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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: Incarceration

Incarceration

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Sian Clifford and Michael Maloney read poetry and prose on the theme of incarceration.

On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Piranesi, whose ‘Carceri d'Invenzione’ etchings depict foreboding imaginary subterranean prisons, today's Words and Music reflects on all sorts of Incarceration. We'll hear from a hostage in Beirut, a schoolgirl in a young offenders institute, a bored employee, and a housewife trapped by her husband's good intentions. Plus a long-planned prison escape penned by Stephen King and made famous by Steven Spielberg.  With music from Anna Meredith, Arvo Part, John Adams, Sam Cooke and Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev, a Russian guitarist who spent a decade in a Soviet Gulag. The readers are Sian Clifford (Fleabag/Two Weeks to Live) and Michael Maloney (Truly Madly Deeply/The Young Victoria).

Readings:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi  - Darran Anderson
The Panopticon  - Jenni Fagan
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room - William Wordsworth
Grey is the Colour of Hope - Irina Ratushinskaya
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
How soft this Prison is - Emily Dickinson
An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King

Producer: Ruth Thomson

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