16.09.2019 - Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands Texts read & music played: Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‘ (1967) Tony Robinson: Odysseus – The Greatest Hero of Them All Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope) Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba...
15.07.2019 - Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu Texts read & music played: Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands Kostis Palamas: Corfu Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‘This island’s mine…’) Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4...
11.06.2019 - reece: 4. Ithaca Texts read & music played: Homer: The Odyssey (Book 13, extract) Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, op.17 George Seferis: It’s an old Harbour… Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Ithaca) Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s...
11.06.2019 - Greece: 3. Kefallonia Playlist: texts read and music played Song: Mia Morfi Nisiotissa, sung by Irini Konitopoulou Lord Byron at Metaxata, summer 1823 Byron’s confession to his friend Kennedy Traditional instrumental piece: Ximeroni (The Day...
11.06.2019 - Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea...
18.04.2019 - Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea...
01.04.2019 - Texts read and music played: R.D. Leitch: The Loss of HMS Punjab Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Jack’s the Lad (Sailor’s Hornpipe) R.D. Leitch: The End of the Bismarck ‘Rule Britannia’ R.D. Leitch:...
01.04.2019 - 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...
12.03.2019 - Mary Queen of Scots Texts read and music played: H.W. Meikle: The Story of Scotland Marion Angus: Alas! Poor Queen Pierre de Ronsard: Ode a Cassandre L’Amour de Moy (16th.c. French song) Joachim du Bellay: To the Queen of Scotland Mary Queen...
18.02.2019 - Texts read & music played: Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Le Voyage dans la Lune Walter de la Mare: Snow Claude Debussy: The Snow is Dancing, from Children’s Corner Katherine Mansfield: Winter Song Wallace Stevens: The...
23.01.2019 - Playlist: Gustav Holst/ Christina Rossetti: ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’ Chris de Burgh: The Head and the Heart Virgil: ‘Aeneid’ Book IV (death of Dido): translations by Jackson Knight & Dryden, and the original Latin John...
23.01.2019 - Christmas Texts read and music played: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Henry Livingston Jr.: Account of a Visit from St.Nicholas Corelli: Concerto no.8, Fatto per la Notte di Natale (Allegro) Robert Frost: Christmas Trees Catalan Christmas Carol: Song of...
13.12.2018 - Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) Texts read and music played: Apollinaire: The Landor Road Emigrant Francis Poulenc/ Apollinaire: Hyde Park Pierre Bernac: The Interpretation of French Song Apollinaire: The Ballad of the Ill-Beloved Leo...
13.12.2018 - Hamlet: ‘To be, or not to be’ Texts read and music played: Cleo Laine: The Compleat Workes of Shakespeare from the Worksheets on ‘Hamlet’ for Vienna’s English Theatre John Dowland: In Darkness Let me Dwell John...
