Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Eileen Atkins, Adjoa Andoh, and Elizabeth McGovern were at The British Library, on Tuesday 5 October 2021, to take part in the Josephine Hart American Poets Hour.
Visit The Poetry Hour’s Website
https://www.bl.uk/british-library-player/videos/the-josephine-hart-american-poets-hour
Photo by Henri Kisielewski / The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation
On Monday 18 February 2019, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Eileen Atkins and Patrick Kennedy read works by W.H. Auden, as part of the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at The British Library.
Jeremy Irons is featured in the March/April 2013 issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine.
This magazine is a must own for any Jeremy Irons fan. Be sure to buy a copy at your local news stand, book seller or cigar store.
Here are scans and photographs of the magazine. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images and read the text.
All images © Cigar Aficionado Magazine [Text by Marshall Fine – Portraits by Jim Wright] No copyright infringement intended.
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 Eliot’s 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 O’Brien that set Eliot’s 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 Eliot’s drift. Their measured delivery, never overdone, captures the poem’s 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.
Jeremy Irons to participate in Auden – Truth Out of Time – at the National Theatre
The author Josephine Hart is joined by special guests to present her selection of the work of WH Auden; an opportunity to hear the succinct, elegant and unforgettable words of one of Britain’s greatest poets.
With Eileen Atkins, Jeremy Irons and Damian Lewis.
Tickets £3.50/£2.50
Running Time: 45mins
Monday 17 May 2010 – 6:00 pm – at the Cottesloe Theatre
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