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Post by mark687 on Mar 6, 2019 14:58:51 GMT
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Post by number13 on Mar 6, 2019 15:46:09 GMT
I love the pure historicals and since I discovered his work I've thought of Mr. Farhi as the great 'lost writer' of TV Who, on a par with John Lucarotti and it's so sad that we never saw one of his stories produced for TV or have more of them to enjoy.
But at least he did see his historical masterpiece produced, splendidly, for audio by BF with superb performances from William Russell and Carole Ann Ford as always and fully matched by John Dorney's Alexander.
Perhaps 'Farewell, Great Macedon' wasn’t made because it would have coincided in production with ‘The Aztecs’ and was thought too similar in its theme of the burden of knowledge of the future? It now seems the perfect ‘sequel’, of a similarly high standard and appears to explore that same theme in the full knowledge of the travellers’ ‘past’ – which of course had yet to be written when Moris Farhi created his brilliant script (during the original broadcast of ‘Marco Polo’); he showed astonishing insight and an amazingly sure ‘feel’ for the spirit of the earliest days of ‘Doctor Who’ and the original characters who established the legend.
Moris Farhi left us a fabulous historical, subtly exploring questions of time travel while its other themes of mutual tolerance between cultures of East and West, integration, and belief in universal standards for humanity are just as relevant today as they were in 1964; as Alexander says, “a beautiful dream”.
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Post by shallacatop on Mar 6, 2019 17:23:00 GMT
Oh, how sad. Those who have seen my posts recently will know I’ve listened to Farewell, Great Macedon and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance for this first time this week. They’re both absolutely brilliant and unique stories. I mentioned that had the former been realised on screen, it would’ve surely been an all time classic. I think the same applies for Fragrance too.
RIP.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 1:12:02 GMT
Oh, how sad. Those who have seen my posts recently will know I’ve listened to Farewell, Great Macedon and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance for this first time this week. They’re both absolutely brilliant and unique stories. I mentioned that had the former been realised on screen, it would’ve surely been an all time classic. I think the same applies for Fragrance too. RIP. Not just in the context of Who, but perhaps television as a whole as well. In later climes, he championed for twenty years to free writers imprisoned by repressive regimes and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2001. Remarkable writer, a remarkable man as well. He'll be dearly missed, and I don't think his work will ever fade. Not in its poignancy, nor its legacy.
(This is him, playing an uncredited background role in 1963's From Russia with Love.)
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