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unusual facts about Bedlam



Bedlam cube

Two of the BBC's 'Dragons' from Dragons' Den, Rachel Elnaugh and Theo Paphitis, were to invest in the Bedlam cube during the second series.

Bedlam Productions

Bedlam's first major feature production was the award winning The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.

Jessica Swale

She has directed a number of plays, including The Busy Body, The Belle's Stratagem (nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director award in 2011), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Rivals, Mad Kings and Englishmen, The School for Scandal, The Glass Tower, Palace of the End, Bedlam, Winter, Finding Alice, etc.

Keshav Sathe

Through Danny, in 1974, he joined the John Renbourn Group with John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Tony Roberts, Sue Draheim and later John Molineux, touring UK, Europe and US, and producing records, including “Maid in Bedlam”, “Enchanted Garden“ and "Live in America".

King Bedlam

King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe, created for their comic book series X-Force.

Lamar Cardinals basketball

The overflow throng in McDonald Gym and those viewing the game by closed-circuit television in a nearby dining hall erupted into bedlam when forward Jim Nicholson stole the ball and went in for a layup seconds after the overtime tipoff.

Madeley Wood Company

The Methodist preacher John Fletcher of Madeley was famous for his millennial prophesies saying 'our earth's the bedlam of the universe, where reason (undiseas'd in heaven) runs mad' ...

Spendthrift

William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1732–33) displays in a series of paintings the spiralling fortunes of a wealthy but spendthrift son and heir who loses his money, and who as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bedlam.

Val Lewton

Bedlam (1946) suggested by the eighth (and last) engraving in the series "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth

With Vilest of Worms to Dwell

(Note that "Lords of Bedlam" incorporates elements of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (Dance of the Knights) and "To Kingdom Come" includes portions from Carl Orff's rendition of the Carmina Burana).


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