Jack Davenport: “The Boat That Rocked” – Update Official Website, Radio Caroline, Release Dates

The official website for “The Boat That Rocked” has been updated and offers now plenty of goodies. No love for Sparky, though – not even a measly buddy icon (yes, “buddy icons”. This is movie is retro, after all!)
Jack Davenport is in the trailer, though. And in Mr. Dormandy’s picture gallery, in the [...]

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Hah! “The Boat That Rocked” – Rude!Trailer. And an event tip – cheers, BBC!

If a trailer is considered too rude to be up on a decent site, you can bet your arse backside it will be up on mine.
Nick Frost, I herewith forgive you the sock-incident.
We’re on the same sheet here.
Or boat.
Whatever.

And just to get into the mood for “The Boat That Rocked”:

Pirate BBC [...]

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Jack Davenport on BBC4

It’s radio time again!
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
BBC4, 3:30 PM
Three Stories by Haruki Murakami
Series of three short stories by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.
2/3: The Year of Spaghetti. A man reminisces about his gastronomic obsession.
Read by Jack Davenport.

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Available online now: “Parlez-vous British?”, read by Jack Davenport

Good news – you can listen to the play even if you’re not in the UK. Just click the link below, lean back and enjoy.
PARLEZ-VOUS BRITISH?
Read by Jack Davenport
Catch it now as it’s online, BBC is a fickle provider and might take it down after a couple of days.

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Parlez-vous British? Jack Davenport on BBC4

Parlez-vous British?

“Finding Dad”
New and classic tales that reveal the best and worst aspects of the British abroad.
By Rob Green.
A Londoner suspects that his real father may not be the one he has known all his life. Could he, indeed, be a foreigner?
BBC, Radio 4, Monday, 10th November, 3.30pm.
Read by Jack Davenport.

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Non-Event: Jack Davenport *not* on the Radio

Houston, we have a canard.

Whenever somebody sends me a link with information, I check the source to see if it’s correct. Jack’s name was there, in was the official BBC website, so I had no reason to doubt the news . Alas, no Jack. Sorry about that.

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