25.08.2025 - Erik Satie: Poetry through Music Playlist (texts by and about Satie read & music by Satie played) 1. Gymnopédie no. 1 (original piano, Jacques Loussier Trio & Debussy orchestration)) 2. Contamine de Latour: Les Antiques 3. Debussy on...
25.08.2025 - Maurice Ravel (3) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales 2. Aloysius Bertrand: Gaspard de la Nuit 3. Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit – Ondine 4. Debussy: Préludes II – Ondine 5. Baudelaire: Un...
25.08.2025 - Baumgartner by Paul Auster The novel we are introducing today is Baumgartner by Paul Auster, published in 2023, and described by its publisher as: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and grief from one of the world’s greatest writers. Paul...
07.07.2025 - ‚Cry, The Beloved Country‘ by Alan Paton The novel we are introducing this month is a classic of 20th Century literature, and one of the best known South African novels. Cry, the Beloved Country, the first novel by Alan Paton, (1948)...
07.07.2025 - Bournville by Jonathan Coe This month we are introducing a state-of the-nation novel, Bournville, by Jonathan Coe, published in 2022. What’s the book about? The description on the back of the novel says: In Bournville, a placid suburb of...
07.07.2025 - Maurice Ravel (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Introduction and Allegro 2. Ravel: Le Cygne, from Histoires Naturelles 3. Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques – Le Réveil 4. Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole – Prélude...
02.06.2025 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë This month we are introducing a classic of English literature, Jane Eyre, An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë, first published under her pen name of `Currer Bell´, in October 1847. What‘s the book about? The...
02.06.2025 - Maurice Ravel: 150 Years on…. Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Boléro 2. Ravel on Boléro 3. Ravel: Menuet Antique 4. Ravel: Ouverture de Féérie 5. Ravel: Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot 6. Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante...
22.04.2025 - Texts read & music played Rudyard Kipling: ‘On the Road to Mandalay’ Leonard Woolf: ‘Growing’ Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) George Bernard Shaw on Ceylon in the 1930s Mathew Arnold: film...
07.04.2025 - Trust by Hernan Diaz This month‘s novel is Trust by Hernan Diaz, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Best-Seller. Hernan Diaz is an Argentinian/American writer. His first novel In The Distance, was a finalist for...
