AJP Taylor - "An Unusual Kind of Star": Part 1

[nimium1955]

Are the Challenge lectures available on DVD???

[Ace4Tree1]

He is very clear.So Lenin knew that the revolution was well under way and presented it as an accomplished fact more or less.He should have said something about Lenin going in a train through Germany with 20.000.000. $ or is that in part 2 ?The fodder for the horses is a fine clear point of view,which I'd never heard before.Then again we didn't get as much info about the ''Great War'' as on World War II.Both could only be fought because of colonial resources in Africa.

[TwelveBells]

This was done by the BBC?

[jon1156]

What is Lew Grade's accent?

[turnermedman1231]

the grate man himself

[GreatGrumbledook]

He does not sound like a tough grizzled old soldier but some kind of dandified nancy boy, who is afraid of wars and he is indubitably no sea-dog but the sort of pasty landlubber I have always despised. I'll warrant, the most exciting thing that has happened to this limpid prawn in a whole year, was the day when he forgot to put sugar in his porridge!

[funkyalfonso]

@GreatGrumbledook Rarely have I read such bollocks. You are traducing a great historian.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@funkyalfonso: Name not history, thou boy of tears! This cruel, ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature is no more a historian than I am Empress of China! He is a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I his throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove!

[GreatGrumbledook]

@funkyalfonso: Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal: 'Tis not the trial of a woman's war, the bitter clamour of two eager tongues, can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; the blood is hot that must be cool'd for this: Setting aside my high blood's royalty, I do defy him, and I spit at him; call him a slanderous coward and a villain: Which to maintain I would allow him odds, and meet him, were I tied to run afoot even to the frozen ridges of the Alps, or any other ground inhabitable!

[GreatGrumbledook]

@funkyalfonso: Besides I say and will in battle prove, or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge that ever was survey'd by English eye, that all the treasons for these eighteen years complotted and contrived in this land fetch from false Taylor their first head and spring.

[pirespir]

wonderful - am i correct to say that it breaks down on part 5? what a pitty!

[luciuslevett]

Thank you for uploading this.