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Minuet by Harriet O’Carroll on BBC4 Radio Extra

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Helen as Jane Austen? Yes, please!

Helenistic | helen-mccrory.com | April 14, 2022

BBC4 Radio Extra has now made Harriett O’Carroll’s Minuet – an hour long radio play – available for a month. Don’t miss this fantastic play in which Helen McCrory gives life to novelist Jane Austen! The story focuses on Austen’s real-life love affair with the son of a Limerick army officer, Tom Leffroy. This affair fuelled Austen’s desire to become a writer.

Starring Helen McCrory as Jane Austen.

Written by Harriet O’Carroll.

Jane Austen …. Helen McCrory
Tom …. John Light
Mr Austen …. John Rowe
Mrs Austen …. Paula Jacobs
Eliza …. Geraldine Fitzgerald

With Frances Jeater, Tilly Gaunt, Giles Pagan and Harry Myers.

Director: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999.

You can listen to Minuet in its entirety here.

Categories Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders boss confirms Polly will remain a “fundamental part” of the movie

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Steven Knight: “She’s such a fundamental part of what Peaky is.”

by Jess Bacon | Digital Spy | March 29, 2022

 Peaky Blinders season 6 spoilers follow.

Peaky Blinders fans have sorely missed Helen McCrory as Aunt Polly in season six.

Helen passed away last year before the latest season began filming, but the impact of the matriarch of the Shelby family has been felt throughout the series.

As the final ever episode of the series airs on Sunday (April 3), the show’s creator Steven Knight has opened up about the spin-off film and the important role that Polly will continue to play in the franchise.

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Peaky Blinders star reveals Aunt Pol was included in alternative season 6 script

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British crime show is set to end with its sixth series

by Inga Parkel |The Independent | March 25, 2022

Peaky Blinders actor Charlene McKenna has revealed that season six’s original script was entirely re-written ahead of co-star Helen McCrory’s death.

In a recent interview, McKenna, who plays IRA commander Laura McKee on the British crime drama, explained that McCrory’s character Polly “Aunt Pol” Gray was included in the first version of the script.

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Categories Charlotte

Good Deed Entertainment Releases Trailer for Charlotte

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Helen’s Last Movie

By Caroline Miller | movieweb.com | March 23, 2022
Charlotte from Good Deed Entertainment
Charlotte from Good Deed Entertainment
Even in times of great ugliness, there is a part of us that strives to take hold onto whatever beauty we can. Charlotte is one of those stories. The people of Good Deed Entertainment have treated us to the trailer of Charlotte, as well as the synopsis below. Continue reading Good Deed Entertainment Releases Trailer for Charlotte
Categories Damian Lewis Personal and Family Life Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation

DAMIAN LEWIS WILL PRESENT THE MCCRORY AWARD IN JUNE

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The McCrory Award Event

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | March 20, 2022

                            Photo Credit: Debbi Clark

Debbi Clark, CEO and founder of Sir Hubert von Herkomer Arts Foundation, announced on Instagram Friday, March 18, 2022 that a photography exhibition in honor of former Patron Helen McCrory will be held at the opening of Alon Zakaim Fine Arts’ new gallery space on Cork St. in London on June 15, 2022, with donation proceeds going to HvH Arts Foundation.

The McCrory Award event will feature exclusive prints of Helen McCrory donated by eight photographers, as well as Clark’s own prints. A series of images of artists close to Helen have honored this event to allow Clark to take their portrait as well. In addition to Damian Lewis, Helen’s close friends such as, Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sadie Frost, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Fay Ripley and Sienna Miller have agreed to sales of their image with 100% of proceeds donated to The McCrory Award, per Debbi Clark Photography’s Instagram post here.

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