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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: Two

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Two

Famous couples and pairs, present in nature and in cultures, inspired by the number two.

Actors Paterson Joseph and Jenna Augen introduce famous couples and pairs, present in nature and cultures. This programme, broadcast on 20/02/2022, is inspired by the number two.

Actors Paterson Joseph and Jenna Augen explore the power of number 2. From the nursery rhyme pair Tweedledum and Tweedledee, to Romeo and Juliet, the star crossed couple of lovers; from the mirror image imagined by Thomas Hardy, to the mythological figures of Romulus and Remus, as seen by Percy Shelley; from the Cholmodeley Ladies, whose portrait, hanging at Tate Britain, inspires Jean Sprackland’s verses, to the famous 19th-Century twins Chang and Eng, imagined by Cathy Park Hong; and famous double-acts like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, in Cervantes’ evergreen masterpiece, to the scary symbiosis of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in Stevenson’s novella; and more.  Some of the music featured comes from duets, vocal or instrumental; or from pieces for two instruments as concert soloists, and some of the music is performed by famous sibling players like pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque; string players Renaud and Gautier Capucon, or the multi-instrumentalists Kanneh-Mason siblings, among others...

Producers: Juan Carlos Jaramillo and Harry Parker

Readings:
King James Bible  Verses from Genesis
William Shakespeare  Romeo and Juliet
John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning  
Mary Jo Bang  Two Nudes
Thomas Hardy   Moments of Vision
Victor Hernández Cruz   Two Guitars
Miguel de Cervantes   Don Quixote
Cathy Park Hong  Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins
Henry S Leigh   The Twins 
Arundathi Subramaniam   Shoe Zen
Rudyard Kipling   Romulus and Remus
Lewis Carroll   Tweedledum and Tweedledee from Through the Looking Glass
R L Stevenson   The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A E Stallings  Two Violins
Sarah Jackson   Into the Horse
Jean Sprackland   The Cholmondeley Ladies 
Dannie Abse   Two Photographs

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