Derek Jewell introduces a programme with a literary background, including music from the album Scheherazade and Other Stories by RENAISSANCE and the whole of the second part of DAVID BEDFORD'S evocation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner played by the composer himself on a wide, range of instruments, with contributions from MIKE OLDFIELD , a girls' choir from Queen's College, London, and with ROBERT POWELL as the narrator,