23.01.2023 - The Hours, Michael Cunningham (1998) In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of late 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to...
15.12.2022 - St. Andrews (2): Castle, the Reformation and University Playlist: texts read and music played Pavane et Galliarde (mid-16thc.) Words attibuted to George Wishart Ian Rankin on his childhood holidays in St Andrews Thomas Morley: ‘Now is the month...
15.12.2022 - Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ (2021) Blurb on back cover: “In 1974 , two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home, Nicosia. The tavern is the only place that Kostas,...
22.11.2022 - St Andrews (1): History, Ghosts and Witches Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Andrew Lang: St Andrews by the Northern Sea 2. Robert Crawford: I love how…. 3. John Johnstoun: from ‚Poemata‘ 4. Tacitus, from...
07.11.2022 - ‚Solar Storms‘ (1995), by Linda Hogan „In a novel with the feel of a richly woven pattern, Linda Hogan tells the story of five generations of Native American women in the harsh landscape of the Boundary Waters between Canada and...
31.10.2022 - Eva’s French PoemsTexts read & music played, celebrating Dr Eva Lavric’s retirement as Professor from the Institute for Romance Languages at the University of Innsbruck. At her retirement celebration in the Claudiana of the University of...
31.10.2022 - Hungarian Special Jozef Attila: By the Danube, O Europe, Mother/ Ady Endre: Leaving the Village/ András Imreh: The Bright Boys/ Monika Mesterházi: Wind Bela Bartok: Dance Suite / Zoltan Kodály: ‘Háry János’ Suite/ Zoltán Kodály:...
31.10.2022 - Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’) – Allegro (finale) 4. ‘That which does not...
31.10.2022 - Our Reading Circle has been running now for 10 years. We have also offered Freirad one-hour Reading Circle programmes for these last five years. We now have a new schedule for the Reading Circle programme. The discussion of the monthly book still...
31.10.2022 - Castaway (1983), Lucy Irvine In 1981 Lucy Irvine answered an advertisement from a man seeking a wife: he wanted a companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. ‘G’ (Gerald Kingsland) intended to write a book about the experience. Lucy...
