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1antimuzak
Sunday 19th July 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:35 to 20:55 (20 minutes long)
Michael Longley at 70.
The renowned Belfast poet and professor of poetry for Ireland celebrates his seventieth birthday with a look back over his life, reading a poem from each decade, including Michael Longley: Wounds, his World War I homage to his father, Michael Longley: Ceasefire, written after the IRA ceasefire in 1994, and Michael Longley: Cloudberries, his most recent Scandinavian inspired love poem.
Time: 20:35 to 20:55 (20 minutes long)
Michael Longley at 70.
The renowned Belfast poet and professor of poetry for Ireland celebrates his seventieth birthday with a look back over his life, reading a poem from each decade, including Michael Longley: Wounds, his World War I homage to his father, Michael Longley: Ceasefire, written after the IRA ceasefire in 1994, and Michael Longley: Cloudberries, his most recent Scandinavian inspired love poem.
2antimuzak
Sunday 2nd August 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Proms Literary Festival.
Former poet laureate Andrew Motion introduces a personal choice of poems by another poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Actress Fiona Shaw performs Andrew's choices, including excerpts from In Memoriam and The Lady of Shallot in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music. Andrew also talks to Matthew Sweet about Tennyson, revealing him to be a much stranger poet than is generally believed.
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Proms Literary Festival.
Former poet laureate Andrew Motion introduces a personal choice of poems by another poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Actress Fiona Shaw performs Andrew's choices, including excerpts from In Memoriam and The Lady of Shallot in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music. Andrew also talks to Matthew Sweet about Tennyson, revealing him to be a much stranger poet than is generally believed.
3antimuzak
Saturday 15th August 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:05 to 20:25 (20 minutes long)
Proms Plus.
The Orpheus Myth: In front of an audience at the Proms Literary Festival, Susan Hitch is joined by award-winning writer Philip Pullman to discuss the powerful legend of Orpheus, exploring the influence of myth as a subject for fiction. Orpheus, whose lyre and songs could charm even Hades, king of the underworld, journeys into the kingdom of the dead to plead for the release of his wife Eurydice. Succeeding where all others have failed, he is offered a deal. He can take his wife with him, but only if he makes his return journey without turning to look at her as she walks behind him back into the land of the living. Where his heroism and charm have succeeded, his human flaw of curiosity proves his undoing.
Time: 20:05 to 20:25 (20 minutes long)
Proms Plus.
The Orpheus Myth: In front of an audience at the Proms Literary Festival, Susan Hitch is joined by award-winning writer Philip Pullman to discuss the powerful legend of Orpheus, exploring the influence of myth as a subject for fiction. Orpheus, whose lyre and songs could charm even Hades, king of the underworld, journeys into the kingdom of the dead to plead for the release of his wife Eurydice. Succeeding where all others have failed, he is offered a deal. He can take his wife with him, but only if he makes his return journey without turning to look at her as she walks behind him back into the land of the living. Where his heroism and charm have succeeded, his human flaw of curiosity proves his undoing.
4chrisharpe
I just caught this programme early this morning with one day left to listen. Some astonishing snippets about nightingales duetting with cellist Beatrice Harrison - and WWII bombers!
The Barley Bird (no touchstone) by Richard Mabey
Last broadcast on Sunday, 16:45 on BBC Radio 3.
In Suffolk they call the Nightingale, the Barley Bird, as its arrival coincides with the sprouting of the barley. The acclaimed nature writer, Richard Mabey, a longtime devotee of the bird, reads extracts from his new book, 'The Barley Bird', and muses on how this mysterious and elusive bird has inspired poets and musicians across the centuries. He recalls too, the famous series of annual outside broadcasts made by the cellist Beatrice Harrison and her accompanist - a nightingale in her garden.
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs.
The Barley Bird (no touchstone) by Richard Mabey
Last broadcast on Sunday, 16:45 on BBC Radio 3.
In Suffolk they call the Nightingale, the Barley Bird, as its arrival coincides with the sprouting of the barley. The acclaimed nature writer, Richard Mabey, a longtime devotee of the bird, reads extracts from his new book, 'The Barley Bird', and muses on how this mysterious and elusive bird has inspired poets and musicians across the centuries. He recalls too, the famous series of annual outside broadcasts made by the cellist Beatrice Harrison and her accompanist - a nightingale in her garden.
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs.
5antimuzak
Saturday 6th August 2011 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:40 to 20:00 (20 minutes long)
A Russian Bloomsbury.
Lesley Chamberlain explores the 'aesthetic Bolsheviks', the modernist artistic community of 1920s Moscow and Petersburg that embraced socialism. These 'Bloomsberries' were leading intellectuals before and after the revolution. They lived unconventionally, guided by a love of pleasure, a sexual openness and a passionate formal interest in art. Their members included the critic Osip Brik and his dancer wife Lili, the poet Mayakovsky and the photographer Rodchenko.
Time: 19:40 to 20:00 (20 minutes long)
A Russian Bloomsbury.
Lesley Chamberlain explores the 'aesthetic Bolsheviks', the modernist artistic community of 1920s Moscow and Petersburg that embraced socialism. These 'Bloomsberries' were leading intellectuals before and after the revolution. They lived unconventionally, guided by a love of pleasure, a sexual openness and a passionate formal interest in art. Their members included the critic Osip Brik and his dancer wife Lili, the poet Mayakovsky and the photographer Rodchenko.
6antimuzak
Saturday 13th August 2011 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Literary: Humour in Literature.
In an audience discussion from the Royal College of Music in London, Matthew Sweet is joined by comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt, who unveil and perform their favourite humorous writing from down the ages, from Aristophanes and Chaucer to Dorothy Parker and PG Wodehouse.
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Literary: Humour in Literature.
In an audience discussion from the Royal College of Music in London, Matthew Sweet is joined by comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt, who unveil and perform their favourite humorous writing from down the ages, from Aristophanes and Chaucer to Dorothy Parker and PG Wodehouse.
7antimuzak
Sunday 14th August 2011 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 20:20 (20 minutes long)
Virginia Woolf: Kew Gardens.
Lindsay Duncan reads Virginia Woolf's classic story celebrating the link between nature and humanity, set on a sweltering summer's day in Kew Gardens.
Time: 20:00 to 20:20 (20 minutes long)
Virginia Woolf: Kew Gardens.
Lindsay Duncan reads Virginia Woolf's classic story celebrating the link between nature and humanity, set on a sweltering summer's day in Kew Gardens.
8antimuzak
Friday 13th July 2012
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Discovering Music.
Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Coronation Ode, written for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.
Time: 20:20 to 20:40 (20 minutes long)
Discovering Music.
Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Coronation Ode, written for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.
9antimuzak
Saturday, July 21st, 2012 on BBC Radio Three from 8:35pm to 8:55pm
o complement the series of Beethoven concerts by the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, Paul Farley explores Goethe's The West-Eastern Divan, from which Barenboim's orchestra takes its name. German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was influenced by eastern poetry - particularly the work of the Persian poet Hafiz. Goethe's sensual poetic cycle, The West-Eastern Divan is essentially a love poem to Hafiz. In the first of two linked features, Paul Farley explores Goethe's fascination with Arabic literature, and his admiration for Hafiz, whom he admired as both a hedonist and an enemy of dogmatic orthodoxy. The Divan is also a way of mapping Goethe's own love affair with a young married woman, Marianne von Willemer - the real subject of the many sensual 'Suleika' poems. Paul examines Goethe's role as a champion of eastern literature in the west and talks to poets and historians about the lasting legacy of the ideas that inform The West-Eastern Divan.
o complement the series of Beethoven concerts by the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, Paul Farley explores Goethe's The West-Eastern Divan, from which Barenboim's orchestra takes its name. German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was influenced by eastern poetry - particularly the work of the Persian poet Hafiz. Goethe's sensual poetic cycle, The West-Eastern Divan is essentially a love poem to Hafiz. In the first of two linked features, Paul Farley explores Goethe's fascination with Arabic literature, and his admiration for Hafiz, whom he admired as both a hedonist and an enemy of dogmatic orthodoxy. The Divan is also a way of mapping Goethe's own love affair with a young married woman, Marianne von Willemer - the real subject of the many sensual 'Suleika' poems. Paul examines Goethe's role as a champion of eastern literature in the west and talks to poets and historians about the lasting legacy of the ideas that inform The West-Eastern Divan.
10antimuzak
Monday, August 13th, 2012 on BBC Radio Three from 8:30pm to 8:50pm
Goodbye, Goodbye
Amanda Root reads Elizabeth Taylor's 1954 tale of forbidden love - of a very English kind. When two lovers vow never to see each other again, they believe it is for ever. But one summer's day, in a meeting on a summer's beach, they are reunited. But, with the woman's children playing nearby, simmering emotions must remain hidden.
Goodbye, Goodbye
Amanda Root reads Elizabeth Taylor's 1954 tale of forbidden love - of a very English kind. When two lovers vow never to see each other again, they believe it is for ever. But one summer's day, in a meeting on a summer's beach, they are reunited. But, with the woman's children playing nearby, simmering emotions must remain hidden.
11antimuzak
Monday, November 12th, 2012 on BBC Radio Three from 8:10pm to 8:30pm
Rudyard Kipling: The Gardener
To commemorate Armistice Day, Sian Thomas reads Rudyard Kipling's classic story of remembrance, written out of his own grief at losing his son in the First World War, culminating on the killing fields of Northern Europe. It focuses on a very typical Englishwoman who brings up the son of her disgraced and now dead brother, before seeing him of to the war in France. On the news that he is missing presumed dead, she is numbed, living on untouched by events around her. Only on visiting his grave across the English Channel does she find solance.
Rudyard Kipling: The Gardener
To commemorate Armistice Day, Sian Thomas reads Rudyard Kipling's classic story of remembrance, written out of his own grief at losing his son in the First World War, culminating on the killing fields of Northern Europe. It focuses on a very typical Englishwoman who brings up the son of her disgraced and now dead brother, before seeing him of to the war in France. On the news that he is missing presumed dead, she is numbed, living on untouched by events around her. Only on visiting his grave across the English Channel does she find solance.
12chrisharpe
Ronald Blythe in Conversation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p2v8j
Availability:
over a year left to listen
Duration:
20 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 04 December 2012
In his ninetieth year, the writer Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield, the classic oral history of East Anglian rural life, talks to Mark Cocker about his career and times. Blythe spent time working for Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh and in the company of East Anglian artists like John Nash and Cedric Morris. The Suffolk countryside and his home which he inherited from John Nash has been at the centre of much of his writing including a long-running and much admired column for the Church Times called Word from Wormingford. Recorded in front of an audience at Stamford Arts Centre theatre as part of the New Networks for Nature 2012 meeting.
Producer: Tim Dee.
Availability:
over a year left to listen
Duration:
20 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 04 December 2012
In his ninetieth year, the writer Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield, the classic oral history of East Anglian rural life, talks to Mark Cocker about his career and times. Blythe spent time working for Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh and in the company of East Anglian artists like John Nash and Cedric Morris. The Suffolk countryside and his home which he inherited from John Nash has been at the centre of much of his writing including a long-running and much admired column for the Church Times called Word from Wormingford. Recorded in front of an audience at Stamford Arts Centre theatre as part of the New Networks for Nature 2012 meeting.
Producer: Tim Dee.
13antimuzak
Saturday 20th July 2013 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 20:15 to 20:35 (20 minutes long)
Verdi's God.
Three great Verdi experts - Roger Parker, Flora Willson and Semyon Bychkov - explore the composer's idea of God, the Church and Religion.
Time: 20:15 to 20:35 (20 minutes long)
Verdi's God.
Three great Verdi experts - Roger Parker, Flora Willson and Semyon Bychkov - explore the composer's idea of God, the Church and Religion.
14antimuzak
Saturday 18th July 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:35 (20 minutes long)
The Human Jukebox.
Peter Curran finds out why we sing to ourselves and if it is possible to get rid of phrases of music that we find stuck in our heads. With contributions from Professor Paul Robertson, leader of the Medici Quartet, who talks about the connections in the brain between music and emotion, and Dr Lauren Stewart, reader in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, who discusses the origination and nature of earworms, or 'Ohrwurm' as they were originally described in German.
Time: 19:15 to 19:35 (20 minutes long)
The Human Jukebox.
Peter Curran finds out why we sing to ourselves and if it is possible to get rid of phrases of music that we find stuck in our heads. With contributions from Professor Paul Robertson, leader of the Medici Quartet, who talks about the connections in the brain between music and emotion, and Dr Lauren Stewart, reader in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, who discusses the origination and nature of earworms, or 'Ohrwurm' as they were originally described in German.
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