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...
09.01.2018 - A reading of ‚A Christmas Carol‘, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Lesley Sims Carols & Hymns played 1. In the Bleak Mid-Winter 2. Good King Wenceslas 3. It Came upon the Midnight Clear 4. Christians Awake! 5. Rejoice and be Merry!...
09.01.2018 - Poetry Cafe Dec 14 2017 The 1960s: 1965 Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Beatles: Help 2. from The Great British Dream Factory (Dominic Seabrook) 3. Freddie and the Dreamers: You Were Made for Me 4. Herman’s Hermits: Something Good...
13.12.2017 - ‚The Underground Railroad‘ (2016) by Colson Whitehead Alex, Georg, Sandra and Andrew discuss and read from an extraordinary novel. ‚The Underground Railroad‘ is about a slave named Cora who grows up on a Georgia plantation....
28.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.4: 1964) Texts read & Music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night Robin Denselow: When the Music’s Over – The Story of Political Pop (extract) Dusty Springfield: I Just...
13.11.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.3: 1963) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Sam Cooke: Twistin‘ the Night Away 2. Beatles: Twist and Shout 3. Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues 4. Roy Orbison: It’s Over 5. Roger McGough: Bestlooking Girl...
09.11.2017 - ‚Hag-Seed‘, by Margaret Atwood (2016) Brigitte, Maria, Sandra, Sonja and Andrew discuss: the cover-picture of the book, the origin of the title, with extracts from Shakespeare’s ‚The Tempest‘. The novel a clever...
30.10.2017 - Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no. 2) The American Influence on British Pop Culture Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. Connie Francis: Lipstick on Your Collar 2. Vernon Scannell: The Jealous Wife (poem) 3. Doris Day: Que sera, sera 4. Everly...
16.10.2017 - The 1960s (1): Britain 1959 – 1962 (From Austerity to Affluence) Playlist (Texts read and Music played) 1. Acker Bilk: ‚Stranger on the Shore‘ 2. Helen Shapiro: ‚Walking Back to Happiness‘ 3. Arthur Marwick:...
