Thank you Martha , for your presence and written words at the pivot points of history . Glad you still had a sparkle in your eyes in this interview , after all the trauma's you had to endure in your life . Whish i would have met you and debated with you . Rest in peace . Erwin , Belgium .

She is amazing. Absolutely one of my heroes. I can't get enough of her writing. Thanks for posting this.

@vincenzogael5483

3 жыл бұрын

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@damianmelvin5401

3 жыл бұрын

@Vincenzo Gael Definitely, have been using InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

@orionjonas4455

3 жыл бұрын

@Vincenzo Gael Definitely, have been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)

Her work is beautiful and eternal

Thank you so much for uploading this! I am a great admirer of Martha and haven't seen this interview before. :)

IMagine Gayle King doing an interview like this. I had a brief encounter iwth Jeremy Issacs at BAFTA one evening. Had not seen his interview work. Had I seen this or any other of his interviews I would have knelt down and bowed before him. So well done, so very well done! Bravo!!

A great woman.

I just watched the Ken Burns Hemingway documentary and came away fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Meryl Streep played her brilliantly. Thank you for the upload.

@christopherp.hitchens3902

2 жыл бұрын

My goodness, what an echo-chamber! Gellhorn speaks of Dachau with horror. The cruelty of it all. Dachau was “So organized, so dedicated to the skeletonizing of life”, she said here. Yet, on a regular basis she shot to pieces hundreds of innocent animals for entertainment, blithely reloading for the next lion or elephant. Nearly always with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. If this is an ugly thing in a man, why then not for a woman? What fabulous hypocrisy! If animals could write, would she be seen as the dynamic, feisty, independent woman? Or, just a Nazi of a different kind?

Great respect: stunning interview

Brilliant interviewer

Her British accent is very marked, like that of Eleanor Roosevelt. It makes me think that until the Second World War, upper class Americans spoke in a way that has now been totally lost.

@Inge-99

2 жыл бұрын

She lived in the UK for many years, that also could have influenced her accent.

@andrewgibbon-williams7974

Жыл бұрын

I think you are on to something here. There seems to be a tradition of intellectual Americans adopting the English accent. Many examples. I just can't see why this should be the case. Many Americans speak far better English than the native-born - like me. I suppose it must be some kind of historical cultural cringe. Totally unwarranted.

And another thing... I met Jeremy Isaacs once. Seemed to me a ' Big I AM'. That said, this kind of interview marks a high point of BBC TV; it is no longer, sad to say.

I kept getting fired from jobs because I was no good at them lol 😂 she's great

Absolutely fascinating woman and I enjoyed viewing this interview in her later life. Guess Hemingway was off limits which was my only disappointment.

@marknewton6984

2 ай бұрын

She picked up Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's.

Martha confided in me about "the great sense of urgency" she found in my letter to her in Belize when the Wall came down ~ I find it very singular as a thermometer about what has gone on in American journalism that CMU and Lapham's crowd mocked me laughing, "Urgent! Urgent!" and extorted the letter for a gang later arrested on a 6 million dollar museum heist. Her judgment was accurate but her attentions failed to help me. I was brutally tortured and permanently injured in fact poisoned again after that still as Richard Crane put it her "opening up" to me is really something. She was a humdinger.

Martha Gellhorn, Presente! "If you close your eyes, stop your ears, shut your mouth and take it slow, let others take the lead while you bring up the rear, later you can say you didn't know" Peggy Seeger, A Song of Choice - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYaXzcaPqbKsj9I.html

Wow

Lucky her to have had parents who did not hamper her from using her ability.

Sure this woman was wonderful; a true humanitarian. BUT... having just read her 3 African short stories, I must say she was a dreadful writer. Clumsy Anglo-American English - poor grammar - pretentious to an extreme - I reckon she had gained such a reputation that nobody dared tell her what awful prose she was trying to write. Mind you, she was far better than many of her ilk. I do like her, of course. She has a heart.

@siggifreud812

Жыл бұрын

like EH said: "all that ambition"......

We ARE living in the 1000 year Reich!