International Women’s Day: ‘We Can Do It!’

08.03.2024

Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner combine their usual two shows to create a special edition for this years Women’s Day.

Poetry Café – poems by and about women

Playlist (texts read & music played)

1. Statements by Ljudmila Nawalnaya and Julia Nawalnaya.
MUSIC – Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
2. Shakespeare: from The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing
MUSIC – Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
3. Wendy Cope: Bloody Men, Spring Onions, Loss, Advice to Young Women
MUSIC – Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
4. Fleur Adcock: Things
5. Carol Ann Duffy: Recognition
6. Emily Dickinson: Wild Nights- Wild Nights!
7. Wendy Cope: Emily Dickinson
8. Taylor Swift: Red
9. Christina Rossetti: The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
10. Emily Brontë: Stanza
MUSIC- Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
11. Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
MUSIC – Tina Turner: Help
12. Sylvia Plath: Mirror, Poppies in July
13. Charlotte Mew: The Quiet House
14. Gertrude Stein: from Sacred Emily – Rose is a rose is a rose….
15. Dorothy Parker: One Perfect Rose
MUSIC- Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose

Reading Circle – literature by and about women

Books featured and music played:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, published in 1817 Music: Mr Beveridge’s Maggott, an 18th Century dance tune. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, published in 2011 Music: Japanese Flute Music A Place of Execution by Val McDermid, published in 1999 Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, published in 1995 Music: Song for the Sacred Elements by Chenoa Egawa and Alex Turtle Educated by Tara Westover, published in 2018 Music: Moving in Circles by Alana Simonetta

More books by and about women that Andrew & Sandra have read in the Reading Circle and can recommend:

Assembly by Natasha Brown (set in London) Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (set in Scotland) An Angel at my Table by Janet Fram (set in New Zealand) The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler (set in Austria) A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd (set in Germany) We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (set in Zimbabwe and the USA) The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (set in Cyprus) Love Marriage by Monica Ali (set in London) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (set in the UK) Faye’s War by Catherine Bailey, formerly published as The Lost Boys (set in Italy, Germany and Austria) The Nine by Gwen Strauss (set in Germany)

Eine Sendung von Andrew und Sandra Milne-Skinner

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