22:19 - that's my dad. he passed away last year. always good to see him again.
@dirlogic
2 ай бұрын
What year was this documentary made? I am curious when that dinner at the South Street Seaport took place?
@j.dunlop8295
2 жыл бұрын
After almost fifty years of reading O'Brian's gems, I'd only wished to have started sooner and sailed more! He didn't get to serve in in the service he wanted, but he did, he did in his books!
@mach78fl370
2 жыл бұрын
This is excellent. I have spent countless hours in these novels, I am now in my third run through the entire 21 novel series, and I enjoy them as much now as ever.
@copiousfool
Жыл бұрын
I read the books, then re-read them then I found the audio books. Pure heaven.
@antoniahall7507
10 ай бұрын
Patrick Tull is an excellent narrator in the audiobooks
@jamesmitchell1222
9 ай бұрын
Grog for all on the quarterdeck!
@benjysshed1883
6 ай бұрын
I've read the 20 but not the unfinished 21st, I'm afraid I'd be disappointed. Do you recommend it? 🤔
@paulrummery6905
5 ай бұрын
Same here mate. Work of genius, mighty beloved characters become old friends.
@aajaxs28
4 ай бұрын
Thank you. I embark on my sixth reading of these works. Rejoining the lives of my friend's adventures. My gratitude of the life of Patrick and his creation.
@footsy420
9 ай бұрын
God bless Patrick O'Brian! I have enjoyed his sea stories more than any other books!
@EaglesNester
Жыл бұрын
What I love is his sense of humor and humanity: "Killick! Killick there!" "What I is a comin', aint I, and have been a-standing here by the butts this half-glass and more," said Killick in his disagreeable injured whine, "a-holding of this sanglewich and this here mug of wine." Of all the many virtues, Preserved Killick possessed only two, polishing silver and making coffee; but these he possessed to such a high degree that for those who liked their plate brilliant and their coffee prompt, freshly roasted, freshly ground and piping hot it was worth putting up with his countless vices... Barrett Bonden's loyalty..."a man like Bonden in worth his weight in gold" ~ JA
@veraorthlieb
9 ай бұрын
I laughed out loud at Killick's answer. Wonderful character, Killick.
@jimbo0078
Жыл бұрын
That’s Patrick Tull at the Dinner - if you haven’t listened to the audiobooks - he is the best!
@antoniahall7507
10 ай бұрын
First 3 are free on Audible! Patrick Tull-so very wonderful!
@mahrezaitm.5162
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my Lord, how I loved his books.... I would wish to share a coffee with Patrick, talking about the far side of the world. He remembers me my Grandpa who served in the navy during the SWW. RIP my Grandpa I will always love you.
@chuckprichard3691
2 ай бұрын
"You must let me finish." Why do so many interviewers think it's OK to ask a question, then interrupt the answer?
@TJY-mb5hk
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this. I adore these books
@julian.morgan
10 ай бұрын
It's intriguing that Patrick O'Brian's extreme reserve dictates that in none of these to-camera interviews do we see more than a tiny glimpse of his wicked sense of humour. Whilst I've read and more recently listened to Patrick Tull's masterly narration of the Aubrey Maturin series multiple times, the earlier novel, The Golden Ocean, is one of my all time favourite books. The dialogues and the observation of relationships are effervescent, joyous and, at times, exceptionally funny. In another interview O'Brian describes that he wrote The Golden Ocean exceptionally quickly and had, 'tremendous fun' in the writing of it. This sense of fun is conveyed on nearly every page which I've always thought was an extraordinary achievement.
@maninchair6648
5 ай бұрын
I think he was 18 when he wrote The Golden Ocean , a timeless masterpiece as good as anything he wrote subsequently.
@Dal8077
7 ай бұрын
The BBC documentary "Patrick O'Brian: Nothing Personal" aired Sep 30, 1998, two years before his death. And in the same year that his wife, Mary had died.
@fragwagon
2 жыл бұрын
What a treasure of a video!!
@Komnenos1234
5 ай бұрын
I like to think the reason Patrick O'Brian didn't talk about himself is he didn't want you to think you had to be of his or any "persuasion" to enjoy them. He made them for all of us who love them.
@006bloody
Жыл бұрын
super interesting! much appreciate this
@Aubury
4 ай бұрын
He set a standard in historic fiction that is prodigious. I pine reading the last book fragments. Like a vast symphonic cycle ending a movement to soon ..
@welshhibby
5 ай бұрын
I’m definitely going to get the audiobooks now !
@antoniahall7507
10 ай бұрын
Oh my! I love Aubrey & Maturin. I think Patrick O’Brian is Maturin, no?
@hughdunit2041
6 ай бұрын
Gold
@Bfresh99
4 ай бұрын
There is a scene here in which a woman attempts to look up O'brians brother. O'brian is a nom de plume, his name was actually Russ.
@wearethenightparty
2 жыл бұрын
Great doco
@royalirishranger1931
2 жыл бұрын
A wonderful writer, I have immensely enjoyed his Aubrey Maturin adventures , as for himself he was essentially a fiction . The truth was uninspiring.
@RW4X4X3006
Жыл бұрын
He kept his pseudonym alive and well. All good. I think he was a cool guy based on what I've seen. A lot like my father and grandfathers. The tabloid ridicule over nothing is pathetic.
@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis
6 ай бұрын
Which is why it shouldn't matter and why you shouldn't juxtapose his life with his stories. The whole entire point of his privacy was for thick people like you putting a damper on the product just because your insatiable romanticism can't be contained.
@edwardkacal2616
2 жыл бұрын
So the question at the end, is did the cannon end without and end on purpose?
@johngarratt1764
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think so, he died suddenly.
@MarcENicholson
11 ай бұрын
I've read 3 of the 21 Aubrey-Maturin novels over the last several weeks, and I'm hooked to read the rest. But I found Mr. O'Brien very frustrating in this interview. It's one thing to guard your privacy...it's another to be so absolutely impenetrable, perhaps even self-dramatizing as the "hard to get" mystery man. It was his right, of course. He gave us his books....he didn't have to give us himself. But it keenly frustrates his admiring readers who want to know more about the amazing author of these books in which they are investing so much time (if you read all/most of them), and it also has made him vulnerable to the perhaps unwarranted attacks by some critics who long ago questioned how much real experience and sea-going expertise lay behind these works.
@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis
6 ай бұрын
I think you need to SEPARATE the author from the works. The whole point of the novels is that they're not about him or his past or his opinions, it's about two people in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Not about the author or their authority, but the novels themselves. Get over it.
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