09.01.2018 - A reading of ‚A Christmas Carol‘, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Lesley Sims Carols & Hymns played 1. In the Bleak Mid-Winter 2. Good King Wenceslas 3. It Came upon the Midnight Clear 4. Christians Awake! 5. Rejoice and be Merry!...
09.01.2018 - Poetry Cafe Dec 14 2017 The 1960s: 1965 Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Beatles: Help 2. from The Great British Dream Factory (Dominic Seabrook) 3. Freddie and the Dreamers: You Were Made for Me 4. Herman’s Hermits: Something Good...
28.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.4: 1964) Texts read & Music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night Robin Denselow: When the Music’s Over – The Story of Political Pop (extract) Dusty Springfield: I Just...
13.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.3: 1963) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Sam Cooke: Twistin‘ the Night Away 2. Beatles: Twist and Shout 3. Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues 4. Roy Orbison: It’s Over 5. Roger McGough: Bestlooking Girl...
30.10.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no. 2) The American Influence on British Pop Culture Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. Connie Francis: Lipstick on Your Collar 2. Vernon Scannell: The Jealous Wife (poem) 3. Doris Day: Que sera, sera 4. Everly...
16.10.2017 - The 1960s (1): Britain 1959 – 1962 (From Austerity to Affluence) Playlist (Texts read and Music played) 1. Acker Bilk: ‚Stranger on the Shore‘ 2. Helen Shapiro: ‚Walking Back to Happiness‘ 3. Arthur Marwick:...
28.09.2017 - Charles Baudelaire, 150 Years On Playlist: English Translation texts read and French originals heard, with music inserted 1. Baudelaire: ‚Invitation to a Journey‘ 2. Baudelaire: ‚L’Invitation au Voyage‘ 3. Duparc/...
14.09.2017 - Richard III and Robert Herrick Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. William Walton: Prelude to Richard III 2. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene I, ll. 1 – 41 3. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 3, ll. 316 – 352 4....
30.08.2017 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: 1. ‚The Charm of Skye‘, Seton Gordon (1929) 2. Alexander Nicolson 3. ‚The Road to the Isles‘, Andy Stewart 4. ‚I to the hills will lift mine eyes‘, from ‚Songs of...
16.08.2017 - Edinburgh Texts read and Music played: Edinburgh, Alan Bold From a Window in Princes Street, W.E. Henley Alas what am I? (Que suis-je helas?), Mary Stuart Symphony no. 3, ‚The Scottish‘, Felix Mendelssohn, 1st. movement...
17.07.2017 - ‚Summer in Grez, France‘ Texts read and Music: ‚Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes‘, Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS) ‚The Vagabond‘, from ‚Songs of Travel‘, RLS & Ralph Vaughan Williams...
04.07.2017 - New York Texts read & Music played: New York, Frank Sinatra Drop me off in Harlem, Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington Theme for English B, Langston Hughes City of Glass, Paul Auster Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote Moon River,...
26.06.2017 - Mauthausen: a tragic paradox? Texts read and Music played: Theodor Adorno: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft (quote) Paul Celan: Fugue of Death (poem) Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Mauthausen Exhibition Catalogue (extracts)...
13.06.2017 - 50 Years on: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Playlist: Texts read & Music played: Opening track Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ‚Tune in, turn on, drop out‘, Timothy Leary ‚Almost metaphysical urban poetry‘,...
