To coincide with the History Hack Hornblower Reunion podcast, TV producer Liz Fine has shared some production images from the series with Alexandra Churchill on twitter.   I've uploaded all of them to this album for ease of access History Hack: The Second Chance. I've seen one or two of these images before, but most of them are new to me, including ( Read more... )

Here's the direct link to the History Hack Hornblower reunion podcast, which I am absolutely dying to listen to!

#47 History Hack: The Second Chance
"Horatio Hornblower himself, Ioan Gruffudd and Jamie Bamber, the faithful Archie, join us with naval historian Kate Jamieson for a fun, lengthy look back at the series that set their careers fully in ( Read more... )

Awww bless! This has been making me smile all day :)


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Those of you with your finger on the beating pulse of the zeitgeist will probably not have failed to notice the current Ice Bucket Challenge that is all over social media to promote awareness, and raise funds for Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), which is known as Motor Neurone Disease in the UK.

Our very own Archie, or rather his alter ego Jamie Bamber ( Read more... )

I don't usually repost from the Hornblower tag on tumblr as I tend to only lurk over there and it seems a bit cheeky to repost things from folk I don't know. I really couldn't resist sharing this though :}


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So, Ioan's got a new project...

I've known about it for a while, but I just kept an eye on it, not sure if anything would come of it. Then I learned a little more. It's a TV show called Forever, and the one-sentence summary described Ioan's character as  "immortal ( Read more... )

anteros_lmc informs me she has never seen Amazing Grace. It comes with the esmerelda_t seal of cinematic approval, which is basically better than an Oscar, so I do recommend that if you haven't seen it you do! In the meantime though I thought one or two of you might enjoy this fanvid which I believe has been kicking about for several years.

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So, the good news is that not only did I watch this evenings interview with Ioan Gruffudd on S4C but I also managed to record a copy of the entire programme. Yay! Bad news is that I am absolutely buggered if I can figure out how to view the subtitles :( The programme is already available to view on S4C's watch again service here (sorry, UK only ( Read more... )

The fine ladies of Ioanzone have discovered/announced a special Ioan project airing on SC4, the Welsh TV channel, on Sunday, January 5th. There's an interesting article about it here. I know we have some British/Welsh people on this board, so I really hope someone checks it out and reports back to us ( Read more... )

OK it is Monday morning and grey and very cold so this is a correspondingly silly post before I get down to writing something serious that Anteros needs me to get on with ( Read more... )