THE WASTE LAND - read by Edward Fox, Eileen Atkins, and Michael Gough

These excerpts are from a documentary on T. S. Eliot, part 9 in the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers". The photo at the beginning is from the program of the theater performance of the readings, "A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of T. S. Eliot" at the Lyric Theatre in 1987.

Atkins and Fox were also in OLIVE together, a 1970 TV adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Book-Bag". In the same year, Gough and Fox appeared in Joseph Losey's film THE GO-BETWEEN. In 1974, Fox appeared in an Eliot play, THE FAMILY REUNION. Recently, he read Eliot's "Four Quartets".

This was only available on video. My thanks to a friend for the digital version.

No copyright abuse intended, but if the owners mind, the video will be deleted, of course.

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• Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Edward Fox
• Eileen Atkins
• Michael Gough

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@novascot60 I also love how he gets a smile out of what is probably the most somber piece in the English language. And he even sounds a bit like Eliot himself, only more alive.

[novascot60]

I swear Edward Fox makes T S Eliot sound like Shakespeare.  What an amazing reading!

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@zerokomma “O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag / It's so elegant / So intelligent” ... “Hieronymo's mad againe”. Inimitable.

[zerokomma]

Maestro Fox is great...''the chchAeeeer she saet in...''. Beautiful.