Poetry Cafe 201: The ’45 and ‚Outlander‘
18.11.2024
The 1745 and ‘Outlander’
Playlist (texts read & music played):
Melody of the Skye Boat Song (2x) Text of the Skye Boat Song (H. Boulton) Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) landing on Eriskay J.A. Carruth: ‘The Glenfinnan Monument’ ‘Up for Charlie’ (drumming) ‘Charlie is my Darling’ (trad. & Roger Quilter) Robert Burns: ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’ ‘Hey, Johnny Cope, Are Ye Waukin’ Yet?’ (trad.) Two extra verses to ‘God Save the King’ (1745) ‘Drumossie Moor’ (Alastair McDonald) Catriona Parsons: ‘Culloden Day: Remembering the Battle of Culloden, Knoydart, Pictou Counry, Cape Breton, Canada) ‘Will Ye No’ Come Back Again?’ (trad.) Robert Burns: ‘Afar th’illustrious Exile roams, … ‘ Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘Sing me a song of a lad that is gone…’ Rear blurb on ‘Outlander’ DVD ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’ (Quadriga Consort) Diana Gabaldon: ‘Outlander’ (pp. 562-3) Skye Boat Song