tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post4841140215623661133..comments2024-03-10T00:00:31.355+00:00Comments on BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog: PICTURING NARNIABrian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-75768502004737514162009-04-16T08:35:00.000+01:002009-04-16T08:35:00.000+01:00It's a game I've also played many times with my ra...It's a game I've also played many times with my radio adaptation of <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>.Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-79946111695426217672009-04-16T04:34:00.000+01:002009-04-16T04:34:00.000+01:00Hordern, ah Sir Michael would have been magnificen...Hordern, ah Sir Michael would have been magnificent. what a fantastic actor he was. I'd also thought that Sir Ralph Richardson would've made a great Cornelius. It is fun trying to recast some of the principles.<br /><br />As 'your' Chronicles stand, they epitomize what good radio is. Thank you for them!Cerumentalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05326977465797032057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-68008640282558136912009-04-14T19:27:00.000+01:002009-04-14T19:27:00.000+01:00Eddison is magnificent - another of those from you...Eddison is magnificent - another of those from your BBC adaptations which make it difficult to hear anyone else in the role.I know you like him as you used him in the Sony Award winning Gormenghast adaptations ! If you remember, I suggested Michael Hordern for Ramandu in TVOTDT but he sadly died before that could happen. That would have been another winner ! <br />WHEDSOI :One's own part in history which somehow becomes greater as the years go byBoll Weavilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03858122220880954456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-85590120028751281432009-04-13T22:28:00.000+01:002009-04-13T22:28:00.000+01:00Rightho! Actually, I wouldn't change it now becaus...Rightho! Actually, I wouldn't change it now because it would mean having to do without Maurice Deham and Robert Eddison as a wonderfully creepy Uncle Andrew and I couldn't bear that!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-75923947013285273412009-04-13T21:51:00.000+01:002009-04-13T21:51:00.000+01:00Just don't mention re-recording The Magician's Nep...Just don't mention re-recording The Magician's Nephew again - you can't do that ! It may not have fitted the new style but its definitive !Boll Weavilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03858122220880954456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-8828000545157716742009-04-13T11:36:00.000+01:002009-04-13T11:36:00.000+01:00Gosh, Anon! *Blush* Thanks!Gosh, Anon! *Blush* Thanks!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-62558274035770516062009-04-13T11:18:00.000+01:002009-04-13T11:18:00.000+01:00I heartily concur, Stephen Thorne "is" Aslan, he h...I heartily concur, Stephen Thorne "is" Aslan, he has such a dignified tone in his voice. As Mr. Sibley so correctly observes, Thorne's voice has majesty and authority.<BR/>I am a great fan of Doctor Cornelius as played by Tom Wilkinson. You must admit that he possess a great set of vocal chords and the ability to use them to their fullest.<BR/>I have had the pleasure to give many "original" sets of the Chronicles to people over the years, how could you not want to share these brilliant dramatizations!<BR/>Bravo to Brian Sibley!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-69406173827716969482009-04-13T09:22:00.000+01:002009-04-13T09:22:00.000+01:00Ah, yes, the "long break" following TLTW&TW......Ah, yes, the "long break" following <I>TLTW&TW</I>... I remember that, well! <BR/><BR/>The first two stories (in chronological order, as opposed to the order in which they were written) were made and broadcast as part of the service for BBC Schools. <BR/><BR/>Whilst everyone was aware that there were five other books in the series they were conceived as a complete package: narrated by Maurice Denham first as the elderly Digory Kirke recalling his own adventures in Narnia (as told in <I>The Magician's Nephew</I>) and then as <I>Professor</I> Kirke, in whose house Peter Susan, Edmund and Lucy find the wardrobe and a way through to Narnia in <I>TLTW&TW</I>.<BR/><BR/>Several years later, as part of one of the BBC's sporadic attempts to entice young listeners back to radio, they decided to embark on dramatisations of the next seven books beginning with <I>The Horse and His Boy</I>...<BR/><BR/>I would have liked to have re-recorded the scripts of <I>TMN</I> and <I>TLTW&TW</I> for several reasons: because the series had a new director with a markedly different style; so as to have been able to use the same young actors for the four children (the first lot were, by then, too old!) and also because the Schools' programmes hadn't had quite as generous a budget for effects and bigger-name players; but it was not to be...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for the testimonial, <B>BOLL</B>, and for saying how wonderful Stephen Thorne was as Aslan: he was - <I>is</I> - a brilliant actor whom I suggested for the part because he had played Jesus and the voice of God in early dramas I wrote for Schools' Religious Education broadcasts and I knew his voice had majesty and authority...<BR/><BR/>He was also, as some people may not know, Treebeard in my radio dramatisation of <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>...Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-37652517566877672722009-04-13T08:12:00.000+01:002009-04-13T08:12:00.000+01:00As well you might be Mr B ! These adaptations have...As well you might be Mr B ! These adaptations have never been beaten.Stephen Thorne's Aslan IS Aslan and totally amazing. The scripts of the last five are excellent considering they were all written back to back with no break to a very tight deadline - especially Caspian which is,traditionally, the weakest plot.My own favourite of that series is 'The Magician's Nephew' because, at the time, I had been waiting for a Narnian adaptation by the Beeb and it totally lived up to my expectations.The cast were, to a man..or woman..or beast...exactly what I was waiting for.Then TLTWATW came afterwards followed by a long break ! Typical Beeb.<BR/>SOPERSOP : The opening line by a programme commisioner that thinks you should sell him an idea he's too ignorant to have heard or understood already e.g. "OK then, so tell me why we have to have all seven lords in this Dawn Treader thingy when it runs more to time with three....Boll Weavilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03858122220880954456noreply@blogger.com