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David Tennant reads the bookshop scene from Good Omens during Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Posting here to memorialise this even after the BBC takes it down from their website. Originally performed 12th Nov 2019 at the Barbican, London.
…his Aziraphale voice is so delicate oh my word, I’m ready to offer my life savings and possibly a kidney in exchange for a full-length audiobook
Reblogging for anyone who hasn’t heard it…
Michael Sheen did the same section of the book at New York’s Town Hall, but I don’t believe that anyone got a recording of that…
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Source for comic: Caleb Robinson
Simon Scarrow is a UK-based author who was born in Nigeria. He was born 3 October 1962.
He is a historical fiction writer with several Sunday Times best-selling series to his name, including the Eagles of the Empire series set in 1st Century Roman Europe.
After a childhood spent travelling the world, he pursued his great love of history as a teacher, before becoming a full-time writer. His Roman soldier heroes Cato and Macro made their debut in 2000 in Under The Eagle, and have subsequently appeared in many bestsellers in the Eagles of the Empire series.
Simon Scarrow is also the author of a quartet of novels about the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte, and several stand-alone novels. Here are his tips for writers.
Simon Scarrow’s 6 Tips For Aspiring Writers
I hope Brendan Fraser is having a nice day.
I hope one day that Brendan Fraser gets to see this post with several thousand (one day perhaps several hundred thousand?) people who have all banded together, united for one single common purpose: to hope that he is having a nice day.
The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:
- The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.
- The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.
- Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.
- Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.
- Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.
- In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.
- Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.
- Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.
- Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.
- Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!
- Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.
- At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.
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