35. Tide ~ time & tidings

2023-12-13

A high tide coming Will eat the land A tide no breakwaters can withstand. Act 1 Scene 1 Peter Grimes, Op. 33 Benjamin Britten, libretto Montagu Slater On a cold winter's day, we go down to a river that becomes the sea and, in an exploration of the complex human relations with the tide, we go with the ‘ebb and flow’, feel the currents, watch the high water mark and study what gets cast up. We are waiting to see what the tide brings and what it takes away; especially at this time in human history. With music from Colin Will...

A high tide coming

Will eat the land

A tide no breakwaters can withstand.

Act 1 Scene 1 Peter Grimes, Op. 33 Benjamin Britten, libretto Montagu Slater

On a cold winter's day, we go down to a river that becomes the sea and, in an exploration of the complex human relations with the tide, we go with the ‘ebb and flow’, feel the currents, watch the high water mark and study what gets cast up. We are waiting to see what the tide brings and what it takes away; especially at this time in human history.

With music from Colin Williams.

Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:

Peter Grimes

River Alde

Benjamin Britten

Corhampton

Svalbard

Moby Duck

Wild Man of Orford

Wadden Sea

Just as the Tide was Flowing

Isle of Iona