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 people...
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...
