09.11.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Voices in the Wind, from Spirit Alive, Christian Benton 2. George Crabbe, ‘The Borough’ 3. Mary Gilmore, ‘Old Botany Bay’ 4. Instructions form King George III’s Government to...
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,...
17.08.2020 - Vienna-based, poet JG Danso, discusses Black queer liberation and how her work reached the family of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans pioneer and initiator of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Danso’s debut exhibit “Inaugerations” features her poems...
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:...
