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Exclusive: Hear Benedict Cumberbatch read aloud from Moby Dick. Ever wanted to hear Benedict Cumberbatch read a chapter from your favourite book? Well, if your favourite book happens to be Herman Melville’s 1851 great American novel Moby Dick, then you’re in luck. That’s because the Sherlock star is one of many famous names to lend their voices to the Moby Dick Big Read project, which will see all 135 chapters of the “sprawling, magnificent, deliriously digressive” novel read aloud and released in sequence to the public over the coming months. The idea for the readings and accompanying artworks came from a 2011 whale symposium and exhibition, Dominion, convened and curated by artist Angela Cockayne and writer Phillip Hoare at Peninsular Arts at Plymouth University. Such was the popularity of the three-day exhibition amongst artists, writers, musicians, scientists and academics that the creators decided to unleash the “deeply subversive” book that is “ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of media” on the Internet.

Tax breaks created TV party - Entertainment News, Emmy Features. Hear Benedict Cumberbatch narrating Stephen Hawking's new documentary series. While you can currently see Benedict Cumberbatch every Friday in Parade’s End on BBC2, you’ll soon be able to hear the Sherlock star narrating a new three-part documentary series by theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design, which is due to begin airing on Discovery on Thursday 13 September, will see the Brief History of Time author summarising some of the greatest discoveries in scientific history and attempting to answer some fundamental questions about the creation of the universe.

While the series won’t premiere until next week, you can see a clip of the show below in which Hawking and Cumberbatch explain what constitutes a law of nature by analysing the forces at work in a game of tennis: Grand Design is the second documentary series by Hawking that Cumberbatch has narrated, the two individuals having last teamed up on Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, which was retitled Stephen Hawking’s Universe when it was broadcast in Britain in 2010. Benedict Cumberbatch – ShortList | Sherlock DE. Hat es Spaß gemacht, einen Bösewicht zu spielen? Sehr, sehr viel Spaß. Es ist eine großartige Rolle, und sie ist wirklich gut geschrieben. Ich habe die Kämpfe und die Stunts ge-nossen, es gibt viel davon und es ist echt ordentliches Actionfilm-Territorium.

Am Anfang des Jobs bin ich weg und habe »The Hobbit« gemacht [Motion-Capture-Aufnahmen und Synchron-sprechen als der Drache Smaug und der Necromancer], also bin ich wortwörtlich zum Set gekommen, habe den Look festgelegt, habe einen Tag gefilmt und mich dann für zwei Wochen nach Neuseeland verpisst, bevor ich zurückgekommen bin. Aber es ist der Stoff aus dem Träume sind. Ich weiß, es ist so ein ausgetre-tenes Klischee, »britischer Darsteller spielt den Bösen in Holly-wood«, aber ich habe das Alles umfunktioniert und es wirklich genossen. Sind Sie von der Aufregung überrascht, die Sherlocks »Tod« am Ende der letzten Staffel hervorgerufen hat?

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