13.06.2022 - Interview with Meriel Schindler In a recent Reading Circle programme we introduced the book The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler. Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck...
13.06.2022 - A South Shropshire Spring A.E. Housman: ‘Into my heart…’ Mary Webb: ‘Very Early’ Song of a blackbird ‘The Living Edge: a Wanderer’s Guide to Wenlock Edge’ (National Trust, 2011) John Ireland: ‘Spring will not wait’ (piano solo)...
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13.06.2022 - Ukraine (3): Poems about the war in Ukraine Georg Trakl: Grodek Shakespeare: Hamlet, from Act III, Sc. 1 Alan Maley on IATEFL’s collection of poems on the war in Ukraine John Donne: No man is an island…. Schubert: D960 (Andante sostenuto) Rod...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (2): 19th & 20th centuries From Tolstoy: ‘War and Peace’ (1869) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Testament’ (1845) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Calamity Again’ (1859) Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017)...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (1): Cossacks through Byron, Liszt, and Janacek ‘War Criminal/ Vlad-the-Invader/ Put in Prison’ Ovid: from ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’ Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2016) Mussorgsky/ Ravel: ‘The Great...
28.03.2022 - The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck offered guests a place to socialize, dance and forget the horrors of the First World War and the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. März 2022: Salome (Richard Strauss) R. Strauss: Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils (start) R. Strauss on an early Innsbruck production of Salome Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 14 Marie Wittich on the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. März 2022: Ulysses: Molly’s Soliloquy, James Joyce (1922) Tennyson, from the poem Ulysses T.S. Eliot on Joyce’s Ulysses Joyce: last 12 lines of Penelope (from Ulysses) Anthony Burgess, from Here...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Oktober 2019: ‘Middle England’ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. « Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced...