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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

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Words and Music: The Garden

The Garden

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Sally Phillips and Bertie Carvel read poems and texts on the theme of The Garden.

Sally Phillips and Bertie Carvel with readings depicting gardens - public, secret, magical and paradise - and music by Mozart, Gubaidulina and Tchaikovsky.

Sally Phillips and Bertie Carvel read poems and texts encompassing public gardens, secret gardens, magical gardens, and paradise gardens.   

Jane Eyre is hiding in one, Peter Rabbit is escaping from one, the collector of plants John Tradescant is tending one, and the gothic novel heroine Rebecca de Winter's has been completely taken over by nature. Whether a place to relax, play, be seen or to hide, the garden serves many purposes in literature, as in life.  There are public gardens such as Spring Gardens in Vauxhall, the place to be seen in the mid-18th century, boasting summer concerts and a fine statue of Handel. Oscar Wilde describes Paris’s equivalent, the Jardin des Tuileries, a painting of which is included in Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition.   Including music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sofia Gubaidulina, Rebecca Clarke and Takemitsu.

Producer: Ellie Mant

Readings: 
Anon:                            Genesis from The Bible (King James Version) 
James Merrill:                A Vision of the Garden
Lewis Carroll:                 Through the Looking Glass
WB Yeats:                      Down by the Salley Gardens
Elizabeth Jennings:       Her Garden
Philippa Gregory:           Earthly Joys
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:    Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers
Sir John Hawkins:           A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Charles Dickens:             Nicholas Nickleby
Oscar Wilde:                   Le Jardin des Tuileries
Daphne Du Maurier:      Rebecca
Beatrix Potter:                Peter Rabbit
Charlotte Bronte:           Jane Eyre
WH Auden:                    Their Lonely Betters
Edwin Arlington Robinson:   The Garden
John Wyndham:              Day of the Triffids
Alfred Tennyson:             The Gardener’s Daughter
Frances Hodgson Burnett:     The Secret Garden

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