Texts read & music played Rudyard Kipling: ‘On the Road to Mandalay’ Leonard Woolf: ‘Growing’ Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) George Bernard Shaw on Ceylon in the 1930s Mathew Arnold: film...
Texts read & music played 1. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Prélude 2. V. Ganeshananthan: Hole-in-the-Heart 3. Advert for Brides, Sunday Observer, March 2 2025 4. ‘Colonel Bogey’ whistled (from The Bridge on the River Kwai) 5. Dire...
King Arthur (Purcell/ Dryden) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Leslie Alcock: ‘Arthur’s Britain’ (1971 & 1989) 2. John Dryden/ Henry Purcell: ‘King Arthur’ – ‘Fairest Isle’ 3. Act 1: Overture, Air, Overture 4. Act...
Maigret and Edith Piaf Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Jean Claude Pascal: L’Aventure 2. Gazette des Tribunaux, from Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille 4. Georges Simenon: Maigret et...
Traction Citroën: Poetry in Motion? PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Georgel: Sous les Ponts de Paris 2. Jean Sablon: Sur les Quais du Vieux Paris 3. Léo Ferré: Paris Canaille (also sung by Catherine Sauvage, Zizi Jeanmaire, Juliette...
The 1745 and ‘Outlander’ Playlist (texts read & music played): Melody of the Skye Boat Song (2x) Text of the Skye Boat Song (H. Boulton) Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) landing on Eriskay J.A. Carruth: ‘The...
Karl Jenkins: L’Homme Armé – A Mass for Peace Karl Jenkins’s L’Homme Armé: A Mass for Peace is being performed in Innsbruck with the University Orchestra , on Saturday October 26th at 19.30, in the Messehalle. Karl Jenkins...
Scots in Canada Runrig: ‘Alba’ ‘Canadian Boat Song’ (1829) Longfellow: ‘Evangeline’ (1847) A Breton Dance Runrig: ‘The Mighty Atlantic’ William MacGibbon: ‘The Water is Wide’ (1762) John Somerville: ‘Uallach Na Mara’...
From Cologne to Würzburg Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 3 (Rhenish) 2. Robert Schumann/ Heinrich Heine: Dichterliebe – Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome… 3. (ditto) : Die alten, bōsen Lieder 4. George...
Byron Playlist (texts read & music played) Byron (1788 – 1824) on himself Derek Jacobi introduces Byron Byron: Dark Lochnagar Phil Coulter (arr.): Lochnagar Lady Caroline Lamb on Byron Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (extracts from...
Paris Olympics 1924 – 2024 Playlist Vangelis: Chariots of Fire – Titles Sally Magnusson: The Flying Scotsman – The Eric Liddell Story (2007) Duncan Hamilton: For the Glory – The Life of Eric Liddell (2016) Vangelis: Chariots of Fire –...
Taylor Swift: a Tortured Soul? Music played (all by Taylor Swift): 1. Fortnight 2. The Tortured Poets Department 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 4. So Long, London 5. Guilty as Sin? 6. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart 7. The Alchemy
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...
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