“I know not what tomorrow will bring – The Fernando Pessoa Audiotour” is a documentary series dedicated to Fernando Pessoa. 
 
Pessoa’s story is told in 15 episodes. Each chapter was created having in mind a geographical location in Lisbon, Portugal, so the listener can experience it in two different ways: through a physical journey or through an imaginary journey.
 
Each episode crosses biographical and literary key aspects of Fernando Pessoa and can be listened independently. The story is told by those, critics, scholars, who study Pessoa’s legacy and by his close relatives, his niece and his nephew who shared a lot with him.

Episode 0. Introduction

Location: Largo de São Carlos / Chiado

Fernando Pessoa childhood in Lisbon

Voices: Jerónimo Pizarro, Jorge Louraço, Luís Miguel Nogueira Rosa Dias, Manuela Nogueira, Richard Zenith, Leonor Forjaz, Manuela Parreira da Silva and Sofia Saldanha. 

Music: 

“All Will See” by Hyson 
Free Music Archive / License – Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

“Nocturne Op 9 No 2” by Podington Bear
Free Music Archive / Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Bibliography: 

Fernando Pessoa & CO.: Selected Poems: Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 1998

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 2001, p. 245.

* Free translation by Eugenia Brito

Episode 1: My backyard takes up the whole theater, my childhood

Location: Largo de Camões / Chiado 

Fernando Pessoa’s life in South Africa

Voices: Richard Zenith, Mahatma Gandhi, Teresa Rita Lopes, Fernando Cabral Martins, Pedro Teixeira da Mota, Jorge Louraço and Sofia Saldanha.

Original music inspired by Un soir à Lima, Op.99 de Félix Godefroid: Carolina Machado e Lia Magalhães.

Bibliography:

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London: Penguin Books, 2006; The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Episode 2. In capacious Africa where the moon Outside shines vast and indifferent

Location: Café A Brasileira / Chiado

Fernando Pessoa’s return to Lisbon

Voices: Rita Patrício, António Mega Ferreira, Teresa Rita Lopes, Manuela Parreira da Silva, Richard Zenith, José Barreto, Jorge Louraço, Manuela Nogueira, Pablo Javier Pérez López, Fernando Cabral Martins and Sofia Saldanha.

Music: excerpt of Fado do Embuçado (lyrics: Gabriel de Oliveira; music: José Marques "Piscalarete". 

Bibliography:

Pessoa, Fernando, “Lisbon Revisited (1926), A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London: Penguin Books, 2006;

Escritos Autobiográficos, Automáticos e de Reflexão Pessoal, Poesias. Edição e posfácio Richard Zenith, Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim, 2003.

Episode 03.  Once more I see you – Lisbon, the Tagus and the rest

Location: Route between Rua do Carmo and Rossio / Chiado – Baixa

Ibis typography and Pessoa’s daily life in Lisbon

Voices: Teresa Rita Lopes, Richard Zenith, Jorge Louraço, António Mega Ferreira, José Barreto, Fernando Cabral Martins, Luís Miguel Nogueira Rosa Dias, Manuela Nogueira, Pablo Javier Pérez López and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography:

O Íbis, ave do Egipto, Pessoa Inédito. Fernando Pessoa. (Orientação, coordenação e prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1993.
  - 24. * Free translation by Eugenia Brito

Episode 4. Ibis, the Egyptian bird

Location: Rossio / Baixa

Modernism, Orpheu and Pessoa’s relationship with Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Voices: Rita Patrício, Fernando Cabral Martins, Teresa Rita Lopes, Jerónimo Pizarro, Richard Zenith, Hugo Curado, Steffen Dix, Luís Barroso, Paulo Bragança and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography

Pessoa, Fernando, “Triumphal Ode “, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
 
Nós, Os de "orpheu"/ We, the "orpheu" Lot. (Catalog of an exhibition Nós, Os de "orpheu"). Lisboa. Boca - Palavras Que Alimentam, 2015
 Edition  ** Translated by Jethro Soutar

Páginas Íntimas e de Auto-Interpretação. Fernando Pessoa. (Textos estabelecidos e prefaciados por Georg Rudolf Lind e Jacinto do Prado Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1996. - 390.  * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Em Ouro e Alma — Correspondência com Fernando Pessoa. Ed. Ricardo Vasconcelos e Jerónimo Pizarro. Lisboa: Tinta-da-china, 2015 * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

"Sá-Carneiro”, Poesias Inéditas (1930-1935). Fernando Pessoa. (Nota prévia de Jorge Nemésio.) Lisboa: Ática, 1955 (imp. 1990).  - 184. * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 5: It’s in the air that everything tools! It’s there that everything exists!...**

Location: Praça da Figueira / Baixa

Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms

Voices: Jorge Louraço, Antonio Cardiello, Rita Patrício, Jerónimo Pizarro, Richard Zenith, Teresa Rita Lopes, Pablo Javier Pérez López, Fernando Cabral Martins, António Durães and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography: 
WHITMAN, Walt, Poem. London : Review od reviews office 1894? (The Masterpiece Library The Penny Poets ; XXVII), p. 7-32. 

Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon: What the Tourist Should See. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008.

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 2001, p. 256.
 
Pessoa, Fernando, “The shepherd in love lost his staff”, The A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London: Penguin Books, 2006; The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Episode 6. I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

Location: Rua dos Douradores / Baixa

The Book of Disquiet

Voices: António Fonseca, Richard Zenith, Jerónimo Pizarro, Pablo Javier Pérez López, Pedro Sepúlveda and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography: 
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet. Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2001.

Episode 7. Sometimes I think I'll never leave the Rua dos Douradores

Location: Rua da Assunção / Baixa

Fernando Pessoa’s relationship with Ofélia Queiróz

Voices: Richard Zenith, Manuela Parreira da Silva, Manuela Nogueira, Marta Campos, Jorge Louraço, Pedro Teixeira da Mota, Steffen Dix, Pablo Javier Pérez López and Sofia Saldanha.

Music: 
“Nocturne Op 9 No 3” by Podington Bear
Free Music Archive / Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Bibliography: 
Fernando Pessoa & CO.: “All love letters are ridiculous”, Selected Poems: Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 1998;

“Fernando and I”, Testimony of Ofélia Queiroz recorded and organized by her grandniece Maria da Graça Queiroz. 
Portuguese version:
http://www.umfernandopessoa.com/uploads/1/6/1/3/16136746/fernando_e_eu.pdf
* Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Cartas de Amor de Fernando Pessoa e Ofélia Queiroz, edição de Manuela Parreira da Silva, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim (2012) * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, Edited and translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 2001, pp. 137-138

Episode 8. All love letters are ridiculous

Location: Rua Augusta / Baixa

Fernando Pessoa’s encounter with Aleister Crowley

Voices: Steffen Dix, Aleister Crowley, Luís Miguel Nogueira Rosa Dias, Jerónimo Pizarro, José Filipe Costa and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography:
The Pentagram. Aleister Crowley: 
https://archive.org/details/ThePentagramByAleisterCrowley

Pessoa, Fernando, “Her very being surprises.”, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London, Penguin Books, 2006, p. 310.

O Mistério da Boca do Inferno - O encontro entre o Poeta Fernando Pessoa e o Mago Aleister Crowley. Victor Belém. Lisboa. Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1995.  - .Excerto da reportagem de Augusto Ferreira Gomes. in O Notícias Ilustrado . Lisboa: 5-10-1930. 
* Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 9. Mouth of Hell

Location: Martinho da Arcada / Baixa

Fernando Pessoa’s multiple interests and businesses

Voices: António Mega Ferreira, José Barreto, Pedro Sepúlveda and Sofia Saldanha

Bibliography: 
Sá-Carneiro, Poesias Inéditas (1930-1935). Fernando Pessoa. (Nota prévia de Jorge Nemésio.) Lisboa: Ática, 1955 (imp. 1990). 
 - 184. * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 10. Down there in café Arcada

Location: Terreiro do Paço / Baixa

Message and Presença Magazine

Voices: José Barreto, António de Oliveira Salazar, Teresa Rita Lopes, Pedro Teixeira da Mota, Steffen Dix, Jorge Louraço, Rita Patrício, Pedro Sepúlveda, António Mega Ferreira and Sofia Saldanha.

Music: excerpt of Fado do Embuçado (letra de Gabriel de Oliveira Música de José Marques "Piscalarete". Criado para o repertório de Natália dos Anjos.)

Bibliography:

Pessoa, Fernando, “Fog”, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. London: Penguin Books, 2006; 
 
António de Oliveira Salazar. Da República (1910 - 1935) . Fernando Pessoa. (Recolha de textos de Maria Isabel Rocheta e Maria Paula Mourão. Introdução e organização de Joel Serrão). Lisboa: Ática, 1979.  - p. 349. 1ª publ. in Diário Popular , Lisboa, 30 Maio e 6 Junho 1974 . inc? CF. lello – fotoc 
* Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 11. The hour has come!

Location: Casa Fernando Pessoa / Campo de Ourique

Fernando Pessoa’s family life; Fernando Pessoa’s library

Voices: Manuela Nogueira, Luís Miguel Nogueira Rosa Dias, Antonio Cardiello, Jerónimo Pizarro, José Barreto and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography:
Fernando Pessoa & CO.: ”The Tobacco Shop”, Selected Poems: Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 1998;

Episode 12. Eat your chocolates, little girl, Eat your chocolates!

Location: Route between Casa Fernando Pessoa and Cemitério dos Prazeres / Campo de Ourique

Esotericism in Fernando Pessoa

Voices: Steffen Dix, Jerónimo Pizarro, Patrícia Nazaré Barbosa, Pedro Teixeira da Mota and Sofia Saldanha.

Music: 
Corale And Serenata by Antonio Russolo. 
Album: Dada For Now -A Collection Of Futurist And Dada Sound Works.
Label: ARK-DOVE 4 
Year: 1985. 

Bibliography:
Eros e Psique, Poesias. Fernando Pessoa. (Nota explicativa de João Gaspar Simões e Luiz de Montalvor.) Lisboa: Ática, 1942 (15ª ed. 1995).  - 237. 1ª publ. in Presença , nº 41-42. Coimbra: Mai. 1934. * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 13: And he saw that he was the Princess that was sleeping

Cemitério dos Prazeres / Campo de Ourique

Fernando Pessoa's Death

Voices: Luís Miguel Nogueira Rosa Dias, Manuela Nogueira, Pablo Javier Pérez López, Jerónimo Pizarro, Steffen Dix and Sofia Saldanha.

Music: 
Tout se transforme (réinterprété par johnny_ripper) by julsy
Free Music Archive / License – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Bibliography: 
* I know not what tomorrow will bring: last sentence written by Fernando Pessoa on 29 November 1935

Episode 14. I know not what tomorrow will bring

Fernando Pessoa’s legacy

Voices: Fernando Cabral Martins, Manuela Nogueira, Teresa Rita Lopes, Rita Patrício, António Mega Ferreira, Richard Zenith, Steffen Dix, Antonio Cardiello, Patrícia Nazaré Barbosa and Sofia Saldanha.

Bibliography:
Escritos Autobiográficos, Automáticos e de Reflexão Pessoal, Poesias. Edição e posfácio Richard Zenith, Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim, 2003. * Free translation by Eugénia Brito

Episode 15. To live is not necessary: what is necessary is to create

“I know not what tomorrow will bring – The Fernando Pessoa audiotour” is a documentary series dedicated to Fernando Pessoa. 
 
Pessoa’s story is told in 15 episodes. Each chapter was created having in mind a geographical location in Lisbon, Portugal, so the listener can experience it in two different ways: through a physical journey or through an imaginary journey.
 
Each episode crosses biographical and literary key aspects of Fernando Pessoa and can be listened independently. The story is told by those, critics, scholars, who study Pessoa’s legacy and by his close relatives, his nephews who shared a lot with him.

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