【Peter Baumgartner】

2025-06-26 14:39:39 205 views 9764 comments

Watch: Kipling on Peter BaumgartnerTruth in Writing, 1933

By Sadie Stein

Video & Multimedia

We are grateful to Open Culture for drawing our attention to this rare film of Rudyard Kipling. From 1933, it shows the sixty-seven-year-old author giving a speech to the Royal Society of Literature (and guests from the Canadian Authors’ Association) at Claridge’s. “We who use words enjoy a peculiar privilege over our fellows,” observes the voice of the (already-fading) British Empire.

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