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STOP I WAS LITERALLY JUST WATCHING THE OWC REUNION MEGASIXES WONDERING WHEN THE PROSHOT WAS COMING I-

FINALLY!!!!

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DOCTOR WHO – The Name Of The Doctor (S07E13) directed by Saul Metzstein | written by Steven Moffat ››› Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra ››› Richard E. Grant as Yog-Sothoth / The Great Intelligence

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@/jrichardnoel on Instagram, 28 February 2024

They're screening the proshot now! Hopefully it comes out soon

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Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 7.14: The Name Of The Doctor

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In 1892, on Christmas Eve, London wss plagued by deadly snowmen. The time traveling alien known as the Doctor was on sabbatical there, but was coaxed back into action by a barmaid named Clara, a Sontaran named Strax, and a Restac known as Madame Vastra. ("The Snowmen", Doctor Who, vlm 3, TV)

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Masterpiece Studio Round Up: All Creatures Great & Small S4

Here are the All Creatures Great & Small podcast interviews conducted by Jace Lacob for season 4. The Masterpiece/PBS site also includes a transcript if you’d rather read/skim the interviews. The show’s episode number is the one the podcast’s release corresponds with.

4x01 - Jamie Crichton (Head Writer) [Masterpiece Site | YouTube]

4x02 - Neve McIntosh (Miss Harbottle) [Masterpiece Site | YouTube]

4x05 - James Anthony-Rose (Richard Carmody) [Masterpiece Site | YouTube]

4x07 (CS) - Nicholas Ralph (James Herriot) [Masterpiece Site | YouTube]

Bonus Episode - Mark Roodhouse (Historical Advisor) [Masterpiece Site | YouTube]

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Gormenghast - BBC Two - January 17, 2000 - February 7, 2000 / PBS - June 27 - 28, 2001

Fantasy (4 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Steerpike

Celia Imrie as Gertrude, Countess of Groan

Ian Richardson as Sepulchrave, Earl of Groan

Neve McIntosh as Lady Fuchsia Groan

Christopher Lee as Flay

Richard Griffiths as Swelter

Andrew N. Robertson as Titus, Earl of Groan (17 years)

Cameron Powrie as Titus, Earl of Groan (12 years)

John Sessions as Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor

Fiona Shaw as Irma Prunesquallor

June Brown as Nannie Slagg

Olga Sosnovska as Keda

Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Clarice Groan

Lynsey Baxter as Lady Cora Groan

Stephen Fry as Professor Bellgrove

Warren Mitchell as Barquentine

Windsor Davies as Rottcodd

Eric Sykes as Mollocks

Spike Milligan as Headmaster De'Ath

Gregor Fisher as The Fly

Mark Williams as Professor Perch

Martin Clunes as Professor Flower

Steve Pemberton as Professor Mule

Phil Cornwell as Professor Shred

James Dreyfus as Professor Fluke

Sean Hughes as Poet

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Three Books That Had an Impact

_Three Books That Had an Impact_ These three #books for one reason or another are at the top of the list. @bookstodon@a.gup.pe #fantasy #sciencefiction

Daily writing promptList three books that have had an impact on you. Why?View all responses I am already doing the 20 Books meme, but the meme doesn’t let you explain why the book influenced you. (I have however had some interesting conversations related to the meme, so there’s that.) So this is a good opportunity to plug books that have for one reason or another lived rent-free in my head. I…

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do you have a list of all the queens who primary wore flat boots as their main boots as opposed to heeled boots?

Hey! - Jarneia Richard Noel wore flat boots from 2019 cast change to the end of her time with WE. - Lexi McIntosh wore flat boots on and off from Dec 2020 return to the end of her time with WE. - Vicki Manser wore flat boots the entire time she was with the UKT. - basically every member of the OBC has worn flat boots at some point, but when and for how long really differs. Same goes for a handful of actors in other productions who have sometimes worn them for up to a few months.

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Christian Carey’s 22 Recordings from 2022 in no particular order

Oneida

Like 2021, 2022 was a year that was full of extraordinary recordings. In part, it is Bandcamp that has given a new lease on life to independent records, somewhat obviating the hegemony of paltry stream income. Touring, on the other hand, is costing far too much, resulting in a group as big as Animal Collective canceling a tour, pleading finances. When major labels are starting to ask for a percentage of the gate, one can see the numbers crunching into nonviability. In the meantime, instead of masking and risking shows, I enjoyed the following 22 recordings (and many more). 

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Heiner Goebbels and Ensemble Modern  — House of Call (ECM)

Wadada Leo Smith — String Quartets 1-12 (TUM)

Carla dal Forno — Come Around (Kallista)

Nina Berman and Steve Beck — Milton Babbitt:Complete Songs for Treble Voice (New Focus)

Hugi Guðmundsson — Windbells (Sono Luminus)

Christopher Fox — Trostlieder (Kairos)

Barre Phillips and ​​György Kurtág Jr. — Face á Face (ECM)

Whit Dickey Quartet — Root Perspectives (TUM)

Matthew Shipp Trio — World Construct (ESP Disk)

Kirk Knuffke Trio — Gravity Without Airs (TAO Forms)

Richard Causton — La Terra Impareggiabile (NMC)

Pedro de Cristo; Magnificat — Cupertinos (Hyperion)

Andrew Mcintosh, Yarn/Wire — Little Jimmy (Kairos)

Sophia Subbayya Vastek — In Our Softening (Self-released)

Tyondai Braxton — Telekinesis (Nonesuch/New Amsterdam)

Julia Hülsmann Quartet — The Next Door (ECM)

James Romig — The Complexity of Distance (New World Records)

Gity Razaz — The Strange Highway (BIS)

Bryn Harrison, Quatuor Bozzini — Three Descriptions of Place and Movement (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)

Jenny Hval -Classic Objects (4AD)

Steven Schick — A Hard Rain (Islandia Music Records)

Christian Carey

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Track of the Week: Queen - SVN

Track of the Week: Queen – SVN

SVN are a seven-piece vocal harmony girl group made up of West End and Six the Musical stars SVN are a seven-piece vocal harmony girl group made up of West End and Six the Musical stars, Millie O’Connell, Aimee Atkinson, Natalie Paris, Grace Mouat, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Jarneia Richard-Noel and Alexia Mcintosh. The girls will be featured artists at Musical Con later this month. Musical Con is…

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How Hadrian’s Wall is Revealing a Hidden Side of Roman History

A party invitation. A broken flipflop. A wig. Letters of complaint about road conditions, and an urgent request for more beer.

It sounds like the aftermath of a successful spring break, but these items are nearly 2,000 years old.

They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall built as the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire, sealing off Britannia (modern-day England and Wales) from Caledonia (essentially today’s Scotland).

While most of us think of Pompeii and Herculaneum if we’re thinking of everyday objects preserved from ancient Rome, this outpost in the wild north of the empire is home to some of the most extraordinary finds.

“It’s a very dramatic stamp on the countryside – there’s nothing more redolent of saying you’re entering the Roman empire than seeing that structure,” says Richard Abdy, lead curator of the British Museum’s current exhibition, Legion, which spotlights the everyday life of Roman soldiers, showcasing many finds from Hadrian’s Wall in the process. A tenth of the Roman army was based in Britain, and that makes the wall a great source of military material, he says.

But it’s not all about the soldiers, as excavations are showing.

A multicultural melting pot

Hadrian, who ordered the wall to be built in 122CE after a visit to Britannia, had a different vision of empire than his predecessors, says Frances McIntosh, curator for English Heritage’s 34 sites along Hadrian’s Wall.

“All the emperors before him were about expanding the empire, but Hadrian was known as the consolidator,” she says. He relinquished some of the territory acquired by his predecessor Trajan, and “decided to set the borders” – literally, in some cases, with wooden poles at sites in Germany, or with stone in Britannia. Where those poles rotted thousands of years ago, the wall is still standing: “A great visual reminder” of the Roman empire, says McIntosh.

It’s not just a wall. There’s a castle every mile along, and turrets at every third-of-a-mile point, with ditches and banks both north and south. “You can imagine the kind of impact that would have had, not just on the landscape but on the people living in the area,” says McIntosh.

And thanks to the finds from the wall, we know a surprising amount about those people.

Although historians have long thought of army outposts as remote, male-dominant places, the excavations along the wall show that’s not the case. Not only were soldiers accompanied by their families, but civilians would settle around the settlements to do business. “ You can almost see Housesteads as a garrison town,” says McIntosh. “There were places you could go for a drink and so on.”

The Roman rule of thumb was not to post soldiers in the place they came from, because of the risk of rebellion. That meant Hadrian’s Wall was a cultural melting point, with cohorts from modern-day Netherlands, Spain, Romania, Algeria, Iraq, Syria – and more. “It was possibly more multicultural because it was a focus point,” says McIntosh, who says that the surrounding community might have included traders from across the empire.

Soldiers were split into two groups. Legionaries were Roman citizens from Italy, who had more rights than other soldiers and imported olive oil, wine and garum (a sauce made from decomposing fish).

They worked alongside auxiliaries – soldiers from conquered provinces, who had fewer rights, but could usually acquire citizenship after 25 years of service.

Soldiers carved their names and regiments on stones to show which part of the wall they built – around 50 of them are on display at Chesters fort.

But the wall shows that women and children were equally present.

McIntosh says that pottery brought to the camps – from the Low Countries and North Africa – shows that the soldiers “brought their families, who cooked in traditional style.” Archaeologists have found what seems to be an ancient tagine for North African-style cooking.

A tombstone from Arbeia fort for a woman named Regina shows she was a freed slave from southern Britain who was bought by – and married to – a Syrian soldier.

Another woman buried at Birdoswald fort was laid to rest with chainmail that appears to be from modern-day Poland. “Perhaps she married someone in the army,” says McIntosh, who calls the wall a “melting pot of people from all over the world under the banner of the army.”

“They brought their own religions, as well as worshipping Roman gods and adopting local deities,” she adds. At Carrawburgh, a temple to Mithras – an originally Persian deity – sat near a spring with a shrine to a local water spirit.

‘Wretched little Brits’

Some of the most extraordinary finds from the Roman empire are coming from one site on Hadrian’s Wall: Vindolanda. Here, archaeologists have found a wealth of organic remains because of what curator Barbara Birley calls the “unusual conditions onsite.”

At Vindolanda there are the remains of at least nine forts over 14 levels. “When the Romans would leave, they would knock down timber forts, and cover the area with turf and clay, sealing the layers underneath,” she says.

“Because it happened so many times, the bottom five or six layers are sealed in anaerobic conditions, so things don’t decay. When we get down there, we get wooden objects, textiles, anything organic.”

Vindolanda has the largest collection of Roman textiles from a single site in western Europe, as well as the largest leather collection of any site in the Roman empire – including 5,000 shoes, and even a broken leather flip-flop. “We probably had a population of 3,000 to 6,000 depending on the period, so 5,000 is a lot,” says Birley. For Abdy, the shoes evoke the conditions of the wet borderlands. “Women’s and children’s shoes are hobnailed – you needed it in the mucky frontier dirt tracks. They’re very evocative.”

There’s even a wig made from a local plant, hair moss, which is said to repel midges – the scourge of Scotland during the summer. A centurion’s helmet is also crested with hairmoss – the ancient equivalent of spraying yourself with insect repellent.

The first woman to write in Latin

One of the most famous finds is the trove of wooden writing tablets – the largest found anywhere.

“They give a snapshot of what life was actually like,” says Birley. “We understand so much more from written correspondence than from ‘stuff,’ and, archaeologically, it’s the stuff that usually survives – things like metals and ceramics.

“These were written in ink, not on a wax stylus tablet, and we believe they were used for what we’d put in emails: ‘The roads are awful,’ ‘The soldiers need more beer.’ Everyday business.”

The tablets – or “personal letters” as Birley describes them – were found on the site of a bonfire when the ninth cohort of Batavians (in the modern-day Netherlands) were told to move on.

“They had a huge bonfire and lots of letters were chucked in the fire. Some have been singed – we think it may have rained,” she says. One of them calls the locals “Britunculi” – “wretched little Brits.” Another talks about an outbreak of pinkeye. One claims that the roads are too bad to send wagons; another laments that the soldiers have run out of beer.

Among the 1,700 letters are 20 that mention a woman called Sulpicia Lepidina. She was the wife of the commander of the garrison, and seems to have played a crucial role. There’s a letter to her from another woman, Paterna, agreeing to send her two medicines, one a fever cure.

Birley says it’s similar to today. “If you’re a group of moms, still today we say, ‘Do you have the Calpol?’ It’s very human.” For Abdy, it’s a sign that women were traders. “She’s clearly flogging her medicines,” he says. “It’s really great stuff.”

Another tablet is an invite from Claudia Severa, the wife of another commander at a nearby camp. It’s an invitation to a birthday party. Under the formal invitation, presumably written by a scribe, is a scrawl in another hand: “I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul.”

Presumably written by Claudia herself, it is thought to be the earliest example of a woman’s handwriting in Latin.

Without the organic finds – the shoes and the letters that indisputably belonged to women, unlike jewellery or weaving equipment – it’s difficult to prove conclusively that women lived in significant numbers. Vindolanda “illustrate the missing gaps,” says Abdy. For Birley, they prove that women were as crucial a part of army communities as men. “Before the Lepidina tablets were found we didn’t really understand the interactions between the soldiers and their wives,” she says. Another tablet is written by what is thought to be a Spanish standard-bearer’s common-law wife, ordering military equipment for her partner.

“The Vindolanda collection is showing that there weren’t just camp followers and prostitutes; women were part of everyday life, and contributing to the military community in many ways,” says Birley.

Abdy says that Hadrian’s Wall is interesting because the resident women span “all classes of society,” from Regina – the dead freedwoman, who would have been “bottom of the heap” – to the trader Paterna and the noblewoman Lepidina.

And of course, there’s the wall itself.

“In the Netherlands and Germany the finds are often stunning and better preserved – you go to museums and are bowled over. But in terms of structural remains, Hadrian’s Wall must be among the best,” says McIntosh, modestly, of her site.

Abdy agrees: “I can’t think of many symbols so redolent of imperial will than that wall.”

By Julia Buckley.

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24 DAYS OF HORROR-MAS ( 16 / 24 )

Deathcember (2019) dir. Ruggero Deodato, Lucky McKee, Julian Richards, Trent Haaga, Pollyanna McIntosh, Milan Todorovic, Andreas Marschall, Lee Sang-Woo, Michael Varrati, Lazar Bodroza, Sadrac Gonzales-Perellon, Remi Frechette, John Cook Lynch, Sam Wineman, Jason Rostovsky, Sonia Escolano, Vivienne Vaughn, Florian Frerichs, Ama Lea, Bob Pipe, Steve de Roover, B.J. Colangelo, Juergen Kling, Annika Marx.

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The residents of Britain’s Yorkshire Dales are feeling the ramifications of World War II as Season 4 of All Creatures Great and Small picks up in 1940. The enchanting PBS series, based on the popular books by James Herriot, begins its new season with rural veterinarian James and his wife Helen (Nicholas Ralph and Rachel Shenton, above) a year into their marriage, wondering if the time is right to start a family, aware that any day he could be called to duty.

“In some ways, it feels like the exact reason why they should have a child,” says Shenton. “And in some ways, it’s the exact reason why they shouldn’t.”

For the actress, this new season is also the chance to show another side to her usually poised character, who moved away from the family farm after her wedding last season to take up residence at Skeldale House, where her husband lives and works.

“I think we see something different from Helen,” Shenton muses. “She’s good at being there for other people, and I think this is the first time that she’s needed a bit of help and had to say, ‘Actually, I’m not OK.’”

Like the rest of the Skeldale gang, Helen misses Tristan, who was called up to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps the previous Christmas. (His portrayer, Callum Woodhouse, doesn’t appear in this season’s seven episodes.) That leaves Tristan’s irascible brother Siegfried (Samuel West) and James overwhelmed at their practice and having to train book-smart student vet Richard Carmody (James Anthony-Rose), whose barn-side manner leaves something to be desired.

Siegfried also takes on an administrator, Miss Harbottle (Neve McIntosh), to try to get the practice in tip-top shape. She’s everything her name suggests. “What I quite like about that particular character and dynamic is that it breaks the house and unites the house,” Shenton previews.

As for the critters, a ferret with a lump, a lethargic tortoise, and a gas-passing dog all have appointments at Skeldale, where a couple of goats get Siegfried’s goat. Fortunately, for the actors they were pros. “They train the goats with food and sound,” Shenton explains. “There were these really loud horns, and then a shake of a food [container], and the goats would know to go to the next bit of their blocking.”

Another pro was a cute gray tabby named Humbug, who plays Oscar, a cat that shows up in the second half of the season and wins Helen’s heart. “He’s worked on sets since he was a very little kitten, so he’s used to being around people and he’s confident,” Shenton says. “He was super good and affectionate.”

One four-legged cast member missed some days because he needed a real veterinarian. Derek, the fluffy Pekingese furball who plays pampered pooch Tricki, had a health issue and this season split the role with a dog named Dora until he was able to return. (According to the folks at PBS, “Derek continues to be the ultimate professional and settled straight back into the business of filming.”)

In quieter moments, the friendship between Helen and housekeeper Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley), who wants to divorce her absent husband, deepens. (Helen is still the only one at Skeldale House who addresses her by her first name, Audrey.) “That was probably one of my favorite strands,” Shenton says. “Anna and I are great friends off-camera, so it was really nice to have scenes with her.”

Madeley and Shenton also performed together on another project, a podcast drama called Gladstone Girls that Shenton wrote about pottery makers in the north of England fighting to be able to wear hair curlers to work on Fridays. The multitalented Shenton and her husband, Chris Overton, are already Academy Award winners for best live action short film, for The Silent Child in 2018.

As for the future of All Creatures, producers have yet to confirm whether there will be a fifth season but Shenton is hopeful. On a show where emotions are understated yet still deeply felt, she appreciates how truthful the series is to the time period and that part of the country.

“These are farmers. Nobody had time to be super emotional, you had to get on with it,” she says. “Often what’s nice is the things that aren’t being said. Your heart breaks sometimes because [characters] either can’t find the words or just don’t need to. They know it, you can feel it, and that’s always lovely.”

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Instances of principal cast members in Six being out during opening and closing performances

UK Tour V1 closing (12/30/18) - Jarneia Richard-Noel and Alexia McIntosh were out, so Renee Lamb emergency covered Aragon and Grace Mouat covered Cleves

Pre-Broadway Tour closing (12/22/19) - Abby Mueller and Brittney Mack were injured, so Mallory Maedke and Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert took over the roles of Seymour and Cleves respectively for the duration of the St. Paul stop

UK Tour V3 opening (6/8/21) - Maddison Bulleyment was ill, so Jennifer Caldwell covered Boleyn

UK Tour V3 closing (3/6/22) - The tour's run was extended by a few days during which Vicki Manser was unable to perform, so Harriet Watson covered Howard

Aragon Tour opening (3/29/22) - Olivia Donalson was ill, so Keirsten Nicole Hodgens was flown out to emergency cover Cleves

Aragon Tour closing (7/30/23) - Natalie Paris was unable to perform, so Kelly Denice Taylor covered Seymour

Canadian Production opening (8/12/23) - Julia Pulo was unable to perform, so Darcy Stewart covered Boleyn

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All Creatures Great & Small - Magazine Round Up: 4x02

Here are the ACGAS features and synopses from the recent UK TV magazines:

7-13 October 2023

TV Times

Radio Times

TV & Satellite Week

What's On TV