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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: This Haunted Land

This Haunted Land

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Readings from Donne, MR James, Mary Karr. Music includes The Wicker Man, Britten, Bartok

From Emily Bronte's wild moors; MR James' & Britten's ghosts, to film music for The Shining & The Wicker Man: Tim McInnerny & Ayesha Antoine are the readers in a Halloween episode

From Emily Bronte's wild moors;  the ghosts in stories by MR James & Benjamin Britten's opera Turn of the Screw, Schubert's lamenting song cycle Winterreise to film music for The Shining & The Wicker Man: Tim McInnerny & Ayesha Antoine are the readers in a Halloween episode.

A soundtrack is provided by a range of classical composers including Ligeti, Mozart, Beethoven, Purcell, and a harking back to the 1970s TV series Children of the Stones which was once called "the scariest programme ever made for children" and film soundtracks including Mica Levi's compositions for Under the Skin;  Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind for The Shining and Paul Giovanni for The Wicker Man.

The readings include the thoughts of philosopher Mark Fisher from his book Ghosts of My Life;  a ghost story from the BBC Domesday project,  an evocation of mosquitos in the poem Horns by Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes, The Terrors of the Night in the Elizabethan pamphlet written by Thomas Nashe and in Mary Karr's poem Field of Skulls which imagines fears which come "drinking gin after the I Love Lucy reruns have gone off".

Producer Luke Mulhall 

READINGS:
Archive of Ghost Story from the BBC Domesday project read by Mabel Barber
James Hogg: The Mysterious Bride 
Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life 
Algernon Blackwood: The Haunted House 
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 
MR James: Oh, whistle and I’ll come to you
John Masefield: On the Downs 
Edward Thomas: Aspens
Claire Gradidge: I will haunt you in small change
Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel
Cynthia Huntington: Ghost
Thomas Nashe: The Terrors of the Night 
Kwame Dawes: Horns
John Clare: Written in Northampton County Asylum
John Donne: Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day
Mary Karr: Field of Skulls

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