06.12.2021 - Birds of Spring (Cuckoo, Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale) Playlist: texts read & music played:- 1. Song of Blackbird 2. Heine/ Schumann: ‘Im wunderschönen Monat Mai…’ (from Buch der Lieder, 1827/ Dichterliebe, 1840) 3. ‚Sumer is...
06.12.2021 - ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman Playlist: texts read & Music played 1. Interviews with Amanda Gorman 2. Miles Davis: A Kind of Blue 3. ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman (at Inauguration, Jan 20, 2021) 4....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Poem to Stanislaw Wyspianki 2. Alpine Folk Music 3. Letter February 4, 1920 4. ‘The Sister of the Baroness’ (from ‘In a German pension’): an extract 5....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (1) 1888-1923 Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘To the Edge of the Earth’ (from ‘The Piano’) 2. from Mansfield: Prelude, 1917 3. from Mansfield: The Voyage (1921) 4. ‘Big my Secret’...
05.03.2021 - French Chanson singer ‘Barbara’ (1930 – 1997) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Charles Trenet: Que reste-t-il de nos amours? 2. Barbara: Mon Enfance 3. Barbara: Au Coeur de la Nuit 4. Barbara: Nantes 5. Barbara:...
12.01.2021 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Wordsworth on Chatterton 2. Keats on Chatterton 3. Dr Johnson on Chatterton 4. Chatterton: ‘Song from Aella’ 5. George Butterworth: ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ 6. Peter Ackroyd:...
01.12.2020 - from Scotland via Australia to the Somme Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Simon Armitage: ‘The Bed’ (Armistice Day, 2020) 2. Hymn: ‘Abide with Me’ 3. Frederick Delius: ‘In a Summer Garden’ (1912) 4. Leon...
01.12.2020 - Playlist: Texts read and music played:- 1. John Donne, ‘No man is an island…’ 2. John Muir: ‘Climb the mountains…’ 3. Melody: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ 4. Daniel Defoe: Journey Thro’ the...
09.11.2020 - Australia (4) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quiz on Ned Kelly 2. Ballad on the Kelly Gang 3. Ballad, ‘The Kellys’ 4. Douglas Stewart, ‘Australia’s the violent country…’ 5. Peter Carey, from...
09.11.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Voices in the Wind, from Spirit Alive, Christian Benton 2. George Crabbe, ‘The Borough’ 3. Mary Gilmore, ‘Old Botany Bay’ 4. Instructions form King George III’s Government to...
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers’ March 2. Dorothea MacKellar: My Country (1911) 3. Peter Sculthorpe: Sonatina, 1st movement 4. James Vance Marshall: Walkabout 5. A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content 6....
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Dorothea MacKellar: I Love a Sunburnt Country 2. Bruce Chatwin: from ‘The Songlines’ 3. Advance Australia Fair (national anthem) 4. a ballad: Botany Bay – A New Song 5. James Kevel: A...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Keri Hulme: The Bone People (1984) 2. Patricia Grace: Potiki (1996) 3. Rangitikei River Song 4. C.C. Bowen: Moonlight in New Zealand 5. Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872) 6. Keith Sinclair: The Origins of the...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Film music from ‘The Piano’: A Wild and Distant Shore 2. Karu, Karu (a Maori fishing hymn) 3. Early Maori verse 4. Extract from Captain Cook’s Journal 5.Charles Darwin: Leaving New Zealand...