Benedict Cumberbatch (left) Tilda Swinton and Stephen Fry are among the people taking part in a project called the Moby Dick Big Read. Photos by Stuart Wilson/Getty Images, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images and Frazer Harrison/Getty Images For BAFTA Los Angeles.
In other whale-related matters, The Moby Dick Big Read is an online project that was commissioned by the University of Plymouth, and created by writer Philip Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne, to draw attention to the book itself, and to the dangers facing whales and dolphins these days.
People who listen to the chapters are asked to consider making a donation to Whale and Dolphin Conservation.
When the project is completed, it will have put all 135 chapters of Moby Dick on the Internet.
Chapter 1, Loomings, read by actress Tilda Swinton, went up on Sept. 16, 2012. Since then, a new chapter has been added each day. The most recent one, as I write, is Chapter 33: The Specksynder, read by Cheryl Hurrell.
Actor, author and director Stephen Fry reads Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend. Other participants include British Prime Minster David Cameron, singer Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, Captain R. N. Hone, and other faculty members at Britain’s University of Plymouth, which commissioned the project, novelist and playwright Nigel Williams, Witi Ihimaera of New Zealand, the author of Whale Rider, U.S. filmmaker and actor John Waters, New Yorker blogger and copy-editor Mary Norris, and several residents of Provincetown, Mass., a town which once depended on the whaling industry.
While Benedict Cumberbatch’s Chapter 58: Brit, won’t be up on the project’s page until Nov. 2, it was made available earlier, to the Radio Times, presumably because his popularity would help draw attention to the project. You can hear him by clicking on what looks like a video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HLMtzGTntzE
READ MORE: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/10/18/benedict-cumberbatch-stephen-fry-whales-moby-dick-and-google-in-the-news-together/
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