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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

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The South Country

28/03/2010

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A sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrating the landscape of southern England.

A sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrating the landscape of southern England, with readings by Tamsin Greig and Neil Pearson. With works by Edward Thomas, Belloc, Tippett.

Inspired by the recent republication of Edward Thomas's essay collection The South Country, the weekly sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrates the landscape of southern England, in particular three counties in which the poet loved to walk: Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire. 

Tamsin Greig and Neil Pearson read prose by fellow observer-wanderers Gilbert White, William Cobbett and Richard Jefferies, and poetry by such lovers of the south as Flora Thompson, Andrew Young, Hilaire Belloc, Molly Holden and, of course, Edward Thomas himself. The music includes orchestral music and songs by John Ireland, Michael Tippett, The Copper Family and the English Acoustic Collective among others.

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