Posts tagged benedict cumberbatch
A Scandal in Belgravia
If you haven’t seen BBC One’s modern adaptation of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, I pity you. You are missing out on healthy escapist fun. I’ve been a big fan since the first series aired last year, but I’ve become positively enamored after watching the first episode of the second series, ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’, starring Lara Pulver as the irresistibly beautiful and charming Irene Adler. Benedict Cumberbatch continues to play a wonderfully witty and clever Sherlock, and the dazzling maze of plots within plots makes for a rather refreshing spin on the age-old genre. I highly recommend both series.
I think the episodes are available in Canada via the BBC iPlayer; but those in the US can only access it through a VPN channel (until such time it becomes available on PBS).
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats
Read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Irredenta: A truly wonderful reading. It takes a lot to move a human heart, but some make it seem far too easy. It’s worth looking at the text and reading along in silence. For those who think the humanities are not worth a damn in a world seemingly crowded by mad zealots and heartless technocrats, might you devote a few minutes each day to reading a poem?
Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toll me back from thee to my sole self!Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so wellAs she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf.Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fadesPast the near meadows, over the still stream,Up the hill-side; and now ‘tis buried deepIn the next valley-glades:Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?
