Jerome ‘reads’ Three Men in a Boat
New member Mark Bryant has alerted me to this strange animation to be found on YouTube. I can’t identify the fruity voice. Sadly, there are of course no recordings of Jerome’s voice (though he lived quite long enough to have done so) but contemporaries report that he never lost a slight Midlands accent. So, though no proof is needed, this is certainly not Jerome speaking!
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).
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