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...
30.10.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no. 2) The American Influence on British Pop Culture Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. Connie Francis: Lipstick on Your Collar 2. Vernon Scannell: The Jealous Wife (poem) 3. Doris Day: Que sera, sera 4. Everly...
16.10.2017 - The 1960s (1): Britain 1959 – 1962 (From Austerity to Affluence) Playlist (Texts read and Music played) 1. Acker Bilk: ‘Stranger on the Shore’ 2. Helen Shapiro: ‘Walking Back to Happiness’ 3. Arthur Marwick:...
14.09.2017 - Richard III and Robert Herrick Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. William Walton: Prelude to Richard III 2. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene I, ll. 1 – 41 3. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 3, ll. 316 – 352 4....
30.08.2017 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: 1. ‘The Charm of Skye’, Seton Gordon (1929) 2. Alexander Nicolson 3. ‘The Road to the Isles’, Andy Stewart 4. ‘I to the hills will lift mine eyes’, from ‘Songs of...
16.08.2017 - Edinburgh Texts read and Music played: Edinburgh, Alan Bold From a Window in Princes Street, W.E. Henley Alas what am I? (Que suis-je helas?), Mary Stuart Symphony no. 3, ‘The Scottish’, Felix Mendelssohn, 1st. movement...
07.08.2017 - «A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the...
17.07.2017 - ‘Summer in Grez, France’ Texts read and Music: ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes’, Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS) ‘The Vagabond’, from ‘Songs of Travel’, RLS & Ralph Vaughan Williams...
05.07.2017 - ‘The Noise of Time’ (2016), Julian Barnes a ‘fictional biography’ of Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer In May 1937 a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad appartment block. He waits all through the night,...
