Samuel West he made his radio directing debut with a production of "Money" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3. West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions; with his mother Prunella Scales in "Howards End" and "Stiff Upper Lips", and with his father Timothy West on stage in "A Number", "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Part 2". In two films ("Iris" in 2001 and the 1996 television film "Over Here"), Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages. In "Edward the Seventh", he and his brother Joseph played young sons of the title character, who
Samuel West for Best Classical Compendium). He also toured a program of Britten cabaret songs and Auden poems across the UK with Ruthie Culver and the UtterJazz Quartet. In June 2013 he appeared in the video for "Handyman Blues" by Billy Bragg, directed by Johnny Vegas. On 14 July 2017, one month after the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, BBC's Newshour programme invited West to read out an excerpt from a letter written by an anonymous firefighter giving a personal account of the fire scene and his inner thoughts on duty that night. As actor As reader Samuel West has received nine