Words and Music

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Sand and Deserts

Sand and Deserts

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Sand and Deserts

Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan with readings from Robyn Davidson to Alex Garland.

Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan with readings on all things sandy from Robyn Davidson to Alex Garland. Music includes Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel.

Robyn Davidson, Frank Herbert, Alex Garland and Robert Louis Stevenson provide some of today's prose and poetry, whilst music includes pieces by Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel. We'll be playing at the beach, trekking through the Outback with camels, moving physical borders between countries and looking to the stars through glass made from sand in the Whitsundays. The readers are Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan. 

Producer: Barnaby Gordon

Readings:
Katherine Gallagher South Beach
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream within a Dream
Folk tale, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons 1001 Nights
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life
Alex Garland The Beach
Meghan Hicks How to Run the Marathon des Sables
Frank Herbert Dune
Robyn Davidson Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Tim Marshall Prisoners of Geography
Lucy Eddy Singing Sands
Paul Duffield At One with the Universe in Queensland

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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