RUSSIAN TV doco August 2015

Subscribers to Idle Thoughts No. 37 will have read the President’s report of his eventful morning filming in London with a Russian crew in August 2015. They were here, ostensibly, to follow in the footsteps of Three Men (+ dog), lightly disguised as a tourist industry plug, presumably to encourage Russians to visit the UK.

Having heard nothing from the lovely Elzvieta (the director), the President contacted her through Facebook (which he has now reluctantly joined but which, clearly, has it uses).  Would it be possible, he asked, to have a copy of the documentary? Assuming that, over a year later, it had been completed. Within an hour, the lovely Elzvieta had replied and supplied the President with this link making it available for all to see. Though the President’s role had been reduced somewhat (no change there, then), and the whole thing is in Russian of course, it seems a rather charming little film:

Author: Jeremy Nicholas

President of the Jerome K Jerome Society Olivier Award nomination for performance of his own adaptation of Three Men in a Boat (Edinburgh Festival, May Fair Theatre, London, national tour). Adapted in a Boat and on the Bummel for BBC Radio 4; further lengthier adaptations of both books for Argos & EMI spoken word recordings; TV adaptation of stage show for Channel Four. Forewords to On the Stage - and Off (Allan Sutton), Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel (Readers' Digest), Below the Fairy City (JKJ biography by Carolyn Oulton) (Victorian Secrets); editor Idle Thoughts of Jerome K Jerome (Jerome K Jerome Society).