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Jonathan Keeble and Emily Pithon with readings from Trollope to Larkin and Imtiaz Dharker.

Music from Wagner to Pink Floyd with readings exploring money ranging from Michael Lewis's The Big Short to Kathleen Raine's Worry about Money.

With tax return deadlines looming and rises in the cost of living, we've a financial theme as Jonathan Keeble and Emily Pithon perform readings from The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and from Martin Amis's 1984 novel Money, from George Eliot's Silas Marner, which depicts a lonely weaver who hoards gold coins and Imtiaz Dharker's poem about today's consumerist society, The Garden Gnomes are on Their Mobile Phones, as well as Michael Lewis's investigation of investors on Wall Street, The Big Short.  The music includes Beethoven's Rage Over a Lost Penny, Franz Lehár's Gold and Silver Waltz, Eartha Kitt singing Brother Can You Spare a Dime and Pink Floyd's Money. 

You can find a Free Thinking episode exploring different aspects of Money in the playlist How We Live Now on the Free Thinking programme website. 
 
Producer: Nick Holmes

READINGS: 
Martin Amis               Money 
JRR Tolkein                 The Hobbit
Florence May Alt        The Millionaire
Henry Austen              Preface to Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
George Eliot                Silas Marner 
Emily Dickinson           Simplicity
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah     Friday Black
Émile Zola                    Money
Michael Lewis              The Big Short 
Anthony Trollope         The Prime Minister
Charles Dickens            Little Dorrit
Chester Himes              A Rage in Harlem
Kathleen Raine             Worry about Money
Philip Larkin                 Money 
Simon Armitage           Ten Pence Story
Imtiaz Dharker              The garden gnomes are on their mobile phones 
Amos Russel Wells        Things! Things

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