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Words and Music

A sequence of classical music interspersed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors

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    Andrew Lincoln and Emma Fielding with a selection of poetry on the changing seasons.
  2. Poetry and music on the theme of Ancient Greece. Readings by Tim McMullan, Clare Higgins.
  3. Claire Skinner and Hugh Bonneville are the readers in a celebration of nature's musicians. (R)
  4. Music and poems on the theme of monsters read by Don Warrington and Carolyn Pickles.
  5. Poetry and music inspired by Milton's description of 'darkness visible' in Paradise Lost.
  6. Music and poems on the theme of winter read by Struan Rodger and Cheryl Campbell.
  7. Alison Steadman and Timothy West read verse on a culinary theme. With music by Schubert. (R)
  8. Lindsay Duncan and Adam Godley read poetry and prose inspired by bridges.
  9. The struggle between conflict and concord, with poems by John Milton and Wilfred Owen. (R)
  10. 'Seven Ages of Man': a special edition recorded live at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.

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