1986 Two Planks And A Passion
a BBC radio play written and directed by Anthony Minghella.
It's a story taking place during the reign of Richard II, (played by Colin Firth)
no commercial release.
1987 The One Before The Last
GENRE: Radio drama, aired on BBC Radio 1987
DIRECTOR: Cherry Cookson
WRITER: Catherine Parker
PRODUCER: BBC Radio
CAST: Colin Firth [Rupert Brooke], Emma Piper [Ka Cox] et al.
THE RADIO PLAY is based on the british poet Rupert Brooke's adult life, focusing on his student years in Cambridge [where he met Ka Cox] and the years before he enlisted, 1913. He died in the Aegean, April 23, 1915.
Colin Firth reading the part of Rupert Brooke. No commercial release we know of.
The One Before The Last
I dreamt I was in love again
With the One Before the Last,
And smiled to greet the pleasant pain
Of that innocent young past.
But I jumped to feel how sharp had been
The pain when it did live,
How the faded dreams of Nineteen-ten
Were Hell in Nineteen-five.
The boy's woe was as keen and clear,
The boy's love just as true,
And the One Before the Last, my dear,
Hurt quite as much as you.
1990 Bintley's Mozart
Colin Firth narrating a Canadian (Vancouver) tv documentary about the London Royal Ballet under choreographer David Bintley.
no commercial release.
1991 Comeback (a book by Dick Francis, recorded on audio tape)
audio book (read by Colin Firth), out of stock
Random Century Audiobooks, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA (England).
Travel writer John Kendall didn't think he was doing anything too out of the ordinary when he tramped off to rural England for an interview with a successful race horse trainer. Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that completing the book will be tricky at best. In fact, the perils described in his survival manuals pale next to the dangers in rural England....
2001 Carlo Franci Dreamtime
Modern classic "Music for an Albatross"
Colin Firth reads an excerpt from Herman Melville's Moby Dick
MUSIC FOR AN ALBATROSS for speaker, string orchestra and electronic effects
In the straightforward writing of The Albatross, one recognizes a search for absolute internalization. The string orchestra converses with the electronic sounds, and interacts with them, bending with them to the point at which the orchestra is swept into a chasm of sonority, in which the feeling of white, austral cold is rendered by the use of sounds whose wave shapes have been built on a computer by tracing the profile of an ice crystal. In this cold and ghostly seascape, the appearance of the albatross, seen as a divine messenger, serves but to enhance yet further the dismay and solitude of mankind.
This CD contains 6 pieces, in "Music For An Albatross" Colin Firth delivers the following passage:
| "I remember the first Albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas.
From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime.
At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress.
Through its inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God.
As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns.
Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.[...]
Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!"
from Moby Dick by H. Melville"
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With thanks to the Colin Firth Career Timeline
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