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Words and Music: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

23/09/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating men - the great and the not so noble.

Tom Goodman-Hill and Emma Fielding are the readers in a sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating men - the great and the not so noble.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Tom Goodman-Hill and Emma Fielding are the readers of poems and prose about the celebration of men, the great and the not so noble.

From the Greek and Trojan kings, to the tyrants of the twentieth century via Einstein and the paeans sung by artists to their mentors and heroes. Seamus Heaney mourns Robert Lowell whilst Philip Larkin utters an unalloyed yes to Sidney Bechet. 

There's music from Britten, written especially for the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and an elegy for Philip Sidney by WIlliam Byrd as well as music by John Adams, Mozart and Berlioz.

Producer: Natalie Steed.

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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