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...
31.10.2022 - Violeta (2022), Isabel Allende ‘One extraordinary woman, 100 years of history, one unforgettable story’ Violeta Del Valle comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of 5 boisterous sons. From the start, her life...
31.10.2022 - Julia Boyd (& Angelika Patel): A Village in the Third Reich (Elliott & Thomson, 2022) Welcome to the Reading Circle, with Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner. Over the last few months we have, as a group, read and discussed two books that have...
13.06.2022 - Paradise (1994), by Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between...
13.06.2022 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), by Jeanette Winterson “Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.” ‘This is the story of Jeanette, born to...
13.06.2022 - Interview with Meriel Schindler In a recent Reading Circle programme we introduced the book The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler. Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck...
13.06.2022 - A South Shropshire Spring A.E. Housman: ‘Into my heart…’ Mary Webb: ‘Very Early’ Song of a blackbird ‘The Living Edge: a Wanderer’s Guide to Wenlock Edge’ (National Trust, 2011) John Ireland: ‘Spring will not wait’ (piano solo)...
