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The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music One Bard Band by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com

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Market Day

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I do like to be beside the seaside

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Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | Quiz FfMC week 3

1 Which poem by Rupert Brooke written in 1913 ends "All night I could not sleep?

A: Home

2 Which poem written by Rupert Brooke in April 1915, begins " As the wind, and as the wind"?

A: A Song

3 Which poem by Lord Tennyson was written in the dialect current in his youth in the area around Spilsby?

A: The Church Warden and The Curate

4 Sydney Thompson Dobell was born in which year and where?

A: 1824, Cranbrook

5 Sydney Dobell family moved to Cheltenham when he was 12, where was he educated?

A: At home.

6 The murmur of the morning ghost, is the first line from which poem by Sydney Dobell?

A: Keith of Ravelston

7 1066 and all that was written by which Poet, Script writer and comic novelist?

A: Reginald Arkell

8 Which Shakespeare Sonnet begins "Let those who are in favour with their stars"?

A: No 25

9 "Thou art the grave where buried love doth live" is the 9th line in which Sonnet by William Shakespeare?

A: No 31.

10 In which year was Canadian poet Bliss Carman born?

A: 1861

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Spring Song 1909 Victor Herbert Orchestra

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Ambient Chill Piano | 日本庭園 by Alex-Productions | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx0_M61F81Nfb-BRXE-SeVA

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Last week's quiz answers, Week 2:

1 Who wrote the gardening themed poetry book , Green Fingers?

A: Reginald Arkell.

2 Published by Herbert Jenkins Limited, Green Fingers was first published in which year?

A: 1934.

3 Who illustrated Green Fingers?

A: Eugene Hastain.

4 Mine be a cot beside the hill, is the first line from which poem by Samuel Rogers?

A: A Wish.

5 In which year and where was Samuel Rogers born?

A 1763, Islington London.

6 In which year was Irish poet Charles Wolfe born?

A 1791.

7 What is the title of the poem by Charles Wolfe, which begins Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note?

A The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna.

8 What was the name of the great cheiftainess who was an important person in Hawaiian nobility who embraced Christianity and about whom Lord Tennyson wrote a poem?

A: Kapiolani.

9 When the dumb Hour, clothed in black, is the first line from which poem by Lord Tennyson?

A: The Silent Voices.

10 What is the name of the poetry collection written by Evan Jones and published in 2020?

A: Later Emperors

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Trip to Home by LesFM | https://lesfm.net/

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Felicity by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au

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| Air on the G String (from Orchestral Suite no. 3, BWV 1068) by Johann Sebastian Bach - The USAF Strings

Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | The answers to last week's quiz: 1 When I am dead, my dearest is the first line from which poem by C G Rossetti?

A: Song

2 What are the Christian names of C G Rossetti?

A: Christina, Georgina

3 Oh roses for the flush of youth is the first line of which poem by CG Rossetti?

A: Song

4 In which year did CG Rossetti die?

A: 1894

5 C G Rossetti died from breast cancer, on which day and where was she buried?

A: New Year's Day 1895, Highgate

6 So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone, is the first line from which poem by Rupert Brooke?

A: Desertion

7 Written in 1911 what is the last line of Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke?

A: The emptiness of eyes.

8 Which English public school did Rupert Brooke attend?

A: Rugby

9 She dwelt among the untrodden ways, is the first line from the Poem The Lost Love, who wrote it?

A: William Wordsworth

10 Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, is a line from which poem by William Wordsworth?

A: The Reverie of Poor Susan

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Wanderlust by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au

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Nothing added, no music, no applause just William Shakespeare Sonnets read in 7 Volumes, this is Volume 7.

In today's show were finish the reading of William Shakespeare Sonnets, we have poetry, another installment of The Road to Portsmouth and the final extract from Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens. As it is the last last in the season there is no quiz. We're taking a break until 1st if September 2022, however, there will be a shorter show on Summer Sundays from the 5th of June 2022, featuring poetry readings and a weekly quiz. Thank you for listening. Answers to Edition 11 quiz: 1 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, is the first line from poem by Thomas Gray?

A: Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

2 Poet William Morris was born in which year?

A: 1834

3 Janet Frame was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet In which country and what year was she born?

A: New Zealand, 1924

4 What was the title of the critically acclaimed short story collection written by Janet Frame and published in 1951?

A: The Lagoon and other stories

5 Bjarni Vigfússon Thorarensen was an Icelandic poet and official, in which year did he die?

A: 1841

6 Nelly Sachs was a German Swedish poet and playwright, which literature award did she win in 1966?

A Nobel Literature Prize

7 In which year did Nelly Sachs become a Swedish citizen?

A: 1952

8 Operation Rhine Maiden was written by whom?

A: Frederick E Smith

9 Come to me, O ye children! Is the first line from which poem by H W Longfellow?

A: Children

10 What are Longfellow's Christian names?

A: Henry, Wadsworth

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, we read 3 poems, we continue our journey in Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens and end with Just for fun quiz. TTAMC Edition 10 Quiz Answers:

1 Simon Armitage is the current UK poet laureate, when and where was he born?

A: Marsden (Some sources state Huddersfield which is 7 miles from Marsden), 1963

2 Simon Armitage attended Portsmouth University, which subject did he study?

A: Geography

3 What was Simon Armitage's job until 1994 and in which UK City?

A: Probation Officer, Greater Manchester

4 In which year did Rudyard Kipling buy Bateman's and where is it located?

A: 1902, Burwash, Sussex

5 Rudyard loved Bateman's and owned until his death, in which year did he die?

A: 1936

6 William Boddy wrote several motoring books, which motoring magazine was he editor of from 1936 - 1991?

A: Motor Sport

7 Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in which year did she win and what was the book length poem called?

A: 1950, Annie Allen

8 Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, in which South American country was he born?

A: Chile

9 Besides poetry which other career did Pablo Neruda follow?

A: Diplomat

10 In which year was Mahadevi Varma born?

A: 1907

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, we read 4 poems, we continue our journey in Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens and end with Just for fun quiz. TTAMC Quiz Edition 9 Answers: 1 In which year was Jack London born?

A 1876

2 What was Jack London's birth name?

A John Griffith Chaney

3 How many short stories are in the book South Sea Tales by Jack London?

A 8

4 Name two of the short stories?

The House of Mapuhi

The Whale Tooth

Mauki

Yah! Yah! Yah!

The Heathen

The Terrible Solomon's

The Inevitable White Man

The Seed of McCoy

5 Where and when did Jonathan Swift die?

A 1745, Dublin, Ireland

6 The line "I know that I shall meet my fate

Somewhere among the clouds above;" is from which poem by WB Yeats?

A An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

7 When and where in the UK was Wilfred Owen born?

A Oswestry, 1893

8 "Little did I dream, England, that you bore me

Under the Cotswold Hills beside the water meadows" is from which poem by Ivor Gurney?

A Strange Service

9 To the poet before battle is a poem by Ivor Gurney, what are the last two lines?

A The name of poet terrible in just war,

And like a crown of honour upon the fight.

10 In which year did Ivor Gurney die?

A 1937

Nothing added, no music, no applause just William Shakespeare Sonnets read in 7 Volumes, this is Volume 6.