31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 06. Juli 2021: An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), Chigozie Obiama Angie, Sandra and Andrew read from and discuss this dramatic novel. A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her...
31.01.2022 - ‘Never Let me Go’ (2005), Kazuo Ishiguro Kathy, Ruth and Tommy grew up together at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic school deep in the English countryside, with a dreadful secret at its heart. Now 31, Kathy attempts to come to terms with...
31.01.2022 - The Ratline: Loves, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands (2020) 1942: As Governor of Galicia, Otto von Wächter oversees the Final Solution 1945: Wächter is indicted for ‘mass murder’ and flees 1949: Wächter...
31.01.2022 - Sandra, Linda, Sonja, and Andrew discuss Ali Smith’s novel Autumn. In the previous programme Sandra and Andrew had introduced the book, reading extracts.
06.12.2021 - ‘Autumn’ (2016), by Ali Smith Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer….yes, Brexit. Love is won, love is lost....
06.12.2021 - Dylan at 80 Playlist (texts read and music heard) 1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2. Comments by Dylan (1965) 3. The Times they are a-changin' 4. Talkin' New York 5. Blowin' in the Wind 6. Desolation Row (live, 1966) 7. Like a Rolling Stone 8....
06.12.2021 - Birds of Spring (Cuckoo, Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale) Playlist: texts read & music played:- 1. Song of Blackbird 2. Heine/ Schumann: ‘Im wunderschönen Monat Mai…’ (from Buch der Lieder, 1827/ Dichterliebe, 1840) 3. ‚Sumer is...
06.12.2021 - ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman Playlist: texts read & Music played 1. Interviews with Amanda Gorman 2. Miles Davis: A Kind of Blue 3. ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman (at Inauguration, Jan 20, 2021) 4....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Poem to Stanislaw Wyspianki 2. Alpine Folk Music 3. Letter February 4, 1920 4. ‘The Sister of the Baroness’ (from ‘In a German pension’): an extract 5....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (1) 1888-1923 Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘To the Edge of the Earth’ (from ‘The Piano’) 2. from Mansfield: Prelude, 1917 3. from Mansfield: The Voyage (1921) 4. ‘Big my Secret’...
