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... Punch and Judy man on Hove beach. There was rap artist Puff Daddy trying his hand at writing Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, and finally a look at a few tombstones of some late literary characters. The lively studio audience liked the one that read: ...
... as relevant. But this international treasure has never been solely about Belfast. His travels through Eastern Europe and America uncovered many wonderful stories (Speechless) and he is never more fascinating than when describing his adventures and experiences ...
... Radio and Radio Scotland for R4, Saturday, April 1) visited the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Hosted by Garrison Keillor, one of Americas most successful writers, the programme now celebrating its 25th year is heard by more than 2.5 million US listeners every ...
... Maurice Chevalier tribute. A moment of electronic wiz ardry created his duet with Dionne Warwick who had not made the trip from America to sing along with his latest composition. To All the Girts I've Loved Before, a song from 1984, was a welcome inclusion, ...
... for R4, Saturday, July 8). However, in order to make his point, he inevitably had to go into the beginnings of the music in America as well. Chilton maintained that the first improvised jazz to be heard in this country was in 1919 when the Original Dixieland ...
... Portrayal Komedia @ Southside Actress Edie Campbell has spent the last 14 years with a quiet obsession for Emily Dickinson, America's finest female poet, mythical recluse and prolific correspondent. And for most of that time, Campbell has been striving to ...
... Productions. Nominally the memoirs of a fictional singer, it takes her from her north of England roots to a journey through America and American music. Simms alternates spoken sections with songs in a very wide variety of styles, from country rock through ...
... as Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel and Jason Robert Brown. Gordon's tender Sycamore Trees is a lovely evocation of smalHown America, and he was also one of the composers involved in setting a quartet of poems by the likes of Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson ...
... October 29) skipped a few hundred years to land in the 1780s, when, according to presenter David Owen Norris, we had just lost America and the King was going mad. Historian Amanda Vickery painted a gloomy picture of the era: There were only 300 aristocratic ...
... sadly missed Kenny Baker. The Ted Heath Band was the finest this country has ever produced and the only one to make it in America. In 1956 they conquered Carnegie Hall, more than four decades on they gave us an equally memorable perfor mance. The song ...