Serials

I wrote a long post, but the browser crashed while I was looking for images :-(

Summarised version:

( BBC Radio Lord of the Rings )

Waiting for the Out: continues very good -- Guardian review

(  Marie Antoinette )

And also *two* Russian Smekhov-adjacent serials: an in-depth nine-part podcast on the 'musical spectacular' "Ali-Baba" (which I had vaguely heard of but hadn't realised he actually wrote all the lyrics for -- apparently it was another beloved Soviet children's classic, at least according to the possibly-not-impartial makers of the podcast!) and a pre-Musketeers adventure serial that was referred to in several recent interviews, "Smok and Malish", in which he plays the lead. Again, I had vaguely heard of this: it is clearly the prior production briefly alluded to in "When I Was Athos" which had involved falling off roofs, out of canoes, and into snowdrifts :-D
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I don't know -- I'm beginning to feel that *maybe* I've crossed some sort of threshold since Christmas, and that I'm actually starting to understand Russian freely at last...? ( Improved listening comprehension )

( Fast-talking historian )

Little Gentlemen (Epilogue)

I *finally* got round to uploading the brief epilogue with which I was struggling before Christmas; it strikes me that the connection between "hurry up and get dressed" and "the offending blanket" is not terribly clear :-(
However, it's done, and the story can now disappear into the complete obscurity with which the other chapters have been met.

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Epilogue on a Departure

The blossoms on the boughs were already more sparse than they had been a week ago, when Venya had arrived, and the ground below was more deeply drifted in white. The forms of the horse and rider as they passed through the grove were clearly visible from a distance, even from above and in the early-morning light, and Venya watched from the window as the soldier’s dark figure dwindled towards the high-road, out of sight. ( Read more... )