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Sunday 29th September 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Al-Andalus: Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
As part of Radio 3's focus on Al-Andalus, Words and Music transports you to the city of the Alhambra Palace: Granada, home to one of Spain's greatest poets, Federico Garcia Lorca and the place more than any other in Andalusia to bear the imprint of Islamic rule. Field recordings made in Granada combine with music and readings connected to this captivating city, from the epigraphic poems that are written into the very walls of the Alhambra, to the medieval verse of Abd Allah ibn al-Simak, through to the verse and letters of Federico Garcia Lorca. Actors Candela Gomez and Khalid Abdalla also read contemporary takes on Granada's Flamenco bars by Victoria Hislop, and a melancholy modern-day visit to the Alhambra from Sameer Rahim's latest novel. The Spanish soundtrack includes Flamenco specially recorded in one of Granada's historic guitar workshops by singer Juan Panilla and guitarist Francisco Manuel Diaz, pieces by that great Andalusian Manuel Da Falla as well as fellow Spaniards Albeniz and Granados, and a song from the Algerian singer Souad Massi who wrote a whole album inspired by the Arab-Andalusian poets. The music melds with the sounds of Granada's fountains, cicadas and birdsong for this special edition of the programme, as Radio 3 explores Al-Andalus.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Al-Andalus: Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
As part of Radio 3's focus on Al-Andalus, Words and Music transports you to the city of the Alhambra Palace: Granada, home to one of Spain's greatest poets, Federico Garcia Lorca and the place more than any other in Andalusia to bear the imprint of Islamic rule. Field recordings made in Granada combine with music and readings connected to this captivating city, from the epigraphic poems that are written into the very walls of the Alhambra, to the medieval verse of Abd Allah ibn al-Simak, through to the verse and letters of Federico Garcia Lorca. Actors Candela Gomez and Khalid Abdalla also read contemporary takes on Granada's Flamenco bars by Victoria Hislop, and a melancholy modern-day visit to the Alhambra from Sameer Rahim's latest novel. The Spanish soundtrack includes Flamenco specially recorded in one of Granada's historic guitar workshops by singer Juan Panilla and guitarist Francisco Manuel Diaz, pieces by that great Andalusian Manuel Da Falla as well as fellow Spaniards Albeniz and Granados, and a song from the Algerian singer Souad Massi who wrote a whole album inspired by the Arab-Andalusian poets. The music melds with the sounds of Granada's fountains, cicadas and birdsong for this special edition of the programme, as Radio 3 explores Al-Andalus.
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Sunday 27th October 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Worst Form of Government.
This week's Words and Music explores the theme of democracy. Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill's now famous quote underpins today's edition. Democracy is hailed as a force for good - promoting freedom, equality and self-governance - but has been used and misused for personal gain and political oppression. Nelson Mandela describes his astonishment in his memoir Long Walk to Freedom, on meeting Inuits from Northern Europe, that people from `the top of the world" should have any knowledge of his political struggle at the southern tip of Africa. Television, he writes, had become a force for promoting democracy. Throughout the programme, we hear the voices of colonised and marginalised peoples as they struggle for their right to be heard, their right to vote, and their right to live a free life. With music from Copland and Shostakovich to Somalian poet and rapper K'naan, and readings performed by Lisa Dillon and Ray Fearon. Readings - Aeschines: Democracy. Langston Hughes: Democracy. Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus. Walt Whitman: Election Day November 1884. Dorianne Laux: Democracy. John Adams: Letter. Arthur Rimbaud: Democracy. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Mahmoud Darwish: The Girl/The Scream. William Shakespeare: Caesar. George Szirtes: Unter den Linden. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Songs for the People.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Worst Form of Government.
This week's Words and Music explores the theme of democracy. Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill's now famous quote underpins today's edition. Democracy is hailed as a force for good - promoting freedom, equality and self-governance - but has been used and misused for personal gain and political oppression. Nelson Mandela describes his astonishment in his memoir Long Walk to Freedom, on meeting Inuits from Northern Europe, that people from `the top of the world" should have any knowledge of his political struggle at the southern tip of Africa. Television, he writes, had become a force for promoting democracy. Throughout the programme, we hear the voices of colonised and marginalised peoples as they struggle for their right to be heard, their right to vote, and their right to live a free life. With music from Copland and Shostakovich to Somalian poet and rapper K'naan, and readings performed by Lisa Dillon and Ray Fearon. Readings - Aeschines: Democracy. Langston Hughes: Democracy. Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus. Walt Whitman: Election Day November 1884. Dorianne Laux: Democracy. John Adams: Letter. Arthur Rimbaud: Democracy. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Mahmoud Darwish: The Girl/The Scream. William Shakespeare: Caesar. George Szirtes: Unter den Linden. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Songs for the People.
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Sunday 24th November 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
George Eliot's World.
This special edition of Words and Music is inspired by the novels, letters and journals of George Eliot, as well as responses to her and her work from the likes of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. The readers are Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick and Philip Bretherton. The music will include pieces by composers including Clara Schumann, Liszt, whom Eliot met in 1854; and Tchaikovsky, who said his favourite writer was George Eliot.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
George Eliot's World.
This special edition of Words and Music is inspired by the novels, letters and journals of George Eliot, as well as responses to her and her work from the likes of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. The readers are Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick and Philip Bretherton. The music will include pieces by composers including Clara Schumann, Liszt, whom Eliot met in 1854; and Tchaikovsky, who said his favourite writer was George Eliot.
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Sunday 1st December 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Entering the World of Books.
Stephen Mangan and Helen Monks explore attitudes to reading from Roald Dahl's Matilda to Flaubert's Madame Bovary to The Reading of Young Ladies, from the American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, December 1836 - `Everyone must rejoice that the education of females is considered more important than formerly, but too much time is spent on novels, few of which are calculated to instruct or to improve." As part of the BBC's year-long focus on literature, Words and Music takes you into the world of books. The birth of the novel in the early 18th century and their growing popularity with female readers lead to many a male moralist worrying about what these romantic literary adventures were doing to women's expectations. Some of Emma's struggles with marriage in Flaubert's Madame Bovary are traced back to the books she reads and Jane Austen satirised the prim James Fordyce, whose Sermons for Young Women we'll hear from. Fordyce warns about books which commit: `rank treason against the royalty of Virtue". There's also a passage from Jilly Cooper's Riders. Musically, we'll journey from Haydn at the fortepiano, a combination Jane Austen would likely have been familiar with, to Thomas Adès' haunting take on Shakespeare's The Tempest and Dire Straits' tribute to a Lady Writer. There's also hymns to reading and writers by the 16th-century composer Robert Jones and The Beatles. `I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books" said Dylan Thomas in his Notes on the Art of Poetry.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Entering the World of Books.
Stephen Mangan and Helen Monks explore attitudes to reading from Roald Dahl's Matilda to Flaubert's Madame Bovary to The Reading of Young Ladies, from the American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, December 1836 - `Everyone must rejoice that the education of females is considered more important than formerly, but too much time is spent on novels, few of which are calculated to instruct or to improve." As part of the BBC's year-long focus on literature, Words and Music takes you into the world of books. The birth of the novel in the early 18th century and their growing popularity with female readers lead to many a male moralist worrying about what these romantic literary adventures were doing to women's expectations. Some of Emma's struggles with marriage in Flaubert's Madame Bovary are traced back to the books she reads and Jane Austen satirised the prim James Fordyce, whose Sermons for Young Women we'll hear from. Fordyce warns about books which commit: `rank treason against the royalty of Virtue". There's also a passage from Jilly Cooper's Riders. Musically, we'll journey from Haydn at the fortepiano, a combination Jane Austen would likely have been familiar with, to Thomas Adès' haunting take on Shakespeare's The Tempest and Dire Straits' tribute to a Lady Writer. There's also hymns to reading and writers by the 16th-century composer Robert Jones and The Beatles. `I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books" said Dylan Thomas in his Notes on the Art of Poetry.
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Sunday 26th January 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz.
In this special edition of Words and Music marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, readers Henry Goodman and Maria Friedman read poetry and prose about life and death at the most notorious Nazi concentration camp. We'll hear from survivors like Primo Levi and Victor Frankl, who paint startling pictures of existence at Auschwitz; and from Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who played the cello in the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra. She once played Schumann's Träumerei for Dr Josef Mengele, who came to be known as the angel of death. Despite the hellish conditions, music was made in concentration camps. We'll hear about the fate of Auschwitz's Roma Orchestra and the unexpected presence of Tango at Auschwitz. You'll hear an early recording of the first song to be written in a concentration camp, the Peat Bog Soldiers, and songs by Ilse Weber, who wrote music for the children of the Theresienstadt camp and is said to have sung to her son and other children as she accompanied them into the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Poetry by survivors András Mezei and Annette Bialik Harchik reminds us that liberation was the end of a nightmarish journey but that living with the aftermath of the Holocaust was a burden which would be carried long after the camps were destroyed. Extract from a letter by Salmen Gradowski; The Survivor - András Mezei, translated by Thomas Ország; Land If This is a Man - Primo Levi; Man's Search For Meaning - Victor E Frankl, translated by Lisle Lasch; Earrings - Annette Bialik Harchik, translated by Rafael Bielobradek; Boots At a Concert of Lydia F - Krzystof Janusz Boczkowkski, translated by Adam A Zych and Andrzej Diniejko; The Librarian of Auschwitz - Antonio Iturbe, translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites; Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels; Violins of Hope - James A Grymes; First Thoughts: On Liberation Day From a Concentration Camp - Annette Bialik Harchik; The Survival Syndrome - Adam Alfred Zych, translated by June Friedman.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz.
In this special edition of Words and Music marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, readers Henry Goodman and Maria Friedman read poetry and prose about life and death at the most notorious Nazi concentration camp. We'll hear from survivors like Primo Levi and Victor Frankl, who paint startling pictures of existence at Auschwitz; and from Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who played the cello in the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra. She once played Schumann's Träumerei for Dr Josef Mengele, who came to be known as the angel of death. Despite the hellish conditions, music was made in concentration camps. We'll hear about the fate of Auschwitz's Roma Orchestra and the unexpected presence of Tango at Auschwitz. You'll hear an early recording of the first song to be written in a concentration camp, the Peat Bog Soldiers, and songs by Ilse Weber, who wrote music for the children of the Theresienstadt camp and is said to have sung to her son and other children as she accompanied them into the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Poetry by survivors András Mezei and Annette Bialik Harchik reminds us that liberation was the end of a nightmarish journey but that living with the aftermath of the Holocaust was a burden which would be carried long after the camps were destroyed. Extract from a letter by Salmen Gradowski; The Survivor - András Mezei, translated by Thomas Ország; Land If This is a Man - Primo Levi; Man's Search For Meaning - Victor E Frankl, translated by Lisle Lasch; Earrings - Annette Bialik Harchik, translated by Rafael Bielobradek; Boots At a Concert of Lydia F - Krzystof Janusz Boczkowkski, translated by Adam A Zych and Andrzej Diniejko; The Librarian of Auschwitz - Antonio Iturbe, translated by Lilit Zekulin Thwaites; Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels; Violins of Hope - James A Grymes; First Thoughts: On Liberation Day From a Concentration Camp - Annette Bialik Harchik; The Survival Syndrome - Adam Alfred Zych, translated by June Friedman.
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Sunday 9th February 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Welcome To Heartbreak.
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. 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. 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.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Welcome To Heartbreak.
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. 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. 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.
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Sunday 16th February 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
In Therapy.
Over the last decade, we have turned in increasing numbers to talking therapies in order to try and make sense of ourselves, our mental health and our world. Featuring the words of some of the psychotherapeutic profession's most significant figures (Freud and Jung) as well as poetic reflections on the healing process from a host of young British poets, this edition of Words and Music explores how writers from a variety of ages have examined stories of self and suffering. Music by Charles Mingus and Anton von Webern is treated to psychoanalytic reading, while John Dowland's call, `lend your ears to my sorrow", suggests that the desire to be heard and understood is not so new a feeling. Participating in our radio therapy sessions are readers Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak. Caroline Bird: A Surreal Joke. Joe Dunthorne: I Decided To Stop Therapy. Anna Freud: Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis. Robert Pinsky: Essay on Psychiatrists. Batsheva Dori-Carlier: Couples Therapy (translated by Lisa Katz). Gael Turnbull: It Was As If. John Milton: Samson Agonistes. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (translated by HT Lowe-Porter). Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar. CG Jung: Modern Man In Search Of A Soul. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Peter Shaffer: Equus. William Shakespeare: Hamlet. Edmund Pollock: Liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus. Hans & Rosaleen Moldenhauer: Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work. Emily Berry: Picnic. Nadia Lines: Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety. Theresa Lola: Two Photographs. Emily Dickinson: After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
In Therapy.
Over the last decade, we have turned in increasing numbers to talking therapies in order to try and make sense of ourselves, our mental health and our world. Featuring the words of some of the psychotherapeutic profession's most significant figures (Freud and Jung) as well as poetic reflections on the healing process from a host of young British poets, this edition of Words and Music explores how writers from a variety of ages have examined stories of self and suffering. Music by Charles Mingus and Anton von Webern is treated to psychoanalytic reading, while John Dowland's call, `lend your ears to my sorrow", suggests that the desire to be heard and understood is not so new a feeling. Participating in our radio therapy sessions are readers Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak. Caroline Bird: A Surreal Joke. Joe Dunthorne: I Decided To Stop Therapy. Anna Freud: Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis. Robert Pinsky: Essay on Psychiatrists. Batsheva Dori-Carlier: Couples Therapy (translated by Lisa Katz). Gael Turnbull: It Was As If. John Milton: Samson Agonistes. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (translated by HT Lowe-Porter). Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar. CG Jung: Modern Man In Search Of A Soul. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Peter Shaffer: Equus. William Shakespeare: Hamlet. Edmund Pollock: Liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus. Hans & Rosaleen Moldenhauer: Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work. Emily Berry: Picnic. Nadia Lines: Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety. Theresa Lola: Two Photographs. Emily Dickinson: After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
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Sunday 22nd March 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Mothers and Daughters.
On Mothering Sunday, this edition of Words and Music explores mothers and daughters. The readers are real-life mother and daughter Samantha Bond and Molly Hanson. From Shakespeare's domineering Lady Capulet and bewildered Juliet to Austen's neurotic Mrs Bennet and her brood of daughters, the mother and daughter relationship is one fraught with concern and competition but also often full of love. From the adoration of Christina Rosetti in her Sonnets are full of love to the tussle over identity in Gillian Clarke's Catrin, this is a journey through one of life's most multi-faceted relationships with music by Ives, Dvorak, Laurie Anderson and Richard Strauss. Sylvia Plath: Morning Song; Christina Rossetti: Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome; Shakespeare: Extract from Romeo and Juliet Act One, Scene Three; Angela Carter: Extract from The Bloody Chamber; Anne Sexton: Extract from letter; Anne Sexton: Dreaming The Breasts; Jane Austen: Extract from Pride and Prejudice; Gillian Clarke: Catrin; Erica Jong: Extract from Mother; Sophocles translated by Anne Carson: Extract from Elektra; Jeanette Winterson: Extract from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Louisa M Alcott: Extract from Little Women; Lola Ridge: Mother; Carol Ann Duffy: The Light Gatherer; Dodi Smith: Extract from I Capture the Castle; Elizabeth Akers Allen: Extract from Rock Me to Sleep.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Mothers and Daughters.
On Mothering Sunday, this edition of Words and Music explores mothers and daughters. The readers are real-life mother and daughter Samantha Bond and Molly Hanson. From Shakespeare's domineering Lady Capulet and bewildered Juliet to Austen's neurotic Mrs Bennet and her brood of daughters, the mother and daughter relationship is one fraught with concern and competition but also often full of love. From the adoration of Christina Rosetti in her Sonnets are full of love to the tussle over identity in Gillian Clarke's Catrin, this is a journey through one of life's most multi-faceted relationships with music by Ives, Dvorak, Laurie Anderson and Richard Strauss. Sylvia Plath: Morning Song; Christina Rossetti: Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome; Shakespeare: Extract from Romeo and Juliet Act One, Scene Three; Angela Carter: Extract from The Bloody Chamber; Anne Sexton: Extract from letter; Anne Sexton: Dreaming The Breasts; Jane Austen: Extract from Pride and Prejudice; Gillian Clarke: Catrin; Erica Jong: Extract from Mother; Sophocles translated by Anne Carson: Extract from Elektra; Jeanette Winterson: Extract from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Louisa M Alcott: Extract from Little Women; Lola Ridge: Mother; Carol Ann Duffy: The Light Gatherer; Dodi Smith: Extract from I Capture the Castle; Elizabeth Akers Allen: Extract from Rock Me to Sleep.
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Sunday 12th April 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Easter.
Music and readings on the theme of Eastertide, Spring and the Passover including prose by Tolstoy, Richard Yates and Jane Austen, poetry by TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland. Readers include Samantha Bond, Henry Goodman, Emily Bruni, Sam West, Molly Hanson and Robert Lindsay.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Easter.
Music and readings on the theme of Eastertide, Spring and the Passover including prose by Tolstoy, Richard Yates and Jane Austen, poetry by TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland. Readers include Samantha Bond, Henry Goodman, Emily Bruni, Sam West, Molly Hanson and Robert Lindsay.
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Sunday 14th June 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dickens' World.
Charles Dickens: tireless novelist, journalist, amateur theatricalist, traveller, socialiser, and liver of life. To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of this literary titan, actor Sam West reads from the letters Dickens sent to correspondents including other greats of the time like Mrs Gaskell and Wilkie Collins; close friends such as actor William Macready and artist Daniel Maclise; and his wife and children at home as he travelled extensively giving public readings to his thousands of adoring fans. Including observations of his first trip to America at the height of slavery in 1842, reflections on the incumbent British government and the prevailing class system, his traumatic account of the 1865 Staplehurst Rail Crash, guidance for his youngest son on departing for Australia, and the story of hunting a ghost with a shot gun, which turned out to be a sheep. With music by Haydn, Beethoven, Kathryn Tickell, The Divine Comedy, and Michael Nyman.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dickens' World.
Charles Dickens: tireless novelist, journalist, amateur theatricalist, traveller, socialiser, and liver of life. To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of this literary titan, actor Sam West reads from the letters Dickens sent to correspondents including other greats of the time like Mrs Gaskell and Wilkie Collins; close friends such as actor William Macready and artist Daniel Maclise; and his wife and children at home as he travelled extensively giving public readings to his thousands of adoring fans. Including observations of his first trip to America at the height of slavery in 1842, reflections on the incumbent British government and the prevailing class system, his traumatic account of the 1865 Staplehurst Rail Crash, guidance for his youngest son on departing for Australia, and the story of hunting a ghost with a shot gun, which turned out to be a sheep. With music by Haydn, Beethoven, Kathryn Tickell, The Divine Comedy, and Michael Nyman.
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Sunday 19th July 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:00 to 18:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Power of Music.
As the 2020 BBC Proms gets under way Words and Music explores The Power of Music. Readers Clarke Peters and Maggie Service read poetry and prose exploring the unique place music has in our lives, from the `thousand twangling instruments" which magically fill the air in Shakespeare's The Tempest, to the `mute glorious Storyvilles" that Philip Larkin imagines when he hears Sidney Bechet play. We'll feel the jealousy and awe that Mozart inspired in Salieri in Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, and the erotic urgency of Langston Hughes' Harlem Night Club. All the music in this special edition is recorded by BBC performing groups and affiliated orchestras, and ranges from the BBC Philharmonic playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under exciting new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber, to the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing with Lianne La Havas. There's also Britten played in a special remote recording by BBC Symphony Orchestra harpist Louise Martin, Haydn from a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra quartet and Cole Porter's Night and Day sung by members of The BBC Singers. Rachel Weld, a viola player from the BBC Philharmonic, has recorded a series of postcards reflecting on life as an orchestral musician, and what the enforced distance from her fellow players has been like during lockdown. Readings - Saturday: Ian McEwan. I Am In Need of Music: Elizabeth Bishop. The Tempest: Shakespeare. If Bach had been a beekeeper: Charles Tomlinson. For Sidney Bechet: Philip Larkin. My Last Dance: Julia Ward Howe. The Harlem Dancer: Claude McKay. Amadeus: Peter Schaffer. An Equal Music: Vikram Seth. Harlem Night Club: Langston Hughes. Grace Notes: Bernard MacLaverty. Siege and Symphony: Brian Moynhan. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy. Music when Soft Voices Die: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Everyone Sang: Siegfried Sassoon. Howard's End: EM Forster.
Time: 17:00 to 18:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Power of Music.
As the 2020 BBC Proms gets under way Words and Music explores The Power of Music. Readers Clarke Peters and Maggie Service read poetry and prose exploring the unique place music has in our lives, from the `thousand twangling instruments" which magically fill the air in Shakespeare's The Tempest, to the `mute glorious Storyvilles" that Philip Larkin imagines when he hears Sidney Bechet play. We'll feel the jealousy and awe that Mozart inspired in Salieri in Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, and the erotic urgency of Langston Hughes' Harlem Night Club. All the music in this special edition is recorded by BBC performing groups and affiliated orchestras, and ranges from the BBC Philharmonic playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under exciting new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber, to the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing with Lianne La Havas. There's also Britten played in a special remote recording by BBC Symphony Orchestra harpist Louise Martin, Haydn from a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra quartet and Cole Porter's Night and Day sung by members of The BBC Singers. Rachel Weld, a viola player from the BBC Philharmonic, has recorded a series of postcards reflecting on life as an orchestral musician, and what the enforced distance from her fellow players has been like during lockdown. Readings - Saturday: Ian McEwan. I Am In Need of Music: Elizabeth Bishop. The Tempest: Shakespeare. If Bach had been a beekeeper: Charles Tomlinson. For Sidney Bechet: Philip Larkin. My Last Dance: Julia Ward Howe. The Harlem Dancer: Claude McKay. Amadeus: Peter Schaffer. An Equal Music: Vikram Seth. Harlem Night Club: Langston Hughes. Grace Notes: Bernard MacLaverty. Siege and Symphony: Brian Moynhan. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy. Music when Soft Voices Die: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Everyone Sang: Siegfried Sassoon. Howard's End: EM Forster.
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Sunday 27th September 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Wordsworth's World.
Noma Dumezweni reads from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, and Roger Ringrose reads a selection of her brother's poems in a programme marking the anniversary of the Lakeland poet (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850). Dorothy's journals are a unique insight into everyday life for the Wordsworth siblings at Grasmere, and in this edition you can hear Dorothy's rich descriptions of locations and events, set against the poems they inspired in William, including Lines Written in Early Spring and Composed upon Westminster Bridge. The musical backdrop includes Wordsworth's contemporary Beethoven, but also features music by Fanny Mendelssohn (who, like Dorothy, knew about having a celebrated sibling), Benjamin Britten and Schubert.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Wordsworth's World.
Noma Dumezweni reads from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, and Roger Ringrose reads a selection of her brother's poems in a programme marking the anniversary of the Lakeland poet (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850). Dorothy's journals are a unique insight into everyday life for the Wordsworth siblings at Grasmere, and in this edition you can hear Dorothy's rich descriptions of locations and events, set against the poems they inspired in William, including Lines Written in Early Spring and Composed upon Westminster Bridge. The musical backdrop includes Wordsworth's contemporary Beethoven, but also features music by Fanny Mendelssohn (who, like Dorothy, knew about having a celebrated sibling), Benjamin Britten and Schubert.
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Sunday 25th October 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
This Haunted Land.
From Emily Bronte's wild moors, the ghosts in stories by MR James, and Benjamin Britten's opera Turn of the Screw, Schubert's lamenting song cycle Winterreise to film music for The Shining and The Wicker Man: Tim McInnerny and Ayesha Antoine are the readers in a Halloween episode. A soundtrack is provided by a range of classical composers including Ligeti, Mozart, Beethoven, Purcell, and a harking back to the 1970s TV series Children of the Stones which was once called the scariest programme ever made for children, and film soundtracks including Mica Levi's compositions for Under the Skin; Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind for The Shining and Paul Giovanni for The Wicker Man. The readings include the thoughts of philosopher Mark Fisher from his book Ghosts of My Life, a ghost story from the BBC Domesday project, an evocation of mosquitos in the poem Horns by Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes, The Terrors of the Night in the Elizabethan pamphlet written by Thomas Nashe and in Mary Karr's poem Field of Skulls which imagines fears which come `drinking gin after the I Love Lucy reruns have gone off." Reading - Archive of Ghost Story from the BBC Domesday project read by Mabel Barber. James Hogg: The Mysterious Bride. Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life. Algernon Blackwood: The Haunted House. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights. MR James: Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You. John Masefield: On the Downs. Edward Thomas: Aspens. Claire Gradidge: I Will Haunt You in Small Change. Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel. Cynthia Huntington: Ghost. Thomas Nashe: The Terrors of the Night. Kwame Dawes: Horns. John Clare: Written in Northampton County Asylum. John Donne: Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day. Mary Karr: Field of Skulls.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
This Haunted Land.
From Emily Bronte's wild moors, the ghosts in stories by MR James, and Benjamin Britten's opera Turn of the Screw, Schubert's lamenting song cycle Winterreise to film music for The Shining and The Wicker Man: Tim McInnerny and Ayesha Antoine are the readers in a Halloween episode. A soundtrack is provided by a range of classical composers including Ligeti, Mozart, Beethoven, Purcell, and a harking back to the 1970s TV series Children of the Stones which was once called the scariest programme ever made for children, and film soundtracks including Mica Levi's compositions for Under the Skin; Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind for The Shining and Paul Giovanni for The Wicker Man. The readings include the thoughts of philosopher Mark Fisher from his book Ghosts of My Life, a ghost story from the BBC Domesday project, an evocation of mosquitos in the poem Horns by Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes, The Terrors of the Night in the Elizabethan pamphlet written by Thomas Nashe and in Mary Karr's poem Field of Skulls which imagines fears which come `drinking gin after the I Love Lucy reruns have gone off." Reading - Archive of Ghost Story from the BBC Domesday project read by Mabel Barber. James Hogg: The Mysterious Bride. Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life. Algernon Blackwood: The Haunted House. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights. MR James: Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You. John Masefield: On the Downs. Edward Thomas: Aspens. Claire Gradidge: I Will Haunt You in Small Change. Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel. Cynthia Huntington: Ghost. Thomas Nashe: The Terrors of the Night. Kwame Dawes: Horns. John Clare: Written in Northampton County Asylum. John Donne: Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day. Mary Karr: Field of Skulls.
14antimuzak
Sunday 13th December 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Light in the Darkness.
From Philip Pullman's fictional north to an account of seeing the aurora borealis, the candlelight in a Hanukkah poem and John Donne's Nocturne to St Lucy to a midwinter visit to Maeshowe by poet Kathleen Jamie - we look at ideas about light and darkness at this time of year in nature, art, belief and traditional storytelling. With music from composers including Mahler, Ligeti, Nielsen, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Arvo Part, Johann Johannsson and Brian Eno. Producers: Kevin Core and Paul Frankl.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Light in the Darkness.
From Philip Pullman's fictional north to an account of seeing the aurora borealis, the candlelight in a Hanukkah poem and John Donne's Nocturne to St Lucy to a midwinter visit to Maeshowe by poet Kathleen Jamie - we look at ideas about light and darkness at this time of year in nature, art, belief and traditional storytelling. With music from composers including Mahler, Ligeti, Nielsen, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Arvo Part, Johann Johannsson and Brian Eno. Producers: Kevin Core and Paul Frankl.
15antimuzak
Monday 21st December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Entering the World of Books.
Stephen Mangan and Helen Monks explore attitudes to reading from Roald Dahl's Matilda to Flaubert's Madame Bovary to The Reading of Young Ladies, from the American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, December 1836 - `Everyone must rejoice that the education of females is considered more important than formerly, but too much time is spent on novels, few of which are calculated to instruct or to improve." As part of the BBC's year-long focus on literature, Words and Music takes you into the world of books. The birth of the novel in the early 18th century and their growing popularity with female readers lead to many a male moralist worrying about what these romantic literary adventures were doing to women's expectations. Some of Emma's struggles with marriage in Flaubert's Madame Bovary are traced back to the books she reads and Jane Austen satirised the prim James Fordyce, whose Sermons for Young Women we'll hear from. Fordyce warns about books which commit: `rank treason against the royalty of Virtue". There's also a passage from Jilly Cooper's Riders. Musically, we'll journey from Haydn at the fortepiano, a combination Jane Austen would likely have been familiar with, to Thomas Adès' haunting take on Shakespeare's The Tempest and Dire Straits' tribute to a Lady Writer. There's also hymns to reading and writers by the 16th-century composer Robert Jones and The Beatles. `I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books" said Dylan Thomas in his Notes on the Art of Poetry.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Entering the World of Books.
Stephen Mangan and Helen Monks explore attitudes to reading from Roald Dahl's Matilda to Flaubert's Madame Bovary to The Reading of Young Ladies, from the American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, December 1836 - `Everyone must rejoice that the education of females is considered more important than formerly, but too much time is spent on novels, few of which are calculated to instruct or to improve." As part of the BBC's year-long focus on literature, Words and Music takes you into the world of books. The birth of the novel in the early 18th century and their growing popularity with female readers lead to many a male moralist worrying about what these romantic literary adventures were doing to women's expectations. Some of Emma's struggles with marriage in Flaubert's Madame Bovary are traced back to the books she reads and Jane Austen satirised the prim James Fordyce, whose Sermons for Young Women we'll hear from. Fordyce warns about books which commit: `rank treason against the royalty of Virtue". There's also a passage from Jilly Cooper's Riders. Musically, we'll journey from Haydn at the fortepiano, a combination Jane Austen would likely have been familiar with, to Thomas Adès' haunting take on Shakespeare's The Tempest and Dire Straits' tribute to a Lady Writer. There's also hymns to reading and writers by the 16th-century composer Robert Jones and The Beatles. `I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books" said Dylan Thomas in his Notes on the Art of Poetry.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 22nd December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Wordsworth's World.
Noma Dumezweni reads from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, and Roger Ringrose reads a selection of her brother's poems in a programme marking the anniversary of the Lakeland poet (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850). Dorothy's journals are a unique insight into everyday life for the Wordsworth siblings at Grasmere, and in this edition you can hear Dorothy's rich descriptions of locations and events, set against the poems they inspired in William, including Lines Written in Early Spring and Composed upon Westminster Bridge. The musical backdrop includes Wordsworth's contemporary Beethoven, but also features music by Fanny Mendelssohn (who, like Dorothy, knew about having a celebrated sibling), Benjamin Britten and Schubert.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Wordsworth's World.
Noma Dumezweni reads from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, and Roger Ringrose reads a selection of her brother's poems in a programme marking the anniversary of the Lakeland poet (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850). Dorothy's journals are a unique insight into everyday life for the Wordsworth siblings at Grasmere, and in this edition you can hear Dorothy's rich descriptions of locations and events, set against the poems they inspired in William, including Lines Written in Early Spring and Composed upon Westminster Bridge. The musical backdrop includes Wordsworth's contemporary Beethoven, but also features music by Fanny Mendelssohn (who, like Dorothy, knew about having a celebrated sibling), Benjamin Britten and Schubert.
17antimuzak
Wednesday 23rd December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
George Eliot's World.
This special edition of Words and Music is inspired by the novels, letters and journals of George Eliot, as well as responses to her and her work from the likes of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. The readers are Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick and Philip Bretherton. The music will include pieces by composers including Clara Schumann, Liszt, whom Eliot met in 1854; and Tchaikovsky, who said his favourite writer was George Eliot.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
George Eliot's World.
This special edition of Words and Music is inspired by the novels, letters and journals of George Eliot, as well as responses to her and her work from the likes of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. The readers are Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick and Philip Bretherton. The music will include pieces by composers including Clara Schumann, Liszt, whom Eliot met in 1854; and Tchaikovsky, who said his favourite writer was George Eliot.
18antimuzak
Thursday 24th December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Bloomsday.
A celebration of James Joyce's groundbreaking 1922 novel Ulysses. Taking place across one day (16th June 1904), Ulysses is a post-modern retelling of The Odyssey, principally following the characters of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom through the city of Dublin. This programme follows the novel's own winding journey through Ireland's capital, from the shoreline of Sandycove, to the Freemason's Journal, the National Library of Ireland, Davy Byrne's Pub, right through to Molly Bloom's bed in Eccles Street. As we travel through the city, Stanley Townsend and Kathy Kiera Clarke read extracts from Ulysses itself as well as a host of other works - some referenced directly in Joyce's text, such as the Iliad and Shakespeare's Hamlet, plus other writings inspired by Joyce's work. The programme also reflects Joyce's huge passion for music, with works by Wagner, Mozart, Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini and Friedrich von Flotow representing the author's love of opera. Elsewhere we hear two music-hall favourites alluded to throughout Ulysses - James Lynam Molloy's Love's Old Sweet Song and Those Lovely Seaside Girls by Harry B Norris. Classic Irish folk songs also feature alongside songs by Radiohead and Dublin post-punk band Fontaines DC, and listen out for a very special traditional number called Carolan's Farewell, played on the guitar once owned by none other than James Joyce himself.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Bloomsday.
A celebration of James Joyce's groundbreaking 1922 novel Ulysses. Taking place across one day (16th June 1904), Ulysses is a post-modern retelling of The Odyssey, principally following the characters of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom through the city of Dublin. This programme follows the novel's own winding journey through Ireland's capital, from the shoreline of Sandycove, to the Freemason's Journal, the National Library of Ireland, Davy Byrne's Pub, right through to Molly Bloom's bed in Eccles Street. As we travel through the city, Stanley Townsend and Kathy Kiera Clarke read extracts from Ulysses itself as well as a host of other works - some referenced directly in Joyce's text, such as the Iliad and Shakespeare's Hamlet, plus other writings inspired by Joyce's work. The programme also reflects Joyce's huge passion for music, with works by Wagner, Mozart, Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini and Friedrich von Flotow representing the author's love of opera. Elsewhere we hear two music-hall favourites alluded to throughout Ulysses - James Lynam Molloy's Love's Old Sweet Song and Those Lovely Seaside Girls by Harry B Norris. Classic Irish folk songs also feature alongside songs by Radiohead and Dublin post-punk band Fontaines DC, and listen out for a very special traditional number called Carolan's Farewell, played on the guitar once owned by none other than James Joyce himself.
19antimuzak
Friday 25th December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dickens' World.
Charles Dickens: tireless novelist, journalist, amateur theatricalist, traveller, socialiser, and liver of life. To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of this literary titan, actor Sam West reads from the letters Dickens sent to correspondents including other greats of the time like Mrs Gaskell and Wilkie Collins; close friends such as actor William Macready and artist Daniel Maclise; and his wife and children at home as he travelled extensively giving public readings to his thousands of adoring fans. Including observations of his first trip to America at the height of slavery in 1842, reflections on the incumbent British government and the prevailing class system, his traumatic account of the 1865 Staplehurst Rail Crash, guidance for his youngest son on departing for Australia, and the story of hunting a ghost with a shot gun, which turned out to be a sheep. With music by Haydn, Beethoven, Kathryn Tickell, The Divine Comedy, and Michael Nyman.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dickens' World.
Charles Dickens: tireless novelist, journalist, amateur theatricalist, traveller, socialiser, and liver of life. To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of this literary titan, actor Sam West reads from the letters Dickens sent to correspondents including other greats of the time like Mrs Gaskell and Wilkie Collins; close friends such as actor William Macready and artist Daniel Maclise; and his wife and children at home as he travelled extensively giving public readings to his thousands of adoring fans. Including observations of his first trip to America at the height of slavery in 1842, reflections on the incumbent British government and the prevailing class system, his traumatic account of the 1865 Staplehurst Rail Crash, guidance for his youngest son on departing for Australia, and the story of hunting a ghost with a shot gun, which turned out to be a sheep. With music by Haydn, Beethoven, Kathryn Tickell, The Divine Comedy, and Michael Nyman.
20antimuzak
Sunday 25th April 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Trumpet.
A selection of poetry and prose about the trumpet, with readings by Madeleine Potter and Joseph Ayre from work by Louis MacNiece, John Steinbeck, Victor Hugo and Tennyson. The trumpet occupies a special place in the collective consciousness, a sonic presence throughout centuries of celebrations, ceremonies, wars and visions. Here is an instrument that brought down the walls of the city of Jericho, and whose `loud clangour excites us to arms'' in the words of John Dryden (encountered in this programme in a setting by George Frideric Handel). There is a scene from Louis MacNiece's BBC drama The Dark Tower, a parable play on the ancient theme of the quest in which the protagonist is a young trumpeter, practising his fanfare as he prepares to meet his fate. But the instrument has many lives beyond the battlefield: for Walt Whitman, it takes on the role of otherworldly messenger, inviting him into a mystical experience; it appears as a metaphor in Alice Oswald's celebratory love sonnet Wedding; contemporary jazz musician Ambrose Akinmusire explores its tender and fragile possibilities; and Langston Hughes reads Trumpet Player at the BBC in 1962, his poetic ode to the instrument's place in the history of African-American expression and memory. Whether in the hands of apocalyptic angels, enthusiastic amateurs, mourners, or virtuosic improvisers, it seems that the trumpet is something of a summoner, calling us away from the everyday, towards another reality.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Trumpet.
A selection of poetry and prose about the trumpet, with readings by Madeleine Potter and Joseph Ayre from work by Louis MacNiece, John Steinbeck, Victor Hugo and Tennyson. The trumpet occupies a special place in the collective consciousness, a sonic presence throughout centuries of celebrations, ceremonies, wars and visions. Here is an instrument that brought down the walls of the city of Jericho, and whose `loud clangour excites us to arms'' in the words of John Dryden (encountered in this programme in a setting by George Frideric Handel). There is a scene from Louis MacNiece's BBC drama The Dark Tower, a parable play on the ancient theme of the quest in which the protagonist is a young trumpeter, practising his fanfare as he prepares to meet his fate. But the instrument has many lives beyond the battlefield: for Walt Whitman, it takes on the role of otherworldly messenger, inviting him into a mystical experience; it appears as a metaphor in Alice Oswald's celebratory love sonnet Wedding; contemporary jazz musician Ambrose Akinmusire explores its tender and fragile possibilities; and Langston Hughes reads Trumpet Player at the BBC in 1962, his poetic ode to the instrument's place in the history of African-American expression and memory. Whether in the hands of apocalyptic angels, enthusiastic amateurs, mourners, or virtuosic improvisers, it seems that the trumpet is something of a summoner, calling us away from the everyday, towards another reality.
21antimuzak
Sunday 11th July 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Happiness.
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim McInnerny are the readers for a programme exploring ideas and meanings of happiness, joy and ecstasy. The anthology of thoughts move from Plato to Easton Ellis by way of George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Margery Kempe, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Trollope, William Blake, Edmund Spencer, Chinua Achebe, Aldous Huxley and others; with music by Beethoven, Handel, Schumann, Rossini, Heinrich Schutz, Hildegard of Bingen, Eubie Blake, Charles Penrose, Thomas Ades - and Ken Dodd.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Happiness.
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim McInnerny are the readers for a programme exploring ideas and meanings of happiness, joy and ecstasy. The anthology of thoughts move from Plato to Easton Ellis by way of George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Margery Kempe, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Trollope, William Blake, Edmund Spencer, Chinua Achebe, Aldous Huxley and others; with music by Beethoven, Handel, Schumann, Rossini, Heinrich Schutz, Hildegard of Bingen, Eubie Blake, Charles Penrose, Thomas Ades - and Ken Dodd.
22antimuzak
Sunday 15th August 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Walter Scott.
A programme dedicated to author Walter Scott, with Sophia McLean and Denis Lawson reading from his prose and poetry and from other writers influenced by his revolutionary forays into history and the gothic, including Margaret Oliphant, Iain Banks, Jean Guthrie Smith and Robin Jenkins. The music includes Rossini's La Donna del Lago, one of many operas adapted from a Scott novel, and Haydn's arrangement of Lizae Baillie - the kind of traditional ballad that Scott drew inspiration from, as well as offerings by Berlioz, Thea Musgrave, Tiny Grimes, Eddi Reader and Simon Thoumire.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Walter Scott.
A programme dedicated to author Walter Scott, with Sophia McLean and Denis Lawson reading from his prose and poetry and from other writers influenced by his revolutionary forays into history and the gothic, including Margaret Oliphant, Iain Banks, Jean Guthrie Smith and Robin Jenkins. The music includes Rossini's La Donna del Lago, one of many operas adapted from a Scott novel, and Haydn's arrangement of Lizae Baillie - the kind of traditional ballad that Scott drew inspiration from, as well as offerings by Berlioz, Thea Musgrave, Tiny Grimes, Eddi Reader and Simon Thoumire.
23antimuzak
Sunday 12th September 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dante.
An edition focusing on Dante, features readings from key works taken from a range of different translations, and some excerpts in Italian, set against music inspired by his words In 1849 Franz Liszt wrote `Dante has become for my mind and spirit what the column of clouds was for the children of Israel when it guided them through the desert" and he went on to compose a sonata and a symphony inspired by the Italian poet. In 1876, Tchaikovsky read the fourth canto of Dante's Hell and began his symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini, about a noblewoman who falls in love with her husband's brother, while Rachmaninov's operatic version of this story premiered in 1906. Soweto Kinch's The Legend of Mike Smith brings Dante's Inferno and the seven deadly sins into our modern world. The idea of `people being ferried across the river of death" in an exhibition of Egyptian art inspired the track Pyramid Song by Radiohead, which takes images from Dante's journey through heaven and hell.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Dante.
An edition focusing on Dante, features readings from key works taken from a range of different translations, and some excerpts in Italian, set against music inspired by his words In 1849 Franz Liszt wrote `Dante has become for my mind and spirit what the column of clouds was for the children of Israel when it guided them through the desert" and he went on to compose a sonata and a symphony inspired by the Italian poet. In 1876, Tchaikovsky read the fourth canto of Dante's Hell and began his symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini, about a noblewoman who falls in love with her husband's brother, while Rachmaninov's operatic version of this story premiered in 1906. Soweto Kinch's The Legend of Mike Smith brings Dante's Inferno and the seven deadly sins into our modern world. The idea of `people being ferried across the river of death" in an exhibition of Egyptian art inspired the track Pyramid Song by Radiohead, which takes images from Dante's journey through heaven and hell.
24antimuzak
Sunday 10th October 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Keats.
Nicholas Shaw reads from poems and letters written by John Keats, who died from tuberculosis aged 25 on February 23rd 1821. The music includes work by composers admired and loved by Keats, including Mozart, Handel, Haydn and Thomas Arne, and the readings include Ode to Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and On the Sea, along with Keats' moving and funny letters to friends and family.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Keats.
Nicholas Shaw reads from poems and letters written by John Keats, who died from tuberculosis aged 25 on February 23rd 1821. The music includes work by composers admired and loved by Keats, including Mozart, Handel, Haydn and Thomas Arne, and the readings include Ode to Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and On the Sea, along with Keats' moving and funny letters to friends and family.
25antimuzak
Sunday 12th December 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Madame Bovary and Independent Women.
Emma Fielding and Alex Jennings read extracts from Madame Bovary, the novel Gustave Flaubert published in 1856 that depicted the life of a provincial wife trying to escape a life she finds banal and restricting. Public prosecutors attacked it for obscenity when it was serialised in the Revue de Paris, but after the author's acquittal it became a best-seller. Its themes of infidelity, guilt, remorse, the struggle to find independence are echoed in other extracts by writers including Byron, Emily Dickinson, Henrik Ibsen, DH Lawrence, George Eliot, EM Forster, Maurice Riordan, Edna St Vincent Millay and Mary McCarthy, alongside a variety of musical examples.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Madame Bovary and Independent Women.
Emma Fielding and Alex Jennings read extracts from Madame Bovary, the novel Gustave Flaubert published in 1856 that depicted the life of a provincial wife trying to escape a life she finds banal and restricting. Public prosecutors attacked it for obscenity when it was serialised in the Revue de Paris, but after the author's acquittal it became a best-seller. Its themes of infidelity, guilt, remorse, the struggle to find independence are echoed in other extracts by writers including Byron, Emily Dickinson, Henrik Ibsen, DH Lawrence, George Eliot, EM Forster, Maurice Riordan, Edna St Vincent Millay and Mary McCarthy, alongside a variety of musical examples.
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