 
                
                        Welcome To Heartbreak
Zubin Varla and Katie West guide you through the operatic emotions of a broken heart, reading exquisitely painful poetry from Audre Lorde, Alice Meynell, and Derek Walcott.
There cannot be a phenomenon in all the world that inspires poets and composers more than heartbreak. It is a universal experience, and yet at the same time feels utterly unique.
With Valentine’s Day approaching, why not indulge yourself in expressions of exquisite pain from the likes of Audre Lorde, Alice Meynell, Don Paterson and Derek Walcott, whose words take you through the stages of despair, denial, regret, acceptance and so on. All of it accompanied, of course, by lovelorn, lovesick music courtesy of Leoncavallo, Puccini, Tchaikovsky and Tom Waits.
Living through the operatic emotions of a broken heart alongside you are readers Zubin Varla and Katie West.
Readings: 
Derek Walcott - The Fist
Walt Whitman - Sometimes with One I Love
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Sean Bonney - In Fear of Memory (after Pasolini)
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Alice Meynell - Renouncement
Percey Bysshe Shelley - When the Lamp is Broken
Anon - Donal Og (translated by Lady Augusta Gregory)
Don Paterson - A Vow
Pablo Neruda - Sonnet LXV (translated by Stephen Tapscott)
Lynn Emanuel - Frying Trout While Drunk from ‘The Nerve Of It: Poems Selected and New’ (2015). Aired by permission of University Of Pittsburgh Press.
Ernest Dowson - Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
Ovid - Remedia Amoris (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Kahlil Gibran - On Pain
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Time does not bring relief
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Excrucior
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Odi et Amo
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Id faciam
Kit Wright - My Version
Christina Rossetti - Mirage
Audre Lorde - Movement Song
Derek Walcott - Love After Love
Louis MacNeice - Autumn Journal: Canto XIX
Produced by Jack Howson. 
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    ![]() 00:00 00:00The Carter FamilyJust Another Broken Heart 
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    Derek WalcottThe Fist, read by Katie West ![]() 00:02 00:02Billie HolidayGood Morning Heartache - Billie Holiday: The Essential Recordings.
 Walt WhitmanSometimes with One I Love, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:04 00:04Sam CookeGood Morning Heartache - The World Of Sam Cooke.
 Elizabeth SmartExtract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, read by Katie West ![]() 00:05 00:05Ruggero LeoncavalloPagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba" Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Vienna Volksoper Orchestra. Conductor: Leone Magiera.- I Pagliacci.
 Sean BonneyIn Fear of Memory (after Pasolini), read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:08 00:08Alban BergLyric Suite For String Quartet (1926): VI. Largo desolato Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.- Complete Recordings.
 Elizabeth SmartExtract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, read by Katie West ![]() 00:14 00:14Rahsaan Roland KirkAin't No Sunshine - Blacknuss.
 Alice MeynellRenouncement, read by Katie West ![]() 00:17 00:17Missy MazzoliHeartbreaker Performer: Michael Mizrahi.- Heartbreaker.
 Percey Bysshe ShelleyWhen the Lamp is Broken, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:22 00:22Tom WaitsBad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell) - Small Change.
 Anon, translated by Lady Augusta GregoryDonal Og, read by Katie West ![]() 00:27 00:27John TavenerPrayer Of The Heart Singer: Björk. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Prayer Of The Heart.
 Don PatersonA Vow, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:29 00:29Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyNone But the Lonely Heart, Op. 6 No. 6 Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Three Piano Concerts - Concert Fantasia.
- Hyperion.
 Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen TapscottSonnet LXV, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:32 00:32Amy WinehouseLike Smoke (DEMO) - AMY.
 Lynn EmanuelFrying Trout While Drunk, read by Katie West ![]() 00:35 00:35Sidney BechetBlues In My Heart - Sidney Bechet With Claude Luter And His Orchestra.
 Ernest DowsonNon sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:38 00:38Toby YoungI Carry Your Heart (SATB) Choir: The Oxford Choir. Librettist: e. e. cummings.- Oxford Choral Highlights 2019.
 Ovid, translated by Rolfe HumphriesRemedia Amoris, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:41 00:41Traditional"My Heart Was Burnt By Love" - Traditional Egyptian Folk Song Performer: Michael Levy.- The Ancient Lyre.
 Kahlil GibranOn Pain, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:44 00:44Franz SchubertFantasie in F Minor D.940, Op.103: Largo Performer: Leon Fleisher. Performer: Katherine Jacobson.- Four Hands.
 Edna St. Vincent MillayTime does not bring relief, read by Katie West Frank BidartCatullus: Excrucior, read by Zubin Varla Frank BidartCatullus: Odi et Amo, read by Katie West Frank BidartCatullus: Id faciam, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:47 00:47Jacobus GallusOdi Et Amo Choir: Niederaltaicher Scholaren. Transcriber: Konrad Ruhland.- Carl Orff - Ante - Post.
 Kit WrightMy Version, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 00:49 00:49Giacomo PucciniLe Villi - Opera in 2 Acts / Act 2: La Tregenda Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.- Puccini: Orchestral Music.
 Christina RossettiMirage, read by Katie West ![]() 00:54 00:54Joanna NewsomDoes Not Suffice - Have One On Me.
 Audre LordeMovement Song, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 01:02 01:02Bill Evans & Chet BakerAlone Together - The Complete Legendary Session.
 Derek WalcottLove After Love, read by Katie West Louis MacNeiceExtract from Autumn Journal: Canto XIX, read by Zubin Varla ![]() 01:11 01:11Daniel JohnstonTrue Love Will Find You In The End - Welcome To My World.
 Broadcast- Sun 9 Feb 2020 17:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
 
 
            