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13.11.2023 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Lennon (& Co.): Now and Then 2. Beatles: I Saw her Standing There 3. Beatles: Misery 4. Beatles: Please Please me 5. Beatles: There’s a Place 6. Beatles: It Won’t Be Long 7. Beatles: Not a Second...
06.11.2023 - Love, Marriage, Weddings Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Mendelssohn: Wedding March from ‘Ein Sommernachtstraum’ 2. Viviani: Sonata for Trumpet and Organ in C Major, Andante 3. Goethe: ‘This is the true season of...
23.10.2023 - Donnerstag, den 12. Oktober 2023: ‘Five o’clock Tea: Tea for Two?’ Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. ‘Tea for Two’ (Tahiti Trot), Shostakovich 2. Sorting out vocabulary 3. Brewing the tea: 6 stages 4. Tea-drinking etiquette...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 28. September 2023: Thomas HARDY: Poems (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 2. George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow 3. Thomas Hardy (TH): Shelley’s...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 14. September 2023: Thomas HARDY: Poems (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Thomas Hardy (TH): A Wet August 2. TH: The Harbour Bridge 3. TH: Weathers 4. John Ireland: Weathers 5. TH: The...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. August 2023: Alma and Oskar PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Debussy: Prélude à l’aprѐs-midi d’un faune 2. Kokoschka: Die Träumenden Knaben 3. E.H. Gombrich on Kokoschka 4. Schoenberg:...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. August 2023: The Eye Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. ‘Eye of the Tiger’ (Survivor) 2. ‘I spy with my little eye….’ 3. ‘My eyes are dim, ….’ 4. UEA, Norwich (English...
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)...
