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First episode dateMarch 14, 2011
Narrated by David Tennant
Followed by W1A
Writers John Morton
Jul 24, 2012
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Hosting the 2012 Olympics is a big deal for London, as evidenced by this comedy series, originally broadcast by the BBC, which follows the Olympic Deliverance team -- the people tasked with having the two-week event go off without a problem. The team has plenty of time before the deadline and 9 billion pounds to spend, so what could possibly go wrong? The team members do their best to get to the end of the day, the end of the week and, hopefully, the end of the Olympics without everything coming undone. Can they do it? …

Children in need: Olivia Colman, to sing Portishead-song for the stars in the sky album

Feb 16,2020 6:51 am

Olivia Colman [L] cover Glory Box, sung by Beth Gibbons [R], a story that has been covered by a doomed romance

Olivia Colman , Portishead's brooding classic Glory Box in aid of children In need.

The Oscar -winner is just one of several stars who has lent her voice to recorded a cover album, in Abbey Road , in aid of Caritas.

It also has two Doctor Who: David Tennant singing with The Proclaimers ' Sunshine on Leith; and Jodie Whittaker , the Yellow Coldplay covered it.

Whittaker's track is out now, with the full album due next month.

Colman's appreciation of mid-90s trip-hop, was so far unknown, but Portishead's debut would have been the album Dummy, a device, in the Dorm room, while she studied at the University of Cambridge and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school.

While it is not known for the singing roles, she Got to sing a Little my heart in Yorgos Lanthimos ' film in 2015, Keep The HUMMER. Colman was also a part of their school choir and played Sarah Brown in a production of "Guys And Dolls" on your sixth form college in Norfolk.

"she has a beautiful voice," her drama tutor Paul hands [subscription] earlier this year. "We have not seen really that the voice of the public. "

The Actress also delivered a half-sung, half-spoken performance in London Road , the 2015 movie version of a musical about the serial killer Steve Wright .

'I can. the melody'

The unusual score required Colman and her co-star Tom Hardy play songs with the rhythm and pitch of the language rather than with a top-line melody

"It was really scary", "I can sing a melody, but I'm under no impression that I'm a real singer. "

The 45-year-old, which is your name with comedic roles in Peep Show , Rev and Twenty Twelve also.

coincidentally, Colman way, also filmed various scenes in the town of Somerset from Portishead, while the main role in the ITV crime drama Broadchurch.

The Children in Need album will be released, on 1. November with a minimum of £1. 50 from each sale will go to charity.

is Called, the full tracklist is as follows:

A BBC A documentary about the making of the recording will be broadcast on Bbc One prior to the annual children In need fundraiser in November.

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Source of news: bbc.com

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