:T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, read by Jeremy Irons: I. Burnt Norton (extracts of)

[@twshunt]

What is the name of the background song? Also, as an aside, I saw Jeremy Irons live in Oxford doing a ready of the Four Quartets recently and it was lovely. The only problem is that I have become so used to listening to excerpts of his with music like this that I felt rather spoiled when there was no accompanying music! Thanks so much for putting this up. I must have listened to it over a hundred times.

[@waisehell]

Music in the description.

[@raniahelmybedeir439]

:An Pierlé: Solid Rain theme, Le tout nouveau testament OST

[@cufflink44]

My reaction is very different. I find the music distracting and irrelevant. The music is already there in the poetry.

[@CDS-pb4ng]

Great poetry, great actor and appropriate music...Well done!!!

[@BetaCummins]

Eliot by Irons: Simply superb.

[@ivantiynovak]

@waisehell your T.S. Eliot collection is beautiful beyond description. Would you do the same for all the other pieces Irons recorded for the BBC?

[@marcossa698]

Lana Del Rey

[@RidgeRose]

Utterly beautiful! Thank you!

[@tomwaitsfornomanuk5816]

Be great to have these without the music

[@waisehell]

They're on Jeremy Irons' website, free to listen to.

[@94josema]

Thank you, I love these vids

[@margaretfalde]

Everybody:THIS IS MAGNIFICENT! Me: OMIGAWD! SCAR IS READING T.S.ELIOT!

[@catarinafaro]

Bravo.

[@tonypatriarche3791]

SO much better than Eliot himself "reading the news".

[@waisehell]

writing poems and reciting poems can be two very different trades

[@2msvalkyrie529]

And many times better than Ralph Fiennes ( available elsewhere ) .! Absolutely awful !!

[@henrigaziel2002]

The music adds absolutely nothing.

[@mabelpan2532]

disagree, it was delicious

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@mabelpan2532 No, it isn't, it is dreadful.

[@navidhasan123]

absolutely amazing!

[@soleaguirre100]

hermosa voz! 💫💫💫💫

[@LizatHome]

Is there a chance that you could make a video listing the poems in the order they are read please? I bought the Audiobook but there is not titles list, just chapters with no names and I like to know what I am listening to.

[@waisehell]

I haven't bought the audiobook since the readings are available on his website but on amazon it says "originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4," so I am assuming the audiobook has the same order as the radio episodes. You can see this listing on Irons' website: jeremyirons.net/2017/01/20/jeremy-irons-reads-ts-eliot/ Let me know if it checks out.

[@LizatHome]

waisehell Thanks very much.

[@bendigeidfran1282]

I find the background music very distracting.

[@Legnerps]

But a fabulous performance!!

[@Legnerps]

Interesting concepts and cọnecture amid a fair amount of obscure .... nonsense.

[@matthewstokes1608]

Hey everyone, wake up! ... "30 Meadowbrook" (...??!??!?....) thinks Eliot's Four Quartets are "obscure... nonsense". Now, "30 Meadowbrook" does deign to accept in his magnanimity, however, that this poor poet's lowly mind may, at a stretch, have dealt out some lines of passing, moderate worth - and some "interesting concepts and conjecture" - but the work as a whole is clear mediocrity at best... Not up to scratch, you see, in terms of a serious intelligence. Alert the press. Everyone, take notice of this new great and impressive voice in time. This Eliot fellow may have once been of interest to a few ignorant and lesser informed halfwits (who called themselves the great minds of his time) but compared to "30 Meadowbrook", well... Now, we are finally witnessing a critical voice of serious aplomb - one of impeccable judgement concerning such weighty matters as just what precisely may - and what precisely may not - be construed as MASSIVE AND EXQUISITE BEYOND COMPARISON in the canon of 20th Century World Art, and a singular example - primus inter pares - of those highest creations of human excellence that have ever been committed to print in all Time. Forget about T S Eliot, you fools, for God's sake - because "30 Meadowbrook" has delivered us his most recent tome in one single line of grandeur... Oh, the intellectual weight of this new sage among us hereby eradicates those hours of musical majesty you may have mistakenly fallen victim to by permitting your emotions to get the better of you in the past. All hail the new maestro. (...you tit)