24.03.2025 - Texts read & music played 1. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Prélude 2. V. Ganeshananthan: Hole-in-the-Heart 3. Advert for Brides, Sunday Observer, March 2 2025 4. ‘Colonel Bogey’ whistled (from The Bridge on the River Kwai) 5. Dire...
24.03.2025 - King Arthur (Purcell/ Dryden) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Leslie Alcock: ‘Arthur’s Britain’ (1971 & 1989) 2. John Dryden/ Henry Purcell: ‘King Arthur’ – ‘Fairest Isle’ 3. Act 1: Overture, Air, Overture 4. Act...
05.02.2025 - Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang This month‘s novel is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, an American novelist, who has a degree in international economics and graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and University College,...
03.02.2025 - Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang This month‘s novel is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, an American novelist, who has a degree in international economics and graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and University College,...
20.01.2025 - Disappearing Earth by Julia Philipps Disappearing Earth, (2019), is the first novel from an American author, Julia Phillips. The book was a finalist for the 2019 US National Book Award for Fiction. It was also named one of The New York Times Top...
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17.12.2024 - Maigret and Edith Piaf Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Jean Claude Pascal: L’Aventure 2. Gazette des Tribunaux, from Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille 4. Georges Simenon: Maigret et...
09.12.2024 - Traction Citroën: Poetry in Motion? PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Georgel: Sous les Ponts de Paris 2. Jean Sablon: Sur les Quais du Vieux Paris 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille (also sung by Catherine Sauvage, Zizi Jeanmaire, Juliette...
09.12.2024 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The book we are introducing today is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, published in 2023. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is about the intertwining lives of African...
09.12.2024 - Erasure by Percival Everett This month’s book is not a recent publication. In fact it was first published in 2001, but the themes it tackles are still very relevant today. It’s Erasure, by Percival Everett. Percival Everett is a prolific...
