21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Oktober 2019: ‚Middle England‘ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. „Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 05. November 2019: ‚Blood Summit‘ by Robert Pimm „Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 28. Oktober 2021:John Keats (2) Texts read and Music played Keats: ‘To Autumn’ Henry Moses: from ‘A Collection of Antique Vases’ (1814) Haydon: from his Journal, January 1813 Keats: ‘On Seeing the...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 14. Oktober 2021:John Keats (1) Texts read and Music played Opening line, ‘To Autumn’ Respighi: Pines near a Catacomb (from Pines of Rome) Keats: ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ Keats:...
15.02.2022 - Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 22. Juli 2021: Playlist: texts read & music played Extract from the ‘Madeleine’ episode (from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu) Jean Giraudoux on Proust (1921) Claude Debussy: En Bateau (from Petite...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 08. Juli 2021:Shakespeare Sonnets No 18 ‚Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?‘ No 130 ‚My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun…‘ No. 29 ‚When, in...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. Juni 2021:Benjamin Britten’s opera ‚The Rape of Lucretia‘ Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‚How is it possible…?‘ (last lines of the Libretto) 2. Opening...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. Juni 2021:From Spring to Summer Playlist (Texts read and Music played) Beethoven: Spring Sonata (F-major): Rondo Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony Sine out! (16thc., anonymous) The Merry Cuckoo (Edmund...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. Dezember 2019: Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (2019) Sandra, Sonja and Andrew play extracts from Ian McEwan’s 2019 novel ‚Machines Like Me‘ (read by Billy Howle) and discuss the book....
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. Jänner 2020: ‚Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine‘ (2017) by Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 04. Februar 2020: Edward Snowden: ‚Permanent Record‘ (2019) George, Tom, Sandra and Andrew discuss Edward Snowden’s extraordinarily courageous book ‚Permanent Record‘, a most...
31.01.2022 - A book about family loyalties and betrayal set in the context of a Muslim family in England.
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. November 2020:Jesmyn Ward, ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ (2017) Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss an extraordinary novel: an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. This road novel...
