Ian Richardson reads Paradise Lost by John Milton

Ian Richardson reads Paradise Lost by John Milton - With John Gielgud as the Host

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0:00 - The opening lines (Book 1, Verses 1-26)
4:07 - Satan's Speech (Book 1, Verses 84-124)
7:46 - The opening lines of Book 3 (Verses 1-55)
10:34 - Sign from Heaven hinders Satan's resistance (End of Book 4)
13:27 - The Angel Michael leads Adam and Eve out of Paradise (End of Book 12)
Excerpt from the 1984 series Six Centuries of Verse, Ep 7.

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@ShakhaNirvana Ай бұрын

Excellent recitation ever!

@Ghostlicht 3 жыл бұрын

This man's voice was so powerful.

@theladyvanishes1 6 жыл бұрын

I love Ian Richardson, I could listen to him read the yellow pages his voice is so wonderful

@Munkfish-TV 6 жыл бұрын

Agreed, he's quite brilliant

@Richard_is_cool 6 жыл бұрын

by L. O. Pages

@solomonreal1977 3 жыл бұрын

be careful what you wish for....

@solomonreal1977 3 жыл бұрын

be careful........ what...... you wish............... forrrrrrrrrr..............................

@alexkoz34 6 жыл бұрын

Anybody came here from Shade Empire - Anti-life saviour? Those guys woke a great interest to this poem for me. Note that English is far from my mother-language, and it wasnt a subject of my study at high-school. Not the linguistic, I am an engineer. How do you like that? Btw, I've found the original english version more impactful than translated russian one. No offence to translator, he did great job, but the expirience is ... far beyond.

@HybridSoldier777 6 жыл бұрын

I wish I could read crime and punishment in its original text My Russian barely passable.

@alexkoz34 6 жыл бұрын

Well, cant help here. However, I could recommend another literature. Listen how Sergei Bezrukov reads Sergei Esenin's "the letter to a woman" - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNqYiMJnqpu9c3U.html just enjoy the phonetics. And here is a text in both langs - englishstory.ru/sergei-esenin-letter-to-a-woman-in-english.html

@alexkoz34 6 жыл бұрын

This is same but other expirience. Less aggressive I suppose. Artist is searching for right mood - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osqZrJqjnKqVaYU.html

@scribendi777 4 жыл бұрын

Alien Covenant..

@Azmina_the_warlock Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@josephphillipps4697 4 жыл бұрын

At the end, when Richardson looked at the camera, I was completely expecting him to give us one of his classic "You might very well think that... I couldn't possibly comment." lines.

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I would have loved to see & hear him do the *whole* poem. That would have been amazing beyond belief.

@appidydafoo 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible, thank you so much

@carolejander 4 жыл бұрын

Hello Roman thanks so much for this piece on Paradise Lost I understand it a bit better now ☺

@gregd5569 5 жыл бұрын

Shade Empire got me here

@tetractys1011 5 жыл бұрын

Same hahaha I thought it was Alan Watts reading before I looked up the lyrics and saw Mr. Richardson's name.

@xenosmoke8915 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, we’re here for the same reason.

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

@@xenosmoke8915 No we aren't. I have no idea what "Shade Empire" is but it sounds shady and Satanic.

@franceleeparis37 3 жыл бұрын

“You may think that... but I couldn’t possibly comment”..... classic

@dolltall Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@MrWinstonSmith 2 жыл бұрын

This looks awesome

@alexandrudrekaru-solo8789 2 жыл бұрын

This is an incantation:))

@McRocket Жыл бұрын

Ian Richardson had he been born 50 years later? He might have had a HUGE career in ASMR. ☮

@calsavestheworld 3 жыл бұрын

That's quite a collar.

@invoiceverse5363 3 жыл бұрын

Really well read

@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272 2 жыл бұрын

Read this and then the triumph of time and truth (Händel) and you know what the beauty of faith and inspiration by faith is - I side with the cross cuz it never betrayed me

@cjhepburn7406 4 жыл бұрын

That's the guy from Aurthur!

@alexkoz34 4 жыл бұрын

Hello again

@basedvirtue Жыл бұрын

"What though the field is lost..."

@MrWinstonSmith 2 жыл бұрын

4:07

@cjhepburn7406 4 жыл бұрын

Dove-like

@jestekine5892 4 жыл бұрын

@bardoface Жыл бұрын

I love Ian Richardson but he didn’t nail it. Satan would have been a little more pissed during this Monologue.

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

I see what you are saying. But the problem is, if he did it in an angry way for the whole thing, then his performance would come across as hammy and like he's a bad actor, and also Satan would look like a goofy caricature. So for those reasons, I think he made the right acting choices to only go over-the-top for a little bit of the monologue. More than that would have been too much and turned it from serious into silly.

@sarahperry890 3 жыл бұрын

@gracebeliever127 3 жыл бұрын

Read and believe the gospel of the grace of God that saves your soul: " ...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

Sure, but you forgot to mention *repentance from evil.* Why is that?

@gracebeliever127 10 ай бұрын

@@True_Christian What verse is that?

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

@@gracebeliever127 Many of them, it's all over the whole Bible. But let's start with this, John 15:6 where Jesus says those who do not abide in Him are cast into the fire, a.k.a. Hell. OSAS/no repentance, is a Calvinist doctrine of demons, which seems to be what you are advocating for. If you are, then you need to repent of that.

@gracebeliever127 10 ай бұрын

@@True_Christian 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

@boring247boring5 2 жыл бұрын

Les united states. Au today

@lohkoonhoong6957 3 жыл бұрын

Who lost Paradise? God and The Devil.

@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272 2 жыл бұрын

Men did of course - the devil never had it

@True_Christian 10 ай бұрын

@@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272 Actually, Lucifer *did* have paradise in Heaven, *before* he rebelled and got kicked out and became Satan. The poem explains all of this in great detail.