He Do The Waste- Land in Different Voices

[Belgrove]

The centenary of the publication of The Waste Land is marked by a binaural version to be broadcast tonight at 19.30:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018yl5

I have heard numerous readings by luminaries such as Scofield, Guinness, Irons… performed in a single voice, but can’t recall hearing one rendered with the numerous voices and effects that the poem contains - such an obvious thing to do.

[Serial_Apologist]

I can't help wondering how the multiple levels of meaning in the poem can translate - they're frequently ambivalent enough in their own tongue to have yielded a century's worth of disagreements!

[DracoM]

[Maclintick]

The centenary of the publication of The Waste Land is marked by a binaural version to be broadcast tonight at 19.30:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018yl5

I have heard numerous readings by luminaries such as Scofield, Guinness, Irons… performed in a single voice, but can’t recall hearing one rendered with the numerous voices and effects that the poem contains - such an obvious thing to do.

Thanks for he link, Belgrove. Unfortunately on BBC Sounds the start of the Preface has been chopped off, as seems to have happened to many of the individual programmes on this day...Is this a regular feature ?

[Belgrove]

That’s a shame Maclintick, but if it’s any consolation, I did not find the introduction that edifying. It did not address the poem’s central tenet, the loss of faith, nor its implicit and overt sources of inspiration that aids its interpretation. Indeed Eliot’s own acknowledgment of Weston’s ‘From Ritual to Romance’ was not mentioned (as far as I recall). As to the performance of the poem itself, I think it worked, and will certainly aid newcomers and adepts alike to teasing out the various voices. No doubt entire university modules are devoted to what influenced it, and what it subsequently influenced.

[Belgrove]

Another programme on The Wasteland, this time tonight on BBC 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d1yy

[Mal]

The centenary of the publication of The Waste Land is marked by a binaural version to be broadcast tonight at 19.30:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018yl5

"Sorry, this episode is not currently available"

That disappeared quickly! You'd think they'd keep it on board during the centenary year. Are they flogging it?

[gurnemanz]

Another programme on The Wasteland, this time tonight on BBC 2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d1yy

Final item on the Today Programme this morning trailed it and had an interview with Fiona Shaw, who they said "once performed a one-woman reading". She performed it many times and from memory. We saw her vividly put it across at Wilton's Music Hall in 2010.

[french frank]

"Sorry, this episode is not currently available"

That disappeared quickly! You'd think they'd keep it on board during the centenary year. Are they flogging it?

Rights issues. Programmes are normally available only for 30 days, and the original broadcast was 3 months ago.

[Cockney Sparrow]

The nla Drama on Three “He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices - the Centenary of TS Eliot's poem“ if...err... anyone is particularly interested, send a PM......

[eighthobstruction]

The Waste- Land

....I've started this thread for you clever buggers (and put a hyphen in it just to annoy you)....but I'm having nothing else to do with it....¬¬^`/+¬¬^*/¬

....https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...the-waste-land

[Nick Armstrong]

....I've started this thread for you clever buggers (and put a hyphen in it just to annoy you)....but I'm having nothing else to do with it....¬¬^`/+¬¬^*/¬

....https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...the-waste-land

[Serial_Apologist]

Excellent programme it was, locating TWL in the context of Eliot's unrequited love of his youth and unhappy marriage to an English woman. The commentators had made a helpful job of researching the relevant references. The last section of poem (and programme), dealing with the closing passage Pound thought the better of amending which included quotations from The Upanishads, was of particular personal interest and, for me, very moving.

[eighthobstruction]

....so Ezra thought better than amend it to Pound Land....Aye all the desolation you can handle for just a Poohnd....

[kernelbogey]

....so Ezra thought better than amend it to Pound Land....Aye all the desolation you can handle for just a Poohnd....