Susan Sharpe concludes the programme with music by Lipinski, Chopin, Purcell, Scigalski, Karlowicz, Debussy, Moniuszko, Pallasz, Szeligowski, Chopin and Mendelssohn. Show more
Matthew Sweet presents an evening of programmes from BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas in Liverpool. 8.45pm Drama on 3. 9.55pm Sunday Feature. 10.55pm Words and Music. Show more
Matthew Sweet introduces an evening of programmes from the Free Thinking festival of ideas in Liverpool, an event featuring debates, interviews, drama and lectures. Producer Martin Smith 8/45 Drama on 3: Yesterday an Incident Occurred A new play by Mark Ravenhill , specially commissioned for Free Thinking and recorded in front of a live audience in the atmospheric, but now disused, Victorian civil court of St George 's Hall, Liverpool. The play looks at our relationship with the War on Terror and takes the moral temperature of a nation unsure of itself. What do the mostly totally normal citizens have to do to protect themselves? "Please don't let the cameras bother you. Act normally. Smile or frown or.... cry. Whatever you feel is appropriate. But in no way should you let the cameras bother you." Producer Kate Rowland
9.55 Sunday Feature: Backwash
Liverpudlian writer Gavin Scott Whitf ield goes on a journey of self discovery and attempts to decode his city's cultural DNA and find the source of its creative vitality. What is it about this city that has made it such an edgy place, looking out to the Atlantic and away from the English heartlands?
Interviewees include Terence Davies , Brian Patten , Ken Dodd , and Rogan Taylor. Producer Neil McCarthy
10.45 Words and Music Freedom
A special event from St George 's small concert room in Liverpool where Dickens gave his legendary Penny Readings. Continuing the tradition of the hall, Liverpudlian actor Cathy Tyson reads a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of freedom, including works by Emily Dickinson ,
WH Auden, Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes. With music played in the hall by Liverpool's
Ensemble 10/10, saxophonist Tim Whitehead , pianist Gwilym Simcock and singer Jennifer John. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic
Susan Sharpe continues the programme with music by Albicastro, Allegri, Shchedrin, Albeniz, Strauss and Walpurgis. Show more
