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thesarahshay · 5 months

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Sayers Hivemind: Does anyone know why Ian Carmichael never recorded an audiobook of Five Red Herrings? I spent ages trying to find it, and finally realized that the Patrick Malahide version was released by Chivers, and apparently in between their releases of Strong Poison and Have His Carcase read by Carmichael.

My first guess was that he didn't feel equal to recording that much in a Scottish accent, but that didn't stop him from using his absolutely ridiculous French accent in practically every other book (I'm very fond of the man, but that accent is bonkers). Plus he does a Scottish accent for plenty of other characters in the other books, and it sounds fine.

If anyone knows the answer, I would be very much obliged.

#Lord Peter Wimsey #Lord Peter #Peter Wimsey #Ian Carmichael #Dorothy Sayers #Dorothy L. Sayers

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cantsayidont · 4 months

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Video Killed the Radio Star

If you don't already feel sufficiently alienated from the culture of your generation, consider getting into old time radio. It's pretty easy to do: Radio was mainstream media from the 1930s well into the 1950s, and it hung on for quite a while after it started losing ground to television. There's a huge amount of programming in various genres, and a surprising amount of it survives; there was a cottage industry in OTR cassettes and CDs for many years, a lot of shows can be found in MP3 format without much effort, and some of it pops up regularly on streaming platforms.

The easiest way to get into it is if you're already got a fondness for some older Hollywood star: If they were a movie star between 1930 and 1960, there's a good chance they guest-starred in various radio shows, and they might even have had their own show for a while. For instance, do you like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall? Around 1950, they had their own syndicated radio adventure series, BOLD VENTURE, which was essentially an extended riff on their characters in the 1944 film version of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Orson Welles, of course, was a big radio star, playing the lead on THE SHADOW in 1937–38 and then bringing his Mercury Theatre company to a number of different one-hour and half-hour radio series. Vincent Price starred for several seasons as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar on THE SAINT. And almost everyone who was anyone showed up now and again on SUSPENSE or LUX RADIO THEATRE (which produced all-star one-hour adaptations of popular movies). If you're a Superman or Sherlock Holmes fan, the radio versions of those characters are a must — Holmes was a perennial presence on English-language radio for decades.

If you want something more modern, the British kept producing generally high-quality radio dramas in surprising volume until relatively recently, including a range of both adaptations and originals. Unlike American radio, the survival rate for older British programs from the '40s and '50s is poor, but the BBC has continued periodically airing its better material from the '70s through the '00s, a lot of which has been offered on cassette and CD. For instance, there were excellent BBC radio series dramatizing the Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster stories (with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers); Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series (with Ian Carmichael); and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries (with John Moffat), along with standalone plays on programs like SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE. The big limitation with British radio dramas is that the number of British radio actors who can do convincing American accents is not high (and is definitely lower than the number who mistakenly think they can), and the availability of American actors who know how to act for radio is clearly even more limited, which can become a grating problem when dramatizing American material.

One of the reasons that listening to older (and/or British) radio shows will contribute to your cultural alienation is that it will make a lot of modern dramatic podcast series and audio dramatizations excruciating, because it will reveal to you how bad a lot of modern audio dramatists and performers are at this once commonplace art. (If you are or are contemplating doing a dramatic podcast or audio drama, please, for the love of dog, make a close study of radio shows created before you were born, and diversify enough to recognize the mediocrity of hacks like Dirk Maggs, who's been stinking up audio drama on two continents for four decades now.)

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dadsinsuits · 9 months

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Ian Carmichael

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tavoit · 9 months

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Mark Eden was in everything from Dr. Zhivago to The Prisoner

I liked him best as Chief Inspector Charles Parker

#Mark Eden #the prisoner #lord peter wimsey #Ian Carmichael

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letterboxd-loggd · 10 months

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The Amorous Prawn (The Amorous Mr. Prawn) (1962) Anthony Kimmins

July 8th 2023

#the amorous prawn #the amorous mr. prawn #1962 #anthony kimmins #joan greenwood #ian carmichael #liz fraser #cecil parker #robert beatty #dennis price #finlay currie #robert nichols #bridget armstrong #derek nimmo #roddy mcmillan #harry locke #the playgirl and the war minister #amorous mister prawn

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sirbogarde · 1 year

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Wait Dennis price played Jeeves in a TV show called The World of Wooster in the late 60s????? AND THEY'RE ARE EPISODES ON YOUTUBE!!!

#also ian carmichael as bertie lol #dennis price #ian Carmichael #jeeves and wooster #the world of Wooster

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motionpicturelover · 1 year

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"Smashing Time" (1967) - Desmond Davis

Films I've watched in 2022 (189/210)

I just adore this film, the ultimate 'Swinging London' comedy with so many familiar faces.

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#films watched in 2022 #Smashing Time #Rita Tushingham #Lynn Redgrave #Michael York #Anna Quayle #Irene Handl #Ian Carmichael #Desmond Davis #Carlo Ponti #1960s cinema #1960s comedy #comedy #Swinging London #the swinging 60s

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cultfaction · 2 years

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Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)

1983’s The Wind in the Willows – The Original Movie won a BAFTA for ‘Best Children’s Programme’ as well as an international Emmy Award and set the template for the subsequent hugely successful TV show which ran for 52 episodes on ITV from 1984 to 1988. Toad decides that motor cars are the only way to travel, however his driving skills don’t match up to his enthusiasm. Ratty, Mole and Badger come…

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#Allan Bardsley #Beryl Reid #Brian Trueman #Edward Kelsey #Ian Carmichael #Jonathan Cecil #Richard Pearson #Sir David Jason #Sir Michael Hordern #The Wind in the Willows #Una Stubbs

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esonetwork · 20 days

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From Beyond The Grave | Episode 406

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From Beyond The Grave | Episode 406

Jim reflects on the final anthology film by Amicus Productions – 1974’s “From Beyond The Grave,” starring Peter Cushing, David Warner, Wendy Allnutt, Rosalind Ayres, Marcel Steiner, Ian Brennen, Donald Pleasence, Angela Pleasence, Diana Dors, John O’Farrell, Ian Carmichael, Margaret Leighton, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ian Ogilvy, Lesley-Anne Down, Jack Watson, Ben Howard and directed by Kevin O’Connor. Four stories centering around a strange curio shop are woven together nto a tale of the fantastical. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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beautyarchive · 4 months

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Would you enroll at a College of Lifemanship if it meant you had a shot with Janette Scott?

#janette scott #ian carmichael #school for scoundrels #college of lifemanship #stephen potter #meet cute #thames

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loz37 · 1 year

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Historical/fantasy with modern accessories 😍

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thesarahshay · 5 months

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Attn Lord Peter Wimsey fans who use Letterboxd or TMDB

I just got the 1987 miniseries added to Letterboxd, so y'all can go mark it watched, rate it, add it to lists, etc!

The Ian Carmichael series is listed with each book as a separate miniseries on TMDB (which is where Letterboxd draws their info from), and each one is missing a lot of details, so if someone else is an avid TMDB editor and wants to fill those out first, we can get them ported over to Letterboxd too.

#Lord Peter Wimsey #Dorothy Sayers #Edward Petherbridge #Harriet Walter #Ian Carmichael #A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery #Letterboxd

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ofliterarynature · 9 months

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Me: oh yeah I’ll definitely work on my first 6 months-favorites list today, it’ll only be a month late!

Me: *spends hours scrolling on my phone and forcing myself through an ebook I hate, definitely not working on that post* oops

#tomorrow??? maybe #someone yell at me in the afternoon #it is TOO LATE tonight now dammit #think I’ll watch the last Peter Wimsey episode #since I need to actually return the dvds this week lol #then I can borrow the other series that adapted the Harriet Vane books instead #which will be interesting!#I was at least familiar with Ian Carmichael as Peter through his work on the audiobooks #so this will be completely new #bec talks

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ultimate-007 · 2 years

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Fleming’s Bond

#ian fleming #james bond #hoagy carmichael #007

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tavoit · 1 year

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Dorothy L. Sayer's English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey has a reputation for sartorial excellence. Here is my own club tie from the Dorothy L. Sayer's Society featuring the Wimsey family crest with its three mice Courant argent:

#dorothy l. sayers #lord peter wimsey #Ian Carmichael

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theentertainmentnut · 2 years

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Movie Review: Jurassic World - Dominion

Movie Review: Jurassic World – Dominion

Since Steven Spielberg adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel over three decades ago, several generations have grown up with tales of a world in which dinosaurs and man walked the earth (with the help of computer-generated imagery, and full-size robotics). In 2015, Colin Trevorrow took the helm of a new series based on Crichton and Spielberg’s work. However, the last entry in this series…

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