13.12.2018 - Death of Wilfred Owen, November 1918 Texts read and Music played: Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive Wilfred Owen: Futility Benjamin Britten: War Requiem — Move him… & Lacrimosa Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Benjamin Britten:...
13.12.2018 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: Extracts from travelogues by: Seton Gordon Alexander Nicolson Alexander Smith Ratcliffe Barnett Thomas Nicol Walter Scott J.J. Bell H.V. Morton J.A. MacCulloch A.C. Swinburne Dr Johnson R.L. Stevenson...
15.10.2018 - ‘Brooklyn’ (2009) by Colm Toibin “In the US there would be plenty of work for someone like you, and with good pay.” It is Ireland in the early 1950s, and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce....
10.09.2018 - Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince Texts read and music played: Hesketh Pearson: In Gaol (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Hesketh Pearson: Escape to France (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Film Review of The Happy Prince (2018), dir. Rupert Everett Oscar...
04.09.2018 - Debussy’s Prélude à l’Aprѐs-midi d’un faune Texts read and music played Debussy: Prélude…. Faune (start) Mallarmé: Prélude …. (start) Paul Verlaine: C’est l’extase langoureuse (music by Debussy) Stephen Walsh: Debussy (2018),...
13.08.2018 - ‘A Week in December’ (2010), Sebastian Faulks Georg, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss this richly entertaining and highly rewarding novel. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven...
13.08.2018 - Poetry Cafe, July 26, 2018 Sisley at Moret, Monet in London Playlist: texts read and music played: 1. Debussy: ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ 2. from ‘Debussy, Stephen Walsh (2018) 3. Mallarme on Sisley 4. Debussy: ‘Reflets dans...
18.04.2018 - Texts read & Music played Comedian Harmonists (Tea for Two, 1934) Owen Hamilton: Tyrolean Summer (1934) Binnie Hale: As Time Goes By (1932) Extracts from The Times & The Manchester Guardian from the Musical ‘Cabaret’: Tomorrow...
09.04.2018 - ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang Sonja, Heinz, Thomas, Dee, Sandra and Andrew discuss this sci-fi short story. How does the linguist Louise communicate with the Aliens (‘Heptapods’)? What do we learn of her daughter, who...
09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: from Dominic Seabrook’s ‘White Heat’ Beatles: The Long and Winding Road Elvis Presley: In the Ghetto Quote from ‘New Musical Express’ Roger McGough: Crazy Bastard Michael Horovitz: Frances...
