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A brand new full-cast BBC radio dramatisation, starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris'Charles Paris is Bill Nighy... It's the role he was born to play.' The TelegraphAugust in Edinburgh, and thousands of performers of all stripes have flocked to the Fringe Festival. Among them is Charles Paris filling in at the last minute after a student actress breaks a leg and has to drop out. Showcasing an earnest one-man show in a sea of stand-up comics is ...

Bill Nighy stars as the suave thespian sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationLife is good for Charles Paris. He's moved back in with his estranged wife, and has landed a plum stage role as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. But it can't last. First his attempts to woo Frances fall flat, then the play's director is taken ill with gastric trouble. His replacement, Romanian wunderkind Alex Radelescu, is determined to take the play in a ...

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»Joker« hat den ikonischen Erzfeind zum Thema und ist eine originale, eigenständige Story, die noch nie auf der Kinoleinwand gezeigt wurde. Phillips’ Studie über Arthur Fleck, einen von der Gesellschaft missachteten Mann, ist nicht nur eine düstere Charakterstudie, sondern auch eine umfassende warnende Lehre. Golden Globe 2020: Bester Hauptdarsteller (Joaquin Phoenix), Beste Filmmusik.

Todd Phillips Studie über Arthur Fleck, eindringlich porträtiert von Joaquin Phoenix, zeigt einen Mann, der darum kämpft, in Gothams zerrütteter Gesellschaft seinen Weg zu finden. Sehnsüchtig danach, das Glück auf seine Seite zu ziehen, versucht er sich als Stand-up-Comedian. Doch schnell findet er heraus, dass jeder Scherz stets auf seine Kosten zu gehen scheint. Eine düstere, allegorische Charakterstudie, in der Arthur - gefangen in einer Ab...

Todd Phillips Studie über Arthur Fleck, eindringlich porträtiert von Joaquin Phoenix, zeigt einen Mann, der darum kämpft, in Gothams zerrütteter Gesellschaft seinen Weg zu finden. Sehnsüchtig danach, das Glück auf seine Seite zu ziehen, versucht er sich als Stand-up-Comedian. Doch schnell findet er heraus, dass jeder Scherz stets auf seine Kosten zu gehen scheint. Eine düstere, allegorische Charakterstudie, in der Arthur - gefangen in einer Ab...

Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles Paris Charles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he's unimpressed with the director's vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing alongside puppeteers and mime artists. But he soon finds himself back on familiar territory when the actress playing Ophelia goes missing, only to turn...

Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, on 28 October 1945. He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English and was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.After graduating in 1967 he worked as Father Christmas in a department store before landinga job at the BBC as a radio producer. During his ten years there, he worked on such programmes as The Hitchhiker¿s Guide to the Galaxy, Week En...

Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, on 28 October 1945. He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English and was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. After graduating in 1967 he worked as Father Christmas in a department store before landinga job at the BBC as a radio producer. During his ten years there, he worked on such programmes as The Hitchhiker¿s Guide to the Galaxy, Week E...

In fact, all the stories in this collection are good'uns. Bill Brett has a fine ear for the ways of speech and a sharp eye for the way of life of the forests and swamps of the southeastern region of Texas. Some might say that the tone of many of these tales is more autobiographical than that of his earlier collection, "There Ain't No Such Animal, " and perhaps that's true, for in these stories he shows a keen understanding of what it was like ...

The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms, tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening, tales with a strong sense of place and people, rooted firmly in the oral tradition. Sure enough, there "ain't no such animal" as a completely honest man, as the title story shows. Other stories tell...

Bill Brett's folk tale of life in the Big Thicket takes place in the years around the turn of the century. Brett heard the story from the old man who had lived it. He retells it as a captivating, earthy yarn that won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Western Heritage Award for folklore in 1978, when it first appeared in cloth edition. The narrator, a young man hurt in an oilfield accident and down on his luck, runs out of money. When the oppo...

The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms, tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening, tales with a strong sense of place and people, rooted firmly in the oral tradition. Sure enough, there "ain't no such animal" as a completely honest man, as the title story shows. Other stories tell...