Readings from the Pavilion End

Ep 7: Why We Watch Cricket (essay)

This episode features an essay written in August 2017 on Why We Watch Cricket. For cricket and not-yet-cricket fans alike. 

Ep 6: Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats

Today's poem was recorded on May 6, 2020. It was a birthday dedication to Margaret.
Find the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57306/never-give-all-the-heart

Ep 5: Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

Find the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale
This was a request from Joanna. 

Ep 4: The End of an Era by Bill Ricquier

This post was written in April 2024, when English cricket lost one of its great performers in the left-arm spinner Derek Underwood. Read the post and other essays on cricket on the Pavilion End blog. 
 

Ep 3.2: Venice by Jan Morris (prose)

This is part 2 of a 2-part episode recorded in May 2020, during the Covid pandemic. It is an extract from travel writer Jan Morris's 'Venice'. 
Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother. She is a travel writer and author of several books.
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571168972-venice/

Episode 3.1: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud/Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Find the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
 
This is part 1 of a 2-part episode, recorded during the Covid pandemic in May 2020. 

Ep 2: The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel (1937) by John Betjeman

Find the poem and a commentary here: https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-arrest-of-oscar-wilde-at-the-cadogan-hotel
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Ep 1: Naming of Parts by Henry Reed

Find the poem and a commentary here: https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/naming-of-parts
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Introducing Readings from the Pavilion End

Hello! Welcome to Readings from the Pavilion End, a podcast featuring poetry and occasionally prose, and even cricket, by me, Bill Ricquier. 
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