 
                
                        Crip Creativity
For the International Day of Disabled Persons on 3 December, we feature music by composers and players set with readings by actors from writers who are disabled people.
Beethoven and Smetana, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Amadou and Mariam, Robert Wyatt and Ian Dury provide some of the music in today's episode which marks the International Day of Disabled Persons (Dec 3rd) with a celebration of "Crip Creativity". The readers Jonathan Keeble and Nadia Albina give us extracts from Milton and Nuala Watt contemplating blindness; Beethoven and Raymond Antrobus looking at sound and echoes; Elizabeth Barrett Browning writing of her love; Jean-Dominique Bauby, locked in and looking out at life and Joanne Limburg imagining The Autistic Alice.
Producer: Nick Holmes
READINGS: 
Janet Frame Scented Gardens for the Blind
Jim Ferris Patience
John Milton Sonnet 19: On his blindness 
Nuala Watt On Her Partial Blindness
Alice Walker A Child of One's Own
Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty
Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Emily Dickinson Much Madness is Divinest Sense
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Kaite O'Reilly And then Suddenly I Disappear
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee?
Ludwig van Beethoven The Heiligenstadt Testament
Jillian Weise Future Biometrics
Raymond Antrobus Echo
Maya Angelou Gather Together in My Name
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joanne Limburg The Alice Case (from The Autistic Alice)
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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    ![]() 00:00 00:00Frederick DeliusA Song of summer Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- Warner Classics ZDMB 5 65119 2.
- CD2 Tr11.
 
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    Janet FrameScented Gardens for the Blind read by Nadia Albina Jim FerrisPatience read by Jonathan Keeble John MiltonSonnet 19: When I Consider how my Light is Spent (‘On his Blindness’) read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:06 00:06Stevie WonderVisions Performer: Stevie Wonder.- Tamla Motown STMA-8011.
- Tr2.
 Nuala WattOn Her Partial Blindness read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:11 00:11Amadou BagayokoJe Pense a Toi Performer: Amadou & Mariam.- Wrasse Records wrass-244.
- Tr1.
 Alice WalkerA Child of OneÂ’s Own read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:13 00:13Richard WagnerTristan und Isolde; Overture Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG 4779347.
- C1 Tr1.
 Virginia WoolfThe Voyage Out read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:15 00:15Richard WagnerTannhauser; O du, mein holder Abendstern Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestrator: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG 471 693-2.
- Tr9.
 Lord ByronShe Walks in Beauty read by Nadia Albina Sue TownsendThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:21 00:21George GershwinStrike up the band; Overture Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.- Chandos CHAN9325.
- Tr9.
 Emily DickinsonMuch Madness is Divinest Sense read by Nadia Albina F.Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:25 00:25Scott JoplinMaple leaf rag arr. for percussion Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Ray Russell. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.- RCA RD60242.
- Tr9.
 Oliver SacksThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat read by Jonathan Keeble Kaite O'ReillyAnd then Suddenly I Disappear read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:30 00:30Robert WyattSea Song Performer: Robert Wyatt.- Virgin V-2017.
- CD2 Tr1.
 Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHow Do I Love Thee? read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:35 00:35Bedrich SmetanaString Quartet no. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’; 4th movt. Performer: Quartetto Energie Nove.- Dynamic CDS7817.
- Tr4.
 Ludwig van BeethovenThe Heiligenstadt Testament read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:42 00:42Ludwig van BeethovenSonata no. 23 in F minor Op.57 ‘Appassionata’; 1st movt. Performer: Olga Pashchenko.- Hyperion CDA67662.
- Tr4.
 Jillian WeiseFuture Biometrics read by Nadia Albina Raymond AntrobusEcho read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:53 00:53Jean LanglaisMesse solonnelle; Benedictus Choir: Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Mark Lee. Conductor: David Briggs.- Priory PRCD597.
- Tr13.
 Maya AngelouGather Together in My Name read by Nadia Albina ![]() 00:57 00:57Modest MussorgskySongs and dances of death, arr. Shostakovich; Serenade Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.- Warner Classics 2564620502.
- Tr2.
 Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 00:00 00:00Hildegard von BingenSpiritus Sanctus vivificans vita Ensemble: Armonico Consort. Singer: Anna Sandström. Conductor: Christopher Monks.- Signum Classics SIGCD235.
- Tr6.
 Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy LeggattThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly read by Jonathan Keeble ![]() 01:07 01:07Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyThe Nutcracker; Dance of the Sugar-plum Fairy Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI Classics 6463852.
- Tr12.
 ![]() 01:09 01:09Ian Dury/Chas Jankel/mixed by Leftside WobbleÂSpasticus Autisticus (Leftside Wobble Edit) Performer: Ian Dury.- Soundcloud.
- Tr1.
 Joanne LimburgThe Alice Case (from The Autistic Alice) read by Nadia Albina ![]() 01:11 01:11Ian Dury/Chas JankelSpasticus Autisticus Performer: Ian Dury.- Polydor: POSP-285.
- CD2 Tr15.
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