07.08.2023 - Reading Circle – Summer Programme During the summer months we have a break from our Reading Circle and so, for the next three programmes we will be looking back at some of the books we have read in the last year. Today we are going to...
31.07.2023 - Ernani (Verdi’s opera) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quotes from Der Standard and Die Presse (July 2023) 2. Verdi: Ernani (Preludio) 3. Come rugiada al cespite…. 4. Ernani involami…. 5. Da quel di che t’ho veduta…. 6....
24.07.2023 - Tiroler Dorfzeitungen auf neuen Wegen In vielen Tiroler Dörfern haben lokale Zeitungen – insbesondere als informelle Gemeindeblätter – eine lange Tradition. Sie berichten alltags- und bürgernah über alles, was die Bevölkerung und...
24.07.2023 - Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia Today’s novel was first published in 2021. It is the first novel by Gabriela Garcia, a fiction writer, poet and journalist. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck...
24.07.2023 - Tributes to Tina Turner and Harry Belafonte – The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the King of Calypso are both now dead. Playlist: texts read and music played 1. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City 2. Tina Turner (TT): I Can’t Stand...
03.07.2023 - NW Scotland (3) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns: ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’ (sung by Karine Polwart) 2. Neil Gunn: from ‘Butcher’s Broom’ 3. Rob Donn: ‘Glen Golly’ 4. Rob Donn: ‘My opinion of...
19.06.2023 - NW Scotland (2) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns/ Joseph Haydn: ‘O’er the hills and far away’ 2. Sydney Tremayne: ‘Remote Country’ 3. Neil Gunn: ‘Highland River’ (extracts) 4. Kenneth C. Mackenzie: ‘A...
19.06.2023 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews The introduction on the back cover reads: ‘Sixteen-year -old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village,...
19.06.2023 - Roald Dahl Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. R. Dahl: ‘St.Ives’ 2. R. Dahl: ‘Hot and Cold’ 3. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ 4. R. Dahl: ‘James and the Giant Peach’ 5. ‘Eating the Peach’ (film musical)...
06.06.2023 - NW Scotland (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘Over the Hills…’ (18thc. Scottish melody) 2. Hugh Macdiarmid: ‘The Watergau’ (1925) 3. Norman MacCaig: ‘The mountains swirl water…’ 4. A.C. Mackenzie: Violin Concerto...
