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Words and Music Episodes

  1. Secrets and Discoveries

    Hidden messages, secret loves and journeys of discovery in poetry, prose and music.

  2. Remembering Weimar 1919-1933

    Poems, prose, song and music inspired in and by the brilliant but doomed German republic.

  3. What Is Modern Art?

    From scoffing critics to celebrations of invention-prose, poetry and music inspired by art

  4. The Window

    Adjoa Andoh and John Rowe are the readers as we move from Messiaen to Mary Jean Chan

  5. Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Actors Candela Gomez and Khalid Abdalla with readings, music and recordings from Granada.

  6. Truth

    'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.' Readings by Morfydd Clark and Neil Dudgeon.

  7. Body Beautiful

    Sophie Robinson and Giles Terera turn their poetic gaze upon the beauty of the human body.

  8. Dead Meat

    Literature and music that explores the opposing worlds of meat eating and vegetarianism.

  9. Life through a Screen

    Aoife McMahon and William Hope view the world through glass screens and handheld devices.

  10. Life Rafts

    Music by Britten, Lili Boulanger, Baaba Maal. Prose about Noah, the Kon-Tiki, refugees now

  11. West Country Dreaming

    Sarah Parish and John Nettles with westward-looking readings by Betjeman, Hardy and others

  12. Temperatures Rising

    Raad Rawi and Pearl Chanda evoke lush summer and parched deserts.

  13. Fly Me to the Moon

    A trip to the moon featuring Zawe Ashton and Peter Marinker.

  14. Genesis

    Anton Lesser and Stella Gonet with readings and music inspired by book one of the Bible.

  15. Nature and the City

    Poetry and prose on plants and people in the metropolis.

  16. Bloomsday

    Stanley Townsend and Kathy Keira Clarke read from James Joyce's Ulysses and other works.

  17. Within Limits

    Anthony Howell and Amaka Okafor explore ideas of constraint in art and life.

  18. Incarceration

    Sian Clifford and Michael Maloney read poetry and prose on the theme of incarceration.

  19. Nomads

    Emma Paetz and Nicholas Farrell read from Cervantes and Louise Doughty to Abd al Qadir.

  20. Rivers

    Nicola Coughlan and Ray Fearon with readings about the Nile and the Yangtze to the Ouse.

  21. Out of My Head

    Actors Grace Cookey-Gam and Toby Jones & a journey of intoxication, inspiration and loss.

  22. Do Keep in Touch

    Emily Bruni and Paterson Joseph read literature about communication, ancient and modern.

  23. Obsession

    Olivia Colman and Toby Stephens with words and music on the theme of obsession.

  24. So Emotional

    Iain Glen and Brid Brennan journey through the seven universal emotions.

  25. Head to Toe

    Harriet Walter and Tim McInnerny journey downwards with writers from Sappho to Larkin.

  26. Peace and Protest

    Poetry and music on peace marking the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  27. Everything Must Change

    A meditation on 'the way of time' and life as constant transformation.

  28. I Contain Multitudes

    On the fluidity of gender and sexuality.

  29. Commuters

    The journey to and from work, where we sit and consider our place in the world.

  30. Night Owls

    Bird and human life and creatures of the mind alive between dusk and dawn as we go owling.

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