{"id":1150,"date":"2017-04-30T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/04\/30\/tilda-swinton-benedict-cumberbatch-john-waters-and-more-read-moby-dick-in-its-entirety-listen\/"},"modified":"2017-04-30T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:10:44","slug":"tilda-swinton-benedict-cumberbatch-john-waters-and-more-read-moby-dick-in-its-entirety-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/04\/30\/tilda-swinton-benedict-cumberbatch-john-waters-and-more-read-moby-dick-in-its-entirety-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters and More Read \u2018Moby-Dick\u2019 in Its Entirety \u2014 Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Call me Ishmael. Or Tilda, or Benedict, or any number of other names, really, as Plymouth University has completed its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobydickbigread.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Moby-Dick Big Read,&#8221;<\/a> an audiobook version of Herman Melville&#8217;s whale of a novel. All 135 chapters are read by a different voice, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/tilda-swinton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tilda-swinton\">Tilda Swinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/benedict-cumberbatch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_benedict-cumberbatch\">Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/john-waters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-waters\">John Waters<\/a>, Stephen Fry, Sir David Attenborough and David Cameron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/04\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2017-host-hasan-minhaj-review-watch-1201810957\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner 2017: Hasan Minhaj Eviscerates Donald Trump and Those Covering Him \u2014 Watch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Launched in 2011, the project is based on the idea that &#8220;Moby-Dick&#8221; is not only &#8220;the great American novel&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s also &#8220;the great unread American novel.&#8221; Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare describe the Big Read as &#8220;an online version of Melville\u2019s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/04\/reservoir-dogs-reunion-quentin-tarantino-tribeca-1201810876\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: \u2018Reservoir Dogs\u2019 Reunion: Quentin Tarantino Says Wes Craven Walked Out of His Mafioso Masterpiece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book, which more than lives up to its prodigious reputation, has been adapted for film several times; most recently (and forgettably), it served as the inspiration for Ron Howard&#8217;s &#8220;In the Heart of the Sea.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/email\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me Ishmael. 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