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Chapters: Paul Mcgillion, Marysia Kay, Douglas Campbell, Steve Valentine, Vincent Winter, Susan Fleetwood, Alec Newman, Stephen Mccole, Iain Glen, Finlay Currie, Phyllida Law, Martin Compston, Jeff Stewart, Douglas Sannachan, Laura Fraser, Alastair Mackenzie, John Gordon Sinclair, Jack Docherty, Gordon Kennedy, Ian Buchanan, Robert Cavanah, Kenneth Cranham, John Fraser, Andrew Agnew, James Donald, Joseph Mcfadden, Adrienne Corri, Enn Reitel, Forbes Masson, Ross Mccall, Brian Mccardie, Gordon Reid, Clive Russell, Carter Ferguson, Allison Mckenzie, Alex Norton, Alexander Morton, Sean Kane, David Mckay, Valerie Edmond, Sheila Reid, Spottiswoode Aitken, Neve Mcintosh, Paul Telfer, Scott Cleverdon, Karen Dunbar, Shabana Bakhsh, Siobhan Redmond, Duncan Macrae, Tony Osoba, Isabella Glyn, Duncan Pow, George Rossi, John Mcindoe, Alex Ferns, Hamish Clark, Tommy Flanagan, Elizabeth Sellars, Kaiya Jones, Paul Riley, Roddy Mcmillan, Tom Fleming, Robert Robertson, Ian Mcculloch, William Gillespie, Olaf Hytten, James Mckenna, Kathleen Mcdermott, Michelle Duncan, Stella Gonet, John Malcolm, Angus Lennie, Peter Mcrobbie, Fiona Dolman, David Torrence, Brian Pettifer, Marianna Palka, Margaret Mann, Kirsty Mitchell, Jennifer Van Dyck, Sara Crowe, Robert Buchanan, Stuart Mcgugan, Gerard Kelly, Pat Heywood, Hay Petrie, Colin Mccredie, John Cairney, Polly Frame, Dorothy Paul, Barbara Rafferty, Edmund Breon, James Martin, Robert Fyfe, Rae Hendrie, Jane Mccarry, Jonathan Watson, Peter Blake, David Goodall, Phyllis Logan, Mark Bonnar, Dee Hepburn, Veronica Clifford, Carmen Pieraccini, Rory Mccann, Iain Lauchlan, Julie Wilson Nimmo, Eileen Mccallum, Jack Mcelhone, Lindsay Mckenzie, Lewis Macleod, Andy Gray, Heather Ripley, Hamish Wilson, Edith Macarthur, Steven Robertson, Kari Corbett, Paul Higgins, Mark Cox, Derek Riddell, Gavin Mitchell, Atta Yaqub, Selina Griffiths, Cal Macaninch, Benny Lee, John Stuart, Don Douglas, Gordon Mccorkell, Grant Thomso...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1425423 ... Read more

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The Ghost Watcher is the 4th radio drama/dramatic reading in Big Finish' Dark Shadows audio drama series II. It is a 2 person radio drama with Kathryn Leigh Scott playing Maggie Evans & Alec Newman (Barnabas Collins in Warner Bros. 2004 pilot) playing the Ghost Watcher.Plot: Maggie Evans is given the Collinsport Inn by the Collins Family after her 2nd return from Wincliff in 1972. One day a stranger comes into town and stays at the Inn. He identifies himself as the Ghost Watcher and has come to Collinsport to discover its secrets. What threats does he bring to the town and even to Maggie herself?It is an audio CD running approximately 65 minutes. ... Read more

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Clothes of Sand is the 3rd radio drama/dramatic reading in Big Finish' Dark Shadows audio drama series II. It is a 2 person radio drama with Kathryn Leigh Scott playing Maggie Evans & Alec Newman (Barnabas Collins in Warner Bros. 2004 pilot) playing the Sandman.Plot: Maggie Evans has just arrived at Wincliff in 1968 following her escape from vampire Barnabas Collins. When Dr. Hoffman puts her under hypnosis, she begins to hear the voice again of a childhood playmate The Sandman. Who is this unearthly creature, what does it tell Maggie about her childhood and what does he want with her now?It is an audio CD running approximately 68 minutes. ... Read more

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Beautiful, mysterious, dreamlike. Present and past, realty and dreams; All are woven together to create an atmospheric, coherent, and satisfyingly self contained vision that is true to the original series. Great stuff. ... Read more

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THE ONLY VERSION OF "THE WASTE LAND"
I was happy and surprised to find these 2 ex-library tapes had been hardly used.As they were only briefy available in England and the USA and never seem to have been reissued in either country they are both rare and for the huge army of Eliot enthusiasts virtually unknown. But ever since hearing a snippet I've been browsing Amazon in the UK and USA for several years to find them (at a reasonable price). It was well worth the long wait.

Because "The Waste Land" (1922) is undoubtably the greatest poem (written in English) during the last century. Unfortunately T S Eliot's own recording is dreadfully dull.With no ability to act-out many sections which are spoken by his various characters.Such as the cockneys in the pub.Or women in several different languages.Nor can he increase his pace for the many dramatic passages. "Unreal City ... etc".Although Eliot claimed he wrote it as a "personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life - a piece of rhythmical grumbling" this poem is in fact great fun.And it requires a great English actor with a sense of humour to bring it to life.

Namely Alec Guinness.As George Lucas recognised no other British thesbian has a voice which conveys so much wisdom and authority.And as all Ealing comedy movie fans know no other famous Shakespearian actor had his other ability - to inhabit broad comic characters. So he had all the atributes required. Once heard it's impossible to imagine any other version of "The Waste Land" better than his.And the winner is the listener - and T S Eliot.

As all Eliot cognoscenti know "The Four Quartets" are the musings of a much older more depressed poet.In many sections questioning the value of his writing poetry.Also constantly comparing the value of "time present and time past" as they will appear in "time future". I.e. is life only an abstraction?Once again if anyone can make these long gloomy ruminations absorbing and entertaining Alec Guinness can and does.Using a more subtle vocal approach to reflect the lonely soul of the T S Eliot of 1935-42.

Lastly one has eight shorter poems including his first big success "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock".This is one poem where only Guiness could pull-off the originality Eliot came up with to make poetry more than a bunch of rhyming couplets. Such as "If one, settling a pillow by her head, should say 'That is not what I meant at all, That is not it, at all'".In an instant one fully believes one is hearing a posh woman complaining.

The copyright of these recordings appear to belong to both the BBC and Decca.It really is their public duty to make them available again. Only then will everyone fully understand why "The Waste Land" is a landmark in the history of literature.Influencing all his contemporaries. One of whom honored Eliot by giving his most morbid novel the title - "A Handfull of Dust".

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