BBC
TWO Winter Highlights 2004 - Drama
Gunpowder,
Treason & Plot
Hawking
Gunpowder,
Treason & Plot
An
epic new drama for BBC TWO by award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern
tells the story of Mary Queen Of Scots, James I and the Gunpowder
Plot.
Starring
Robert Carlyle as James I and French newcomer Clemence Poesy as
Mary, the drama also features Kevin McKidd, Emelia Fox, Tim McInnerney,
Catherine McCormack, Richard Coyle, Daniella Nardini and Paul Nicholls.
Filmed
entirely on location in Romania, the drama tells of Mary's short-lived
reign and the battles she had to fight in Scotland with both her
Protestant subjects and the English queen, Elizabeth I.
The
story continues with her son, James VI of Scotland - who became
James I of England - and the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
(MP)
Hawking
 The
story of the early years of world-renowned theoretical physicist
Stephen Hawking is brought to the screen for the first time in a
collaboration between BBC Science and BBC Drama.
Written
by Peter Moffat (North Square, Cambridge Spies), Hawking stars Benedict
Cumberbatch as the young Stephen Hawking who, as a bright and ambitious
PhD student at Cambridge University, is diagnosed with the debilitating
motor neurone disease and given two years to live.
Against
the odds, he goes on to achieve worldwide acclaim and success, in
particular with his astounding book, A Brief History Of Time.
Lisa
Dillon (The Master Builder, Bright Young Things) plays Hawking's
first wife, Jane Wilde, who meets the young cosmologist at a party
in 1963 and is instantly intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and
the universe.
Michael
Brandon (Jerry Springer in the highly successful National Theatre
production of Jerry Springer - The Opera, Dempsey and Makepeace)
plays Arno Penzias, an American Nobel prize-winning scientist whose
work provided physical evidence to back up Hawking's Big Bang theory;
John Sessions (The Lost Prince, Judge John Deed) plays Dennis Sciama,
Hawking's academic supervisor and mentor at Cambridge. (GJ)
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