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Words and Music Episodes

  1. West Country Dreaming

    Sarah Parish and John Nettles with westward-looking readings by Betjeman, Hardy and others

  2. Temperatures Rising

    Raad Rawi and Pearl Chanda evoke lush summer and parched deserts.

  3. Fly Me to the Moon

    A trip to the moon featuring Zawe Ashton and Peter Marinker.

  4. Genesis

    Anton Lesser and Stella Gonet with readings and music inspired by book one of the Bible.

  5. Nature and the City

    Poetry and prose on plants and people in the metropolis.

  6. Bloomsday

    Stanley Townsend and Kathy Keira Clarke read from James Joyce's Ulysses and other works.

  7. Within Limits

    Anthony Howell and Amaka Okafor explore ideas of constraint in art and life.

  8. Incarceration

    Sian Clifford and Michael Maloney read poetry and prose on the theme of incarceration.

  9. Nomads

    Emma Paetz and Nicholas Farrell read from Cervantes and Louise Doughty to Abd al Qadir.

  10. Rivers

    Nicola Coughlan and Ray Fearon with readings about the Nile and the Yangtze to the Ouse.

  11. Out of My Head

    Actors Grace Cookey-Gam and Toby Jones & a journey of intoxication, inspiration and loss.

  12. Do Keep in Touch

    Emily Bruni and Paterson Joseph read literature about communication, ancient and modern.

  13. Obsession

    Olivia Colman and Toby Stephens with words and music on the theme of obsession.

  14. So Emotional

    Iain Glen and Brid Brennan journey through the seven universal emotions.

  15. Head to Toe

    Harriet Walter and Tim McInnerny journey downwards with writers from Sappho to Larkin.

  16. Peace and Protest

    Poetry and music on peace marking the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  17. Everything Must Change

    A meditation on 'the way of time' and life as constant transformation.

  18. I Contain Multitudes

    On the fluidity of gender and sexuality.

  19. Commuters

    The journey to and from work, where we sit and consider our place in the world.

  20. Night Owls

    Bird and human life and creatures of the mind alive between dusk and dawn as we go owling.

  21. The Pre-Raphaelites

    A sonic painting inspired by the late 19th-century artistic revolutionaries.

  22. Fame

    Poetry and music on the theme of fame, read by Imogen Stubbs and Michael Maloney.

  23. Creatures of Habit

    An exploration of habitual behaviour, good or bad, logical or absurd, healthy or otherwise

  24. Rebel, Rebel

    Marking JD Salinger's birth on January 1 1919 - a programme of teenage tearaways.

  25. Feast!

    A smorgasbord of literary and musical feasts from Jonathan Swift to Nora Ephron.

  26. The Gift

    Exploring the excitement, and occasional disappointment, of giving and receiving presents.

  27. Beginnings and Endings

    Poems, prose and music with themes spanning origin myths to the apocalypse.

  28. Women Writing War

    With poetry and prose by the mothers of soldiers and music by Messiaen and PJ Harvey.

  29. Windrush: Some Kind of 蜜芽传媒coming

    Lenny Henry and Josette Simon explore the experience of the Windrush generation.

  30. Deception

    Can you trust your ears? Can you trust your eyes? How often do you tell lies?

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