24.07.2023 - Tributes to Tina Turner and Harry Belafonte – The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the King of Calypso are both now dead. Playlist: texts read and music played 1. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City 2. Tina Turner (TT): I Can’t Stand...
03.07.2023 - NW Scotland (3) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns: ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’ (sung by Karine Polwart) 2. Neil Gunn: from ‘Butcher’s Broom’ 3. Rob Donn: ‘Glen Golly’ 4. Rob Donn: ‘My opinion of...
19.06.2023 - NW Scotland (2) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns/ Joseph Haydn: ‘O’er the hills and far away’ 2. Sydney Tremayne: ‘Remote Country’ 3. Neil Gunn: ‘Highland River’ (extracts) 4. Kenneth C. Mackenzie: ‘A...
19.06.2023 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews The introduction on the back cover reads: ‘Sixteen-year -old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village,...
19.06.2023 - Roald Dahl Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. R. Dahl: ‘St.Ives’ 2. R. Dahl: ‘Hot and Cold’ 3. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ 4. R. Dahl: ‘James and the Giant Peach’ 5. ‘Eating the Peach’ (film musical)...
06.06.2023 - NW Scotland (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘Over the Hills…’ (18thc. Scottish melody) 2. Hugh Macdiarmid: ‘The Watergau’ (1925) 3. Norman MacCaig: ‘The mountains swirl water…’ 4. A.C. Mackenzie: Violin Concerto...
06.06.2023 - British Pageantry 2022-2023 Our programme covers how the nation mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, the pageantry surrounding it, and the commemorative music played. We quote from the report of a friend’s experiences...
06.06.2023 - Ukraine (5) – an updated version of Ukraine (4) from September 2022 Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4...
06.06.2023 - Poetic Spring: ‘Spring in the Air‘? ‘Spring through Poetry!’ Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Vaughan Williams – ‘The Lark Ascending’ 2. ‘The rain in Spain…’ (from ‘My Fair Lady’) 3. W.H. Davies: ‘Leisure’ 4....
06.06.2023 - Love Marriage by Monica Ali Today’s book was published in 2022, and it’s by the writer of that famous novel ‘Brick Lane’ (published 2003) – Monica Ali. After a ten-year hiatus, during which Ali suffered a ‘loss of...
