Reading Circle — 06. August 2019
A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter...

Poetry Cafe — 12. September 2019
Bavarian Lakes Tour (3): from the Stanbergersee to the Achensee Texts and music played: Thomas Mann: diary entry May 1919 Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg – Die Fuelle des Wohllauts Schubert: Der Lindenbaum (from Die Winterreise)...

Poetry Cafe — 08. August 2019
Bavarian Lakes CycleTour 1 From Scharnitz to Benediktbeuren… Texts read & music played: D.H. Lawrence: Bavarian Gentians (1927) Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel (1900) Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany...

Poetry Cafe — 25. Juli 2019
Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands Texts read & music played: Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‚ (1967) Tony Robinson: Odysseus – The Greatest Hero of Them All Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope) Nikos...

Reading Circle — 02. Juli 2019
A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter...

Poetry Cafe — 13. Juni 2019
Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu Texts read & music played: Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands Kostis Palamas: Corfu Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‚This island’s mine…‘) Thomas Ades: The Tempest,...

Poetry Cafe — 23. Mai 2019
reece: 4. Ithaca Texts read & music played: Homer: The Odyssey (Book 13, extract) Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, op.17 George Seferis: It’s an old Harbour… Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Ithaca) Lord Byron: Childe...

Poetry Cafe — 09. Mai 2019
Greece: 3. Kefallonia Playlist: texts read and music played Song: Mia Morfi Nisiotissa, sung by Irini Konitopoulou Lord Byron at Metaxata, summer 1823 Byron’s confession to his friend Kennedy Traditional instrumental piece:...

Poetry Cafe — 25. April 2019
Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia...

Reading Circle — 04. Juni 2019
‚The Only Story‘ (2018) by Julian Barnes „Would you love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.“ First love has lifelong...

Reading Circle — 07. Mai 2019
‚A Tale of Love and Darkness‘ (2003) by Amos Oz Lee-Anne, Sylvia, Sandra and Andrew discuss Amos Oz’s 2003 ’novelistic memoir‘ ‚A Tale of Love and Darkness‘. „Love and darkness are just two...

Poetry Cafe — 11. April 2019
Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia...

Reading Circle — 02. April 2019
‚Transcription‘ (2018) by Kate Atkinson Sandra, Maria, Thomas and Andrew discuss Kate Atkinson’s 2018 novel ‚Transcription‘. In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of...

Poetry Cafe — 28. März 2019
Texts read and music played: R.D. Leitch: The Loss of HMS Punjab Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Jack’s the Lad (Sailor’s Hornpipe) R.D. Leitch: The End of the Bismarck ‚Rule Britannia‘ R.D....

Poetry Cafe — 14. März 2019
Texts read and Music played: ‚On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring‘, Frederick Delius ‚Spring: the Cuckoo‘, William Shakespeare ‚Home Thoughts from Abroad‘, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...