 
                
                        Cats
From the grinning Cheshire cat in Alice and Hauschka's score to cat masks on Zoom, the Cure's Love Cats to Ravel's pets, Blake's Tygers to Steve Smith's cats galloping.
Alice's grinning Cheshire cat and Hauschka's music, cat masks on Zoom, the Owl and the Pussy-Cat, the Cure's Love Cats and Ravel's many pets, Blake's Tyger and Stevie Smith's cats galloping all feature in today's feline episode. Our actors are Anjana Vasan and Paul Copley.
Producer: Ewa Norman
Readings: 
JA Hazeley and JP Morris How it works: The Cat
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales: The Manciple's Tale
Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
SF Said Varjak Paw
Stevie Smith The Galloping Cat
Anon, translated by Seamus Heaney Pangur Bán
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Charles Baudelaire, translated by William Aggeler The Cat
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and the Marguerita
William Blake The Tyger
TS Eliot Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Macavity the Mystery Cat
Helen M. Winslow Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others
Allysia Van Betuw Ravel and his Siamese Cat Family
Imogen West-Knights The joy of 'Lawyer Cat' is that it teaches us nothing, it's just very funny
W.B. Yeats The Cat and the Moon
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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    ![]() 00:01 00:01Frédéric ChopinWaltz in F major Op.34 No 3 Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- London.
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    JA Hazeley and JP MorrisHow it works: The Cat, read by Anjana Vasan Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales: The Manciple's Tale, read by Paul Copley Christopher SmartFor I will consider my Cat Jeoffry, read by Anjana Vasan ![]() 00:03 00:03Benjamin BrittenRejoice In The Lamb, Op.30, No. 2 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey Performer: Graham Ross. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Ensemble: The Dmitri Ensemble.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
 ![]() 00:05 00:05Johann Sebastian BachDie Katze lässt das Mausen nicht (Kaffee-Kantate BWV. 211) Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Singer: David Thomas. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'Oiseau-Lyre 417621-2.
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 ![]() 00:09 00:09Elton HayesThe Owl and the Pussycat Performer: Elton Hayes.- RETROSPECTIVE RTS4320.
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 ![]() 00:12 00:12Ahmed Mukhtar & Sattar Al-SaadiRaqsat al shara - ARC.
 SF SaidVarjak Paw, read by Anjana Vasan ![]()  Spacemen 3May the circle be unbroken - Fire Records.
- BLAZE 29T.
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 Stevie SmithThe Galloping Cat, read by Stevie Smith ![]() 00:19 00:19Edvard GriegHolberg suite (Op.40)'Rigaudon' Orchestra: Oslo Camerata. Conductor: Stephan Barratt-Due.- NAXOS 8557890.
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 Anon, translated by Seamus HeaneyPangur Bán, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:25 00:25Samuel BarberHermit Songs for Voice and Piano, Op.29, no.8; The Monk and his cat Performer: John Browning. Singer: Cheryl Studer.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
 ![]() 00:27 00:27HauschkaCurious Performer: Hauschka.- Sony Classical 19075842421.
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 Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:30 00:30The CureThe Love Cats - Fiction Records FIXCD32.
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 Charles Baudelaire, translated by William AggelerThe Cat, read by Anjana Vasan Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and the Marguerita, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:36 00:36Dmitry ShostakovichMoscow Cheryomushki - suite: A Spin through Moscow Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA 452 5972.
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 William BlakeThe Tyger, read by Anjana Vasan ![]() 00:40 00:40ColleenThis Place In Time - LEAF.
 TS EliotOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Macavity the Mystery Cat, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:42 00:42Lee “Scratch” PerryScratch Walking - Starburst.
 Helen M. WinslowConcerning Cats: My Own and Some Others, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:46 00:46Béla BartókQuartet for strings no. 4 (Sz. 91): Allegretto pizzicato Performer: Emerson String Quartet.- DG 4778168.
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 ![]() 00:49 00:49Maurice RavelL' Enfant et les sortileges: Garden Scene Orchestrator: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- World Music 605633123838.
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 Allysia Van BetuwRavel and his Siamese Cat Family, read by Anjana Vasan ![]() 00:51 00:51Maurice RavelL' Enfant et les sortileges: Chat Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- World Music 605633123838.
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 Imogen West-KnightsThe joy of 'Lawyer Cat' is that it teaches us nothing  it's just very funny, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:54 00:54Cat PowerThe Greatest Performer: Cat Power.- Matador OLE 626-2.
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 W.B. YeatsThe Cat and the Moon, read by Paul Copley ![]() 00:59 00:59Ludwig van BeethovenSonata in C sharp minor Op.27 No.2 "Moonlight": Andante sostenuto Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG 4839320.
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 Margaret AttwoodCat's Eye, read by Anjana Vasan ![]() 01:06 01:06Al RinkerEverybody wants to be a Cat Singer: Liz English. Singer: Phil Harris. Singer: Scatman Crothers. Singer: Thurl Ravenscroft.- Walt Disney Records 0946 3 58620 2 7.
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 ![]() 01:08 01:08Ravi ShankarSwara-Kakali for Violin, Sitar And Tabla, Arr. from Rag Tilang Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Gilda Sebastian.- WARNER CLASSICS.
 Jorge Luis BorgesTo a Cat, read by Paul Copley ![]() 01:10 01:10Sergey ProkofievCinderella-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 107: Pas de Chat Performer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor).- SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD214.
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 Broadcasts- Sun 15 May 2022 17:30ѿý Radio 3
- Sun 24 Aug 2025 18:00ѿý Radio 3
 
 
            