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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: Seven

Seven

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Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to the number seven.

Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to the number seven including last words, deadly sins, veils, brides, brothers, and dwarfs.

Seven days in the week, colours in the rainbow, notes in the diatonic scale; The number seven is considered lucky, mystical and holy in many different cultures and religions and appears frequently in nature as well as literature. Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to this most important of numbers, including last words, deadly sins, veils, brides, brothers, and dwarfs. With music by Haydn, Bartok, Strauss and Bowie. 

Readings 

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Peter Clayton and Martin Price 
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll 
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm translated by  DL Ashliman
Serenade - Edgar Allen Poe 
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
As I was going to St Ives - Anon
The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie 
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Seven Times the Moon Came- Jesse Belle Rittenhouse
The Parson's Tale - Chaucer translated by Larry D Benson
Seven Times One - Jean Ingelow
Seven last words - The Bible
Bluebeard - Charles Perrault translated by Andrew Lang
The Prisoner of Chillon - Byron 
Monday's Child - Traditional
The Seven Sorrows -Ted Hughes
The Rainbow - Christina Rossetti
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Nightfall - Giovanni Pascoli translated by Arlotte M Abbott
Secret Seven - Enid Blyton
In the Seven Woods - WB Yeats
As I Walked Out One Evening - WH Auden

Producer - Ellie Mant.

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