You enjoy listening to poems? Responding to them? Discussing them? Even analyzing them?
On the second Thursday of every month, at 13.06, we do precisely that in a series of programmes, in English.
We, Andrew and Sandra Milne-Skinner, have been running Poetry Café for Freirad since 2012. We have notched up over 200 programmes. Our programmes feature poems based on a theme or topic, together with related music. ‘Poetry’ for us also means poetic prose, so Dickens and Proust have also figured! We try to reflect what is happening currently in the arts world, whether here in Tyrol or further afield. We also celebrate poets, writers and musicians on their anniversaries. We have also had several guests in the Studio.
Do tune in when you hear our signature tune: Satie’s Gymnopédie no. 1, in the arrangement by the Jacques Loussier Trio!
You can also access any of our 200 plus programmes through the Cultural Broadcasting Archive.
Series run: English Song (7x), The 1960s (10x), 20thc. Poetry (6x), Film Music, (3x), Ukraine (4x), Rhymes/ Chants/ Poems/ Songs (at the NMS Inzing, 4x)
The poets we’ve covered include: Shakespeare (Sonnets, Twelfth Night, Hamlet), Burns, Byron, Keats, Walter Scott, John Clare, Thomas Hardy, R.L. Stevenson, Joyce, Owen, T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Laurie Lee, The Mersey Poets (McGough, Henri, Patten), George Mackay Brown, Roald Dahl, Clive James; Emily Dickinson, Amanda Gorman; Hugo, Baudelaire, Apollinaire; …. and even Walter von der Vogelweide!
Writers: Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, W.G. Sebald
Artists: Sisley, Monet, Kokoschka
Musical Topics: Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen, Erik Satie, Debussy (Prélude … Faune), Schubert: Die Schōne Müllerin/ Die Winterreise, Salome, The Lark Ascending, Façade, The Rape of Lucretia, A Ceremony of Carols, War Requiem, The Beatles, ‘Hert’ (Catriona Price), Karl Jenkins’ L’Homme Armé: a Mass for Peace’…. and recently, King Arthur (Purcell)!
Topics include: the sea, rain, the moon, birds in spring, cats, gardens/ flowers, the four seasons, the eye, football, motoring, Paris and Maigret …. and even the Citroën Traction Avant!
Seasonal Themes recur: ‘A Guid New Year’, Burns Night (January 25), St. George’s Day (April 23), Autumn Leaves, ‘A Christmas Carol’, A Ceremony of Carols, Snbow
Travel: Athens, Corfu, Cephelonia, Ithaca; Tuscany, Italian Lakes, Verona, Bologna; Cycling in Bavaria, From Cologne to Würzburg; London, Shropshire; Edinburgh, St Andrews, Skye, Mull – Iona, Staffa, NW Scotland, the Monros; Paris, the Auvergne, Grez-sur-Loing, Moret; New York; Scots in Canada; Singapore; Australia; New Zealand, …. and recently, Ceylon/ Sri Lanka!
Historical Topics: Mary Queen of Scots, The Somme 1916, WW1 Poets
Singers featured include: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Tina Turner, Harry Belafonte, Edith Piaf, Barbara, Françoise Hardy….and Taylor Swift!
