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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: Women Walking

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Women Walking

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Nina Sosanya and Natalie Simpson read from travel diaries to novels warning against walks.

From Elizabeth Bennet's wet walk in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice to Robyn Davidson's trip across the Australian desert. With music from Eliza Carthy to Ethel Smyth.

From the Yorkshire moors of Emily Bronte, and the travels around Britain of Jini Reddy, to the Paris city streets paced by George Sand as she carved out her freedom to live an unconventional life as a writer, and the idea of the flâneuse described by Lauren Elkin: from the fearlessness of Little Red Riding Hood in the Brothers Grimm story and Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods to the endurance of Robyn Davidson crossing the Australian desert with a camel: today's programme looks at women walking alone, at this "impropriety"  in earlier centuries and at rebels who strode out unchaperoned, those walking alone in life, the female 'flaneuse' and women adventurers. Nina Sosanya and Natalie Simpson are the readers and music comes from composers and performers including Fanny Mendelssohn, Cecile Chaminade, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, Laurie Spiegel, Grace Jones and Eliza Carthy among others.

This week sees International Women's Day on March 8th and Radio 3 is looking at Spring, nature and the Soundscapes for Wellbeing project https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/soundscapesforwellbeing/
You can find Jini Reddy in a recent Verb discussion about The Walk https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rwmz
Radio 3 also has a focus on women in classical music running on March 8th. 
 


Producers: Janet Tuppen and Torquil MacLeod

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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