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...
06.05.2024 - The Lark and the Nightingale Playlist (texts read & music played) Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (in 4 parts), with faded overlaps (Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim) George Meredith: The Lark...
30.04.2024 - The Fairy Queen Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – Overture 2. Duet: Come, let us leave the Town…. 3. Promotional text for the production by the Tiroler Landestheater 4. First Act Tune – Jig 5....
15.03.2024 - Pygmalion and My Fair Lady Playlist (texts read/ heard & music played) 1. Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak? 2. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain 3. Get me to the Church on time 4. Act II (Longman ed. pp. 21...
27.02.2024 - Assembly by Natasha Brown Today’s book is author Natasha Brown’s first novel. It caused quite a stir in the literary world when it was published in 2019. The book is set in the late summer of 2019. The blurb on the back cover of the novel...
27.02.2024 - With: Andrew, Bernadette, Sandra Playlist: Joan Baez Music played: 1. ‘Once I had a Sweetheart’ 2. ‘Banks of the Ohio’ 3. ‘Help Me Make it through the Night’ 4. ‘House of the Rising Sun’ 5. ‘With God on our Side’ 6....
23.01.2024 - Texts read and music played 1. Edith Nesbit: New Year Snow 2. Christina Rossetti: In the bleak mid-winter (& music by Gustav Holst) 3. Peter Härtling: Schnee für später/ Snow for later (from An den Ufern meiner Stadt, Späte Gedichte,...
