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Camden New Journal
7 December 2006
by John Gulliver

One Week with JOHN GULLIVER

Actor Damian blown away by kids

HE’S worked with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks but actor Damien Lewis told me he was blown away by the talent of a group of youngsters in Somers Town.

The Band of Brothers and Forsyte Saga star (pictured), who’s just moved into Tufnell Park, is the patron of a unique charity called Scene and Heard which pairs inner city children with volunteer actors to write and perform plays.

Five Somers Town children have taken part in the latest project – a series of short radio plays being broadcast on the BBC World Service – with Lewis starring in Love and Death by 11-year-old Promi Chowdhury.

“It gives the children a chance to express themselves away from the streets,” says Lewis, who became a father himself earlier this year with actress partner Helen McCrory. “All the plays come directly from the children’s imagination so there are no limits to what they conjure up.”