The Birds By Daphne Du Maurier Audiobook
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- The Birds by Daphne du Maurier was adapted into the 1963 horror thriller movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. Daphne du Maurier wrote horror and mystery and crime stories and the birds can be considered science fiction. She was a master of storytelling and character building in English literature. The Birds concerns a bird attack in a horror story version of the near future when nature has been twisted by humankind - a kind of pandemic.
Her two other most famous stories which were made into films were Rebecca (also directed by Alfred Hitchcock) and Don't Look Now by Nicolas Roeg
This unabridged audio book version is narrated by Tony Walker of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast with an analysis and summary at the end. #AudioDrama #RadioDrama #TheBirds #Audiobooks
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If you like this, you'll probably like Don't Look Now th-cam.com/video/LrNbUsq2Z-A/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much 🙋
Thankyou, I'll listen to that later today. x
I really love the birds and I think you introducing it is a much better and spookier way than
the music . I , however do not like Don't Look Down, it is way too creepy I thought the movie was weird but listening to Don't look now give me shivers I didn't know it was by Daphne du Maurier but I should have known because she's the one who wrote judgment in stone
Another weird one of hers is the strand
Don't Look Now is even scarier/ tension filled and was a very brilliant audio performance by Tony Walker.
This might be a minority opinion (although perhaps not among your listeners!), but I find this story so much more frightening than the movie. So coldly matter-of-fact and uncanny. And I'm a Hitchcock fan! Thanks for a stupendous job as always.
Totally agree.
I agree. The movie and the book are not alike either.
I've always found that in most cases, the Book far superior to a Film mainly because when Reading, you gain the "inner thoughts" & nuances of a Character where that is challenging to portray in a Film. A Story is always more personal to me in written form? With Reading, I've found I'm more "involved" with the Story vs. a Film where I'm somewhat "watching" events occur, so there is always a slight distance.
duMaurier had a random and eerie thought triggered one day walking thru the Fields and see's a Farmer, so that thought was the seed for this Short Story. I love that Hitchcock saw the potential in many of duMaurier's Stories and used them as a Springboard for a Film Story. Had it not been for Hitchcock, a large portion of Non-Readers of the world would not have known about this great, British Author.
I cannot tell you how wonderful I find your readings of Daphne du Maurier. It's been making me think about literatures that are best heard, albeit when performed by skilful and brilliantly talented readers. I had read perhaps one or two of her stories before now, but your performance and your insight into voice (and voices of character) has elevated her work for me, and now I am convinced that she is one of the very greatest writers of horror (is that what it is?) and of the uncanny.
She is a very talented writer. She's great at putting her characters and, by extension, us through emotional torture, which is a good thing in a story. She's very good.
Had to read this story for an essay in my college English class, as you could figure, I don’t like reading, and this audiobook version of the story is an absolute masterpiece. The performance is incredible, great job!
Thank you thank you thank you (said it 3 x cause I was so pleased)
Every time I listen to this story, I love it more. I especially love Nat's resilience, as well as his awareness of his family's emotions and his attention toward rallying them as troops. He's a leader. I also like the broader example set by the other characters. The Birds is a story of any crisis and a study of how people deal with it (or not).
That was amazing! I had no idea Du Maurier had written the original story, and I've read most of her stuff. What a mess the movie is compared to this. This is so English I can smell the damp wool from the jumpers as I'm listening. I wish they'd make a new movie but following this actual story. And how bold is it to end her story there? I shan't forget that little family huddling in their kitchen now. Thank you so much for reading this so beautifully.
Tony, you should be the only person allowed to read Daphne Du Maurier. I can't wait for further chapters of Rebecca. Superb!
If I get time this week
They really should make a movie as the book reads.....Excellent story, great narration. Thank you.
I loved this story and the amount of alliteration that sounded very natural.
Hi, YES, love you introducing instead of the recording, the recording has had it's day IMO. You continue to be the best narrator on TH-cam, Thank you.
thank you!
Tony, I absolutely LOVE it when you read Daphne Du Maurier! In fact, I originally found your channel by searching for Don't Look Now, and have been a huge fan of yours ever since!
The Birds was one of those Hitchcock movies that scared the crap out of me as a kid, biut now it is super disappointing that they completely changed the story for the movie. When the original was obviously so much better.
That must have been disappointing for Ms. du Maurier. I wonder if she was also aware of how horribly Hitchcock treated Tippi Hedren during filming? Maybe that wasn't public knowledge until recent years when Ms Hedren spoke about it as well as her other experiences with him.
It is my belief that The Birds is, essentially, the first zombie film.
Hitchcock & Screenwriter just used this Short Story as a "departure" for the Film. This Story specifically translated & I think is well told in the Film in the final Scene when Melanie Character & Family barricaded themselves in the House. I thought it well done & very close to this Story. All of the Scenes prior to this one led up to that Finale - had they just used this Short Story it wouldn't have made for much of a Film?
I think the change of Location to CA was brilliant in that the Film was geared for an American Audience. Choosing the "peaceful" small Hamlet of Bodega Bay where Life was simple & not much happened made it creepier in that it made it more personal - that this "horror" could happen anywhere USA - it made it more "familiar", people that Audience could relate with. It strengthened the consideration that this Event could "happen to any Town in America" - any of the People watching the Film.
I always felt that it was the "Love Birds" that triggered the Event. Their "captivity" made all the Birds seek Revenge on Humans for such disrespect by caging their inherent Freedom.
Thank you so much, your reading was excellent, absolutely right for this story.
Absolutely bloody brilliant!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍
Always liked the film, never knew it was taken from a book. Great story,, Thanks Mr. Tony.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great reading ,
If only Hitch had been true to this UK version . He is my hero but in this adaptation. This is amazing writing . Come on, you brilliant Brit directors , give it a remake !
And, while you’re at it , let’s have a gorgeous movie based entirely on “The House on the Strand .”
I cannot tell you how addicted I have become to your voice and it’s only been about a week. I look so forward to listening to this story before sleep and although I haven’t made it to the end yet (😴), I have plenty of time…
TONY. !!!!!
This is the best reading ever.(I know I say that about all your readings)
Such a wonderful scary story.
Loved it....better than the movie
I’m going to do rebecca after hill house
Woah, this was intense!!.
Amazing reading and narration.
wow... even better than the movie!! i honestly had no idea who this auther was. I cannot WAIT to hear you narrate her other stories now!!
I wish Hitchcock more faithfully adapted the story when making the movie. This story was wayy better!!
I saved this. It's very fitting listening to a .tale of nature gone on the attack after watching Ian batter Cuba and Florida. My handyman came over and we made sure the yard was battened down before the aftermath arrives here tomorrow evening. Now I'm laying down with the cat Louise and a cup of coffee and thoroughly enjoying your narration. Nat reminds me of all those ordinary men who dealt so realistically and practically with the blitz in WWII.
Wow! That was a great one. Totally creeperd me out in a deliciously, shivery way! Keep them coming!!! You and Dame Du Maurier made a great team.
Every "preparation" seems to be a distraction against human emotions..they attack when people aren't being taken seriously. Unity is stifling in this story. Interesting!
A great reading of this classic horror story!! Bravissimo!!
Don’t look back now brilliant
Visiting this great channel again for The Birds and the chat that follows. It was really entertaining I'm a huge fan of the post apocalyptic genre. Talking about Day of the Triffids...i would love to listen to Tony narrating that amazing story. It's one of the best... 🙋
I love Day of the Triffids
''A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.''- Maya Angelou (Keep singing,Tony)
Birds do not ‘sing’, they’re communicating in the way nature made them too, a caged bird is not singing , it’s probably saying “Let me out! “ . This is just more human arrogance thinking birds were put here for our ‘entertainment ‘ .
Maybe. But their feathers make such great stuffing for pillows and mattresses!@@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated
And that song is Violence!😂
@@terryIKE69 That alone makes them more useful than 90% of the humans walking around.
Especially seagulls, evil incarnate@@macbrebonicks8668
This was fantastic, Tony! I’ve seen the Hitchcock movie several times. A great Halloween film, too. Much rather a tale like this than a slasher type. I always wondered what caused the birds to turn like that! Of course, we never knew.
Top level narration as always, Tony, thank you for this. I'm a big fan of Hitchcock movies and this one in particular, love it. Had no idea the stories are so different, Hitchcock took the central idea and flew with it in a different direction. 😂You should really re-watch it if you find the time! :)
P.s. This new intro is better than the previous one, I vote 👍🏻
One of my favorite authors. Thank you Tony.
Perfect. Love the original short story. It’s a Cool, autumn 🍂 afternoon down south USA..
I can't wait to hear this version of the "Birds"!!!
I've never read this---and what little I remember of the film is from about 45 YEARS ago!! lol ~ I did not sleep through this---I loved it and you reading the story is about a million times better than the film (again, what I remember of it). Thanks for this rare good tale on my Friday evening. Loved your comments too, although I've never understood what "sloes" are...must look that up.
Sloes are a berry, I think kind of like a blueberry.
So I dig you talking about whatever you often end up talking about be it " about the author" or whatever, but almost nothing has gotten my attention like you mentioning Hawkwind and Motorhead. Made my day!
Hey, Tony! This is Best Reading in my 73 years, of Daphne Du Maurier! As always the Book is way better and more scary than the movie.
This was a great story.
Your narration is always beautiful.
Sometimes I feel like the stories dont go anywhere or are dry, but this had a great pace and was believable and eerie.
Well done.
The wife asking questions after she heard the same news on the radio that her spouse did. made me laugh. So human. Thank you. I have to tell my brother about my mother being able to hear audio books on You Tube. She is blind and it is sometimes hard to find enough for her to hear.
Ms. Daphne was an amazing writer ❤.
She sure was.
Listened on Stitcher yesterday. First time getting the original, written story!
Tony I've been listening to your pod for a year, and it's become one of my top shows.
Your discussion of a story within the context of literary work AND your psych experiences with patients is really interesting.
The Romanticism(-inspired) stories are some of my favorites. I studied the Schauerliteratur - (German) Gothic lit - in college. 17 years ago. And this brings it all back.
But I love the mix of genre & hope you don't narrow it down too much, as you mentioned recently.
Very happy to have discovered you as an author, as well!
~ Cheers from Arizona & Wisconsin
Wonderful! So much better than the film!
Great story and narration!
She really knew how to write stories in her own dark and unique way. Her stories have a certain feel to them. She sort of keeps us guessing and asking questions!
I love your ramble at the end! Reminds me of picking wild raspberries and blackberries on my parents' property in Pennsylvania each year. They are excellent with some honey and heavy cream!
Tony, i prefer your introduction like this with this music quietly like this in the background. We like you, your voice and personality. Would still like to hear you read some of your own stories. Thanks! Peace
Wow, this was so good! I really enjoyed hearing about your vacation as well.
This is one of my all time favourite books that captivates me every time I read it/listen to it. The narrator is so suiited . and the best I've heard over the years. He has drawn me into the chilling story by portraying a perplexed and mystified character and i sense his foreboding. 🙋
I wish I could give two hearts ♥️ ❤️
Wow! That was fantastic! Love Du Maurier -
One of my favorite movies...very favorite. I've been to Bodega Bay & would luv to make that drive again in from San Francisco. CA is not the same now as when I was there but, I would go there again
I'm a Physical therapy for an hour. So this is perfect ❤️🙏🏼💯
Great reading here Tony. Thanks for doing this one.
Tony..you are just like butter....always on a roll 😊 you da man
Thanks 👍
Thank you! Beautiful reading!
I'm always kind to birds.
I hope, when the time comes, they'll be kind to me.
Most excellent!! Thoroughly enjoyed 😘😘
So glad!
Thanks, Tony! This is one of my favorite short stories, beautifully read as usual. ❤😊
Thanks to you Steven as always for your support
They say that crows are especially good at recognizing human faces and remembering who has been threatening to them etc.
A friend used to shoo them away from his front porch.
After a while, he noticed that they would mob him and dive at his head when he went out to the store.
It got so bad, he needed to wear an aluminum colander on his head just to make it to the car !!
True story. Ask Robert !!
+Renzo I believe it. They say they are very clever . We were watching a flock of starlings taking turns to bathe in a gutter. They were queuing up and when they d had their bath went to joint he others on the roof top
Terrifying! True making of nightmares. Enhanced by your as always masterful narration. Thank you, Tony.
Thank you Marti
That was so good! Thank you.
Excellent! Subscribed to Haunted Places as well and look forward to listening in.
I love your reading of The Birds. I repeat listen all the time.
Wow! Thank you :)
wonderful - thanks
Totally mesmerising!
Lovely, creepy story. Thanks for the update on your holiday.
I enjoy your various accents, and appreciate your attempts at an American accent. I live on the west coast of the US and I think we tend to think that we “don’t have an accent”, especially compared to other parts of of the US. But I guess we all have some kind of accent. I am an Anglophile at heart and I love using other accents. I have found many useful videos on TH-cam. For US accents (and many others), you might check out Erik Singer’s videos. He is a dialect coach and breaks down different accents and discusses, uses, and compares the different sounds in a given accent. He also will have other speech experts and native speakers to really help with hearing how vowels and consonants sound and where/how the syllables and emphasis are in an accent. I know you have a lot on your plate with all the books and recordings, etc. but you might have a listen in a spare moment. Just a thought.
Either way, I really enjoy your readings, even of books I have already read myself.
Wonderful stuff thank you
thank you
You did a fantastic job of reading this wonderful story...thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
You're a great storyteller! The sense of urgency was gripping 😨
Thanks Gwen. I liked this one. Don’t look now by her always had a slow burn. Didn’t zoom up on number of views but was consistent. I’m betting this one willl be too
I loved it. Great job. Loved the accent. I listened to Don’t Look Now last night. I also love your chat at the end. Your voice is lovely and your chat is very natural as if you are sitting with me talking directly to me. Unfortunately I can’t find where to subscribe.
I’d love to hear the Midwitch Cuckoo’s. Such a good book. I read it as a team.
This is an incredible story and narrated well. Thank you. Thanks for explaining what parafin is because I’ve heard it in another story as well and assumed it was wax. Lol. Keep up the great work ❤
Sat in my car listening to this in the supermarket car park surrounded by gulls! Maybe I should skip the big shop this week.
Be careful out there !
Fantastic your some man, appreciate all the work you do for your channel. Keep up the good work.❤❤❤🎉
Thank you so much 😀
I sure love Daphne du Maurier stories. She has a knack for writing characters who are extremely irritating. Rebecca was almost more than I could take, I had to skim through parts of the book. In some ways her characters remind me of Ramsey Campbell's. They both write characters that are muddled, confused, slow of thought, weak and just not with it. She is highly talented.
Rebecca is my favorite Du Maurier novels. What was it about that story that got to you? For me it was the insecurity of the narrator. (Funny, couldn't remember her name, looked it up, she was never named in the story!) Reminded me of Eleanor in Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House.
@@carolrios9216 I love the Haunting of Hill House, so excellent! Yes, it was the insecurity of the character, the way she allowed the housekeeper to bully her is the main one that stands out, it's probably been 35 or 40 years since I read it if I'm remembering right. Now I'm gonna have to go read it again and see if I still get annoyed with her LOL. If she had just stood up for herself she would have fared much better. Did you ever read a book called Alice, by Victoria Holt? If you haven't I don't want to spoil it but I think you'd like it.
@@earndoggy Not that one, but waaay back in the day I must have read a hundred of her books!
@@carolrios9216 I am not sure that was the exact name of it. I'll see if I can figure it out
@@carolrios9216 the title is Mistress of Mellyn. I think it was one of her best novels.
Love you for what you do. 😊
I bloody love ya Tony!
I’m a new subscriber, and I love your content!❤️
Thanks for subbing!
What a great story, what a great voice. Thank you 🤗
Thanks for listening
I loved it! Great story, fantastic narration!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and appreciated the story and narration. It means a lot to me!
I am an audiobook addict and without exaggeration you are my favourite narrator ! @@ClassicGhost
Oh my!
@Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker
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Thanks!
Great reading of a great story. Thank you.
My eyes went wide open when you mentioned Fields of the Nephilim. Love that band. No one much has heard of them in the states .
I keep missing them these days . they still play occasionally. they were at whitby last halloween but i was busy elsewhere
@@ClassicGhost I have liked them since the late eighties. I had a friend who was quite goth play me Last exit for the lost. He had stolen the album that it's on. It was a perfect goth tune. Anyways not surprising I like Gothic tales. Thank again.
Thanks. I meant to say more than thanks. That just happened automatically. ❤️❤️
Saw movie when it first came out. Like PSYCHO it stayed with you for a very long time.
Your narration was amazing and spellbinding as usual.
I loved that movie
❤️ to listen to you reading it too
Loved this tho I admit I was expecting it to be like the film but I did really enjoy it 🥰
Listening under the March Full Moon…
This a fantastic story.. i read this many years ago..she is a superb writer...thank you for reading this
Thanks for listening
When I moved to London back in the day when you could feed the 'rats with wings' in Trafalgar Square, I couldn't help but think of that film...those vermin pooing on me then eating out my eyes or something. Thank you Alfred Hitchcock.... You have the best voice for this....I'm locking myself in the house in case I get poo-ed on or get my eyes 👀 eaten out. 😜
This is the movie is why I'm in love w ravens.
True, I think, re: the use of short stories-to-film rather than novels (with exceptions, of course). First knew this story via a live television version done (in the US) in the mid-to-latter 50's. More frightening than the filmed version. Birds make for a strange menace/odd choice. Birds are wonderful creatures and not very scary as source for terror.
Great story and lovly reading! Your voice is really handsome and works well, I'm subbing.
Thanks :)
Fantastic Tony: I am an acting/voiceover coach and I have to say this is top rate narration. I have always loved Daphne du Maurier as Rebecca is my favorite novel. I had never heard the original manuscript for the Birds .... this was a great treat from me. Thanks. Such a vivid writer... The book even seems more creepy terrifying than the masterpiece Hitchcock movie. I was recently on a short excursion trip to Northern California and while I was in Eureka near the cliffs looking out to the Pacific I saw a huge swarm of birds....literally must have been over 250 gulls. It seemed creepy .. But I'm always been a Gothic Romantic at heart. Perfect late night listening by candlelight with a cup of Victorian London Fog.
Do you do online coaching ?
EXCELLENT
I have loved Hitchcock eversince I was 12 or 13 and saw psycho. Of course, later in life I discovered that many of his films were books first. I have seen the birds, I think, 3 times. And as much as I am a traditionalist. The colorized version of The Birds seems to pack a stronger punch. The short story here is expertly told/ performed. And l enjoyed in a lot of ways much more than the film.
Flim was really good the book had my imagination explode excellant writing ✍
Thanks very much for posting this excellent reading. I discovered this story as a grade schooler many, many years ago, and it's been one of my favorite stories since then.
Have you listened to Peter Capaldi's reading of The Birds? It's fantastic, very well done, too.
+@faithcastillo9597 I saw Peter Capaldi once at the Pizza Express near the British Museum. He has a great talent
I loved this! But I kept wondering whether these people had basements or more likely in the countryside cellars.
Hmm. I think of steps down to a stone walled room possible with stone flags on the floor, or maybe just earth
Bravo
Read this short story many years ago, people think Hitch wrote it the way the film was billed 😆 still enjoyed both, I suppose the film is due for a remake, hmmm
Wow, I love the hypnotic effect of here subtle rhyming. I wonder if she can sustain it? Whenever I do that I become quite a slave to the bloody rhyme, and then the things take off into utterly unintended, alien grounds, often which I can’t abide.
Oh, and this was originally first, but:
Yes, I indeed quite fancied the new intro piano.
Now I’m speaking more and more British. It’s freaking me TFO.
We don’t say things like “fancy” or “fancied”, unless were trying to be weird. My friend used to watch AbFab, he was a real pain in the ass with that shit, for a while, too.
;) x)
The new intro eh.
What a relief!
After seeing "The Birds" movie, I always thought that it could have been done better; that the motives of the director got in the way of what was a decent plot.
And there we go, there was a great, very disturbing story behind it.
It is truly tragic. Especially if you feel anything for the poor birds and cows. Or really feel for the great human loss.
Thanks Tony.
I can't find the Haunted places link though. If you could put it in a reply...
Oh I. I will subscribe!
As long as you will provide the link.
I know I'll be online...
😂 👍🏼🔻🇦🇺
+April Wakefield glad you liked it April. Here is Haunted Places. Thanks in advance for subscribing! th-cam.com/channels/prCE02DXiC1f3chbtnZFqQ.html
Yay!
Thanks.
One more on the way to 1000+
Best line of the book: "there was room for Jill if she crouched on top of the petrol cans in the back seat". Oy!