17.12.2024 - Maigret and Edith Piaf Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Jean Claude Pascal: L’Aventure 2. Gazette des Tribunaux, from Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille 4. Georges Simenon: Maigret et...
09.12.2024 - Traction Citroën: Poetry in Motion? PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Georgel: Sous les Ponts de Paris 2. Jean Sablon: Sur les Quais du Vieux Paris 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille (also sung by Catherine Sauvage, Zizi Jeanmaire, Juliette...
09.12.2024 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The book we are introducing today is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, published in 2023. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is about the intertwining lives of African...
09.12.2024 - Erasure by Percival Everett This month’s book is not a recent publication. In fact it was first published in 2001, but the themes it tackles are still very relevant today. It’s Erasure, by Percival Everett. Percival Everett is a prolific...
18.11.2024 - Victory City by Salman Rushdie Sir Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American novelist, is one of the best-known contemporary novelists in the English language. Today we are going to introduce his novel, Victory City, published in 2023. He is...
18.11.2024 - The 1745 and ‘Outlander’ Playlist (texts read & music played): Melody of the Skye Boat Song (2x) Text of the Skye Boat Song (H. Boulton) Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) landing on Eriskay J.A. Carruth: ‘The...
28.10.2024 - Karl Jenkins: L’Homme Armé – A Mass for Peace Karl Jenkins’s L’Homme Armé: A Mass for Peace is being performed in Innsbruck with the University Orchestra , on Saturday October 26th at 19.30, in the Messehalle. Karl Jenkins...
28.10.2024 - Scots in Canada Runrig: ‘Alba’ ‘Canadian Boat Song’ (1829) Longfellow: ‘Evangeline’ (1847) A Breton Dance Runrig: ‘The Mighty Atlantic’ William MacGibbon: ‘The Water is Wide’ (1762) John Somerville: ‘Uallach Na Mara’...
08.10.2024 - Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation Since 1945 by Paul Lendvai This month we are introducing a work of non-fiction, published in English in 2023, by a respected journalist. The book is Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation...
08.10.2024 - From Cologne to Würzburg Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 3 (Rhenish) 2. Robert Schumann/ Heinrich Heine: Dichterliebe – Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome… 3. (ditto) : Die alten, bōsen Lieder 4. George...
