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10th March

A short clip of Clarissa was played this morning on Radio 4 just before the Today programme. Here's an mp3 download. Episode one will air on Sunday at 3pm, Radio 4.

9th March

1. The Radio Times has made Clarissa one of 'Today's Choices' for Sunday 14 March. You can read the article on our Clarissa page.

2. The Book Depository have informed me that the audiobook of Venetia has been released from the publisher and will be sent in the next few days. Apparently Amazon UK are saying a similar thing. So if you want to order Venetia now, you will not have long to wait.

3. Thank you to Librarygirl for finding new Spooks filming pictures taken a few days ago. Read More

8th March

1. The Robin Hood Promotional Gallery has been updated with all the latest pictures, many of which are now available in large format and are courtesy of Shootastic who have given us permission to display these in our gallery. When you click on a picture to view it, you will see an 'original image' button in the bottom right corner which you can click to see the image in its full size glory. Here's some examples of the larger images: Guy from series 2 and Guy and Isabella. Click again if the magnifying glass is on your cursor to view in full size. If you have viewed this gallery recently and cannot see the larger images, press Ctrl+F5 (PC) or Apple key+F5 (Mac) to refresh the page. Enjoy!

2. Thank you to Maichi for three brilliant wallpapers which you can find in Richard Armitage wallpapers and Lucas North wallpapers. Newest wallpapers are at the end of the page.

3. New poll about 2010 projects on the left-hand side. Thanks for voting!

6th March

Amazon UK and Play.com have updated their Strike Back DVD pages to show the cover art for the DVD. Amazon link and Play.com link

4th March

1. The BBC Entertainment channel is showing Robin Hood series 1 starting 15 March at 5pm (CET). They have some great information, pics and clips on their Robin Hood and Spooks web pages. Read More

2. Richard will narrate Forest Elephants: Rumbles in the Jungle tonight at 8pm on BBC2 and BBC HD. More info here.

3rd March

1. The picture of the day archive for February 2010 has been added to the menu on the left-hand side, or click here.

2. Moving On: Drowning Not Waving is repeated tonight at 7.15pm on the BBC HD channel.

2nd March

1. New interview on the Naxos Audiobooks Venetia page. Thank you Luna for the email. Read More

2. There are lots more clips of the Forest Elephants programme to be broadcast this Thursday on the BBC2 Natural World site, however these can only be viewed by UK residents, sorry.

3. Richard has provided a voiceover for another Santander advert promoting ISAs on ITV. You can download it or just the audio from our 2010 Adverts page. I think his voice sounds a bit croaky!

4. There's a new Clarissa career page where we will be posting all news and information about the production leading up to and during the broadcast dates.

28th February

The BBC2 programme Something for the Weekend showed a short clip of the Forest Elephants programme that Richard narrated, to be shown on 4th March. You can download this clip here.

27th February

1. Updated the Clarissa news page with further information. Read More

2. Some new pics and other high quality pics for Robin Hood series 1 and 2 have been found today on a Czech TV site. Thanks Jonia. Read More

3. Two lovely new Guy wallpapers added here. Many thanks Teena.

26th February

1. The DVD of Strike Back will be out 14 June 2010. You can pre-order it now. Read More

2. New poll on left-hand side to ask if you will be buying the Strike Back DVD. Thanks for voting :)

3. Richard to star in a Radio 4 dramatisation of Clarissa. Thank you Luna for emailing us. Read More

25th February

1. According to Richard's UA page, he is now shooting Spooks 9. Yay!

2. Further to the news posted on 20th February about Richard's involvement in The Natural World programme on 4th March, the BBC2 Natural World page has confirmed Richard will be narrating. Although they are calling him a 'participant' - not quite sure what they mean by that!

3. Richard on UK television: apart from Robin Hood series 2 at the weekends on WATCH, Richard can also be seen in Moving On and George Gently in March, as follows:

• Moving On: 3rd March 7.15pm on BBC HD
• George Gently: 5th March 11.45pm on Alibi and 6th March 9pm also on Alibi.

4. Two more brilliant Guy wallpapers by Teena have been added to the end of this page.

24th February

1. Angelfish has created a Richard-as-vampire wallpaper, which might be popular with those of you who chose 'vampire' in our last poll. Browse and download from this wallpaper page.

2. You can now download large scale versions of many of the Robin Hood promotional pictures here. Thank you to Shootastic for allowing us to share these.

23rd February

A new BBC Winter Olympics advert has been captured, advertising access to the BBC's coverage on your mobile phone. Go to the 2010 Adverts page to download.

22nd February

Radio 4 played another clip to advertise the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics today, with thanks to Annette for the alert. Download today's clip from the 2010 Adverts page.

20th February

Richard will be narrating The Natural World on BBC2 and BBC HD on March 4th. Thanks to 30rock on C19 for finding out. Read More

17th February

1. New poll on the left-hand side for you to choose your favourite actress from the list of Richard's co-stars. 'Vampire' was your chosen winner of the last poll with 20% of the vote - Poll results here.

2. Added 5 amazing pencil drawings by GizTheGunslinger to the Artwork page. Art listed in alphabetical order by artist. You may comment at the bottom of the Artwork page if you wish.

16th February

1. Strike Back and Spooks series 8 and 9 will be promoted at next week's Showcase event held in Brighton. Will Richard attend as he did last year? Read More

2. Another Olympics advert played on BBC radio this morning. Download it from the 2010 Adverts page. Thanks Annette for pointing this out.

15th February

1. News for January 2010 has been archived here.

2. Some excellent wallpapers have been given to us from Teena, click on the following links: 1 Guy of Gisborne, 3 Richard Armitage and 7 Lucas North wallpapers. Many thanks Teena.

14th February

You can now download a copy of the new advert for the BBC Winter Olympics website, which includes a voiceover from Richard. All downloads are here. Many thanks to Annette from RAOnline for providing this clip.

13th February

Richard has provided a voiceover for the Alfa Romeo Mito advertisement which has been put on youtube here.

An audio of the Alfa ad is now available here. Thanks Luna for the audio.

12th February

1. The Santander advert has been added to Richard's United Agents Voiceover page. You can download an mp3 version from here without the pauses that are part of the television advert. Right-click  (Ctrl-click on a Mac) the down arrow and choose Save Link as.

2. Slightly different voiceover for the Olympics ad today, since the games start tomorrow. Download here if you're so inclined.

11th February

Another radio broadcast, this one about ski jumping. You can download all the ads here.

9th February

1. We've captured two more radio broadcasts advertising different sports at the Winter Olympics, Skeleton Bob and Snowboarding which you can download here.

2. Tiny little snippet in What's on TV magazine this week about Strike Back. You can read it here. Thanks Jen for the scan.

7th February

Added a new downloads page for the Santander advert and the BBC Winter Olympics advert that Richard has provided voiceovers for this year: 2010 Advertisements. This now includes the ad that appeared on BBC1 today.

6th February

Richard was heard on Radio Wales this morning advertising the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics which starts next Saturday. Here's a download of the advert: mp3 download. Many thanks to welshvalley for finding this snippet. Sorry I uploaded the wrong file earlier, the mp3 should now be working.

5th February

The website for the film Charlie has been updated: http://www.charliefilm.co.uk/

4th February

3rd February

Spooks series 8 can be ordered from Play.com at a cost of £29.99 or pre-ordered from Amazon.co.uk although no price has been set by Amazon yet. The DVD will be released on 11 October 2010. Update 17 Feb: Amazon price is £29.98.

All prices have been updated today on our Richard on DVD page. Many prices have gone up, although there are still some bargains. The following DVDs are available for less than six pounds each from UK sellers: the Vicar of Dibley, North and South, all Robin Hood series 1 audiobooks, The Golden Hour, Frozen, Ultimate Force series 2, Cold Feet series 5, Sparkhouse, This Year's Love, Shakespeare Retold.

2nd February

1. New poll on left-hand side for a bit of fun

2. The pic of the day archive for January 2010 has been added to the menu on the left-hand side, or click here.

1st February

Heathra has allowed us to display her fantastic picture of Richard which is now in our Artwork section. Art is sorted alphabetically by artist. There is a space to comment at the bottom of the page if you wish to.

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