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More new Voyage of the Dawn Treader interviews with Ben have begun to show up online. Simply follow the links provided below to watch / listen!

The rest of the interviews can be found at the following:

- Prince Ben claims Narnia’s throne (Edmonton Journal) (article)
- 98FM Radio (Ben’s interview begins at about 39 minutes in) (audio)
- ‘Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ Interview with Ben Barnes (The Clem) (audio)
- Narnia’s Neeson on the Queen’s 3D specs (Associated Press) (video)

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In this brand new photoshoot for The Observer magazine, Ben wraps up in a selection of this season’s classic coats. Check out the photos in the gallery.

Ben Barnes was chuffed to be asked to wear classic British menswear for this Observer fashion shoot. “If this is my perceived style, that’s brilliant. I’m Burberry in a park!” After roles in Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue, and his current appearance as Stephen Wraysford in the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong, it’s a visual shorthand that makes sense. And was dressing as an English gent enjoyable?

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Thank you once again to Lorna for the following newspaper clippings! The London Evening Standard also has an article on Birdsong today, which includes some brand new portraits. You can view all 3 photos in the gallery!

001 x Mail On Sunday: Live | September 26, 2010
002 x Daily Mail | October 1, 2010
003 x Independent | October 1, 2010

003 x Portraits by Nicky Emmerson for the London Evening Standard

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BBC News has posted a new interview with Ben talking about Birdsong. The article includes a new rehearsal photo, which has been added to the gallery.

“It’s one of about three books ever that’s made me physically weep.”

Ben Barnes adopts a cross-legged position on the bed in the corner of his dressing room in the depths of London’s Comedy Theatre.

It is the final few days of rehearsals for Birdsong – a play based on Sebastian Faulks’s best-selling novel about one man’s journey through the horror of World War I.

On a clothes rail next to Barnes’s bed hangs the freshly-laundered uniform of a British army officer. In the play, he takes the lead role of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman whose story begins in pre-war France in 1910.

“I read the book about five years ago. It was around the time that I was getting serious about being an actor,” says Barnes.

“When you read something like that and the character is in your age range, English with dark hair and dark eyes, you obviously put yourself in that character’s shoes.”

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Many thanks once again to my friend Kate, for the following scans from the October issue of Empire magazine! You can view both articles in the gallery.

010 x Empire Magazine | October

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