The Hunting Of The Snark by Lewis Carroll
Requirements: MP3 Player, 57 MB
Overview: The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature". The poem borrows occasionally from Carroll’s short poem Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-Glass (especially the poem’s creatures and portmanteau words), but it is a stand-alone work, first published in 1876 by Macmillan. The illustrations were by Henry Holiday.
In common with other Carroll works, the meaning of his poems has been queried and analysed in depth. One of the most comprehensive gatherings of information about the poem and its meaning is The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner.
This programme had two elements when broadcast:
1 A documentary about the poem and its illustrations.
2 The poem adapted as ‘A work for five voices’
For convenience I’ve split it into these two parts, but deleted nothing between the two pieces, so, purists can easily reassemble it into a single file.
I’m not sure when it was broadcast. Sometime in the 1990s is as close as I can get at the moment.
Narrator – Alan Bennett
Bellman – Paul Daneman
Baker – David Collings
Butcher – David King
Snark – Peter Penry-Jones
Adapted by Michael Bakewell
Music by Steven Pone
Directed by Rosemary Hart
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 – 1990s
Coded at 128 kbps & 44.1 mhtz
Download Instructions::
The Hunting Of The Snark – Documentary: http://ul.to/2k76hd/BBC_R3_-_The_Huntin … entary.mp3
The Hunting Of The Snark – Poem: http://ul.to/1kei6e/BBC_R3_-_The_Huntin … -_Poem.mp3
Mirrors MU:
The Hunting Of The Snark – Documentary: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OVODYVOC
The Hunting Of The Snark – Poem: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DJV1WE0F
Part of Sherlockx’s collection. – G & a
