09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: Canned Heat: On the Road Again Joni Mitchell: Woodstock The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil The Who: Tommy Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (Stanzas 39 & 52) Denny Zager & Rick Evans: In the Year 2525 John...
09.04.2018 - Texts read & music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Patrick Searle & Maureen McConville: Paris May 10-11, 1968 The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash Arthur Marwick: The 1960s (extract) About the...
08.04.2018 - Es ist schon so eine Sache mit dem Schöpferischen – und Salzburg ist wahrlich eine Hauptstadt – des Nachmachens. Vom Festspiel- bis zum Rockhouse klingt das Allermeiste irgendwie so ähnlich wie schon mal dagewesen. Nie gab es hier eine...
14.03.2018 - Linda, Maria, Sonja, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. World War 2 is over and Japan sets about rebuilding its shattered cities. Masujo Ono, an ageing painter, looks back over his life and assesses his career, which coincided with the rise of...
28.02.2018 - Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to 2016, ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, in on...
12.02.2018 - Texts read & music played: Bob Dylan: Masters of War Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern Aretha Franklin: Respect Georgie Fame: Bonnie and Clyde The Graduate (extract) Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs Robisnon...
12.02.2018 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.6: 1966) Texts read & Music played: Time, April 13 1966 Peter Sarstedt: Where do you go to, my Lovely? Daily Telegraph (John Crosby) Vogue (Grace Coddington) Crispian St Peters: You Were on my Mind Tom Jones: The...
09.01.2018 - ‘Every Third Thought’, Robert McCrum, (Picador, 2017): On Life, Death and the Endgame The question is no longer ‘Who am I?’ but ‘How long have I got?’ In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic...
09.01.2018 - A reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Lesley Sims Carols & Hymns played 1. In the Bleak Mid-Winter 2. Good King Wenceslas 3. It Came upon the Midnight Clear 4. Christians Awake! 5. Rejoice and be Merry!...
09.01.2018 - Poetry Cafe Dec 14 2017 The 1960s: 1965 Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Beatles: Help 2. from The Great British Dream Factory (Dominic Seabrook) 3. Freddie and the Dreamers: You Were Made for Me 4. Herman’s Hermits: Something Good...
