Poetry Cafe 171: North West Scotland (3)

NW Scotland (3)

Playlist (texts read & music played)

1. Robert Burns: ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’ (sung by Karine Polwart)
2. Neil Gunn: from ‘Butcher’s Broom’
3. Rob Donn: ‘Glen Golly’
4. Rob Donn: ‘My opinion of you, Death’
5. Walter Scott: sailing the North Coast in 1814
6. John Murray: from Handbook for North Scotland (Mid-19th. c.)
7. Granville Bantock: A Hebridean Symphony (extract)
8. Paul Theroux: from ‘The Kingdom by the Sea’
9. Gaelic song of emigration on the ‘Hector’ (1773)
10.  Thomas Pennant: from ‘A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772’
11.  A’Mhairead Og (Young Margaret) (sung by Agnes Dickson)
12.  Talamh Beo: Eimhir
13.  Norman MacCaig: ‘Suilven’
14.   Andrew Greig:  from ‘At the Loch of the Green Corrie’ (2010)
15.  Norman MacCaig: ‘So Many Summers’
16.  Chi mi na mor-bheanna (I  will see the Great Mountains)
17.  Norman MacCaig: ‘Between Mountain and Sea’
18.  John Buchan: from ‘Mr Standfast’
19.  Goethe: ‘Ueber allen Gipfeln ist Ruhe’ (‘O’er all the hill-tops….’)
20.  ‘Thig An Smebrach As T-Earrach’ (‘The Thrush Comes in the Spring’) (sung by Ishbel MacAskill)
21.  Arthur Gardner: ‘The  Peaks, Lochs, and Coasts of the Western Highlands’ (1924)
22.  Quotes from Aristotle, Byron, Keats, Psalm 121, T. Gautier
23.   Kate Bush: ‘When Running Up that Hill’ (A Deal with God)
24.  Frank Smythe: ‘The Mountain Vision’ (1950)
25.  Robert Macfarlane: ‘Mountains of the Mind’ (2003)
26.   John Ruskin: ‘Of Mountain Beauty’ (1856)
27.  ‘Tog Orm Mo Phiob’ (Hand me my Pipes)