In the Archive with Stephen Fry | Royal Albert Hall

[@Howler54Z]

If this was a weekly show I'd watch it religiously.

[@SmallBlogV8]

What a soothing presence a gently-but-enthusiastically rambling Stephen Fry is. His voice is aging so well. This could've been twice as long.

[@bb2021]

I love that particular muffle that library bookstack, paper gives to a voice. It evokes the smell of old books in me!

[@musicalenchantment]

Wonderful standard in presentations - always!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Love Stephen Fry. He’s so easy to love.

[@aspasiabibas1819]

Dear Mr. Fry may I say you'd make a fine academic prof! I mean it. You're multi-talented for sure. God's blessings always.

[@Jaaol1]

I hate it when people whisper, but for some reason, I love it when he does it haha. Such a comforting, calming presence

[@alexp5287]

I could listen to him telling things for hours... Love the audiobooks!

[@zerocoolcat]

Amazing! Should have a Billion Views!😢

[@stevendevilliers471]

The theatre has been such an asset for humanity as has Stephen 😊

[@amfwelsh]

Could listen to Stephen all day. A wonderful intellectual

[@conorlynch2879]

Happy to see Stephen looking well!

[@johnbowden4761]

criterion collection for old british people. love the concept.

[@shakesrear7850]

It's good to see you

[@ArchieBlacke]

It's a shame that this video has so few views and comments as I type this. I was lovely hearing Stephen's commentary on the various artefacts from the RAH archive. I for one would love to hear from more people who have links to the venue.

[@Wileylikethehawk]

What an amazing place to be!

[@saoirsedoyle134]

he’s such a lovely guy

[@markorollo.]

can't believe our stephen skipped D:ream in that programme, with Keyboardist Brian 'tv celeb physicist' Cox (who's from my hometown)

[@bgr9133]

An ideal combination hitherto unrealised; the Royal Albert Hall's archives reinvigorated by Stephen Fry as he regales us in his mellifluent tones with effortlessly considered tales.

[@stepsinpairs]

"It's a great line-up, it really is... Jasper Carrott is there as well." Burn!

[@danielkarmy4893]

Our President would be more than welcome here at the Fareham and Gosport Wellbeing Centre in Gosport, Hampshire, any time - rarely has anybody taken on such an honorary, superficial kind of role, and chosen to apply themselves to it with all the dedication, commitment and passion of a full-time employee.

[@leemasters3592]

Anyone else get the feeling Stephen may have, if left to himself, just spent days wandering through the archives

[@almost_harmless]

So happy to see he has not been canceled yet. A fantastic British gentleman you should all be proud of.

[@PeppermintPatties]

❤

[@ByronWerner-qw5sh]

At least once I would like to hear Richard Branson say, while exiting his spaceship, "I owe this all to Mike Oldfield! Thanks, Mike! Couldn't have done it without you!"

[@WritingDialogue]

He should be Dumbledore.

[@MartinAhlman]

Sad that we still need to work to make people understand people. That's what most of us are! Repressed tori's as well, sorry about that...

[@mfranssens]

I’m glad that beard has gone. It didn’t suit him

[@rewIndustry]

stephen, if we don't use "gay" any more, replacing it with queer, why are you still using "straight" for the rest of us, and what is the correct term? hoping this finds you well, i remain, etc.

[@maluse227]

because in our current use of the term gay is not an umbrella term within the community it refers to, queer is the preferred language for many since it includes everyone in the LGBTQ2A+ community. As for the use of the term straight, yall could argue you want to go by heteros, or something else nothings really stopping you, thats just the term thats used.

[@rewIndustry]

@@maluse227 i was talking to fry, actually, but the problem is that "straight" has many negative connotations, similar to "suit" or "the establishment" in early sixties slang. so you can be as queer as you like, but (one step at a time and i am talking to you personally) please stop calling us straight.

[@maluse227]

@@rewIndustry What word would you like? And where are you hearing straight used as derogatory? The term straightTM is close but still doesnt really meet the threshold for what you seem to be describing.

[@craigroaring]

I can't admire this man anymore after hearing his support of the genocide in Gaza.

[@tompianohotmail]

Cool story, bro.

[@craigroaring]

@@tompianohotmail Nothing cool about supporting genocide. Particularly from someone masquerading as a humanitarian.

[@identidem]

he's been quite critical of Israel and especially Netanyahu. Also where has he supported the war on Palestine?. if one christmas message which pointed out the rise in Anti semetism has led you to believe it, it's quite sad.

[@craigroaring]

@@identidem Imagine someone publicly stating with pride during the reign of the Nazis that they've just found out they were German. Not a good time to display that pride. .

[@tompianohotmail]

@@craigroaringyou’re either deliberately or ignorantly missing his point, which is that despite what Isreal is doing, attacks against Jewish people in the UK are completely unjustifiable. To use your analogy, it’s as if anyone who happened to be German living in Britain during the rise of Nazi Germany was attacked because of the actions of a dictatorial governmental system in their own country, over which they have no control. Quote from him: Does your Judaism have an effect on your approach to what’s going on in Israel? Alarm and fear at the rise of antisemitism. The contempt, fear and horror I feel for Netanyahu and his government is matched only by the contempt, horror and fear I feel for Hamas.