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....
08.07.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. John Donne: No Man is an island 2. King James’ Bible (1611): Exodus, Ch. 9 3. Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year (1722) 4. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) 5. Handel: Oboe Concerto, op.3,...
24.06.2020 - Corona-Verse (1) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Definition of ‘Corona’ virus 2. Ancient Greece: 5th.c. BC music 3. Aeschylus: Suffering as a learning process 4. Lacrimosa: music from the Roman 1st.c. AD 5. Marcus Aurelius:...
14.05.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 4 Suzanne Vega: Tom’s Diner Rhythmic poems by pupils, NMS Inzing Beatles: She’s Leaving Home Roger McGough: Comeclose and Sleepnow The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together Lemn Sissay: Colour...
11.05.2020 - Talking Europe #4/2020 This month’s show features a more limited line-up due to the restrictions that are in place. Simon, Lena and Filip discuss their day to day lives in quarantine, how they organize their routines and stay occupied when...
11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 3 The Merseybeats: Wishing and Hoping Kenneth Steven: Wishing Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose, … Rhyming messages on Valentine cards… An acrostic poem: V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E I remember well, …...
11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 2 Tongue Twisters A Verb Rap: Wake up and Sing Sarah Lattimore: The Writer of this Poem A wise old owl … A Puzzle Poem A Song for Winter Snow, Feathery soft and … Debussy: Children’s Corner/ The Snow is...
