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Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. 

Read and listen to all the poems in this series:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/nov/20/our-melting-shifting-liquid-world-celebrities-read-poems-on-climate-change

Celebrities read climate change poems

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Dark Lord

Michael Gambon and Michael Sheen star in this original play by Mike Hodges, first broadcast on March 16, 2003 on BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3. Sound design by John Hunt. Produced by Roger Elsgood. Thanks to oldtimetv.net for the production. 

Get Carter director Mike Hodges makes his writing and directorial debut for radio in this dark comedy about low life and high stakes in the movie industry. Recorded on location in a central London hotel, this production marks the long-awaited return to radio drama of Michael Gambon, in the role of George Boulder the night porter. 

Cast:
Boulder: Michael Gambon
Rattle: Michael Sheen
Welty: Kate Hardle
Zigzager: Gary Waldhom
Bellboy: Simon Wilkinson
The drummer: Alex Pascall

Shooting Stars & Other Heavenly Pursuits [2001]

Mike Hodges - Shooting Stars and Other Heavenly Pursuits - BBC Radio 3 (3-16-2003)

Michael Sheen stars in this two part BBC Radio 4 drama, The West Pier based on the novel by Patrick Hamilton. The first part broadcast on June 14, 1998. Dramatized for radio by Allan Prior. Directed by Richard Wortley. Thanks to oldtimetv.net for the production.

Part 1: The Handbag. Three young men return to Brighton in the summer of 1925. Are they after a holiday romance - or something much more sinister?

Cast:
Gorse: Michael Sheen
Esttier: Alison Pettitt
Ryan: Julian Rhind-Tutt

The West Pier [1951]

Patrick Hamilton - The West Pier - 'The Handbag' [1/2] - BBC Radio 4 (6-14-1998)

Michael Sheen stars in this two part BBC Radio 4 drama, The West Pier based on the novel by Patrick Hamilton. The second part broadcast on June 21, 1998. Dramatized for radio by Allan Prior. Directed by Richard Wortley. Thanks to oldtimetv.net for the production.

Part 2: The Car. Gorse, a man without scruples, reaches the climax of his deception.

Cast:
Gorse: Michael Sheen
Esttier: Alison Pettitt
Ryan: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Patrick Hamilton - The West Pier - 'The Car' [2/2] - BBC Radio 4 (6-21-1998)

Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. 

Michael Sheen reads ‘The Rhinoceros’ by Robert Minhinnick

Michael Sheen reads 'Scratching for Metaphor in the Somerset Coalfields' by Sean Borodale

Iain Glen reads ‘Nostalgia’ by Don Paterson

Iain Glen reads ‘California Dreaming’ by Lachlan McKinnon

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘Zoological Positivism Blues’ by Paul Muldoon

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘The Solace of Artemis’ by Paula Meehan

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘Late Sentinels’ by Peter Fallon

Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

Kelly Macdonald reads 'X' by Imtiaz Dharker

Footnotes: Michael Sheen

Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust.

Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them - a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua....

Michael Sheen reads 'Scratching for Metaphor in the Somerset Coalfields' by Sean Borodale

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