If you want a real treat then, get the soundtrack for "Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds". Richard Burton did the narration for the musical and it was just outstanding ... it gives me the chills to listen to him and the music. He opens the narration and then, at 4:55, picks up the narration again.
Thanks for sending me that link. Actually, I’ve used Burton’s narration for a cheesy video I made for the Fringe Festival here in town:
http://www.blindeyejones.com/Video/videos.html
I really like Burton and didn’t know he had read the Rime of The Ancient Mariner with John Neville... but I see it now on Youtube. My favorite Burton movie is Boom even though it got panned by the press. Reviewers have described it as camp but I see it as the normal course of events if you lived the life a poet — perhaps not that different than a Ken Russell film. Poets live extraordinary, over-the-top lives. Playing an existential angel of death and conquering a beautiful heiress in Sardinia is a far cry from what goes on in suburbia. There are a lot of good Burton/Taylor films — some stinkers like Faust — but that one is my favorite.