Sir Gawain And The Green Knight - BBC Production

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Listening right now and enjoying greatly. Know what Ang means....eg "megablow"....but there's lots of really excellent poetry there, too.

Dang! I knew there was one word which stood out to me as 'odd' yesterday when Anguirel was talking about that, and there it is...'megablow'! That jolted me out of the story for a moment. Of course, it could be there for good reason, in order to 'jolt' us, as poets tend to do that. However, it's a bit of an Armitage-ism to chuck in colloquialisms and incongruous words as he writes in his vernacular quite a lot.

i would've liked to have heard him read it himself actually, though I'm sure he might do a reading somewhere local at some point as he does a lot of appearances.

Originally Posted by Thenamir

If there's any way to "listen again" as was mentioned in post #1, please send along a link -- I can't find it on the BBC website. Thanks!

OK, here's the
Radio 4 home page. If you look on the right hand side of the page, it lists the programme under 'Listen Again'. I tried to bring up the actual broadcast selection but it brings up a gadget thing you can't link to. I;d suggest listening again soon, lest it disappears off the page. And anyway, it's good pre-Christmas listening!