Eileen Atkins Archives | Memorable TV

Madame Bovary (BBC Drama, Frances O’Connor)

In BBC drama Madame Bovary, written by Heidi Thomas and based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, we are in 19th century France where innocent Emma...

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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Towards Zero (S3EP3 ITV 3 Aug 2008, Greg Wise)

Towards Zero: A wealthy woman holds a party at her Devon estate for family and friends, including old schoolmate Miss Marple. When a solicitor and the hostess...

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The Crown: Windsor (S1EP3 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Eileen Atkins)

Windsor: With Elizabeth in a new role, Philip tries to assert some power. Churchill wants to delay the coronation. King George’s disgraced brother arrives. guest cast...

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The Crown: Act of God (S1EP4 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Harriet Walter)

Act of God: When dense smog cripples London for days and creates a serious health hazard, Churchill’s inaction leaves him vulnerable to his political enemies. guest...

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The Crown: Smoke and Mirrors (S1EP5 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Nicholas Rowe)

Smoke and Mirrors: Elizabeth rejects protocol by appointing Philip to coordinate her coronation, but his ideas create conflict. The Duke of Windsor returns to London. guest...

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The Crown: Hyde Park Corner (S1EP2 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Ben Miles)

Hyde Park Corner: With King George too ill to travel, Elizabeth and Philip embark on a four-continent Commonwealth tour. Party leaders attempt to undermine Churchill. guest...

TV1 month ago

Ballet Shoes (BBC Drama, Emma Watson, Victoria Wood)

The kind of lavish high gloss period piece that the BBC do best, Ballet Shoes, based on the much loved Noel Streatfield novel, was one of...

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An Age of Kings (BBC Drama, Robert Hardy, Sean Connery)

An Age of Kings was the ambitious dramatisation of five Shakespearean plays as a historical project. In An Age of Kings, the kings in question were...

TV6 months ago

Fable (The Wednesday Play BBC One 27 Jan 1965, Eileen Atkins, Rudolph Walker)

A key entry in The Wednesday Play strand, Fable turned the tables on the issue of apartheid with the setting of Britain that is a totalitarian...

TV1 year ago

Talking Heads (BBC-1 1988, 1998, Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge

An anthology series of straight to camera monologues. Bennett performed himself as did other favourites of his including Maggie Smith, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters,...

Movies2 years ago

Vita and Virginia (2018, Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki)

1920’s set Period drama Vita and Virginia tells the never less than fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West...

Movies2 years ago

Gosford Park (2001, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon)

As he showed in such films as Nashville and M*A*S*H , Robert Altman is one of the handful of directors comfortable working with large casts yet...

TV2 years ago

Love Again (BBC-2 2003, Hugh Bonneville, Tara Fitzgerald)

Dramatisation of the later life of poet Philip Larkin from his days as a Librarian at Hull University in the 1950s to his death in 1985...

TV2 years ago

Upstairs Downstairs (BBC-1 2010-2012, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy)

‘This house is going to see such life!’ Beloved 1970’s drama series Upstairs Downstairs is given a sumptuous new revival in this BBC production. It’s 1936...

Movies2 years ago

Let Him Have It (1991, Chris Eccleston, Paul Reynolds)

Let Him Have It is Peter Medak’s vividly dramatized account of the infamous and still controversial 1952 Craig-Bentley case focused, to powerful dramatic effect, on Derek...

Memorable TV

Memorable TV

Eileen Atkins

Madame Bovary (BBC Drama, Frances O’Connor)

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Towards Zero (S3EP3 ITV 3 Aug 2008, Greg Wise)

The Crown: Windsor (S1EP3 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Eileen Atkins)

The Crown: Act of God (S1EP4 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Harriet Walter)

The Crown: Smoke and Mirrors (S1EP5 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Nicholas Rowe)

The Crown: Hyde Park Corner (S1EP2 Netflix 4 Nov 2016, Ben Miles)

Ballet Shoes (BBC Drama, Emma Watson, Victoria Wood)

An Age of Kings (BBC Drama, Robert Hardy, Sean Connery)

Fable (The Wednesday Play BBC One 27 Jan 1965, Eileen Atkins, Rudolph Walker)

Talking Heads (BBC-1 1988, 1998, Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge

Vita and Virginia (2018, Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki)

Gosford Park (2001, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon)

Love Again (BBC-2 2003, Hugh Bonneville, Tara Fitzgerald)

Upstairs Downstairs (BBC-1 2010-2012, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy)

Let Him Have It (1991, Chris Eccleston, Paul Reynolds)

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