Programme 2 - O Let us Love Our OccupationsĪ fish auction at Billingsgate, the musical butchers and the scratching of a quill pen in Scrooge's Counting House. ![]() In the first programme - which is about the sounds of the street - the cheery romantic vision of sweetly singing street sellers familiar from the musical 'Oliver' will give way to the rather more grim sloshing about of sewer-hunters and bustle of dog poo collectors. Programme 1 - A Whole Lot of Shouting Going On In this new series of Lend Me Your Ears, Fiona Shaw recreates the soundworld that would have been familiar to Charles Dickens as he walked the streets of London, observing the sights and sounds of the city." The world of Dickens was a place of tremendous noise, but with a pitch and range of sounds that would have a strange ring in our differently tuned ears. "Like the swell of the sea surge, beating upon a pebbly shore" That's how the sound of 19th century London was described from three miles away. Monday - Friday, 22 September to 26 September 2003, 3.45pm.įiona Shaw returns with a third series of features evoking soundscapes of the past - this time, the acoustic world of Charles Dickens' Victorian London. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.BBC - Radio 4 Lend Me Your Ears - Victorian London And several of the speeches he includes deal with politics only indirectly: such as Louis Pasteur’s paean to scientific education, the Dalai Lama’s sermon on the "Philosophy of Compassion" and Salman Rushdie’s description of a life "Trapped inside a Metaphor." This is an invaluable reference for writers and speakers, students of history and those who simply appreciate great oratory.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Robert Taft opposing war crimes trials after WWII) as well as its victors. The selections range widely through Western history, from Pericles’s funeral oration to fallen Greek soldiers in the Peloponnesian War, to Tony Blair "exhorting his party to fight terrorism." History has yet to pass judgment on the greatness of the most recent speeches included here, but Safire shows a broad-minded, bipartisan inclusiveness in collecting the words of Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, history’s losers (Sen. ![]() But many readers will no doubt skip his prefatory lesson in rhetoric and go right to the speeches themselves. The third edition of this comprehensive collection of oratory through the ages is appropriately edited by former presidential speechwriter Safire-a man who knows firsthand the importance of putting together the right words for the right moment. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech. ![]() Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory.
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