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Words and Music: Nonsense

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29/05/2016

Nonsense

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Texts and music on the theme of nonsense. Readers: Griff Rhys Jones and Debra Stephenson.

Texts and music on the theme of nonsense, with readers Griff Rhys Jones and Debra Stephenson. Including Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, plus Bach, Ligeti and Gilbert and Sullivan.

Griff Rhys Jones and Debra Stephenson delve into nonsense literature, from Anglo-Saxon riddles to limericks by Edward Lear, a poem by Brendel and Lewis Carroll, with music by Bach, Ligeti and Gilbert and Sullivan.

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