Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner combine their usual two shows to create a special edition for this years Women’s Day.

Poetry Café – poems by and about women

Playlist (texts read & music played)

1. Statements by Ljudmila Nawalnaya and Julia Nawalnaya.
MUSIC – Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
2. Shakespeare: from The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing
MUSIC – Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
3. Wendy Cope:  Bloody Men, Spring Onions, Loss, Advice to Young Women
MUSIC – Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
4. Fleur Adcock: Things
5. Carol Ann Duffy: Recognition
6. Emily Dickinson: Wild Nights- Wild Nights!
7. Wendy Cope: Emily Dickinson
8. Taylor Swift: Red
9. Christina Rossetti: The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
10. Emily Brontë: Stanza
MUSIC- Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
11. Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
MUSIC – Tina Turner: Help
12. Sylvia Plath: Mirror, Poppies in July
13. Charlotte Mew: The Quiet House
14. Gertrude Stein:  from Sacred Emily – Rose is a rose is a rose….
15. Dorothy Parker: One Perfect Rose
MUSIC- Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose

Reading Circle – literature by and about women

Books featured and music played:

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, published in 1817
• Music: Mr Beveridge’s Maggott, an 18th Century dance tune.
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, published in 2011
• Music: Japanese Flute Music
• A Place of Execution by Val McDermid, published in 1999
• Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, published in 1995
• Music: Song for the Sacred Elements by Chenoa Egawa and Alex Turtle
• Educated by Tara Westover, published in 2018
• Music: Moving in Circles by Alana Simonetta

More books by and about women that Andrew & Sandra have read in the Reading Circle and can recommend:

• Assembly by Natasha Brown (set in London)
• Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (set in Scotland)
• An Angel at my Table by Janet Fram (set in New Zealand)
• The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler (set in Austria)
• A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd (set in Germany)
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (set in Zimbabwe and the USA)
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (set in Cyprus)
• Love Marriage by Monica Ali (set in London)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (set in the UK)
• Faye’s War by Catherine Bailey, formerly published as The Lost Boys (set in Italy, Germany and Austria)
• The Nine by Gwen Strauss (set in Germany)

Eine Sendung von Andrew und Sandra Milne-Skinner