People, the Alan Bennett play in which Miles has been appearing at the National Theatre since October last year will close on 15th May. The show is directed by Nicholas Hytner, and the cast includes Frances de la Tour, Linda Bassett, Selina Cadell, Peter Egan, and Nicholas le Provost. Information about tickets, reviews and that sort of thing can be found here.
—–
Miles recently returned from Berlin where he was filming a small part in the new film Monuments Men directed by – and indeed starring – George Clooney. It is dues to open at the end of the year and, provided Miles makes the final cut, he will appear in the role of Major Fielding.
—–
Miles quite definitely does appear - a number of times – in the new Michael Winterbottom film The Look Of Love which is in cinemas even as we speak. He plays an interviewer called Alan Somethingorother who pops up now and again. All good, clean fun – as proved by this trailer.
—–
Miles recently wrote and acted in a pilot television episode of his sitcom In And Out Of The Kitchen. It has the same cast as the BBC Radio 4 series, and was directed by Mandie Fletcher. No-one as yet knows what might become of this. There should be, however, a third series for BBC Radio 4.
—–
Miles’ book Fibber In The Heat was recently nominated for The MCC and Cricket Society Book Of The Year 2013. The prize was won by Gideon Haigh for his much and rightly lauded book On Warne. A second edition of Miles’ book is shortly to be released.
—–
Earlier this year Miles recorded a second series of It’s Not What You Know, a sort-of-panel-show-cum-quiz-type-thing for BBC Radio 4. The guests were Anneka Rice, Dave Gorman, Kirsty Wark, Andrew Maxwell, Joe Lycett, Francis Wheen, Jonathan Agnew, Frank Skinner, Grace Dent, Bridget Christie, Justin Moorhouse, Ainsley Harriott, Dougie Anderson, Isy Suttie, Nick Helm, Alan Johnson, Diane Morgan and Frankie Boyle - that sort of crowd. Still not sure when it’ll be on.