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Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw37g39g00

Thank you! Everything I'd hoped.

I too would like a recording. Until then, soak in each line, seek the cadence of delivery and imagine, as he asks us to do in his lecture,

"...before I go any further I’d like to paint some pictures. Think of them as tableaux vivants played onto a screen at the back of your mind."

I know how to model a speaker's delivery; I find I lack the skill to model his.

I share this. I quickly grow irritated by Fry’s elaborate language when in written form.

Like any skillful rhetorician, he constructs with an eye toward the intended medium. When that's prose, it reads a lot more smoothly than here.

That's right: his books are very readable.

(With a couple of his novels I felt that if he had made them a bit less entertaining and a bit more pretentious and if he weren't already famous as an actor and comedian then probably they would be taken seriously as "literary fiction". I'm thinking of "The hippopotamus" in particular.)

The speech was given 4 days ago. Video may still be released.

There's a text2speech with a Stephen Fry option. I do not have it, but it must exist.

As well suggest that, hungry for a meal, I visit the nearest toilet.