In Conversation With ....

Alex Jennings this Friday, 30 April, at the Lyttelton Theatre, 3 pm. Some tickets still available from the National Theatre. So who's going?

Nocturne

Alex is due to appear at the Kew Music Festival on 25 June in a reading called "The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin". Lucy Parham will play the piano, reading by Alex Jennings and Juliet Stevenson, from letters and diaries. The reading will take place at the Musical Museum and will start at 19.30 hrs.

For more information and for tickets check the Kew Music Festival website.

Candide and My Fair Lady

After "The Habit of Art" finishes in London, Alex is off to Japan for a series of performances of "Candide" in Tokyo and Kobe in July and August.

In December Alex will resume the role of Professor Higgins in a new production of "My Fair Lady" at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.

Whitechapel II

Alex will appear in the second series of Whitechapel, an ITV production. It is not yet known when the series will be broadcast.

Finishing the Hat

This Sunday Alex and Carolyn Pickles are the readers on BBC Radio 3's "Words and Music". This week's theme is painting and artists. The programme will be broadcast on Sunday 18 April at 22.20.

Words and Music

Smiley's People

BBC Radio 4 will broadcast the dramatization of "Smiley's People" starring Simon Russell Beale. Alex plays the part of Oliver Lacon. The adaptation starts on April 11 at 15.00. Episodes can be heard for a week after the broadcast on the iPlayer. This is the third part of the Karla trilogy. Alex also appeared in the first book, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy".

Smiley's People

Thanks to Jennifer!