|
Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 1, 2020 14:11:49 GMT
The December 1963 BBC Radio "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You" is on Radio 4 Extra at 18.00 today. It's bound to be better than the Jonathan Miller television distortion, also with Michael Hordern. I'm assuming it will be downloadable later from here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sqq9zIs this the "horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen"? The play was solid and stolid. And the crumpled linen sheet spoke! You can listen to it on the website. Imagine if your sheets did talk!
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 3, 2020 14:17:51 GMT
The December 1963 BBC Radio "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You" is on Radio 4 Extra at 18.00 today. It's bound to be better than the Jonathan Miller television distortion, also with Michael Hordern. I'm assuming it will be downloadable later from here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sqq9zIs this the "horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen"? The play was solid and stolid. And the crumpled linen sheet spoke! You can listen to it on the website. Imagine if your sheets did talk!
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 9, 2020 13:23:22 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 10, 2020 12:33:38 GMT
Amazon, which seems to be the sole online provider, now lets you look inside the book. The Kindle preview is best.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 13, 2020 12:16:03 GMT
Given the heavyweight contributors this looks to be very promising. However, it contains {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}two poems "Christ, there's two of them!", as exclaimed in another context.
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Dec 3, 2020 21:15:11 GMT
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Dec 7, 2020 21:15:43 GMT
New book imminently out about the Chit-Chat Club: www.swanriverpress.ie/title_chitchat.html#:~:text=James's%20best%2Dknown%20ghost%20stories,and%20long%2Dtime%20Jamesians%20alike. Interesting to see Maurice Baring, Desmond McCarthy and a couple of other unexpected names included here. The most interesting contribution may be Robert Lloyd Parry's essay "An Invitation to the Chit-Chat." The club is described by Parry as having been formed with the intention of "promoting rational conversation," a pursuit that now sounds as archaic as mounting a hunt for the dodo. cheers, H.
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Dec 7, 2020 22:16:26 GMT
Also of interest: At the end of the conversation on the podcast, Robert Lloyd Parry mentions this tale, "The Moon-gazer" by DNJ (identity unknown), published I think 1921. According to Parry, it's one of the most Jamesian tales not actually written by the Provost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX8t76FpD1ILink is to a recording of a live broadcast last May Parry did of himself reading the tale aloud (and, given that it's Parry, that also means performing it). H.
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Dec 8, 2020 3:09:30 GMT
I enjoyed Robert Lloyd Parry's performance of this odd little tale. It seemed like a deliberate pastiche of James, and I found the plot reminiscent of "Green Tea" by Sheridan Le Fanu who I recall having been told was the Provost's favorite ghost story author. I presume whoever composed this story was a friend of James and had perhaps been present at many of the story reading evenings.
While I did not find the story all that successful, it's worth reading (or hearing) for those of us who are afficionados.
H.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 10, 2020 14:18:39 GMT
|
|
|
Post by David A. Riley on Dec 10, 2020 14:30:30 GMT
I am undoubtedly biased but I thought this was an excellent publication. I just had the one contribution in its 257 pages, a review of The Watcher in the Tower by James G. Watson, a story that was badly let down by some of the worst typographical formatting I have ever come across. Review
|
|
|
Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 10, 2020 15:11:06 GMT
I bought the Kindle edition of an issue of this Phantasmagoria publication, and if anyone involved in its production is out there, I want them to know that as it has no table of contents, it is useless. It is not navigable.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 10, 2020 15:22:05 GMT
I bought the Kindle edition of an issue of this Phantasmagoria publication, and if anyone involved in its production is out there, I want them to know that as it has no table of contents, it is useless. It is not navigable. Ghost & Scholars is navigable. You just turn the pages.
|
|
|
Post by David A. Riley on Dec 10, 2020 15:32:45 GMT
I bought the Kindle edition of an issue of this Phantasmagoria publication, and if anyone involved in its production is out there, I want them to know that as it has no table of contents, it is useless. It is not navigable. Ghost & Scholars is navigable. You just turn the pages. So is the print edition of Phantasmagoria!
|
|
|
Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 10, 2020 15:37:43 GMT
Ghost & Scholars is navigable. You just turn the pages. So is the print edition of Phantasmagoria! Oh, I see, this is all very amusing to you---ha ha. But next time it could be you that tragedy befalls!
|
|