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,...
08.01.2024 - Dienstag, den 02. Jänner 2024: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff KorelitzThe book we introduce this month is The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz, an American novelist, playwright, theatre producer and essayist. Published in 2022, it tells the...
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28.12.2023 - Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud The book we introduce this month is Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud, published in 2020. Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad and moved to London at the age of 18. She studied law and pursued an academic career,...
