We attend to different aspects of performing. Is it hiding your true self, or revealing something deeper in you? A disguise or an expression? You are invited to attend. [First performed on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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After a tribute to the late Geater with the Heater, we offer a Smokey Valentine, with a selection of love songs from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
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We attend to the story of Rumpelstiltskin, which, like many other fairy tales, depicts a young woman coming of age. Here she discovers her inner gold, and the power of a name. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We attend to the theme of “Erotic Gifts”, defining “erotic” in the words of Lewis Hyde as “the principle of attraction, union, involvement which binds together”. Words and music, as usual, from a variety of sources. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
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We go into the new year with one of the most requested shows from the archives, when Neil Henry and Andrew Ab came into the Cambridge 105 Radio studios for a back-and-forth play of music and discussion/reminiscence/jokes, featuring music from Professor Longhair, The Youngbloods, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, Afroman, Junior Gorg, Ricky Ranking, The Pincus Sisters, The Who, Danny Kaye, Dr Hook, The Kinks – and Robert Burns to end with. You are invited to attend this hodge-podge of items.
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We attend to different kinds of gifts and giving, in the spirit of what Lewis Hyde calls “the erotic life of property”. You are invited to attend.
[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We attend to the Japanese idea of wabi-sabi, an engagement with the weather-beaten, unadorned, melancholy, deeply satisfying aspects of life and art. You are invited to attend.
[An uncut version of the show heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We attend to dreams – daydreams, and the “dream landscape of curiously fluid and ambiguous forms”, drug-induced, or as inspiration, or as alienation and absurdity. Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, Solomon Burke, De Quincey, RLS, Dylan. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
As it gets dark earlier and earlier, and, it seems, on many different levels, we attend to some Night Thoughts, with Frankie Laine, RLS, Dylan, Dr Hook, Tammy Wynette, Leonard Cohen, Lee Andrews and the Hearts, Mothers of Invention, Jeannie Robertson, Robert Burns, George Gershwin, Miles Davis – and a wonderful, compassionate night soliloquy by Sherwood Anderson. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
As our contribution to the celebration of Black History Month, we attend to several literary and musical pieces from the African American tradition: Langston Hughes, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Leadbelly, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Robeson, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, Jayne Cortez and a wonderful reading from James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
