03.03.2026 - Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Today we introduce a novel by a very famous English author, David Lodge, who was born in London in 1935. He was a lecturer in English and then Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960...
03.03.2026 - Rilke (2) (1875 – 1926) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung 2. W.H. Auden on Rilke 3. Rilke: Schon starb der Tag 4. Sandra Richter (2025) on Rilke 5. Gerhard Zeillinger (Der Standard, 12. 2025) on...
19.01.2026 - Rilke (1) (1875 – 1926) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Rilke on ‘thinking with the heart’ 2. Robert Musil on Rilke 3. Auguste Rodin to Rilke 4. Rilke: Der Panther/ The Panther 5. Saint-Saëns: Le Cygne 6. Rilke: Der Schwan/ The...
19.01.2026 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey The book we introduce today won the Booker Prize in 2024. It’s a short book, with only 136 pages, and although it’s a novel, it doesn’t really tell a story. Instead, it documents the lives of the six astronauts on...
17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 02. Dezember 2025: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Today we introduce the latest novel from one of the UK’s best-known writers, Ian McEwan. He is the critically acclaimed author of 19 novels and 2 short-story...
17.12.2025 - Details für die Sendung am 2025-11-04 von 20:00 bis 20:30 The Humour of Jane Austen In this month’s programme we are departing from our usual approach of introducing the most recently read book from our English Reading Circle. Instead we going...
17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 11. Dezember 2025: Scottish Wars of Independence (2): Bruce – Fact vs. Fiction Playlist : texts read & music played 1. Robert Burns/ The Corries: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled… 2....
17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 13. November 2025: Scottish Wars of Independence (1) Wallace: Fact vs. Fiction Playlist : texts read & music played 1. The Corries: Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled (as a song) 2. Robert Burns: Scots,...
03.11.2025 - SCHUBERTIADE 2 Playlist (texts read and music played) Statements by Richard Baker, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, & S.T. Coleridge. Wilhelm Müller/ Schubert: Der Lindenbaum Plaque on lime-tree in Toblaten Thomas Mann: extract from The Magic Mountain...
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