CORFU - Poetry Cafe: 104, podcast from the Cultural Broadcasting Archive

Listen to a fascinating Austrian radio programme (in English), just discovered, with Andrew and Sandra Milne-Skinner. A good selection of music; a poem of mine rounds up the broadcast/podcast:

https://cba.fro.at/418373 #CBA

Poetry Cafe 104: Corfu

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• Corfu

Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu

Texts read and music played:

Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands
Kostis Palamas: Corfu
Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‚This island’s mine…‘)
Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4
Michael Nyman: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs (‚This damned witch…‘)
Shakespeare: The Tempest (‚The isle is full of noises…‘)
Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 2
Michael Nyman: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
Lawrence Durrell: Prospero’s Cell
Lawrence Durrell: ‚Truth‘ (poem)
Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite no. 2
Gastouriotikos Horos (traditional Corfu music)
Henry Miller: The Colossus of Maroussi
Amaranthos (traditional Corfu music)
Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals
Brian Dicks: The Greek Islands
Edward Lear: There was an old person of Paxo… (limerick)
Noel Coward: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Imnos stin Eleftheria (Hymn to Liberty): Greek National Anthem
Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (on the Gorgon)
Sergei Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (‚Sisi‘): Abschied und Rueckfahrt
Nana Mouscouri: Tora Pou Pas Stin Xenitia
Homer: The Odyssey, Book VII (extract)
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
Jim Potts: Corfu (poem, from ‚Corfu Blues‘)
Kato Ston Ai Giorgi (traditional Corfu song)