Greece: 3. Kefallonia

Playlist: texts read and music played

1. Song: Mia Morfi Nisiotissa, sung by Irini Konitopoulou
2. Lord Byron at Metaxata, summer 1823
3. Byron’s confession to his friend Kennedy
4. Traditional instrumental piece: Ximeroni (The Day Breaks)
5. Byron: ‘So we’ll go no more a-roving…’
6. Byron: ‘My days are in the yellow leaf…’ (Jan 22, 1824)
7. Rupert Brooke: ‘The Soldier’
8. Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite no.2: Lever du jour (Daybreak)
9. Byron: ‘The Isles of Greece’ (from Canto 3, ‘Don Juan’)
10. Odysseus Elytis: The Genesis, from Axion Esti (in English translation, then the original Greek)
11. Louis de Bernieres: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (extracts read by James Wilby)
12. Mikis Theodorakis: To Yelasto Pedi (The Smiling Boy), sung by Maria Farandouri
13. Theodorakis: melody of ‘To Yelasto Pedi’ (Music from the film ‘Z’, 1969, dir. Costa Gavras)