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.
Episodes
37 episodes
The Naming of Cats by TS Eliot
Do you know where the musical CATS came from...some of you will and some won't. Well - the famous musical...sure many of you have seen its, came from a book of poems by the American born poet TS Eliot- called OLD POSSUMS BOOK OF PRACTICAL...
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DONT TAKE YOUR TROUBLES TO BED by Edmund Vance Cooke
Wise advice from American Poet Edmund Vance Cook, poet, humorist and author . He was prominent in the late 19th and early 20th Century and is easy and fun to narrate. I love this poem...who of us doesn't worry ourselves into...
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THE LOOK
This is a sweet poem by an American Poet Sara Teasdale. I am sorry to say I was not familiar with her work, before I read this in a book of love poems. This is what I found out about her on the Internet:"Sar...
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More About ANDY - my new film
This is more about our new film- ANDY, which we start shooting in March this year and about Indie Film making and litte about Development Hell, as it is known in the business...
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Talking About New Film - ANDY
This is more about me and what I am doing at the moment....getting ready to shoot a new film! It's called ANDY! We are doing a crowd funding in addition to the investment we have, in case you might want to join in. Here's the ...
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NATIVITY BY JOHN DONNE
Here's my poem for Christmas this year - NATIVITY by John Donne. John Donne lived at the same time as Shakespeare. They were two of England's greatest poets. John Donne had a rather checkered life, complicated - religion...
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Shakespeare Sonnet 116 for his 400th Anniversary
William Shakespeare wrote his poems and plays 400 years ago and, thank goodness they are still with us. Not only with us, but loved by many people still. What a giant of writing. Sonnet 116 is my favourite...."Let me not...
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An Interview by Jane for: 'ITC ENTERTAINED THE WORLD'
This is an interview I recorded for Jaz Wizeman's podcast series " ITC Entertained the World ", talking about my work for ITC.. This interview is largely about DANGER MAN aka SECRET AGENT, the TV series, starring the gr...
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Some Rules by Wendy Cope
Here's another poem by the wonderful Wendy.....Wendy Cope, a poet for today!She really knows how to express the feelings of us women, young or old. I somehow feel thi...
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A poem by Tennessee Williams
We know Tennessee Williams best as the great American playwright, known for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF etc. However he wrote poetry, i could not find its title, but the thread that seems to run through all his work -&...
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Bright Star by John Keats
I studied John Keats' poetry as one of my subjects for my leaving exam from school. I loved his poetry...he was one of the great Romantic poets. I am a romantic, not very useful in our challenging world, but still a great form of es...
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The Last Rose of Summer
This poem is by Irish poet Thomas Moore. It reminds me of Ireland, the wonderful times spent there working ( "The Lion in Winter") and recently " Along the Sky Road to Aqaba", terrific documentary about the life and work of PeterO'Toole. ...
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Poetry Wins over Technology
I am an actress, actor, whatever you want to call it! Been doing it for a good few years now and the audience is king. Audience first has always been my motto. Try to give people a little of what I am best at. Podcasti...
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Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carrol
Wonderful Lewis Carol who wrote " Alice in Wonderland"I cant resist a little more humour in our gloomy world!
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THE CORD by Michael Feeney Callan
Award winning Irish author and poet Michael Feeney Callan and I became friends a few years ago, after I read his definitive biography of Robert Redford. I have always been a fan of Robert Redford and his work, as actor and dir...
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Pam Ayres Poem about the Environment Bill
Pam Ayres has written some wonderful, witty poetry about our world. You can find a bit more about her, if you like here: https://poetryarchive.org/poet/pam-ayres/I thin...
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If I Were King by AA Milne.
This is a poem for King Charles III 's coronation, written by the wonderful children's writer AA Milne, who wrote "Winnie the Pooh" , remember him ....the little bear. It seems fitting as the late Queen Elizabeth II was rather fond...
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MAM by PAM AYRES
Pam Ayres is a wonderful, comic British poet, who is well known and well loved. Her poetic observations about ordinary life and ordinary people are a joy. I highly recommend you look her up and read more of her delightful poetry.
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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, ta...
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HER SECRET a poem by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was best known for his country tales of sadness " Tess of the Dubervilles" , "Far From the Madding Crowd". He lived in the South West part of England in the 19th Century and also wrote a lot of poetry. This one ...
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DRINKING WITH DEAD WOMEN WRITERS - JANE AUSTEN
Audio version of a short story by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner, two writers, based in Idaho, who have written a couple of books on an original idea drinking with writers long gone. They bring these wonderful writers to life in a series of...
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Poem by WB Yeats
Another poem by my favourite poet, the Irish poet WB Yeats. I recently filmed the documentary "Along the Sky Road to Aqaba", a new documentary about my favourite actor Peter O'Toole. In it I talk about working with this wonde...
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