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20/02/2011

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Texts and music on the theme of money. Readings by Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens.

Texts and music on the theme of money, with readings by Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens. Includes Dostoyevsky, Defoe and F Scott Fitzgerald, plus Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky.

Money makes the world go round. It also tends to bring out the worst in people, and a wealth of novels and poems have been written on and around the subject. The gentlemen in Jane Austen's novels usually have plenty of it, while the unfortunate Katerina Ivanovna in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment certainly does not. Defoe's Moll Flanders and F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are on the make, while characters in Dickens and E Nesbit are in a ruinous state through losing their money. And Martin Amis's John Self thinks he's making money, later to find that he's actually losing it too. 

Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens read poems and texts which show the impact money, or lack of money has on literary characters' lives, with music by Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky and Abba.

Producer - Ellie Mant.

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