Words and Music Episodes Episode guide
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Rain
Texts and music on the theme of rain, with readings by Tim McMullan and Emily Taaffe.
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Eminently Victorian
Texts and music on the theme of the Victorians. With Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear.
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London
Texts and music celebrating London, with readings by Eileen Atkins and David Jason.
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The Full Montaigne
Jim Broadbent plays Michel de Montaigne. Includes music by Bach, Ligeti and Randy Newman.
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All Aboard!
Words and music on the theme of boats. Readings by Anne-Marie Duff and Jonathan Keeble.
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Fighting Spirit
Words and music on the theme of fighting spirit. Readers: Alison Steadman and Peter Egan.
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A Legend of Good Women
Texts and music on the theme of good women. Readers: Oliver Dimsdale and Sian Thomas.
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Beauty
Texts and music on the theme of beauty, with readings by Eve Best and Don Warrington.
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Perfection
Texts and music on the theme of perfection. Readers: Helen Baxendale and David Schofield.
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Tricksters
Texts, music about pranksters and manipulators. Readers: Katherine Parkinson, Jim Norton.
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Education
Texts and music on the theme of education. Readings by Richard Wilson and Celia Imrie.
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The Haunting
Texts and music on the theme of haunting, with readings by Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover.
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Middles
Texts and music on the theme of middles. Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Peter Marinker.
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Abundance
Music and poetry on the theme of abundance read by Nicholas Farrell and Hayley Carmichael.
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The Idea of West
Texts, music on the idea of west and the West. Readers: Olivia Williams and Sean Arnold.
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Different Trains
Texts and music celebrating railways, with readings by Jonathan Pryce and Eleanor Bron.
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The Outsider
Texts and music about oustsiders, with readings by Lesley Manville and Tom Goodman-Hill.
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The Rose
Texts and music on the theme of roses with readings by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon.
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Epiphany
Texts and music on the theme of epiphany, with readings by Joanna David and Bertie Carvel.
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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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Tendrilled Avenues
A sequence of texts and music about humanity's complex relationship with alcohol.
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The Four Temperaments
Texts and music about the Four Temperaments. Readings by Joe Dunlop and Joanna Tope.
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A Great Exhibition
Scott Handy and Catherine Harvey read poetry and prose inspired by the Great Exhibition.
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Empire
Texts and music on theme of Empire, with readings by Sian Thomas and Timothy West.
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The Parish Priest
Music and readings on the life of the parish priest, with Celia Imrie and Michael Kitchen.
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The Word Girl
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of The Word Girl.
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Breakfast
Felicity Kendal and Gerard Murphy read poetry and prose around the theme of breakfast.
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Constraint
Music and poems on the theme of constraint with Siobhan Redmond and John Rowe.
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Nine Lives
Texts and music on the theme of cats. Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham.
