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Words and Music: Free Thinking: Who's in Control?

Free Thinking: Who's in Control?

27/10/2013

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A special live edition from Radio 3's 2013 Free Thinking festival of ideas.

A live edition from Radio 3's 2013 Free Thinking festival of ideas, with readers Madelaine Newton and Kevin Whately, plus music from Kathryn Tickell and the Leonore Piano Trio.

In this special edition of Words and Music, recorded in front of an audience at St Marys Heritage Centre, Gateshead as part of this year's Free Thinking Festival, readers Kevin Whately (Inspector Morse, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet) and Madelaine Newton (When the Boat Comes In), read a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of this year's festival: 'Who's In Control?'.

They appear alongside their daughter Kitty Whately, the mezzo-soprano and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the acclaimed Leonore Piano Trio and Kathryn Tickell, the Northumbrian piper and composer whose work is deeply rooted in the folk traditions of the North East.

Words come courtesy of Shakespeare, Dickens and Wordsworth, and musically we'll move from Beethoven to Sondheim, Arne to Mahler.

BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.

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