'Death in Leamington' read by Kenneth Williams & Maggie Smith

Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith read "Death in Leamington" by Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984).

This is from an episode of Parkinson originally broadcast in February 1973.

Betjeman is a fellow guest on the program. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death.

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Entertainment

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• Poetry
• John
• Betjeman
• Death
• in
• Leamington
• Kenneth
• Williams
• Maggie
• Smith
• Michael
• Parkinson

[irish66]

i can't get any sound

[Toddysfins]

@irish66 Sorry for the delay in replying. This has been uploaded in mono, and I've been told that people who can't get any sound can usually fix that by fiddling with their audio settings (don't ask me how). Thanks for looking. 

[ffrancesccaaaa]

I cannot stop watching this!

Thank you! Do you have the whole show?

[Toddysfins]

I don't have the whole show but if you search youtube you can find some of it uploaded on other channels. This is the only poetry reading though.

[zentropy78]

This clip should be put in a museum. Maggie smith is a gift from God.

[71bab]

God bless maggie smith!

[AmyOGeeezus]

I could listen to Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams speak until the end of time. Although the poem is wonderful, I would have been just as happy listening to them argue about the merits of the word 'wobble'. Their delivery and intonation is just so...so....interesting.

[NeonSouls]

get stereo headphones and you should hear the audio on your right side.

Nzoyi

[sleepyfish]

that must be uncomfortable, sitting like that.

[hugh0221]

We lost Olivier, Heston, Gielgud, Brett, Niven, Harrison, Coward, Price, Curtis, Sellers, lots and lots of et-ceteras...but thank God, yet we have Dame Maggie Smith!

[gupsnot]

I can't stop admiring Maggie's suave beauty. What a woman.

[irish66]

@Toddysfins Hi, I did manage to hear it. I forget how. I probably either downloaded it, or tried a different browser.

[19GirlBad]

RIP Kenneth Williams. Maggie Smith is aged a lot. And Michael Parkinson was so young in his prime. Funny hwo times changed.

[LINDSAYWINN]

How wonderful to see the great Kenneth Williams read with Dame Maggie Smith, as she is now; thank so much for posting this. 

[504gld]

Thank you for posting this clip its wonderful.