11.06.2019 - ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ (2003) by Amos Oz Lee-Anne, Sylvia, Sandra and Andrew discuss Amos Oz’s 2003 ‘novelistic memoir’ ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’. “Love and darkness are just two of the...
18.04.2019 - Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea...
18.04.2019 - ‘Transcription’ (2018) by Kate Atkinson Sandra, Maria, Thomas and Andrew discuss Kate Atkinson’s 2018 novel ‘Transcription’. In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of MI5...
01.04.2019 - Texts read and music played: R.D. Leitch: The Loss of HMS Punjab Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Jack’s the Lad (Sailor’s Hornpipe) R.D. Leitch: The End of the Bismarck ‘Rule Britannia’ R.D. Leitch:...
01.04.2019 - Texts read and Music played: ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’, Frederick Delius ‘Spring: the Cuckoo’, William Shakespeare ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...
12.03.2019 - Mary Queen of Scots Texts read and music played: H.W. Meikle: The Story of Scotland Marion Angus: Alas! Poor Queen Pierre de Ronsard: Ode a Cassandre L’Amour de Moy (16th.c. French song) Joachim du Bellay: To the Queen of Scotland Mary Queen...
12.03.2019 - ‘On Chesil Beach’ (2007), by Ian McEwan A stunning ‘novella’… It is July 1961. Edward and Florence, young Innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their room they struggle to...
18.02.2019 - ‘Educated’ (2018) by Tara Westover Maria, Georg, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss this extraordinary book: ‘an unflicnching account of love and brutality, of the strength of blood ties and the power of imagination’ (Sarah...
18.02.2019 - Texts read & music played: Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Le Voyage dans la Lune Walter de la Mare: Snow Claude Debussy: The Snow is Dancing, from Children’s Corner Katherine Mansfield: Winter Song Wallace Stevens: The...
23.01.2019 - Playlist: Gustav Holst/ Christina Rossetti: ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’ Chris de Burgh: The Head and the Heart Virgil: ‘Aeneid’ Book IV (death of Dido): translations by Jackson Knight & Dryden, and the original Latin John...
