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... )

Another snippet of actor news which I thought readers might like to have .The incomparable Mr Robert Lindsay is the star of a new play on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday evening. It is part of the Shakespeare celebrations and is a new play written by Nick Warburton who credits his leading actor, saying Robert's "mercurial intelligence brought a great deal ( Read more... )

Following my post recently on the younger Mr Coy and then a recent chat with the very busy and dear anteros_lmc I thought some following sea readers might like to see news of Jamie's new series starting this week in Britain on the ITV network ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted a link to the newly available Moby Dick recording and some friends already have started to listen I gather.I also featured in another post young Jolyon Coy who looked a find candidate to play a new midshipman ( Read more... )

I was inspired to post these pics by newcomer to the comm di_daydreamer and eglantine_brs comments about worthy and cuddly Mr Bracegirdle.
Bracey is as we know loyal and dedicated and utterly to be relied on in any crises - he and the Indefatigables actual first lieutenant John Thomson had all that in common- but Lieutenant Thomson also had his son on board -JT the ( Read more... )

FINALLY I can contribute something to this most splendid community - ha!

PAUL MCGANN TO ATTEND FEDCON!


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This absolute gem was posted on twitter by Sam West earlier today. It's a diary column he wrote for Tatler magazine in 1998 while filming The Frogs and the Lobsters and it's been resurrected and reposted by Liz A.

Here's a few highlights...

To Sesimbra, just outside Lisbon, for a month to work on Hornblower. Ioan Gruffudd, a brilliant young ( Read more... )

Jamie Bamber and Paul McGann have been on the convention circuit recently and both have been reminiscing about shooting Hornblower.

First up, here's PMG waxing lyrical about the joy of sailing ships at Compicpalooza in Austin in May. (Starts 36:45).

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And here, courtesy of the ever generous jamiebambernews, is JB at Supernova in Sydney in June talking about ( Read more... )

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... )

Here is evidence that Lord Edrington finally saw sense and joined H M Navy - albeit twenty years on..


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