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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares

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Readings by Brid Brennan & Jade Anouka & music including Brahms, Debussy & Aretha Franklin

Music from Brahms, Max Richter, Debussy and Aretha Franklin and including writings by Sojourner Truth, Franz Kafka, Yeats and Langston Hughes read by Jade Anouka and Brid Brennan.

A programme inspired by the words of Martin Luther King as we mark Black History Month with this selection of readings and music which include Sojurner Truth, Aretha Franklin, Langston Hughes and Florence Price. The readers are Jade Anouka and Brid Brennan. 

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" said Sigmund Freud. And the unconscious is a storehouse for unacceptable ideas or desires, traumatic memories & emotions we repress. We all dream - and not just while we sleep. So what can our dreams tell us about ourselves and the society we live in?  

Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

Readings: 
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Land of Nod
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Love and Sleep 
Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis 
Audre Lorde: 1984
Willam Butler Yeats: The Second Coming 
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman
JM Synge: Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara 
Martin Carter: Looking at Your Hands
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea 
Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, translated by Seamus Heaney The Glamoured 
Frances EW Harper: Bury Me in a Free Land 
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Carol Ann Duffy: Dreams of a Lost Friend
Langston Hughes: A Dream Deferred 
Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams 
Sigmund Freud: Dora's Dream
Crazy Horse: Upon Suffering Beyond Suffering. 

Main image: Portrait of African-American orator and civil rights activist Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), 1860s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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