Manuscript Found in Accra Written by Paulo Coelho
Read by Jeremy Irons
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
ISBN: 9780385367783
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
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On Sale Date: Apr 2, 2013
This Sahaya International documentary about the AIDS epidemic in rural India is narrated by Jeremy Irons and features music by Enya. Enjoy and please spread the word about Sahaya International. They are changing lives!
Jeremy Irons is one of the many celebrity narrators on the SKY Atlantic series The British, airing in the autumn of 2012.
From the SKY website:
Combining gripping drama, spectacular CGI and compelling commentary, The British is an ambitious and unmissable new series which tells the history of Britain and Ireland from the Roman invasion to the birth of TV and the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.
Spanning two thousand years, the series uncovers the surprising stories of the unsung heroes as well as the well-known icons of history. Some of the UKâs most recognizable names from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport, science and history â including Jeremy Irons, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Terry Wogan, Jessie J, Russell Brand, Colin Jackson, Frank Lampard, Lord Robert Winston and Prof. Jeremy Black â share their unique insights on how thousands of years of British history have shaped the people and nation we are today.
Essex-born actor, comedian and writer Russell Brand said: âItâs nice to be able to reach back into the past and feel that you have an identity thatâs built on an oceanic, rolling historyâ while OscarÂŽ winning actress Dame Helen Mirren said of her national identity: âIf you wanted to teach someone who knew absolutely nothing about the British people, it would be very good to guide them to Shakespeare â you could see the foolishness, the humour, the brutality; itâs all in almost every play.â
Sky is also running an educational initiative to support the series. Aiming to give pupils an enthralling insight into 2,000 years of the history of Great Britain, the initiative will target pupils from ages 7 â 14 with an educational plan tailored to the series.
As part of this campaign, Sky has produced free, flexible teaching and learning resources for ages 7-11 and 11-14, which will be specifically tailored towards each episode of the seven-part series. Click here to find out more about the educational resources for The British.
Explore episode 1 – Treasure Islands (54BC – AD500)
Explore episode 2 – People Power (1066 – 1415)
Explore episode 3 – Revolution (1541 – 1641)
Explore episode 4 – Dirty Money (1666 – 1820)
Explore episode 5 – Superpower (1770 – 1851)
Explore episode 6 – Tale of Two Cities (1851 – 1891)
Explore episode 7 – War and Peace (1891 – 1953)
Complete audio of The Waste Land, read by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins…
Click on the audio player below:
Friday 30 March 2012
2:15 – 3:00 p.m. (GMT) on BBC Radio 4
Radio Times review by: Laurence Joyce
Thank heavens for Ezra Pound! Without his artistic intervention TS Eliotâs modernist poetic masterpiece would have been called He Do the Police in Different Voices instead of The Waste Land. This we learn in the introductory contributions from the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean OâBrien that set Eliotâs complex and multi-layered work in its literary and historical context.
But it is the reading of the text itself by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins that is most enlightening for anyone who has ever struggled to catch Eliotâs drift. Their measured delivery, never overdone, captures the poemâs bleak emotional landscape, breathing life into its panoramic sweep and mundane detail, with Atkins chillingly perfect in Death by Water.
Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read the poem by TS Eliot, featuring an introduction by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O’Brien. The author’s seminal work is arguably one of the most influential of the 20th century, and is split into five parts – The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What the Thunder Said.
A Jeremy Irons – The Authoritative Website exclusive! Marc Sinden, producer of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, gives his firsthand account of working with Jeremy Irons on making the recording:
“We recorded his story in an audio suite at the BBC Borehamwood Studios. I directed the reading, as I had done for all of the stories included in the 4-CD box set of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde and Jeremy arrived on his enormous motorbike, in leathers, which worried me as I thought that he might ‘squeak’! He didn’t, however, and he was utterly professional and well-prepared, as usual, and we recorded the whole story in three takes. I was delighted that he had invented so many voices for all of the characters in the story and several of them made me laugh out loud! We then had lunch in the commissary and had a wander around the Eastenders permanent set before he roared off on his huge bike, while I waited for Joanna Lumley to arrive to record her story. He really is the most un-’star like’ actor I know – a real actor – and a wonderfully loyal and sweet friend.”
The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund
The recording is now available from audible.com, on CD and from iTunes. Click on the link above to listen to a preview and to order.
The hard copies of the 4x CDs of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde read by various stars (Dame Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sinead Cusack, Robert Harris, Samantha Bond, Geoffrey Palmer, Sir Donald Sinden) and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund, are now available!
You can get them as 4x CDs from http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/ and either pay by good-old-fashioned cheque for ÂŁ19.99 + ÂŁ4.45 p&p per 4x CD set or via PayPal, or as a digital download at http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=BK_WHTR_000005UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes or now even on iTunes.
http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/
Information courtesy of Marc Sinden
Marc Sinden Productions Group of Companies
inc. The One Night Booking Company
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Jeremy’s second appearance on BBC Radio 4′s “Desert Island Discs” from Sunday 5 February 2006 is now available on iTunes for FREE!
Click on the image below to download on iTunes:
[The iTunes version just plays clips of the songs Jeremy has chosen, due to licensing issues. That is the reason that the iTunes broadcast is slightly shorter than the version on the BBC website. The interview portion with Jeremy is unedited.]
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Introduction from the BBC website:
Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the actor Jeremy Irons.
He made his name playing Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited in 1981 and became known for his quintessentially English roles. It was an image he later sought to discard and he certainly did so in the film Lolita, where his portrayal of Humbert Humbert reopened the controversy about the desires of a middle-aged man for a 14-year old girl. In the film The Mission he played a gentle Jesuit missionary and went on to act as his own stuntman, climbing a perilous waterfall. It was his performance in Reversal of Fortune that won him an Oscar for Best Actor as the real-life character Claus Von Bulow, accused and acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife. Later this month, he returns to the West End stage after almost 20 years to star in the play Embers, a story of friendship and betrayal.
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The full, unedited version of Jeremy’s “Desert Island Discs” episode is also available to listen to or to download to keep from the BBC 4 Website. There you can also read the details of his first appearance on “Desert Island Discs” on Sunday 2 November 1986, but it is not available to listen to.
Jeremy’s song choices:
Favourite track: “One step at a Time” by Clifton Chenier
Book: Ashley Books of Knots by Clifford Ashley
Luxury: Rizla liquorice papers
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Sinead Cusack’s appearance from Sunday 15 December 2002 on “Desert Island Discs” is also available through iTunes and the BBC website. Her first appearance, from Saturday 28 May 1983 is also detailed on the BBC website, but is not available to listen to.
Audio recorded from a 31 May 2011 performance of John Milton – Simply Sublime at Donmar Warehouse in London, as part of Poetry Week.
Jeremy Irons (Satan), Emilia Fox (Eve), Felicity Kendal (Narrator) and Dan Stevens (Adam) perform excerpts from Paradise Lost. The event was sponsored by Josephine Hart.
[No copyright infringement intended.]
As the audio quality is low, this is best listened to through headphones with the volume turned up high……Click on the play arrow below to listen. Click on the volume/speaker icon at the left of the audio player to increase the volume in the audio player module. The recording is approximately 1 hour in length.
A first-hand account from an attendee:
“The Donmar Warehouse is quite a small theater.The five actors were sitting on chairs in a row. They read excerpts from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 1 and 9. Jeremy read the part of Satan. The other parts were of Adam and Eve and a Narrator. The fifth woman talked about Milton at the beginning (a bit more than 17 minutes).
Jeremy wore his usual kind of clothes: white shirt, grey vest, reddish scarf, grey trousers and boots (not his riding boots, shorter ones), no glasses.
At the evening performance, the theater was nearly full. The evening performance was video-recorded for Josephine Hart, who was not there. The lady who recorded it said that Hart might share it on her homepage, but there is no guarantee.”
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A photo of Jeremy in Covent Garden on Tuesday 31 May 2011 – the day of his Poetry Week performance. [Photo 
 petra eujane ]
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Sadly, on Thursday 2 June 2011, Josephine Hart lost her battle with cancer and passed away at the age of 67. Read more in the London Evening Standard.
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As part of the CD compilation “Words That Burn” by Josephine Hart, there is a recording of Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Emilia Fox and Greg Wise reading extracts of John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, similar to what was performed at Donmar Warehouse.
Jeremy also read the part of Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’ for a BBC Radio 4 production of the Josephine Hart Poetry Programme on 20 April 2008. In that performance, extracts from John Milton’s great Christian epic ‘Paradise Lost’ are read by Jeremy Irons (Satan), Felicity Kendal (narrator), Greg Wise (Adam) and Emilia Fox (Eve).
Jeremy Irons is currently working with Blenheim Films on a documentary about the world’s trash and pollution. He has worked with Blenheim Films previously.
Blenheim films is an independent production company based in Oxfordshire, England, created in 1998 by Candida Brady and Titus Ogilvy.
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Jeremy Irons was in Iceland in April 2011 with a crew from Blenheim Films.
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Jeremy Irons is to be in San Francisco Thursday and Friday, April 14 & 15, 2011, with a British film crew making a worldwide documentary about recycling, for the BBC. San Francisco was chosen, said Robert Reed of Recology, because it has become known internationally for recycling, and, in particular, a compost program that collects food scraps at restaurants and compostables from all properties, then creates compost for 200 vineyards.
Since this program began, it has created enough benefit to offset all emissions from traffic crossing the Bay Bridge for more than two years. “We make the really premier compost in America,” Reed said. “The vineyards can’t get enough of it.”
07 March 2011 – from the Stratford Observer
OSCAR-WINNING actor Jeremy Irons joins Armonico Consort in Warwick on March 26.
The star of stage and screen will be at St Mary’s Church to launch the choir’s tenth anniversary year, which aims to raise a further ÂŁ100,000 for their Big Mouth Appeal – creating childrenâs choirs and training teachers as choir leaders.
In a programme called âThe Final Coronationâ narrated by the actor, the award-winning choir will recreate elements of the ceremony from 1963 when the pope was last âcrownedâ, singing music performed at every coronation for 400 years by Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.
Irons is a familiar with the area having trod the boards at the RSC in Stratford on numerous occasions. He is also a well-known face on the big and small screen. He won an Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bßlow lies in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune. He is best known to television viewers for playing Charles Ryder in the classic adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
Tickets are available from the Ticket Factory on 0844 581 0750 or via www.armonico.org.uk
