Jessica Hynes appeared as a "right-on" PR person Siobhan Sharpe in the London Olympic centred satire "Twenty Twelve", of which the first series screened on BBC Four in 2011, moving to BBC Two in spring 2012. A further series was screened in July 2012. She reprised the role in the 2014 series "W1A" for which she won a Bafta." Hynes was in the film "", in which she plays competition host Angel Matthews. The film was released in November 2012. In October 2012, she released a duet with singer Anthony Strong of Slim Gaillard's "Laughing in Rhythm". In December 2012 she appeared
Follow Me up to Carlow You Up To Carlow" on their album "Black Sheep". The High Kings, an Irish Folk Group, recorded a version of the song on their 2016 album "Grace & Glory". Distant Oaks recorded this song on their 1996 album "Empty Your Heart of its Mortal Dream". The song has also been recorded by Quilty, a Swedish band who perform Irish folk songs. Follow Me up to Carlow "Follow Me Up to Carlow" is an Irish folk song celebrating the defeat of an army of 3,000 English soldiers by Fiach Mac Aodh Ó Broin (anglicised Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne) at the Battle of