Actually,
he meant everyone involved in the manufacture of dairy products – but did you
know how cartography & archaeology make this such a brilliant many-layered
joke? And which film-director cast his
own mother as the Virgin Mary?
Fellow
Cumbrian author Ken Powell & I explore these questions and the very best Easter-themed
fiction and film in the latest edition of our podcast For Whom The Bell Tools –
https://youtu.be/jNjtcHt0yJ4?si=jE3sYpvzqonMONrP
We look at
authors as diverse as Athony Burgess, Nikos Kazantsakis and AL Kennedy – and delve
into the works of film-makers such as Scorsese, Pasolini & Zeffirelli. And of course we also talk about historical
detective fiction The Judas
Case.
And there’s
also a wide hinterland of Easter-themes fiction and film. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find
out more, but once you’ve done so, here are some links to the works we discuss –
and quite a few that got away, but will no doubt be the subject of future
editions –
Fiction for
Easter:
MAN OF
NAZARETH – ANTHONY BURGESS, MCGRAW GILL 1979
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Man-Nazareth-Burgess-Anthony-McGraw-Hill-Companies/31763490409/bd
THE KINGDOM
OF THE WICKED – ANTHONY BURGESS, ARBOR, 1985
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Wicked-Abacus-Anthony-Burgess/dp/0349104395
THE LAST
TEMPTATION – NIKOS KAZANTSAKIS, SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1998 – GK ORIGINAL 1960
(POSTHUMOUS)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Temptation-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/0571178561
PARADISE – AL KENNEDY, VINTAGE, 2005
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paradise-L-Kennedy/dp/0099433494
BEHOLD THE MAN – MICHAEL MOORCOCK, SF MASTEROWKRS, 1999
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1857988485
& of course:
THE JUDAS CASE – NICHOLAS GRAHAM, BOOK GUILD, 2022
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judas-Case-Nicholas-Graham/dp/191512252X
&
https://bookguild.co.uk/bookshop/historical/the-judas-case
And here are some
that got away -
THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST – JOSE SARAMAGO, TRANS GIOVANNI PONTIERO, 1994
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gospel-According-Jesus-Christ-Panther/dp/1860466842
THE LIAR’S GOSPEL – NAOMI ALDERMAN, VIKING, 2012
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Liars-Gospel-author-Baileys-Fiction/dp/0670919918
THE SHADOW OF THE GALILEAN – GERD THIESSEN, trans JOHN
BOWDEN, SCM PRESS, 1987
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Galilean-Classics-Gerd-Theissen-ebook/dp/B005IGDEL8
THE GOSPEL OF CORAX – PAUL PARK, HARCOURT BRACE, 1996
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gospel-Corax-Paul-Park/dp/0156005174
BEN HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST – LEW WALLACE, 1880
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben-Wordsworth-Classics-Lewis-Wallace/dp/1853262838
THE TESTAMENT OF MARY, COLM TOIBIN, VIKING, 2012
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Testament-Mary-Colm-T%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn/dp/0241962978
ROBERT GRAVES – KING JESUS,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Jesus-Penguin-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B00666V52Y
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA – MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, 1966-73,
VINTAGE CLASSICS 2010, TRANS MICHAEL GLENNY
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Margarita-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099540940
THE HUMAN CHRIST – CHARLOTTE ALLAN, THE FREE PRESS, 1998
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Christ-Search-Historical-Jesus/dp/0745942350
And some Easter Bank holiday epics:
JESUS OF NAZARETH – FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI (1977)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00IB7KCOI
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST – MEL GIBSON
https://www.netflix.com/watch/60031422
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST – MARTIN SCORSESE
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0DN8C61SM
BEN HUR – WILLIAM
WYLER
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0CWDKBNQQ
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR – NORMAN JEWISON, 1973
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00FZ8JZBC
(BONUS: Script by Greatest Living Cumbrian Melvyn Bragg)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0CKT2D23B
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW – PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0DNV8SXS3
LA RICOTTA – PIER
PAOLO PASOLINI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8tOMYGWWo
And of course -
MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN, 1979
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0DJBBL2MN
A very happy Easter to you all.