Poems for my family 001 – Yeats
Listening time: under 3 minutes.Â
The first time I heard this poem was when my mother recited it...
Poems for my family 007 – Carlos Williams
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
The lovely opening line of this poem by William Carlos Williams creates a...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long...
Poems for my family 008 – Drayton
Listening time: under 5 minutes. One of the greatest love poems in English, this was written by Michael...
Meet the Barone
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Â
Casting back across the sweep of history, there is only a handful of...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room
Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s The Mighty Dead
Listening time: 8 minutes.
Enjoy this celebration of a favourite book by a favourite author about a favourite...
Poems for my family 004 – Durrell
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
Durrell has long been a favourite writer and poet. When I first read his Alexandria...
Learning by heart
Listening time: 10 minutes.Â
It's been playing on my mind, the fact that recently I haven't learned any...
A Greek showed up
Listening time: under 5 minutes. From Steinbeck's masterful and lively account of travelling in the Soviet Union with...
Playfulness across the divide
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
We play with dogs and cats and some other creatures. I used to...
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