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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.
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..."
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?
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.
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.
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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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