27.08.2024 - Off to the Auvergne… Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. Georges Brassens: Chanson pour l’Auvergnat 2. Vincent d’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français 3. Marie-Joseph Canteloube on his background 4. Canteloube: Trois...
27.08.2024 - Françoise Hardy & 1960s France Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Françoise Hardy: Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge 2. Oh, Oh Chéri 3. On se plait 4. J’ai jeté mon coeur 5. Va pas prendre un tambour 6. Avant de t’en...
04.07.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Pink Floyd: We don’t need no education…. 2. B.F. Skinner: Education…. 3. R.S. Thomas: Children’s Song 4. Gervase Phinn: Creative Writing 5. Albert Einstein: The art of a teacher…. 6. Tim...
04.07.2024 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan In this programme we introduce Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan, an Irish author whose stories are translated into thirty languages and have won several literary prizes. The publisher’s...
25.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 (Jacques Loussier trio) 2. Roger McGough: Once upon a …. Love 3. Satie: Gnossiennes nos. 3, 6, 2, 4, 5 4. James Joyce: With lights of amethyst… 5. Joyce: from Dubliners...
11.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Franz Kafka: ‘The Trees’ 2. Kafka in his diary, Sept 23 1912 3. ‘The Metamorphosis’ (start) 4. Stephen Spender on Kafka’s work (1935) 5. Edward Sackville-West on ‘The Trial’ (1937)...
11.06.2024 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Christina Rossetti/ Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter…. 2. Charles Dickens: Bleak House (from Chapter 57) 3. William Blake: London 4. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Mariana 5. Leos Janacek: In the Mist –...
11.06.2024 - Scenes From a Childhood by Jon Fosse In this programme we introduce Scenes from a Childhood, by Norwegian author, Jon Fosse, published in 2018. Jon Fosse is an author, translator and, especially, a playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel...
06.05.2024 - Dienstag, den 05. März 2024: This month we are introducing a book about childhood. The book is ‚Boyhood, Scenes from Provincial Life‘, a fictionalized, autobiographical novel, by J.M. Coetzee, published in 1997. J.M. Coetzee is one of...
06.05.2024 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Verdi: Preludio 2. Librettist F.M. Piave on Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ 3. From letter by Verdi to Piave 4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5 5. Verdi’s opera for this scene 6. Macbeth...
