The Art of the Matter

This week the Art of the Matter tries out the News Programme format. There are three items: 1) The mysterious disapearance of Spotify 2) An interview with our ethnic minorities correspondant 3) A Cambridge-centred conspiray theory Enjoy!

This week we serve up, in full, an Art of the Matter Play for the Week, entitled "Carry On Up The Cam"

This week, the Art of the Matter Chart Show plays you some of the best sonnets from around the University. You will hear: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer MUCH have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. John Asbery: What Is Poetry The medieval town, with frieze Of boy scouts from Nagoya? The snow That came when we wanted it to snow? Beautiful images? Trying to avoid Ideas, as in this poem? But we Go back to them as to a wife, leaving The mistress we desire? Now they Will have to believe it As we believed it. In school All the thought got combed out: What was left was like a field. Shut your eyes, and you can feel it for miles around. Now open them on a thin vertical path. It might give us--what?--some flowers soon? Percey Shelley: Ozymandius I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

In our final show of the series, we present a song about the Gaza Solidarity Protest (www.cambridgegazasolidarity.blogspot.com) and a documentary of the Cambridge student workload. Keep the podcast on your iTunes over the holiday, because we'll be back next year, bugger, faster, stronger, harder. Take a bite!

Thanks to the 1400 people who have listened so far. You are very much appreciated. Episode 5 is here, and sees our erswhile host singing a cover of Girls Aloud's Biology, and investigatin a modeen-day comedy phenomenen, BBC Comedy Gavin and Stacey. Get your friends to download!

To cure your week 5 blues, we're delighted to present you with the first of a soon-to-be-regular Art of the Matter feature: the comic song. We're extremely proud of it, so why not have a listen. And if that doesn't wet your whistle, you can always dip into our other new feature, a documentary about the scandal of the topless Vivid Magazine photoshoot. Dig In!

This week a combination of origniality and laziness has convinced us to include just one extended item. We're calling it feature-length, and it deals with the Cambridge Footlights, focusing particularly on their rich history, legendary alumni, and present retardation. Chow Down!

Episode 2, appropriately enough only features two segments; one on Cambridge Drinking Societies, the other an interview with the Treasurer of the Union. A third was taped, but it proved so explosive and informative, it had to be deleted for reasons of health and safety. WWW.CAMBRIDGECOMEDY.BLOGSPOT.COM

Our first show features items on Cockney Education, The Life and Times of Jools Holland, and some film reviews by Richard Dawkins. This episode is hosted by Dan Jones, with Xander Edmonds and Felix Danczach. If you like the show, please email the web address to two people who do not attend Homerton College. www.cambridgecomedy.blogspot.com Dig In!