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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30512

    #16
    I like this quote from John Sessions, re Gloomsbury: "There’s an obsession with accessibility in television today and many people might consider this project too elitist but I fight that like the very devil. Radio is a wonderful land which has kind of been left alone by managerial types and it seems to be where all the really interesting things go down."
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • greeneyedwoman

      #17
      I have just caught up with Gloomsbury and thought it was brilliantly funny and I would love to hear the first episode which I missed. It is no longer available to listen again on i-Player. Did anyone download it and if so can they send me the mp3 please ?

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      • amateur51

        #18
        Top-class stuff with the best performers, clever, witty, affectionate, hilarious. Many thanks to Caliban for prodding me to listen

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30512

          #19
          'Morning greeneyedwoman - and welcome.

          If anyone does have a recording (I hope legally obtained!) perhaps they would PM gew.
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          • greeneyedwoman

            #20
            Of course a legally obtained recording only is required, thanks for that and for the welcome !

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            • umslopogaas
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 1977

              #21
              Gloomsbury

              Is anyone listening to this on R4? Its a new series taking the p**s out of D H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, who are two of the "classic" authors I most hate, and I'm finding it very funny.

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              • Cockney Sparrow
                Full Member
                • Jan 2014
                • 2292

                #22
                Series two and three have been run in the last year or so, so this is a rerun of series one. Yes - amusing. Great cast. Will catch up, and follow the programmes coming up......

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                • ardcarp
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11102

                  #23
                  Ah. The SacKville Vests at Sizzlinghurst.

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                  • umslopogaas
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1977

                    #24
                    Its hard to know where to begin. I'd say that if you want a genuine funny laugh out of our literary heritage, try Mervyn Peake and the Ghormenghast trilogy.

                    If you want a surprising literary experience, try Robert Musil, 'The Man Without Qualities'.

                    But there might be more, I'll just have to go and inspect my shelves.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26575

                      #25
                      Originally posted by umslopogaas View Post
                      Is anyone listening to this on R4? Its a new series taking the p**s out of D H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, who are two of the "classic" authors I most hate, and I'm finding it very funny.

                      The first series I found very funny - second and third somewhat less so. Judging by the schedule, today's was the first of series 2. John Sessions as "D.H. Lollipop" I found the least successful joke, oddly. The teeming double entendres delivered by Miriam Margolyes, Nigel Planer and Alison Steadman (the latter two taking dual rôles) in series 1 I found sublime! But still plenty of chuckleworthy material - with a dream cast* like that, how could there not be?

                      .

                      *The late great Roger Lloyd Pack replaced Nigel Planer in series 2 (his last work).
                      "...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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                      • umslopogaas
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1977

                        #26
                        I've obviously got a lot to catch up with, because I didnt know there were previous series, but this is a fine item, none the less.

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                        • Barbirollians
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 11763

                          #27
                          I like Woolf but have never got on with Lawrence .Gloomsbury is fun but agree it does seem to be a case of diminishing returns .

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                          • Flosshilde
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7988

                            #28
                            Originally posted by umslopogaas View Post
                            Its hard to know where to begin. I'd say that if you want a genuine funny laugh out of our literary heritage, try Mervyn Peake and the Ghormenghast trilogy.
                            Was Ghormenghast written as a satire (or parody) of a literary or social phenomenon?

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                            • gradus
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5630

                              #29
                              If Vera Sackcloth Vest tickles you it's unmissable. I love it.

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                              • umslopogaas
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1977

                                #30
                                Flosshilde, I dont know if its a satire or a comment on a social condition, but any way, I'm delighted to find somebody who knows it exists and between you and me its a great read.

                                There is an interesting thought here, before I go to bed. I have a large shelf of books. We are now talking about Peake, Musil, Grass, Wyndham Lewis and Thomas Mann to name but a few. Do you have any favourites? I would say, if I was pressed on the matter, that Mervyn Peake is much neglected and Ghormenghast is desperately needing to be rediscovered.

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