John Cowper Powys on Film: 1929
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This is the only currently extant film footage of John Cowper Powys. It was taken in New York, 1929 as a technical rehearsal for a public debate with Bertrand Russell.
The topic: Is Modern Marriage a failure?
This is the only currently extant film footage of John Cowper Powys. It was taken in New York, 1929 as a technical rehearsal for a public debate with Bertrand Russell.
The topic: Is Modern Marriage a failure?
Matthew Sweet discusses the life and writing of JCP with Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring.
A.N. Wilson talks with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book on 14 October 2007 about JCP and Wolf Solent
The Powys Society is grateful to Christopher Kent and the representatives of Freddie Jones and Oliver Marlow Wilkinson who have given permission to allow this 1999 audio-cassette release to be made available online.
Music composed by William Powys; Produced by Christopher U. Wilkinson; Selection by Oliver M. & Christopher U. Wilkinson.
Christopher Kent has recently released a recording of Tennyson’s Enoch Arden, as set to music by Richard Strauss in 1897, with the pianist Gamal Khamis for SOMM Recordings. It’s been getting some very nice reviews and is available on CD here:
https://www.somm-recordings.com/recording/richard-strauss-narrator-piano/
or streaming here:
https://listn.fm/enochardencastle/
David came to the 2017 Conference at Llangollen and shared his childhood memories of living next door to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, at Cae Coed near Corwen. This recording is courtesy of Marcella Henderson-Peal who realised a few minutes after the talk started how valuable David's memories would be.
James Purdy, who died on 13 March 2009 was a friend of JCP. Charles Lock, editor of The Powys Journal, keeper of Purdy's ashes, (and champion of his literary reputation), took Purdy's ashes to a tenth anniversary commemorative event, at which they were interred beside the grave of Edith Sitwell.
Featuring Beth Car, ‘The House in the Pasture’, home of Theodore Powys, the Old School (now the village hall),
The Church
of St. Nicholas: Graves of Philippa (Katie) Powys, Sylvia Townsend Warner
& Valentine Ackland and Janet Pollock, nee Machen. [Video filmed on a pocket camcorder by Frank Kibblewhite]
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Last updated 23-Jul-2023