VIRGINIA WOOLF - ONLY RECORDING - INTERVIEW - CD - BBC

[spankbandit]

Language is wine upon the lips.

Virginia Woolf

Happy Birthday, 130 Years today.

[gegimmm]

it's really extraordinary to listen to her voice....I find it quite frail but firm at the same time...I was trying to imagine her speaking at the newnham and girton colleges...

[AAwildeone]

She killed herself in 1941...the same year Joyce died....Yet how can we have next to nothing of their actual voices?

[margaux1a1]

Brilliant. Does anybody have a transcript for this?

[gegimmm]

@margaux1a1 the writing is craftsmanship...try looking for death of the mouth!

[EgomaniaWatchesThis]

thank you very much! it is pure magic - to hear a writer's voice!

[miyuko31]

Wow, me too, how it's possible ? to have the chance to listen her voice !

[stevesg92]

a true genius

[karmie87]

just as I thought she would speak. Her writing is beautiful in its truthfulness , I owe many wonderful hours to this genius. The greatest writer and thinker of the 20th century, she truly is an icon of modernity and a pioneer for female thinkers and artists.

[Gregariouspeach]

Dear Virginia Woolf,

I am sorry you felt the to fill your pockets with stones.

You will always remain a literary genius but I wished you'd hung around in life a little longer.

[NumeroInconnu]

Vivent les petits cailloux de Dieu.

:-)

[henrysinaga]

She sounded like a mixture of Glenda Jackson and Maggie Smith

[EffLabels]

Not what I expected. I expected it to not sound do 'mature'

[IrishandJazz]

Imagine, if V.W. were being broadcast today she'd have to do some work on that accent. Yes, for although her accent is actually very beautiful she'd have to inject a Cockney twang into it, or a bit of "oik" and "Oi", like Prince Harry does ... (Signed, Social Observer)

[heterocefala]

This is an essay not an interview.

[dublinkittykat]

wonderful

[blessOTMA]

I have read her for decades. Her letters and dairies are wonderful as well as her novels, and it was so marvelous to hear her voice. I can't t say she didn't sound as I imagined she would! lol! Thank you!

[vereda61]

Wards!

[LindsayCurran]

Stunning news to me!! Never knew recording of her voice existed- and of course, discoursing on WORDS!

Fabulous!!! Many, many thanks, Clifford!

[sappholisa]

Wow, amazing! I never thought I could ever hear the voice of the wonderful Virginia Woolf!

[cheonmunka]

Odd the way she enunces 'beautay.'

[pseudonym1964]

AhAhahah!

[MaryBlondie1]

Wow, I can't believe I just listened to Virgina's voice. How amazing! Thankyou so much! =)

[GreenOrbs]

Love Virginia Woolf but why do modernist writers always sound like old wizards!

[pianor91]

@GreenOrbs Because 'old wizards' are always played by actors who use an old English accent. Her accent is glorious.

[Andrewcranky]

@GreenOrbs It's the nature of the recording mediam of that time. It tended to creats a tinny quality

[SCNOUVICEWALZAS]

@GreenOrbs virginia woolf is lesbian

[Wellingtonmason]

@SCNOUVICEWALZAS

Ask Strachey!

[breeeegs]

Well she was married to a guy

[airasweetie]

@SCNOUVICEWALZAS well first of all, she was. she isn´t anymore since she passed away years and years ago! second of all, she was not a lesbian she was a bisexual, since she was attracted to both men and women. lesbians are women that only love and make love to other women. lesson´s over , you may be dismissed!

[bluesoull]

@GreenOrbs Lol yes she kinda sounds like Maggie Smith in Harry Potter :P

[okdora]

@GreenOrbs

@GreenOrbs

Because they spoke in the RP (Received Pronunciation) British accent that was used in all English "public" schools in the early 20th century, spoken by the Queen, and later adopted by the BBC and many British television programs.

[papagdavidson]

@GreenOrbs I think she sounds just like Margaret Thatcher.

[ForSunny2]

@GreenOrbs haha because they are. :-)

[ToTheLighthouseAgain]

every time I hear Her voice, I recall the atmosphere of her novels...and I fall in love with her again.... It's so fantastic, the person I never had a chance to meet, and still, I feel as I know her, as she was and still is very close to me....

[RossattoEdu]

Hearing Virginia's voice is something beyond description - a voyage back into time.

[FireFemmeYuri]

That was... That was amazing. Thanks, thanks, thank you very much.

[cellosaremetal]

:D !!!

[jamesjeffreypaul]

She has a very "plummy," upper-class voice.

[Isabellesammut]

thank you so much for this video:)

[arabafenice71l]

Virginia's VOICE!!! IT'S SO GREAT AND UNEXPECTED!!! THANKS A LOT!!

[kakaduty]

You make me so happy!!!!

Thank you for this movie!!! I can`t belive that I can hear Virginia!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

BEST!!!

And I do love the voice! There is much more in it than in most of other voices!!!

Awesome!

[chavelavargasfan]

I can't believe, hearing her voice for the first time!!! Very similar the 'vision' I had in my mind before... THANK YOU !!!

I love her so much...

[stabatnudaestas]

I remember my deep emotion at hearing her voice for the first time after I had been imagining it for yeas...thanks for posting it;o)

[nicopoblete]

I think she went farther than Joyce with her novels... this is a real gift. Thanks for posting it!

[aeneid5ph]

What a wonderful voice. Its almost as if she's talking to you personally.

[Cronopioslover274]

To hear Virginia Woolf's voice is such a gift in 2009! I always thought about her voice but when she was in her 20s. How old was she when this interview was recorded?

[clobber75]

shweet

[Ruqaiyya]

I was surprised when I heard this recording for the first time a few years back.. I never imagined her voice in this manner..it has the snobbish air of the Victorians she so detested.. she's absolutely brilliant though.. a truly brilliant writer...

[Bellonius]

always dreamt of hearing her voice

thx for sharing

[Monte09Serrat]

I love her voice, it's so brilliant. What a great writer too. [2]

[miguelthedog]

I love her voice, it's so brilliant. What a great writer too.

[Lorripops123]

deep man, thats deep.

virginia♥

[mratomix]

Epic