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Somerset Maugham videos?

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1danielx
sep 22, 2011, 12:15 am

I had never heard of this series -- the Somerset Maugham Hour. It featured adaptations of quite a number of his short stories, and was filmed in the early 60s. I wonder if they are available in any form for viewing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164287/

2danielx
sep 22, 2011, 1:10 am

3danielx
Redigerat: maj 20, 2012, 3:49 pm

This is a perfectly charming find. The link is to a site for a class of Malaysian students who are learning English, and doing so by reading, analyzing, and ultimately acting out short stories -- by (among other writers) Somerset Maugham, Conan Doyle, Hawthorne, Checkhov, and de Maupaussant.

http://piquantprose.tumblr.com/

The story they have chosen from Maugham is one of my favorites, Mr Know All.

The acting is amateurish, but that's not the point. They have learned the language well enough to perform the story, and indeed, have memorized all the dialogue from it! What's more, they have made a mini-film of it with music, a setting and so on. See the youtube version of Mr Know-All here (of course they use accents closer to English than is my own, by far, and therefore much closer to the original).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xRZ6OFJqZg&feature=related

4danielx
maj 21, 2012, 2:48 pm

so, I have recently read that there was a 3 part BBC Masterpiece Theatre rendition of Cakes and Ale. I have not been able to find it for sale at Amazon or the PBS site.