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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: A Celebration of Sport

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A Celebration of Sport

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The joy, drama and human folly of the sporting calendar, from rugby to the Olympics.

Words by CLR James, Simon Barnes, PG Wodehouse and Alison Uttley with music from Carl Davis, William Alwyn, Rachel Portman and Carl Maria von Weber capture the sporting calendar.

The joy, drama and human folly of the sporting calendar from rugby to the Olympics. The readers are Robert Powell and Pippa Bennett-Warner. As people recover from activities for this year's BBC Sports Relief, Words and Music takes us through the British summer sporting calendar from the optimism of April and the Grand National through the three-jerseyed days of the early cricket season into the warmth of Wimbledon, the heat of the British Open Golf, the elegance of Henley and culminating with competitors leaving for the Olympics in June. 

Music from Warlock, Weber, Carl Davis and William Alwyn blends with the sometimes surprising words of Shakespeare, Milton and the many writers on sport from the heyday of Edwardian endeavour to the 20th-century frivolity of PG Wodehouse and John Betjeman and on to the enthusiasms of Alison Uttley and the beautiful reflections of the very best cricket writers like Neville Cardus and all-rounder Simon Barnes, with poetry from Roger McGough and John Arlott.

Producer: Tom Alban

Readings 
Simon Barnes -The Times: 28th July 2014
John Milton -from Paradise Lost Book 2
Hugh McIlvanney - The Saga of Red Rum from McIlvanney on Horseracing
Alan Ross - from Stanley Matthews
Anon - from A Gravestone at Llanfair Church, South Wales
Alison Uttley - from Carts and Candlestick
Robin Daniels - Cardus Celebrant of Beauty, a Memoir  
CLR James - from Beyond a Boundary
William Shakespeare - Henry V, Act I sc 2
E.M.Forster - from A Room With A View - Chapter 15
John Betjeman - from A Subalterns Love Song
Steve Fairbairn - The Oarsmans Song  
John Betjeman - Seaside Golf
Roger McGough - The Railings
John Arlott - On a Great Batsman
Alison Uttley - from Carts and Candlesticks
A E Houseman - To An Athlete Dying Young

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