1antimuzak
Sunday 26th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Ursula Le Guin.
The work and legacy of the American sci-fi author, featuring archive recordings of Le Guin herself alongside interviews with people who knew, loved or were inspired by her.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Ursula Le Guin.
The work and legacy of the American sci-fi author, featuring archive recordings of Le Guin herself alongside interviews with people who knew, loved or were inspired by her.
2antimuzak
Sunday 24th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
While Shepherds Watched.
Elizabeth Alker explores the ancient tradition of South Yorkshire carolling. Originally sung in churches by musicians and choirs, the tradition suffered in the Victorian era and all but a few were driven out. They found a new home in pubs around Sheffield and South Yorkshire, flourishing there today where the tradition has survived intact and is proving increasingly popular, spreading across county lines to other part of the UK and abroad.
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
While Shepherds Watched.
Elizabeth Alker explores the ancient tradition of South Yorkshire carolling. Originally sung in churches by musicians and choirs, the tradition suffered in the Victorian era and all but a few were driven out. They found a new home in pubs around Sheffield and South Yorkshire, flourishing there today where the tradition has survived intact and is proving increasingly popular, spreading across county lines to other part of the UK and abroad.
3antimuzak
Sunday 28th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey.
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls in search of clues in Bunting's life and work to help understand this neglected masterpiece of 20th-century modernist poetry. It's a landscape which the former MP for Penrith and the Borders came to know and love, and it's where Bunting's poetic masterpiece is largely set. Bunting called it his 'acknowledged land', an area stretching from Scotland to the Humber, which was once the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. A moment in time during the Dark Ages which saw a flourishing of Northumbrian art and culture, which produced the Lindisfarne Gospels, and was populated by larger than life historical figures like Eric Bloodaxe and St Cuthbert. It's a complex poem, which is not in the least parochial, taking in the poets travels around the world and his wide learning, and it has much in common with the modernist poetry of Eliot's Waste Land and Pounds Cantos. Briggflatts popularity spearheaded a Sixties' north-eastern poetry renaissance, and yet in its homeland it's been criticised for not being written in an authentic regional voice. Rory examines the many contradictions in Bunting's life, the conscientious objector who later served in the RAF, the socialist who had fascist friends, and the principled public man who led an unexamined private life. But Rory leaves his journey with an acknowledgement of Bunting's exceptional poetic skill and the way in which his life weaves into the life of northern England with all its complexity and fierce rooted national pride.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey.
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls in search of clues in Bunting's life and work to help understand this neglected masterpiece of 20th-century modernist poetry. It's a landscape which the former MP for Penrith and the Borders came to know and love, and it's where Bunting's poetic masterpiece is largely set. Bunting called it his 'acknowledged land', an area stretching from Scotland to the Humber, which was once the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. A moment in time during the Dark Ages which saw a flourishing of Northumbrian art and culture, which produced the Lindisfarne Gospels, and was populated by larger than life historical figures like Eric Bloodaxe and St Cuthbert. It's a complex poem, which is not in the least parochial, taking in the poets travels around the world and his wide learning, and it has much in common with the modernist poetry of Eliot's Waste Land and Pounds Cantos. Briggflatts popularity spearheaded a Sixties' north-eastern poetry renaissance, and yet in its homeland it's been criticised for not being written in an authentic regional voice. Rory examines the many contradictions in Bunting's life, the conscientious objector who later served in the RAF, the socialist who had fascist friends, and the principled public man who led an unexamined private life. But Rory leaves his journey with an acknowledgement of Bunting's exceptional poetic skill and the way in which his life weaves into the life of northern England with all its complexity and fierce rooted national pride.
4antimuzak
Sunday 2nd June 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 20:00 (45 minutes long)
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European.
One day, three decades after the event, German poet and man of letters Heinrich Heine stood on the site of the Battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany: 'There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language.' Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments.
Time: 19:15 to 20:00 (45 minutes long)
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European.
One day, three decades after the event, German poet and man of letters Heinrich Heine stood on the site of the Battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany: 'There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language.' Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments.
5antimuzak
Sunday 27th October 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
The Lost Writings of Mina Loy.
A key figure of the European and American modernist avant-garde, Mina Loy was a groundbreaking writer of poetry, novels, essays, plays, and prose. The writings in question are several versions of an autobiography that Loy never really managed to complete, but wrote and rewrote between the 1920s and the 1950s, across many aesthetic changes and much political turmoil as she moved from England to Paris to Florence and then to New York and finally died in Aspen Colorado. Loy focused on her Victorian childhood, her half-Jewish identity, her mother's rageful and restrictive behaviour and the newness of modernity as a promise of escape. Sandeep Parmar, professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool, maps out this making and remaking of self on the Hampstead street where Loy grew up, speaking to those who can help put Loy's life and writing into perspective.
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
The Lost Writings of Mina Loy.
A key figure of the European and American modernist avant-garde, Mina Loy was a groundbreaking writer of poetry, novels, essays, plays, and prose. The writings in question are several versions of an autobiography that Loy never really managed to complete, but wrote and rewrote between the 1920s and the 1950s, across many aesthetic changes and much political turmoil as she moved from England to Paris to Florence and then to New York and finally died in Aspen Colorado. Loy focused on her Victorian childhood, her half-Jewish identity, her mother's rageful and restrictive behaviour and the newness of modernity as a promise of escape. Sandeep Parmar, professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool, maps out this making and remaking of self on the Hampstead street where Loy grew up, speaking to those who can help put Loy's life and writing into perspective.
6antimuzak
Sunday 22nd June 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 20:00 (45 minutes long)
February House.
Poet and cultural historian Gregory Woods examines the story of the February House artists' commune, when an unremarkable residence in New York City's Brooklyn Heights became the epicentre of western music and literature for a year during the Second World War. The address was home to novelist Carson McCullers, burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and poet WH Auden.
Time: 19:15 to 20:00 (45 minutes long)
February House.
Poet and cultural historian Gregory Woods examines the story of the February House artists' commune, when an unremarkable residence in New York City's Brooklyn Heights became the epicentre of western music and literature for a year during the Second World War. The address was home to novelist Carson McCullers, burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and poet WH Auden.
7antimuzak
Sunday 17th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Delius - A Yorkshireman?
Nick Ahad explores the life, music and identity of composer Frederick Delius - Yorkshireman, child of immigrants, and reluctant Englishman as his birthplace of Bradford celebrates its status as UK City of Culture 2025.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Delius - A Yorkshireman?
Nick Ahad explores the life, music and identity of composer Frederick Delius - Yorkshireman, child of immigrants, and reluctant Englishman as his birthplace of Bradford celebrates its status as UK City of Culture 2025.
8antimuzak
Sunday 14th September 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Music historian Leah Broad explores the meeting in London in 1897 between African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and British composer of Sierra Leonean descent Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The men became friends with Coleridge-Taylor setting a number of Dunbar's poems to music and their collaboration set a template for black poets and composers of the 20th century. Leah is joined by author, pianist and music historian Samantha Ege, and Justin Tackett, an academic who specialises in transatlantic literature.
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Music historian Leah Broad explores the meeting in London in 1897 between African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and British composer of Sierra Leonean descent Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The men became friends with Coleridge-Taylor setting a number of Dunbar's poems to music and their collaboration set a template for black poets and composers of the 20th century. Leah is joined by author, pianist and music historian Samantha Ege, and Justin Tackett, an academic who specialises in transatlantic literature.
9antimuzak
Sunday 22nd March 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.
Sophie Oliver presents a tour of the remarkable home of American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas in Paris. She looks at the material objects they cherished, from an embroidered waistcoat that Alice made for Gertrude, to a series of stationery items and a fabric sculpture of their pet poodle Basket that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology. Using the objects, she takes listeners inside 27 Rue de Fleurus and into Stein's artistic and literary world, which expanded well beyond Paris.
Time: 19:45 to 20:00 (15 minutes long)
At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.
Sophie Oliver presents a tour of the remarkable home of American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas in Paris. She looks at the material objects they cherished, from an embroidered waistcoat that Alice made for Gertrude, to a series of stationery items and a fabric sculpture of their pet poodle Basket that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology. Using the objects, she takes listeners inside 27 Rue de Fleurus and into Stein's artistic and literary world, which expanded well beyond Paris.
10antimuzak
Sunday 5th April 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 19:45 (45 minutes long)
February House.
Poet and cultural historian Gregory Woods examines the story of the February House artists' commune, when an unremarkable residence in New York City's Brooklyn Heights became the epicentre of western music and literature for a year during the Second World War. The address was home to novelist Carson McCullers, burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and poet WH Auden.
Time: 19:00 to 19:45 (45 minutes long)
February House.
Poet and cultural historian Gregory Woods examines the story of the February House artists' commune, when an unremarkable residence in New York City's Brooklyn Heights became the epicentre of western music and literature for a year during the Second World War. The address was home to novelist Carson McCullers, burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and poet WH Auden.
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