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...

11.06.2019 - ‘The Only Story’ (2018) by Julian Barnes «Would you love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.» First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul...

11.06.2019 - ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ (2003) by Amos Oz Lee-Anne, Sylvia, Sandra and Andrew discuss Amos Oz’s 2003 ‘novelistic memoir’ ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’. «Love and darkness are just two of the...

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...

18.04.2019 - ‘Transcription’ (2018) by Kate Atkinson Sandra, Maria, Thomas and Andrew discuss Kate Atkinson’s 2018 novel ‘Transcription’. In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of MI5...

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...