Episode 23: Dreams, Happy New Year

• This radio show is now available on nextgoldenage.substack.com, Sherry’s piano recordings streamed at zeno.fm/radio/next-golden-age and the programme schedule is here at www.artsinfinitypress.com/13point10

• quote: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis

• Short Story: (1) A Child’s Dream of a Star (Charles Dickens) (2) Robot Dreams (Isaac Asimov)

• Music: (1) Amy Beach (1867-1944): Dream, Op.15 No.3 (from Four Sketches, 1892) (Sherry Grant piano) (2)Thomas Goss (NZ): Leaves are Falling (Sherry piano) (3) Any Dream Will Do (from from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Zoe Grant vocal, Sherry Grant piano) (4) Gabriel Faure’s: Apres un Reve (1962, Antonio Janigro cello, Ginette Doyen piano) (5) Ross Carey: Summer Dreaming (Sherry Grant cello, Ross Carey piano)

• Dream poems by Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Oliver

• Zoe interviewing haiku poet/Scarlet Dragonfly Editor Kathleen Trocmet (USA) (2023-01-30)

• Dream Haiku (from Haiku Dialogue Dreams Prompt 1) by Željko Vojković (Croatia), John Hawkhead (UK), Dan Campbell (USA), John S Green (USA), Caroline Ridley-Duff (UK), Alan Harvey (USA), kris moon kondo (Japan), Melissa Dennison (UK), Michael Smeer (Mikō) (Netherlands) and Ron C. Moss (Australia)

• Artwork: “Peace” stained glass window by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) (UN photo)

• Background image by jiao tang from Pixabay