Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Henry Reed (adapt), BBC 2.2.1979
Moby-Dick, written in 1851, recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab.
Ishmael believes he has signed onto a routine commission aboard a normal whaling vessel, but he soon learns that Captain Ahab is not guiding the Pequod in the simple pursuit of commerce but is seeking one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a great while whale infamous for his giant proportions and his ability to destroy the whalers that seek him. Captain Ahab's wooden leg is the result of his first encounter with the whale, when he lost both leg and ship. But Captain Ahab is bent on revenge and he intends to get Moby-Dick.
Colin Blakely
Philip Sully
Marius Goring
Malcolm Hayes
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I had to look at the picture twice, I thought we had attracted another nordic Blonde and was going to ask you if radio is more popular where you are or was born. You and James appear to both hail from the same area of the world and your age group being interested in Radio and/or Records is extremely rare in the US with your age group because radio all but died here. There were periodic attempts to resurrect it. Even the transition to digital and the Ipod has not changed it that much. Here they gravitate to newly recorde things and not OTR. Oh, and Thank You again. ------------------------------- Rick
At the same time I also like a lot of the newly recorded music. I currently have a playlist on my ipod which includes both.. OTR and newly recorded music (Brandon Flowers, Black Eyed Peas, etc)... plus Agatha Raisin and Shaw's Pygmalion. Yes, I'm strange :)
In my time it was also strange to be interested in odd things, although Old radio was not that old then, my generation rejected their parent's world and I did also being a "Hippie", yes long hair, beads, peace signs, the whole works. I was weaned on radio, in fact for the time period I was strange, born in 1948, television was all the rage and Radio was dying. I had a WW II vintage shortwave Radio wich besides AM picked up BBC, I can remember "London Calling This is the BBC" as well as many others. They had the best Scifi on the BBC World Service and when I was older I was just in time for The CBS Radio Mystery Theater and used to listen to it in the dark with the only light being the glow of the radio Tubes. I was odd for my time also and while everyone was discussing Bonanza and Dallas, I would ask if anyone heard the CBSRMT and they would laugh at me. and thank god I never grew out of it. -------------------- Rick
I added the new Stef Penney 2010 dramatization in the adventure group:
https://timespast.ning.com/group/adventure/forum/topics/moby-dick