Podcast
Olivia Reads Books
Hosted by Olivia Copeland · EN
Olivia introduces you to a medley of styles, genres, themes and periods of literature through extracts from contributors. It's a show that lets you relax, lose yourself in another world of imagination, and discover books and poetry that you never knew you'd love.
Presented, produced and edited by Olivia Copeland
Music by Alistair Burton
6episodes
Episodes
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Youth & Old Age
Jul 22, 202100:29:45Tap to summarizeThrough the words and works of Dylan Thomas, Warsan Shire, Henri-Louis Bergson, Evelyn Waugh, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Tanvi Roberts, Olivia explores the experiences of youth and old age, and how they might not be so different. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 07/06/2020.
Transcribe →Peace
Jul 22, 202100:23:43Tap to summarizeOlivia explores the meaning of peace through the careful words of Lemn Sissay, Stephen Edgar, Clive Sansom, Khaled Hosseini, Maggie Smith and Mother Theresa. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 31/05/2020.
Transcribe →Life & Death
Jul 22, 202100:27:40Tap to summarizeOlivia thinks about life, death, and what it's all about, with the help of Charlotte Bronte, Tony Harrison, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney and William Shakespeare. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 17/05/2020.
Transcribe →Beauty
Jul 22, 202100:26:57Tap to summarizeThrough the words of Jackie Morris, Wendell Berry, Anne Bronte, William Butler Yeats, Caroline Bird and Kahlil Gibran, Olivia admires the beauty in our world, and how it's been perceived and portrayed through poetry and prose. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 10/05/2020.
Transcribe →Love
Jul 22, 202100:25:50Tap to summarizeOlivia reads poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, Kathryn Manis, James McAuley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ford Maddox Ford, Christina Rossetti and Seamus Heaney, who have all explored love from different angles throughout history, but have never settled on the mystery behind that beautiful phenomenon. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 03/05/2020.
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Change
Jul 22, 202100:23:02Tap to summarizeIn this first episode, Olivia reads words by Stephen Edgar, Louis MacNeice, Italo Calvino, Durs Grünbein and Wendy Cope, thinking about what they say about the constancy of change and humanity's lack of control over the universe. First aired on Cam FM 97.2, 26/04/2020.
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