We attend to the famous/notorious Powder of Sympathy, as popularised by Sir Kenelm Digby [pictured] in the 1650s, and used to cure wounds even from a distance. Do we believe these stories? Do we dismiss them, like the missionary at the beginning of Stevenson’s fable, who insists there’s “nothing in it”, or like the missionary after his adventure when he admits that there might be “something in it” after all? You are invited to attend.
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We attend to the famous episode in the Odyssey in which Odysseus meets the Cyclops: witty, gruesome, and strange in many ways. You are invited to attend too.
We attend to the story of Rapunzel: Why is she named after a garden plant? Was her foster mother a witch? What is it about an adolescent girl isolated in a tower? Her long hair – both her outward beauty and the means she allows others to come close to her. And so on. Lots to attend to here, and with musical interludes from Donovan, Berlioz, Paul Robeson, Rolling Stones, The Fantasticks, and a clip from Fractured Fairy Tales. You are invited to attend.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
We attend to different aspects of tone, what it feels like when we express ourselves or when we are open to the expression of others, and bringing in a fine little Japanese fable about bringing out the tone of a musical instrument. With music from the Kinks, Taj Mahal, Duke Ellington, the Coasters, Fraggle Rock, and the celebrated Michio Miyagi on the koto – so quite a varied offering, to which you are invited to attend.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
We attend to all sorts of eyes: sexy eyes, dark eyes, blind eyes, killer’s eyes – with a special section on the dark eyes in Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep. Dr Hook, Billie Holiday, Lovin’ Spoonful, Taj Mahal, Kinks, Dylan, Miriam Makeba, a song in Yiddish, and some poetry too. You are invited to attend.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio, Evening under Lamplight attends to touchstones, those stones that can assess the true value of something – whether a coin or a personality. On the way we visit Dante’s Hell, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and a Robert Louis Stevenson fairy tale, with music from Theodore Bikel, John Lee Hooker, The Temptations, Jimmy Soul, The Band, and Leonard Cohen. You are invited to attend.
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.
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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.
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