Bernard Who?: 75 Years of Doing Just About Everything
Autor Bernard Cribbins, James Hoggen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2020
Imaginați-vă un adolescent de paisprezece ani care, în plin Război Mondial, pășește pentru prima dată pe scena teatrului din Oldham pentru o soldă de cincisprezece șilingi pe săptămână. Aceasta este scânteia care a aprins una dintre cele mai longevive și iubite cariere din divertismentul britanic. Impactul lui Bernard Cribbins asupra culturii populare este monumental; el nu a fost doar un actor, ci vocea care a definit copilăria multor generații, de la poveștile din Jackanory până la universul The Wombles. Observăm în acest volum o viață trăită sub semnul versatilității absolute, marcată de un curaj rar, fie că vorbim despre lunile petrecute ca parașutist sub tirul gloanțelor în Palestina, fie despre aventura muzicală alături de George Martin la Abbey Road.
Bernard Who? este scrisă într-un stil care evocă o conversație caldă la un ceai, o abordare ce amintește de sinceritatea din From Rags to Rags de Johnny Barrs. Totuși, acolo unde Barrs se concentrează pe parcursul dintr-o familie fără legături cu scena, Cribbins ne oferă o perspectivă panoramică asupra industriei, presărată cu anecdote despre colaborările cu Peter Sellers sau David Niven. Găsim în această carte o structură narativă ce îmbină umorul sec cu momente de o vulnerabilitate surprinzătoare. Deși numele său apare și în contextul unor proiecte fantastice precum Neverwhere, unde talentul său de povestitor a strălucit, această autobiografie rămâne ancora reală a întregii sale activități. Suntem de părere că farmecul cărții rezidă tocmai în modestia autorului, care se consideră un om ce a făcut „cam de toate” timp de 75 de ani, oferindu-ne o cronică vie a teatrului și televiziunii britanice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472130154
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 16pp. colour and b/w plate section
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această autobiografie oricui dorește să descopere istoria nespusă a divertismentului britanic prin ochii unui „monstru sacru”. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care s-au construit succesele de la Abbey Road și din televiziunea clasică. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii Doctor Who sau The Railway Children, oferind un mix rar de aventură militară, succes muzical și măiestrie actoricească, totul sub semnul unui umor britanic autentic.
Despre autor
Bernard Cribbins, distins cu titlul de OBE, a fost un actor, artist de voce și comedian muzical britanic a cărui carieră s-a întins pe mai bine de șapte decenii. Recunoscut ca o adevărată „comoară națională”, Cribbins a devenit vocea iconică a emisiunii The Wombles și un colaborator frecvent al BBC în programul Jackanory. Talentul său i-a adus un premiu special BAFTA Children's în 2009, recunoscându-i contribuția imensă la televiziunea pentru copii. De la hiturile muzicale produse de George Martin până la rolul memorabil al lui Wilfred Mott în Doctor Who, Cribbins a rămas o prezență caldă și constantă în cultura britanică până la sfârșitul vieții.
Descriere
'The book reads like it's Bernard sitting down and telling a story' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2
'A fitting celebration of one of our most versatile and enduring acting talents' Sunday Express
'A rollicking good read - charming, unassuming and full of amiable, homespun wit' The Oldie
The long-awaited autobiography of national treasure Bernard Cribbins.
Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot at. On returning home, and to the theatre, Bernard was eventually approached by George Martin, then an A&R man for Parlophone Records, who suggested he made a record. Just months away from producing The Beatles, Martin asked Bernard to come to Abbey Road Studios in north London and, after teaching him how to sing into a microphone, they eventually recorded two hit singles - 'The Hole in the Ground' and 'Right Said Fred'. These, together with appearances in now classic films such as Two Way Stretch and The Wrong Arm of the Law (not to mention a certain television programme called Jackanory), catapulted Bernard to stardom and, by the time he started filming The Railway Children in 1970, he was already a national treasure.
Since then, Bernard's CV has been an A-Z of the best entertainment that Britain has to offer, and, thanks to programmes such as the aforementioned Jackanory, The Wombles, and, more recently, Old Jack's Boat, he has become the voice of many millions of childhoods.
Seventy-five years in the making and packed with entertaining anecdotes, Bernard Who? tells the wonderful story of one of the longest and most celebrated careers in show business.
Recenzii
A rollicking good read - charming, unassuming and full of amiable, homespun wit
Cribbins is reliably fascinating. This book is an essential ramble around his life and times
A jaunty read, as jaunty as Cribbins is in person
The book reads like . . . it's Bernard sitting down and telling a story
It's written in a conversational style which is breezy without ever getting cloying. It's wonderful. It's almost as if it's just been transcribed
It's hard not to smile turning the pages of Bernard Who?
In this chirpy memoir, the veteran actor looks back on 75 years in show business . . . Delightful reminiscences abound of an eclectic career . . . A fitting celebration of one of our most versatile and enduring acting talents
Listening to Bernard Cribbins talk about his life is just like sitting in front of the telly on our mother's knee hearing him read a story for an episode of the BBC children's show, Jackanory. A master storyteller who feels like a great friend or a kindly uncle from the moment he opens his mouth . . . Bernard is full of memories and anecdotes from a jam-packed career
He's an all-rounder: a comic actor who can move you to tears; a shapeshifter who is always somehow Bernard Cribbins. If anyone else subtitled their autobiography '75 Years of Doing Just About Everything', it might seem like hubris but in Cribbins' case it looks like modesty . . . Now 89, he remains the voice of our childhood . . . he trots through his life's adventures with a candour and ease . . . He writes as he talks so you can "hear" his voice
Hugely enjoyable
His matey memoirs achieve his self-proclaimed aim of capturing the feel of a natter and a pint down the pub with an old friend. A gentle, endearing read that is just the thing for a cosy, fireside read on a winter's afternoon
Funny, charming and anecdote-filled memoir
'The book reads like . . . it's Bernard sitting down and telling a story' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2
Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot at. On returning home, and to the theatre, Bernard was eventually approached by George Martin who suggested he made a record, resulting in 'The Hole in the Ground' and 'Right Said Fred'. These, together with appearances in now classic films such as Two Way Stretch and The Wrong Arm of the Law, catapulted Bernard to stardom and, by the time he started filming The Railway Children in 1970, he was already a national treasure.
Since then, Bernard's CV has been an A-Z of the best entertainment that Britain has to offer, and, thanks to programmes such as Jackanory and The Wombles, he has become the voice of many millions of childhoods.
Seventy-five years in the making and packed with entertaining anecdotes, Bernard Who? tells the wonderful story of one of the longest and most celebrated careers in show business.
'A fitting celebration of one of our most versatile and enduring acting talents' Sunday Express
'Bernard is full of memories and anecdotes from a jam-packed career' Yours