It's the British. They do that. A fine London gentleman can give you a firm dressing down with insults of ire, and you would thank him very well for it.
@@jimheimerl1637 Some Londoners will also enquire if you are a 'Banker' (I believe that's the term), if you have a problem pertaining to sexual intercourse, and whether you 'want some'... A response at this point to the effect that you are not, in fact, homosexual in orientation (or indeed, are) may be ill advised. Generally in such cases one is actually being asked whether it is 'trouble' that they seek, and reassurances to the enquirer that this is _not_ actually the case, although in almost all cases the wisest course, will often be treated as polite reticence. As with, say, offers of cups of tea, traditional British hospitality demands that such demurrals be waved away, and indeed there is a certain class of Londoner who would feel deeply ashamed were it said of him that he failed to supply a visitor with 'trouble' in the most fulsome and enthusiastic manner possible...
Peter Jones possessed a unique, instantly recognisable voice. A very clever comic actor, with great timing and brilliant, expressive face. What a sad day it was to learn of his death. As I get older, I am reminded often that we lived in a time of true celebrity, true talent and peerless originality. The world of entertainment these days seems to consist of five minute wannabes, many of whose fame stems from some shallow, cheaply produced, reality bilge. We were spoiled rotten in the worlds of film, theatre, music and, although there are still 'greats' who entertain us, they are far fewer and far further between.
ah come on. "true celebrity" This nostalgic bogus. Times change and you change with them or you stay where you were once upon a time. Today you have far more art produced and therefore far more things we both argueably would or will call crap and which hinder us to see the jewels you wish to see.
Modern technology made making media too easy thus everybody and their dog does it. watered down to pap. ditto where every TV show and movie has amazing walls of sound that makes real music redundant in the real world, but thats a comment and view on the mostly dead music industry.
It the laugh he used it always tickled me he was one of a group of actors of his time that can never be replaced luckily school for scoundrels has a few of them
Peter Jones, very simple. Top Bloke. A sublime talent over many years and many formats. Radio, Television, Stage and Films. Sadly missed. Thank you for the pleasure you gave
It's very strange seeing Peter, all my knowledge of him is from listening to Just A Minute and Hitchhiker's Guide. Such a great and funny man, and greatly missed, along with Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo.
I've performed the radio series several times on stage, as The Book, and I think Peter Jones' voice is the one I've studied the most. I love love love his performances.
I was absolutely honoured to meet Peter about 35 years ago. I was getting the book of the scripts signed by as many of the original cast as possible, and while other cast members had me send the book to sign, Peter simply gave me his address in London and invited me to visit. We chatted for ages and he was absolutely wonderful.
We will never see his like again, sadly. He was always a superb addition to the Just a Minute team too. The man was a genius at making us laugh while sounding utterly sincere about being serious.
The best British ironic narrator voice and voice actor that has ever been and there ever will be, Stephen Fry took a leaf out of this guys performance I bet. I have always thought that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV series has never been surpassed, anyone ever think otherwise please inform me and I will check out any new (or old) attempt to do so.
Uploaded 2016. only 124 comments in the eight years since. But it seems to have been pushed to the fore - thankfully - and has been suggested to me. (And many others in the last eight weeks). Always a big fan of his narration, but until seeing this, I didn't realise how effortlessly he makes good comedy. It starts off seemingly dry, then the banging of the headphones sets the tone. Very glad to have seen this. Thanks for uploading. 👍👍👍
Peter Jones narrated the instructions on "how to fly" in my dreams last night. Well, technically it was this morning as far as I can tell and not actually last night when I was, in fact, awake. Here they are, as told from inside of my mind of my dream self but in Peter Jones' voice, pulled out of the dream state by my very effective 32K RAM Memory chip implantation (circa 1982) and presented to you, ,here in full 7-bit ASCII, as transcribed by a jackal: In order to fly, you must have continuous intent to be flying. You can do other things - many things - while you fly, but you have to _continuously intend_ to be flying at that moment. Remember that when you fly, you have to know that gravity is there and parts of your body will succumb to it You'll only reach heights with certain flying methods but most of the time, most of your body will be hanging part of the way down as it might when you're swimming in very deep water but tired. It's best to not fly too high because if you start to second-guess the experience as you're having it, asking "How?" or "Why" or have a moment of incredulous as in, "As if I could cfly lol", you'll begin to fall until you can get your continuous intent to be flying at that moment back. -Instructions to self before flying, standard protocols, revisited in a dream by Kenneth Udut on Feb 20, 2017, just prior to flying.
That's amazing for the Beeb to put something like that in the evening schedule, but what a wonderful find, thanks for the UL. Apart from his smashing voice, what great comedy timing Jones has, really super sharp - a Ledge ;-)
Top actor and one of the best voices in the business. His performance as Kevin Pork as the new Prime Minister with a surprising secret in LWT's "Whoops Apocalypse" was hilarious.
I first saw Peter Jones on TV in the comedy show The Rag Trade, back in the days of live TV well before he was on the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide. The Rag Trade was set in a clothing firm Fenner's Fashions, makers of women's fashion garments. With Peter Jones as Mr. Fenner, that was on the BBC. The Rag Trade was later seen on ITV television, these are available on DVD. I think a few of the BBC show episodes are also on DVD.
"Can we get someone who sounds like Peter Jones ..." This takes me back to Dec 1978 when I turned on Radio 4 by chance and was instantly hooked. Still have the cassette's I recorded off air, and the "beautiful continuity announcements" improvised by the station staff.
Peter Jones, the only and one voice who inspired Kevan Brighting, the Narrator from Stanley Parable. Genius voices that will remain forever in our hearts
I seem to remember Peter Jones playing a factory manager in a very early BBC sit com called 'The Rag Trade'. Also has an excellent cameo part in The Buldog Breed with Norman Wisdom.
For years I always mentally credited that to the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Why they never credited The Eagles or Bernie Leadon for it was always a bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps they assumed it was sufficiently well known that to specifically credit would be superfluous?
@@richiehoyt8487 Radio credits on-air must be brief. Pre-web there wasn't anywhere else to publicly list credits. In those days you could post a letter to the BBC requesting a program transcript or other information and get a reply.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a> Arthur Dent is played by Simon Jones, Ford Prefect by David Dixon, Mr. Prosser by Joe Melia, Vogon Captain by Martin Benson.
This was to warm up the audience prior to the screening of the show in an attempt to get a laugh track. As they say on the HHGTTG doco, they didn't end up using it, which was a Good Thing.
If there was an announcement with instructions and advice regarding the public non human, extraterrestrial alien invasion of the UK in the 1980s and 1990s it should have had the voice of Peter Jones.
@@joefish6091 Some very interesting commentary recently - the 'liberal' press using identity politics - part (vacuous) virtue signalling, part Machiavellian endeavour to drive political illiterati still farther Right. It isn't difficult to weigh the Beeb's true ethics - look for the coverage on Assange! Or any other subject matter that really matters.
No, it wasn't taped over, one of the rare occasions at that time that they came to their senses and kept it intact. Although the rare original recordings of episode 3, where on exiting the Heart Of Gold on Magrathea, Marvin hummed like Pink Floyd, sang the Beatles' Rock 'n' Roll Music and then went into Thus Spake Zarathustra, were excised from the tapes because the Beeb were too f***in' tight to stump up the cash for the rights to those pieces - those tapes still exist in the BBC archive (and as the archivist for the appreciation society, I still have the off air recordings from the original broadcast!) The original versions are still broadcast on the BBC World Service whenever they run repeats of the series, but the edited versions still are the only ones to be aired on any other station (Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, local stations, etc), as well as the numerous reissues of the series on CD. Iniquitous!
It's Kevin Jon Davies who made the "Making of Hitchhiker's Guide" documentary in 1993, and also helped with all the animations of the book entries in the 1980s TV show.
