Jane Merrow Poems and Stories
Time to take a break and just relax. These are a few stories and poems to listen to narrated by actress Jane Merrow, even some written by her! Jane has had an over 50 year career, with many credits. Jane received a Golden Globe nomination, when she co-starred as ' Alais' in 'THE LION IN WINTER", with Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton, Jane has also worked with Patrick McGoohan, Roger Moore, Lee Majors, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Selleck among many others.
Jane Merrow Poems and Stories
THE OPEN WINDOW by H.H. Munro ( Saki). read by Jane Merrow
In these days of soundbites and the briefest of sentences, the use of descriptive words seems to be dying away. Soon we will be totally monosyllabic and will only use shorthand like LOL, OMG, BTW and LMK. What a pity, takes much of the fun out of communication.
This charming little story by HH Munro, uses plenty of words - adjectives and imagery to get the story across. It is about a man, overwhelmed by his own mental miseries, looking for a rest cure, who meets a young lady with an overactive imagination! Not a good combination!
Often known as Saki, HH Munro was a wonderful writer of stories in the Edwardian Age ( about 1900). This is what Wikipedia says about him.
"Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture". Wikipedia
Jane Merrow is a nominated actress...known for " The Lion In Winter", " The System", and other films. TV includes " The Prisoner, " 1984", " Six Million Dollar Man", " The Incredible Hulk", " Lorna Doone" etc.