13.12.2018 - Death of Wilfred Owen, November 1918 Texts read and Music played: Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive Wilfred Owen: Futility Benjamin Britten: War Requiem — Move him… & Lacrimosa Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Benjamin Britten:...
13.12.2018 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: Extracts from travelogues by: Seton Gordon Alexander Nicolson Alexander Smith Ratcliffe Barnett Thomas Nicol Walter Scott J.J. Bell H.V. Morton J.A. MacCulloch A.C. Swinburne Dr Johnson R.L. Stevenson...
15.10.2018 - ‘Brooklyn’ (2009) by Colm Toibin “In the US there would be plenty of work for someone like you, and with good pay.” It is Ireland in the early 1950s, and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce....
15.10.2018 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Texts read and Music played: Letter from Stevenson to his mother, Oct 1874 Vaughan Williams, The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel (Stevenson) “I travel not to go anywhere, but...
15.10.2018 - Paris: poems and chansons Texts read and music played: Musette (accordeons): ça, c’est Paris! Baudelaire: Les Yeux des Pauvres, from Le Spleen de Paris (Petits Poѐmes en Prose, 1864) Baudelaire: Recueillement, transl. Meditation Debussy:...
10.09.2018 - Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince Texts read and music played: Hesketh Pearson: In Gaol (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Hesketh Pearson: Escape to France (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Film Review of The Happy Prince (2018), dir. Rupert Everett Oscar...
04.09.2018 - Debussy’s Prélude à l’Aprѐs-midi d’un faune Texts read and music played Debussy: Prélude…. Faune (start) Mallarmé: Prélude …. (start) Paul Verlaine: C’est l’extase langoureuse (music by Debussy) Stephen Walsh: Debussy (2018),...
13.08.2018 - ‘A Week in December’ (2010), Sebastian Faulks Georg, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss this richly entertaining and highly rewarding novel. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven...
13.08.2018 - Poetry Cafe, July 26, 2018 Sisley at Moret, Monet in London Playlist: texts read and music played: 1. Debussy: ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ 2. from ‘Debussy, Stephen Walsh (2018) 3. Mallarme on Sisley 4. Debussy: ‘Reflets dans...
01.08.2018 - Texts read & music played: Match of the Day (signature tune) Albert Camus: Le Premier Homme A.E. Housman: Is my Team Ploughing? (poem) George Butterworth: Is my Team Ploughing? (music) You’ll Never Walk Along (Kop Choir) Peter Handke:...
