(EN) Benedict Cumberbatch Plays Edmund Talbot, su BBC, 19 maggio 2005. URL consultato l'8 novembre 2015.
«When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly otherwise it was going to get allocated... I worked for six months to drum up the finance as it was voluntary — there was no income. I worked in Penhaligon's the perfumery for almost five months and I did waiting jobs... The monastery was a fantastic experience; you lived your life by very limited means, although you were given board and lodgings»