Words and Music
A sequence of classical music mixed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose. Get in touch... [email protected] Call: 03700 100 300
Words and Music - 04/05/2008
Alison Steadman and Timothy West read verse on a culinary theme, with poetry by WH Auden, Tony Harrison and Carol Ann Duffy alongside music from Schubert, Binchois and Fats Waller.
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Words and Music - 05/07/2009
Cheryl Campbell and Douglas Hodge explore the world of science in poetry and prose with work by Holub, Shelley, Hardy and Dickinson and music by Philip Glass, Bach and Takemitsu.
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Words and Music - 14/02/2010
A portrait in music, poetry and prose of Turkey, seen through the eyes of the outsider, with readings by Ruth Wilson and Toby Jones. With Yeats, Byron, Mozart, Part and Cantemir.
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Words and Music - 15/04/2007
Say, What Shall We Dance? A sequence of music, poetry and prose on the theme of dance, with works by Rilke, Larkin and Goethe as well as Debussy and Johann Strauss.
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Words and Music - 19/07/2009
As part of the BBC Poetry Season, a selection of poems and music chosen by BBC Radio 3 presenters. The readers are Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.
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Words and Music - 21/09/2008
A sequence of poetry and prose on the theme of autumn. With readings by Nicholas Farrell and Rachel Atkins and music by Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Mahler, Charlie Parker and Haydn.
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Words and Music - 24/02/2008
Actress Fiona Shaw introduces a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of animals, including works by Ted Hughes and Lewis Carroll, with music by Sibelius, Schumann and Poulenc.
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Words and Music - A Beat in Time
A Beat in Time: Greta Scacchi and Greg Wise explore poems about time, with words by Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, Wendy Cope, Plath, Shakespeare; and music by Haydn, Ravel, Cage, Bach.
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Words and Music - A Beat in Time
Greta Scacchi and Greg Wise read poems on the subject of Time. Poems and prose by Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot and Shakespeare and music by Haydn, Ravel, John Cage, Bach and Glass.
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Words and Music - A Change in the Weather
A Change in the Weather: Mark Strong and Niamh Cusack read poetry on the theme of the weather. Including writings by Donne, Auden and AA Milne, and music from Ravel and Gershwin.
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Words and Music - A Chinese Anthology
Wendy Kweh and David Yip read from two millennia of Chinese poetry covering subjects such as love, longing, loss, revolution and protest. With music by Debussy, Mahler and Puccini.
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Words and Music - All India Radio
A celebration of literature and music from the Asian subcontinent - from ragas to rap, and from Kerala to Calcutta. The readers are Meera Syal and Art Malik.
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Words and Music - Altitude
A sequence of poetry and music inspired by the world seen from a great height, the flight of birds and the romance of mountain tops. With readings by Anton Lesser and Lesley Sharp.
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Words and Music - An American Landscape
Actors Ian Barford and Jeff Perry read works about the American landscape. With writing by Steinbeck, James and Robert Frost, plus music by Ives, Barber and Woodie Guthrie.
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Words and Music - Ancient Greece
Tim McMullan and Clare Higgins read works by Shakespeare, Keats, Byron and Homer on the subject of Ancient Greece. With music by Schubert, Tippett and Bernstein.
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Words and Music - At the Movies
A mixture of poetry, prose and music inspired by film. Poems include Tony Harrison, George Szirtes and Carol Ann Duffy. Plus music by Plus music by Nyman, Mozart, Schumann, Aubert.
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Words and Music - Atonement
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of atonement, with readings by Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh. Featuring Milton, Dickinson and Chekhov, as well as Barber and Bruch.
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Words and Music - Authority
The Truth about Love: Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson read poetry and prose around the theme of love. Music includes Britten's Auden settings and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
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Words and Music - Awake!
Texts and music on the theme of awakenings. Including Mary Shelley, AE Housman, Edward Thomas, Anne Bronte and Percy Shelley, plus music by Handel, Bach, Stravinsky and Britten.
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Words and Music - Ballad of the Northern Lights
Douglas Hodge and Stella Gonet read poetry and prose on the theme of the North - from Ted Hughes, Katrina Porteous and Philip Larkin. With music by Sibelius, Holst and Delius.
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Words and Music - Berlin
Poems and music on the theme of the city of Berlin, with readings by Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland.
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Words and Music - Berlin
Words and music evoking the history of Berlin, with readings by Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland. With Gunter Grass, Joseph Roth and Alfred Doblin, plus Schoenberg, Bach and Weill.
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Words and Music - Birdsong
Birdsong: Claire Skinner and Hugh Bonneville are the readers in a celebration of nature's musicians. Poems by Milton, Hardy and Tennyson; music by Saint-Saens, Rameau and Sibelius.
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Words and Music - Birdsong
Claire Skinner and Hugh Bonneville are the readers in a celebration of nature's musicians. Poems by Milton, Hardy and Tennyson; music by Saint-Saens, Rameau and Sibelius.
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Words and Music - Birth and Rebirth
Focusing on things new and reborn, Josette Simon and Julian Rhind-Tutt read works by Plath, Wordsworth and Browning. With music from Delius, Bach and Cleo Laine.
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Words and Music - Blood Wedding
Blood Wedding: A selection of music, poetry and prose conjuring images of blood, marriage and the moon. With works by Bach, Berg, Bowie, Mozart, and poems by William Empson.
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Words and Music - Blood Wedding
Composer Simon Holt selects music, poetry and prose reflecting images of blood, marriage and the moon which suffuse Lorca's play Blood Wedding. With music by Bach and Berg.
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Words and Music - Book of Hours
Book of Hours: A journey around the clock over the course of 24 hours with words by Shakespeare, Whitman and Duffy, and music by Sibelius, Debussy, Elvis Costello and Copland.
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Words and Music - Borders
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of borders, with readings by Samuel West and Penelope Wilton. Works include Kafka, Marilynne Robinson, Chopin and Ligeti.
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Words and Music - Bridge Passage
A sequence exploring bridges as symbols of life’s unpredictable journey. With readers Lindsay Duncan and Adam Godley
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Words and Music - By the Sea
By the Sea: Fiona Shaw and Alex Jennings read words on a sea theme from Bishop, Longley, Masefield and Dickens, with music inspired by the sea by Britten, Mozart and Mendelssohn.
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Words and Music - Carnival
Poetry, prose and music evoking the spirit of carnival, with readings by actors Saskia Reeves and Tom Hiddleston. With music by Saint-Saens and Verdi, plus works by Poe and Byron.
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Words and Music - Chains of Desire
A sequence of poems, prose and letters read by actors Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins interspersed with music, all connected by the theme of erotic love.
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Words and Music - Clowns
Texts and music focusing on clowns, with readings by Alison Steadman and Andrew Sachs. With writing from Aesop to Stephen King and Clare to Holub, plus Stravinsky and Schumann.
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Words and Music - Correspondence
Poetry, prose and music centring on correspondence. With writings by Kafka, Ovid and Mary Wollstonecraft interspersed with music from Honegger, Reich, Mingus and Ellington.
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Words and Music - Crushed
Poems and music on the theme of unrequited love, including music by Handel, Schubert and Brahms as well as poetry by Yeats and Sophie Hannah.
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Words and Music - Cymru Fach
Ruth Madoc and Owen Teale with poetry and music inspired by Wales. Including the verse of Dylan Thomas, the male voice choir, and musicians Bryn Terfel and Robert Tear.
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Words and Music - Dancing in the Wind
Sara Kestelman and Rory Kinnear read poetry and prose about childhood. Including music by Mahler, Rufus Wainwright, John Tavener, Schumann and Hans Kraas.
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Words and Music - Do Not Go Gentle
Barbara Jefford and Neville Jason explore the adventure of entering old age. With works by Shakespeare, Yeats and Browning, plus music by Verdi, Mahler and Strauss.
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Words and Music - Ecstasy
Ecstasy: A sequence of music and poetry evoking states of rapture. With poems by Donne, Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, and music by Messiaen, Scriabin and Ades.
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Words and Music - Ecstasy
A sequence of music and poetry evoking states of rapture, with readings by actors Michael Elwyn and Eleanor Bron. With works by Donne, Wordsworth, Messiaen and Schubert.
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Words and Music - Enemies
Poetry and music on the theme of enemies. Struan Rodger and Siobhan Redmond read William Blake, Dorothy Parker, Baudelaire with music from Bach, Walton and Shirley Bassey.
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Words and Music - Exile
Texts and music exploring the theme of exile, with readings by Frances Barber and Greg Hicks. With Shakespeare, Du Maurier, Calvino, Yeats, plus Chabrier, Byrd, Bach and Bob Marley.
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Words and Music - Face
Michael Maloney and Lesley Sharp read poems and texts exploring the face, including Walt Whitman, Edward Lear, Marlowe and Ovid. Plus music by Gershwin, Purcell, Harle and Gurney.
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Words and Music - Face
Michael Maloney and Lesley Sharp read poems and texts exploring the face, including Christina Rossetti, Marlowe, Wilde and Ovid. With music by Gershwin, Purcell and Gurney.
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Words and Music - Fame
Texts and music about fame and celebrity, with readings by Imogen Stubbs and Michael Maloney. Includes Rita Dove, Pasternak and John Clare, plus Handel, Tavener and Sondheim.
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Words and Music - Family Portraits
Ian McMillan introduces a special edition recorded as part of Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival. Featuring readings by Gina McKee and Donald McBride.
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Words and Music - Faust
Faust: A sequence of music and poetry reflecting the age-old obsession with the German legend of Faust. With readings by Neil Dudgeon and Carolyn Pickles.
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Words and Music - Feasting with Panthers
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of gay love, with readings by Douglas Hodge and Helen McCrory. Including works by WH Auden and Whitman, plus Szymanowski and Britten.
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Words and Music - Femmes Fatales
Jeremy Northam and Harriet Walter read works on the theme of the femme fatale by Keats, Spenser, Shakespeare and Wilde. Music by Handel, Massenet, Strauss, Bizet and Gershwin.
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Words and Music - Finishing the Hat
Texts and music inspired by painting, with readings from Alex Jennings and Carolyn Pickles. Includes Browning and Forster, plus Rorem, Debussy and Respighi.
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Words and Music - Flowers of Evil
Antony Sher reads from Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, and Imogen Stubbs reads works by Shakespeare, Hardy, Pound and Eliot. With music from Takemitsu, Messiaen and Debussy.
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Words and Music - Food for Thought
Poetry, prose and music on the subject of food, with readings by Samantha Bond and Robert Powell. Including works by Robert Frost and Hardy, plus Chabrier, Schubert and Bach.
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Words and Music - Forty Years of Poetry on Radio 3
Forty Years of Poetry on Radio 3: Hear some of the most arresting performances poets have given on Radio 3 in the past 40 years, as well as music to match.
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Words and Music - Free Thinking 2010
A special edition recorded at The Sage Gateshead, as part of Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival of ideas
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Words and Music - Free Thinking - Words and Music
A special edition recorded live at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool. Annabelle Dowler and Kevin Harvey read poetry, prose and drama inspired by Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man'.
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Words and Music - From London to Paris
From London to Paris: With the opening of London's new international terminal to Paris, a sequence of poetry, prose and music around the theme of these two great cities.
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Words and Music - Full of Noises
John Paul Connolly and Rebecca Hall read texts about hearing and listening from Shakespeare, Wodehouse, Austen, TS Eliot, alongside music by Beethoven, Bach and Ligeti.
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Words and Music - Gifts
Sheila Hancock and Scott Handy read poems and prose on the theme of giving and receiving gifts. Works include Herrick, Lear and Whitman; music by Wagner and Colleen's Music Boxes.
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Words and Music - GSOH: Good Sense of Humour
Texts and music on the theme of humour, with readings by Sophie Thompson and Sanjeev Bhaskar. Includes work by Hilaire Belloc, Shakespeare and Mozart, plus Satie and Sondheim.
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Words and Music - Hallelujah!
Texts and music celebrating the many facets of joy, with readings from Jane Horrocks and Rory Kinnear. Includes Hardy and Schiller, plus Handel, Mozart and Judy Garland.
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Words and Music - Handel Week - Handel's Divas
Geraldine James and Michael Maloney read extracts from journals, newspapers and poetry in Handel's time about opera and oratorio performances in London. Plus music by Handel.
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Words and Music - Happiness
Happiness: Emma Fielding and John Rogan read works by Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Sassoon on the theme of happiness, accompanied by music from Byrd, Prokofiev, Adams and Wagner.
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Words and Music - Harold Pinter
A programme devoted to Harold Pinter, with recordings of the playwright himself, new readings by Michael Gambon and Penelope Wilton, and Pinter's favourite music.
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Words and Music - Healing
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the subject of healing, with readings by Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson. Including HG Wells, plus Wagner, Adams, Durufle and Sting.
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Words and Music - Hope and Despair
Romola Garai and Tim McMullan read poetry and prose on the theme of hope and despair. Works by TS Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Emily Dickinson, plus music by Biber and George Crumb.
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Words and Music - Iberia
A sequence of poetry and music inspired by the sights and sounds of the Iberian Peninsula. Music by Granados and Miles Davis sits with poems by Lorca and Fernando Pessoa.
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Words and Music - Ideas of Wilderness
Words and music exploring ideas of wilderness from all corners of the globe, with readings by Jenny Agutter and Anton Lesser. Works are by Auden, Jeffers Robinson and Han Shan.
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Words and Music - Illumination
Words and music on the theme of illumination, with readings by Sian Thomas and Jamie Glover. With works by Rimbaud and Atwood, as well as Thomas Ades, Arvo Part and Schubert.
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Words and Music - Illusions of Power
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of power, with readings by Sheila Hancock and Tom Hollander. Works are by Shelley, Hughes and Kipling, plus Prokofiev, Ligeti and Handel.
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Words and Music - In Search of England
In Search of England: A selection of words on the theme of England from Maura Dooley, Robert Browning and Orwell, with music by Delius, Vaughan Williams, Billy Bragg and Purcell.
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Words and Music - In Search of the Sublime
The inexorable yearning for transcendence: Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh read prose and poems by Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Scott with music by Janacek and Prokofiev.
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Words and Music - In the House of God
Hugo Thurston and Pookie Quesnel read poetry and prose on the theme of places of worship including work by Larkin, Dickinson and Hardy, with music by Bach, Britten and Monteverdi.
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Words and Music - In the Park
Greta Scacchi and Henry Goodman read works on the theme of parks, by Ted Hughes, DH Lawrence and Elizabeth Bowen. With music from Handel and Debussy.
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Words and Music - Insects
A selection of poetry and music on the theme of insects. With poems by Ted Hughes, Emily Dickinson and Pablo Neruda, and music by Roussel, Bartok and Martin Carthy.
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Words and Music - Intimate Letters
Christopher Eccleston and Olivia Hallinan read from a selection of real and fictional love letters by Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde. Music by Couperin, Wagner, Mozart.
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Words and Music - Italian Fantasy
Poetry, prose and music inspired by travellers to Italy. With Emily Bruni and Benedict Cumberbatch reading poetry by Byron and Browning, plus music by Berlioz and Respighi.
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Words and Music - John Milton
For Radio 3's celebration of the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth, a programme of poetry and music exploring the theme from Paradise Lost of 'darkness visible'.
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Words and Music - Locomotion
Texts and music about getting from A to B, with readings by Claire Rushbrook and Andrew Wincott. Including Marvell, Lear and E Nesbit, plus Wagner, Ellington, Mayfield and Eno.
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Words and Music - Lost in the City of Waters
Lost in the City of Waters: Jeremy Irons and Anna Massey explore the splendour and decadence of Venice through poetry and prose. With music by Gounod, Vivaldi, Liszt and Gabrieli.
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Words and Music - Magic
Magic: Nicholas Farrell and Miriam Margolyes conjure up words on magic, including those by Shakespeare, Pushkin, Chaucer and Keats, accompanied by the music of Wagner and Tippett.
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Words and Music - Malady
A sequence of poetry, prose and music focusing on sickness, with readings by Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin. Including Kodaly and Bach, plus Pinter and John Evelyn.
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Words and Music - Man and Beast
The sequence of music and readings explores the age-old relationship between the animals and humans, from hunting and stroking to eating and being eaten. With readers Hermione Norris and Jim Norton.
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Words and Music - Man and Beast
Poetry, prose and music exploring the relationship between humans and animals, with works by Donne, Hughes and Heaney, as well as Barber, Vivaldi, Haydn and Britten.
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Words and Music - Man Made
Texts and music on the relationship between man, nature and machines, with readings by Caroline Catz and Anthony Flanagan. Works from Dickens and Larkin, plus Bach and Offenbach.
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Words and Music - Mark the Music
Peter Capaldi and Emily Bruni read poetry and prose on the theme of music. With works by Whitman, Sassoon and Nick Hornby, plus works by Messiaen, Purcell, Charles Mingus, Neil Young and Philip Glass.
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Words and Music - May Day
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of May Day, with readings by Sarah Alexander and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Including Milton, Chaucer and Herrick, plus Britten, M Berkeley and Debussy.
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Words and Music - Memory
Memory: Saskia Reeves and Alex Jennings read poetry and prose by Larkin, Carroll and Kavanagh, with music from Mahler, Joan Baez, The Beatles, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Liszt.
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Words and Music - Mendelssohn Weekend - The Great Trip
Music interspersed with selections from Mendelssohn's letters taken on the composer's 'great trip' around Europe. With readings by Edward Bennett.
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Words and Music - Miniatures
Texts and music focusing on miniatures, with readings by John Rowe and Lia Williams. Including Webern, Mayerl and Delius, plus works from Herbert, EE Cummings and Gertrude Stein.
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Words and Music - Monarchs
Texts and music on the theme of monarchs, with readings by Samantha Bond and Simon Chandler. Includes Shakespeare, Schiller and Carroll, plus Handel, Walton, Donizetti, Schumann.
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Words and Music - Monsters
Don Warrington and Carolyn Pickles read poems on the theme of monsters, with work by Christina Rossetti, Jack Mapanje and Yeats. Including music by Grieg, Knussen and Schubert. NB: Starts approx 22.50
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Words and Music - Moonstruck
Texts and music exploring our fascination with the moon, with readings by Art Malik and Alexandra Gilbreath. Includes Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, plus Debussy, Schumann and Radiohead.
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Words and Music - Mozart: An Inspiration
Texts and music focusing on the writers inspired by Mozart, with readings by Michael Pennington and Olivia Williams. Includes Eduard Morike, Sara Teasdale, Hardy, Goethe and Mozart.
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Words and Music - Ode to Gaia
Ode to Gaia: Selected words on a theme of the state of the planet from Ted Hughes, WH Auden, John Clare and Philip Larkin, with music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Cage and Mahler.
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Words and Music - Route Nationale
A journey around provincial France, as Jonathan Firth and Haydn Gwynne read works by Verlaine, Apollinaire and Peter Mayle. Music is by Debussy, Berlioz, Chausson.
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Words and Music - Russian Dreams
A journey to Russia, as imagined by poets and musicians. With music by Stravinsky, Tournemire and Borodin, as well as poems by Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova and Mandelstam.
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Words and Music - Scotland
Poetry, prose and music on a Scottish theme, with readings by Jimmy Yuill and Stella Gonet. Works by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Sorley MacLean, plus MacMillan, Weir, Part and Bruch.
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Words and Music - Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven: With poetry, prose and verse by Shakespeare, Donne and Ginsberg plus music from Dave Brubeck, Stockhausen, and Glenn Gould on the theme of the number seven.
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Words and Music - Sleep
Poetry and music on the theme of sleep, with readings by Lisa Dillon and Adrian Rawlins. Music is by Strauss and The Beatles, and poetry is by Keats and Shakespeare.
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Words and Music - Solitude
Paul McGann and Kirsty Besterman read works on the theme of solitude by Wordsworth, Larkin, Whitman and Emily Dickinson. With music by Delius, Scriabin and Thelonius Monk.
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Words and Music - Song for Ireland
Lorcan Cranitch and Orla Charlton with readings evoking the Irish landscape, from WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan, plus music from Liam O'Flynn, Arnold Bax and John Cage.
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Words and Music - Sons of Russia
Mackenzie Crook and Jason Isaacs explore male fragility in Russian literature. With music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Schnittke.
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Words and Music - Space
Miranda Richarson and Tim McMullan read works on the theme of space by Whitman, Wordsworth and Douglas Adams alongside music such as Brian Eno's Apollo and Holst's Planets.
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Words and Music - Sport
Ioan Meredith and Angela Wynter read poetry on the theme of sport, with work by Wordsworth, Byron, UA Fanthorpe and Gwyneth Lewis. With music by Elgar, Debussy and Prokofiev.
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Words and Music - Symphony of a City
Emilia Fox & Richard Armitage read poetry & prose on the theme of a 'Symphony of a City', recording & evoking the movements of a city day. Music by Gershwin, Byrd & Steve Reich.
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Words and Music - Tailor-Made
Poetry, prose and music, examining our attitudes to what we wear. Including John Tavener, Puccini and Miles Davis, as well as works from lyric poet Robert Herrick.
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Words and Music - Take Me to the River
Texts and music inspired by rivers, with readings by Juliet Stevenson and Jamie Glover. Includes Wordsworth, Pound and Clare, plus music by Tippett, Delius, Gorecki and Ellington.
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Words and Music - The Afterlife
Texts and music on the theme of the afterlife, with readings by Sophie Okonedo and Paul Copley. Including Dante, Milton and Wilfred Owen, plus Britten, Ives, Crumb and Scriabin.
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Words and Music - The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Janet Suzman and Heathcote Williams read words by Keats, Plath and Auden on various aspects of melancholy. With music by Schumann, Prokofiev and Britten.
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Words and Music - The Ark
Writings and music focusing on the story of Noah and the Ark, with readings by Claire Skinner and Andrew Scott. Works include Chaucer and Blake, plus Britten and Bruch.
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Words and Music - The Art of Friendship
Poetry, prose and music exploring the art of friendship, with readings by Robert Lindsay and Diana Quick. Including texts from Plutarch, Bacon, Ogden Nash, Auden and TS Eliot.
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Words and Music - The Ascent of Man
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Ruth Padel and Henry Goodman read prose and verse exploring the idea of the Ascent of Man.
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Words and Music - The Best Days of Our Lives
Sarah Lancashire and Paul Copley read poetry and prose about the experience of going to school. With works by Laurie Lee and DH Lawrence, plus Malcolm Arnold and Frank Loesser.
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Words and Music - The Doors of Perception
Poetry, prose and music centring on altered states and visions, with readings by Jim Broadbent and Miranda Richardson. Includes Baudelaire and Blake, plus Ravel, Crumb and Cage.
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Words and Music - The Double
Poetry, prose and music exploring the world of ghostly doubles. Writings by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dostoevsky, Heine and music by Bach, Boulez, Schubert and Reich.
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Words and Music - The Faerie World
Poetry, prose and music in the fairy tradition, with readings by Stella Gonet and Robert Glenister. Works are by Keats and Shelley, plus Stravinsky, Schubert, Weir and Purcell.
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Words and Music - The Geography of a Home
Belinda Lang and David Bamber read poems on the theme of houses and homes. With poetry by Auden and Larkin and music by Sibelius, Chopin and The Beatles.
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Words and Music - The Glory of the Garden
Readings by Anton Lesser and Frances Barber of poetry and prose from Milton, WH Auden and Tennyson interspersed with music by Delius, Debussy and Messiaen.
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Words and Music - The Metaphysical Soul
Anna Massey and Derek Jacobi read a selection of poems by metaphysical poets including Donne, George Herbert and Marvell. With music by Mahler, Takemitsu, Britten and Beethoven.
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Words and Music - The Old Refrain
Poems and music on the theme of refrain and repetition, with readings by Samuel West and Nancy Carroll. Works by Yeats and Hopkins, plus music by Berlioz, Brahms, Tavener and Ravel.
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Words and Music - The Prodigy
Poems and music by prodigies and the early work of great artists, with readings by actors Jack Laskey and Ellie Kendrick. Includes works by Mendelssohn, Paganini, Rimbaud and Byron.
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Words and Music - The Rebel
David Bamber and Gillian Bevan explore the defiance of rebellion in readings by WB Yeats, Maya Angelou and Philip Larkin; with music by Chopin, Bax, Copland and Leonard Cohen.
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Words and Music - The Ring Cycle
A selection of poetry, prose and music on the theme of marriage, with readings by actors Jane Lapotaire and Ralf Little.
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Words and Music - The Ringing Grooves of Change
The Ringing Grooves of Change: A selection of words on the theme of revolution and change with poetry by Blake, Shelley and Yeats, and music by Shostakovich, Mosolov and Berlioz.
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Words and Music - The Ringing Grooves of Change
Penny Downie and Adrian Lukis read poetry and prose on the theme of revolution and change with poetry by William Blake and Yeats and music by Shostakovich and Paul Robeson.
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Words and Music - The Sky Smiles Down
Poetry and music on the theme of summer, with readings by Fiona Shaw and Robert Glenister. With writings by Clare, Heaney and Emily Dickinson plus music by Gershwin, Delius and Suk.
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Words and Music - The Soft Machine
Poems read by Anna Maxwell Martin and John Rowe alongside music, all linked by the theme of the body. With works by Whitman and Homer, and music by Tchaikovsky and Monteverdi.
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Words and Music - The South Country
A sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrating the landscape of southern England, with readings by Tamsin Greig and Neil Pearson. With works by Edward Thomas, Belloc, Tippett.
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Words and Music - The Spirit World
The Spirit World: Dominic West and Samantha Morton read poetry on the theme of the spirit world, with verse by Shakespeare, Hardy and Keats alongside music inspired by apparitions.
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Words and Music - The Thrill of the Chase
Poetry and music on hunting and chasing read by Nicholas Farrell and Deborah Findlay. Includes poetry by Thomas Wyatt and Charles Causley and music by Birtwistle and Schubert.
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Words and Music - The Wanderer
With Rufus Sewell and Indira Varma reading texts by authors including Hardy, Masefield and Chatwin alongside music by Birtwistle, Schubert, Ravel and Django Reinhardt.
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Words and Music - The Year
Actors Andrew Lincoln and Emma Fielding reading a selection of poetry on the changing seasons including Ted Hughes's Season Songs alongside music from Tippett and Mahler.
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Words and Music - This Is New York
William Hope and Laurel Lefkow read works by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Lorca and Ginsburg, accompanied by music from Dvorak, Bernstein, Sondheim, Adams, Ives and Tom Waits.
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Words and Music - Through the Looking Glass
Derek Jacobi and Lesley Manville with poetry on the theme of mirrors, including Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath and Jorge Luis Borges, plus music by Ravel, Rachmaninov and Cole Porter.
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Words and Music - To Byzantium
Yeats' poem Sailing to Byzantium is the starting point for a theme about the journey of man and the vision of eternal life. Andrew Lincoln and Deborah Findlay read a selection of poetry and prose.
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Words and Music - To Music
To Music: Diana Rigg and Samuel West read a selection of poetry on the theme of music, including poems by Elizabeth Jennings and TS Eliot. Plus music by Bach, Dowland and Schubert.
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Words and Music - To Strive, to Seek, to Find and Not to Yield
In a programme celebrating the work of Tennyson, Beth Goddard and Michael Pennington read poetry on a theme of destiny, alongside music inspired by, and reflecting the texts.
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Words and Music - Travellers' Tales
Texts and music about travellers, with readings by Stella Gonet and Nicholas Farrell. With Tennyson and Margaret Atwood, plus Debussy, Telemann and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Words and Music - Two Americas
Two Americas: William Hope and Yolanda Vasquez read poetry and prose on a theme of Two Americas, North and South. With music by Villa-Lobos, Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.
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Words and Music - Villains
Villains: A sequence of music and poetry reflecting on villainy, from Nero to Billy the Kid. With music by Mozart, Bartok and Sondheim, and poems by Wilde, Shelley and Plath.
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Words and Music - Walkers, Wanderers and Wayfarers
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of walking, with readings by Clare Higgins and Ian McDiarmid. Works by Thoreau and Wordsworth, plus Elgar, Strauss and Mussorgsky.
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Words and Music - War and Peace
On a theme of the struggle between conflict and concord, Joanna David and Paul McGann read poems by Dickinson, Milton and Whitman. With music by Bartok and Purcell.
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Words and Music - Warriors
Don Warrington and Deborah Findlay read poetry and prose on the theme of the warrior. With poetry by Tennyson and Shakespeare, and music from Stravinsky to June Tabor.
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Words and Music - We Must Love One Another or Die
Sian Thomas and Nicholas Farrell read poetry and prose from the 1930s by MacNeice, Steinbeck, Orwell, Dylan Thomas and Auden, with music by Britten, Barber, Robeson and Bartok.
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Words and Music - Weary with Toil
Harriet Walter and Robert Glenister read poetry and prose by Shakespeare, John Clare and Carol Rumens. With music by Beethoven, Elvis Costello and Shostakovich.
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Words and Music - Wild Wood
Readers Emma Fielding and John Rowe visit the beguiling and bewildering space of the Wild Wood with the musical help of Wagner, Schubert, Coltrane and Radiohead.
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Words and Music - Winter
Cheryl Campbell and Struan Rodger read winter-themed poetry. With works by Emily Dickinson, Mark Doty and Wordsworth, and music by Debussy, MacMillan and Tchaikovsky.
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Words and Music - Witches and Sorcerers
Texts and music about witches and sorcerers, with readings by Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman. Including Marlowe and Goethe, plus Mussorgsky, Nina Simone, Dukas and Ades.
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Words and Music - Years of Wonders
Poetry, prose and music spanning the turbulent period of Purcell's lifetime, with readings by Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham. With excerpts from Pepys and Dryden.
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Words and Music - Young and Easy
A programme of words and music exploring the intensity and transience of youth. Readings are by Hattie Morahan and Samuel West.
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