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Of bells and whistles in addition to olivier�*s beautiful voice. olivier: to be. or not to be. john gielgud by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of great speeches from shakespeare that more or less sort of looked at, indeed, the different transitions that a human being might have across their life, was the human voice, single, alone, and i guess i understood that both worked. and that the tonal range in gielgud's voice in itself was a sort of self—contained mini orchestra. so i began to understand a bit more about poetry and what a performer could do with it but i a...

All very english. very english! there'd been a great tragedy for the great, great actor, mark rylance, who was due to do that role and so, he had to pull out. danny boyle called me — he's the director of the ceremony, and a brilliant director and a great man — and he said, "would you do it?" and i said, "well, yes, ok — what was it you need me to do?" and he said, "come down to the stadium and i'll show you". i went into the stadium for the first time and it seemed like all of england was rehearsing. it was absolutely packed with people doing pirouettes and jumping and dance routines, an...

I mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot of bells and whistles in addition to olivier�*s beautiful voice. olivier: to be. or not to be. john gielgud by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of great speeches from shakespeare that more or less sort of looked at, indeed, the different transitions that a human being might have across their life, was the human voice, single, alone, and i guess i understood that both worked. and that the tonal range in gielgud's voice in itself was a sort of self—contained mini orchestra. so i began to understand a bit more about poetry and what ...

..with the soundtrack of elgar. yes. all very english. very english! there'd been a great tragedy for the great, great actor, mark rylance, who was due to do that role and so, he had to pull out. danny boyle called me — he's the director of the ceremony, and a brilliant director and a great man — and he said, "would you do it?" and i said, "well, yes, ok — what was it you need me to do?" and he said, "come down to the stadium and i'll show you". i went into the stadium for the first time and it seemed like all of england was rehearsing. it was absolutely packed with people doing pirouett...

Great speeches from shakespeare that more or less sort of looked at, indeed, the different transitions that a human being might have across their life, was the human voice, single, alone, and i guess i understood that both worked. and that the tonal range in gielgud's voice in itself was a sort of self—contained mini orchestra. so i began to understand a bit more about poetry and what a performer could do with it but i also was very thrilled by what, if you want to put it crudely, what you could do with the boring bits, if you used an orchestra and sound effects and all the rest of it! so th...