06.12.2021 - Birds of Spring (Cuckoo, Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale) Playlist: texts read & music played:- 1. Song of Blackbird 2. Heine/ Schumann: ‘Im wunderschönen Monat Mai…’ (from Buch der Lieder, 1827/ Dichterliebe, 1840) 3. ‚Sumer is...
06.12.2021 - ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman Playlist: texts read & Music played 1. Interviews with Amanda Gorman 2. Miles Davis: A Kind of Blue 3. ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman (at Inauguration, Jan 20, 2021) 4....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Poem to Stanislaw Wyspianki 2. Alpine Folk Music 3. Letter February 4, 1920 4. ‘The Sister of the Baroness’ (from ‘In a German pension’): an extract 5....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (1) 1888-1923 Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘To the Edge of the Earth’ (from ‘The Piano’) 2. from Mansfield: Prelude, 1917 3. from Mansfield: The Voyage (1921) 4. ‘Big my Secret’...
16.09.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes Tour (3): from the Stanbergersee to the Achensee Texts and music played: Thomas Mann: diary entry May 1919 Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg — Die Fuelle des Wohllauts Schubert: Der Lindenbaum (from Die Winterreise) Saint-Saens: The...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes CycleTour 1 From Scharnitz to Benediktbeuren… Texts read & music played: D.H. Lawrence: Bavarian Gentians (1927) Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel (1900) Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany (1944) Weber:...
16.09.2019 - Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands Texts read & music played: Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‘ (1967) Tony Robinson: Odysseus — The Greatest Hero of Them All Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope) Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba...
24.07.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
15.07.2019 - Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu Texts read & music played: Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands Kostis Palamas: Corfu Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‘This island’s mine…’) Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4...
