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Words and Music Episodes

  1. Scents and Perfumes

    Tom Hollander and Anna Maxwell Martin with readings set alongside music inspired by scents

  2. The games that people play

    From chess to computer games via dominoes and dice.

  3. Merry Christmas

    Dominic West and Gemma Whelan with festive readings and music

  4. Maria Callas and the power of singing

    Clarke Peters and Anastasia Hille with prose and poetry about singing

  5. Celebrating Shakespeare

    Tracy-Ann Oberman and Reuben Joseph read great Shakespeare speeches set with music.

  6. Work and Play

    Readings and music depicting millers, blacksmiths, office drudgery and downtime.

  7. Blow winds, blow

    Tempestuous to tremulous, winds blow through Shakespeare, Joan Didion and Joseph Conrad.

  8. Made in Yorkshire

    Gemma Whelan and Paul Copley with readings and music from 'God's own county'.

  9. Keys

    Lost ones, magical ones and fumbling at locks with Dante, Rumi and Tracy Beaker.

  10. Twins and doppelgangers

    Don Gilet and Tracy-Ann Oberman with readings twinned with music from Schubert to Shankar.

  11. Aspects of the Divine

    Readings from Shakespeare to Wordsworth and Larkin, and music from Beethoven to Bruckner.

  12. What's in a name?

    A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but how does my own name define me?

  13. Masks

    From highwaymen to the Greek stage, from Lucretius to Philip Larkin and Rosamond Lehmann.

  14. Portraits

    As the National Portrait Gallery re-opens, the art of portraiture on the page and in music

  15. Like a butterfly's wing

    For Pride month, music and readings of Oscar Wilde, Jackie Kay, Dean Atta & Torrey Peters.

  16. Long Life

    Timothy West and Eileen O鈥橞rien perform readings exploring old age set alongside music.

  17. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    From the dance floor to a Sunday sermon, loneliness to loud music, a night out to lying in

  18. The Georgians

    Music with readings by Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Thompson, currently seen in Bridgerton.

  19. Pirates and Outlaws

    From Bellini and Gilbert and Sullivan to Robert Louis Stevenson, Keats and David Graeber.

  20. Nature of the British Isles

    From Orkney, George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies to Keats on the Isle of Wight.

  21. Wild Isles

    The birds, animals and landscapes of the British Isles from owls to oak, fenlands to foxes

  22. Women and Music

    'Women of the world, take over!' From Grace Jones to Jane Austen and Ethel Smyth's March.

  23. The Aeneid

    Episodes from the story of Aeneas, read by Olivia Darnley and John Sackville.

  24. The Emperor's New Clothes

    Music and readings on our relationship with the clothes we wear - or sometimes don't.

  25. Intoxication, addiction and ecstatic states

    Radio 3 researcher in residence Sally Marlow curates a programme about heightened states.

  26. Warmth

    From Orwell to Goethe, Zadie Smith to Donne with music from Puccini, Bizet and Tori Amos.

  27. A Christmas Menagerie

    Robert Lindsay and Shiloh Coke with a range of animals from sheep to turkeys and reindeer.

  28. Material World

    Wool, velvet, cotton, silk: Kate O'Flynn and Matthew Needham with readings set with music.

  29. Proust

    Marcel Proust's writing on taste, memory, love and jealousy is set alongside music.

  30. Encounters with Egypt

    From soprano Fatma Said to Verdi's Aida, Agatha Christie to Ahmad Shawki and Adhaf Soueif.

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