St Andrews (1): History, Ghosts and Witches

Playlist: texts read & music played

1. Andrew Lang: St Andrews by the Northern Sea
2. Robert Crawford: I love how….
3. John Johnstoun: from ‘Poemata’
4. Tacitus, from ‘Agricola’, section 30
5. Walter Scott: from ‘Marmion’, Canto 1, v.29
6. Runrig: ‘Alba’ (sung in Gaelic)
7. Vaughan Williams: ‘Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis’
8. Aberdeen Weekly, Feb 9, 1894
9. W.T. Linskill: ‘St Andrews Ghost Stories’ (1921)
10. Theodor Fontane: ‘Die Bruecke am Tay’
11. Schubert: ‘Die Stadt’ (from ‘Schwanengesang’)
12. H.W. Meikle: ‘The Story of Scotland’
13. Pierre de Boscose Chatelard: ‘If they doom be flame…’
14. Pierre Ronsard: from ‘Hymn to Death’
15. Extracts from speeches by John Knox
16. Mary Queen of Scots on leaving her library to the University
17. ‘L’Amour de Moi….’ (anonymous 16th.c. French song)
18. R.F. Murray: ‘Winter in St Andrews’
19. George Buchanan: two Poems
20. James Macmillan: ‘The Confession of Isobel Gowdie’ (a Requiem)