Poetry Cafe 36: „Planes and Flight“

Texts read and Music played:

1. The Eagle and the Hawk, John Denver
2. Lunardi’s Balloon Ascent, December 1784
3. Learning to Fly, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4. Coxwell and Glaischer’s 1852 Balloon Ascent
5. Up, Up and Away, Fifth Dimension
6. Levels of Life, Julian Barnes
7. Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Ron Goodwin
8. Bleriot’s account of his 1909 Channel crossing
9. To Beachey 1912, Carl Sandburg
10. Ballet Mechanique, George  Antheil
11. Lindbergh’s account of his 1927 Atlantic crossing
12. Flying Down to Rio, Fred Astaire
13. Courage, Amelia Earhart
14. Aeroplane, Gordon Boshel
15. Music from the film ‘Battle of Britain’
16. The Bombers, Sarah Churchill
17. High Flight, John Gillespie Magee Jnr.
18. Scramble and Battle in the Air, William Walton
19. Back from Australia, John Betjeman
20. Leaving on a Jet Plane, John Denver
21. The Astronaut, James Kirkup
22. Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra