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THIS WEEK: SUNDAY 8th - SUNDAY 15th DECEMBER 2013
Going Out?Sally Knyvette is hosting a special evening at the Troubadour Cafe, London SW5 on Sunday 8th December, 6.30 -11.00pm. This is a promotion and fundraising event for the play Sally will be directing in January 2014, A World Elsewhere by Alan Franks. Full details in news item below and here: Sally at Troubadour.
Julian Glover plays The Interlocutor in the UK premier of The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 21st December. Further details on the theatre website here: Scottsboro Boys.
Staying In?Paul Darrow's appearance at the DWAS convention at Riverside Studios, October 2011 is now available on You Tube. Watch it here: Paul Darrow at Riverside Part 1 and Paul Darrow at Riverside Part 2.
Michael Keating's scene in Eastenders, in which he reprised his role as Reverend Stevens, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer here: Eastenders Catch Up.
Steven Pacey plays Michael Harrison in the repeat of the 2010 episode of Foyle's War, entitled The Hide. Watch it on ITV Player here: Foyle's War. Steven also provides the voice-over for the Anglian Home Improvements advert that's currently playing on commercial TV channels and can also be seen on YouTube here: Anglian.
The next Horizon rewatch is Blake. Join fellow members from around the world to view and discuss the final episode on Tuesday 10th December 2013 at 7.45pm UK time. Discussion thread is here: Rewatch Blake. The full schedule of B7 and other cult TV rewatches is here: Rewatch Schedule.
Time on your hands? Try Horizon member Lurena's Online B7 Jigsaw Puzzles. They can be found here (from post #38 onwards): B7 Jigsaws. Warning - they're highly addictive!
SUBMISSIONS TO BLAKE'S HEAVEN - UPDATE
The producers of the You and Who Doctor Who fan anthologies have invited B7 fans to submit their reminiscences for their third book, Blake's Heaven. This book has undergone a change of publisher, and as a result they are now accepting multiple essays on key episodes. See news item below and here:Blakes Heaven Submissions.
LATEST RELEASES
Blakes 7 Trading Cards: The first series (covering Seasons A and B) from Unstoppable Cards was released on 21st November. For further details, see their website here:Unstoppable Cards. There's a discussion thread on the forum here: Blake's 7 Trading Cards and a thread has also been set up for members to swap and trade their cards here: Swapping Thread
Liberator Chronicles Volume 6 from Big Finish. This box set comprises three enhanced audiobooks set during Season 3, and features the return of Steven Pacey as Tarrant. See news item below and here: LC Vol6. You can listen to a trailer here: TRAILER and order the box set on CD or download here: Liberator Chronicles 6. There is now a review here: LC6 Review and an interview with the writers in the latest issue of Big Finish's Vortex magazine, which is free to download here: Vortex.
Anthology - the latest original B7 book from Big Finish. See news item below and here: Anthology Out Now and order from the Big Finish website here: Big Finish. There is now a review here: Anthology Review, and an interview with the writers in the latest issue of Vortex, which is free to download from the Big Finish website here: Vortex 57.
COMING SOON
Fractures, the first episode of the new 6-part full cast audio dramas from Big Finish will be released in January 2014. You can listen to a trailer here: Trailer. For more information see news item here: Full Cast News and the Big Finish website here: Classic Audios.
Big Finish have revealed details of The Liberator Chronicles Volume 7, which is due for release in February 2014. See news item below and here: Liberator Chronicles 7 and the Big Finish website here: Big Finish LibChrons 7
CAST AND CREW NEWS
Sally Knyvette is directing A World Elsewhere, an exciting new play by award-winning playwright Alan Franks, which will open in London on 20th January. There's a special fundraising event at the Troubadour Cafe, London SW5 on Sunday 8th December, which will feature readings from the play by its actors and live music from Alan Franks. See news item below and here: Troubadour. Sally previously directed a production of Judgment at Nuremberg which raised £12,000 in aid of the charity Paul's Cancer Support Centre.
Glynis Barber plays 'money-hungry stepmother' Cora van Stuyvesant in Endless Night, a new episode of ITV's Marple. Julia McKenzie stars as Agatha Christie's famous spinster detective in this feature-length episode, which will be broadcast on Sunday 29th December 8.00–10.00pm on ITV1. Full details can be found on the ITV website here: ITV Marple and the IMDB here: IMDB Marple.
Glynis played mother-in-law from hell Barbara Cullen in Casualty. Her episode, entitled Three's a Crowd was broadcast on 26th October. Her scenes have been uploaded to You Tube, and can be seen here: Casualty on You Tube.
Glynis features in the new BBC3 comdey Bamboo, which is part of BBC3's Feed My Funny strand. The pilot is available to view on BBC iPlayer here: Bamboo.
More information and full details about Glynis' other current projects are here: Glynis News
Gareth Thomas appeared in concert with the Alauda Quartet at Eastbourne College on Sunday 17th November 2013. They performed Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ for string quartet, with Gareth providing the narration. See news item here: Gareth Narrates.
Gareth played Sir Graham Forbes in a new production of the vintage radio serial Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair on BBC Radio 4. The series concluded on 11th September and is now available as a full-cast audio CD from Amazon here: Paul Temple from Amazon. More information in news item here: Paul Temple News.
Michael Keating returned to his role of Reverend Stevens in Eastenders on BBC1 on 19th November. See news item below for details. Location photos can be seen on the Eastenders website here: Michael in Eastenders
Stephen Greif played the Narrator in Austerlitz, Michael Butt's dramatisation of the award-winning novel by W.G. Sebald on 24th November on BBC Radio 3. See news item below and here: Stephen Greif in Austerlitz. Further details are on the BBC website here: BBC Radio 3 Austerlitz.
Stephen was one of the Readers in three episodes of BBC Radio 4's latest Book of the Week, The Letters of John F. Kennedy. See news item below and here: Stephen in Book of the Week.
Stephen played the voice of the Narrator in the Sony PS3 Game Puppeteer. Released on 13th September, the game has been receiving rave reviews with special mentions for Stephen's performance.
Stephen's narration of MR James' classic spine tingler The Tractate Middoth together with Charles Dickens' Mr Testator’s Visitation are available now from Audio Go. See news item below and here: Ghost Stories
More information and full details on all Stephen's latest work are here: Stephen Greif News
Steven Pacey plays the Earl of Kent in a new production of King Lear. Starring Frank Langella as the King. This production runs from 31st October to 30th November at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester before transferring to the BAM Harvey Theatre, New York from January 7th to February 9th 2014. For further details see news item here: Steven in King Lear. There are rehearsal and production pictures on the Chichester Festival website here: Lear Photos.
Steven provides the voice-over for the Anglian Home Improvements advert that's currently playing on commercial TV channels and can also be seen on YouTube here: Anglian.
Steven played Steven Paynter ('a man of 55, rich and cultured...') in the new series of Poirot. More details about the episode here: Radio Times.
Steven has made his long-anticipated return as Del Tarrant in the latest volume of Big Finish's The Liberator Chronicles. Set during the third season of B7, Incentive also stars Paul Darrow as Avon and Adrian Lukis as Bracheeni in this tale of the Liberator crew's search for Blake and Jenna.
Full details of Steven's work can be found on Thetis' excellent website: stevenpacey.com.
Paul Darrow's appearance at the DWAS convention at Riverside Studios, October 2011 is now available on You Tube. Watch it here: Paul Darrow at Riverside Part 1 and Paul Darrow at Riverside Part 2.
Paul appeared at Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds for the launch of their annual sci-fi exhibition in October. He was a guest at the Doctor Who Regenerations Convention in Swansea on September 21st and 22nd and at a signing event in Cardiff on 1st September.
Paul reprised his role as Justice Prentice in Law & Order UK Episode 5 - Mortal - which aired on ITV1 in August 2013.
Paul featured as Lord Rathen in the epic five-part 'sonic movie' Minister of Chance. Full details and free downloads of all five episodes are here: MINISTER and an interview with Writer/Director Dan Freeman and Executive Producer Clare Eden here: MINISTER INTERVIEW
Paul's voiceovers for Jack FM helped secure that radio station another nomination in the Best Station Imaging category of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. Full details here: Sony Awards. You can listen to Jack FM online here: Jack FM and discuss Paul's jokes here: Jack FM Chat
Paul was interviewed on Mark Evans' radio show on 22nd June on HFM Community Radio (Market Harborough, South Leicestershire & North Northamptonshire). The website is here: HFM, and you can listen to the interview here: Paul Interview on HFM.
Brian Croucher played Lonnie in the time travelling gangster film C.O.O.L.I.O, directed by Paul J. Lane, and he played Phillip Johnson in the short thriller Deception, directed by Paul Moxon. He is currently directing the film Vodka & Coke for the festival circuit, working with a group of local actors. And of course, Brian has returned to his role as Travis in the forthcoming Big Finish full-cast audio dramas, scheduled for release next year. He can be heard in their teaser trailer here: Fractures Trailer.
Jacqueline Pearce has returned to live in Africa, where she says she's happier than she's ever been before. She now has a new website Jacqueline Pearce in Africa, which includes a blog: JP Blog. See news item here for more details: JP in Africa.
She and Paul Darrow narrated the audiobook of Trevor Hoyle's Project Avalon, which is now available from various online retailers. Join the forum discussion here: Project Avalon Chat
Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating and David Collings guest star in Series 3 of Big Finish's The Fourth Doctor Adventures starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson, scheduled for release in 2014. More details are here: Big Finish 4TH DOCTOR
Colin Baker is appearing as Abanazar in the pantomime Aladdin, at the Anvil, Basingstoke from 12th December 2013 to 5th January 2014. See news item below and the theatre website here: Aladdin.
Tom Chadbon will be a guest at Big Finish Day 4 on 18th January 2014. More information here: BF DAY4
Anthony Howell will return as the Auron scientist Gustav Nyrron in a forthcoming Liberator Chronicles story. Nyrron featured in the stories Solitary and Wolf in Liberator Chronicles Volumes 1 and 2; this will mark his third appearance.
MERCHANDISE NEWS
Blakes 7 Trading Cards: The first series (covering Seasons A and B) has been released by Unstoppable Card. For further details, see their website here:Unstoppable Cards. There's a discussion thread on the forum here: Blake's 7 Trading Cards amd a thread has also been set up for members to swap and trade their cards here: Swapping Thread
Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks by Alwyn W. Turner has been released by Fantom Films as a 4-CD audiobook read by David Troughton. See news item below and here: Terry Nation. You can order it here: Fantom Films.
Liberator Chronicles Volume 6 is the latest release from Big Finish in their series of Blakes 7 enhanced audio books. Further details about the three stories, Incentive, Jenna's Story and Blake's Story are here: Vol 6. The 3-CD box set and digital downloads can be ordered here: Big Finish LC6, and there is a free trailer you can listen to here: LC6 Trailer. There is now a review here: LC6 Review
Also available now from Big FinishAudio: Liberator Chronicles Volumes 1-5, Warship.
Books: The Forgotten, Archangel, Warship (eBook only), Lucifer (hardback, ebook and audio book), Anthology
Full details of Big Finish's B7 range are here: B7 from BF
The Horizon Blakes 7 Technical Manual and The Horizon B7 Colouring Book are still available to buy through the club. For full information, sample images and ordering details, click here: Technical Manual and here: Colouring Book.
Wobbleco Music have published a full brass band arrangement of the B7 Theme Tune! See news item here: B7 Brass Band
The official DVD of Paul Darrow in the Whoovers' An Evening With... is now available. Email Whoovers organiser Steve Hatcher to order it: shatcher@w3z.co.uk. More details are here: Evening With Paul, and there is a review of the DVD here: Whoovers DVD Review.
The audiobook of Trevor Hoyle's Project Avalon, read by Jacqueline Pearce and Paul Darrow is available on CD from various retailers. The Book Depository is currently selling it at a 32% discount - see here for details: Book Depository. Amazon are offering it as a free download as part of a 30-day free trial of their Audible.co.uk service, details here: Audible.
*** With so much going on in the world of Blakes 7, the Rebellion Roundup was starting to take up too much space on the front page. We've now created a separate Table of Contents for the list of articles, reviews, interviews etc which you can find here: What's On the Website ***
Sally Knyvette is directing an exciting new play, A World Elsewhere by award-winning playwright Alan Franks. The play is set in the timeless quads of Oxford University in the Autumn of 1968, as the previous year’s Summer of Love gives way to mass anti-Vietnam war protests. It’s a thrillingly intelligent drama of politics on all levels, from international statesmanship to dirty tricks of old rivals and the rule-free warfare of the bedroom.
A World Elsewhere will have a four-week run at Theatre503 at The Latchmere, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW. The first preview is on Wednesday 22nd January, and Press Night is on Friday 24th January.There are also hopes for additional performances in Oxford.
For further information click on READ MORE below
Josette Simon was one of a host of stars and other charity ambassadors at a Christmas Carol concert on 4th December at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge. Among the other star supporters calling for action on dementia were Tony Robinson, Kevin Whately and Angela Rippon. They sent messages to the G8, ahead of the the world's first G8 Summit on Dementia, which takes place on 11th December 2013. The Alzheimer's Society will deliver the ambassadors' calls to action via Twitter to @G8, and are asking the public to add their voices. Josette supports the Alzheimer's Society, as her mother had dementia. Josette often attends Memory Walks to raise awareness of the work the Society does to support those living with dementia.
Horizon has long been a supporter of the Alzheimer's Society. In 1994, the club raised nearly £2,500 for the charity, which had been nominated by Jacqueline Pearce and Gareth Thomas, both of whose fathers suffered from Alzheimer's Dementia.
For further information on the G8 Summit, visit the Alzheimer's Society website here: G8 Summit. Anyone wishing to tweet their message to the G8 should use the hashtag #G8dementia and tweet the message to the @G8 Twitter account here: G8 Twitter.
On Friday 6th December, Julian Glover (Professor Kayn in Breakdown) was presented with a CBE by the Prince of Wales. The 78-year-old actor said the honour was a “vote of confidence” for a 60-year career that has included roles in Star Wars, Indiana Jones and James Bond. Most recently, he has featured as Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's serialisation of Game of Thrones, and is currently appearing on stage at the Young Vic as the Interlocutor in The Scottsboro Boys.
After receiving the medal from the Prince of Wales, he said: “It’s the most extraordinary thing to happen. I’m thrilled."
For many fans, Blake's 7 has had a profound effect on their lives that goes far beyond the appreciation of a TV series. Earlier this year, submissions were invited for a new book by the makers of the You and Who anthologies, who are now turning their attention to Blakes 7. Blake's Heaven will be an anthology of B7 fan reminiscences, which according to the editor John Davies, are about "...where and when you first watched these stories, how they made you feel and whatever other thoughts they've put into your head."
A recent change in publisher has now provided the opportunity for more fans to contribute to this anthology. Instead of being restricted to only one submission per episode, multiple submissions will now be considered. John Davies explains: "... if you wanted to write about Gambit but were disappointed to see that story had gone, now is your chance to pitch for a submission."
Interested in contributing? For further details, click on READ MORE below.
On Sunday 8th December Sally Knyvette is hosting a special evening at the Troubadour Cafe, London SW5. This is a promotion and fundraising event for the play Sally will be directing in January 2014, A World Elsewhere by Alan Franks. The evening will feature a special welcome from Sally, readings from the play by the actors and live music written and performed by playwright Alan Franks. Sally promises that everyone will have 'a free glass of wine and a lot of fun!'
Venue: The Troubadour Cafe, 265 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London SW5 9JA
Time: 6.30 to 11.30pm
RSVP: Please PM Travisina or the Supreme Commander.
For further information click on READ MORE below
Unstoppable Cards are now shipping their Blake's 7 Trading Card Sets Each Retail Box contains 24 x 5-card packs. There are 54 cards in the basic set, with episode synopses for Seasons 1 and 2. Each box also contains between three and five Gold Foil Chase Cards. In addition, each box is guaranteed to contain three rare cards out of a selection which includes Autograph Cards, Printer Plates, Signed Printer Plates, Sketch Cards and Signed Sketch Cards. Series One contains a total of 18 different signature cards, two of which are double signed cast cards. There are also case bonus costume cards.
Final pre-order offers are available until 28th November from Unstoppable Cards
1 box costs £49.99 or you can save £15 by ordering 3 boxes for £134.99. A 3-box order will also receive one bonus redemption card for a Case Signature Card or Costume Card. Worldwide shipping is free for retail box orders.
For images of some of the rare cards, click on READ MORE below
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