01.02.2021 - Maria, Sandra and Andrew each choose 3 of their favourite books, from the 75 books discussed in the Reading Circle since Autumn 2012.
01.12.2020 - from Scotland via Australia to the Somme Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Simon Armitage: ‘The Bed’ (Armistice Day, 2020) 2. Hymn: ‘Abide with Me’ 3. Frederick Delius: ‘In a Summer Garden’ (1912) 4. Leon...
01.12.2020 - Playlist: Texts read and music played:- 1. John Donne, ‘No man is an island…’ 2. John Muir: ‘Climb the mountains…’ 3. Melody: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ 4. Daniel Defoe: Journey Thro’ the...
09.11.2020 - Australia (4) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quiz on Ned Kelly 2. Ballad on the Kelly Gang 3. Ballad, ‘The Kellys’ 4. Douglas Stewart, ‘Australia’s the violent country…’ 5. Peter Carey, from...
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers’ March 2. Dorothea MacKellar: My Country (1911) 3. Peter Sculthorpe: Sonatina, 1st movement 4. James Vance Marshall: Walkabout 5. A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content 6....
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Dorothea MacKellar: I Love a Sunburnt Country 2. Bruce Chatwin: from ‘The Songlines’ 3. Advance Australia Fair (national anthem) 4. a ballad: Botany Bay – A New Song 5. James Kevel: A...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Keri Hulme: The Bone People (1984) 2. Patricia Grace: Potiki (1996) 3. Rangitikei River Song 4. C.C. Bowen: Moonlight in New Zealand 5. Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872) 6. Keith Sinclair: The Origins of the...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Film music from ‘The Piano’: A Wild and Distant Shore 2. Karu, Karu (a Maori fishing hymn) 3. Early Maori verse 4. Extract from Captain Cook’s Journal 5.Charles Darwin: Leaving New Zealand...
27.08.2020 - Singapore Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Rimsky-Korsakoff: Sheheradade – Sinbad 2. Bai Juyi: Song of Past Feelings 3. Texts on a mirror and bowl, from the Tang Dynasty 4. Du Fu: extracts from his poems 5. Plaque on Raffles Statue,...
09.07.2020 - Texts read and Music played:- 1. Goesta Agren: It is not true … 2. Goethe: two quotations 3. Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf: The Writer’s Rights (2008) 4. W.H. Davies: Leisure 5. Parody of ‘Leisure’ (in The Times newspaper) 6. Dr....
