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HR (radio Series)
''HR'' is a radio comedy-drama written by Nigel Williams and produced by Peter Kavanagh. The show ran for five series between 2009 and 2014 and starred Nicholas Le Prevost and Jonathan Pryce. A total of thirty episodes were made for the series. The show follows lazy human resources officer Sam and trouble-making colleague Peter. From the second series, the pair have retired. A pilot episode for television was also made and broadcast on BBC Four in 2007. Cast * Nicholas Le Provost as Sam * Jonathan Pryce as Peter * Kate Fahy as Kate (Series 5) * David Haig David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', whic ... as Ed (Series 5) Episodes Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4 Series 5 References External links *{{British Comedy Guide, radio, hr BBC Radio comedy programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Williams (author)
Nigel Williams (born 20 January 1948) is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Biography Williams was born in Cheadle, Cheshire, England. He was educated at Highgate School, north London, and Oriel College, Oxford, is married with three sons and lives in Putney, southwest London. After graduating from Oxford, Williams joined the BBC as a general trainee, and worked as an arts producer for the corporation, eventually becoming the editor of '' Omnibus'' and ''Bookmark''.Geraldine Bedell"All roads lead to Croydon" ''The Observer'', 14 April 2002. His first novel ''My Life Closed Twice'' won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award. For his screen adaptation of William Horwood's '' Skallagrigg'' (1994), Williams won a television BAFTA. Williams was also the primary scriptwriter for the second season – based on Greek myths – of the acclaimed '' Jim Henson's Storyteller'' series. Williams' most successful work has been the 2005 TV drama ''Elizabeth I'', being himself nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kavanagh (director)
Peter Kavanagh may refer to: * Peter Kavanagh (footballer) (1910–1993), Irish footballer * Peter Kavanagh (writer) (1916–2006), writer, scholar, and publisher * Peter Kavanagh (politician) (born 1959), Australian politician and legal academic *Peter Kavanagh, a fictional character from ''Stargate Atlantis'' * Peter Kavanagh (producer) (1953–2016), Canadian radio producer, creator of ''Canada Reads'' *Peter Cavanagh (born 1981), English footballer for Liverpool and Accrington Stanley *Peter Cavanagh (impressionist) Peter Cavanagh (born Peter Cedric Coates; 31 October 1914 – 18 February 1981) was an English comic impressionist, popular on BBC radio in the 1940s and 1950s when he was known as "The Voice of Them All". Biography Born in Croydon, Cavanagh ... (1914–1981), English comic impressionist * Peter Cavanaugh, DJ and radio station manager {{hndis, Kavanagh, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Le Prevost
Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor. Early life Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964. At school, he studied Ecclesiastical Architecture, and has said that, had he not become an actor, he would have liked to be an architect. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Acting career Le Prevost's TV and radio credits include ''Coronation Street'', ''The Imitation Game'', '' It Takes a Worried Man'', '' The Jewel in the Crown'', '' HR'', ''Brideshead Revisited'', '' The Camomile Lawn'', '' Harnessing Peacocks'', '' Babblewick Hall'', '' The Ghosts of Motley Hall'', '' Up the Garden Path'', ''The War of the Worlds'', ''Inspector Morse'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Foyle's War'', ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''The Vicar of Dibley'' and '' A Man for All Seasons''. At the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards, he was nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Pryce
Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor. He is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and five Emmy Awards. He was honored with a knighthood for services to drama in 2021. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he began his career as a stage actor in the early 1970s. His work in theatre includes an Olivier Award–winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's ''Hamlet'' in 1980 and as The Engineer in the stage musical ''Miss Saigon'' in 1990. On the Broadway stage he earned Tony Awards—the first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in '' Comedians'' (1977), the second for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway transfer of the musical ''Miss Saigon'' (1991). His breakthrough screen performance was in Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002"Culture, controversy and cutting edge documentary: BBC FOUR prepares to launch" BBC Press Office, 14 February 2002. Retrieved 2 April 2010. and shows a wide variety of programmes including arts, documentaries, music, international film and drama, and current affairs. It is required by its licence to air at least 100 hours of new arts and music programmes, 110 hours of new factual programmes, and to premiere twenty foreign films each year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Fahy
Kate Fahy, Lady Pryce (born 29 January 1950) is an English actress and director. She is known primarily for playing Patricia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 film ''Archipelago'' and playing Stevie in Edward Albee's play ''The Goat or Who is Sylvia'' at the Almeida Theatre and the Apollo West End. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television since 1971. Career Fahy trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her theatre debut at the Playhouse Theatre in Liverpool in Ray Cooney's ''Not Now Darling'', followed by two years at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool playing leading roles in ''The Taming of The Shrew'', ''The Country Wife'', Ted Whitehead's ''The Sea Anchor'' and Mike Stott's ''Funny Peculiar''. Her television career started soon after with Arthur Hopcraft's series '' The Nearly Man'' at Granada, directed by John Irvin. She has since appeared in numerous stage plays, television and feature films both in the UK and the US. In recent years she has dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Haig
David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', which premièred at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 October 1997. On Remembrance Day 2007, ITV broadcast a television drama based on the play, in which Haig played Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe played Kipling's son, John. He went on to star as the Player in '' Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' alongside Radcliffe in 2017. Haig's second play ''The Good Samaritan'' was also first staged at the Hampstead Theatre, opening on 6 July 2000. His third play ''Pressure'' premiered at the Chichester Festival in 2014, before being revived in 2018 on a UK Tour and then in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre. In 2018, he portrayed Bill in the critically acclaimed BBC America thriller series '' Killing Eve'' (2018). Haig was appointed Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio Comedy Programmes
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
