Hello,
Recently my little channel here clocked up 2 million views and there is nobody more astonished than myself. You see it wasn’t something that I set out to do, it just sort of happened. The thing started I suppose when I read and recorded a few Roald Dahl stories for the children, on cassette tape back then and later for the grandchildren on cd. Then discovering that it was quite easy to put them on Youtube, I recorded a few more Roald Dahl stories for easier access and thinking that other children may also like listening to them. It turned out they did and I had some very sweet comments from some of the regular listeners. That was before YT switched off comments on content made for children. Even the channel name was not intentional and just got copied over during registration from an old gmail account that I never used. However, it served a purpose and still does.
Then one of my dear sisters gave me a Wodehouse collection of short stories for Christmas and suggested I should try recording some. I’m not much of a lad for books, to quote the boy Bertie but I eventually read most of it and recorded Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit followed by many more over the last couple of years.
Why?
Is a good question!
Fame and Fortune? Well, the constant recognition in the street and the lines of autograph hunters gets a bit weary after a while and there is zero money involved, so no its neither of those!
Maybe part of the reason is that I have grown to love the character Bertram Wooster and have enjoyed bringing him to life all these years later. Of course the world and society he lived in was a bit different back then but his qualities of unselfishness and general decentness work just as well now. I would make a guess that Britain now is a lot closer and more recognisable to Bertie than our country would be to me in a hundred years from now. Actually the way things are going, make that ten or twenty years. However, I do know many people dismiss these stories as dull and irrelevant tales of a frightful snob. Oh, what a treat they are missing! And a snob, he most certainly wasn’t.
The main reason though for continuing, albeit sporadically, to put up more recordings is that there are many of you that like to listen to them! The comments, either from regular listeners or one off have been so heartening and encouraging and have been a great driver to continue.
So all this is by way of saying a big thank you, wherever you are in the world, for all your support and lovely much appreciated messages.
Thank you! Nick
Also at last, a new PGW story going up this Friday evening. A ghost story - well sort of!
Trickynicky Marts
Hello,
Recently my little channel here clocked up 2 million views and there is nobody more astonished than myself.
You see it wasn’t something that I set out to do, it just sort of happened. The thing started I suppose when I read and recorded a few Roald Dahl stories for the children, on cassette tape back then and later for the grandchildren on cd. Then discovering that it was quite easy to put them on Youtube, I recorded a few more Roald Dahl stories for easier access and thinking that other children may also like listening to them. It turned out they did and I had some very sweet comments from some of the regular listeners. That was before YT switched off comments on content made for children. Even the channel name was not intentional and just got copied over during registration from an old gmail account that I never used. However, it served a purpose and still does.
Then one of my dear sisters gave me a Wodehouse collection of short stories for Christmas and suggested I should try recording some. I’m not much of a lad for books, to quote the boy Bertie but I eventually read most of it and recorded Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit followed by many more over the last couple of years.
Why?
Is a good question!
Fame and Fortune?
Well, the constant recognition in the street and the lines of autograph hunters gets a bit weary after a while and there is zero money involved, so no its neither of those!
Maybe part of the reason is that I have grown to love the character Bertram Wooster and have enjoyed bringing him to life all these years later. Of course the world and society he lived in was a bit different back then but his qualities of unselfishness and general decentness work just as well now. I would make a guess that Britain now is a lot closer and more recognisable to Bertie than our country would be to me in a hundred years from now. Actually the way things are going, make that ten or twenty years. However, I do know many people dismiss these stories as dull and irrelevant tales of a frightful snob. Oh, what a treat they are missing! And a snob, he most certainly wasn’t.
The main reason though for continuing, albeit sporadically, to put up more recordings is that there are many of you that like to listen to them! The comments, either from regular listeners or one off have been so heartening and encouraging and have been a great driver to continue.
So all this is by way of saying a big thank you, wherever you are in the world, for all your support and lovely much appreciated messages.
Thank you!
Nick
Also at last, a new PGW story going up this Friday evening. A ghost story - well sort of!
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