The Poetry Hour has added recordings of Jeremy Irons reading Robert Browning’s poems Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess, Memorabilia, A Toccata of Galuppi’s and A Light Woman to their audio archive.
Visit their website for the full text of the poems.
Click on the audio players below to listen:
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Porphyria’s Lover
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Memorabilia
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A Toccata of Galuppi’s
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A Light Woman
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My Last Duchess
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Visit The Poetry Hour’s website to also hear poems recorded by Max Irons and Sinead Cusack.
Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Simon Russell Beale, Ben Whishaw and Fiona Shaw paid homage to T.S. Eliot, at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, on Wednesday 21 October 2015.
Jeremy Irons read “Gus: The Theatre Cat” and “Little Gidding”.
Read a review of the event from The Londonist
A great account of the event from ifindpeopleconfusing on Tumblr
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From The London Library
The London Library announced today that Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, and Ben Whishaw will be taking centre stage in the Library’s special celebration of T.S. Eliot on 21st October 2015.
Taking place at Wilton’s Music Hall – one of the country’s most atmospheric theatres – the single performance promises to be a unique tribute to one of the world’s best known writers.
Philip Spedding, Development Director at The London Library said, “Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, and Ben Whishaw are intimately associated with some of the most powerful recent performances of Eliot’s work. We are delighted that they are coming together for what promises to be a memorable tribute to a genuinely great writer”.
The evening of readings is looking to include extracts from a range of T.S. Eliot’s work including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
With tickets on sale to the public, alongside an invited audience of special guests, all proceeds from the evening at Wilton’s Music Hall will go to support The London Library, a charity which is one of the world’s largest independent lending libraries and will be celebrating its 175th year in 2016.
Tickets for this special fundraising evening are £55 (£45 for London Library members). The performance will take place at 7.30pm on 21st October at Wilton’s Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, London E1 8JB. To book, telephone Wilton’s (020 7702 2789) or visit www.wiltons.org.uk.
For further information contact: Julian Lloyd, Head of Communications, The London Library; Julian.lloyd@londonlibrary.co.uk
Jeremy Irons is featured in the August 2015 issue of Cotswold Life magazine, in an article by Katie Jarvis, with photos by Antony Thompson.
A physical copy of the issue can be purchased online HERE for £3.99. The issue is also available to purchase and download in digital format, for a lower price.
All images and text ©Cotswold Life and Antony Thompson at Thousand Word Media.
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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.
Click on the player below to listen to Jeremy Irons reading the poem:
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Jeremy Irons read Four Quartets by TS Eliot on Saturday 1 June. He introduced a screening of Trashed and also was a part of the Poetry of the Great War readings on Sunday 2 June.
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Click HERE for audio of Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack and Rupert Evans reading The Poetry of the Great War. The actors read Josephine Hart’s programme featuring the work of Owen, Yeats, Sassoon and many others. Introduced by Francine Stock.
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Jeremy Irons on his love for TS Eliot – from The Telegraph
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Here are some photos and feedback from the weekend (Click on the thumbnails for larger images):
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Sunday 26th May
Benjamin Britten Tribute
Michael Berkeley, Ronald Blythe, Jeremy Irons and Nicholas Kenyon
7:30pm
Tickets £18 (Returns Only) For ticket inquiries for Jeremy’s reading: Give the Charleston Festival a ring on the Office number- 01323 811626- They’ve got a waiting list going.
Benjamin Britten visited Charleston and was painted by Duncan Grant. In his centenary year, we have assembled a unique gathering of speakers to celebrate his work and life. Michael Berkeley, composer and Britten’s godson, presents BBC Radio 3’s long-running Private Passions. Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield, worked with Britten in the 1950s. His new memoir, The Time by The Sea: Aldeburgh 1956-1958, describes this period. Nicholas Kenyon is Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. He was previously controller of BBC Radio 3 and responsible for the Proms from 1996-2007. Jeremy Irons, one of our major stage and screen actors, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman to last year’s BBC 2’s Hollow Crown, reads poems – principally Auden’s – that inspired Britten’s songs.
Supported by the Sussex Country Gardener
Jeremy Irons was among the guests at Westminster Abbey, on Monday 24 October 2011, for Lady Saatchi aka Josephine Hart’s memorial service. The Irish-born British writer, theatrical producer and television presenter who was married to Maurice Saatchi sadly passed away at the age of 69 from ovarian cancer on 2 June, 2011.
(October 25, 2011 – Photos by Bauer Griffin)
Donmar Warehouse
41 Earlham Street
Seven Dials
London WC2H 9LX
UK
Jeremy Irons will be a reader on Tuesday 31 May and Max Irons will be a reader on Thursday 2 June.
Following the success of her readings for the T.S. Eliot Festival in 2009, Josephine Hart makes a welcome return to the Donmar to produce and direct a week of poetry featuring a series of special readings with some of the country’s leading actors. She will devote each performance to the works of one or two poets, introducing and setting their poems in the context of their life. “The idea is simple,” Hart says, “an understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense.”
Readers for Poetry Week:
Monday 30 May: Philip Larkin – Too clever to Live? – Charles Dance & Dan Stevens.
Tuesday 31 May: John Milton – Simply Sublime (2.30pm and 7.30pm) Emilia Fox, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Dan Stevens.
Wednesday 1 June: Sylvia Plath – The Woman is Perfected – Harriet Walter.
Thursday 2 June: WWI Poetry – The Poetry is in the Pity (2.30pm and 7.30pm) Kenneth Cranham, Rupert Evans, Max Irons, Ruth Wilson.
Friday 3 June: T.S.Eliot – I Gotta Use Words – Harriet Walter & Edward Fox.
Book your tickets by calling (in the UK) 0844 871 7624.
Poster advertising an exhibition at the National Library of Ireland celebrating the Lifelines Project at Wesley College, Dublin. Starting in 1985, pupils of the school wrote to famous people from all walks of life (some of whom are depicted on this poster) asking them to name their favourite poem, and what it meant to them. Four booklets were published, and were sold to raise money to aid famine relief in Africa.
Four very successful Lifelines books have been published since 1992, most recently a new and collected edition in 2006. By that date, royalties had raised over €100,000 for the Irish charity Concern, to fund aid work in the developing world.
The National Library of Ireland purchased the original letters that were included in Lifelines 1 and the money was donated to Concern. Wesley College has since donated all correspondence, photographs and other related archival material to the Library. The Discover Lifelines exhibition was launched in February 2010 by Graham Norton (unsurprisingly one of the most hilarious launches ever), and the exhibition will continue throughout 2010 in our main hall, displaying letters in the Lifelines archive from writers, poets, actors, artists, media personalities and politicians. Hundreds of our visitors since February have filled in cards naming their favourite poem, and why they love it.
Date: 2010
NLI Ref.: EPH NLI/2010 (A2 size)
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