27.08.2024 - Paris Olympics 1924 – 2024 Playlist Vangelis: Chariots of Fire – Titles Sally Magnusson: The Flying Scotsman – The Eric Liddell Story (2007) Duncan Hamilton: For the Glory – The Life of Eric Liddell (2016) Vangelis: Chariots of Fire –...
27.08.2024 - Taylor Swift: a Tortured Soul? Music played (all by Taylor Swift): 1. Fortnight 2. The Tortured Poets Department 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 4. So Long, London 5. Guilty as Sin? 6. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart 7. The Alchemy
27.08.2024 - Off to the Auvergne… Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. Georges Brassens: Chanson pour l’Auvergnat 2. Vincent d’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français 3. Marie-Joseph Canteloube on his background 4. Canteloube: Trois...
27.08.2024 - Françoise Hardy & 1960s France Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Françoise Hardy: Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge 2. Oh, Oh Chéri 3. On se plait 4. J’ai jeté mon coeur 5. Va pas prendre un tambour 6. Avant de t’en...
04.07.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Pink Floyd: We don’t need no education…. 2. B.F. Skinner: Education…. 3. R.S. Thomas: Children’s Song 4. Gervase Phinn: Creative Writing 5. Albert Einstein: The art of a teacher…. 6. Tim...
25.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 (Jacques Loussier trio) 2. Roger McGough: Once upon a …. Love 3. Satie: Gnossiennes nos. 3, 6, 2, 4, 5 4. James Joyce: With lights of amethyst… 5. Joyce: from Dubliners...
11.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Franz Kafka: ‘The Trees’ 2. Kafka in his diary, Sept 23 1912 3. ‘The Metamorphosis’ (start) 4. Stephen Spender on Kafka’s work (1935) 5. Edward Sackville-West on ‘The Trial’ (1937)...
11.06.2024 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Christina Rossetti/ Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter…. 2. Charles Dickens: Bleak House (from Chapter 57) 3. William Blake: London 4. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Mariana 5. Leos Janacek: In the Mist –...
06.05.2024 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Verdi: Preludio 2. Librettist F.M. Piave on Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ 3. From letter by Verdi to Piave 4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5 5. Verdi’s opera for this scene 6. Macbeth...
06.05.2024 - The Lark and the Nightingale Playlist (texts read & music played) Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (in 4 parts), with faded overlaps (Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim) George Meredith: The Lark...
30.04.2024 - The Fairy Queen Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – Overture 2. Duet: Come, let us leave the Town…. 3. Promotional text for the production by the Tiroler Landestheater 4. First Act Tune – Jig 5....
15.03.2024 - Pygmalion and My Fair Lady Playlist (texts read/ heard & music played) 1. Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak? 2. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain 3. Get me to the Church on time 4. Act II (Longman ed. pp. 21...
27.02.2024 - With: Andrew, Bernadette, Sandra Playlist: Joan Baez Music played: 1. ‘Once I had a Sweetheart’ 2. ‘Banks of the Ohio’ 3. ‘Help Me Make it through the Night’ 4. ‘House of the Rising Sun’ 5. ‘With God on our Side’ 6....
23.01.2024 - Texts read and music played 1. Edith Nesbit: New Year Snow 2. Christina Rossetti: In the bleak mid-winter (& music by Gustav Holst) 3. Peter Härtling: Schnee für später/ Snow for later (from An den Ufern meiner Stadt, Späte Gedichte,...