Texts read & music played

1. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Prélude
2. V. Ganeshananthan: Hole-in-the-Heart
3. Advert for Brides, Sunday Observer, March 2 2025
4. ‘Colonel Bogey’ whistled (from The Bridge on the River Kwai)
5. Dire Straits: Tunnel of Love
6. Coleridge: Kubla Khan (adapted)
7. 1930s brochure for the Mount Lavinia Hotel
8. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Nadir: Je crois entendre encore
9. Horace Walpole: The Three Princes of Serendip
10. Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon (cf. BBC: Desert Island Discs)
11. Robert Knox: An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon (1681)
12. Comedian Harmonists: Tea for Two (1934)
13. Sri Lankan Tom-Tom Drums (from Kandyan Dance Festival)
14. Leonard Woolf: The Village in the Jungle (1913)
15. Advert for ‘English Spoken’ (Sunday Observer,  March 2 2025)
16. Malan Bandara Kapuwatha: The Souvenir Shop….
17. Tom-Tom Drums (Oak-Ray Kandyan Dancers)
18. Headline ‘Veteran Kandyan Dancer’s Death’ (Sunday Times, March 2 2025)
19. Celebrating Sri Lanka
20. Entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica on Sri Lankan Culture
21. Yepuli Neriah: Island Beat of Sri Lanka
22. I had a little nut-tree (nursery rhyme)
23. Graffiti on the Mirror Wall at Sigiriya
24. Sri Lankan Traditional Music, based on the Gajaga Wannama
25. D.H. Lawrence: Elephant (1922)
26. George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant (1935)
27. Indian Elephant trumpeting
28. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Nadir & Zurga: C’est toi….Au fond du temple saint