09.07.2015 - The third of three programmes on film music and poetic texts: Poetic Literature and Film. 1. March from The River Kwai and Colonel Bogey by Malcom Arnold from the film Bridge over the River Kwai (1957) 2. Overture to the film Lawrence of Arabia by...
25.06.2015 - The second of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films. 1. Blue Skies from The Jazz Singer, sung by Al Jolson 2. Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz, sung by Judy Garland 3. Secret Love from...
11.06.2015 - The first of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films. 1. Mammy, sung by Al Jolson (1927) 2. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, sung Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1934) 3. As time goes by, music by Max Steiner,...
28.05.2015 - We take to the waves in this programme .exploring poems and music that evoke the sea! Poems read and Music played 1. Hebrides Overture – Fingals Cave (Felix Mendelssohn) 2. Storm, from Four Sea Interludes ,from Peter Grimes (Benjamin...
27.04.2015 - Texts read & Music played 1. ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare, from ‘Kiss me, Kate, by Cole Porter 2. ‘This royal throne , from Shakespeares ‘Richard II 3. ‘Harfleur, from William Waltons music for the...
20.04.2015 - Texts read and Music played ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’, Frederick Delius ‘Spring: the Cuckoo’, William Shakespeare ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...
07.04.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. ‘Moony from ‘Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 2. ‘Song to the Moon from ‘Rusalka by Dvorak 3. ‘The Moon by W.H. Davies 4. ‘Moonlight Sonata (opening movement) by...
26.02.2015 - “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” (Dr Samuel Johnson, 1777) In this Programme of poems, songs and music, we spend a full day in London, from early morning to late at night. Travelling the capital, we meet numerous...
19.02.2015 - Poems read and music played 1. Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85: Adagio, played by Pablo Casals, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult 2. ‘Morning at the Window, poem by Eliot 3. ‘Prelude I, poem by Eliot 4....
29.01.2015 - Poems read and Music played 1. ‘To a Mouse’, by Robert Burns 2. ‘Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?’, sung by Alastair Macdonald 3. ‘My love is like a red, red rose’, played by Fiona Hyslop on the clarsach...
20.01.2015 - 1. Hymn: ‘O come all ye faithful’ (Kings College Cambridge Choir) 2. Reading: New Testament, St. Luke, Ch. 2, verses 1 to 7 3. ‘For unto us a child is born’, from ‘The Messiah’ by Handel (Huddersfield Choral...
11.12.2014 - Winter The theme here is Winter: Poems and Music evoking the atmosphere and spirit of Winter. Poems read and Music played: 1. ‘Welcome Winter’ by Roger McGough 2. ‘Winter’: allegro non molto, largo, allegro (from the...
13.11.2014 - This programme focuses on the theme of autumn and seasonal change: not just the idea of leaves coming off trees, but also of departure and transition as we move though the Fall towards winter… Poems read and Music played 1. Sonnet that...
23.10.2014 - Benjamin Britten integrated a number of poems by the First World War Poet Wilfred Owen within the Latin Requiem Mass. Although this massive, stunning piece is over 50 years old and has been performed on many occasions, it is receiving its premiere...
