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Words and Music Episodes

  1. The Coastal Path

    A trip following the Charles III coast path around England in poems, prose and music

  2. Creating Music

    Musicians' diaries, passages from novels and poems showcase the making of music

  3. Miniatures

    Exploring the small from dolls houses to netsuke figures, piano miniatures to haiku.

  4. Virginia Woolf

    Celebrating Virginia Woolf as we mark the centenary of the publication 'Mrs Dalloway'.

  5. Bradford

    Vinette Robinson and Enzo Cilenti with readings and music evoking the 2025 City of Culture

  6. Coffee and Tea

    Ariyon Bakare and Philippa Dunne with readings alongside music about coffee and tea.

  7. A Swiss journey

    Peter Wight and Ellie Piercy bring us readings evoking Swish hotels, lakes and mountains

  8. Art Deco

    Jessica Raine and Giles Terera with readings alongside music from the roaring twenties.

  9. The Wild

    Toby Jones and Indra Ov茅 with readings alongside music taking us into the wilderness.

  10. Hares and Rabbits

    Welcome in spring with music and readings inspired by rabbits, hares, kits and cottontails

  11. 1920s Ireland

    A celebration of 1920s Ireland in music and readings by Olwen Fou茅r茅 and Ardal O'Hanlon

  12. Selfless Love

    From Tinkerbell saving Peter Pan, to soldiers on the battlefields, and Jesus on the cross

  13. Hotels, Hostelries and Town Halls

    From Hotel du Lac to the Chelsea Hotel, Mermaid Tavern to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

  14. A Day at the Races

    Start your engines with Beethoven, Bizet and Ben-Hur down at the races.

  15. Playing Cards

    Kings, Queens, Jokers, Aces: with music and readers Sophie Thompson and James Cartwright

  16. The Return

    Music on the theme of returning with readings by Clare Perkins and Jonathan Keeble

  17. In Conversation

    Musical and poetic conversations, read by Gemma Whelan and Clarke Peters.

  18. A European Journey

    Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Parth Thakarer and music evoking mountains to city mopeds

  19. Rings

    Marriage, motorways and magic: writers on rings, read by Susan Twist and Chris Jack.

  20. A Christmas Menagerie

    Robert Lindsay and Shiloh Coke with a range of animals from sheep to turkeys and reindeer.

  21. Cops and Robbers

    David Jonsson and Lyndsey Marshal read from George Eliot, Chester Himes and Milton.

  22. A Seasonal Journey

    Olivia Williams and Owen Teale with Advent and Christmas traditions from around the UK

  23. Bears

    From Hunting for Honey Eaters to Presidents, Pooh and Petrushka - all things bear

  24. Milton's world

    Extracts from poems and prose set to music to mark the death of John Milton on 8 Nov 1674.

  25. Mountains

    Readings from Annie Proulx, Basho, HP Lovecraft with music by Bjork, Dvorak, Miriam Makeba

  26. The Circus

    Luke Treadaway and Phoebe Campbell conjure clowns, jugglers, elephants and trapeze artists (R)

  27. Rescue at Sea

    Carla Henry, Josh Bryant Jones & Martin McCann with readings and music evoking sea rescue.

  28. Feuds, Rivalries, Arguments and Quarrels

    Mozart and Salieri, literary spats between Romantic poets, family feuds, unhappy lovers.

  29. German Romanticism

    Emily Pithon and Nuhazet Diaz Cano with readings and music from the German Romantic era

  30. James Baldwin

    Adrian Lester reads from the novels and essays of James Baldwin, set alongside music.

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