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Dressed in black and based in the US, Neil Gaiman has, in the past decade, become an author hero among readers of all ages, including the 1.8 million who follow him on Twitter. In prize-winning, best-selling novels including Coraline, Neverwhere, American Gods and The Graveyard Book, he combines the everyday and the other-worldly, drawing on sources from English folklore, science fiction, fantasy, horror and fairytales to rock music and the Midrash. An element of enchantment runs through all his work. To mark the publication of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, an unsettling and very personal fable about memory, magic and survival, he is making one public appearance in London. Interviewed by the Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, he reflects on the boundaries between children's and adult literature; the appeal of working in multiple forms - such as comics, picture books and screenplays; the writers - from Kipling to Edgar Allan Poe - who have most influenced him; and the lure of darkness.

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Neil Gaiman in conversation with Claire Armitstead: June 2013

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads R. Kelly's 'Genius' (audience edited)

Benedict Cumberbatch is no stranger to being part of beloved film franchises. Earlier this year, he played the villain role of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, and he will be reprising his role as Smaug/Necromancer in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, opening in theatres tomorrow.

Rumors are also flying that Cumberbatch wants to be a part of the next Star Wars film which J.J. Abrams is directing.  Abrams also directed him in Star Trek Into Darkness. To star in any Star Wars film would be a dream come true for anyone, including Cumberbatch, who told us that he was a Star Wars fan growing up and has always fantasized about being Han Solo. 

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WOULD LOVE TO DO A SOLO ACT

Benedict Cumberbatch - Can't Keep It Inside (Extract from August: Osage County)

This enchanting audio extract reunites readers with the Snowman and introduces them to a new best friend, the Snowdog. Read by Benedict Cumberbatch, star of The Hobbit and the TV series Sherlock.

The Snowman and the Snowdog: Extract read by Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into Darkness

recorded 06.2011
from the nonexistent album "Summer Skulls"

etokle - Life Raft (Blue Waves)

Benedict Cumberbatch narrates the conclusion to ‘Flat Of Angles’, the story by Simon Cleary that has spanned the previous three editions of Late Night Tales (Friendly Fires, Royksopp, Bonobo). 

Late Night Tales: Django Django is released 12th May.

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Django Django is the latest band invited to curate a prestigious Late Night Tales collection. Like many of the best British groups, the Djangos met at art school, specifically Edinburgh College Of Art, before reconnecting in London. Django Django released their self-titled debut album on UK independent label Because Music in early 2012 to some acclaim, winding up in many critics’ end of year lists (Top Ten in the NME and Top 30 in Rolling Stone, among them) and a Mercury Prize nomination.

Their oddball approach to music, which sounds like the rich harmonies of the Mamas & Papas beamed through a refracting prism pointing towards Bo Diddley, Chicago house and outer-space (it’s no surprise to learn that Django producer/drummer Dave Maclean’s brother John was in the Beta Band, who also shared the same cinemascopic view of the pop landscape). 

“Rollicking sing-alongs, galloping into disco sunsets like whisky-addled and leather-saddled bandits on the stolen backs of prairie wild mustangs,” is how Django Django describe themselves. Which is another way of saying they’re pop adventurists, as at home with Mad Mike’s Underground Resistance as they are the blues rumble of Canned Heat. A bit like this delightful mix, then, which darts about like a gurgle of guppies after two too many espressos.

Check out mixes that rock between two-step delights like Roy Davis Jr’s ‘Gabrielle’ to Nilsson’s lyrically winsome ‘Coconut’. At one end of the Django spectrum there’s James Last, the terminally unhip Teuton, whose ‘Inner City Blues’ shows you can never underestimate the Germans, while at the far reaches of the mix, they manage to sneak in Ramadanman (‘Bass Drums’) and Hudson Mohawke and Lunice collaboration TNGHT’s ‘Bugg’n’. You can hear the echoes of influences in some of the selections, like The Beach Boys whose peerless ‘Surf’s Up’ makes a welcome appearance halfway through, while Seals & Crofts’ ‘Get Closer’ show what sun-drenched pop can sound like when it’s done well. 

And because it’s Late Night Tales there’s a sparkling cover version of ‘Porpoise Song’, the theme from The Monkees daffily brilliant ‘Head’, an admirably lysergic termination to this waltz through pop’s nooks and cranberries. “You should never be afraid to make a fool of yourself for art,” Dave Maclean once said. Let’s raise a dram to Scotland’s favourite fools on the hill. 

“We wanted to produce a mix that represented the band. It’s what we’re all into, so everyone put forward suggestions. It’s what we are as a band; and we’re kids that have grown up with an obsession about our mum and dad’s record collections, like ‘50s and 60s stuff and then got into hip hop and dance music as we grew up. At the heart of it all is our parents’ collections, with our tastes mixed in. Our Late Night Tales pays homage to that.” - Dave Maclean (Django Django)

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Flat Of Angles (Part 4)

Integrated music and sound design for LIMBO (Playdead) released on Xbox LIVE arcade, Playstation Network, and Steam

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Martin Stig Andersen - Gravity Jump (Limbo)

Benedict Cumberbatch (Casanova) 1/5

Benedict Cumberbatch - Pure Imagination ringtone

Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires presents Benedict Cumberbatch - Flat Of Angles (Part 1); a spoken word piece.


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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Flat Of Angles [Part 1] (Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires)

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Adam Low, Martin Rosenbaum & Edit Store, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.Starting 16 September 2012!For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

Chapter 58: Brit - Read by Benedict Cumberbatch - http://mobydickbigread.com

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Part 1

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Part 2

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Part 3

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Part 4

Benedict Cumberbatch- Neverwhere 'The Angel Islington

E S  Posthumus - Nara

The second part of the four-part Late Night Tales story 'Flat of Angles', written by Simon Cleary and read by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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The new edition of Late Night Tales journeys to Scandinavia to invite Norwegian duo Röyksopp to delve through their record collection. Their Late Night Tales mix is eclectic, diverse and wonderful. Sliding from light folk to widescreen ambience to experimental rock to prog-pop (seasoned with the occasional guilty pleasure); it’s all in the spirit of the night.

Following the exclusive introduction track 'Daddy's Groove', Rare Bird's beautiful 1975 B-side'Passing Through' then leads into Australian supergroup Little River Band. The first of several delicate folk moments, it's joined by the ever soulful John Martyn. There's a strong representation of alternative European sounds. Röyksopp mine deep and wide to unearth the rare and unusual German psych-pop of Richard Schneider Jnr (featuring none other than Can's Jaki Leibezeit on drums), France's unique F.R. David and the new age melodies of Switzerland's Andreas Vollenweider - it's pop Jim, but not as we know it. There are also the more familiar names of XTCand Thomas Dolby, as well as Röyksopp's exclusive cover of Depeche Mode's 'Ice Machine' and brand new track opening Daddys Groove. The music draws to a close with goth-dream-pop 4ADfounders The Mortal Coil's Emmylou Harris cover 'Till I Can Gain Control Again'; blending into a cinematic moment from German electronic avant-garde band Popol Vuh, contributing to the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's 1972 movie Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The second part of theBenedict Cumberbatch narrated story 'Flat of Angles' closes time on this coolly individual edition of Late Night Tales.

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Flat Of Angles (Part 2)

36 - Reunion

Late Night Tales: artist-curated compilations. Night Time Stories: original artist releases.

Late Night Tales invites the world’s best artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate “late night” selection. The series includes expertly curated mixes by Bonobo, Jon Hopkins, Nightmares on Wax, Nils Frahm, David Holmes, Groove Armada, Belle & Sebastian, Friendly Fires, The Flaming Lips, Metronomy, The Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, and Jamiroquai.

The Night Time Stories imprint releases original artist recordings including Khruangbin, Chaouche, and Rae & Christian.