[78-L] Tennyson & Edison

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is the title of an upcoming program on BBC-3, this coming Sunday evening 
at 20:30, BBC time. Not sure what that is in Houston (about 2.30 pm I 
think) but should be archived and available for listening for 7 days.

See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jg8nm

Fiction, but based on reality? Did Alfred, Lord Tennyson record a 
cylinder for Thomas? Did he intend to?

It would be interesting to hear that recording before hearing this drama.

 From the BBC-3 website:

DURATION: 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES
Alfred Lord Tennyson (RICHARD JOHNSON) spent half a century mourning his 
college pal Arthur Hallam. And laboured for decades on an epic poetic 
tribute to him. So, in DAVID POWNALL's wry comedy, when inventor and 
businessman Thomas Edison (TOBY STEPHENS) - a very different kind of 
genius - asks Tennyson for a short poem to promote his new phonograph, 
there can only be one choice.

Lord Alfred Tennyson ..... Richard Johnson
Thomas Edison ..... Toby Stephens
Emily and Queen Victoria ..... Sian Thomas
Steigler ..... Sam Alexander
Arthur ..... Carl Prekopp
Hallam ..... Patrick Brennan
Sheela Na Gig ..... Tracy Wiles
Verger ..... Robert Blythe

Directed by Peter Kavanagh
-- 
Joe Salerno