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We attend to the heart-felt energy of Summer Fire, with music from The Band, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Kinks, Randy Newman, the Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, and Bernice Johnson Reagon. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to various kinds of friends, with, as usual, various kinds of music. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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Most of the show taken up in a reading of Joyce Carol Oates’s horror story about a young girl being called, or seduced, into a strange, new life, all sandwiched between the Beach Boys, the Mothers of Invention and Bob Dylan. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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As promised we bring back the episode on the story of Jonah, with exciting songs (though not fully understanding the thrust of the story) and wide-ranging ramifications. And we bear in mind Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s words: “There are whales on every side / With their big mouths open wide / Just take care, my friend, / Or one will swallow you.” [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to the ramifications of Dylan’s line “What good am I if I’m like all the rest?”, stopping off at the story of Jonah, Dante’s mindless conformists, and lots more. You are invited to attend. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)
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We attend to luck, fortune, chance, fate – the uncontrollable and causeless changes in our lives, with our usual variety of music, and a wee story in the second half of the show. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to the inevitable misfortunes (or worse) that life necessarily brings us, but since they come to everyone, then “I would not feel so all alone, / Everybody must get stoned”. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to Tanith Lee’s “Prince Amilec”, a reading, some discussion, musical interludes. You are invited to attend. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)
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We attend to six Dylan songs, each presenting some kind of drama between characters. You are invited to attend. [An extended version of the show first broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to the episode of Dante and Virgil in the pit of the hypocrites, with lots of different features that tell us quite a bit about the nature of the aspects of fraud that come under the heading of hypocrisy. You are invited to attend. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)
