Episodios

  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 17

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 17
    Nov 5 2025
    The subjunctive mood isn’t used much now, imperatives being all the rage. But I respond to its wistfulness, its wishing, its why-are-things-not-other-than-they-are. More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 17 Diving for Pennies, Carrickfergus, From Your Spell
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    22 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 16

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 16
    Nov 4 2025
    Welcome to Letters from Quotidia Postscripts Episode 16– a podcast by Quentin Bega for listeners who enjoyed that Irish phenomenon- the crack! in the Letters, Postcards and Postscripts from Quotidia published since the beginning of 2021. Quotidia remains that space, that place, where ordinary people lead ordinary lives. But where, from time to time, they…More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 16 Devils and Dust, Rose, Why Bother?
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    26 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 15

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 15
    Nov 3 2025
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wildflower,/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour. More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 15 Who Would, Everything Goes/Restless Paces, He'll Have to Go
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    26 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 14

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 14
    Oct 31 2025
    And so, we arrive at the heart of darkness. We are upriver, could be the Congo; could be the Mekong; could be any river on this planet, because there is always someone hunched in the gloom, face spectrally lit by a fire or a flatscreen plotting nothing at all good for us .More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 14 Big Yellow Taxi, Home, Spray
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    23 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 13

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 13
    Oct 30 2025
    ...all that remains of her is the name on her gravestone and Hardy’s memories of her. Hardy’s use of the refrain ‘the years O!’ (or ‘the years, the years’ as the even-numbered stanzas have it) calls to mind not only the passing of time but also the years marked on those gravestones, alongside the names.More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 13 Hey Joe, The Mark of Cain, During Wind and Rain
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    24 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 12

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 12
    Oct 29 2025
    In one story a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard. He is rewarded by the Apple Tree Man who reveals to him the location of buried gold, more than enough to pay his rent for the coming year. More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 12 Drink Up the Cider, Step It Out Mary, 12th Night song
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    23 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 11

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 11
    Oct 28 2025
    I hope that The Stream can help to affirm that the survival of our species, down the ages, has depended on a commonality among men and women that simply says- we need, want, and love one another! More Letters From Quotidia PS Ep 11 The Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Battle of Aughrim, The Night-Visiting Song, The Stream
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    24 m
  • Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 10

    Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 10
    Oct 27 2025
    In the furor poeticus, I got the key phrase of the song…ah, how can I put it - arse about face is the technical term that applies here. I stared at the book title- Flower swallows- - and then at the first two words of the chorus- swallow flowers. More Letters From Quotidia Postscripts Episode 10 Swallow Flowers, Hello in There, The Unknown Soldier
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    22 m