Articles etc

In this section you will find articles written by Hugh and other interesting content

Mar29

A week in the life of Hugh Bonneville

A diary Hugh wrote for Farnham Living

Internationally renowned actor Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham in Julian Fellowes’s hugely successful TV series Downton Abbey, tells Farnham Living about a typical week in his life, before embarking on another six months filming...

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Mar13

A N Wilson

Another Clarification

Anyone who read my comments in Kate Flett's Radio Times interview (available at all good stockists), which A N Wilson quotes from selectively in his piece in the Daily Mail (12/3/11), will realise they were made in the context of the fictional...

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Sep15

Foreword to 'Contacts'

CONTACTS is a handbook for the entertainment industry. Hugh was invited to write the Foreword to the 100th edition.

One evening in 1985, when I was starting out, I fell into conversation with an actor in a pub in Clapham. “In this profession it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, declared the sage. “If you haven’t got contacts, don’t...

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Jul11

Health & Safety

This was a round robin, so I can't credit the author but beneath the wry humour is a frustration I share.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't...

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Dec11

Where the hell is Matt?

Matt Harding's joyous video

Giving Back: Any purchases made on Amazon via links from this site benefit Merlin, the international medical relief charity of which Hugh is a patron.

Here's how it works: click on an Amazon-related item (eg a DVD of Downton Abbey) and any completed purchase made on amazon.co.uk or amazon.com during that visit generates a commission for this website, which is then passed on to the charity. You don't even have to buy the item which first took you to the Amazon site. In the 6 months to December 2011, a total of £101.25 was donated to Merlin this way. So, any time you buy anything from Amazon, please consider doing so via this site - you'll be helping a great cause. Thank you. To find out more about Merlin and Hugh's other charity interests click here.