17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 11. Dezember 2025: Scottish Wars of Independence (2): Bruce — Fact vs. Fiction Playlist : texts read & music played 1. Robert Burns/ The Corries: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled… 2....
17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 13. November 2025: Scottish Wars of Independence (1) Wallace: Fact vs. Fiction Playlist : texts read & music played 1. The Corries: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled (as a song) 2. Robert Burns: Scots,...
03.11.2025 - SCHUBERTIADE 2 Playlist (texts read and music played) Statements by Richard Baker, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, & S.T. Coleridge. Wilhelm Müller/ Schubert: Der Lindenbaum Plaque on lime-tree in Toblaten Thomas Mann: extract from The Magic Mountain...
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25.09.2025 - At the Schubertiade (1) Playlist (Texts by Goethe read & music by Schubert played) Gretchen am Spinnrade Heidenrōslein Das Veilchen (Mozart) Erlkōnig Rastlose Liebe Am Flusse Erster Verlust Schäfers Klagelied Willkommen und Abschied
25.09.2025 - The Nine by Gwen Strauss Our Reading Circle has a break over the summer, so this month we introduce two books that we have read and which, although they have not been discussed by our Reading Circle, we would like to recommend to you. Both...
25.08.2025 - Erik Satie: Poetry through Music Playlist (texts by and about Satie read & music by Satie played) 1. Gymnopédie no. 1 (original piano, Jacques Loussier Trio & Debussy orchestration)) 2. Contamine de Latour: Les Antiques 3. Debussy on...
25.08.2025 - Maurice Ravel (3) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales 2. Aloysius Bertrand: Gaspard de la Nuit 3. Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit — Ondine 4. Debussy: Préludes II – Ondine 5. Baudelaire: Un...
25.08.2025 - Baumgartner by Paul Auster The novel we are introducing today is Baumgartner by Paul Auster, published in 2023, and described by its publisher as: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and grief from one of the world’s greatest writers. Paul...
07.07.2025 - ‘Cry, The Beloved Country’ by Alan Paton The novel we are introducing this month is a classic of 20th Century literature, and one of the best known South African novels. Cry, the Beloved Country, the first novel by Alan Paton, (1948)...
