Podcasts about betjeman

Situated on the cusp of the Romantic era, Thomas Gray's work is a mixture of impersonal Augustan abstraction and intense subjectivity. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is one of the most famous poems in the English language, and continues to exert its influence on contemporary poetry. Mark and Seamus explore three of Gray's elegiac poems and their peculiar emotional power. They discuss Gray's ambiguous sexuality, his procrastination and class anxieties, and where his humour shines through – as in his elegy for Horace Walpole's cat.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrldIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsldFurther reading in the LRB:John Mullan: Unpranked Lyrehttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n24/john-mullan/unpranked-lyreTony Harrison: ‘V.'https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v07/n01/tony-harrison/vGet the books: https://lrb.me/crbooklistRead the texts online:https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/sorwhttps://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/elcchttps://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/odfcNext episode: Mid-20th century elegies: Betjeman, Lowell, Bishop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Fancy going for a spin with us? ‘Cos we're about to head off in this ole, beat up Cadillac. Laura Barton is at the wheel and she's got the windows down and the radio up. Jon's nodding seriously to the majestic growl of Johnny Cash and Tommy's got his head out the window, forcing air up his nose like a blood hound. And we're here and we're alive and just shooting the breeze about sad songs, rock stars, lost love, writing, Betjeman, Springsteen, journalism, and turnips… for some reason. Yeah. I'm not entirely sure why, but turnips seem to… crop up, so…  Laura's new book - Sad Songs https://www.waterstones.com/book/sad-songs/laura-barton/9781529406948 Laura's BBC "Notes on music"  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000t4t5 Laura's sad songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElygSMtokAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP6a-7MP91g Jon's sad song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhDnyPsQsB0 Tom's sad song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfaf43W9cM Some other things that crop up: The amazing producers of ‘Notes' http://www.fallingtree.co.uk/about/ Rebecca Solnit; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Solnit Laura's novel, Twenty-One Locks: https://www.waterstones.com/book/twenty-one-locks/laura-barton/9780857381217 Shape note singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyrUhdBHOg8 Cold Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Mountain_(film) John Betjeman & Jim Parker's Banana Blush Album https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lCyv7pJrrVekvs4QdgFQfNYwwEb3XS9w0 How to grow really nice turnips https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/turnips/grow-your-own

Betjeman, Bly, Hardy - Three Christmas Poems and Seasons Greetings from the Versify Podcast.

In this episode, Lexman interviews Judea Pearl about the role of chance in human life. They discuss Betjeman and the stages of life, as well as Pearl's unique take on the disposability of human beings.

Grant Sanderson, a telemark skier, tells us about his injury and how cortisone has helped him.

Snuggle up comfortably as you join us on the NB Erica for a wild night and day as we ride the storms Dudley and Eunice. The poems of Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice, A.A. Milne, William Blake, and John Betjeman keep us company as they take us through a day of roaring wind and rattling rain-squalls.   Please note, the audio for this episode has been intentionally kept ‘dirty' to capture the ambient sounds of a storm as experienced on a narrowboat and so any bangs, clicks, clunks, and other background noises are entirely deliberate!Journal entry:“16th February, Wednesday.21:15Storm Dudley batters the boat,  The world roars and shakes with a crashing frenzy of noise Like bed linen whipping and cracking on a gale-harried washing line. Curtains of rain laced with twigs sluice against the windows.It is a night for wild souls who can match this night, storm for storm, And who run as free as starlight and hawthorn blossom.”Episode Information:In this episode I read the following poems (see episode chapters for time locations):Ted Hughes: ‘Wind' from his first collection Hawk in the Rain (1957) published by Faber and Faber.Louis MacNeice: ‘House on a cliff' from his collection Blind Fireworks (1929) subsequently published in collections by Faber and Faber.A.A. Milne: ‘The wind on the hill' from his Now We are Six (1927) now published by Egmont (2009). William Blake: ‘Mock on. mock on, Voltaire and Rousseau' (1796)John Betjeman: ‘Harrow on the Hill' (1949) published first in A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1953) by in various later collections and anthologies like The Best of Betjeman (1978) published by Penguin Books.  General DetailsIn the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org. Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. ContactFor pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPodI would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

Au petit déjeuner, au goûter, en accord avec des mets…il n'y a pas d'heure pour déguster un bon thé ! Dans ce nouvel épisode, nous allons à la rencontre de la plus British des marques de thés parisiennes : Betjeman and Barton. A sa direction depuis 2004, Agnès Defontaine nous dévoile les secrets de cette marque centenaire, résultat d'un heureux mélange de cultures où tradition et fantaisie se mêlent à la perfection. Lien en bio pour découvrir le podcast. 

Our thirty-ninth tree, Alder (Alnus glutinosa). A tree designed for water; as strong as steel when submerged, alder timber has been keeping Venice from sinking for centuries. In the wild, our Alder provides homes for otters within its exposed root systems and can be found carpeted in the most verdant of mossy carpets. But more important than that, in cahoots with a bacterium, Alder fills our waterlogged and swampy soils with life-building nitrogen. This week's episode was recorded with our host's wellie-clad feet dangling in the Beaulieu river, in the heart of the New Forest. (Special thanks to Natalie Dormer for adding her voice to the Betjeman in this week's episode, and to Hodder & Stoughton for giving us permission to do so.) More from David Oakes as he uproots the secrets and stories beneath the 56(ish) Native Trees of the British Isles can be found at: https://www.treesacrowd.fm/56Trees/ Weekly episodes available early AND bonus content made free to forage by "Subscribtion Squirrels" on our Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The second of our two podcasts with a John Betjeman focus, our guest is writer and railway historian Greg Morse. Topics include Betjeman and Larkin’s relationship with the media, twentieth century architecture and cultural history and, of course, lots of poetry, both Larkin and Betjeman. Larkin poems mentioned: Church Going, Whitsun Weddings, High Windows, This Be The Verse, Toads, Essential Beauty, Home is So Sad, High Windows. Betjeman poems mentioned: Executive, A Lincolnshire Church, Death In Leamington, Croydon, Devonshire St W1, Summoned by Bells. A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin (Faber and Faber, 1947) The Real John Betjeman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQC0PdHit4, (Channel 4, 2000) Railways Forever ( 7min documentary released 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg4wpL2f2RE ) Metroland (BBC, 1973) Summoned by Bells (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsDb-dgXnU4 Time with Betjeman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDlG7_2puao ) (BBC2, 1983) Railways Forever! https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-railways-for-ever-1970-online Monitor: A Poet in London (BBC, 1959) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022kr11 London’s Historic Railway Stations (John Murray, 1972) Monitor: Down Cemetery Road (BBC, 1964) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coe11pgoj8E) Samuel West’s poetry readings ( https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/sets/pandemic-poems-by-samuel-west) Grayson Perry, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath Passport to Pimlico https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041737/ (1949, Ealing Studios) The Righteous Jazz by The Mechanicals Band The Righteous Jazz | The Mechanicals Band (bandcamp.com) Betjeman Reading the Victorians by Greg Morse (2012, Sussex Academic Press) John Betjeman : Greg Morse (author) : 9781845195342 : Blackwell's Betjeman by Greg Morse (2011, Shire Publications) John Betjeman (Shire Library) Greg Morse: Shire Publications (bloomsbury.com) ------------------------------------------- Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz Audio production by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

Experte en gastronomie, amoureuse des restaurants et passée par les plus belles maisons, Agnès Defontaine préside aujourd’hui aux destinées de la maison de thé Betjeman & Barton.Dans cet épisode, elle nous raconte comment l’entreprise, - qui a fêté ses 100 ans l’an dernier – ne cesse de se renouveler ; elle nous parle du processus créatif qui précède le lancement d’un nouveau thé ; et des liens très forts entre thé et gastronomie, un rapprochement auxquel elle contribue en collaborant avec les plus grands chefs. Enfin, Agnès nous parle de l’ivresse que l’on peut ressentir à la dégustation, et qui pourrait bien faire du thé le nouveau vin !Nous avons enregistré cet épisode dans le bar à thé de Betjeman & Barton , situé boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, un cocon au charme tout britannique dans un quartier en plein ébullition – dont vous entendrez quelques échos en fond sonore.

Novelist, playwright and teacher Jonathan Smith has written two plays about Poet Laureate John Betjeman (1906-1984), Mr Betjeman's Class, and Mr Betjeman Regrets that were first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. His wonderful new book Being Betjeman(n) has recently been published by Galileo Publishing (https://galileopublishing.co.uk/being-betjemann). We talk about the life of John Betjeman and his wider cultural significance, Betjeman’s many connections to Philip Larkin, and Jonathan’s own very personal relationship with Betjeman and actor Ben Whitrow, who played Betjeman in Jonathan’s plays. Jonathan also reads Devonshire St, W1. Betjeman poems discussed; The Cottage Hospital, 5 O’Clock Shadow, Death in Leamington, Varsity Student Rag, At Pershore Station, Summoned by Bells. Larkin poems discussed; The Whitsun Weddings, Toads Revisited, Aubade, The Old Fools, Church Going. Other stuff; Evelyn Waugh, Andrew Motion, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, Barry Humphries, Kenneth Williams and the Carry On team, Grayson Perry, the ‘English Eccentric’. Monitor ‘Down Cemetery Road’ (1964): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coe11pgoj8E Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith read Death in Leamington (Parkinson, BBC1 1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI8SYa8Szo John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier (John Murray, 2007) Betjeman by AN Wilson (Arrow, 2007) Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion (Faber and Faber, 1993) Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Audio production by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

I'm reading all the poems in the collection "Railway Rhymes" edited by Peter Ashley. Here are all the podcast episodes from this series: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/poems-about-trains/

I'm reading all the poems in the collection "Railway Rhymes" edited by Peter Ashley. Here are all the podcast episodes from this series: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/poems-about-trains/

A rollicking romp.  The honor of Birmingham is at stake, but  shared nobility of character will prevail.  This episode is a two-fer:   as well as the poem itself, you get a singalong of a song referenced in one of  the stanzas ( The Warwickshire Lads, if that sounds enticing).  I'm reading all the poems in the collection "RailwayRhymes" edited by Peter Ashley and available here   if you want to read along.  Here are all the podcast episodes from this series: https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/poems-about-trains/

The panel bridges McGonagall's Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay to a discussion of twentieth-century poet laureate John Betjeman, who had an abiding fascination for railway buildings both architecturally and as a connecting point for human experiences.

The panel bridges McGonagall's Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay to a discussion of twentieth-century poet laureate John Betjeman, who had an abiding fascination for railway buildings both architecturally and as a connecting point for human experiences.

Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) One of the most popular English language poets of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. One of the nastier assumptions about modern poetry is that it's not possible to be popular and good. Great poets have five readers and an academic following. Popular poets have either no talent or have prostituted themselves to find an audience. As an assumption it's both nasty and dangerous. Betjeman was popular and good. Some of his poems, like this one, seemed to be set in a world that wasn't on the same planet as mine. His excellence is technical. No modernist pyrotechnics, just a deft handling of the formal aspects of rhyming verse. His autobiography, ‘Summoned by Bells' written in blank verse, is one of the better long poems of the century. The first line of this poem has been stuck in my head since I read it in a high school text book.

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Episode 2 of Iamb Ham Presents is a festive spectacular. Whatever your slant on Christmas, Paul Ham has you covered. Believers and non believers alike can revel in the words of Auden, Milligan, Wilcox, Hardy, Betjeman and much more. "Christmas stories tortured into rhyme, contain the essence of the true sublime" - Lord Byron. With music from: Amy Lee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALSCIyUPXI) Kevin MacLoed (https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100075) RTists for Christmas (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/RTists_for_Christmas/)

Betjeman Poetry Prize 2016 with Joanna Lumley on Radio Gorgeous Josephine went along to record the Betjeman Poetry Prize at St Pancras station next to the life size bronze of Britain's most loved poet, Sir John Betjeman. This competition was founded ten years ago by his daughter Candida Lycett-Green. It supports and encourages poetry for the young, aged 10 - 13. Listen to the winner and the runners up recite their original poems and meet Joanna Lumley Patron talking about her love of poetry. For more details about how to enter next year's competition and to read the winner's poem, visit the website below. www.betjemanpoetryprize.co.uk @Betjemanprize Love writing? Never miss a podcast. Sign up to www.radiogorgeous.com #poetry #joannalumley #betjeman

A very sweet edition of the show this week as we explore the world of all things sugary. We have a candied collection of tracks including some psychsploitation, French Moog, and German polka. There are two towering vocal performances from, … Continue reading →

Suggs chooses Sir John Betjeman's poem On a Portrait of a Deaf Man from the Album Banana Blush, set to music by Jim Parker. Plus clips from the bbc archive including Betjeman and Parker in the recording studio; a Radio 4 Quiz on Betjeman; the poet's daughter on his teddy Archie; and Betjeman's famous answer about regrets. Full details at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.