igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
"Little Gentlemen" has now staggered up to a grand total of five views on AO3 since publication (as opposed to the most recently-updated fic in the fandom, which features "Spanking", "Bratting", "Light Dom/sub", "Boys in Love", "Caning", and "Fluff and Smut", and currently has 1744 hits *sigh*...)

I am still working my way through the BBC "Lord of the Rings" (currently on the mistitled episode 8, "The Voice of SauronSaruman") for washing-up purposes, and am exceedingly impressed all over again by the way that the 'translation' from page to radio has been done.
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igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
It is so jolly cold that I am back to using a bungee cord on the bookcase (hooked around The Collins Book of Best-Loved Verse, which is conveniently slender but rigid) in an attempt to keep the bathroom door shut, given that the bathroom window lives *open*...)

On the other hand I have managed to complete my third chapter, and just need to write the final epilogue snippet, for which I have some ideas bubbling away -- though I'm not quite sure how I'm going to actually end it, plus I need to check some dates on French foreign policy first :-)

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igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
Catching up with the hideous backlog of washing-up with the aid of my pocket Walkman and Episode 1 of Brian Sibley's masterly 1981 radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" for BBC Radio. Even now the music is instantly evocative...
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Horizon)
I turned on the radio at random and caught the last half-hour of what seemed to be a play about Lady Emma Hamilton. As it was a few minutes past the hour I thought I'd missed only the first few lines of a two-hander in which a drunken Emma confides her history to a tactfully non-judgmental servant in her final days, so one can imagine my surprise when a lonely and apparently delusional Emma attempted to summon her Nelson... and after some delay he actually arrived!

It gradually became evident that this was in fact a fully-cast play set on the eve of Trafalgar, examining Nelson's and Emma's relationship with a sympathetic and unromanticised eye: two touchy and desperately insecure people, both past masters of the art of emotional posture and manipulation and yet both sincerely devoted to a liaison that was deeply wounding to Nelson's wife and aroused cruel mockery in the onlooker. I assumed it was a recently commissioned production, and was astonished to learn from the credits at the end of the transmission that "Bequest to the Nation" had been written by the great Terence Rattigan: a play of his that I had never even heard of, despite the recent stage revival of many of his works.

That certainly accounts for the humanity and understanding in it...
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