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...
06.06.2023 - British Pageantry 2022-2023 Our programme covers how the nation mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, the pageantry surrounding it, and the commemorative music played. We quote from the report of a friend’s experiences...
06.06.2023 - Ukraine (5) – an updated version of Ukraine (4) from September 2022 Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4...
06.06.2023 - Poetic Spring: ‘Spring in the Air‘? ‘Spring through Poetry!’ Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Vaughan Williams – ‘The Lark Ascending’ 2. ‘The rain in Spain…’ (from ‘My Fair Lady’) 3. W.H. Davies: ‘Leisure’ 4....
06.06.2023 - Love Marriage by Monica Ali Today’s book was published in 2022, and it’s by the writer of that famous novel ‘Brick Lane’ (published 2003) – Monica Ali. After a ten-year hiatus, during which Ali suffered a ‘loss of...
06.06.2023 - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Today’s book, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. It was published in 2013 and was the first novel for NoViolet Bulawayo, a pen name, belonging...
22.03.2023 - Catriona Price: ‘Hert’ Playlist (texts read and music played): Dedication to Catriona Price’s Oma, Jutta Helfritz ‘Hert’: Interlude Catriona on ‘Hert’ ‘Swans’ (George Mackay Brown), set to music by Catriona ‘No Such Thing as...
