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Playing the Skyline

Series 2

Episode 1: Newcastle and Gateshead

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and Afro-jazz bass trombonist Hannabiell Sanders look at Newcastle - the Sage, the Tyne bridges - and create new music that follows the skyline. Show more

Playing the Skyline

Series 2

Episode 2: A Hillside in Oxfordshire

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Paul Sartin, oboe player in Bellowhead, and contemporary composer Robert Worby, in a flower-filled meadow close to the roaring M40, make music following the skyline of Oxfordshire. Show more

Playing the Skyline

Series 2

Episode 3: Belfast Docks

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Irvine, Belfast's composer laureate, who works in many forms, and multi-instrumentalist Rachael Boyd meet by the Harland and Woolf shipyard to play the skyline of Belfast. Show more

Playing the Skyline

Series 1

Episode 1: Millennium Bridge, London - Anna Meredith and Courtney Pine

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Courtney Pine and composer Anna Meredith, on the Millennium Bridge, London, look at the view from St Paul's to the Shard, and each create new music that follows that skyline. Show more

Playing the Skyline

Series 1

Episode 2: Port Talbot: Kizzy Crawford and Gwilym Simcock

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Singer Kizzy Crawford and pianist Gwilym Simcock each create a piece of music, inspired by the outline against the sky of Port Talbot, seen from the sea - they play the skyline. Show more

Playing the Skyline

Series 1

Episode 3: Cumnock and Ben Wyvis

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

James MacMillan composes a piece tracing the skyline of Cumnock, his home pit village in Ayrshire, while Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis plays the skyline of Ben Wyvis in the highlands. Show more