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Experience the Ancient Mariner Big Read as one symphonic piece. --- You can find the Ancient Mariner Big Read here: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/ -- The Ancient Mariner Big Read was commissioned by The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth. Supported by The Box, Plymouth; The Edge Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath; John Hansar…

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Reading No.40 - Alan Bennett 1:18

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/40 Reader Alan Bennett Author + playwright Recorded in North London --- Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who lov…

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Reading No.39 - Judy Collins 1:05

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/39 Reader Judy Collins Singer + songwriter Recorded in New York City --- O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemèd there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With…

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Reading No.38 - Samuel John Taylor Coleridge 1:28

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/38 Reader Samuel John Taylor Coleridge Sixth-generation nephew of the poet, recorded at St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary, Coleridge's birthplace. Bell-ringer: Gordon Bird --- Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns…

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Reading No.37 - Kathleen Jamie 1:00

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/37 Reader Kathleen Jamie Poet + author Recorded at the University of Stirling --- And now, all in my own countree, I stood on the firm land! The Hermit stepped forth from the boat, And scarcely he could stand. 'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!' The Hermit crossed his brow. 'Say quick,'…

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Reading No.36 - Timothy Morton 1:00

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/36 Reader Timothy Morton Philosopher Recorded at Rice University, Texas --- Upon the whirl, where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round; And all was still, save that the hill Was telling of the sound. I moved my lips—the Pilot shrieked And fell down in a fit; The holy Hermit raised…

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Reading No.35 - John Spicer 1:04

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/35 Reader John Spicer Marine zoologist Recorded at Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, Somerset, where 'The Rime' was written. --- The boat came closer to the ship, But I nor spake nor stirred; The boat came close beneath the ship, And straight a sound was heard. Under the water it rumbled …

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Reading No.34 - Max Porter 1:10

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/34 Reader Max Porter Author + poet Recorded at the Bath Priory, Somerset --- 'Strange, by my faith!' the Hermit said— 'And they answered not our cheer! The planks looked warped! and see those sails, How thin they are and sere! I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were Brown…

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Reading No.33 - Horatio Clare 1:00

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/33 Reader Horatio Clare Author + adventurer Recorded at Penzance Literary Festival --- This Hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree. He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve…

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Reading No.32 - Helen Macdonald 1:08

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/32 Reader Helen Macdonald Author Recorded in Fitzrovia, London --- But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away And I saw a boat appear. The Pilot and the Pilot's boy, I heard them coming fast: Dear Lord in Heaven! it was a joy The dead me…

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Reading No.31 - Frances Barber 1:04

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/31 Reader Frances Barber Actress Recorded at Studio PSB, London --- Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood! A man all light, a seraph-man, On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, …

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Reading No.30 - Jodie Whittaker 1:14

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/30 Reader Jodie Whittaker Actor Recorded in Netley, Hampshire --- The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon. The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock: The moonlight steeped in sile…

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Reading No.29 - Stephen Dillane 1:10

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/29 Reader Stephen Dillane Actor Recorded in Sussex --- Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze— On me alone it blew. Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The light-house top I see? Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countre…

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Reading No.28 - David Walliams 1:27

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/28 Reader David Walliams Author + actor Recorded in London W1 --- And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen— Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round …

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Reading No.27 - Rupert Everett 1:04

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/27 Reader Rupert Everett Actor + author Recorded in Wiltshire --- I woke, and we were sailing on As in a gentle weather: 'Twas night, calm night, the moon was high; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fixed on me their stony eyes,…

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Reading No.26 - Zeb Soanes + Cleo Silvestre 1:21

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/26 Reader Zeb Soanes + Cleo Silvestre Radio announcer + Actress Recorded in Canonbury, London --- First Voice 'But tell me, tell me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice Still as a slave before his lord, The…

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Reading No.25 - Chris Watson 1:26

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/25 Reader Chris Watson Naturalist + sound artist Recorded on Blyth beach, Northumberland --- How long in that same fit I lay, I have not to declare; But ere my living life returned, I heard and in my soul discerned Two voices in the air. 'Is it he?' quoth one, 'Is this the man? By him who…

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Reading No.24 - Maggi Hambling 1:31

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/24 Reader Maggi Hambling Artist Recorded in South London --- Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe: Slowly and smoothly went the ship, Moved onward from beneath. Under the keel nine fathom deep, From the land of mist and snow, The spirit slid: and it was he That m…

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Reading No.23 - David Gray 1:05

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/23 Reader David Gray Singer + songwriter Recorded in Hampstead, London --- Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a l…

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Reading No.22 - Philip Hoare 1:19

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/22 Reader Philip Hoare Author Recorded on Southampton Water --- The body of my brother's son Stood by me, knee to knee: The body and I pulled at one rope, But he said nought to me. 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!' Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest! 'Twas not those souls that fled in pain, Which …

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Reading No.21 - Neil Tennant 1:13

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/21 Reader Neil Tennant Singer + songwriter Recorded at Studio PSB, London --- The loud wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men gave a groan. They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had…

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Reading No.20 - Cerys Matthews 1:22

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/20 Reader Cerys Matthews Singer + Author Recorded at the Stags Head, Fitzrovia, London --- And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro t…

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Reading No.19 - Deborah Warner 1:33

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/19 Reader Deborah Warner Opera director Recorded in Islington, London --- Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul. The silly buckets on the deck, That had so long remained, …

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Reading No.18 - Chris Packham 1:30

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/18 Reader Chris Packham Naturalist Recorded in the New Forest, Hampshire --- Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their ric…

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Reading No.17 - Olivia Laing 1:24

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/17 Reader Olivia Laing Author Recorded at Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge --- An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving Mo…

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Reading No.16 - Alan Cumming 1:25

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/16 Reader Alan Cumming Actor Recorded in New York City --- I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as d…

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Reading No.15 - Marianne Faithfull 1:34

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/15 Reader Marianne Faithfull Singer, songwriter, actor Recorded in West London --- 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand, so brown.'— Fear not, fear …

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Reading No.14 - Cyrus Larcombe Moore 1:09

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/14 Reader Cyrus Larcombe Moore Poet Recorded at St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary, Devon --- One after one, by the star-dogged Moon, Too quick for groan or sigh, Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor gro…

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Reading No.13 - Lemn Sissay 1:29

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/13 Reader Lemn Sissay Poet + Author Recorded at Folkestone Book Festival --- The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. And stifled words and groans of pain Mix'd on each murmuring lip, We look'd r…

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Reading No.12 - Ali Smith 1:32

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/12 Reader Ali Smith Author Recorded at Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge --- Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres? Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate…

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Reading No.11 - Robert Macfarlane 1:23

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/11 Reader Robert Macfarlane Author Recorded at Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge --- With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in. As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no …

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Reading No. 10 - Beth Gibbons 1:57

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/10 Reader Beth Gibbons Singer + songwriter --- There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mi…

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Reading No.9 - Iggy Pop 1:32

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/9 Reader Iggy Pop Singer + songwriter Recorded in Miami --- About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assurèd were Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed u…

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Reading No.8 - Tilda Swinton 1:19

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/8 Reader Tilda Swinton Actor Recorded in the Scottish Highlands --- All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted oce…

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Reading No.7 - Simon Armitage 1:14

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/7 Reader Simon Armitage Poet Recorded in the West Yorkshire Pennines --- Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That bring the fog and mist. The fair …

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Reading No.6 - Hilary Mantel 1:27

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/6 Reader Hilary Mantel Author Recorded at St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary, Devon, Coleridge's 'sweet birthplace' --- The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet…

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Reading No.5 - Willem Dafoe 1:03

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/5 Reader Willem Dafoe Actor Artwork Gordon Cheung Albatross Glitch --- And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, th…

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Reading No.4 - Peter Wilson 1:11

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/4 Reader Peter Wilson Polar guide Filmed + recorded by Eric Wehrmeister, Point Wild, Antarctica Lat: 61°05 S Lon: 54°52 W --- And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there,…

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Reading No.3 - Samuel West 1:10

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/3 Reader Samuel West Actor + director Recorded in Islington, London --- And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the sh…

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Reading No.2 - Jeanette Winterson 1:29

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/2 Reader: Jeanette Winterson Author Recorded at The Charterhouse, London --- 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the rig…

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Reading No. 1 - Jeremy Irons 1:33

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Discover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/1 Reader Jeremy Irons Actor Recorded at Bath Priory, Somerset --- It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast…

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