In the autumn of 1956, Freddie Lyon ( Ben Whishaw) is a reporter unhappy with his job producing newsreels for the BBC. Peter Sullivan as Commander Laurence Stern (series 2).Morgan Watkins as Norman Pike (series 2).Lizzie Brocheré as Camille Mettier (series 2). Peter Capaldi as Randall Brown (series 2), Head of News for The Hour.Hannah Tointon as Kiki Delaine (series 2).Adetomiwa Edun as Sey Ola, boyfriend of Sissy Cooper and a doctor.Tim Pigott-Smith as Lord Elms (series 1).Juliet Stevenson as Lady Elms (series 1).Oona Chaplin as Marnie Madden, wife of Hector Madden.Anna Chancellor as Lix Storm, journalist and head of the foreign desk of The Hour.Julian Rhind-Tutt as Angus McCain, press liaison, Head of Press, for Prime Minister.Anton Lesser as Clarence Fendley (series 1).Dominic West as Hector Madden, co-presenter of The Hour.Ben Whishaw as Frederick (Freddie) Lyon, journalist and co-presenter of The Hour.Romola Garai as Isabel (Bel) Rowley, producer of The Hour.On 12 February 2013, it was announced by the BBC that the series would not continue. It premiered on 14 November 2012 in the UK and on 28 November 2012 in the United States. Hornsey Town Hall was used for much of the filming.įollowing the airing of the final episode of the first series, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned, which was co-produced by American network BBC America. It was commissioned by Janice Hadlow, Controller, BBC Two, and Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning and produced by Kudos Film and Television. Each episode lasts 60 minutes, with Ruth Kenley-Letts as producer and Coky Giedroyc as lead director. The series premiered on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 July 2011 each Tuesday at 9 pm. It was written by Abi Morgan (also one of the executive producers, alongside Jane Featherstone and Derek Wax). It stars Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, and Romola Garai, with a supporting cast including Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Burn Gorman, Anton Lesser, Anna Chancellor, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Oona Chaplin. The series was centred on a then-new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis. Read more about Clay Jenkinson and find out how to hire Clay for your event or any other professional enterprise.The Hour is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC. Best known for his award-winning historical impersonations of Thomas Jefferson, Clay Jenkinson also impersonates other characters, including Meriwether Lewis, John Wesley Powell, Robert Oppenheimer, Theodore Roosevelt and John Steinbeck. He is also the Chief Consultant for the Theodore Roosevelt Center through Dickinson State University and conducts an annual lecture series for Bismarck State College.Ĭlay is also widely sought after as a commencement speaker (he has several honorary doctorates) as a facilitator of teacher institutes on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Classical Culture, the Millennium, and other topics as a lecturer on topics ranging from the "Unresolved Issues of the Millennium," to the "Character of Meriwether Lewis" as a consultant to a range of humanities programs, chiefly first person historical interpretation (Chautauqua). In 2008, Clay became the director of The Dakota Institute through The Lewis & Clark, Fort Mandan Foundation, to further expand his humanities programs with documentary films, symposia and literary projects. Since his first work with the North Dakota Humanities Council in the late 1970s, including a pioneering first-person interpretation of Meriwether Lewis, Clay Jenkinson has made thousands of presentations throughout the United States and its territories, including Guam and the Northern Marianas. When award-winning humanities documentary producer Ken Burns turned his attention to Thomas Jefferson, he asked Clay Jenkinson to be the major humanities commentator. On April 11, 1994, he was the first public humanities scholar to present a program at a White House-sponsored event when he presented Thomas Jefferson for a gathering hosted by President and Mrs. On November 6, 1989, he received from President George Bush one of the first five Charles Frankel Prizes, the National Endowment for the Humanities highest award (now called the National Humanities Medal), at the nomination of the NEH Chair, Lynne Cheney. A cultural commentator who has devoted most of his professional career to public humanities programs, Clay Jenkinson has been honored by two presidents for his work.
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