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Join multi-award-winning Sir Simon Russell Beale as he shares his life in music with Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes. Sir Simon will take us through the highlights in his life and career and discuss why certain pieces of music mark these moments so clearly. St Martin’s Voices, The St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble, and Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields will perform his choices from across the music spectrum.

The event is raising support for St Martin’s Yes Campaign.

Tickets on sale now.

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A Brief History of Modern Art by Brian Bilston, read by Simon Russell Beale, Fay Ripley. Lesley Sharp, Damian Lewis and Danni Sapani.

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Join legendary King Lear Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE and Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall for the first in our series of The Globe Talks in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, in conversation with Dr Will Tosh.

May 23.

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Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire.

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"You built nothing but regret and syphilis"

Simon Russell Beale as Sir George Villiers in the first episode of Mary & George.

Possible spoilers (?)

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In A Piece of Work, Russell Beale tries to get under the skin of the playwright and find out what interested him. Was Shakespeare an instinctive ‘conservative’ or, rather, gently subversive? How collaborative was he? Did he add a line to Hamlet in order to accommodate his ageing and increasingly chubby principal actor, Richard Burbage? Did he suffer from insomnia and experience sexual jealousy? Russell Beale describes what it is to approach and live with some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters. Some of the actor’s inspiration comes from surprising sources. Watching Coronation Street gave him an idea for how Richard III might react on hearing of the death of the two Princes in the Tower; a visit to elderly patients in a local hospital gave him insights into King Lear’s descent into madness; and the memory of childhood family holidays led him to a spectacular plunge into an ornamental pool in Much Ado About Nothing. Funny and touching about his family, Russell Beale also writes fascinatingly about some of the supremely creative people he counts as his friends

Reminder that A Piece of Work, Simon Russell Beale's mempoir will be available on September 5th

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Home! Home! A short movie realized in occasion of the Terence Davies retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Written by Terence Davies, directed by James Dowling, read by Simon Russell Beale

More info here

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Simon Russell Beale hosted the Casting Directors' Guild Awards 2024 on February 21st.

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Historian and MP Chris Bryant’s book takes us to the early 19th Century, when despite great political and social change and reform, British attitudes to homosexuality were more antagonistic than ever, and in 1835 two consenting adults, James Pratt and John Smith, became the last men in Britain to be hanged for sodomy. They were working class men whose poverty and lack of privacy led directly to their discovery and arrest and, despite a desperate campaign to save them, resulted in one of the great legal injustices of the time.

Read by ..... Simon Russell Beale Abridged by .... Julian Wilkinson Produced by .... Allegra McIlroy

All the available episodes here

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Simon Russell Beale at “Celebration of Shakespeare” at Grosvenor House, February 14th.

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Simon Russell Beale at “Celebration of Shakespeare” at Grosvenor House, February 14th. The event formed part of ongoing celebrations marking the passing of 400 years since Shakespeare’s first folio.

Photos by Chris Jackson.

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One more photo of Simon Russell Beale at Maggie's Centres Carol Concert at Saint Paul's on December 7h.

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Simon Russell Beale at Maggie's Carol Concert in favour of Maggie's cancer centres on December 7th at St Paul's.

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Simon Russell Beale at a meeting with the students of St Gabriel's School on November 27th.

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Lucy Parham and Simon Russell Beale at the Barbican on Sunday November the 26th for Elégie – Rachmaninoff, A Heart in Exile

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Joining Gillan and Bonneville in the dramedy are Ben Miles (“Hijack”), Alex Kingston (“A Discovery of Witches, Dodger”), Nick Mohammed (“Ted Lasso”) and Simon Russell Beale (“Thor: Love and Thunder”).

Ben Palmer (“The Inbetweeners”) is directing the series.