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Hello and welcome to the 
Brentwood Buzz, a podcast 

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celebrating all that's good 
about the people and places of 

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Brentwood, Essex. 
I'm Kay Bellwood. 

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We're just slipping in for short
one this time because Brentwood 

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Theatre has a fundraiser coming 
up featuring friend of the 

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podcast Bill Wells interviewing 
international celebrity and 

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local lad Stephen Moyer. 
The Brentwood Buzz bumped into 

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Bill and Stephen's mum Jean 
Wilson at the Marlborough 

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Dramatic Club this week, so it 
seemed like a good time to find 

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out what the fundraiser will 
have to offer. 

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I'm Bill Wells, I'm one of the 
directors of the theatre. 

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This is We're going to talk 
about a fundraiser and I will be

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interviewing internationally 
acclaimed film star Stephen 

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Moyer. 
So and I. 

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Understand. 
You're known as the Michael 

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Parkinson of Brentwood Theatre 
interviewing. 

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With joke, with a bit of Hess, 
but I have interviewed Ken 

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Cranham and John Heffernan who 
are local boys too in their own 

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ways. 
They grew up in round in the 

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area. 
So yes, I've got a bit of 

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reputation. 
I can do a Michael Parkinson, 

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not as good as him though. 
And. 

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So what kind of questions are 
you going to be asking? 

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Because Stephen is, well, he's, 
he grew up here. 

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Yes, he's actually said to me, 
nothing's off the table, but I'm

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going to be more structured. 
We're going to talk about his 

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early time in in the Brentwood 
area when he was hermit and 

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we're going to talk about his 
training, what college Lambda 

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exams, etcetera, etcetera. 
His early career, what what gave

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him a lift up. 
We're going to talk specifically

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about his later career because 
there's so much happening with 

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art Detective Forsyths and the 
Night Agent on Netflix. 

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It's all happening with him. 
So, so much to talk about. 

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Yeah, now somebody who knows a 
little bit about his early 

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career is his mum. 
What could Bill? 

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Ask that. 
You think he should ask? 

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That that's a difficult one 
because I think Bill is very 

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good at and understanding what 
to ask and what people in 

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general would like to know. 
Stephen's interests began quite 

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early on. 
We we were all involved in local

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theatre and which is where 
Stephen began with myself and 

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his sister. 
But his interests and grew and 

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grew whereby he was really 
involved and fascinated with 

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with all aspects of theatre and 
film and, and really became very

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knowledgeable about, you know, 
directors or cinematographers. 

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But right from the early days of
film, it fascinated him. 

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But his early work was theatre. 
Now obviously you're here at the

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Marlborough Dramatic Club 
tonight, so you maintain an 

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interest in local theatre. 
Do you still act? 

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No, I don't, I'm afraid. 
No, no, I love, I love still 

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being seeing everybody and being
part of it. 

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So yeah, I was involved for many
years with Brentwood Operatic 

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Society, but I like to keep in 
touch with what's happening and 

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there's some good people who 
provide a lot of entertainment. 

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I mean, they're all they're. 
All amazing. 

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And and Bill, that's a little 
bit more to ask Stephen about 

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the early days of film. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

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Yes, which will be great. 
I I'm a great film buff. 

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I love the film as well, faster.
So that to me is a good little 

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tint for me actually to do that.
I'll make sure that's one of my 

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questions. 
Absolutely. 

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Going back to when he was sort 
of, I'd say 14, but really early

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days and he'd avidly watch, so 
he'd enjoy discussing that with 

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you. 
And actually it's Tuesday, the 

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21st of April, 730 Brentwood 
Theatre. 

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We'll have a chat with him, 
we'll have questions from the 

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audience, and then he will be 
more than willing to meet people

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in the bar afterwards to sign 
anything or have some selfies. 

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So it'll be a full evening. 
The last time I saw him, I think

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I met him on the way to the 
toilets at Brentwood Theatre 

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where we were taking our 
children there at the same time.

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Yes, that might have been. 
He came to a Brent night. 

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I seem to recall it was a Brent 
night, but that was some while 

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ago. 
No, it is very many years ago. 

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I can't, I can't remember how 
many. 

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I can't think at what stage he 
was at. 

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We're so looking forward to it. 
Tickets are selling very well. 

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So I advise anybody listening to
this to get the ticket now. 

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And it's not saying that we 
can't put more seats out to get 

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more people in because it's not 
a play, it's a talk. 

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So it's not too imperative that 
you have any bad sight lines or 

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anything I can apply. 
But nevertheless, get your 

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tickets now because it's really 
selling well. 

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Thanks to Bill and Jean. 
And just to confirm, Bill will 

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we'll be interviewing Stephen 
Moyer live on stage at the 

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Brentwood Theatre on Tuesday the
21st of April at 7:30 PM. 

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Tickets are available from the 
theatre. 

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The Brentwood Buzz will be back 
again very soon with Tales from 

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an Unruly Allotment.