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Helen Attends Save the Children UK

A Night of Reggae

by John Aizlewood| Evening Standard | March 12, 2014


LONDON, ENGLAND : Helena Bonham Carter (L) and Helen McCrory attend “A Night of Reggae” hosted by Helena Bonham Carter for Save The Children UK at The Roundhouse on March 12, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images)

“A Night of Reggae” for Save the Children UK was a hit. An audience including Sir Michael Caine, Colin Firth, Damian Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter and Mike Skinner from The Streets was delighted by the feelgood tunes from Jimmy Cliff, UB40 refugees Ali Campbell and Astro and reggae’s finest rhythm section Sly and Robbie.

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Categories Events Poetry Readings

Helen and Damian Read Poetry at Hay Festival

In Honor of Josephine Hart Poetry Hour

by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccrory.com | May 29, 2013

source: telegraph.co.uk

McCrory and Lewis at the Hay Festival 2013 source: telegraph.co.uk

The McCrory-Lewis household has long been advocates of the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour. Here Helen and Damian attend Hay Festival in 2013, both in celebration of Josephine Hart and the revival of poetry reading tradition she established at the Festival. If you want to hear them read at Hay Festival, an audience member recorded the Hay Festival reading and posted it here. Helen and Damian read a programme of Byron, Keats and Shelley.