Tag: Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry and Olivia Colman join celebrity support for the NHS Big Tea

Stuart Mitchell

Actor, comedian and writer Stephen Fry and actress Olivia Colman have joined a host of familiar faces to support the NHS Big Tea as part of the UK wide celebration of our NHS. The list of famous supporters of the campaign also features the England men’s football team, including NHS Charities Together Charity Champion Jordan Henderson MBE, and Tyrone Mings, as well as Line of Duty actress Vicky McClure, TV presenter and journalist Lorraine Kelly and author Adam Kay. The support also includes well known doctors and TV presenters including…

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Aardman animation shines light on mental health worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

The Academy Award®-winning studio that made Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit has created a film to underline how mental ill health is a global issue, affecting everyone, everywhere. The thought-provoking animation by Aardman is set inside a head-shaped printer’s tray filled with bits and bobs, such as little figures hugging, a coin jar, a spinning globe, and a person ready at the end of a phone line. As the narrator, Stephen Fry, talks about different aspects of the global scale of mental health, the camera zooms in on…

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Celebrities lose their voice on social media

Stuart Mitchell

The nature of depression can discourage people from talking about their illness, cutting them off from help. Yet research shows 69% of helpline callers foundthat talking to someone enabled them to cope better and feel supported, less anxious, and more in control. SANE is encouraging more people to get in touch. The campaign features a film showing a man being silenced by an unidentified intruder who covers his mouth as he struggles to answer the phone. The intruder is a metaphor for the man’s depression, who wants to stop him…

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Stars get on board to protect the strange things and fantastic beasts of the Antarctic Ocean

Stuart Mitchell

‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour and ‘Fantastic Beasts’ star Alison Sudol are on board a Greenpeace ship heading for Antarctic waters. They will help make the case for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary backed by campaigners, scientists, over 40 international celebrities and 800,000 people around the world. Following a Twitter challenge, resulting in more than 200,000 retweets in five hours, David Harbour secured a place on the Greenpeace ship alongside singer-songwriter and actress Alison Sudol. They have joined an expedition to gather scientific evidence of the need for an Antarctic Ocean…

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Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Vivienne Westwood write open letters to demand end to human rights abuses in Amnesty Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

UK celebrities have joined more than one million people from around the world who have written letters calling on governments and authorities to end the detention or persecution of individuals, as part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign. Amnesty’s annual campaign runs throughout November and December and encourages people to write messages in solidarity with a number of individuals whose basic human rights are being attacked. People being supported include those held unfairly in UK immigration detention, an Egyptian lawyer who is being persecuted by the authorities for defending…

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