22.04.2025 - Texts read & music played Rudyard Kipling: ‘On the Road to Mandalay’ Leonard Woolf: ‘Growing’ Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) George Bernard Shaw on Ceylon in the 1930s Mathew Arnold: film...
07.04.2025 - Trust by Hernan Diaz This month‘s novel is Trust by Hernan Diaz, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Best-Seller. Hernan Diaz is an Argentinian/American writer. His first novel In The Distance, was a finalist for...
24.03.2025 - 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...
24.03.2025 - King Arthur (Purcell/ Dryden) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Leslie Alcock: ‘Arthur’s Britain’ (1971 & 1989) 2. John Dryden/ Henry Purcell: ‘King Arthur’ – ‘Fairest Isle’ 3. Act 1: Overture, Air, Overture 4. Act...
05.02.2025 - Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang This month‘s novel is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, an American novelist, who has a degree in international economics and graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and University College,...
03.02.2025 - Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang This month‘s novel is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, an American novelist, who has a degree in international economics and graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and University College,...
20.01.2025 - Disappearing Earth by Julia Philipps Disappearing Earth, (2019), is the first novel from an American author, Julia Phillips. The book was a finalist for the 2019 US National Book Award for Fiction. It was also named one of The New York Times Top...
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17.12.2024 - Maigret and Edith Piaf Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Jean Claude Pascal: L’Aventure 2. Gazette des Tribunaux, from Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille 4. Georges Simenon: Maigret et...
09.12.2024 - Traction Citroën: Poetry in Motion? PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Georgel: Sous les Ponts de Paris 2. Jean Sablon: Sur les Quais du Vieux Paris 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille (also sung by Catherine Sauvage, Zizi Jeanmaire, Juliette...
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