Found as a linked item on my Facebook home page (where you can now add latest HaT post updates to your friends-feed if you become a fan of the HaT Facebook page): Dylan Thomas’ famous “Play for Voices”. Below is just the first 9:16 minutes of the classic Under Milk Wood radio broadcast where Richard Burton was the First Voice – there are 12 episodes in all.
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Such a luverley voice. ‘Though I do possibly prefer Alan Rickman’s.
Many years ago (like about 26 years ago), I was the first voice in a youth drama production of Under Milk Wood. It was a wonderful part to read/play. As part of our preparation, we listened to this recording.
Sprog the younger and I watched Sense and Sensibility last week while she was at home with a gastro bug. Rickman does indeed have a lovely voice, and once she got over the whole Prof Snape thing she liked seeing him as an unreservedly good guy.
Mind you, I think he’s so good at playing bad guys (Die Hard, Valmont) and ambiguous characters such as Snape because there’s an element of coldness, a lack of passion, about him (one reviewer (can’t find a link- bother) famously hate-hate-hated Rickman’s Hamlet for that reason, other reviewers were merely less than impressed, despite acknowledging “his famed talent for seductive menace”).
You could never accuse Burton of lacking passion.
Ah, I found the link – it was Charles Spencer (weighing up every Hamlet he’s ever seen for the UK Telegraph – great slideshow), so this is a retrospective recollection rather than a review from the performance in 1992:
Ouch. Harsh.