By Greg Evans
18.04.2020 - 02:21 / breakingnews.ie
Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton and Hilary Mantel are collaborating to read Coleridge’s most famous poem.
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, a 150-verse 18th century poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, has been divided into 40 readings.
The readers, who also included Alan Bennett and Lemn Sissay, each recorded a sequence of three to four verses to be broadcast online, day by day.
Once complete, it will be available to listen to as “one symphonic piece”.
Author Philip Hoare, who curated the project, said:
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By Mackenzie Nichols
It looks like Jesse Metcalfe and Cara Santana may have rekindled their relationship.
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By Michele Amabile Angermiller
With all the extra time we have in lockdown, the prospect of being bored has instead turned into TikTok videos and hair chops, and celebrities have been joining in to no end. Yes, taking hair styling into their own hands has become something of a trend in the celeb world, as the likes of Mark Wright and Olivia Attwood display dramatic new cuts.
Bong Joon-ho’s well-regarded Snowpiercer is finally making its way to Blu-ray in May 2020. The 2013 movie has never been available before on the HD format, or DVD for that matter, but the Snowpiercer UK Blu-ray will finally make its debut on the 25th May. This is great news.