A Tale of Two Cities

[tealin]

When I was in high school, my English classroom was quite near the cafeteria/common area. During the period in which I was in that class, the dance troupe used that space for their rehearsals, so if it was a hot day and we had the door open we would hear their music. In the spring of that year, when the weather had started getting warm again, we were doing the Tale of Two Cities unit, and they were rehearsing a routine to the smash hit of the season, a certain waily love anthem from a popular film that had just come out which involved ice, a ship, and disaster (though mostly, if I recall, interminable love scenes). Thus it came to be that I will forever associate "My Heart Will Go On" not with Dreamy Leo but with Sydney Carton ... and why I do not have as immediate a gag reflex when I hear that song as most people seem to do, because I really rather enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities.

It was with delight that I discovered Radio 4 is running a new radio dramatisation of that book this week – and further delight to find that it was rather good – and yet more delight to find that I didn't have to record it myself as it was available for download completely honestly off their site! And so I share it with you, Radioland; near, far, wherever you are.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES
~Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Time of the French Revolution ~
Starring Carl Prekopp, a Surprise Guest Star in ep. 2, and some other people
I wish I had some any time for drawing, so I could update my high school doodles of the characters ...