Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

The English composer Peter Maxwell Davies has written eight symphonies, and is completing a ninth in 2012.

Today the concerto tradition has been continued by composers such as Maxwell Davies, whose series of Strathclyde Concertos exploit some of the instruments less familiar as soloists.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

He has since been followed by other gay and lesbian politicians in Parliament: Bloc Québécois MPs Réal Ménard and Raymond Gravel, fellow New Democrats Libby Davies and Bill Siksay, and Liberal Party of Canada MPs Scott Brison and Mario Silva, as well as Senators Laurier LaPierre and Nancy Ruth.

In an attempt to avoid using any additional out-of-band authentication factors, Davies and Price proposed the use of the Interlock Protocol of Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, which has been subject to both attack and subsequent refinement.

Gerald du Maurier, who was already playing George Darling ( and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies ), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting decision that has since been replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.

In the novel James has only a few friends-Roger Peter Davies, whom he nicknames " Jolly Roger " and later names his ship after ; and his pet Electra, a fatally poisonous spider.

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

Since the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and Ray Davies has performed solo since then.

Davies has had a tempestuous relationship with younger brother Dave ( the band's lead guitarist ) that dominated the Kinks ' career as a band.

The congregation has some members descended from worshipers organized by Samuel Davies, a theologian and future Princeton University president, at Tucker Woodson's farm in 1748.

The Grosvenor family has owned 40 hectares ( 100 acres ) of Mayfair since 1677, when Sir Thomas Grosvenor married Mary Davies, heiress to part of the Manor of Ebury.

The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood.

Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.

Bailey has appeared frequently on the intellectual panel game QI since it began in 2003, appearing alongside host Stephen Fry and regular panellist Alan Davies.

* Simon Davies, a footballer who has played for Fulham and Wales, was born in Haverfordwest.

It was while at Liverpool Rep that he met his future wife Ann Davies, who was acting as stage manager, and has acted on television since the 1960s.

Since the 1990s it has become increasingly difficult to categorise CALL as it now extends to the use of blogs, wikis, social networking, podcasting, Web 2. 0 applications, language learning in virtual worlds and interactive whiteboards ( Davies et al.

One of the main promises of CALL is the ability to individualise learning but, as with the language labs that were introduced into educational institutions in the 1960s and 1970s, the use of the facilities of multimedia centres has often devolved into rows of students all doing the same drills ( Davies 2010: Section 3. 1 ).

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

The young lovers were played by Brian Davies and Preshy Marker.

Garth Davies played bass guitar and Mick Singleton played drums.

One of the most popular versions of the Chief Inspector was that played by British actor Rupert Davies who made his debut on October 31, 1960.

His portrayal won two of the highest accolades: his versions were dubbed into French and played across the Channel ; and Simenon himself presented Davies with a novel inscribed to his " perfect Maigret ".

In 1984 Sykes played the Genie in the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, which also featured Windsor Davies ( who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000 ), Bob Todd, Lynsey De Paul and Gareth Hunt.

As the band began to experiment with theatrical sound effects and baroque musical arrangements ( Nicky Hopkins played harpsichord on several tracks ), Davies ' songwriting fully acquired its distinctive elements of narrative, observation and wry social commentary.

In 2001 he played what he described as " a physically repulsive " Davies in Patrick Marber's revival of Pinter's The Caretaker, but he found the rehearsal period an unhappy experience, and felt that he had let down the author.

And John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days ( 1980 ), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and as Archie Carver in London Weekend Television's People Like Us ( 1977 ), adapted from the Avenue novels.

The following year he played J. M. Barrie in the award-winning BBC TV series The Lost Boys, in which his son Barnaby played the young George Llewelyn Davies.

After Davison left Doctor Who in 1984, he did not work on another popular series until 1986, when he played Dr Stephen Daker, the ingenuous hero of A Very Peculiar Practice, written by Andrew Davies.

He has also starred in the television series as Dangerous Davies in The Last Detective ( 2003 – 2007 ) and Distant Shores ( 2005 ), both for ITV, in the latter of which he also played a doctor.

" Prove Yourself " was played on BBC Radio 1 by Gary Davies after he received a copy of the EP.

* Actors who have played Polonius on film and television include Ian Holm, Michael Redgrave, Ian Richardson, Oliver Ford Davies, Bill Murray, and Richard Briers.

Starting that same year, she starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, medical student Tru Davies.

More specifically, the counties of Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, and Jo Davies County ( Illinois ) played a major role in the mining of lead and zinc ore.

Davies played a largely subordinate role to his brother, often staying behind the scenes.

Davies has played a number of guitars over time, the most recognizable of which is his Gibson Flying V. Davies bought it in 1965, and soon began appearing live and on TV performances with it.

Davies was one of the few guitarists who played Flying Vs at the time.

* Gibson Futura ( early Explorer body prototype played by Davies on the Shindig TV show ) ( Note that this is in fact incorrect: he played his recently-acquired Gibson Flying V here, and there's no photographic evidence that Davies ever had a Futura model )