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Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the warrior, from classical heroes to more contemporary soldiers. The programme opens with extracts from Henry V, read by and Don...
Radio documentary. Part 1 of an eight-part series in which Howard Goodall explores links between musical genres. In the first episode Goodall chooses music inspired by the works of Shakespeare with excerpts...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of different states of rapture, this episode’s Word and Music features Eleanor Bron reciting Sonnet no. 75 "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" as a poetic...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of mirrors and reflections, variously showing the mirror as a symbol of vanity, self-examination and the limits of human understanding....
Radio broadcast. Catherine Bott examines the character of Falstaff. Includes music from Elgar’ s symphonic study of Falstaff; Salieri - who wrote a Falstaff opera; Nicolai’s opera of The Merry Wives of...
The Radio Times notes, the 30-minute broadcast presented viewers with a selection of various motifs of Tchaikovsky’s fantasy overture, commented on by Vic Oliver, conductor of the British Concert...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of ancient Greece. The second part of the programme opens with programme an excerpt from the opening to Troilus and Cressida read by...
Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of time and the rhythm of life. Actress Greta Scacchi reads the Shakespeare Sonnet "When I do count the clock that tells the time",...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the femme fatale, an idea exemplified (among others) in the figure of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra. The programme starts with...