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Words and Music Episodes

  1. Them and Us

    From 2012's Free Thinking Festival, a special live recording on the theme of 'them and us'

  2. Fathers and Sons

    Freddie Jones and his son Toby are the readers in a sequence about fathers and sons.

  3. Piano

    Texts and music celebrating the piano. Readings by Louise Jameson and Joshua Richards.

  4. Get Thee to a Nunnery

    Texts and music on the theme of nuns, with readings by Sheila Hancock and Ellie Kendrick.

  5. The Worst Form of Government

    Poetry and music on the theme of democracy with readings by Lisa Dillon and Ray Fearon.

  6. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    Sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating men - the great and the not so noble.

  7. Green

    Texts and music exploring the colour green. Readings by Niamh McGrady and Sean Barrett.

  8. Architecture

    Texts and music on the theme of architecture. Readings: Indira Varma and Robert Glenister.

  9. Beyond Good and Evil

    Poetry, prose and music on the theme of evil. Readings by Ann Mitchell and Andrew Wincott.

  10. Rain

    Texts and music on the theme of rain, with readings by Tim McMullan and Emily Taaffe.

  11. Eminently Victorian

    Texts and music on the theme of the Victorians. With Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear.

  12. London

    Texts and music celebrating London, with readings by Eileen Atkins and David Jason.

  13. The Full Montaigne

    Jim Broadbent plays Michel de Montaigne. Includes music by Bach, Ligeti and Randy Newman.

  14. All Aboard!

    Words and music on the theme of boats. Readings by Anne-Marie Duff and Jonathan Keeble.

  15. Fighting Spirit

    Words and music on the theme of fighting spirit. Readers: Alison Steadman and Peter Egan.

  16. A Legend of Good Women

    Texts and music on the theme of good women. Readers: Oliver Dimsdale and Sian Thomas.

  17. Beauty

    Texts and music on the theme of beauty, with readings by Eve Best and Don Warrington.

  18. Perfection

    Texts and music on the theme of perfection. Readers: Helen Baxendale and David Schofield.

  19. Tricksters

    Texts, music about pranksters and manipulators. Readers: Katherine Parkinson, Jim Norton.

  21. Education

    Texts and music on the theme of education. Readings by Richard Wilson and Celia Imrie.

  22. The Haunting

    Texts and music on the theme of haunting, with readings by Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover.

  23. Middles

    Texts and music on the theme of middles. Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Peter Marinker.

  24. Abundance

    Music and poetry on the theme of abundance read by Nicholas Farrell and Hayley Carmichael.

  25. The Idea of West

    Texts, music on the idea of west and the West. Readers: Olivia Williams and Sean Arnold.

  26. Different Trains

    Texts and music celebrating railways, with readings by Jonathan Pryce and Eleanor Bron.

  27. The Outsider

    Texts and music about oustsiders, with readings by Lesley Manville and Tom Goodman-Hill.

  28. The Rose

    Texts and music on the theme of roses with readings by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon.

  29. Epiphany

    Texts and music on the theme of epiphany, with readings by Joanna David and Bertie Carvel.

  30. The Rhyming and the Chiming

    Texts and music on the theme of bells. Reading by Sylvestra le Touzel and David Troughton.

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