♦ Benedict Cumberbatch - The Turning Point ♦

Critics have often said that Michael Dobbs’s work has the extraordinary ability to bring history to life. So with the enouragement of many friends in 2009 he wrote ’The Turning Point’ for the Sky Arts Theatre Live! series. It was his first play, and starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Matthew Marsh. It proved to be a sensational success. The play is built around a meeting in 1938 between Winston Churchill and Guy Burgess, at a point when the world was falling apart. They were both lonely men. A few years later, one had come to be regarded as The Greatest Briton, the other as The Greatest Traitor. But were they so very different? Read more here - Watch the ’making of’ also on YouTube, here - *This video was posted purely for entertainment purposes. No money will be made nor any copyright infringement intended. Please PM me if you have a problem with this video being on here.