18.04.2018 - Texts read & Music played Comedian Harmonists (Tea for Two, 1934) Owen Hamilton: Tyrolean Summer (1934) Binnie Hale: As Time Goes By (1932) Extracts from The Times & The Manchester Guardian from the Musical ‘Cabaret’: Tomorrow...
09.04.2018 - ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang Sonja, Heinz, Thomas, Dee, Sandra and Andrew discuss this sci-fi short story. How does the linguist Louise communicate with the Aliens (‘Heptapods’)? What do we learn of her daughter, who...
09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: from Dominic Seabrook’s ‘White Heat’ Beatles: The Long and Winding Road Elvis Presley: In the Ghetto Quote from ‘New Musical Express’ Roger McGough: Crazy Bastard Michael Horovitz: Frances...
09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: Canned Heat: On the Road Again Joni Mitchell: Woodstock The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil The Who: Tommy Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (Stanzas 39 & 52) Denny Zager & Rick Evans: In the Year 2525 John...
09.04.2018 - Texts read & music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Patrick Searle & Maureen McConville: Paris May 10-11, 1968 The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash Arthur Marwick: The 1960s (extract) About the...
14.03.2018 - Linda, Maria, Sonja, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. World War 2 is over and Japan sets about rebuilding its shattered cities. Masujo Ono, an ageing painter, looks back over his life and assesses his career, which coincided with the rise of...
28.02.2018 - Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to 2016, ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, in on...
12.02.2018 - Texts read & music played: Bob Dylan: Masters of War Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern Aretha Franklin: Respect Georgie Fame: Bonnie and Clyde The Graduate (extract) Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs Robisnon...
12.02.2018 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.6: 1966) Texts read & Music played: Time, April 13 1966 Peter Sarstedt: Where do you go to, my Lovely? Daily Telegraph (John Crosby) Vogue (Grace Coddington) Crispian St Peters: You Were on my Mind Tom Jones: The...
09.01.2018 - ‘Every Third Thought’, Robert McCrum, (Picador, 2017): On Life, Death and the Endgame The question is no longer ‘Who am I?’ but ‘How long have I got?’ In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic...
