From Good Friday, 19 April 2019, through Easter Monday, 22 April 2019, BBC Radio 4 aired Jeremy Irons reading The Psalms of the King James Version of The Bible.
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From Good Friday, 19 April 2019, through Easter Monday, 22 April 2019, BBC Radio 4 aired Jeremy Irons reading The Psalms of the King James Version of The Bible.
Click on the audio players below to listen to each episode:
Jeremy Irons was a guest, on Saturday 7 April 2018, of the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends. Hosts Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith were joined by Jeremy Irons, Catherine Tate, Tracy Ann Oberman and James Graham. Music was performed by Honeyfeet.
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Jeremy Irons recording entire TS Eliot canon, July 2016
Following his acclaimed recordings of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, Prufrock and the Practical Cats, Jeremy Irons is in the process of recording the remaining TS Eliot poems for BBC Radio 4, in order to complete his readings of the poet’s entire canon.
This was revealed at the TS Eliot Festival 2016 by Jeremy Howe, Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction for BBC Radio 4. Howe has been responsible for commissioning Irons’s readings to date, and was discussing the recordings and their qualities before the Festival audience.
Howe also revealed that he is considering a way in which all of the recordings might then be broadcast in chronological sequence, in a major single broadcast event which would reflect Eliot’s development throughout his poetic career.
Jeremy Irons talks to Samira about playing Cambridge maths professor G. H. Hardy in The Man Who Knew Infinity – a film based on the real life story of self-taught Indian mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Jeremy was interviewed in London on 17 March 2016 by Samira Ahmed. This interview aired on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row on Wednesday 31 March 2016.
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Photo via Sally Fischer Public Relations. Samira Ahmed interviews Jeremy Irons.
Jeremy Irons was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row which aired on Friday 18 March 2015.
Jeremy is very briefly interviewed, beginning at 6:10 into the broadcast:
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Wednesday 16 March 2016
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons returns to the stage to star in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Bristol Old Vic, the theatre where he made his professional debut in in 1969. The BBC’s arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been to talk to him.
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Jeremy Irons is the featured performer for Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, the Sea on BBC Radio 4.
Part one aired on Sunday 23 August 2015. Part two aired on Sunday 30 August 2015.
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Synopsis:
Charles Arrowby, a distinguished theatre-director, decides to retire to a remote house by the sea in order to write his memoirs.
Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta
Producer: Fiona McAlpine
Director: Bill Alexander
An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4 has announced that Jeremy Irons will star in a two-part adaptation of the Iris Murdoch novel The Sea, The Sea, as part of its drama line-up. Broadcast dates are 23rd and 30th August 2015.
The Sea, The Sea for BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial is directed by Bill Alexander, dramatised by Robin Brooks and produced by Fiona McAlpine of Allegra Productions.
Here’s the novel’s synopsis: “Charles Arrowby, leading light of England’s theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core.” – from Amazon.com.
Listen to the entire BBC Radio 4 broadcast HERE.
On Tuesday 2 June, BBC Radio 4 aired a programme about T. S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to celebrate the centenary of the poem’s publication.
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The text of ‘Four Quartets’ may be found HERE.
Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot.
Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot’s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ‘Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’, present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.
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