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:...
14.09.2017 - Richard III and Robert Herrick Playlist: Texts read and Music played 1. William Walton: Prelude to Richard III 2. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene I, ll. 1 – 41 3. Shakespeare: Richard III, Act V, Scene 3, ll. 316 – 352 4....
30.08.2017 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: 1. ‚The Charm of Skye‘, Seton Gordon (1929) 2. Alexander Nicolson 3. ‚The Road to the Isles‘, Andy Stewart 4. ‚I to the hills will lift mine eyes‘, from ‚Songs of...
