Ep. 60: Stephen Fry - Between (and Beneath) the Covers

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

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  • @annesaffer629
    @annesaffer629 5 дней назад +1

    Always a pleasure to listen to Stephen Fry!

  • @MsFoland
    @MsFoland Месяц назад +18

    Mr Fry, you're a treasure! I could listen to you endlessly! Thank you for pronouncing the name of the Polish city so correctly! That shows the respect. I'm in debt to you for all emotions you've delivered to me over the years.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +3

      I heartily agree. I would like to nominate Stephen Fry to be named a Living Global Treasure!

    • @MsFoland
      @MsFoland Месяц назад +3

      And he should've been knighted aoens ago!

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +1

      @@MsFoland Is there a petition for such honours? I'll sign, even if we're from the Colonies!

    • @MsFoland
      @MsFoland Месяц назад +1

      @@BrianLevine-ku1xf That needs looking into!

    • @goforitbeyourself.suekirk2165
      @goforitbeyourself.suekirk2165 12 дней назад +1

      Love Stephen fry .. beautiful human xx

  • @davidthompson797
    @davidthompson797 Месяц назад +14

    Nice to see he kept the cricket on the telly during this interview. The mark of a civilized man.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +2

      I've had tea and crumpets with him, and I can attest to his civility! (well, truthfully, it was a North American brunch, but it's the thought that counts.)

    • @timanderson6005
      @timanderson6005 25 дней назад +1

      The tv is also smaller than his bookshelf. A very important detail.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf 25 дней назад

      @@timanderson6005 As well it should be!

  • @DeniseSalmon-lw3eh
    @DeniseSalmon-lw3eh 2 месяца назад +12

    wow that 80 minutes went by SO FAST! How excellent - thank you. Mr Fry gives me hope for the human species.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +3

      I've met many gifted, creative, smart people over the last half-century - none so kind as Mr. Fry. He puts the "humane" back in "human"

  • @elizabethbarefoot4410
    @elizabethbarefoot4410 Месяц назад +5

    What a treasure Stephen Fry is. We are blessed 😊

  • @francoisviljoen5650
    @francoisviljoen5650 2 месяца назад +12

    I don't think polymath is even the right word... Stephen is just plainly a bloody treasure.

  • @cocozhang3589
    @cocozhang3589 Месяц назад +10

    Love Stephen SO! MUCH! ❤❤❤

  • @jeffwatkins352
    @jeffwatkins352 18 дней назад +1

    I’ve adored Mr. Fry since A Bit of Fry and Laurie, but was off him for years after his series on America. I watched with keen delight as he invariably came across the most engaging treasures in every state, savoring each with his sparkling intelligence. A born and bred Coloradan, I couldn’t wait for what he found here. It turned out to be Aspen, which he loathed. I don’t think much of the place myself but was that all he thought we were? It was like being slapped across the face by a dear old friend. Still, it’s impossible to hold a grudge against so brilliantly generous a mind as this marvelous conversation proves.

  • @RachelErlis
    @RachelErlis Месяц назад +4

    Thank you both its like listening to poetry hearing you both talk together❤.

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад +1

      How sweet thou art, dear Rachel, with thy honeyed words and keenness of ear . . .

  • @cathygould
    @cathygould 2 месяца назад +10

    So delicious, Stephen pours out a magical chain of information and facts and ties them historically and I'll watch this at Least twice more to absorb his joyous fountain of literature and history and science and religion ~ and Pong❣️ 😄❣️❣️❣️❣️🖋️📚😘

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf 2 месяца назад +1

      You are sooooo right, Cathy. I never cease to be amazed by the breadth of Stephen's knowledge, but also the elegance and wit with which of spontaneously generates a bon- mot a minute! He is one of our true cultural treasures. I hope you'll share this podcast with friends and subscribe to The Gould Standard . . . further treasures await within!

  • @kyleethekelt
    @kyleethekelt Месяц назад +2

    Kia ora from Aotearoa. It is ever a pleasure to hear Stephen Fry. I always come away having learnt something new. So looking forward to the live show in Wellington in November. Oh and I can thoroughly recommend his Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and all four greek myth books - the latter so much that I'm going to have to also buy them in text so I can make notes. Having heard isolated stories as radio plays while a child, it is wonderful to hear how it all fits together in context. If I could wish anything it would have been that he had read my favourite author, the late great Sir Terry Pratchett.

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад +1

      Hi Kyle, thanks for this erudite feedback. Stephen's work is quite breathtaking in its scope, and I always say, "don't bet on Stephen's not having read your favourite book(s)" - it's a bet you're likely to lose! I would be surprised if he had not read at least some of the works of the late, lamented Sir Terry Pratchett. Of course, we can be sure that he has read "Good Omens."

    • @karenschmocker8711
      @karenschmocker8711 Месяц назад

      Wonderful

  • @clairespace3371
    @clairespace3371 Месяц назад +1

    Such a comforting man ,! Voice, knowledge, enthusiasm, humour, kind way of talking about people. ❤

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад +1

      In these uncivilized and disturbing times, it is reassuring to know that there are still people with this level of humanity, civility and kindness.

  • @GIBLETTS
    @GIBLETTS Месяц назад +4

    Why do we love him so much ,
    One of our greatest ambassadors,

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +2

      Maybe Stephen should have a special one-man delegation to the UN. They might get more done - or at least they would stop fighting and start laughing, listening and learning.

  • @karendavidson4897
    @karendavidson4897 22 дня назад +1

    Wonderful interview well done to you both, this is my first time with you and you have a new subscriber. Mr fry is an absolute treat I could listen to him on any topic, he is indeed a treasure. Looking forward to many of your other interviews. Oh please get him back again.

  • @gwae48
    @gwae48 Месяц назад +1

    a Nice Man. We need more of those.❤

  • @Slowhil
    @Slowhil 2 месяца назад +7

    I would give anything to chat with Stephen about AI, literature and Douglas Adams for just like....10 minutes.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf 2 месяца назад +5

      Knowing Stephen has been a great joy. We are very fortunate that he's a long-standing admirer of Glenn Gould, both as a pianist, a thinker, and a fellow technophile. When Stephen agreed to serve as a juror for The Glenn Gould Prize (the Laureate was Leonard Cohen), I really felt as though we'd won the lottery. It is such a privilege for The Glenn Gould Foundation that Stephen has remained a good friend to our organization all these years. Thank you for your kind comments, and please do subscribe to The Gould Standard . . . tell your friends, too!

  • @ValeryFarrington
    @ValeryFarrington 2 месяца назад +5

    From a very old English Lady, just to say how do you know all that you do know? Best love, Valérie.❤

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +2

      Truly, Stephen has a gift. His mind is like sticky tape - knowledge just clings to it!

    • @dsszerothlaw
      @dsszerothlaw 23 дня назад +1

      @@BrianLevine-ku1xf he has said that he's extremely lucky in that his brain is like a sponge 😍

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf 23 дня назад +1

      @@dsszerothlaw it is a very handy attribute for a polymath like Stephen!

  • @caroledrury1411
    @caroledrury1411 19 дней назад

    I love him so dearly that I hope that someday he’ll realize he can be nothing and be great. Cricket in the background so fitting

  • @waynedoucette1492
    @waynedoucette1492 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад +1

      You're very welcome, Wayne! Thank you for watching. I hope you'll check out our other great Gould Standard conversations, tell your friends and subscribe!

  • @philnasmith9755
    @philnasmith9755 19 дней назад

    I remember watching the episode where Stephen visited the Body Farm.

  • @RachelErlis
    @RachelErlis Месяц назад +2

    Emily Bronte was said to suffer badly with homesickness to the point that her sister Charlotte wrote to head of the school they were at reading that she would die with homesickness if she did not to back home admittedly.

  • @maxillin
    @maxillin Месяц назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @catabolistnyc1207
    @catabolistnyc1207 Месяц назад +1

    This made me think of Nichols and May mocking pre-celebs who slather the names they drop with hubris.

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 2 месяца назад +1

    We are getting a corpse farm in Australia too - I was relieved to find out it's not going to be anywhere near where I live!

    • @kalayne6713
      @kalayne6713 2 месяца назад +1

      Heaven's above! Where is it going to be? I am here in Aus, too. And a corpse farm does not really appeal.

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 2 месяца назад

      @@kalayne6713 Somewhere in the Hunter Valley inland from Newcastle

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад

      @@kaloarepo288 I don't know, with all those microorganisms feasting themselves, it will be a definitive reposte to those who accuse Austria of lacking culture.

    • @BrianLevine-ku1xf
      @BrianLevine-ku1xf Месяц назад

      Please forgive me, I meant Australia - REALLY I did. The curse of auto-correct (and my bad typing) strikes again. I know that nobody wears lederhosen and drndls in the Outback!!! My apologies!

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 Месяц назад +1

      @@BrianLevine-ku1xf Did you say "Austria" on purpose? We would have loved to have created Mozart but perhaps not Hitler!

  • @RachelErlis
    @RachelErlis Месяц назад +1

    Mine where Roma can anyone imagine being there getting freed but still not wanted anywhere so you stay there because you all realise it's the only place that's safe..I often wonder if people that claim none of it happened are just aware that the history they have been told has been missing important things out and that is what their feeling,one and a half million Romani humans.

  • @RachelErlis
    @RachelErlis Месяц назад +1

    Thought I was only one that described things as being BLOCKY 😅🎉😅

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад +1

      'tis an adjective oft-times applied to the head of yours truly, but never to that of the esteemed Mr. Fry . . .

  • @juliancorlett2839
    @juliancorlett2839 Месяц назад +2

    Stephen Fry imparts wisdom and knowledge - never in a smart ass way. I've met him and respect him greatly

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад

      Spending time with Stephen is like going to the library - the knowledge and wisdom literature is all there, ready to enrich and inform, but not in an overbearing way . . . simply a wonderful resource to delight, enrich and enlighten . . .

  • @tomhorwat5313
    @tomhorwat5313 Месяц назад

    In his autobiography he writes about being arrested as a 17 year old for credit card fraud, that happened in my home town of Swindon at the Wiltshire hotel, 5 minutes from where I live.

    • @BrianLevine-p5e
      @BrianLevine-p5e Месяц назад

      It just goes to show that there's hope for everybody, and that inauspicious beginnings can still lead to glorious finales . . .

  • @juliancorlett2839
    @juliancorlett2839 Месяц назад +1

    6:51