Jason on "The Art That Made Us"
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Jason on "The Art That Made Us"
I am annoyed I missed this episode this evening but here is the link to Jason on the BBC2 programme "The Art That Made Us". He reads excerts from A Modest Proposal as the writer Jonathan Swift.
Section begins around 20 minutes in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... conscience
Section begins around 20 minutes in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... conscience
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For UK listeners only. Drat!
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It is actually a tv episode and I have looked for other links but no luck sorry.
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Thanks for this, Annie. I was surprised that he was actually there in the film, not just a voiceover - and doing an Irish accent too. He wasn't wearing period 18th century costume, just his own clothes - he was outside, so he wore a puffy jacket. I liked the fact that he had grey flecks in his hair, I always prefer that to the dyed look.
"A Modest Proposal" is a famous satirical pamphlet on how to solve starvation and overpopulation in Ireland by eating Irish babies.
"A Modest Proposal" is a famous satirical pamphlet on how to solve starvation and overpopulation in Ireland by eating Irish babies.
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I saw other clips of Michael Sheen narrating 7th century Welsh poetry in a jumper sat in a corridor. It is a stylistic and Covid complient choice I believe that the programme took while filming.
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That's just about all of it, Thunder, thanks for that. Jason didn't read out the whole pamphlet. I loved the way he looked slightly gleeful at the very end at the horror of what he was saying.
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It is actually a tv episode and I have looked for other links but no luck sorry.
Thanks for trying AM. And thanks, thunder for finding that tiny bit that turned out to be the whole bit. Though. It's not my cuppa . . . I pass on satire that involves cannibalism. Can't find the humor in that.
Thanks for trying AM. And thanks, thunder for finding that tiny bit that turned out to be the whole bit. Though. It's not my cuppa . . . I pass on satire that involves cannibalism. Can't find the humor in that.
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Thanks, Servalan and Annie
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On May 25th, Jason Isaacs will be performing a reading of Ruth Ozeki's ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ for the Women’s Prize for Fiction: Virtual Shortlist Festival.
Does anyone know about this?.
Does anyone know about this?.
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Is anyone thinking of signing up for this?.
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I want to, but don't know if I can do it that evening yet.
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I'm going to sign up for Jason's reading. I hope it's open to those of us outside the UK.
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Signed up and got my ticket for Jason's reading. Now. I just have to remember how to sign in—from 2 years ago—when I watched Jason's Greek Tragedy readings. Calling DH!!!
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Signed up and got my ticket for Jason's reading. Now. I just have to remember how to sign in—from 2 years ago—when I watched Jason's Greek Tragedy readings. Calling DH!!!
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Did I make a mistake not puitting the women's reading night on a seperate thread?.