From the Archives, to set us up for the Cambridge Companions week focusing on the problem of loneliness, coming up at the end of this month.
“But I would not feel so all alone / Everybody must get stoned”, sings Dylan, and we take up that thought and attend to the ways it can adjust our outlook, bringing us all together in the inevitable adversity that is part of our humanity, consoling ourselves and reaching out to console others, with music by Dylan, Frederick Knight, The Four Tops, Solomon Burke, Ernest Bloch, the Kinks, and some comforting words from Stephen Levine, ending with a miraculous Holocaust story. You are invited to attend.
(As heard first on Cambridge 105 Radio.)
From the Archives, updated, the myth of two lovers and the poetic bully who thinks he can destroy their love, but transforms it instead. We spend time with Handel and some modern versions of the story, and the mythic significance, before moving on to a bit of Walt Whitman to finish.
(As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio.)
As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio, Evening under Lamplight‘s Valentine’s Day show attends to the goddess Venus, as dramatised by Dante in Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. And a variety of musical interludes. You are invited to attend.
A revised edition from the Archives, with Walt Whitman celebrating the diversity of people all around us – including, you’ll notice, “the fury of roused mobs”, a phrase that will resonate in special ways today. And our music brings in other divers people from the world around us. You are invited to attend.
[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio.]
To start the new year, we go into a mythical, seductive world with Al Stewart, then escape to “sit in the trees and eat bananas all day” with the Kinks, take a break with a creepy-crawly, and sit back for Noel Coward reading Ogden Nash’s light verse for the Carnival of the Animals. You are invited to attend.
[First aired on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We attend to Winter Darkness – not a dismal time, but a quiet time, allowing things to move deeply within and without, a time of gestation. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
From the Archives: Rapunzel, the story of a girl’s coming to maturity, turning the story around from its usual treatment, with added music. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio.)
A fable from 1900 by George Ade, about a preacher who gave them the Guff, and lots of music from the Kinks, Fats Waller, the Mothers of Invention, the Miracles, Jackson 5, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, Maria Muldaur. You are invited to attend.
[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We look at Risk – the looking ahead into uncertainty and vulnerability, giving up something we have now in the hope of getting something better later on. All leading to a fable about California wild fires and talking oneself out of taking a risk. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio. Contact us at lamplight@cambridge105.co.uk.]
We attend to a mixture of songs, mostly light and (somewhat) cheerful. There’s also an absurd fable thrown in for good measure. You are invited to attend.
