12.08.2021 - Scottish popular music from the 1960's to current

01.12.2020 - from Scotland via Australia to the Somme Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Simon Armitage: ‘The Bed’ (Armistice Day, 2020) 2. Hymn: ‘Abide with Me’ 3. Frederick Delius: ‘In a Summer Garden’ (1912) 4. Leon...

01.12.2020 - Playlist: Texts read and music played:- 1. John Donne, ‘No man is an island…’ 2. John Muir: ‘Climb the mountains…’ 3. Melody: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ 4. Daniel Defoe: Journey Thro’ the...

11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 3 The Merseybeats: Wishing and Hoping Kenneth Steven: Wishing Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose, … Rhyming messages on Valentine cards… An acrostic poem: V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E I remember well, …...

11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 2 Tongue Twisters A Verb Rap: Wake up and Sing Sarah Lattimore: The Writer of this Poem A wise old owl … A Puzzle Poem A Song for Winter Snow, Feathery soft and … Debussy: Children’s Corner/ The Snow is...

11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 1 The Wheels on the Bus … Elgar: Nursery Suite / The Wagon Passes Old MacDonald had a Farm Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suite no. 2/ The Wild Bears Edwin Morgan: The Loch Ness Monster’s Song If I had a donkey…...

11.03.2020 - T.S. Eliot’s ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’  AND Andrew Lloyd Webber’s  Musical ‘Cats’ Texts read (by T.S. Eliot himself) and Music played: Rossini: Duetto buffo di due Gatti (1825)...

11.03.2020 - Christmas Texts read and music played: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Henry Livingston Jr.: Account of a Visit from St.Nicholas Corelli: Concerto no.8, Fatto per la Notte di Natale (Allegro) Robert Frost: Christmas Trees Catalan Christmas Carol: Song of...

11.03.2020 - Clive James, 1939 -2019: Journalist, broadcaster, author … and POET! (A Tribute to … ) Texts read and music played: Clive James: My Father before Me Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose Clive James: Edith Piaf Edith Piaf: L’Hymne a...

11.03.2020 - Schubert’s ‘Die Winterreise’ Texts read and music played: Ian Bostridge: Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (2015) Benjamin Britten: Schubert’s Winterreise Schubert: Gute Nacht Dieter Fischer-Dieskau:...