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‘...
16.09.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes Tour (3): from the Stanbergersee to the Achensee Texts and music played: Thomas Mann: diary entry May 1919 Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg – Die Fuelle des Wohllauts Schubert: Der Lindenbaum (from Die Winterreise) Saint-Saens: The...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes CycleTour 1 From Scharnitz to Benediktbeuren… Texts read & music played: D.H. Lawrence: Bavarian Gentians (1927) Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel (1900) Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany (1944) Weber:...
16.09.2019 - Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands Texts read & music played: Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‚ (1967) Tony Robinson: Odysseus – The Greatest Hero of Them All Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope) Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba...
24.07.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
15.07.2019 - Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu Texts read & music played: Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands Kostis Palamas: Corfu Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‚This island’s mine…‘) Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4...
11.06.2019 - reece: 4. Ithaca Texts read & music played: Homer: The Odyssey (Book 13, extract) Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, op.17 George Seferis: It’s an old Harbour… Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Ithaca) Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s...
11.06.2019 - Greece: 3. Kefallonia Playlist: texts read and music played Song: Mia Morfi Nisiotissa, sung by Irini Konitopoulou Lord Byron at Metaxata, summer 1823 Byron’s confession to his friend Kennedy Traditional instrumental piece: Ximeroni (The Day...
