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The Hunting of the Snark

on BBC Radio 3

"I was walking on a hillside, alone one bright summer day, when suddenly there came into my head one line of verse - one solitary line - 'For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.' I knew not what it meant then; I know not what it means now."
(Rev Charles Dodgson ) Michael Bakewell examines the history and various interpretations of Lewis Carroll 's nonsense verse about "an impossible voyage of an improbable crew, to find an inconceivable creature", and introduces a dramatised reading.
Music by Steven Faux. Director Rosemary Hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dodgson
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Music By:
Steven Faux.
Director:
Rosemary Hart
Narrator:
Alan Bennett
Bellman:
Paul Daneman
Baker:
David Collings
Butcher:
David King
Snark:
Peter Penry Jones

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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