Impressions of Cromer(Saffron Summerfield)
Impressions of Cromer Saffron Summerfield With this soundscape I created a jaunty tune as a basic canvas to reflect and bounce the sounds of this joyful seaside town in high summer. To me, Cromer ...
28 Aug 20223min
19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognise the work of a translator for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation...
18 Jun 202023min
18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
Infectively ridiculous, inevitably imaginative and charmingly irreverent Pippi is the kind of friend who lies all the time, but is also too funny to just drop. AND she's really, really, really strong....
16 Jun 202015min
17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)
As well as her diary, Anne Frank wrote so much more when she was hiding with her family in what she called "The Secret Annex". She wrote tales, rewrote paragraphs and sentences from other books, and s...
9 Jun 20205min
16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
It all starts with Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honour and favourite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna, getting bored. 587,287 words later, you get The Greatest Russian Novel of All Times. We give you ...
1 Jun 202014min
15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)
A Hungarian youth classic novel of war and friendship, here is an excerpt from chapter 1, read by a most illustrious guest: British/Hungarian poet and literary translator George Szirtes.
24 Mai 20209min
14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
A stranger comes to town. Only, the town is Moscow and the stranger is the Devil. Oh, and there's a woman and a giant cat.
20 Mai 202030min
