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Episode 7a – Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
In this episode Mike & Will look into ghosts, golf and some decidedly fishy goings-on in Felixstowe in the first of a 2-part special on M.R. James’s ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’!
Big thanks to Tom Hemmings who returns as our reader for this episode.
Show Notes
Read the full text at Wikisource.
Here can be seen the real-world setting of ‘Oh, Whistle…’
Watch the BBCs classic adaptation, starring Michael Horden.
Read about the BBCs recent tv adaptation, starring John Hurt.
Includes some very interesting discussion in the comments section.
A website explaining the area of modern study now known at Ontography.
This is the section of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress that comes to Parkins’ mind when seeing a figure following him along the beach.
A really interesting essay relevant to this story.
Ghosts & Scholars provides a summary of the various speculations about the meaning of the text found on the whistle.
The more touristy part of the beach at Felixstowe, south of where Parkins had his horrible experience.
This is the hotel on which James based The Globe Inn in ‘Oh, Whistle…’. The hotel is sadly no more, having been burned down by Suffragette arsonists on April 28th 1914!
This is the house owned by James’s friend Felix Cobbold, and where parties of friends from Kings College would meet for holidays (and probably a round of golf or two at the nearby golf course).
In this 2000 article for the Guardian, author Penelope Fitzgerald examines James the man as well as James the writer and compares James’s personality to that of Parkins in ‘Oh, Whistle…’
This article retraces the Norfolk and Suffolk locations used in the filming of the 1960’s TV versions of ‘Oh, Whistle…’ and ‘A Warning to the Curious’. Photos are provided to show the locations as they are today (well, in 2007).
Read about the history of this much-maligned order of religious knights.
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In this episode Mike & Will look into ghosts, golf and some decidedly fishy goings-on in Felixstowe in the first of a 2-part special on M.R. James’s ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’!
Big thanks to Tom Hemmings who returns as our reader for this episode.
Show Notes
Read the full text at Wikisource.
Here can be seen the real-world setting of ‘Oh, Whistle…’
Watch the BBCs classic adaptation, starring Michael Horden.
Read about the BBCs recent tv adaptation, starring John Hurt.
Includes some very interesting discussion in the comments section.
A website explaining the area of modern study now known at Ontography.
This is the section of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress that comes to Parkins’ mind when seeing a figure following him along the beach.
A really interesting essay relevant to this story.
Ghosts & Scholars provides a summary of the various speculations about the meaning of the text found on the whistle.
The more touristy part of the beach at Felixstowe, south of where Parkins had his horrible experience.
This is the hotel on which James based The Globe Inn in ‘Oh, Whistle…’. The hotel is sadly no more, having been burned down by Suffragette arsonists on April 28th 1914!
This is the house owned by James’s friend Felix Cobbold, and where parties of friends from Kings College would meet for holidays (and probably a round of golf or two at the nearby golf course).
In this 2000 article for the Guardian, author Penelope Fitzgerald examines James the man as well as James the writer and compares James’s personality to that of Parkins in ‘Oh, Whistle…’
This article retraces the Norfolk and Suffolk locations used in the filming of the 1960’s TV versions of ‘Oh, Whistle…’ and ‘A Warning to the Curious’. Photos are provided to show the locations as they are today (well, in 2007).
Read about the history of this much-maligned order of religious knights.
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