大象传媒

The broadcaster Gerry Anderson entertains a home crowd with extracts from some of his favourite readings in Londonderry. Recorded at Magee College, University of Ulster, and with the help of readers Stella McCusker and Stuart Graham, he reflects on the inspiration he encountered in Dublin in his early years as a rock'n'roll musician, before heading to the States, long before he found his natural home up close to a presenter's microphone. Among the richly varied and idiosyncratic readings he's chosen are an account of a young and supremely arrogant Orson Welles auditioning for Dublin's Gate Theatre, Hunter S Thompson's savage indignation directed towards Richard Nixon, the moving opening section of Oscar Wilde's 'Ballad of Reading Gaol', and the full explanation of Catch 22, when not only is sanity madness, but precisely the opposite is also true.
Producer: Mark Smalley.