15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 08. Juli 2021:Shakespeare Sonnets No 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ No 130 ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…’ No. 29 ‘When, in...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. Juni 2021:Benjamin Britten’s opera ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘How is it possible…?’ (last lines of the Libretto) 2. Opening...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. Juni 2021:From Spring to Summer Playlist (Texts read and Music played) Beethoven: Spring Sonata (F-major): Rondo Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony Sine out! (16thc., anonymous) The Merry Cuckoo (Edmund...
06.12.2021 - Dylan at 80 Playlist (texts read and music heard) 1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2. Comments by Dylan (1965) 3. The Times they are a-changin' 4. Talkin' New York 5. Blowin' in the Wind 6. Desolation Row (live, 1966) 7. Like a Rolling Stone 8....
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...