well, the picture of DH Lawrence had me excited. maybe i could come across this elsewhere. *NM*
Panorphaeon Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 02:24:08 AM
I apologise to all non-Brits: <a href="http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tg2jk/In_Their_Own_Words_British_Novelists_Among_the_Ruins_%2819191939%29/">This</a> is a link to iPlayer.
I came across this documentary (the first episode in a series), and I found it fascinating to watch. It shows authors talking about themselves or their books. It is strange. I don't usually think of authors' actual voices, only their textual expression. But hearing the only existing recording of Virginia Woolf's voice, for example, is something that fills me with awe.
There are some people talking about the authors as well, to set them in context, but the main appeal is the video recordings of the authors themselves. This one deals with the period from 1919 to 1939 (Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell (the only exception, as they have no recordings of his voice), Barbara Cartland, P.G. Wodehouse and a couple of other people -- there is for example Robert Graves explaining how having sex with boys wasn't necessarily homosexuality).
I enjoyed it tremendously.
And I am looking forward to subsequent episodes (one of which will include Tolkien, looks like).
I came across this documentary (the first episode in a series), and I found it fascinating to watch. It shows authors talking about themselves or their books. It is strange. I don't usually think of authors' actual voices, only their textual expression. But hearing the only existing recording of Virginia Woolf's voice, for example, is something that fills me with awe.
There are some people talking about the authors as well, to set them in context, but the main appeal is the video recordings of the authors themselves. This one deals with the period from 1919 to 1939 (Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell (the only exception, as they have no recordings of his voice), Barbara Cartland, P.G. Wodehouse and a couple of other people -- there is for example Robert Graves explaining how having sex with boys wasn't necessarily homosexuality).
I enjoyed it tremendously.
And I am looking forward to subsequent episodes (one of which will include Tolkien, looks like).
In their own words: British novelists (among the ruins)
- 19/08/2010 08:12:36 PM
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well, the picture of DH Lawrence had me excited. maybe i could come across this elsewhere. *NM*
- 20/08/2010 02:24:08 AM
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When was this on?
- 20/08/2010 03:56:14 PM
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Re: When was this on?
- 20/08/2010 03:58:14 PM
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I do apologise
- 20/08/2010 04:05:39 PM
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