Liberator Chronicles 6 Released

The news for which Steven’s Blake’s 7 fans have been waiting! Listen to the trailer.

Out now: #Blakes7 Liberator Chronicles Vol 6 with the return of Steven Pacey and what happened to Jenna and Blake… http://t.co/W4FAvsrAAb

— Big Finish (@bigfinish) October 17, 2013

Three enhanced audiobooks performed by the stars of the classic BBC television series. These stories are set during Series 3.

Incentive by Peter Anghelides
Starring Paul Darrow as Avon, Steven Pacey as Tarrant and Adrian Lukis as Bracheeni
The Liberator crew are recovering from a Galactic War and searching for their lost members Blake and Jenna. But it’s a search that leads them into terrible danger…

Jenna’s Story by Steve Lyons
Starring Sally Knyvette as Jenna and John Banks as Correl
Jenna’s story is finally told – from her escape from the Liberator during the Galactia War, to her determination to continue the fight against the Federation alone… with the odds stacked against her.

Blake’s Story by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott
Starring Gareth Thomas as Blake and Paul Darrow as Avon
Blake’s story is finally told – from his escape from the Liberator during the Galactic War, to his new life as a troubled, scarred man on a distant rebel world…

Written By: Peter Anghelides, Steve Lyons, Mark Wright and Cavan Scott
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast
Paul Darrow (Avon), Steven Pacey (Tarrant), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Gareth Thomas (Blake), Adrian Lukis (Bracheeni), John Banks (Correl)

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The Big Four Air-Date

Steven Pacey’s episode of Poirot, The Big Four, is being broadcast on 23 October.

ITV1
8:00 – 10:00pm
Wednesday, 23 October

and

ITV +1
9:00pm
Wednesday, 23 October

Episode Synopsis:

The Big Four forms part of the thirteenth and final series, which includes Dead Man’s Folly, The Labours of Hercules and Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case.

The world stands on the edge of an abyss as the outbreak of World War II grows ever closer…

In an effort to demonstrate international unity, the Peace Party hosts a grand reception, which re-unites Poirot (David Suchet) with his good friend Japp (Philip Jackson), now Assistant Commissioner of the Met. The illustrious crowd also includes English diplomat Stephen Paynter (Steven Pacey), and the French scientist and Peace Party stalwart, Madame Olivier (Patricia Hodge). The American tycoon, and hearty backer of the Party, Abe Ryland (James Carroll Jordan), fronts the event, which climaxes in an exciting game of chess, where he takes on the reclusive Russian Grandmaster, Dr Ivan Savaranoff (Michael Culkin).

But the match has barely begun, when suddenly Savaranoff collapses – dead! Panic quickly spreads when Ryland suspiciously disappears. Daily Comet journalist, Tysoe (Tom Brooke), covers every development in great, sensational detail, claiming the murder to be the work of a group of ruthless political agitators, tagged as the ‘The Big Four’.

Then when Jonathan Whalley (Peter Symonds), the biographer of the Peace Party’s Chinese leader, is also strangely and brutally murdered, the Big Four have the attention of Hercule Poirot and the world.

Tysoe is keen to join forces with Poirot, an anonymous source has been feeding the journalist information on the Big Four, apparently a mole from within. Poirot and Japp decide to pool resources with him when it appears that his informer is murdered – leaving behind evidence, which suggests this dissident and dangerous group is in fact none other than the Peace Party! A theory only reinforced by the disappearances of Ryland, and then Madame Olivier, shortly after the murder of unassuming conciliator Paynter.

Poirot realises that each of these crimes is so dramatic and expertly stage-managed as to be almost theatrical… and the murderer must indeed be a master of disguise in order to pull off such varied and ingenious plans. Through a scrapbook found at Whalley’s house, he tracks down failing actress Flossie Monro (Sarah Parish), whom he believes may unwittingly be at the root of all this bloodshed. However, before he can pursue his theories, Poirot himself is also killed! Or is he?

Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) and Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran) return for the funeral of their old friend, but of course things are never as they seem, and soon the theatrics of the Big Four climax with a deadly final act – but on whom will the curtain fall this time?

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Further Cast and BAM Dates for King Lear

Brooklyn Dates

Chichester’s production of King Lear will transfer to New York in 2014. Further information:

King Lear
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
How to Get There

Dates: 7 January – 9 February 2014

Further details are not yet available.

Further Cast

Further casting for King Lear has been announced. Final full casting is pending.

Steven Pacey to appear in Chichester’s King Lear

Exciting News! Steven has just let us know that he will play the Earl of Kent in Angus Jackson’s production of Shakespeare’s classic, King Lear in Chichester in October. Steven said that he is “looking forward to the challenge.” Veteran actor, Frank Langella will play the King.

After a run of a month in England, the play will transfer to the Hervey Theater at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), in New York, for six weeks beginning early January 2014.


While exact dates and ticketing information have not yet been released for New York, tickets are already available for the Chichester run. Details:

King Lear
Minerva Theatre
Chichester, UK

Previews: 31 October 2013 to 5 November 2013
All sessions 7:45pm

Press Night: 8 November 2013
SOLD OUT

Performances: 6 to 30 November 2013
Matinees: Saturdays 2:45 pm
Midweek matinees Wednesday 13 November 3.00pm, Thursday 28 November 1.00pm
Evening: Monday to Saturday 7:45pm

Tickets
(directly from the theatre)
£32

More information:
Chichester Festival Theatre or call 01243 781312

The Negotiator

Released at the beginning of August by AudioGo is The Negotiator, by Frederick Forsyth, rendered in audio by the expert voice of Steven Pacey. This updated version replaces the audio cassettes produced in 1990 by Harper Collins, read by Anthony Zerbe.

The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it – Quinn, the world’s foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper’s real objective…

The Negotiator unfolds with the spellbinding excitement, unceasing surprise and riveting detail that are the hallmarks of Frederick Forsyth, the master storyteller.

Publisher’s Summary

Ghosts of Sleath Released Today

The second James Herbert novel that Steven recorded in August, The Ghosts of Sleath, is released today! This book is the second in Herbert’s David Ash Series.

Menace awaits. Sleath. Quiet, peaceful. A small village hidden away in the Chiltern Hills, almost forgotten by the modern world. Nothing much seems to happen here; little disturbs the centuries-old tranquillity. Until the ghosts begin to appear and frighteningly bizarre events start to occur.

Psychic investigator David Ash, a man burdened by the dark secret of his own past, is sent to Sleath to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity. The incidents grow worse until, in the final night of horror, awesome and malign forces are unleashed in a supernatural storm that threatens to consume the village itself. For Sleath is not what it seems. And the dead have returned for a reason.

Publisher’s Summary

Haunted Released

The promised first novel in James Herbert’s David Ash Series, Haunted, is released.

A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook’s dreadful secret will be revealed…And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.

Publisher’s Summary

James Herbert Novels

Over the last couple of weeks, Steven Pacey has been busy reading two of James Herbert’s novels, The Ghosts of Sleath and Haunted onto audio for AudioGo.

Release dates yet to be announced.

Jane Hobson Photographs

Wonderful Jane Hobson, the performing arts photographer, has given us permission to link to her photographs of Relative Values. Prints of these photographs are available from her website. Perfect for autographs next time you see Steven.

All these delicious pictures were taken in Bath, on the 17th – 19th June 2013.

Timothy Kightley (Admiral Sir John Hayling), Amanda Boxer (Lady Cynthia Hayling), Steven Pacey (Peter Ingleton), Rory Bremner (Crestwell), Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Caroline Quentin (Moxie, the housemaid). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Timothy Kightley (Admiral Sir John Hayling), Amanda Boxer (Lady Cynthia Hayling), Steven Pacey (Peter Ingleton), Rory Bremner (Crestwell), Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Caroline Quentin (Moxie, the housemaid). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Steven Pacey (Peter Ingleton), Rory Bremner (Crestwell, the butler), Sam Hoare (Nigel, Earl of Marshwood), Katherine Kingsley (Miranda Frayle) and Ben Mansfield (Don Lucas). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Caroline Quentin (Moxie, the housemaid), Steven Pacey (Peter Ingleton) and Rory Bremner (Crestwell, the butler). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Steven Pacey (Peter Ingleton), Ben Mansfield (Don Lucas), Katherine Kingsley (Miranda Frayle) and Sam Hoare (Nigel, Earl of Marshwood). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Patricia Hodge (Felicity, Countess of Marshwood), Steven Pacey (Peter, The Honourable Peter Ingleton), Rory Bremner (Crestwell, the butler), Sam Hoare (Nigel, Earl of Marshwood), Katherine Kingsley (Miranda Frayle) and Ben Mansfield (Don Lucas). Photograph © Jane Hobson.

Redemption Released

Steven Pacey’s reading of Jussi Adler-Olsen‘s latest Department Q mystery, Redemption was released yesterday.

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable.

But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper and a splinter for writing; blood for ink. A message begging for help.

In Copenhagen’s cold cases division Carl Morck has received a bottle. It holds an old and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for help from two boys. Is it real? Who are they and why weren’t they reported missing? Can they possibly still be alive?

Publisher’s Summary