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.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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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.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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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.
(First broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio, the commercially funded community broadcaster for the city and South Cambridgeshire.)
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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.
(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, 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.
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We attend to the story of Jonah – both the simplistic version of the story, as it is often presented, and the much more complex, playful, and significant version, a satire against ego-driven hatred of our enemies. And don’t miss the wonderful songs that intersperse the discussion. You are invited to attend.
Michelangelo’s Jonah
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How do we understand all those people who seem to surrender their minds and their individuality in blindly following an empty, and destructive, political movement? Dante gives us a powerful mythic image of these people in an early episode in the Inferno. We attend to that episode, and more, with musical interludes, and 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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We attend to the second batch of songs from Dylan’s album Oh Mercy, plus two outtakes, songs that resonate with our broken political world, and with all the questions we keep asking ourselves about what’s going on. 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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