Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 7

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It’s Thurs­day May 27 and time for a brand new episode in our twice-month­ly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time (8pm and mid­night in the UK), and a new episode pre­mieres every two weeks.

Episode 7 cov­ers the Court Cards of the Minor Arcana.  We dis­cuss the sig­nif­i­cance and func­tion of the Court Cards in the four suits and dif­fer­ent ways of think­ing about them.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

New Episodes on Mixcloud

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If you missed the lat­est episodes of our two pop­u­lar series, “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 6 and “Where’ve You Been?” Episode 8, you can now catch them on Mix­Cloud. You can pause play­back at any point, or go back over some­thing you need to hear again — ide­al with pro­gram­ming like our Tarot series where there’s quite a lot of detail.
Mean­while, the new episode of “Where’ve You Been” pre­mieres on Wednes­day 26th May and “Tarot @ Teatime” the fol­low­ing day: noon or 4pm Pacific/8pm or mid­night in the UK.

Saturday At The Movies

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Today, join us for a pro­gramme of music from the movies.

Movies are where most peo­ple today hear orches­tral music, and there will be plen­ty of that today. But movie music is a much broad­er field than that, and today you’ll hear music from the movies of many dif­fer­ent kinds, from the very start of the genre (with Camille Saint-Saens) to the lat­est block­busters; from orches­tral music to rock, to Fifties songs. There is a slight bias towards fan­ta­sy and SF movies, but nev­er mind, we all need a bit of an escape these days.…

Today we’ll be fea­tur­ing Andrea Far­ri’s evoca­tive music from  Le Château du Tarot — a short film that unveiled the Dior Haute-Cou­ture Spring-Sum­mer 2021 col­lec­tion by Maria Grazia Chi­uri.

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The Black Mass: The Judgment by Franz Kafka

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Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time, 8pm or mid­night in the UK , for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields.

Note that the pro­gramme will not begin until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

Today: The Judg­ment by Franz Kaf­ka

“The Judg­ment” (“Das Urteil”), also trans­lat­ed “The Ver­dict”, is a short sto­ry writ­ten by Franz Kaf­ka in 1912, con­cern­ing the rela­tion­ship between a man and his father. Kaf­ka wrote “The Judg­ment” in a sin­gle sit­ting on Sep­tem­ber 22, 1912. In lat­er writ­ings, he described the cre­ative out­burst of “The Judg­ment” as “the total open­ing of body and soul,” say­ing that “the sto­ry evolved as a true birth, cov­ered with filth and slime.” Kaf­ka viewed the work as “one of his most suc­cess­ful and per­fect lit­er­ary cre­ations” which he was able to write in a “semi-uncon­scious state of mind.”

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The Grove: New Age Music By A Starlit Sea

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Join us today — Sat­ur­day 15th May, at 2pm Pacif­ic Time / 10pm UK time — for the lat­est in an approx­i­mate­ly month­ly series fea­tur­ing 90 min­utes of New Age music, pre­sent­ed from The Grove, a beau­ti­ful spe­cial­ly-cre­at­ed envi­ron­ment in the vir­tu­al world of Sec­ond Life — http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/127/78/3805  - or sim­ply tune in at http://main.vcradio.org
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Vocal Magic

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In today’s pro­gramme, we present a selec­tion of music fea­tur­ing the human voice, from Mediæ­val times to the present.

Both sec­u­lar and a lit­tle sacred music is includ­ed, so today’s show will be quite var­ied, rang­ing between trou­ba­dour songs, Renais­sance choral works, tra­di­tion­al Eng­lish folk-songs sung by artists like the King’s Singers and Coope Boyes & Simp­son, and mod­ern works such as those of Karl Jenk­ins, Lib­era, The Swingle Singers, The Car­pen­ters, and Don­na McK­e­vit­t’s haunt­ing set­tings of Derek Jar­man’s poet­ry.

The pro­gramme focus­es pri­mar­i­ly on less­er-known works and on small­er vocal ensem­bles, rather than either solo or large-scale per­for­mances, but exam­ples of both are also includ­ed.

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The Black Mass: The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

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Join us on Fri­day at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time, 8pm or mid­night in the UK , for anoth­er episode in the land­mark radio dra­ma series The Black Mass, cre­at­ed by the late Erik Bauers­feld and his col­leagues at the Paci­fi­ca radio sta­tion KPFA in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, over fifty years ago. In 30 chill­ing tales of mys­tery, imag­i­na­tion and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields.

Note that the episode will not start until the track play­ing at the top of the hour has fin­ished, so the actu­al start time of the episode will be a few min­utes after the hour.

Today: The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

This Goth­ic ghost sto­ry by Ambrose Bierce was first pub­lished in the San Fran­cis­co peri­od­i­cal The Wave on Decem­ber 19, 1891 before appear­ing in the 1893 col­lec­tion Can Such Things Be?

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