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!...
30.10.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no. 2) The American Influence on British Pop Culture Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. Connie Francis: Lipstick on Your Collar 2. Vernon Scannell: The Jealous Wife (poem) 3. Doris Day: Que sera, sera 4. Everly...
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:...
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...
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...
07.06.2017 - Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) Novelist, short story writer….and poet! Texts read and Music played: Chopin: Romanza (Larghetto), Piano Concerto no.1 (Arthur Rubinstein, LSO/ Barbirolli, 1937) Edith Wharton: The Parting Day Henry...
17.05.2017 - Texts read & Music played: 1. Robert Schumann: Humoresque 2. Emily Dickinson: I dwell in possibility 3. A curious Cloud surprised the Sky 4. Eduard Grieg: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt, Suite no.1 5. The Day came slow – till Five...
11.05.2017 - New England (1) Texts read and Music played: Pilgrims and Puritans, Stephen Vincent Benet The Housatonic at Stockbridge, from Three Places in New England, Charles Ives The ‘St. Gaudens’ in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his...
28.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Stupendo e fantastico lago, Ettore Cappelletti Di Provenza il mar, from La Traviata, Verdi Anne lacus tantos, from Georgics Book 2, Virgil Funiculi, Funicula, Luigi Denza La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal I Promessi...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: ‘Roses of Picardy’, sung by Peter Dawson ‘The Washing on the Siegfried Line’, Flanagan & Allen ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, Vera Lynn ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, Noel...
