Richard is a Patron of Spencer Conway’s “Africa Bike Adventure” for Save the Children. Spencer, who is seen here pictured next to Richard and who also went to school with him at Waterford, is undertaking an epic 24,000-mile charity trek to circumnavigate Africa by motorbike.

For more information, please visit the Africa Bike Adventure site to see photos, interviews, newspaper articles and a list of the sponsors, as well as read the latest blog entries on Spencer’s fund raising campaign.

January 13, 2010

Richard started the new year appearing in the BBC Four programme “Dear Diary”. The first in a series of three programmes asking what we get from reading and writing diaries; Dear Diary’s first episode with Richard compares the public and private lives of some famous people (Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland) by looking into their diaries. We all know Richard as a diarist himself, making him a perfect candidate to delve into uncovering the power of a diary.

Viewers in the UK still have the opportunity to view this episode. The episode is available until 12:59am Tuesday 26th January 2010 through the BBC iPlayer at their website.

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STOP PRESS: You can also check out some scenes here.

October 5th, 2009

The BBC’s Nigel Slater takes Richard E. Grant on a journey revisiting his food past. Richard’s wife Joan cooks his favourite breakfast porridge recipe. Great video from BBC show ‘A Taste of My Life’.

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Mi Website – 26th September, 2009

An insight into the new Chemists video featuring REG, taken from the Mi Creative Production Studio website.

“We have just shot a music video. How very Rock n Roll. (See what we did there). The Chemists are signed to Distiller Records, and their single ‘This City’ is due for release early in 2010. Distiller approached us after seeing our little robot viral. The brief was to create a dark, moody piece of film, with a robot character adding a bit of intrigue. Collaborating with freelance Director Mark Jewitt, several treatments were written, then burnt, then re-written, then tweaked, then written backwards, before eventually the final treatment was agreed upon.

It then fell to Tom and the canny production team at Red Button Films to assemble a crew to help us produce our video. And without being too gushing, the assembled team was a great example of the expertise that Manchester can pull out of it’s hat with limited time and budget.

The video is now going to take a few months to edit and add the required smoke and mirrors, but the footage already in the Red Cam can (or should that be drive?) is looking very exciting, so a big thank you to Tom, Tighe, Mark, Bekkie, and Mercedes and everyone else who really grafted to help pull everything together.

Oh, and thanks to Richard E Grant for taking the lead role. Did we not mention Richard E Grant? Really? Oh, tch. Yeah, you know, big Hollywood Star, our new best friend. We’re all off to his house for dinner later. Possibly.

We would love to spill some gossip – expose the truth about him being an ego maniac with a ridiculous set of demands, but fairly boringly all we can report is that he was the perfect English Gent. Professionally dealing with everything we demanded of him.

These two quick shots in this post give a little taster of what is to come in the final video, and obviously we’ll make a big deal of it here when it’s ready to be released. (Thanks To Big Mark at MJ&H for coming along to take stills of the day).”