Interviews from History – The Making of London: Charles Yerkes Cast and Credits

Written by Richard Hodder

Richard graduated from Keele University with a dual honours in Law and Economics, later reading for an MA in Economics from Leicester.

He worked in William and Glynn’s Bank in Manchester and Peugeot Talbot, before lecturing in Business Studies (Law and Accountancy) rising to Head of Department at Loughborough College.

He then retrained at Guildford School of Acting and worked in the profession for over thirty years working in Repertory, Touring and the West End stage. As well as a variety of commercials and TV credits (ranging from ‘Morse’ and ‘Foyle’s War’ to ‘The Chuckle Brothers’). He also has a bank of work in corporate videos mainly in Management, Legal or customer roles, most recently for JLR, Toyota, BP and the Barrister’s Training course.

He has also directed a range of theatre shows from Ayckbourn to Shaw and Shakespeare.

As a radio / voice artist, he works mainly in corporate voiceover and does a daily slot for ‘theviewpod’ as a newsreader, so Whisky Wars comes like any good single malt - delightful and refreshing.

The Interviewer was Kimberley Lim

Kimberley has 20 years of experience working as a broadcast journalist around the world. She started as a reporter in New York on breaking news stories before moving to London where she helped found and lead the division at Reuters television providing custom content for broadcasters in Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

Over the years, Kim has covered financial markets and investment, and industries including autos, pharma, media and technology. She has attended events including the Paris and Geneva auto shows, the Group of 20 leaders’ summits and the World Economic Forum. Her catalogue of business interviews include Donald Trump, George Soros, Bill Clinton, Boris Johnson, Laskhmi Mittal and Richard Branson.

Kim is a graduate of Cambridge University and with an MA from New York University.

Charles Tyson Yerkes was played by Tony Rago

Tony had been studying and acting since childhood and, with over fifty theatrical productions under his belt, moved to Los Angeles from Chicago to focus on film and television. He has produced, directed and starred in several short films. His short, Thursday, was an homage to the great silent comedians and his other short, Underwear, received high critical acclaim from several of the major newspapers.

Tony co-founded WaWa Productions, which made the award-winning short film Rimshot. He also was a member of the ACME Comedy Theatre’s improv and sketch companies and starred in their online TV shows ACME Saturday Night and Hollywood Dream Role. Currently, Tony can be seen as the clown in the horror/comedy film, Killer Party, available on-demand through iTunes and Amazon Video.

Recently, he wrote, produced and starred in the online comedy web series Dog Park, and was also the writer, producer and star of the award-winning and extremely popular web series Whacked. You can also find him every month directing or performing improv with the long running group The Cliffhangers at LA’s Impro Studios. Tony also travels around the country with a scripted and improvised murder mystery, and recently went overseas to Bosnia with the show to perform for the troops on a USO tour.