The Waste Land, Friday 30th March 2,15 pm on R4

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  • salymap
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    • Nov 2010
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    The Waste Land, Friday 30th March 2,15 pm on R4

    Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read TS Eliot's seminal poem, introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien.

    45minutes. Worth recording IMHO.
  • amateur51

    #2
    I thought this thread was going to be another b*itch about Wodger's compulsory Schubertiade

    But no - many thanks for highlighting what might just yet be an interesting and enlightening programme, saly

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    • DracoM
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      • Mar 2007
      • 12995

      #3
      Offhand, I can hardly think of a LESS appropriate 'afternoon play slot' piece.
      WHY is this not on R3???
      Simply unbelievable.

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26579

        #4
        Originally posted by salymap View Post
        Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read TS Eliot's seminal poem, introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien.

        45minutes. Worth recording IMHO.
        45 minutes including all those folk introducing it?! Is it bleeding chunks, saly? Might try and listen, though Irons's mannered mournfulness might be a barrier. Atkins sounds good though. I'm very wedded to my version read by Alec Guinness...
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • JFLL
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          • Jan 2011
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          #5
          According to Radio Times, one of the titles Eliot considered for The Waste Land was He do the police in different voices. That was new to me. Anyone got any idea why?

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          • salymap
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            • Nov 2010
            • 5969

            #6
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            45 minutes including all those folk introducing it?! Is it bleeding chunks, saly? Might try and listen, though Irons's mannered mournfulness might be a barrier. Atkins sounds good though. I'm very wedded to my version read by Alec Guinness...
            Yes Caliban I have a cassette of Guinness reading 'Prufrock'. It may have 'Wasteland' as well. All I have to do is FIND it.

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            • MrGongGong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 18357

              #7
              Originally posted by DracoM View Post
              Offhand, I can hardly think of a LESS appropriate 'afternoon play slot' piece.
              WHY is this not on R3???
              Simply unbelievable.
              Why ?
              Are you complaining because it IS on
              or that it shouldn't be on ?
              and whats the problem with R4?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
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                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #8
                Originally posted by JFLL View Post
                According to Radio Times, one of the titles Eliot considered for The Waste Land was He do the police in different voices. That was new to me. Anyone got any idea why?
                A character in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend reads out articles from newspapers to an elderly (blind/illiterate) woman "dramatizing" the quotations (giving different accents to the people quoted). Eliot intended The Waste Land to be an accurate record of how people spoke to each other (and what they spoke about) in post-war London.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • JFLL
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                  • Jan 2011
                  • 780

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  A character in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend ...
                  Thank you, ferney. Alas, OMF is still sitting on my bookshelves unread ...

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                  • kernelbogey
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                    • Nov 2010
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                    #10
                    T Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad, I’d assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.

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                    • DracoM
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                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12995

                      #11
                      Not complaining that it is on. Just surprised - well, no, maybe in today's terms I'm not - that Waste Land should be on R3.

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                      • salymap
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 5969

                        #12
                        I try to keep an eye on R4 as they have some good progs like the one on the Brontes' piano recently.

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                        • mercia
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          #13
                          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                          T Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad, I’d assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.
                          is that from palindromes'R'us.com ?? (or one of your own )

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26579

                            #14
                            Originally posted by salymap View Post
                            Guinness
                            Amazing performance by Guinness at the moment as a truculent, broad-Scottish army officer on Channel 5, in "Tunes of Glory"
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • kernelbogey
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                              • Nov 2010
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              is that from palindromes'R'us.com ?? (or one of your own )
                              Sadly, not my own, but I've always admired its inventivenes.

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