Words and Music

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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: Lost and Found

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Lost and Found

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Texts and music on the theme of being lost, with readers Harriet Walter and Don Warrington

Texts and music on the theme of being lost, with readers Harriet Walter and Don Warrington. Including Dante, Thoreau and Marquez, plus Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Kern and Ives.

Lost thoughts, lost paths, lost time, lost love, lost innocence. Harriet Walter and Don Warrington read poetry and prose on the idea of being lost, both physically and metaphysically. The programme ventures into areas of life which can make us fearful; places where emotional states can be raw, some of the writers here are caught up in the emotion of the moment, occasionally bitter, but many are reflective, considering the truths uncovered in moments when the familiar and the known are gone, or obscured.  Does this lead to confusion and regret, or to a eureka moment of clarity? The music includes Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Jerome Kern and Charles Ives.

Producer: Janet Tuppen 

READINGS 
Dante Alighieri -  Inferno Canto I
William Blake - Little Boy Lost 
Georgia Douglas Johnson - Lost Illusions 
Ian McEwan - Atonement
John Clare - I Am 
Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning 
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude 
Thoreau - Walden: The Village 
Silas Weir Mitchell - Idleness 
Adelaide Anne Proctor - A Lost Chord 
George MacDonald - Lost and Found 
Ivor Gurney - To His Love 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Grief 
Tennyson - In Memoriam AHH 
Emily Dickinson - Part Four: Time and Eternity 
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass: Continuities 
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

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