Branagh

/ ˈbrænə /

noun

1. Sir Kenneth . born 1961, British actor and director, born in Northern Ireland. He founded the Renaissance Theatre Company in 1986. His films include Henry V (1989), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Hamlet (1997), and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

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Along with letters, memoirs, speeches, pamphlets and newspaper extracts read by a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Kenneth Branagh, Morgan Freeman, Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Edward Norton, Michael Keaton, Laura Linney, Craig Ferguson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Damian Lewis, Keith David and Paul Giamatti, once again suiting up as John Adams, they present a complex picture of a story often obscured in red, white and blue certainties.

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As an audio experience, the main thing to know is that the body of the book is read by Kenneth Branagh, at 64 a somewhat younger theatrical great who has a voice so silky and supple that he can shift easily from delivering a passage of Shakespeare in Standard English to producing dialect in the accents of Wales, working-class East London and, most amusingly, the U.S.

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Mr. Branagh can be a bit of a ham—to me, it’s one of his charms—and his imitations of the author’s celebrity acquaintances, not least Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne, made me laugh out loud.

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Mr. Branagh also has a lot of fun rolling through the diphthongs in Hannibal Lecter’s notorious line, “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

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If you are one who thinks that Mr. Branagh puts a little too much egg in his pudding, this recording may not be for you, but those who relish the actor’s command and range will find Mr. Hopkins’s story in “We Did OK, Kid” both riveting and moving.

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