Five Minutes with Gavin Scott and Carl Sagan
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates one of the finest and most inspiring minds ever to contemplate the cosmos: https://youtu.be/JqihYDyggR4 ...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates one of the finest and most inspiring minds ever to contemplate the cosmos: https://youtu.be/JqihYDyggR4 ...
A splendidly melodramatic poem about British adventures in India by the Edwardian music hall artist J Milton Haynes. https://youtu.be/QDb69wyafzk...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott tells the extraordinary story of Joseph Conrad and the most effective sentence ever written about colonialism....
Discover the man who wrote Drake's Drum and Play up, Play up and Play the game! [caption id="attachment_2358" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Screenshot[/caption]...
This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott brings us to one of literature's greatest suspense sequences, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island https://youtu.be/AQuOnHIFhGc...
Celebrating the adventurous life and enchanting sea poems of John Masefield https://youtu.be/y7TD_HWfJpo...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott takes us to sea, as the Water Rat hears tales of the Mediterranean and the Levant from a mysterious sea-farer in Kenneth Grahame's ever-delightful Wind in the Willows. https://youtu.be/oO3ODhJiZG4...
Gavin Scott celebrates the roller-coaster life of poet John Donne and the witty, sexy poems he left behind for our delight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkFIBKekc8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkFIBKekc8E...
Celebrating Mark Twain's hilarious put-down of James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.Here's the Youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7guLxmT8Q&t=16s...
The finale of Alfred Tennyson's wonderful poem Morte d'Arthur is on my my favourite poems. I hope you enjoy it too. Here's the link to Youtube https://youtu.be/k9MV99A1fpk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MV99A1fpk ...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates Raymond Chandler's wry salute to my beleagured city in his Philip Marlowe novel The Little Sister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osd_BnwXSWY...
Last year I began a podcast celebrating my favorite pieces of prose and poetry from 70+ years of reading, and this year I've begun it again and promise to release a new episode every Friday. Here re the links to the first two, on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyZoOzrAGtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UypkdYqzKFA&list=PLDte4CrxDIFm3ypHAxPlKuRIGX4a5010g ...