Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Words and Music

Drama

Music: Classical

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

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

Words and Music: Tricksters

Tricksters and Hoaxers

08/04/2012

Tricksters

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, TrickstersClose menu

Texts, music about pranksters and manipulators. Readers: Katherine Parkinson, Jim Norton.

Texts and music on the theme of pranksters and manipulators, with readings by Katherine Parkinson and Jim Norton. With Shakespeare and Chaucer, plus Mozart, Kreisler and Strauss.

Tricksters and Hoaxers. Katherine Parkinson and Jim Norton side-step the banana skins and refuse the exploding cigars in a celebration of the devilish works of pathological pranksters and perennial manipulators including Robin Goodfellow, Brer Rabbit, Till Eulenspiegel, Renard the Fox and Scapino. Words come from Skakespeare, WS Gilbert, Ogden Nash and Chaucer, and music from Mozart, Mendelssohn, Kreisler and Strauss among others.

Producer: Lindsay Kemp.

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Words and Music

Tricksters

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3