18.02.2019 - Texts read & music played: Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Le Voyage dans la Lune Walter de la Mare: Snow Claude Debussy: The Snow is Dancing, from Children’s Corner Katherine Mansfield: Winter Song Wallace Stevens: The...

23.01.2019 - Playlist: Gustav Holst/ Christina Rossetti: ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’ Chris de Burgh: The Head and the Heart Virgil: ‘Aeneid’ Book IV (death of Dido): translations by Jackson Knight & Dryden, and the original Latin John...

23.01.2019 - Christmas Texts read and music played: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Henry Livingston Jr.: Account of a Visit from St.Nicholas Corelli: Concerto no.8, Fatto per la Notte di Natale (Allegro) Robert Frost: Christmas Trees Catalan Christmas Carol: Song of...

13.12.2018 - Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) Texts read and music played: Apollinaire: The Landor Road Emigrant Francis Poulenc/ Apollinaire: Hyde Park Pierre Bernac: The Interpretation of French Song Apollinaire: The Ballad of the Ill-Beloved Leo...

13.12.2018 - Hamlet: ‘To be, or not to be’ Texts read and music played: Cleo Laine: The Compleat Workes of Shakespeare from the Worksheets on ‘Hamlet’ for Vienna’s English Theatre John Dowland: In Darkness Let me Dwell John...

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...

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...

01.08.2018 - Texts read & music played: Match of the Day (signature tune) Albert Camus: Le Premier Homme A.E. Housman: Is my Team Ploughing? (poem) George Butterworth: Is my Team Ploughing? (music) You’ll Never Walk Along (Kop Choir) Peter Handke:...

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!...