| Author | Message | ||
     Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.240.56.12 |
Hi all, I just posted a YouTube clip about the stories of M.R. James. I hope that my enthusiasm is contagious towards the audience at large! Do check it out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1pGF16k3_M cheers, Tom | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.160 |
Great collection, Tom! Where did you find those BBC dvds? I'd like to get my hand on them and on the others ("A View From a Hill" especially) if they're still available. You have a very thick Flemish accent. I always strove to sound as 'BBC' as possible and up until the late nineties had the additional advantage of being in a position to converse with English people every day, but all that changed after my first trip to the States, when my accent was americanized a great deal. One can still hear I'm a non-native speaker, of course. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
Hubert, I think I bought them on amazon uk, but I am not sure anymore. I am not sure if the other adaptations, such as A view from a hill, were once released on dvd, unfortunately. But I have them as well, in essence VHS tapes transferred to dvd - so so quality but better than nothing. My accent is indeed quite heavy, while I too do speak english daily in my job. Well, my vocabulary is ok, that should make up for it. I'll probably post a few more semi-improvised book reviews over the coming weeks - if I have an available 15 minutes here or there. The reactions tend to be positive until now, and I prefer the wide reach of the youtube channel over the niche forums such as this one or all Hallows. It's a way of bringing odd interesting writings to a much larger audience. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
They're all on YouTube, Hubert. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.160 |
I know, Gary, but somehow 't aint the same. While YouTube is ok for first trials, the picture tends to be grainy and sometimes too dark to make anything out. I watched "The Signal Man" the other day (would love to vist the premises where this was recorded!) and if I hadn't read Dickens's original story I think I might have found it difficult to follow at times. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.241.9.216 |
Hubert, send me a mail on tom dot alaerts at gmail dot com I might be able to help you | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.199.19 |
I might be able to help you Well, this all looks highly irregular. Never catch me doing anything like that... | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 84.196.118.136 |
Mick, we live close, Hubert could simply borrow my discs... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.160 |
Mick: I recall a certain Japanese film . . .  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.199.19 |
Shhh, the lot of you! |