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June 14th, 2009

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05:50 pm - Ashes
Thanks to [info]altariel for the link. This is a lovely one hour program by David Mitchell's comedy partner, Robert Webb, speaking about TS Eliot, ee cummings, and Larkin. And he goes to a pub open-mike poetry night! It seems a bit stuffier than ours.

He does it very well, candid and charming. I've sat indoors for an hour to watch this, on a lovely day. I didn't want to stop watching.

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From:[info]valderys
Date:June 14th, 2009 05:42 pm (UTC)
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I too followed [info]altariel's link, and watched the same programme. I felt somewhat about the programme as Robert Webb seems to feel about poetry, some bits enthralled me, some bits made me well up - and some bits I found my attention wandering to the dusting :)
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From:[info]communicator
Date:June 15th, 2009 10:05 am (UTC)
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It takes a lot to make me think about dusting. I did watch it from start to finish, and I then went out in the garden and listened to Paul Schofield reading The Wasteland and East Coker.
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From:[info]matildabj
Date:June 14th, 2009 06:00 pm (UTC)
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I'll have to give this a go. I've got Armando Iannucci's one one Milton recorded to watch, but forgot to record the Robert Webb one.
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From:[info]communicator
Date:June 15th, 2009 10:04 am (UTC)
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I didn't like Ianucci on Milton too much - although I like him and I like Paradise Lost. I think I have decided opinions, and so does A.I. and they aren't the same opinions, dammit.

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