This version is narrated by, Jeremy Nicholas [President of the Jerome K Jerome Society]. I realise that there is a version on Times Past in the form of a play, but this is worth a listen.
"The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager in Barclays Bank and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity."
http://times past.ning.com/page/uploads
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People keep asking for good audio to give
to convalescing patients.
I'd rank Three Men in a Boat highly for this purpose.
A Youtube attachment of the Tom Stoppard adaption with Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore.
https://youtu.be/u9xvrbfyKGQ
Here is some files I had. Not sure of the reader. Hope this helps.
Three Men in a Boat 1-2.mp3
Three Men in a Boat 2-2.mp3
Three Men on the Bummel.mp3
Sounds like Hugh Laurie to me.
uploaded files are dead, any chance of re uploading?
Hi there
I am trying to upload these four files, but beyond telling me that it will take 3 minutes for each, nothing is happening. I will continue to attempt to upload. Never had this problem before.
Peter:
Upload here has been flaky for several days. Seems to work _some_ of the time. Sorry
Glad for a change that it might not be my fault. Will keep trying.