiments done by NASA and other laboratories
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using acoustic levitation employ “sound” waves of frequencies higher than we can hear, that is, higher than 20,000 cycles per second. The technique is then called ultrasonic levitation. Except for the rocket belt, all the physical techniques that produce levitation mentioned so far require the presence of air or another gas to produce the upward force on the levitated object. However, several levitation techniques can operate in a vacuum without the use of rockets. One such technique is optical levitation, in which the upward force on the levitated object is provided by light, usually in the form of a high-intensity laser beam. Instead of air pressure, the object is levitated by “radiation pressure” produced by the particles of light, called photons, which carry momentum and transfer it to the levitated object. With enough laser intensity, stable suspension of small solid particles or liquid droplets has been achieved. Another physical levitation method that can operate in vacuum is electrostatic levitation. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, offers an electrostatic levitator for researchers interested in containerless processing. It has two horizontal copper plates with a large voltage difference between them, producing a large vertical electric field between the plates that yields an upward force on a charged object. With the use of side electrodes, complex electronics, and techniques to maintain charge on the object, stable levitation can be achieved. It’s a highly sophisticated use of the electrostatic force, which is most familiar to us via the “static cling” of clothing removed from the dryer. Electrostatic levitation is interesting, but more complicated to achieve and less widely useful than its close cousin, the main subject of this book—magnetic levitation, or, in its popular abbreviated form, maglev. To appreciate the challenges of maglev, we should first review the basics of gravitational and magnetic forces, which we do in the next chapter.
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Forces of the Universe
Theoretical physicists tell us that there are only four basic forces of the universe: gravitation, the electromagnetic force, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. In this book on maglev, we can ignore the two nuclear forces and concentrate on the competition between gravitational and magnetic forces. But what about the force we’re most familiar with, the force of touch—the force the bat exerts on the baseball, the antigravity force our chair exerts on the seat of our pants, the force of air pressure that, as we discussed in the previous chapter, lifts helium balloons and 747s off the ground? Physicists think of such things on the atomic level and tell us that the force one object exerts on another through touch is basically the repulsion at very small separations between electrons in one object and electrons in the other. So the force of touch is just one aspect of the electromagnetic force. So let’s forget about touch for now and concentrate on magnetic levitation, that is, the competition between upward magnetic forces and downward gravitational forces—two forces that operate at a distance without touch. First we should review a few basics about gravitation. We should know the enemy. The gravitational force between two masses, unlike electric and magnetic forces, is always attractive. According to Isaac Newton, the gravitational attractive force between two masses varies as the product of the two masses—mass 1 times mass 2. If both of the two masses are small, the gravitational force is tiny. However, we live on
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the surface of a huge mass—the earth—that exerts a very large and very noticeable downward force upon us. That’s the force we’re trying to oppose with maglev. Newton also tells us that the gravitational force between two masses varies as the inverse square of the distance of separation between their centers. That means that if you double the distance of separation between two centers of mass, the force decreases by a factor of four—two squared (2 = 2 × 2). If you triple the distance of separation, the force decreases by a factor of nine—three squared (3 = 3 × 3). That’s the famous inversesquare law. The gravitational force we’re most interested in is the force exerted by the earth on us and other objects near the surface of the earth, and the distance of separation between us and the center of mass of the earth is usually pretty constant. The radius of the earth is about 4,000 miles. Since our separation from the center of the earth is very large, slight changes in altitude will make only very small changes in the total distance of separation. Although the earth’s gravitational force acting on you on the summit of Mount Everest will be a little less than that acting on you at sea level, the difference will be less than a pound. (To lose weight, increasing altitude is much less effective than dieting or exercise.) For positions on or near the surface of the earth, we can consider the downward force of gravity on a particular mass, like your body or some object you want to levitate, to be very nearly constant. Even if you are orbiting in the space shuttle about 200 miles above the earth’s surface, that increases your distance from the center of the earth by only 5 (from 4,000 to 4,200 miles) and decreases the gravitational force on you by only about 10 (inverse square—the square of 1.05 is about 1.10). So the earth is exerting on you and the other astronauts in the shuttle about 90 of the gravitational force that it exerts on you when you’re on the earth. It’s not “zero gravity” as it sometimes is mistakenly called. The gravitational field of the earth, although it decreases with distance from the earth, extends to infinity. In the shuttle, it’s just slightly reduced gravity.
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But if that’s true, why can you and your fellow astronauts float around so weightlessly? Because you’re in free fall. You are falling like a skydiver but without the air resistance. And also unlike a skydiver, you’re not falling straight down. The forward velocity of the shuttle in orbit keeps it and you falling around the earth, not into it. If you want to experience free fall without a ride in the shuttle, some amusement park rides offer 2 or 3 seconds of nearly free fall (thoughtfully followed by rapid deceleration before you hit the ground). Special airplane flights offer, several times during the flight, up to 25 seconds of nearly free fall. (NASA calls their plane Weightless Wonder, but for those with weak stomachs, it has become known as the “vomit comet.”) The scenes in the movie Apollo 13 where Tom Hanks and other astronauts are floating around weightlessly were filmed in such a plane. But in this book we will be considering objects that are very near the surface of the earth and not in free fall. In fact, with maglev, we want to use magnetic forces to keep objects from falling. Before we consider our main object of interest, the magnetic force, we should say a few words about its close cousin, the electrostatic force, another aspect of the electromagnetic force. The electrostatic force can operate at large distances between objects if one or both objects have a net electrical charge. When an object is uncharged or electrically neutral, as most objects usually are, the negative charge of the electrons is balanced by the positive charge of the atomic nuclei. However, it is often easy to create a surplus or deficiency of electrons in an object, say by rubbing a rubber comb through your hair (or rubbing it with wool if you no longer have hair). The rubber comb picks up some extra electrons from your hair or the wool, gets a net negative charge, and is now able to attract light bits of paper. (You should try this on a day when the air is fairly dry. If the air is very humid, water in the air tends to drain the comb of its excess charge.) Although the paper is uncharged, the net negative charge on the comb repels electrons in the paper away from the surface and the paper surface facing the comb gets a net positive charge, resulting in attraction to the comb. Another common experiment is
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to rub a glass rod with a bit of silk. The glass will lose a few electrons to the silk and get a net positive charge, and it now can also attract light bits of paper. Here the net positive charge of the glass rod attracts electrons and the surface of the paper facing the glass rod gets a net negative charge. Objects with a net charge, either negative like the rubber comb or positive like the glass rod, can attract uncharged objects like the bits of paper simply by causing the motion of some electrons in the paper. Transfers and motions of electrons among clothes in the dryer produce the phenomenon of “static cling” referred to in Chapter 1. A charged object attracts uncharged objects, but if you have two objects, each with a net electric charge, they can either attract or repel depending on their relative sign. Like charges repel, unlike charges attract. If free to move visibly in response to weak forces, say if hung by thin threads, two rubber combs rubbed with wool (each with a net negative charge) will repel each other, as will two glass rods (each with a net positive charge) rubbed with silk, but a rubber comb and a glass rod will be attracted to each other. These electric forces of attraction or repulsion between charged objects act at large distances of separation, and Frenchman Charles-Augustin de Coulomb showed that the decrease in force with increasing separation followed the same mathematical law that Newton postulated for gravitational forces—the inverse-square law. “Coulomb’s law” of electrostatic forces states that electric forces between two objects with net electric charge decrease as the inverse square of the distance between them. It’s instructive to set Newton against Coulomb and compare the relative strengths of gravitational and electrostatic forces. Two protons, elementary particles of positive charge, exert on each other both an attractive gravitational force and a repulsive electrostatic force. But it is not a close contest. The electrostatic force of repulsion between the two protons, at any distance, is stronger than the gravitational force of attraction by a factor of 10 – 1 followed by 36 zeroes. (That’s a trillion trillion trillion!) Nevertheless, despite the relative weakness of gravitational forces compared to electromagnetic forces,
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they are very noticeable for those of us who live on the surface of a very large mass like the earth. The famous physicist Richard Feynman was once speaking at a physics conference on the relative weakness of gravity. “The gravitational force is weak,” he said, “In fact, it’s very weak.” As luck would have it, at that very instant a loudspeaker broke loose from the ceiling and crashed to the floor. Feynman quickly added, “Weak–but not negligible.” Magnetic Forces
Having discussed the basics of the gravitational force, which is essentially constant but defi nitely “nonnegligible” near the surface of the earth, we now turn to the forces that are used in maglev to combat the pervasive and nonnegligible force of gravity—magnetic forces. The source of gravitational forces is mass. The source of electrostatic charges is electric charge. The source of magnetic forces is also electric charge, but electric charge in motion, even though you usually cannot see the motion of the charge, which can be electric current or can be on the atomic scale in the form of spin or orbital motion of electrons. In fact, it is the motion-based connection between electricity and magnetism that led Einstein to his theory of special relativity, which deals with relative motion. But for this book, we will ignore relativity and focus on situations in which the forces we are using to counter gravity can simply be considered as magnetic forces. Here it will be useful to remind you of several basic things about magnets and magnetic forces you probably learned many years ago, but several of which you are likely to have forgotten if you are not a practicing scientist or engineer. I introduced them in my earlier book, Driving Force, as ten “facts about the force.” (If you have read and memorized Driving Force, you can skip this section.) Fact 1: If free to rotate, permanent magnets point approximately north–south. That’s what compass needles do and what other magnets will do if they are free to swing in response to the weak roughly north–south
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magnetic field of the earth. The end of the magnet that points north we call the north pole (north-seeking pole) and the end that points south we call the south pole. The ability of magnets to identify directions was known in China well over 2,000 years ago, but became known in Europe only about 1,000 years later. Note that the earth’s magnetic field causes the compass needle to rotate, that is, exerts a torque on the compass, but does not produce any net force to move the compass needle southward or northward. Because the earth’s field is essentially constant over the length of the compass, the magnetic forces exerted by the earth’s field on opposite poles of the compass needle are equal and opposite—no net force. Fact 2: Like poles repel, unlike poles attract. The north pole of one magnet will repel the north pole of a second magnet, but will attract its south pole. Unlike gravitational forces, magnetic forces can be either attractive or repulsive. Many students I have talked with about magnets, from first-graders to engineering majors at MIT, seem to find repulsive magnetic forces more fascinating than attractive forces. And we will find that many techniques of magnetic levitation are based on repulsive forces. Fact 3: Permanent magnets attract some things (like iron and steel) but not others (like aluminum, copper, wood, or glass). Th is selectivity is one of the most fascinating, and most useful, aspects of magnetic forces. It is used a lot in industry, and you can use it yourself to separate out the tiny iron-rich particles that are present in sands and soils and even some fortified breakfast cereals. Fact 4: Magnetic forces act at a distance and can act through nonmagnetic barriers (if not too thick). This is also very useful, not only to engineers but also to magicians who can achieve mysterious effects with hidden magnets. It also adds to the aesthetic effect of some maglev devices. Fact 5: Things attracted to a permanent magnet become temporary magnets themselves.
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When touched by a permanent magnet, a steel paper clip becomes magnetic enough to attract a second paper clip; it becomes a “temporary magnet.” If your magnet is strong enough, you can hang a long chain of paper clips under it. These first five “facts about the force” were known even in ancient times. In one of Plato’s early dialogues, he has Socrates describing Fact 5 in detail, although he discussed a chain of iron rings, not steel paper clips. (Socrates, via Plato, was not just conveying scientific facts. He was using this familiar property of magnets as a metaphor for the ability of poets to inspire others.) The next three facts were not known until the nineteenth century, when the close connection between electricity and magnetism was discovered. These may be less familiar to you than the first five, but some will be very important to the topic of magnetic levitation. Fact 6: A coil of wire with an electric current flowing through it becomes a magnet. It was in 1820 that Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted discovered that an electric current flowing down a wire moved a nearby compass needle. In a wire wound into a coil (e.g., shaped like a bedspring or a Slinky), the magnetic fields from the various turns of wire add together, and the coil becomes an electromagnet with a north pole on one end of the coil and a south pole on the other (Figure 2). Increasing the current increases the strength of the electromagnet, and if the current is reversed, the poles reverse. Permanent magnets are wonderful things, but electromagnets have the distinct advantage that their magnetic fields can be changed by changing the current. Permanence is admirable, but flexibility also has its advantages. Magnetic fields of electromagnets can be turned on and off, and alternating magnetic fields can be produced by alternating currents. That’s often very useful, and is especially so in many levitation systems. Fact 7: Putting iron inside a current-carrying coil greatly increases the strength of the electromagnet. Iron can be magnetized (become a temporary magnet) by exposure to a permanent magnet (Fact 5) or an electromagnet (Fact 7).
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And an iron core inside an electromagnet can increase the strength of its magnetic field by factors of thousands. Many electromagnets in engineering use, including many of those in devices discussed in this book, are iron-core electromagnets. Figure 2 shows, schematically,
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magnetic fields produced by a permanent magnet, an air-core electromagnet, and an iron-core electromagnet. We will encounter all three magnet types in later chapters. Fact 8: Changing magnetic fields induce electric currents in copper and other conductors. Shortly after Oersted discovered that you can use electric currents to produce magnetism, Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry independently discovered that you can do the reverse—use magnets to produce electric currents, the phenomenon we call electromagnetic induction. Faraday found he could induce currents simply by moving a magnet in the vicinity of a conductor. That’s still how we generate most of our electricity today. Fact 8 may be unfamiliar to you, but we’ll later devote one whole chapter to it (Chapter 5), since using electromagnetic induction is one of the important ways to produce magnetic levitation. Among other things, it’s what allows some Japanese maglev trains to lift off the tracks and break world speed records. The final two of the ten “facts about the force” deal directly with magnetic forces, and since in magnetic levitation we’ll be using magnetic forces to counter gravitational forces, we should include them, even though they may be totally new to you. We’ll refer to Fact 10 a few times in later chapters and to Fact 9 at least once. And they both are pretty basic to the essence of magnetism and its uses. They may be totally unfamiliar to you, but when we use them in this book, we’ll remind you of what they are. Fact 9: A charged particle experiences no magnetic force when moving parallel to a magnetic field, but when it is moving perpendicular to the field it experiences a force perpendicular to both the field and the direction of motion. In freshman physics courses, Fact 9 is essentially introduced as the definition of a magnetic field. Electric fields are defined in terms of the force they exert on even stationary charged particles, and magnetic fields are defined in terms of the force they exert on moving charged particles. We won’t use Fact 9 much in this book, but the
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fact that magnetic fields produce forces perpendicular to the direction of motion of charged particles produces circular or curved paths of the particles in many large and small devices, including the electrons moving in circular paths in the magnetron that generates microwaves in your microwave oven. And it’s how the earth’s magnetic field directs charged particles emitted from the sun to the earth’s poles, thereby both protecting us from some radiation and giving us the northern (and southern) lights. Fact 10: A current-carrying wire in a perpendicular magnetic field experiences a force in a direction perpendicular to both the wire and field. Fact 10 is a close cousin of Fact 9 and deals with charged particles (electrons) moving through a conducting wire (i.e., electric current) rather than through free space. In this book, when we are dealing with moving electric charges, they will mostly be moving not through free space but through conducting metals, as in the wires of a current-carrying electromagnet. So Fact 10 will be more important to us than Fact 9. We’ll remind you of it when we need it. In Driving Force, I used Fact 10 to explain how magnetic forces on current-carrying wires in speakers convert alternating electric currents into alternating forces, producing alternating motion of a diaphragm that generates alternating compression and expansion of air (i.e., generates sound). Fact 10 can also be used to explain how magnetic forces acting on current-carrying wires convert currents into motion in motors, the other most common use of magnets. But in Driving Force, I instead discussed a motor in terms of Fact 2, the force between magnetic poles. Sometimes you can think of an electromagnet as a magnet with north and south poles, but sometimes it’s more helpful to think of it as current-carrying wires. It’s both. There are lots of perpendiculars in Fact 9 and its close cousin Fact 10, and for full application, they involve some three-dimensional thinking and one of the venerable “right-hand rules” popu lar (at least to the professor) in physics courses. Those rules often produce the amusing sight of many physics students, during exams, pointing
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the thumbs and index and middle fingers of their right hands in mutually perpendicular directions to figure out the direction of magnetic forces. We’ll spare you that challenge. Phew! I’ve already thrown a lot of magnet science at you, and we’re only in Chapter 2. Take a deep breath. You probably knew the first five facts before picking up this book, even though you may not have thought about them much lately. So a reminder may have been helpful, and we’ll remind you again if and when we need to. Facts 6 and 7 you probably learned in school through the traditional experiment of wrapping a wire around a nail, attaching the ends of the wire to a battery, and finding that the nail was now a magnet and could pick up paper clips. But that was a long time ago, so I suspect that reminder was even more helpful. And Facts 8, 9, and 10 may be total strangers to some readers. Fear not. In the coming chapters, we will not be assuming that you already know all these things. As noted earlier, we will be devoting all of Chapter 5 to discussing Fact 8 (electromagnetic induction). And when we need Facts 9 or 10 (mostly 10) in later chapters, I’ll be sure to remind you of them. When you see a fact about magnets and magnetic forces applied to a real physical situation, it will be a lot more meaningful than considering it in the abstract. Magnetic Materials
I teach in the materials science department at MIT, so it’s appropriate that before discussing the fundamentals of magnetic levitation, I should also say a few words about magnetic materials, and in particular, about the one element that is at the center of the world of magnetism—iron. Iron would be a very special element even if it were not magnetic. Of all the hundred-odd elements, iron has the most stable nucleus, which results in iron being the most common metal in the universe. And, by mass, it is also the most common of all the elements in our planet earth. Oxygen, aluminum, and silicon are a bit
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more common than iron in the earth’s crust; because iron is heavier, much of it is in the earth’s core. But iron is much easier to separate from its oxides than silicon and aluminum. And in the form of steel, it is mechanically strong, formable, and inexpensive, making it of extreme importance as a structural material. And iron’s magnetic! Its immediate neighbors in the periodic table, cobalt and nickel, are also magnetic, but they are much more expensive than iron, so they are much less used. As we discussed in Facts 5 and 7, iron becomes magnetized in the presence of permanent magnets and as cores in electromagnets, and the use of iron as a “temporary magnet” is important in many applications. It also turns out that iron is a major chemical component of most permanent magnets. Lodestones, the only magnets known to Plato and his contemporaries, are made of the mineral magnetite, an iron oxide found naturally around the world. Once scientists and engineers learned to make steels (iron containing carbon and other elements), steel magnets surpassed lodestones, and they played a central role in the development of the electrical industry in the nineteenth century. In the 1930s, alnico magnets (alloys of iron with aluminum, nickel, and cobalt) surpassed the steels, and they are still sometimes used today. Alnico magnets helped the Allies defeat Hitler through magnetrons and microwave radar, but today most permanent magnets used are either the “ceramic” ferrite magnets (iron oxides containing barium or strontium) or the “rare earth” neodymium magnets (an iron compound with neodymium and boron). Thus the overwhelming majority of permanent magnets used in the past and those used today contain lots of iron. The ferrites are much cheaper than neodymium magnets and are therefore more used; for example, most refrigerator magnets contain fine particles of ferrite magnets immersed in plastic or rubber. But neodymium magnets are much more powerful than the ferrites and are used wherever superior magnetic properties are more important than cost, particularly in applications where size and weight are critical, as in laptop computers and earphones. And they are used in many levitation de-
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vices because they can produce greater magnetic forces than ceramic magnets. Neodymium, an important component of today’s most powerful permanent magnets, is element number sixty, one of the so-called “rare earth” elements that usually appear near the bottom of charts of the periodic table of elements. Neodymium itself actually is not very rare and is more plentiful in the earth’s surface than more familiar elements such as lead and tin. However, it is relatively difficult to separate from its ores, making it fairly expensive. And over 90 of the earth’s known supply of rare earths is in China; half comes from a single mine in Inner Mongolia. In 1992, Chinese president Deng Xioping bragged, “The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths.” There are other important industrial uses for rare-earth elements, but the importance of neodymium in particular to today’s high-strength magnets makes some analysts worry that China is developing a stranglehold on the world market for magnets, and neodymium magnets are important in much of modern technology. They are especially important in computer hard drives and also are key to several growing markets for environmentally friendly “green” technology, including generators for wind turbines and electric motors for hybrid and electric cars. One of the biggest users of neodymium today is the Toyota Prius. In 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced tighter restrictions on exports of several rare-earth metals, including neodymium, and the announcement instantly produced greatly increased interest in the mining of rare-earth ores in the Western world (and a strong increase in the stock prices of mining companies in the business). Some darkly accused China of wielding the rare earths as a “twentyfi rst century economic weapon.” Neodymium and the other rare earths are not yet as important to the United States as Middle Eastern oil, but if we ever carry through on our long-stated goal of reducing our dependence on foreign oil, the balance will shift. We’ll find that neodymium permanent magnets and iron-core and air-core (iron-free) electromagnets all play important roles in the
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world of magnetic levitation. And most of the above “facts about the force” will be important to our discussions about maglev. Now that we have reviewed the basics of gravitational and magnetic forces and magnetic materials, it is time to consider the basics of using magnetic forces to combat gravitational forces, that is, to consider the fundamentals of magnetic levitation.
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Poles Apart
Most dictionaries define “magnet” as a “body that attracts iron.” As noted in Fact 3 in the previous chapter, although magnets attract iron, they do not attract copper or aluminum, or most other things— plastics, glass, wood, and so on. My granddaughter discovered this shortly after she learned to walk by removing a magnet from our refrigerator door and trying to stick it, usually unsuccessfully, to other surfaces around our house. Magnetic forces are very selective, a property that is not only fascinating but also very useful in separating magnetic materials from nonmagnetic materials. For example, since hay is nonmagnetic and most needles are made of steel, with the use of a magnet it is really very easy to “find a needle in a haystack.” The forces between two magnets are even more interesting, since they are sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive. Each magnet has at least two poles, a north pole and a south pole, defined by which way they point in the earth’s magnetic field if free to rotate, as in a compass (Fact 1). As I demonstrated to the wonder of my granddaughter’s first-grade class recently, south and north poles attract each other, but two south poles, or two north poles, repel each other. Unlike poles attract, like poles repel (Fact 2). Disc and ring magnets are usually magnetized in a direction through their thickness, so that one face is a north pole and the opposite face a south pole. With two ring magnets on a pencil, the repulsive force between two like poles facing each other, say north–north,
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can lift the upper magnet against the downward force of gravity and produce the simplest form of magnetic levitation (Figure 3). The downward gravitational force on the upper magnet is balanced by the upward magnetic force of repulsion between the two magnets. (The two magnets in Figure 3 are ferrite magnets. If you instead use two neodymium ring magnets, the repulsive forces are stronger and the levitation height is considerably higher.) Here the repulsive force between the two magnets is directed perpendicular to the plane of the magnets, pushing the two north poles apart. The direction of magnetization of the magnets and the direction of the repulsive force between the magnets are both vertical. If instead you put two ring magnets on a table with the two north poles each facing upward, the magnets also repel each other in the sideways direction—the direction parallel to the plane of the magnets and perpendicular to the direction of magnetization. This sideways repulsion is the secret of the maglev toy called Revolution (Figure 4), in which magnets in the base, magnetized in the horizontal direction, repel two similarly magnetized disc magnets above them in the rotating part, producing levitation. In both Figure 3 and Figure 4, the magnetic repulsive force producing levitation is directed vertically upward against gravity, but in Figure 3 it is parallel to the direction of magnetization, while in Figure 4 it is perpendicular to the magnetization, parallel to the surface of the two disc magnets. The seeming defiance of gravity is more visually striking in the latter case, since the magnets in Revolution are less constrained and closer to full contact-free levitation than the magnets on the pencil. However, in neither of these cases are the levitated magnets totally free of contact. Touch was not involved in the upward push of magnetic repulsion that opposed the downward pull of gravity, but was necessary to keep the position of the levitated magnets stable. If you remove the pencil in Figure 3 and try to float the upper magnet above the lower one, it will move sideways or flip over until opposite poles mate. If you remove the glass plate in contact with one end of the rotator in Figure 4, the rotator will lurch forward and fall. As
Figure 3. When two ring magnets are placed on a vertical support with like poles facing, the upper magnet is levitated by the repulsive force between the two magnets.
The horizontal rotating part (rotor) of the “Revolution” maglev toy is held up by repulsive forces between like poles of ring magnets in the rotor and pairs of triangular magnets beneath each ring magnet. The rotor can turn for several minutes because the only friction is between the steel-pointed end of the rotor and the glass plate that blocks its horizontal motion.
Figure 4.
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many children and even adults have found with their futile attempts over the years, you can’t simply use the repulsive force between like poles of two permanent magnets to levitate the upper magnet freely in space without it being in contact with something, like the pencil in Figure 3 or the glass plate in Figure 4. Way back in 1842, Samuel Earnshaw, an English clergyman and mathematician, proved mathematically that stable contact-free levitation by forces between ordinary stationary magnets alone is impossible. So you can stop trying. But as we will see in the coming chapters, there are several ways to get around the Reverend Earnshaw’s proof and achieve contact-free magnetic levitation. And for many applications, a little contact doesn’t hurt. In the Revolution, the friction between the glass plate and the sharp metal tip of the rotating part (rotor) is pretty small, and once started, the rotor can spin for several minutes before slowing to a gradual stop. Force at a Distance
Another thing about magnetic forces that children learn pretty quickly when playing with magnets is that the forces between magnets fall off rapidly with distance between them. Gravitational and electrostatic forces also decrease with distance, and according to Newton and Coulomb, they decrease as the inverse square of distance of separation. But magnetic forces decrease more rapidly than as inverse square of distance—because magnets always have at least two poles. You may recall an experiment they often do in schools. Take a long bar magnet, with a north pole on one end and a south pole on the other, and break it in two. You find that now each of the two resulting magnets has both a north pole and a south pole. Two new poles have appeared on the new surface created by the break. All magnets have at least two poles, a north pole and a south pole— magnets are dipoles, not monopoles. If magnetic monopoles existed, they would attract or repel each other with an inverse-square law.
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But for ordinary magnets, it is safe to assume that they have at least two poles. So the forces between magnets (i.e., between magnetic dipoles) are more complex than the inverse-square laws of gravitational and electrostatic forces. One important result of the fact that magnets are dipoles is that if a magnet is in a uniform magnetic field, the forces on opposite poles are equal and opposite, and the magnet feels no net force, as noted in the previous chapter. All it experiences is a torque that attempts to rotate it and align it, like a compass needle, with the local magnetic field. But there can be a net force on a magnet if the field is not uniform—if it changes with distance. A piece of iron is attracted to a magnet because the field is higher near the magnet than away from it. Where the magnetic force is repulsive, as in Figure 3, the upper magnet is pushed upward because the field from the lower magnet is lower there. We call that change of the magnetic field strength with distance the gradient of the field, in analogy to the gradient or slope of a hill, which is the change of height with horizontal distance. (For those who remember their calculus, the field gradient is the derivative of the field with respect to distance, but I promise not to mention calculus again.) If the field changes with distance, as it will in the vicinity of another magnet, the force on one pole will be greater than the force on the other pole, and there will be a net force. Now consider those two ring magnets on the pencil in Figure 3. The north pole of the top magnet is repelling the north pole on the bottom magnet. But each of the magnets has another pole! The south pole on the top magnet is attracting the north pole of the bottom magnet, and the south pole of the bottom magnet is attracting the north pole of the upper magnet. This decreases the net repulsive force between the two magnets, and the result is that, at large separations, the repulsive force between the two magnets varies not as the inverse square, but as the inverse fourth power of the distance between them. If you double the distance of separation, the force decreases by a factor of sixteen—two to the fourth power (2 × 2 × 2 × 2).
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That’s quick! The force–distance relation all the way from small separations to large separations is more complex—I won’t burden you with it. The major point to remember is that the magnetic forces between magnets decrease very rapidly with distance of separation. The force of attraction between a magnet and a piece of iron decreases much faster yet because it depends not only on the gradient of the magnetic field, but also on the strength of the local field of the magnet acting on the iron, which determines the degree of magnetization of the iron. The net effect is that at large separations, the force between a permanent magnet and a piece of iron (always attractive) decreases as the inverse seventh power of separation! With the inversesquare laws of gravity and electrostatics, doubling the separation decreases the force by a factor of four (2). With the inverse-fourthpower law for the force between two distant magnets, doubling the separation decreases the force by a factor of sixteen (2). With the inverse-seventh-power law for the attractive force between a magnet and a piece of iron, doubling the separation decreases the force by the remarkable factor of 2, or 128! The Bottom Line: Since the force of gravity remains nearly constant near the surface of the earth, but magnetic forces decrease very rapidly with distance of separation, magnetic levitation gaps will in general be very limited. To a degree, the “reach” of a magnet’s field can be increased by increasing the magnet’s size, but to achieve levitation gaps greater than a few inches, you’ll need magnets that are both very strong and extremely large (and therefore extremely expensive). Sorry about that. The Floating Island of Laputa
For the reasons outlined above, magnetic levitation heights are generally limited to distances of inches or less rather than miles. But in fiction like Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s Travels (1726), imagination is not limited by facts. In Swift’s novel, after Gulliver had visited the tiny people of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnab,
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he next visited Laputa, a magnetically levitated “Island in the Air” (Figure 5). Swift described this remarkable but imaginary island in considerable detail. It was circular with an area of 10,000 acres, about 70 of the area of the island of Manhattan, and achieved levitation to heights of up to 4 miles by means of a giant lodestone, a natural magnet. The magnet was shaped somewhat like a cigar, about 6 yards long and about 3 yards in diameter. As described by Swift, the magnet was endued at one of its Sides with an attractive Power, and at the other with a repulsive. Upon placing the Magnet erect with it attracting End towards the Earth, the Island descends; but when the repelling extremity points downwards, the Island mounts directly upwards . . . When the Stone is put parallel to the Plane of the Horizon, the Island standeth still; for in that Case, the Extremities of it being at equal Distance from the Earth, act with equal Force, the one in drawing downwards, the other in pushing upwards; and consequently no Motion can ensue.
Swift was clearly aware of one basic fact about magnets—like poles repel, unlike poles attract (Fact 2). Although he did not describe the forces levitating Laputa in terms of north and south poles, it can be assumed that the lodestone was magnetized along its length, with a north pole on one end and a south pole on the other. Apparently Balnibarbi, the land above which Laputa levitated, contained underneath it a gigantic permanent magnet, a “Mineral which acts upon the Stone in the Bowels of the Earth.” And Balnibarbi’s gigantic underground magnet was predominantly of one pole facing upward, so that it repelled one end of Laputa’s lodestone and attracted the other. But among the various unrealistic properties of Laputa was its ability to stably maintain altitude when the lodestone was horizontal. In such an orientation, there would be no net upward levitation force to oppose gravity. It would not hover at a fi xed altitude; it would fall. And the vertical magnetic field from Balnibarbi would
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Gulliver wondering at the magnetically levitated island of Laputa.
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exert a huge torque on the horizontal lodestone, tending to tilt the lodestone. But according to Swift, tilting of the lodestone produced motion of Laputa at an angle to the vertical, motion with a horizontal component that allowed Laputa to travel to other parts of Balnibarbi. That also wouldn’t work. Science-fiction and popular-science author Isaac Asimov in 1980 published an annotated version of Gulliver’s Travels in which he analyzed Swift’s description of magnetic forces in detail. He concluded, “In short, Swift’s mechanism to keep Laputa aloft and in motion wouldn’t really work, but I suppose that’s of no surprise to anyone. The explanation sounds scientific and impressive and that’s all that counts.” Swift’s motive in describing the impossible motions of Laputa was simply to satirize scientists and their writings, not to provide a scientifically accurate explanation of magnetic levitation. In addition to the inconsistencies noted above, to levitate an island of the weight of Laputa through forces on a lodestone of that size would require an impossibly strong repelling magnet, many miles wide, in the ground below. And it would require some means to counter Earnshaw’s rule and produce stable magnetic levitation. But Gulliver’s Travels is still a fascinating read, and among its pleasures is the remarkable but impossible floating island of Laputa. Unlike Swift, most fiction writers featuring levitation, like J. K. Rowling of the Harry Potter books, do not specify that magnetic forces are the source of the levitation. However, the writers of the Dick Tracy and Spiderman comics of the 1960s explicitly did. Dick Tracy and his colleagues flew around town in one-man maglev devices that, like Laputa, could achieve altitudes of miles. Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, was so impressed with the potential of magnetic forces that his comic strip frequently stated, “The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe.” And the “magnetic antigravity device” used by Spiderman’s adversary Vulture also reached impressive heights. Spiderman developed an “antimagnetic inverter” to weaken Vulture’s mysterious maglev device, but Vulture returned in a later issue with an improved version. Beyond asserting
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that their characters achieved levitation through magnetism, the authors of Dick Tracy and Spiderman provided no scientific details that could be critiqued by Isaac Asimov. And they, like Jonathan Swift, conveniently ignored the decrease of magnetic forces with distance of separation and thereby achieved substantial heights of levitation. Writers of nonfiction like myself are more constrained. Stability and Degrees of Freedom
The upper ring magnet in Figure 3 floats above the lower ring magnet at a fi xed and stable distance of separation. The downward gravitational force on the upper magnet is essentially constant, but the upward repulsive magnetic force decreases rapidly with distance of separation, and the magnet rests at a separation where the upward and downward forces are equal and opposite. There’s a balance of vertical forces. No net vertical force, no vertical motion. Now if you displace the upper magnet a little bit upward from that position, the upward repulsive magnetic force will decrease and become less than the downward gravitational force, which is unchanged. The net force will be downward, pulling the magnet back to its original separation. If instead you were to displace the upper magnet downward, the upward magnetic force will increase to more than the downward gravitational force. The net force will now be upward, pushing the magnet back to its original separation. Thus displacement in either direction results in a “restoring force” acting to return the magnet to its original position where the upward and downward forces are equal and opposite. We say that there the upper magnet is in a position of stable equilibrium (with respect to vertical displacement). For small displacements from a position of stable equilibrium, the restoring force increases linearly with displacement, and in analogy to the forces resulting from stretching or compressing a spring, the ratio of restoring force to displacement is called the spring constant. Suppose we instead reversed one of the magnets on the pencil so that they attract each other. Imagine then holding the upper magnet
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fi xed and allowing the lower magnet to move up and down along the pencil. It would be possible to find a separation between the two magnets where the downward gravitational force and an upward magnetic force, now attractive, are equal and opposite. As in the repulsive case, there’s a balance of vertical forces in this position and no net force. But if you now were to displace the lower magnet a little bit upward toward the upper magnet, the upward attractive magnetic force would increase, the net force would be upward, and the magnets would snap together. If instead you were to displace the lower magnet downward, the upward magnetic attractive force would decrease, the net force would be downward, and the lower magnet would fall. Unlike the repulsive case, displacements from the position of zero net force lead not to restoring forces, but to net forces that move the magnet away from that position. That position is unstable. Instead of net restoring forces, there are net destabilizing forces. Since gravitational forces are constant but magnetic forces decrease rapidly with distance of separation, it is often easier to achieve stable levitation with repulsive forces than with attractive forces. If you’re attracted to something, it’s hard to keep your distance! But even in repulsion, we surely needed that pencil in Figure 3. By confining the magnets to the pencil, we could reach stable equilibrium of vertical forces. But if we tried to levitate one ring magnet above the other without a pencil, the upper magnet would spontaneously move sideways or tip over. It was stable, with displacements resulting in restoring forces, only for displacements in the vertical direction. But it was unstable with regard to sideways displacements or tipping displacements. If the lower ring magnet were made bigger than the upper one, the changed magnetic field distribution could stabilize the upper magnet against sideways displacements, but it would still be unstable to tipping motions. Full stability is not possible. Samuel Earnshaw proved mathematically, and many have proved by experiment, that you can’t levitate one stationary magnet above another without some contact. Earnshaw’s rule is an important limitation to the possibilities of magnetic levitation.
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Thinking big, a Dutch company called Universe Architecture has recently designed a full-size “floating bed” based on repulsion between like poles of large arrays of permanent magnets, presumably neodymium. But to satisfy Reverend Earnshaw, the floating bed is mechanically stabilized by angled cables running from each of the four corners of the floating bed to the floor. Here the cables play the role of the pencil in Figure 3 and prevent the bed from flipping over, which would be disconcerting to a sleeper if it happened in the middle of the night. The magnetic floating bed is an intriguing use of Fact 2, but the bed weighs several tons and is priced at over a million euros. There have been no customers yet. Levitation of the two disc magnets in the rotor in Figure 4 by magnets in the base is more complex and more interesting. As with the magnets on the pencil, upward repulsive magnetic forces balance downward gravitational forces to achieve stability in the vertical direction. Displace the rotating part (the rotor) a bit upward, and it will return to where it was. Push it a bit downward, and it will return to where it was. There are vertical restoring forces. But it’s much more stable than that. If you move the rotor a bit sideways, it will also return to where it was. In the base below each disc magnet of the rotor are two triangular magnets, one on the left side and one on the right side, each magnetized in the same direction as the ring magnets, that is, horizontally along the rotor axis (Figure 6). They provide a “magnetic well” that exerts repulsive forces on the disc magnet (represented by arrows in Figure 6) roughly perpendicular to their hypotenuse (the long side of the triangle), thus with both vertical and horizontal components. The vertical components add together to provide a net vertical repulsive force upward on the disc magnet. The horizontal components, in contrast, are in opposite directions and cancel each other when the disc magnet centers between them. However, when the disc is displaced to one side, it becomes closer to the triangular magnet on that side. That repulsive force therefore increases while the repulsive force from the other triangle decreases, and the net horizontal force provides a restoring force against sideways displacements.
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Schematic of the magnet positions in the Revolution toy in Figure 4. Each of the two ring magnets on the rotor is supported by a pair of triangular magnets on the base. Direction of magnetization is normal to the figure. Repulsive forces between the magnets (indicated by arrows) both lift the ring magnet and resist lateral displacements.
Figure 6.
Now try some tipping displacements. With one end of the rotor fixed in position on the glass plate, displace the other end up or down a bit so that the rotor is no longer horizontal, and the rotor will return to horizontal. Displace that end sideways so that the rotor is no longer perpendicular to the glass plate, and it will return to perpendicular. The repulsive forces between each of the disc magnets in the rotor and the two triangular magnets in the base below each of them provide restoring forces and stable equilibrium not only for vertical displacements, but also for sideways displacements and for tipping displacements in two different directions. The Revolution device in Figure 4 (patent filed in 1991 by Gary Ritts of California) is a far more sophisticated maglev device than
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the two ring magnets on a pencil in Figure 3. But it still falls short of our goal of complete contact-free levitation. Although stable against displacements in two directions of motion (vertical and sideways) and two axes of tipping, and allowing free rotation about the axis of the rotor (neutral stability around that axis—no restoring or destabilizing forces), the rotor would not be stable in the horizontal direction along its axis without the glass plate. The disc magnets are placed slightly closer to the glass plate than the base magnets, producing a small magnetic force pressing the rotor against the glass plate and keeping the rotor from moving backward. It is time to introduce an important term often used in discussing maglev devices (as well as in other areas of science and technology): degrees of freedom. If we are to levitate an object stably in space, it should be stable against displacements of six different sorts. It should be stable against displacements in each of three mutually perpendicular directions, say north–south, east–west, and up– down (or along x, y, and z axes for those more mathematically inclined). And it should also be stable against rotations about each of those three perpendicular directions. In some applications, it will also be desirable to have all those six degrees of freedom—three position variables and three rotation variables—not only stable, with restoring forces resisting displacements, but also fully controllable with magnetic forces. With the two magnets on a vertical pencil in Figure 3, the pencil has removed any possibility of displacements in either of two perpendicular horizontal directions and substantial rotations about either of these horizontal directions. (As you can see in the figure, the upper magnet is trying to tip over, but can’t.) The pencil has removed four degrees of freedom for the upper magnet and limited it to only two—vertical position along the pencil and rotation about the pencil. If the magnets are fully circular in symmetry, rotation about the pencil has no effect on magnetic forces (neutral stability). Only one of the six degrees of freedom, vertical position along the pencil, is stably controlled by magnetic forces.
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In contrast, the glass plate in the Revolution device of Figure 4 has constrained only one degree of freedom of the rotor—displacement along its axis. As we have seen, magnetic repulsive forces between the two ring magnets and the pairs of triangular base magnets below each of them keep the rotor stable against both vertical and sideways displacements and also against tipping rotations about either of those directions. So the rotor is stably held with respect to those four degrees of freedom and has neutral stability against a fifth—rotation of the rotor about its axis. It’s unstable to only one of the six degrees of freedom—displacement along the rotor axis. Thus in the Revolution we have come a long way toward full contact-free levitation, but to achieve that, we will have to liberate all six degrees of freedom from constraint by physical contact. We will need some tricks to get around the dictates of the Reverend Earnshaw. Hint: Earnshaw considered only static magnets and static fields.
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Spinning the Levitron
Only a Toy
I have long been a fan of science toys, which are relatively inexpensive but capable of illustrating physical principles in an engaging way. Using them in seminar or lecture can make scientific concepts more accessible and understandable to students from kindergarten to college. The shelves in my MIT office hold numerous science toys, and I have often used the toys related to magnets in a freshman seminar on magnets that I taught there for many years. For example, I often introduced magnetic levitation to the freshmen with the Revolution toy of Figure 4 and then asked them to figure out where the magnets are and in which direction they are magnetized. The resulting discussions and analyses can be quite instructive for the students (and sometimes for me). Thus I was very excited one day in 1995, shortly after my earlier book on magnets went to press, when I first saw a Levitron, “the amazing antigravity top,” in a science-based store. I assumed that the upward levitating force on the top was the same repulsive force between like poles employed in Figure 3, but now there was no pencil needed to constrain four degrees of freedom of the upper magnet. I suddenly realized that in the Levitron, the levitated magnet was a spinning top, and I concluded that the gyroscopic action resisted tipping of the magnet and allowed the top to evade the rule of Samuel Earnshaw (which applies only to static magnets) and achieve contactfree levitation. My immediate reaction was fascination and wonder,
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coupled with some annoyance with myself: “Darn! Why didn’t I think of that?” But I bought the Levitron and immediately went home to try my hand at achieving the magic of full contact-free magnetic levitation. I soon found it was not that easy to achieve. Within the box were the three main parts of the Levitron: the base, which clearly held a very large magnet; the small top, which contained a disc magnet about an inch in diameter; and a nonmagnetic plastic “lifting plate.” There also were a number of tiny brass and plastic washers, a couple of tiny rubber o-rings (to hold the washers on the top), and two thin wooden wedges or shims. The instructions indicated that I should place the lifting plate on the base, spin the top on the lifting plate, and then lift the plate an inch or so above the base until the spinning top floated free. Easier said than done. The first challenge was getting the top to spin. There were strong magnetic forces between the base magnet and the magnet in the top that mightily kept fighting me. And those forces kept winning. I had to try many times before I could get the top to spin. To make the top easier to spin, the marketers of Levitrons now offer an electrical “Starter” for those “not so nimble-fi ngered,” a category into which I apparently fell. Once I became intermittently successful in spinning the top, I faced the second challenge—to adjust the weight of the top to the proper value, which was the purpose of
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In fact, it is the fastest train the world.
Capable of speeds up to 600 km/h ( (373 mph), China’s high-speed Maglev electric bullet train could very well close the gap between rail-based trains with a maximum speed of 350 km/h and aircraft with a flight speed of 800 to 900 km/h.
Unveiled recently in Qingdao, a port city in east China’s Shandong Province, the Transrapid system will one day become the new basis of rail transport in China, Germany’s EFahrer.com reported.
And while the manufacturer, the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), claims it is a purely Chinese product, in fact, the patent comes from Germany.
As the name suggests, the train hovers over the actual railway line by means of magnetic force, and, is also moved by strong magnetic forces.
Since there is no braking friction between the rails and the vehicle, the train can reach higher speeds, the report said. The only thing stopping it from going even faster, is air resistance.
That is why research is currently being carried out on tracks that run in a vacuum and float on routes that work with superconductors. Experts say that train could reach incredible speeds of 1,000 km/h.
Maglev trains, meanwhile, are the future of China because they are quieter, more reliable, have low vibration and have a large passenger capacity, said Liang Jianying, deputy general manager and chief engineer of CRRC.
Another advantage of such railways: There is no noise pollution from aircraft, and the same applies to the huge space requirements at airports. Because unlike airplanes, the trains can start in the center of the city.
However there’s one thing keeping this train from being ready to greet commuters — a lack of completed Maglev track networks.
Currently, China only has one Maglev line in commercial use, connecting Shanghai’s Pudong Airport with the Longyang Road station in the city, the report said.
The 30 km (19 mile) journey takes about seven and a half minutes, with the train hitting speeds of 430 km/h (267 mph).
Several new Maglev networks are reportedly under construction, including one linking Shanghai and Hangzhou and another connecting Chengdu and Chongqing.
But it could be between five to ten years, before regular service is launched, rail officials said.
The massive expansion follows ambitious plans set by China’s government, which has set a goal of “three-hour transport circles” between China’s major cities.
In terms of the actual travel time, the train should in future be the fastest means of transport in the range of up to 1,500 kilometers.
A journey from Beijing to Shanghai takes about 2 hours by plane, 5.5 hours by high-speed train, and only about 2.5 hours by Maglev train, the report said.
Countries such as Japan to South Korea are also looking to build Maglev networks, although high costs and incompatibility with current track infrastructure remain hurdles to rapid development.
Sources: EFahrer.com, CNN Travel, Stern Magazine, Reuters
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Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon
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