13.06.2022 - Paradise (1994), by Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between...
13.06.2022 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), by Jeanette Winterson “Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.” ‘This is the story of Jeanette, born to...
13.06.2022 - Interview with Meriel Schindler In a recent Reading Circle programme we introduced the book The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler. Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck...
13.06.2022 - A South Shropshire Spring A.E. Housman: ‘Into my heart…’ Mary Webb: ‘Very Early’ Song of a blackbird ‘The Living Edge: a Wanderer’s Guide to Wenlock Edge’ (National Trust, 2011) John Ireland: ‘Spring will not wait’ (piano solo)...
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13.06.2022 - Ukraine (3): Poems about the war in Ukraine Georg Trakl: Grodek Shakespeare: Hamlet, from Act III, Sc. 1 Alan Maley on IATEFL’s collection of poems on the war in Ukraine John Donne: No man is an island…. Schubert: D960 (Andante sostenuto) Rod...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (2): 19th & 20th centuries From Tolstoy: ‘War and Peace’ (1869) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Testament’ (1845) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Calamity Again’ (1859) Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017)...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (1): Cossacks through Byron, Liszt, and Janacek ‘War Criminal/ Vlad-the-Invader/ Put in Prison’ Ovid: from ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’ Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2016) Mussorgsky/ Ravel: ‘The Great...
28.03.2022 - The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck offered guests a place to socialize, dance and forget the horrors of the First World War and the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. März 2022: Salome (Richard Strauss) R. Strauss: Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils (start) R. Strauss on an early Innsbruck production of Salome Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 14 Marie Wittich on the...
