The Power and the Glory

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Storytelling has been with us as long as language itself. The desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition. In this program, Stephen Fry discovers what makes a good story, and why some writers are better at conveying joy or horror than others. Topics include the Odyssey and the Iliad; James Joyce's Ulysses; the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Stephen King (with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson); character in Shakespeare; plot (with William Goldman); P. G. Wodehouse; Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak, and business speak; W. H. Auden and Coldplay; and the lyrics of Bob Dylan (with Sir Christopher Ricks).

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60 min

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Date of Publication

[2013], c2011

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