Christmas Present
I do actually have a fairly legitimate excuse for letting one more week go by that I'd hoped for. See I wanted to make the post about the radio play and the latest sketches magazine, but as of yet I've not seen the actual physical magazine (though I know they're around) and I was told by higher powers that I needed to wait until the play was posted on the SOAS Radio website, because of essential revisions.
Well I've waited and waited. And I check the site quite a lot, but now with SOAS officially out for winter break I doubt any revisions will be completed before mid-January. And anyway, it was 'aired' in its current form like two weeks ago now, if 'aired' is the correct form for being played through some speakers in a room.
So without any further delay, I am proud to be able to post the SOAS Lit-Soc's effort at Mutual Radio's audio-play, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in The Case of the Careless Client.
For comparison, I've also managed to find a recording of one of the original broadcasts from 1945 which I think I found on the Internet Archive and here it is for your further listening pleasure. I didn't actually look for this at all until after we'd finished recording. However, I did listen to it before I heard our new one. I think we did rather a good job. And I definitely think that some of our more melodramatic moments work better.
Thinking about it, it feels kind of strange to think that this is a new recording of something that first was recorded almost seventy years ago. I know that we can listen to music that was written hundreds of years ago, watch Shakespearean plays but this has a sort of temporality where its so close because its within living memory, but actually is very far removed from the present. That said, I always think that the ability to read truly ancient texts in the original language is about the coolest thing possible since we are really moving two, three, four, or five thousand years into the past.
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Damnit. I've tried! I've really tried. But now, really, the sun is rising. This is getting too late. Why does WordPress have a 6MB upload limit? Especially when my host is claiming a 25MB limit. Though that doesn't help either since the new play is 29MB. I don't want to make a youtube account, it doesn't even have any pictures to go with it!
...Hopefully I'll be more inclined to deal with this madness sooner rather than later.
Update: Later that night. Realised I could link the '45 one to where I originally got it. I'm sure when SOAS Radio has it I can probably do the same for the new one, but I'd prefer to be able to 'release' it earlier.