Ben Barnes Interviewed by Richard Bacon on BBC Radio 5 Live

David Sutton

14 years ago

Today actor Ben Barnes, who plays King Caspian in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live. He appeared on Richard Bacon’s show with Sebastian Faulks who wrote the book Birdsong. Birdsong is a World War I novel that has been adapted into a play staring Ben Barnes. The show is available on demand at BBC’s webpage for the next seven days. To listen to the interview in BBC’s iPlayer visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vr8bf The segment of the show with Ben Barnes lasts about 35 minutes. It starts at 0:45.26 and runs until 1:20.16 The show mostly centers around the stage production of Birdsong, but the Voyage of the Dawn Treader Royal Premiere is mentioned at 0:57.10

At 0:57.10 they talk about the Dawn Treader Royal Premiere

“The premiere is the same time that you are playing Stephen on stage.”-Richard Bacon

“It is. It is Tuesday the 30th of November. I know this because I have to go and do the red carpet and then run 15 meters to the theater and then do the performance and then run back again.”-Ben Barnes

“That’s going to be an emotionally complex night.”-Richard Bacon

“It is. I’m gonna miss the Queen.”-Ben Barnes

“The Queen is going to be there.”-Richard Bacon

“The Queen is coming.”-Ben Barnes

“You think you’d give the understudy a chance wouldn’t you.”-Sebastian Faulks

Host Richard Bacon also talked about the role that Ben Barnes had in a boy band called Hyrise. His one song he sang with Hyrise can be seen on YouTube here.

“I don’t know anything about boy bands apart from that one which I was in for two and a half minutes. It’s such a shame because I have done so many interesting sort of musical projects in my life to do some acting and things and that is the only one that people have managed to discover.”-Ben Barnes

Ben Barnes said that he will do more musical performances as part of his upcoming film Killing Bono. You can see him as King Caspian in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader when it comes out on December 10th in The United States of America.