28.02.2018 - Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to 2016, ‚Three Daughters of Eve‘ is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, in on...
12.02.2018 - Texts read & music played: Bob Dylan: Masters of War Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern Aretha Franklin: Respect Georgie Fame: Bonnie and Clyde The Graduate (extract) Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs Robisnon...
12.02.2018 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.6: 1966) Texts read & Music played: Time, April 13 1966 Peter Sarstedt: Where do you go to, my Lovely? Daily Telegraph (John Crosby) Vogue (Grace Coddington) Crispian St Peters: You Were on my Mind Tom Jones: The...
09.01.2018 - ‚Every Third Thought‘, Robert McCrum, (Picador, 2017): On Life, Death and the Endgame The question is no longer ‚Who am I?‘ but ‚How long have I got?‘ In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic...
09.01.2018 - A reading of ‚A Christmas Carol‘, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Lesley Sims Carols & Hymns played 1. In the Bleak Mid-Winter 2. Good King Wenceslas 3. It Came upon the Midnight Clear 4. Christians Awake! 5. Rejoice and be Merry!...
09.01.2018 - Poetry Cafe Dec 14 2017 The 1960s: 1965 Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Beatles: Help 2. from The Great British Dream Factory (Dominic Seabrook) 3. Freddie and the Dreamers: You Were Made for Me 4. Herman’s Hermits: Something Good...
13.12.2017 - ‚The Underground Railroad‘ (2016) by Colson Whitehead Alex, Georg, Sandra and Andrew discuss and read from an extraordinary novel. ‚The Underground Railroad‘ is about a slave named Cora who grows up on a Georgia plantation....
28.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.4: 1964) Texts read & Music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night Robin Denselow: When the Music’s Over – The Story of Political Pop (extract) Dusty Springfield: I Just...
13.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.3: 1963) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Sam Cooke: Twistin‘ the Night Away 2. Beatles: Twist and Shout 3. Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues 4. Roy Orbison: It’s Over 5. Roger McGough: Bestlooking Girl...
09.11.2017 - ‚Hag-Seed‘, by Margaret Atwood (2016) Brigitte, Maria, Sandra, Sonja and Andrew discuss: the cover-picture of the book, the origin of the title, with extracts from Shakespeare’s ‚The Tempest‘. The novel a clever...
