You are invited to attend with us as we attend to spectres that inspire our finest creativity and actions, and to evolving so that we can be open to these spectres and to these fine creative actions – and also be so present that we can finally hear the birds. There’s Krishnamurti also, speaking about the problem with education that blocks this creative happiness, which leads us to Leonard Cohen, and to Dylan, and finally to Fraggle Rock, whose song (pardon me) trumps all the other songs.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio, Evening under Lamplight attends to aspects of the imagination – picturing the details of the world around us, imagining dream scenarios, fantasy and projection, creative imagination, featuring music from the Hollies, the Kinks, Danny Kaye, Rolling Stones, Lesley Gore, and Bob Dylan, also with comic pieces from Monty Python and Woody Allen, and Richard Burton reading from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Ted Hughes reading his version of the Pygmalion myth.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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At the start of a new year, we attend to the theme of Threshold, the moment of presence, suspended between past and future, the first challenge on the journey, and the journey is every moment. You are invited to attend and hear what’s waiting on this threshold episode.
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We attend to a few Christmas myths: Santa Claus/Father Christmas, shepherds, snowy childhood memories, St Stephen. You are invited to attend.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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The 200th episode of Evening under Lamplight looks back at some highlights of earlier shows, including a party triptych, a tribute to teenage self-pity, Dante’s circle of lust, and Leonard Cohen’s finale. You are invted to attend.
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We look at some aspects of Sun and Moon, with a variety of songs and some commentary, and then a rich modern fairy tale to wrap it all up. You are invited to attend.
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What do you lose when you lose something? when you lose someone? What do you win when you “win”? Or what’s going on when you “lose yourself”? Lost vs won / lost and found. (Don’t let “loser” remain a term of abuse.) You are invited to attend as we play around with these ideas, helped by some good songs.
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You know the story of Cinderella, but this evening, under lamplight, we attend a little more to this story about self-esteem and transformation. You are invited to attend.
Cindrella by Edmund Dulac
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Series 6 opens by attending to the epic hero Aeneas, as he contends with loss, exile, storms, exhaustion, and the hatred of the Juno, Queen of the gods. We come upon him as he recognises the deep sadness in the human condition, a Roman version of the Japanese “mono no aware” we attended to last time. You are invited to attend, too.
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As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio, we play with the Japanese concept of “mono no aware”, those intense feelings of sadness and beauty that arise as we attend to the impermanence of things. So some thoughts about loss and acceptance and beauty, with poetry from Emily Dickinson, and music from Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention, Kinks, Dylan, and others. You are invited to attend.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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