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Hogarth999 Great Old One Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Total posts: 170 Gender: Unknown |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | I hope this is going to make someone's day.
Over the last couple of years I've been regularly sifting the internet on the offchance that I might find the one Argo/Hordern/M R James collection that I still don't have a copy of.
Anyway, finally this page has appeared.
Unfortunately - for me - it only contains one of the stories that I don't already have. Fortunately - for you - it contains several of these very hard to find Hordern recordings.
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You're a star - a pity that I already have all of those (and a few more on the original audio tapes) but great for those who have been looking for them. 
Apparently there is a fourth tape set containing the following:
"Stories I Have Tried to Write", "The Uncommon Prayer-Book", "A Warning
to the Curious", "A Neighbour's Landmark" and "The Rose Garden."
We have 'A Warning ... ' but would love to find the rest. |
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| Hogarth999 Great Old One Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Total posts: 170 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 06-02-2011 12:47 Post subject: |
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| Hmmm, links not working any more (except for No. 13 and Rats). The site they link to appears to be down. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 06-02-2011 14:09 Post subject: |
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| Hogarth999 wrote: | | Hmmm, links not working any more (except for No. 13 and Rats). The site they link to appears to be down. |
Keep trying. The site and/or the links appear to have been up and down since I found it at the end of last year. Yesterday morning, first thing, none of the links worked - but, as a test, I managed to download everything later on in the morning before I posted. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 06-02-2011 14:30 Post subject: |
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| colpepper1 wrote: | | ...The BBC Oh Whistle worked brilliantly but it wasn't OWAICTYML of the book. Watching it again this Christmas I realised how much wide angle lenses and deep focus were used and distorted sound, it was basically Film Noir UK style. Deep focus is very difficult to cut around and they did a pretty good job. Edward Dmytryk meets Edwardian scholar. |
Miller's Whistle and I'll Come To You is kind of in a class of it's own, I think - reaching, at times, almost poetic dimensions. I don't think many other films have ever managed to squeeze so much fear out of so little - a sheet and some sticks, in effect.
I once heard a radio interview in which Miller spoke quite disparagingly of M R James stories, and seemed almost to disown the film - which is a shame, because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a high point in the career of someone who otherwise appears to have made a living out of stating the bleeding obvious in such sonorous and portentious tones that it seems to have convinced those around him that he's a staggering genius. |
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| Hogarth999 Great Old One Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Total posts: 170 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 07-02-2011 14:29 Post subject: |
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| Links are back up. |
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| colpepper1 Location: England Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-02-2011 00:22 Post subject: |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: |
I once heard a radio interview in which Miller spoke quite disparagingly of M R James stories... |
I also heard that. Jonathan Millar, like John Cleese, succumbed to a tendency to critically deconstruct what they did until it didn't work anymore. James was probably the fallout in some intellectual battle he was having with himself. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 27-02-2011 14:22 Post subject: |
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I've just re-read Charles Palliser's The Unburied, which I thought I'd already recommended (and possibly I have, on another thread).
I'm veering off-thread, I know; this isn't James or even, primarily, a ghost story. However the setting, props and atmosphere are so Jamesian that I've always thought that Palliser must be a fan. Lonely academics, creaky tumbledown houses in foggy cathedral closes full of bitchy ecclesiastics, lost manuscripts - all very reminiscent. Thoroughly satisfying read, and one I suspect any fan of MR James will enjoy. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 22-03-2013 08:48 Post subject: |
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| I have very nice readings from Librivox. Some on that last site are the same ones. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-03-2013 09:51 Post subject: |
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| Some time ago I finally managed to track down the hardest to find set of Michael Hordern readings - I now have the full Argo collection, and the satisfaction that gives me leads me to suspect that I am a complete nerd. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 22-03-2013 10:59 Post subject: |
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But do you listen to one every night to help you sleep? 
As I may have mentioned, one night last year I fell asleep to Casting The Runes, possibly only hearing as far as the Final Magic Lantern Slide, and was suddenly woken by the cat's cold wet nose against mine…  |
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| Hogarth999 Great Old One Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Total posts: 170 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-03-2013 12:15 Post subject: |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | | Some time ago I finally managed to track down the hardest to find set of Michael Hordern readings - I now have the full Argo collection, and the satisfaction that gives me leads me to suspect that I am a complete nerd. |
Not a nerd, just somebody with great taste. 
Do you have a complete listing of the Argo collection? I thought I had one and I DO have many of the recordings, but I still think I may be missing one or two.
Wherd did you manage to source yours from?
Thanks |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
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| Posted: 22-03-2013 14:34 Post subject: |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | | Some time ago I finally managed to track down the hardest to find set of Michael Hordern readings - I now have the full Argo collection, and the satisfaction that gives me leads me to suspect that I am a complete nerd. |
He has an wonderful voice. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-03-2013 09:09 Post subject: |
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| Hogarth999 wrote: | ...Do you have a complete listing of the Argo collection? I thought I had one and I DO have many of the recordings, but I still think I may be missing one or two.
Wherd did you manage to source yours from?
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The collection I found hardest to track down was, A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories - from, I think, 1985. This compilation includes: Stories I Have Tried to Write; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Warning to the Curious; A Neighbour's Landmark; The Rose Garden.
Unfortunately, an online source for this no longer exists - it also seems that some of the Argo recordings have dropped off the list of those available at the link's I have previously provided.
If you're desperate I'm sure I can help you out with finding a source somewhere - PM me. |
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| paulsamfreya In the residual... Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Total posts: 240 Location: Bristol, England Age: 49 Gender: Male |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 18-06-2013 14:52 Post subject: |
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| Sounds great! |
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