Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus: Complete & Unabridged, Moab is My Washpot [Стивен Фрай, 2003 - 2005, Fiction, 64 kbps, M4B, ENG]

Сти́вен Джон Фрай (англ. Stephen John Fry; род. 24 августа 1957) — английский комический актёр, писатель и драматург, известность которому принесли прежде всего роли в британских комедийных телесериалах (особенно «Чёрная Гадюка» (1985—1989 гг.) и «Дживс и Вустер» (1990—1993 гг.)), бывших одними из многих работ творческого союза Фрая и Хью Лори. За пределами Великобритании Фрай лучше всего знаком по роли Оскара Уайльда в фильме «Уайльд» (1997).
Стивен Фрай в Великобритании почитаем как человек, сумевший сделать себя носителем эталонного английского духа. Он отличается уникальным, необыкновенно изысканным классическим английским выговором и считается носителем безупречного английского языка.
Телевидение и кинематограф
В 1987 году на экраны вышел первый выпуск юмористической передачи Стивена Фрая и Хью Лори «Шоу Фрая и Лори». Полная (за восемь лет существования шоу) коллекция DVD на русском языке вышла в 2007 году. С 2003 года ведет юмористическую викторину «QI» («Quite Interesting»). Фрай принимал участие и в создании серьёзных телепередач, в том числе посвященных депрессии и СПИДy.
Фрай многократно выражал свое восхищение Пэлемом Вудхаузом и Дугласом Адамсом (с которым он дружил). Он сыграл главную роль в фильме «Уайльд», а также Дживса в сериале «Дживс и Вустер»; записал аудиокнигу «Гарри Поттер» (7 частей), а также аудиокнигу «Автостопом по галактике» и читает текст за кадром в одноименном фильме. Кроме того, Фрай говорит голосом рассказчика в первых пяти частях видеоигры о Гарри Поттере.
Литература
В 1992 году вышел роман с автобиографическими элементами «The Liar» (Сергей Ильин, известный как переводчик американского Набокова, создал русскую версию — «Лжец»), имевший успех как у публики, так и у критиков. В 1994 последовала история циничного престарелого поэта-бабника и религиозного мальчика, верящего в свои потусторонние способности.
«The Hippopotamus» («Гиппопотам») 1994.
«Making History» («Как творить историю»), альтернативно-исторический философский роман о национал-социализме 1997.
«The Stars’ Tennis Balls» («Теннисные мячики небес»)2001 — современная версия Монте-Кристо.
Фрай также является автором документальной прозы и эссе:
Paperweight (1992, сборник статей, не переведен)
«Моя автобиография, или Моав — умывальная чаша моя» (англ. Moab Is My Washpot , 1997, автобиография, перевод Сергея Ильина, издательство «Фантом-Пресс», 2007)
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (2005, учебник стихосложения, не переведен)
«Неполная и окончательная история классической музыки» (англ. Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music, 2005, перевод Сергея Ильина, издательство «Фантом-Пресс», 2007)
Книга всеобщих заблуждений (2008) [1][2]
Кроме того, он написал несколько пьес и сценариев.

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the panel comedy trivia show, QI. He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and an autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot. He has also presented his 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 states in six episodes.
Television
Fry's career in television began with the 1982 broadcasting of The Cellar Tapes, the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue which was written by Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. The revue caught the attention of Granada Television, who, keen to replicate the success of the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News, hired Fry, Laurie and Thompson to star alongside Ben Elton in There's Nothing to Worry About! A second series, re-titled Alfresco, was broadcast in 1983 and a third in 1984; it established Fry and Laurie's reputation as a comedy double act. In 1983, the BBC offered them their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mock documentary that was axed after the first episode. Undeterred, Fry and Laurie appeared in an episode of The Young Ones in 1984, and Fry in Ben Elton's 1985 series, Happy Families. In 1986 and 1987 Fry and Laurie also performed sketches on the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live.
Forgiving Fry and Laurie for The Crystal Cube, the BBC commissioned a sketch show in 1986 that was to become A Bit of Fry and Laurie. The programme ran for 26 episodes spanning four series between 1986 and 1995, and was very successful. During this time Fry starred in Blackadder II as Lord Melchett, made a guest appearance in Blackadder the Third as the Duke of Wellington, then returned to a starring role in Blackadder Goes Forth as General Melchett. In 1988, he became a regular contestant on the popular improvisational comedy radio show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. However, when it moved to television, he only appeared three times: twice in the first series and once in the ninth.
Between 1990 and 1993, Fry starred as Jeeves (alongside Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster, 23 hour-long adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse's novels and short stories.
In 2000, Fry played the role of Professor Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast which was an adaptation of the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series.
Literature
Since the publication of his first novel, The Liar, Fry has written three additional novels, several non-fiction works and an autobiography, all of which have been much acclaimed by critics.[citation needed] Making History is partly set in an alternative universe where Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a rather more effective Führer. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. The Hippopotamus centres around Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. The Stars' Tennis Balls describes the life of Edward (Ned) Maddstone, and is very similar to The Count of Monte Cristo, by Fry's own admission.
Fry's book, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, is a guide to writing poetry. In the United Kingdom, he is a well-known narrator of audiobooks, notably the Harry Potter series. He has recorded audio versions of works by Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, A. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge and Douglas Adams, as well as several of his own books.
When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under an alias, Williver Hendry, editor of A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey, a field close to Fry's heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. His blog attracted over 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks of existence.Films and screenplays
Bright Young Things (2003)
The Magic Flute (libretto[1])
Dambusters (2010)
Musicals
Me and My Girl (adapted Lupino Lane's script) (1984)
Novels
The Liar (1992) (in which Donald Trefusis is a character)
The Hippopotamus (1994)
Making History (an example of alternate history) (1997) Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History
The Stars' Tennis Balls (as Revenge: A Novel in the United States) (Fry's take on The Count of Monte Cristo story (2000))
Other books
Paperweight (collection of articles) (1992), including, among others, some of the "wireless essays" supposedly by professor Donald Trefusis.
Moab is My Washpot (autobiography) (1997)
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian Diary (2002)
Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music (2004) (with Tim Lihoreau)
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (2005)
Stephen Fry in America (2008)
Plays
Latin! (or Tobacco and Boys.) (1979, included in Paperweight). Winner of the Fringe First at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival.
A pantomime version of Cinderella performed at the Old Vic at Christmas in 2007.[2]
Published television scripts
A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1990)
A Bit More Fry & Laurie (1991)
3 Bits of Fry & Laurie (1992)
Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)

23/03/09 - "The Hippopotamus"
12/04/09 - "Moab is My Washpot"