06.06.2023 - NW Scotland (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘Over the Hills…’ (18thc. Scottish melody) 2. Hugh Macdiarmid: ‘The Watergau’ (1925) 3. Norman MacCaig: ‘The mountains swirl water…’ 4. A.C. Mackenzie: Violin Concerto...
06.06.2023 - British Pageantry 2022-2023 Our programme covers how the nation mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, the pageantry surrounding it, and the commemorative music played. We quote from the report of a friend’s experiences...
06.06.2023 - Ukraine (5) – an updated version of Ukraine (4) from September 2022 Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4...
06.06.2023 - Poetic Spring: ‘Spring in the Air‘? ‘Spring through Poetry!’ Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Vaughan Williams – ‘The Lark Ascending’ 2. ‘The rain in Spain…’ (from ‘My Fair Lady’) 3. W.H. Davies: ‘Leisure’ 4....
22.03.2023 - Catriona Price: ‘Hert’ Playlist (texts read and music played): Dedication to Catriona Price’s Oma, Jutta Helfritz ‘Hert’: Interlude Catriona on ‘Hert’ ‘Swans’ (George Mackay Brown), set to music by Catriona ‘No Such Thing as...
27.02.2023 - George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996) Playlist (texts read, music played and references): Dark Island’, The Lone Piper Mackay Brown: ‘The first house…’, ‘An early memory…’ From ‘The Road Home’ (1946) From ‘Skara Brae: a Time of...
27.02.2023 - ‘To be,…’ (Hamlet) Playlist (texts read, music played, references): 1. Hamlet, III/ 1 (‘To be, …’) ll. 1-5, with John Gielgud 2. Hamlet, III/ 1 (‘To be, …’) ll. 1-5, with John Gielgud (later recording) 3. Susan Sontag:...
