13.06.2022 - Ukraine (2): 19th & 20th centuries From Tolstoy: ‘War and Peace’ (1869) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Testament’ (1845) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Calamity Again’ (1859) Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017)...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (1): Cossacks through Byron, Liszt, and Janacek ‘War Criminal/ Vlad-the-Invader/ Put in Prison’ Ovid: from ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’ Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2016) Mussorgsky/ Ravel: ‘The Great...
28.03.2022 - The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck offered guests a place to socialize, dance and forget the horrors of the First World War and the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. März 2022: Salome (Richard Strauss) R. Strauss: Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils (start) R. Strauss on an early Innsbruck production of Salome Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 14 Marie Wittich on the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. März 2022: Ulysses: Molly’s Soliloquy, James Joyce (1922) Tennyson, from the poem Ulysses T.S. Eliot on Joyce’s Ulysses Joyce: last 12 lines of Penelope (from Ulysses) Anthony Burgess, from Here...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Oktober 2019: ‚Middle England‘ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. „Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 05. November 2019: ‚Blood Summit‘ by Robert Pimm „Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. Februar 2022:Façade Sir Osbert Sitwell on rehearsal of and background to Façade, Jan 1922 Edith Sitwell & William Walton: Façade – Fanfare Jack’s the Lad (a hornpipe) Façade – Hornpipe...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 27. Jänner 2022: Nomads: Tinkers, the Jenisch, Pilgrims and other Itinerants Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘To travel hopefully…’ A Celtic Blessing: ’May the road rise to meet you…’ Robin Hall &...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 13. Jänner 2022: Walter Scott 1. Walter Scott: on poetry 2. The Times, August 21, 2021 3. Berlioz: Waverley (overture) 4. Berlioz: Rob Roy (overture) 5. Scott: False Love 6. Goethe on Scott 7. Scott...
