The Reader at Home
Weekly Shared Reading groups- Online
Whilst we’re unable to meet face to face, we’re running weekly get togethers on Zoom, bringing people together, and stories and poems to life. Each week we read a short story aloud, and talk about what we have read, how it made us feel, what it made us think about. We read stories from every period of history, from every corner of the globe. There is usually time to fit in a poem, moving, sad, funny, difficult, uplifting poems, from every time and everywhere.
There’s no pressure to talk or to read aloud, you can simply come along and listen.
Groups run every week
· Tuesday 2:00pm – 3:30pm
· Wednesday 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Groups are free and open to all; existing group members and new members welcome.
For more details and to join, please contact: alisonfinegan@thereader.org.uk
Approx 90 mins
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2 hr 55 | A film about friendship between Bruno, who repairs film projectors and travels along the inner-German border in his truck, and the psychologist Robert, who is fleeing from his own past.
2 hr 6 | Jonathan Zimmermann believes that he will soon die of leukemia. The unscrupulous American Tom Ripley, learns of this and exploits Zimmermann’s illness for his own purposes.
2 hr 8 | Guardian angels listen to mortals and attempt to comfort them but one of them wishes to become human after he falls in love with the beautiful trapeze artist.
2 hr 28 | The story of Travis, a man who wanders out of Mexico and into Texas one day, in the blazing heat of the “Big Bend”.
3 hrs 25 | A devastating curse rises from the ashes in Verdi’s monumental tale of superstition and rivalry.
3 hr 25 | Magic and fairytale characters are brought to life through ballet in this well-known family favourite.
4 hrs | Director David McVicar brings out the revolutionary elements in Mozart’s great comic opera of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness.
3 hrs | A new production of the much-loved Royal Ballet fairytale classic.
3 hr 20 | Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama in Andrei Serban’s classic staging.
3 hr 10 | Christopher Wheeldon’s new full-length ballet brings the magic realism of this famous modern Mexican novel to The Royal Ballet.