We attend to the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with a short version of the story in Scots, and some outrageous songs, and some paradoxical insights into this story about leaving home, moving through beauty to healing and new life. See what it’s all about. You’re invited to attend. 
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially-funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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Sections 3 and 4 of Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, exposing the vibrant, “procreative” “Me myself”. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]
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We look back at the first two sections of Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Song of Myself” and its wild, arousing, wise address to us. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]
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Odysseus, Athena, Nausicaa
We attend to a central moment in the Odyssey (not included in the recent film), where Odysseus is reborn, welcomed hospitably and honoured, and speedily returned to his long-desired homeland of Ithaca. You are invited to attend. (As heard on Cambridge Radio)
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We join in the talk about the Odyssey with our own take on one of the episodes, attending to the original poem by Homer, with details, discussion, and some music. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]
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We attend to ways we breathe together, in sync, in harmony, or even just “walking down the same street together on the very same day”. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]
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We want imaginative experience from stories more than meaning – at least that’s what we propose on this episode, with examples from Claudine Clark, the Sensations, Jenny March, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Louis Stevenson. (As heard on Cambridge Radio)
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We pick up from our last show, continuing with stories, this time four “stories”: James Weldon Johnson’s Black folk “sermon” giving us the story of Creation; the Scottish ballad “Tam Linn”, with fairies and a feisty lady; Dylan’s ballad-like “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts” – the mystery man, the two soiled women, and the villain; and the loose weaving of a few stories together in Dylan’s “Brownsville Girl”. [as heard on Cambridge Radio]
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“I have had to understand that the stories I am told are not always ‘true’.
And also that people are not lying.” (Shari Sabeti)
What is a “true” story? When Zeus asked Hermes if he could rely on him to deliver Zeus’s messages, Hermes replied, “If I tell the truth or if I lie, they’ll get the point.” What difference does it makes as long as we get the point? But what point are we getting? Come along as we attend to these thorny, fascinating issues. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]
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We go back to the myth of Narcissus, not as we usually understand him (self-obsessive to the exclusion of all others) but as the full myth reveals: a young man discovering his true beauty. See what you think. (as heard on Cambridge Radio)
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We recreate the first Evening under Lamplight show, from 18 years ago, with poems by Robert Service, Langston Hughes, and Robert Louis Stevenson, a fable in slang by George Ade (see the illustrations below), and music by the Kinks, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Bob Dylan. [First heard on Cambridge Radio]
