A triangle of strange lovers on a beach at night,
A nettle with traumatic roots attempts the English language,
A bizarre dinner party where everyone speaks in sounds,
A spooky other half, called Felicity,
A confusing gull,
An evil contrabassoon

And, in addition, odd goods and services will be announced...


Content Warning:
Horror, Menace, Sex References, Language


Written, composed, arranged, mixed, and performed by Charlie Price.

Non-original music list:
Durufle: Requiem
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata
Bach: Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland
Schubert: Winterreise
Schumann: Dichterliebe
Wolf: Wiegenlied Im Sommer 
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Kate Bush: And Dream of Sheep
Coldplay: Fix You
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint
Saint-saens: Bassoon Sonata
Sarah McLachlan: Adia
Sufjan Stevens: There's A World
Madonna: Material Girl
Madonna: Like a Prayer

Poems:
Louis MacNeice: Slow Movement
Phillip Larkin: An Arundel Tomb (recording)
Ted Hughes: Fulbright Scholars
 

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images..."

The Decalogue








Thumbnail Picture:
Madonna of the Meadow- Raphael

Music:
Gerald Finzi: Et In Terra Pax

Anton Webern: Five Canons (for Soprano, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet)
2. Dormi Jesu, Mater Ridet

"Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, sometimes I'm almost to the ground..."

African-American Spiritual












Content Warning:
Strong Language

In the last five monologues we heard about a man who keeps seeing a set of instructions whenever he's on the brink of orgasm; 
a strange episode in a pizzeria involving a dwarf, an angel, and an old recently retired father who hasn't moved from the back office in a whole month; 
a scary party thrust upon a miserable university student; 
a priest who becomes trapped in his confessional; 
and an unpublished novelist with a dark secret.

This time:

We hear about...

1) A man whose mother has just died who visits a scary-looking rollercoaster in search of revitalisation.

2) A woman at dinner with a shy man who tells her right off the bat that he's an alcoholic. But all is not as it seems.

3) A bizarre voice message: the unnamed caller shares with the unknown recipient a gross little vignette about his nipples.

4) A woman and a fellow jogger called Arthur. A simple routine involving morning jogging and breakfast quickly unravels in unexpected ways.

5) The Room 3 tenant whom nobody in the shared house has ever seen finally comes out. 

    


Music List (including tracks of which only very brief samples are taken):

Poor Mum- Molly Drake
A Coral Room- Kate Bush
The Protecting Veil- John Taverner
Devil In Disguise- Elvis Presley
Livre du Saint Sacrament- Olivier Messiaen
Des Canyons aux Etoiles- Olivier Messiaen
Dona Nobis Pacem- Vaughn Williams
Requiem- Maurice Durufle
(Opening Improvisation, Introit, and Pater Noster taken from 12.00 Pentecost Sunday Mass, 2024, Westminster Cathedral, London)
Holly Holy- Neil Diamond
Saint Francois d'Assise- Olivier Messiaen
Magnificat- Herbert Howells
The Rite of Spring- Stravinsky

Featuring also the voices of Father Stephen Morrison, Anthony Perkins, Harold Bloom, Klaus Kinski

Three Sketches for Two Clarinets- Charlie Price
Concerto for Strings, Winds, Percussion, and Solo Cello- Charlie Price












Content Warning:
Horror, Language, Sex References

"Something grabs a hold of me tightly..."

Vanilla Ice












Content Warning:
Infrequent Strong Language

Go look up the works of art I would urge...

A poem sequence based on paintings/photographs

"Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder. It causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the voice box or larynx. This causes the voice to break and have a tight, strained or strangled sound."

Spasmodic Dysphonia, definition, courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine


"...I'm trembling because of you."

Translations, Brian Friel 








Content Warning:
Strong sexual content, abuse

5 Monologues by Charlie Price.

Take them or leave them; take two and leave three; leave or take them all...your choice.

Happy listening...










Content Warning:
Strong language, strong sex references, horror

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream"

The Emperor of Ice Cream, Wallace Stevens











Content Warning:
Disturbing scenes, some of which listeners may find offensive.
One use of racist language. 

"Last human tenant of these ruined walls"

The Ruined Cottage, William Wordsworth













Content Warning:
Rape reference