Steven Pacey reads Robert Wilson‘s new crime thriller Capital Punishment, which promises to take listeners on a terrifying journey into London’s dark side. The audio-CD and downloadable file is released today.
Steven Pacey played a small role as the prosecution barrister in Boy A (2007), a masterful, multi-award winning flim starring Andrew Garfield as the eponymous Boy A. It is a powerful film, though confronting at times.
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy weighs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past.
Summary from Amazon
The film will be braodcast on the US/Canadian Sundance Channel, next week.
Wednesday
9 January, 2013
11:00pm
Rated: mature audience
Steven’s role in the film is quite small (you see most of it in the trailer); however, don’t let that dissuade you from seeing this memorable film.
Although Steven Pacey didn’t make the short-list for the What’s On Stage awards this year, fans propelled his name into the long-list for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for Charley’s Aunt!
Steven has also made it to the long-list for The Sounds of Crime Award for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the UK in 2012 in both printed and audio formats, with four nominations for his narration: Joe Abercrombie’s Red Country, Sam Eastland’s Siberian Red, James Herbert’s Ash, and Susan Hill’s Question of Identity.
The shortlists will be announced in early 2013, and the winners are announced on 1 June, 2013. Good luck, Steven!
UPDATE 7 May 2013
Unfortunately, Steven’s novels didn’t make the short list for The Sounds of Crime Awards. Maybe next time!
BBC 1 Daytime broadcasts the new 5-part series, Privates, in January 2013!
The episodes are to be broadcast every day, from Monday 7th January – Friday 12th January at 2:15pm. Steven makes a guest appearance, playing Major Cunnicliffe, in two episodes: Episode 3 (Wednesday) and Episode 5 (Friday).
Steven filmed these episodes in Northern Ireland in February 2012.
Synopsis:
Britain 1960: as the age of respectability gives way to the era of rock and roll, we follow the stories of eight privates who are part of the last intake of National Service. Stationed at a basic training depot in North Yorkshire, they are part of Two Section and their two years of National Service has just begun.Text from BBC 1
Information on the individual episodes:
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Lance Corporal Jimmy Hobbs proposes to his girlfriend Norah, who works in the army canteen (NAAFI) and then goes AWOL after being chased by Private Keenan. Sergeant Butcher sees a man by his motorbike on the pier, dressed in a homemade general’s uniform and speaking only in the dialogue of David Niven; he is Private Lomax. Corporal Barrowman, having taken a dislike to Private Wratten, initiates a search for a ‘stolen’ watch and pronounces Wratten the thief.
After lights out, the men deal with dislocation in their own way: Keenan writes in his journal, Hoy cries and Lomax is nowhere to be seen…
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BBC One
Monday
7 January, 2013
14:15
Duration: 45 minutes
Corporal Barrowman drills Two Section on the parade ground. He is aghast that McIllvenny has permission to wear ‘soft shoes’ and that Private Hoy is unable to co-ordinate his arms and legs.
Lomax fakes taking the sedative that Nurse Connie gave him and much to her surprise suddenly starts to speak like Bette Davis. Jimmy tells Norah he has a plan. Keenan apologises to Connie for being strident about his pacifist views last time they met and asks Connie if they could talk, somewhere private.
Two Section undergoes bayonet training. It’s a visceral process and most do it badly. It prompts Davies to wonder if he has what it takes to be a soldier. Sergeant Butcher visits a woman at the Imperial Hotel in nearby Ravensea.
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BBC One
Tuesday
8 January, 2013
14:15
Duration: 45 minutes
Two Section is on the assault course. Barrowman tells the men that if they beat One Section’s time they will get a crate of beer: if they don’t, they will be peeling spuds for the regimental dinner that evening.
White-Bowne tells Captain Gulliver that he is standing in the Oldham East by-election and will thus get exemption from National Service.
Hobbs, waiting in an army cell after being AWOL, fears the worst. Lomax hides a wrapped package under his pillow. Keenan and Connie have dinner together.
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BBC One
Wednesday
9 January 2013
14:15
Duration: 45 minutes
Barrowman continues training with Two Section and simulates a gas attack, during which Wrattan collapses.
While the sections wait by the barrack room clock for their leave to begin, the nuclear attack warning sounds. Barrowman and Hobbs salute the impending Armageddon with a bottle of whisky. Hobbs, now slightly drunk, confronts Norah about their relationship.
White-Bowne has found out that Barrowman used to be a sergeant and thinks Hobbs might know the story of why he was demoted to corporal.
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BBC One
Thursday
10 January, 2013
14:15
Duration: 45 minutes
Preparations for the Remembrance Day parade begin as a telegram arrives telling that Davies’ grandfather has died, the one his family had suspected of being a coward.
Captain Gulliver tells Audrey that their life will begin anew when he hands in his resignation that day. Wratten visits Barrowman in hospital and Barrowman tells his story. Keenan’s curiosity about Davies’ grandfather leads him to uncover the truth about the grandfather’s army record.
White-Bowne and Rothman appear in front of the Conservative selection panel and make their respective pitches to be the next candidate. Sergeant Butcher asks Captain Bulgakov whether Lomax is really mad or just faking it.
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BBC One
Friday
12 January, 2013
14:15
Duration: 45 minutes
Peter Anghelides posted this photograph of Steven Pacey and Paul Darrow on his BLOG after the studio recording session on 13 December for his new Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio drama, Incentive.
You may follow Peter’s updates via his BLOG or on Twitter. He promises to write more about the new audios!
Steven Pacey reads Robert Wilson’s new crime thriller Capital Punishment, which promises to take listeners on a terrifying journey into London’s dark side. The audio-CD and downloadable file will be released on January 17, 2013.
Charles Boxer, ex-army, ex-police, has found his niche in private security. His speciality: high-stakes kidnap resolution. But it’s a rootless life that doesn’t impress his teenage daughter, Amy, or her mother, Detective Sergeant Mercy Danqah. Alyshia D’Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Francisco ‘Frank’ D’Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening out, she gets in the wrong cab home…When D’Cruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows Frank’s colourful business career has made him plenty of enemies along the way. Despite the vast D’Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don’t want cash – instead favouring a cruel and lethal game. But the UK government don’t want their big new investor to lose his daughter in the heart of the capital. MI6 officers in India follow Boxer’s leads and soon it seems more lives than Alyshia’s are at stake, as the trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil. To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters and London’s homegrown crimelords. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.
Publisher’s Synopsis
Big Finish announces a new audio drama featuring Steven Pacey, to be available in October 2013.
Press Release:
Steven Pacey, who played pilot Del Tarrant in Blake’s 7, is returning to the role for Volume 6 of The Liberator Chronicles, which is released in October 2013.
Blake’s 7 was created by Terry Nation (who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who) and ran for four years on BBC TV. It focused on a team of resistance fighters aboard their advanced ship the Liberator, who battle the corrupt forces of the Federation. The Liberator Chronicles is a series of enhanced audiobooks that is being released in a licence deal with B7 Media.
“We’re absolutely delighted that Steven has returned to the role of Tarrant,” says producer David Richardson. “And it will be wonderful to hear him sparring again with Avon (played by Paul Darrow) and other members of the team…”
Volume 6 is set during the third series of the popular TV show and opens with Incentive by Peter Anghelides, in which 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… Incentive stars Steven Pacey as Tarrant, Paul Darrow as Avon and Adrian Lukis (Bert and Dickie, Fresh Meat) as Bracheeni.
“After Incentive, Volume 6 takes an unusual course,” continues David, “telling the story of series three from the perspective of the missing Blake and Jenna. It’s the previously untold tale of their lives after the Liberator.”
Blake’s Story is written by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott, and stars Gareth Thomas as Blake and Paul Darrow as Avon. Beginning with Blake’s escape from the Liberator during the Galactic War, it follows his journey to being a troubled, scarred man on a distant rebel world…
Jenna’s Story is written by Steve Lyons and stars Sally Knyvette as Jenna and John Banks as Correl. It follows Jenna’s determination to continue the fight against the Federation alone… with the odds stacked against her.
Text from Big Finish
Volume 6 of The Liberator Chronicles will be released in October 2013.
Don’t miss this opportunity to re-watch Return to House on Haunted Hill on the Horror Channel on the weekend.
Horror Channel
Sunday, 16 December, 2012
11:10pm
Steven Pacey plays one of the major characters, Dr Richard Hammer, an archeologist whose search leads him to the House in search of the evil Bophomet statue.
Disappointing news: despite our best efforts Steven wasn’t shortlisted in any of the categories for the What’s On Stage awards this year. Thank you, everyone for your support! Maybe next year …
The Broken Token, recently read by Steven Pacey, was included in The Independent‘s list of top audiobooks for 2012 today. Congratulations, Steven!
“An earlier hero emerges in the first of a beautifully constructed series about murder in 18th-century Leeds. Chris Nickson’s protagonist is Richard Nottingham, Constable of the city, searching for a murderer, a thief, and the other half of The Broken Token (Creative Content, £24.27). Steven Pacey is the fine reader of this vividly convincing historical thriller. You long to go to Leeds, right away, and trace the ancient streets he inhabits.”
Sue Gaisford, The Independent, Books of the Year 2012: Audiobooks, 2 December, 2012
