{"id":1618,"date":"2013-04-17T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T00:23:30","slug":"laughton-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Laughton Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1950s, Charles Laughton<\/a> made a number of successful reading tours that eventually led to a two-record \u00a0album, “The Story-Teller .\u00a0.\u00a0. a Session with Charles Laughton,” which was released in 1962, shortly after Laughton’s death. \u00a0The album has not been released on CD, but it is now available in its entirety online. \u00a0You can find it by following this link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheStory-teller<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Laughton<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s not a lot to say about the following clips, other than they’re wonderful and demonstrate Laughton at his best. \u00a0The first is from “The Story-Teller.” \u00a0It’s made up of three selections near the start of the album. \u00a0I’m not so fond of the last three minutes of this clip (Psalm 104), but the first fifteen minutes are quite extraordinary. \u00a0He reads Kerouac so well, he makes the prose sound a lot better than it actually is.<\/p>\n