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: The Long and Winding Road

The Long and Winding Road

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, The Long and Winding Road

Music and writing on roads from Hardy to Nelson Mandela, Christina Rossetti to Catullus.

Our readers Claire Rushbrooke and Paul Higgins give us the road not taken, road songs, the road to freedom and street walking, with music by Stravinsky, Pergolesi, Ivor Novello.

Roads join the here and the there, the past and the present, the known and the unknown. They provide that important interim stage when change lies ahead. With readers Claire Rushbrooke and Paul Higgins, we'll go wandering down all sorts of roads, from the Road of the Wanderer to the Road of Paradise, with a selection of poetry and prose by Robert Frost, Nelson Mandela, Jospehine Peabody and Christina Rossetti among others. The musical accompaniment to our ramble comes courtesy of Vaughan Williams, Janacek, Haydn and The Hollies.

Producer: Dominic Wells

READINGS:
Thomas Hardy    The Wanderer
Robert Morris      Tarrying in the Shade
George Edward Woodberry   30
Nelson Mandela    Long Walk to Freedom
Rachel Hadas         The Road
Josephine Peabody   Road Songs
William Blake             The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Robert Frost               The Road not Taken
John Gay                    The Art of Walking the Streets of London
Henry Clarence Kendall    To Damascus
Minna Irving                   Marching Still
Aubrey Thomas De Vere     The Meeting on Calvary
Gaius Valerius Catullus        A Home-Coming
Christina Rosetti              Saints and Angels

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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