31.07.2023 - Ernani (Verdi’s opera) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quotes from Der Standard and Die Presse (July 2023) 2. Verdi: Ernani (Preludio) 3. Come rugiada al cespite…. 4. Ernani involami…. 5. Da quel di che t’ho veduta…. 6....
24.07.2023 - Tributes to Tina Turner and Harry Belafonte – The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the King of Calypso are both now dead. Playlist: texts read and music played 1. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City 2. Tina Turner (TT): I Can’t Stand...
03.07.2023 - NW Scotland (3) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns: ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’ (sung by Karine Polwart) 2. Neil Gunn: from ‘Butcher’s Broom’ 3. Rob Donn: ‘Glen Golly’ 4. Rob Donn: ‘My opinion of...
19.06.2023 - NW Scotland (2) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns/ Joseph Haydn: ‘O’er the hills and far away’ 2. Sydney Tremayne: ‘Remote Country’ 3. Neil Gunn: ‘Highland River’ (extracts) 4. Kenneth C. Mackenzie: ‘A...
19.06.2023 - Roald Dahl Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. R. Dahl: ‘St.Ives’ 2. R. Dahl: ‘Hot and Cold’ 3. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ 4. R. Dahl: ‘James and the Giant Peach’ 5. ‘Eating the Peach’ (film musical)...
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:...
15.12.2022 - St. Andrews (2): Castle, the Reformation and University Playlist: texts read and music played Pavane et Galliarde (mid-16thc.) Words attibuted to George Wishart Ian Rankin on his childhood holidays in St Andrews Thomas Morley: ‘Now is the month...
22.11.2022 - St Andrews (1): History, Ghosts and Witches Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Andrew Lang: St Andrews by the Northern Sea 2. Robert Crawford: I love how…. 3. John Johnstoun: from ‘Poemata’ 4. Tacitus, from...
