23.01.2019 - Christmas Texts read and music played: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Henry Livingston Jr.: Account of a Visit from St.Nicholas Corelli: Concerto no.8, Fatto per la Notte di Natale (Allegro) Robert Frost: Christmas Trees Catalan Christmas Carol: Song of...
23.01.2019 - ‘Unsheltered’ (2018) by Barbara Kingsolver Maria, Sandra, Susie and Andrew discuss the parallel storylines, contrasting characters, diverse themes and original narrative structure of the novel. ‘How could two hardworking people do everything...
23.01.2019 - ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ (2012) by Rachel Joyce When Harold Frau leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the...
23.01.2019 - ‘The Sympathizer‘ (2015), by Viet Thanh Nguyen Tom, Sandra and Andrew discuss the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American Viet Thanh Nguyen deals with the psychological aftermath of the Vietnam...
13.12.2018 - Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) Texts read and music played: Apollinaire: The Landor Road Emigrant Francis Poulenc/ Apollinaire: Hyde Park Pierre Bernac: The Interpretation of French Song Apollinaire: The Ballad of the Ill-Beloved Leo...
13.12.2018 - Hamlet: ‘To be, or not to be’ Texts read and music played: Cleo Laine: The Compleat Workes of Shakespeare from the Worksheets on ‘Hamlet’ for Vienna’s English Theatre John Dowland: In Darkness Let me Dwell John...
13.12.2018 - Death of Wilfred Owen, November 1918 Texts read and Music played: Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive Wilfred Owen: Futility Benjamin Britten: War Requiem – Move him… & Lacrimosa Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Benjamin Britten:...
13.12.2018 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: Extracts from travelogues by: Seton Gordon Alexander Nicolson Alexander Smith Ratcliffe Barnett Thomas Nicol Walter Scott J.J. Bell H.V. Morton J.A. MacCulloch A.C. Swinburne Dr Johnson R.L. Stevenson...
15.10.2018 - ‘Brooklyn’ (2009) by Colm Toibin “In the US there would be plenty of work for someone like you, and with good pay.” It is Ireland in the early 1950s, and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce....
15.10.2018 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Texts read and Music played: Letter from Stevenson to his mother, Oct 1874 Vaughan Williams, The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel (Stevenson) “I travel not to go anywhere, but...
