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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: Courtroom Drama

Courtroom Drama

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Courtroom Drama

Readings from Kafka, Cyril Hare, Dorothy L Sayers, Carol Ann Duffy in this legal episode.

From Harper Lee's crusading lawyer Atticus Finch to Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury, Dickens's Jarndyce v Jarndyce to The Merchant of Venice and Jocelyn Pook's film score.

Readings about lawyers and courtrooms, from Harper Lee's crusading lawyer Atticus Finch, Dickens's Jarndyce v Jarndyce case from Bleak House that gets stuck in the Court of Chancery for decades, and part of Arthur Miller's witch-hunt drama The Crucible. Music includes Jocelyn Pook's score for The Merchant of Venice, Philip Glass's music for The Crucible, Woody Guthrie's tale of the Philadelphia Lawyer, and court scenes from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury. And there's classic archive from an episode called Twelve Angry Men, which was part of Tony Hancock's TV series.

Our readers are Paterson Joseph and Emily Pithon.

Readings:

The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Owl by Emily Dickinson
Matthew Chapter XXVII from the King James Bible
Pilate’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
The Lawyer’s Ways by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Warning by David Sullivan
Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare
The Case Won by William Cowper
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Winslow Boy by Terrence Rattigan

Producer: Nick Holmes

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