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Nobel prize winners and stocking fillers – 65 years in the murky waters of London publishing

Edit The Guardian 02 Apr 2016
Ernest Hecht set up Souvenir Press from his bedroom in 1951. Now, following the death of Lord Weidenfeld, he is the last of the group of remarkable Jewish émigrés who transformed postwar British publishing ... A medium to large company celebrating 65 years in business is just looking for cheap publicity ... He does have a hint of Sir Michael Hordern about him, but the beanie made him resemble not Hordern as Lear but as Lear’s Fool ... Related ... ....

Peter Wood obituary

Edit The Guardian 18 Feb 2016
In the event, this was the production that confirmed Stoppard’s arrival in the front rank, beautifully acted by Michael Hordern and Diana Rigg ... On the Razzle was a particularly brilliant, pun-laden text, expertly played by Felicity Kendal, Dinsdale Landen and Michael Kitchen, on which audiences gorged delightedly....

DVD Review: “The Bed Sitting Room”

Edit The Examiner 02 Feb 2016
“The Bed Sitting Room”. Directed by Richard Lester. Cast. Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Michael Hordern, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Roy Kinnear. Released March 25, 1970 after having played the Berlin International Film Festival in June of 1969. Kino Lorber has released a nice blu ray of Richard Lester's study in comic absurdity, "The Bed Sitting Room." It is one of his most enjoyable films ... ....

who was the best Scrooge on screen?

Edit New Statesman 24 Dec 2015
Michael Hordern’s Scrooge (1977) is harrassed, fussy and sad, and barely engaged with the world. Hordern’s delivery of Scrooge’s announcement that “Any fool who goes around with a Merry Christmas on his list should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a sprig of holly through his heart” is oddly abstracted ... Hordern exhibits a kind of grand moral anguish....

Christmas Eve’s best TV: Harry Hill in Professor Branestawm Returns; Jamie’s Night Before Christmas

Edit The Guardian 24 Dec 2015
Harry Hill is back with more daft contraptions and buffoonery, and Jamie demonstrates various tricks to simplify the whole sage-and-onion bonanza. Harry Hill In Professor Branestawm Returns 5.20pm, BBC1 ... A considerable amount of buffoonery ensues. The game cast includes Vicki Pepperdine and Simon Day ... 7pm, Channel 4 ... But then, so is Michael Hordern’s ghastly Jacob Marley, and the snowy, atmospheric photography of C M Pennington-Richards ... ....

Megan Hilty ready to ‘butt heads’ on Bravo’s ‘Divorce’

Edit New York Post 20 Dec 2015
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Tuesday, 10 p.m., Bravo ... But things are more hectic at the home of her divorced pal Jo Hernandez-Frumpkis (Alanna Ubach), whose daughter returns from a visit with her father and his new wife in Kentucky ... She’s not far from it ... No ... On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley (Michael Hordern), and then by three more spirits, an experience that changes his life.L ... ....

Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge

Edit The Guardian 19 Dec 2015
From Alastair Sim to the Muppets, Michael Newton chooses his favourite Scrooges – past, present and future ... Richard Williams’s animated A Christmas Carol (1971) is the screen version with which I grew up; it reunites the voice (now tremulous with age) of Sim as Scrooge with Michael Hordern doing a much improved account of Jacob Marley....

Three girls – lucky me! says Geoffrey Rush as he plays in King Lear

Edit Canberra Times 18 Nov 2015
Posing for pictures, Geoffrey Rush doesn't seem to be taking the role of King Lear too seriously. Not today. "Do I have that regal stud-muffin quality coming through?" he asks the photographer. He casts an approving eye over his three stage daughters ... Despite that, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, Michael Hordern, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Hawthorne and Jonathan Pryce have all stepped up to the plate since ... ....

Halloween horrors: writers reveal their private fright nights ...

Edit The Guardian 31 Oct 2015
MR James’s ghost stories are guaranteed to provide a Halloween chill. But a Mozart piano concerto? The Simpsons? Three surgeons from Dundee?. The Stories of MR James. Olivia Laing. A large portion of my childhood was spent in the car, driving between my parents’ houses. To enliven these journeys, my father bought a sizeable collection of story tapes ... The Stories of MR James, read by Michael Hordern, was about a different kind of England ... ....

The BBC: drinking in the last-chance saloon for three decades?

Edit The Guardian 16 Jul 2015
The cast list in the trail, inspired by Monty Python’s “What did the Romans ever do for us?”, is a veritable BBC hall of fame from Michael Hordern and David Attenborough to David Jason and the Two Ronnies. Some of them, like Attenborough, David Dimbleby, John Humphrys and Moira Stuart are still going strong on the BBC’s airwaves ... ....

BBC's future set out in government green paper – live updates

Edit The Guardian 16 Jul 2015
LIVE Updated. Live feed Show Order by. 11.13. While we wait for Whittingdale’s statement (at midday), here’s a reminder that the BBC has a long history of wheeling out the stars to defend the licence fee ... “What have BBC ever given us?” asks John Cleese. Various answers are provided by the likes of Bob Geldof, David Attenborough, Sue Lawley plus the late Patrick Moore, Michael Hordern, Brian Johnson, Alan Whicker and Ronny Barker ... Share ... ....

The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com

Edit U~T San Diego 12 May 2015
Audible.com best-sellers for week ending May 9, 2015.. Fiction. 1 ... 2 ... 3. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, narrated by Michael Hordern (Audible Studios). 4 ... 5. Leviathan. The Lost Fleet ... 6 ... 7 ... 8. Gathering Prey ... 9 ... 10 ... 1 ... The Entrepreneur's Toolkit by The Great Courses, narrated by Professor Michael Goldsby (The Great Courses) ... Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond by The Great Courses, narrated by Michael Dues (The Great Courses) ... ....

Jonathan Miller and Barrie Rutter: ‘At this age, people assume you to be either dead or senile’

Edit The Guardian 04 Mar 2015
Jonathan Miller is notching up his eighth Lear ... Patriarchs … Rutter and Miller. Photograph ... Among his notable leading actors have been Michael Hordern, both on stage at Nottingham Playhouse and for the BBC; Eric Porter at the Old Vic in 1989; and Christopher Plummer on Broadway in 2002 ... At which point, a rival philosopher at the back of the hall goes, ‘Yeah, yeah.’” Michael Hordern as KIng Lear in Miller’s 1982 production Photograph. PR ... ....
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