11.05.2017 - We review how the Reading Circle started in Sept 2012 and its aims: to share personal reading experiences; to explore different readings, impressions and insights; to enjoy social company and interaction. How do sessions run? Which books, and how...
11.05.2017 - New England (1) Texts read and Music played: Pilgrims and Puritans, Stephen Vincent Benet The Housatonic at Stockbridge, from Three Places in New England, Charles Ives The ‘St. Gaudens’ in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his...
19.04.2017 - Once upon … one day in a life: March 30, 1924. Jane Goodchild, 22, an orphan, a maid in a country mansion, has no mother to visit on ‘Mothering Sunday’. Her relationship with Paul, of upper-middle class, changes dramatically that...
28.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Stupendo e fantastico lago, Ettore Cappelletti Di Provenza il mar, from La Traviata, Verdi Anne lacus tantos, from Georgics Book 2, Virgil Funiculi, Funicula, Luigi Denza La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal I Promessi...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: ‘Roses of Picardy’, sung by Peter Dawson ‘The Washing on the Siegfried Line’, Flanagan & Allen ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, Vera Lynn ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, Noel...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Sigh no more, ladies, from Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Peter Warlock London, William Blake London, Benjamin Britten The Sick Rose, William Blake Elegy (The Sick Rose), from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and...
01.03.2017 - “The compelling, inspiring and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of Apartheid and the tumultuouis days of freedom that followed.” Questions discussed by Angie, Maria, Sandra, Sonja and...
16.02.2017 - Texts read & Music played: Auld Lang Syne, sung by Nellie Melba (1905) Love’s Old Sweet Song The Last Rose of Summer The Road to Mandalay On the Alm, from From the Bavarian Highlands, Edward Elgar Where Corals Lie, from Sea Pictures,...
30.01.2017 - Songs of Robert Burns Scotland’s national poet, celebrating his birth on January 25, 1759 Texts read and Music played: Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? Walter Scott’s description of Burns My love is like a red, red rose (melody on...
30.01.2017 - ‘Serious Sweet’, by A. L. Kennedy (2016) Five of us (Maria, Lee Anne, Sandra, Alex and Andrew) discuss A.L. Kennedy’s latest book, the novel ‘Serious Sweet’ , long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2016. A good man in a...
