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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: Arcadia

Arcadia

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Texts and music about pastoral landscapes, with readers Fiona Shaw and Jamie Glover.

Ahead of Earth Day our theme is pastoral landscapes, with readers Fiona Shaw and Jamie Glover. Including Wordsworth, Dickinson and Thoreau, Vaughan Williams, Copland, Ravel and Debussy.

Fiona Shaw and Jamie Glover with poetry, prose and music exploring the vision of Arcadia and harmony with nature across the centuries.  Broadcast ahead of Earth Day 2020 on Wednesday April 22nd we move from the pastoral visions of the Ancient Greeks Virgil and Theocritus to the anxieties of the American environmentalist Rachel Carson in 'Silent Spring', via Stephen Spender's exploration of technology coming to an English landscape largely unchanged in centuries and Robinson Jeffers's 'Carmel Point' in which he imagines a time when nature and man can live in harmony. Arcadia includes work by Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Virgil Thomson, Debussy, Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Thoreau, Evelyn Waugh, Willa Cather and John Clare.  You might also be interested in a Free Thinking discussion of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring broadcasting on April 22nd. 

Producer: Fiona McLean.

Readings:
Georgics I - Virgil & Cecil Day Lewis 
Idyll 7 - Theocritus & Thelma Sargent
Georgics 3 - Virgil & Cecil Day Lewis 
Our Forests and National Parks - John Muir 
Summer Shower - Emily Dickinson 
The Prelude - William Wordsworth 
Farmer's Boy - John Clare 
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
My Antonia - Willa Cather 
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson 
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Pylons - Stephen Spender 
Carmel Point - Robinson Jeffers 
The Amateur Poacher - Richard Jeffries

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