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Words and Music: Infidelity

Infidelity

26/06/2016

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Texts and music on the theme of infidelity. Readers: Fenella Woolgar and Timothy Watson.

Texts and music on the theme of infidelity, with readings by Fenella Woolgar and Timothy Watson. Includes Browning and Jackie Kay, plus Purcell, Mozart, Schoenberg and Nina Simone.

Fenella Woolgar and Timothy Watson explore infidelity from Tristan and Iseult to Anthony Blunt with texts from Dante, the Earl of Rochester, Robert Browning, Dorothy Parker, W.H. Auden, Hugo Williams and Jackie Kay, accompanied by music from Purcell, Mozart, Diego Ortiz, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg, Pinho Vargas and Nina Simone 

Producer: Philippa Ritchie

Scroll down the webpage for more information about the music used, and the producer's note.

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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