Simon Russell Beale and Allie Esiri: Great Poems Filmed in Lockdown for FT Weekend Festival 2020
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- Multi award winning actor Sir Simon Russell Beale and poetry curator Allie Esiri present a selection of poems about nature as salve in the wilds of Wiltshire. The poets featured over this soothing 20 minute film range from Wordsworth to E. E. Cummings, Stevie Smith to Emily Dickinson, including an unmissable recitation of 'Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)'. The film is directed and produced by Juliet Riddell and Joe Sinclair, and it is followed by a short Q & A with Allie and Simon.
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Running List:
Introduction (01:13)
How Happy is the Little Stone by Emily Dickinson (04:39)
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas (05:29)
Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) by William Wordsworth (06:59)
Grass by Carl Sandburg (09:08)
June 1966 by Gavin Ewart (09:58)
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (11:03)
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth (12:16)
Haiku by Oshima Ryota (translated by Geoffy Bownas and Anthony Thwaite) (12:46)
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver (13:19)
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (14:49)
The Tempest, Act V Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (15:58)
i thank You God for most this amazing E. E. Cummings (18:04)
The Pleasures of Friendships by Stevie Smith (19:16)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats (19:51)
What a glorious find. Sir Simon is an incomparable artist. Thank you to all who made this program possible.
Absolutely fascinating and really interesting interview between two brilliant professionals. Thanks for this x
So beautful, thankyou.
SRB is Such a nice man to meet. A real Craftsman and not at all a snob as the less confident are.
He would have mad a great Vicar.
Everything slowed down in COVID and became a bit more real again. It allowed room this things like this.
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