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Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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3 жыл бұрынAdam Symes has a novel to finish and, with the proceeds, plans to marry Nina Blount. Returning from France, his manuscript is impounded as obscene by customs officers, while in the next room his friend Agatha Runcible is strip searched as a suspected jewel thief. She rings the newspapers about her fate. Adam rings Nina to say he cannot now marry her, and has to negotiate a penal new contract with his publisher.
Vile Bodies is the second novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930. It satirises the bright young things, the rich young people partying in London after World War I, and the press which fed on their doings. The original title of Bright Young Things, which Waugh changed because he thought the phrase had become too clichéd, was used in Stephen Fry's 2003 film adaptation. The eventual title appears in a comment made by the novel's narrator in reference to the characters' party-driven lifestyle: "All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...".
Originally Broadcast 10/31/1970
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@mckavitt13 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful author, actors, dialogues, story!! Many thanks for the share.
@janethayes5941 3 жыл бұрын
Oh I'm so happy!!!! Been waiting for some Waugh at his finest. Thank you.👏😁
@frederickwallace6552 3 жыл бұрын
Great channel.
@angelsone-five7912 3 жыл бұрын
To think that back in the 1920s this kind of thing actually happened and there were people (?) like these, mind boggling.
@citizen1163 3 жыл бұрын
Plus ça change!
@eddiemunster2196 3 жыл бұрын
Ain't she nice, she walked by once or twice, ain't she sweet, so let me ask you confidentially...... ain't she sweet,,,, la da de da da da,,,,, ain't she nice she'll swing around once or twice so let me confidentially ask you ain't she nice................. That's the beginning song,,,, the tune that's playing in the very beginning and probably from 1920 !!!!
@isabeladams7250 3 жыл бұрын
Hilarious Barking mad
@viditpanwar9887 9 ай бұрын
Really good play
@scottwallacebaker3074 3 жыл бұрын
It’s much more faithful than Bright Young Things...but they do leave out some of the best bits! Such as - 'Anyway, you've had some fun out of it, haven't you... or haven't you?' 'Haven't you?' 'My dear, I never hated anything so much in my life... still, as long as you enjoyed it that's something.' Or these - Nina said à propos of the film, 'All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.' Adam said, 'You'll enjoy it more next time.' Nina said, 'Next time,' and told him that he took too much for granted. Adam said that was a phrase which only prostitutes used. Or this... ‘...Why, yesterday, they kept Miss La Touche waiting the whole afternoon, and then the light was so bad when they did shoot her that they made a complete mess of her--we had the machine out and ran over all the bits carefully last night after dinner--you never saw such rotten little scraps--quite unrecognizable half of them. We didn't dare show them to her husband--he'd be sick to death about it--so we just cut out a few shots to keep and threw away the rest. I say, you're not feeling queer, are you? You look all green suddenly. Find the weed a bit strong?'
@glinda9243 3 жыл бұрын
Strange
@christrinder1255 3 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👍😊
@sandranaylor2348 3 жыл бұрын
The voices are really annoying, cannot listen any. more
@queenashantee8432 3 жыл бұрын
YOU SHOULD CHECK FOR RACIST CONTENTS IN THIS VIDEO. ;-((
@frederickwallace6552 3 жыл бұрын
You are joking?
@lesleydavies1293 2 жыл бұрын
Why? It was written in the 1920s. A century ago. Different times, different attitudes, different values. If you don't have the backbone to face up to our past then just switch it off and go listen to some sanitised talentless twaddle written this year.
@queenashantee8432 2 жыл бұрын
@@lesleydavies1293 VALUES ARE THE SAME, ATTITUDES ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN THE TIMES IT WAS WRITTEN IN. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE LIVED THE EXPERIENCE.. I DID LISTEN TO THIS WORK HAS I DO EVERY WORK I HAVE AN EQUAL INTEREST IN. STILL FOUND IT THE SAME NOW AS I DO NOW, FOR THOSE WHO ARE WRITING 'NOW'. THIS IS MY OPINION
@queenashantee8432 2 жыл бұрын
@@lesleydavies1293 YOU KNOW, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOICE MY OPINION AND CONSIDERING THAT IT WAS WRITTEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO. ITS JUST SAD THAT NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I HAVE THE BACKBONE, I HAVE LIVED IT THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE LIFE. MAKING A POINT OF NOTING HOW MUCH WE STILL LIVE IN A RACIST SOCIETY IS ADDRESSING WHAT IS WRITTEN THEN AND THE MINDSET OF THOSE STILL NOW GRACING THE PAGES. I AM BEING MINDFUL OF NOT OFFENDING. THAT IS MY POINT. TO BE QUITE FRANK. I HAVE ACCEPTED THAT NOTHING CHANGES..MY GRANDCHILDREN WILL AND SOME HAVE FACE UP TO THE CONSTRUCT THAT IS CALLED RACISM... TELLING ME TO 'SHUT-UP' TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR ATTITUDE THAN WHAT THE BOOK DOES. EVEN IF YOU HAVE A VALID POINTTO MAKE. I DO ALSO; UNTIL YOU HAVE LIVED IT, YOU CANNOT IN 100 YEARS FEEL AND KNOW THE EXPERIENCE OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO SEE IT. BACKBONE. ONLY THOSE WITHOUT A SPINE CAN SPIN IT AND MAKE IT BE ACCEPTABLE IN THESE TIMES. SANITISED TWADDLE ARE WRITTEN AT SOME DEGREES AND CERTAIN LEVELS. IT ALL GOES TO THE MINDSET OF THE INDIVIDUALS - THEY TOO HAVE THAT RIGHT...
@lesleydavies1293 2 жыл бұрын
Queen Ashantee Why are you shouting? I haven't said you can't have your opinion I have said that things written a century ago reflect those times and sensibilities. Not NOW. I cannot believe you are so naive to say things haven't changed. Do some research, also try living in a few other countries around the globe then you'd know what racism is. Sixty years ago you would see signs in the UK saying No Blacks, No Irish, No dogs. Are you seriously suggesting nothing has changed? There is still racism around but to say nothing has changed is fatuous. Are you also going to say nothing has changed for women? Well, I can assure you it has. Sadly due to all the virtue signalling and so called SJWs it is beginning to regress. Is that what you want? Best take Morgan Freeman s advice. "If you want o stop racism. Stop talking about it "
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