13.12.2017 - ‘The Underground Railroad’ (2016) by Colson Whitehead Alex, Georg, Sandra and Andrew discuss and read from an extraordinary novel. ‘The Underground Railroad’ is about a slave named Cora who grows up on a Georgia plantation....
28.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.4: 1964) Texts read & Music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night Robin Denselow: When the Music’s Over – The Story of Political Pop (extract) Dusty Springfield: I Just...
13.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.3: 1963) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Sam Cooke: Twistin’ the Night Away 2. Beatles: Twist and Shout 3. Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues 4. Roy Orbison: It’s Over 5. Roger McGough: Bestlooking Girl...
09.11.2017 - ‘Hag-Seed’, by Margaret Atwood (2016) Brigitte, Maria, Sandra, Sonja and Andrew discuss: the cover-picture of the book, the origin of the title, with extracts from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. The novel a clever...
16.10.2017 - The 1960s (1): Britain 1959 – 1962 (From Austerity to Affluence) Playlist (Texts read and Music played) 1. Acker Bilk: ‘Stranger on the Shore’ 2. Helen Shapiro: ‘Walking Back to Happiness’ 3. Arthur Marwick:...
14.09.2017 - Richard III and Robert Herrick Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. William Walton: Prelude to Richard III 2. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene I, ll. 1 – 41 3. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 3, ll. 316 – 352 4....
30.08.2017 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: 1. ‘The Charm of Skye’, Seton Gordon (1929) 2. Alexander Nicolson 3. ‘The Road to the Isles’, Andy Stewart 4. ‘I to the hills will lift mine eyes’, from ‘Songs of...
16.08.2017 - Edinburgh Texts read and Music played: Edinburgh, Alan Bold From a Window in Princes Street, W.E. Henley Alas what am I? (Que suis-je helas?), Mary Stuart Symphony no. 3, ‘The Scottish’, Felix Mendelssohn, 1st. movement...
07.08.2017 - “A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the...
17.07.2017 - ‘Summer in Grez, France’ Texts read and Music: ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes’, Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS) ‘The Vagabond’, from ‘Songs of Travel’, RLS & Ralph Vaughan Williams...
