BEDE - THE LIFE OF MAN

Charles Spicer, actor and musican with The Mellstock Band, reads from Bede.

The music was written by David Jackson and performed by David on Sax and the Time Spanners on Sound Beams.

Charles read the passage to camera at Ufton Court, West Berkshire, England during a break in filming the Time Spanner music video 'La Rotta'.

Charles is an actor (who previously has worked at the National Theatre) he is also a musician who specialises in early and period music and is best know for his work with The Mellstock Band, with whom he tours regularly and has recorded extensively - including soundtracks for a number of movies including Roman Polanski's 'Tess'.

Find out more about them at:
http://www.mellstockband.com/

Bede was born in 672 or 673 and died on May 27, 735. He was a Northumbrian monk associated with the monasteries at Wearmouth and Jarrow.

Bede was given access to information from all over Britain, and even from the papal archives. His talent was one of gathering together fragments of myth, tales, and oral traditions, and weaving together a coherent history. So popular was Bede's Ecclesiastical History that Alfred the Great had it translated in Anglo-Saxon.

Bede did more than write one book; indeed his scope was prodigious. His writings encompassed a speculative history of the world from the Creation to his own times, commentaries on the Bible and Biblical characters, speculations on the nature of science, lives of saints, even a book of hymns. He was one of the first British writers to take up the style of chant we call Gregorian today.

This short passage by him transcends the ages.

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[HudNuts100]

ITS A ROBIN NOT A SPARROW!!!

[spannerchannel]

@HudNuts100 - True, but what kind of Robin is it?

[LilxTekkerzz]

lol mr spicer. trololol

[zooeee196]

YEEES Mr spicer :) interesting...

[crazycloe99]

Lol had him in math today

[RocketPants90]

LOL mr spicer!!! (hes also my sub teacher :D)

[Silverjag1997]

Yay, Mr Spicer!

[LHLH1996]

LOOOOOOOOL Mr Spicer :L :L :L

[duvpoo]

OMG IM SCARED :O how did u find this?

[plodpod5]

emma got owneedddd!!

[charlier931]

OMG Mr spicer i actually love you! you are a legend! HAHAHAHAHAHAH x

[ReptileJam]

lololol