Anthony Minghella Juliet Stevenson, Bill Nighy and Jenny Howe. His first radio play "Hang Up", starring Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson, was revived on 10 May 2008 as part of the BBC Radio 4 Minghella season. "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1990), a feature drama written and directed for the BBC's "Screen Two" anthology strand, bypassed TV broadcast and instead had a cinema release. He bypassed an offer of another "Inspector Morse" directorial to do the project, the latter he believed would have been a much higher-profile assignment. "The English Patient" (1996) brought him two Academy Awards nominations, Best Director (which he won) and
Ranulph Fiennes his appearances on "Countdown", in which he referred also to a brief film career that included an appearance alongside Liz Frazer. Between 1 and 5 October 2012, and again from 13–19 November 2013, Fiennes featured on the Channel 4 game show "Countdown" as the celebrity guest in 'Dictionary Corner' and provided interludes based on his life stories and explorations. Most recently Fiennes was an expert guest commentator on the PBS documentary "Chasing Shackleton" which aired in January 2014. Fiennes makes a number of corporate and after dinner speeches. Fiennes married his childhood sweetheart Virginia ("Ginny") Pepper on 9 September 1970.