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1antimuzak
Sunday 16th January 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Molière.
David Furlong and Tim McMullan read extracts from Molière's plays, as well as a biography of the French playwright written by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The programme is divided into some of the key themes explored in plays such as Don Juan, Tartuffe and the Misanthrope, including hypocrisy, theatre, marriage, the relationships between men and women, religion, medics and death, with readings from other authors on these topics including Jonathan Swift and Nancy Mitford. The French language is often referred to as the "anguage of Molière and some of today's readings are in French, while others come from translations by Ranjit Bolt, Liz Lochead, Martin Crimp, John Wood and David Coward.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Molière.
David Furlong and Tim McMullan read extracts from Molière's plays, as well as a biography of the French playwright written by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The programme is divided into some of the key themes explored in plays such as Don Juan, Tartuffe and the Misanthrope, including hypocrisy, theatre, marriage, the relationships between men and women, religion, medics and death, with readings from other authors on these topics including Jonathan Swift and Nancy Mitford. The French language is often referred to as the "anguage of Molière and some of today's readings are in French, while others come from translations by Ranjit Bolt, Liz Lochead, Martin Crimp, John Wood and David Coward.
2antimuzak
Sunday 6th February 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Modernism in the 1920s.
The theme is Modernism in the 1920s, featuring music from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Lisa Dwan and Anthony Howell read extracts fom authors of the era, including Ezra Pound decrying the state of modern critics, Franz Kafka worrying about those daring airmen, and Joyce's Molly Bloom revelling in the fact she said yes.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Modernism in the 1920s.
The theme is Modernism in the 1920s, featuring music from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Lisa Dwan and Anthony Howell read extracts fom authors of the era, including Ezra Pound decrying the state of modern critics, Franz Kafka worrying about those daring airmen, and Joyce's Molly Bloom revelling in the fact she said yes.
3antimuzak
Sunday 22nd May 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Tudors.
From Shakespeare to Hilary Mantel, the Tudor era is a period rich in literature, with a king who is said to have composed Greensleeves for his future queen Anne Boleyn. Today's programme is inspired by the dynasty that ruled England from Henry VII's reign in 1485 until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Theirs was an era of turbulence, from the Wars of the Roses, to the seismic break with Rome under Henry VIII, and the bloody era of Protestant executions under Mary I. There is poetry by Thomas Wyatt (who was accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn), Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I herself, and there are extracts from 20th-century takes including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and CJ Sansom's Matthew Shardlake detective series. Music comes from William Byrd, and Thomas Tallis, who walked a dangerous line as a Catholic composer in Elizabeth I's Protestant court, and Tudor-inspired music by Donizetti and Britten.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Tudors.
From Shakespeare to Hilary Mantel, the Tudor era is a period rich in literature, with a king who is said to have composed Greensleeves for his future queen Anne Boleyn. Today's programme is inspired by the dynasty that ruled England from Henry VII's reign in 1485 until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Theirs was an era of turbulence, from the Wars of the Roses, to the seismic break with Rome under Henry VIII, and the bloody era of Protestant executions under Mary I. There is poetry by Thomas Wyatt (who was accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn), Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I herself, and there are extracts from 20th-century takes including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and CJ Sansom's Matthew Shardlake detective series. Music comes from William Byrd, and Thomas Tallis, who walked a dangerous line as a Catholic composer in Elizabeth I's Protestant court, and Tudor-inspired music by Donizetti and Britten.
4antimuzak
Sunday 3rd July 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Ledbury Poets.
Actors Adrian Scarborough and Skye Hallam read prose and verse from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds inspired by the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which runs in early July set alongside music. We hear work by poets who were born there or lived and worked in the region, like John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Traherne, William Langland, and WH Auden. We also feature contemporary poets, who've taken part in the Ledbury festival, reading their own work for the programme, among them Jade Cuttle.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Ledbury Poets.
Actors Adrian Scarborough and Skye Hallam read prose and verse from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds inspired by the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which runs in early July set alongside music. We hear work by poets who were born there or lived and worked in the region, like John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Traherne, William Langland, and WH Auden. We also feature contemporary poets, who've taken part in the Ledbury festival, reading their own work for the programme, among them Jade Cuttle.
5antimuzak
Sunday 25th September 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Northumbria.
As the Lindisfarne Gospels return to the north-east of England, this programme takes inspiration from the writers and music associated with Northumbria. From Bede and Anglo-Saxon verse to the Percy family depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV, the journey takes in the wildlife illustrated by Thomas Bewick and the landscapes cut through by Hadrian's Wall. Music includes the sound of Northumbrian pipes and folk performers, alongside recordings by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, based at Sage Gateshead. The readers are Zoe Haskin and Ross Waiton.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Northumbria.
As the Lindisfarne Gospels return to the north-east of England, this programme takes inspiration from the writers and music associated with Northumbria. From Bede and Anglo-Saxon verse to the Percy family depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV, the journey takes in the wildlife illustrated by Thomas Bewick and the landscapes cut through by Hadrian's Wall. Music includes the sound of Northumbrian pipes and folk performers, alongside recordings by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, based at Sage Gateshead. The readers are Zoe Haskin and Ross Waiton.
6antimuzak
Sunday 16th October 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Molière.
David Furlong and Tim McMullan read extracts from Molière's plays, as well as a biography of the French playwright written by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The programme is divided into some of the key themes explored in plays such as Don Juan, Tartuffe and the Misanthrope, including hypocrisy, theatre, marriage, the relationships between men and women, religion, medics and death, with readings from other authors on these topics including Jonathan Swift and Nancy Mitford. The French language is often referred to as the "anguage of Molière and some of today's readings are in French, while others come from translations by Ranjit Bolt, Liz Lochead, Martin Crimp, John Wood and David Coward.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Molière.
David Furlong and Tim McMullan read extracts from Molière's plays, as well as a biography of the French playwright written by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The programme is divided into some of the key themes explored in plays such as Don Juan, Tartuffe and the Misanthrope, including hypocrisy, theatre, marriage, the relationships between men and women, religion, medics and death, with readings from other authors on these topics including Jonathan Swift and Nancy Mitford. The French language is often referred to as the "anguage of Molière and some of today's readings are in French, while others come from translations by Ranjit Bolt, Liz Lochead, Martin Crimp, John Wood and David Coward.
7antimuzak
Sunday 23rd October 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Writers and the BBC.
From wax discs to colour TV and Marshall McLuhan's `global village", a comedian's audition for the `Deputy Head of Variety" to advice on how to read a poem on radio - as the BBC turns 100 this month, we've a wide selection of verse and prose reflecting on the impact of the corporation on British's social and cultural life - ranging from the serious to the comic, from the positive to the negative. Actors Henry Goodman and Grace Cookey-Gam read texts by authors who worked at the BBC including George Orwell, who between 1941-1943 was a Talks Producer on what was then the Eastern Service, PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize and a former controller of the Third programme, and Penelope Fitzgerald, who worked at the BBC during the Blitz when she was in her twenties. Other extracts include Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, Gordon Burns' novel The North of England Home Service, and poems by Roger McGough, Ian McEwan, Alan Bennett, and Elizabeth Burns. Some of the music used as been commissioned over the years by the BBC, but we also hear pieces by Handel, Bach, and American rock from the 1960s.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Writers and the BBC.
From wax discs to colour TV and Marshall McLuhan's `global village", a comedian's audition for the `Deputy Head of Variety" to advice on how to read a poem on radio - as the BBC turns 100 this month, we've a wide selection of verse and prose reflecting on the impact of the corporation on British's social and cultural life - ranging from the serious to the comic, from the positive to the negative. Actors Henry Goodman and Grace Cookey-Gam read texts by authors who worked at the BBC including George Orwell, who between 1941-1943 was a Talks Producer on what was then the Eastern Service, PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize and a former controller of the Third programme, and Penelope Fitzgerald, who worked at the BBC during the Blitz when she was in her twenties. Other extracts include Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, Gordon Burns' novel The North of England Home Service, and poems by Roger McGough, Ian McEwan, Alan Bennett, and Elizabeth Burns. Some of the music used as been commissioned over the years by the BBC, but we also hear pieces by Handel, Bach, and American rock from the 1960s.
8antimuzak
Sunday 20th November 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Proust.
Marking the 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust's death with extracts from translations of his epic novel À la recherche du temps perdu, with a series of vignettes featuring each of the five senses. Along the way there tributes to Proust from other authors, as well as a Proustian soundtrack evoking the period including music by Ravel, Johann Strauss and Schoenberg. The readers are Jasmine Hyde and Michael Begley.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Proust.
Marking the 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust's death with extracts from translations of his epic novel À la recherche du temps perdu, with a series of vignettes featuring each of the five senses. Along the way there tributes to Proust from other authors, as well as a Proustian soundtrack evoking the period including music by Ravel, Johann Strauss and Schoenberg. The readers are Jasmine Hyde and Michael Begley.
9antimuzak
Wednesday 21st December 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Keats.
Nicholas Shaw reads from poems and letters written by John Keats, who died from tuberculosis aged 25 on February 23rd 1821. The music includes work by composers admired and loved by Keats, including Mozart, Handel, Haydn and Thomas Arne, and the readings include Ode to Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and On the Sea, along with Keats' moving and funny letters to friends and family.
Time: 18:15 to 19:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Keats.
Nicholas Shaw reads from poems and letters written by John Keats, who died from tuberculosis aged 25 on February 23rd 1821. The music includes work by composers admired and loved by Keats, including Mozart, Handel, Haydn and Thomas Arne, and the readings include Ode to Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and On the Sea, along with Keats' moving and funny letters to friends and family.
10antimuzak
Sunday 26th February 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Aeneid.
An edition on the theme of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, which traces the epic journey of Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of his home town through to his arrival in Italy. Olivia Darnley and John Sackville read from translations by John Dryden, Sarah Ruden and Cecil Day-Lewis, as well as reworkings by Ursula Le Guin and Caroline Lawrence, and there is music by Purcell, Berlioz and Tangerine Dream.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Aeneid.
An edition on the theme of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, which traces the epic journey of Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of his home town through to his arrival in Italy. Olivia Darnley and John Sackville read from translations by John Dryden, Sarah Ruden and Cecil Day-Lewis, as well as reworkings by Ursula Le Guin and Caroline Lawrence, and there is music by Purcell, Berlioz and Tangerine Dream.
11antimuzak
Sunday 26th March 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Nature of the British Isles.
To complement the BBC One series Wild Isles, this edition features prose, poetry and music that hops around Britain, responding to the human as much as wildlife in these blustery places. Featuring readings from writing by George Mackay Brown, Virginia Woolf, Brenda Chamberlain, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Michael Longley, while there is music by Mendelssohn, Ireland, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Brìghde Chaimbeul and Wet Leg.
12antimuzak
Sunday 23rd April 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Georgians.
From Jane Austen and Bridgerton to the music of Handel, the Georgian era is constantly on screens and playlists. Today's programme celebrates the literature and music of the Georgian era - from the reign of George I in the early 18th century to the death of George IV in 1830. There is an extract from Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III, and from Julia Quinn's Regency-era Bridgerton romances, now a Netflix hit starring today's readers Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Thompson. The Georgian public devoured Jane Austen novels and gothic horror like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, while poets Wordsworth, Blake, Burns, Shelley and Byron made their names. More recently stately Georgian houses have inspired singer-songwriter Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy, while Handel was the maestro in Georgian England for over half a century and there are extracts from his Water Music and oratorio Messiah. Plus, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Isobel Waller-Bridge's score to the 2020 film version of Austen's Emma, part of Iron Maiden's epic heavy-metal take on Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Keats's Ode to a Nightingale in Russian translation set by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Georgians.
From Jane Austen and Bridgerton to the music of Handel, the Georgian era is constantly on screens and playlists. Today's programme celebrates the literature and music of the Georgian era - from the reign of George I in the early 18th century to the death of George IV in 1830. There is an extract from Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III, and from Julia Quinn's Regency-era Bridgerton romances, now a Netflix hit starring today's readers Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Thompson. The Georgian public devoured Jane Austen novels and gothic horror like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, while poets Wordsworth, Blake, Burns, Shelley and Byron made their names. More recently stately Georgian houses have inspired singer-songwriter Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy, while Handel was the maestro in Georgian England for over half a century and there are extracts from his Water Music and oratorio Messiah. Plus, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Isobel Waller-Bridge's score to the 2020 film version of Austen's Emma, part of Iron Maiden's epic heavy-metal take on Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Keats's Ode to a Nightingale in Russian translation set by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.
13antimuzak
Sunday 28th May 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Ledbury Poets.
Adrian Scarborough and Skye Hallam read prose and poetry from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds, set alongside a range of music. There is work by poets who were born there or lived and worked in the region, including John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Traherne, William Langland and WH Auden. There are settings of some of these poems by the likes of John Ireland and Ivor Gurney, as well as pieces from composers associated broadly with the region, like Edward Elgar.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Ledbury Poets.
Adrian Scarborough and Skye Hallam read prose and poetry from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds, set alongside a range of music. There is work by poets who were born there or lived and worked in the region, including John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Traherne, William Langland and WH Auden. There are settings of some of these poems by the likes of John Ireland and Ivor Gurney, as well as pieces from composers associated broadly with the region, like Edward Elgar.
14antimuzak
Sunday 23rd July 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Northumbria.
As the Lindisfarne Gospels return to the north-east of England, this programme takes inspiration from the writers and music associated with Northumbria. From Bede and Anglo-Saxon verse to the Percy family depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV, the journey takes in the wildlife illustrated by Thomas Bewick and the landscapes cut through by Hadrian's Wall. Music includes the sound of Northumbrian pipes and folk performers, alongside recordings by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, based at Sage Gateshead. The readers are Zoe Haskin and Ross Waiton.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Northumbria.
As the Lindisfarne Gospels return to the north-east of England, this programme takes inspiration from the writers and music associated with Northumbria. From Bede and Anglo-Saxon verse to the Percy family depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV, the journey takes in the wildlife illustrated by Thomas Bewick and the landscapes cut through by Hadrian's Wall. Music includes the sound of Northumbrian pipes and folk performers, alongside recordings by the Royal Northern Sinfonia, based at Sage Gateshead. The readers are Zoe Haskin and Ross Waiton.
15antimuzak
Sunday 5th November 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Celebrating Shakespeare.
As part of Radio 3's season of programmes marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, this edition features music inspired by a whole series of Shakespeare plays and sonnets set alongside key speeches from those dramas. The readings include archive performances and new recordings from Tracy-Ann Oberman, currently starring as Shylock in a touring Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merchant of Venice set in 1936, and from Reuben Joseph, the most recent Macbeth for the RSC.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Celebrating Shakespeare.
As part of Radio 3's season of programmes marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, this edition features music inspired by a whole series of Shakespeare plays and sonnets set alongside key speeches from those dramas. The readings include archive performances and new recordings from Tracy-Ann Oberman, currently starring as Shylock in a touring Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merchant of Venice set in 1936, and from Reuben Joseph, the most recent Macbeth for the RSC.
16antimuzak
Sunday 24th December 2023 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:00 to 18:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Seven Ages of Christmas.
Nina Sosanya and Robert Webb read festive poetry and prose for all ages as the programme takes its cue from Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man to explore the varying attitudes to Christmas for different age groups We hear from Jane Austen's Emma and Mr Knightley's reluctance to leave his fireside on Christmas Eve to visit friends, a cash-strapped teenage Adrian Mole, singleton Queenie, 11-year-old Anne of Green Gables overcome with wonder at her Christmas dress, eight-year-old Kevin, who finds himself unexpectedly Home Alone for Christmas, fastidious planner and cooking guide Delia Smith, TS Eliot's Magi, and Ebenezer Scrooge. The musical soundtrack is packed with seasonal favourites, with carols ranging from a mediaeval lullaby through to ones by Florence Price, Sally Beamish and John Rutter, popular songs from Louis Armstrong and Mariah Carey and music especially written for Christmas Eve by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker), Corelli (Christmas Concerto) and Puccini (La Bohème).
Time: 17:00 to 18:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Seven Ages of Christmas.
Nina Sosanya and Robert Webb read festive poetry and prose for all ages as the programme takes its cue from Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man to explore the varying attitudes to Christmas for different age groups We hear from Jane Austen's Emma and Mr Knightley's reluctance to leave his fireside on Christmas Eve to visit friends, a cash-strapped teenage Adrian Mole, singleton Queenie, 11-year-old Anne of Green Gables overcome with wonder at her Christmas dress, eight-year-old Kevin, who finds himself unexpectedly Home Alone for Christmas, fastidious planner and cooking guide Delia Smith, TS Eliot's Magi, and Ebenezer Scrooge. The musical soundtrack is packed with seasonal favourites, with carols ranging from a mediaeval lullaby through to ones by Florence Price, Sally Beamish and John Rutter, popular songs from Louis Armstrong and Mariah Carey and music especially written for Christmas Eve by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker), Corelli (Christmas Concerto) and Puccini (La Bohème).
17antimuzak
Sunday 25th February 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Leadership.
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of leadership, revealing the qualities we look for in a good leader and the dire consequences of getting landed with a bad one. In Shakespeare's Henry V, the king goes around the camp on the eve of Agincourt, quelling the fears of his army, while Aeneas brings hope to his despairing followers in Virgil's Aeneid. Emmeline Pankhurst incites a suffragist meeting to rebellion and Elizabeth I gives a similarly rousing speech to her troops, while Grace Nichols recalls the dedicated leadership of her father in his role as headmaster. There are disappointed leaders too - Napoleon and Toussaint L'Ouverture - and a tyrannical pig in Orwell's Animal Farm. Music includes Dominic Argento's setting of the final diary entry of the leader of a disastrous polar expedition, dedicated activist Paul Robeson singing the spiritual Go Down Moses and John Adams's operatic evocation of President Nixon's historic trip to meet Chairman Mao.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
Leadership.
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of leadership, revealing the qualities we look for in a good leader and the dire consequences of getting landed with a bad one. In Shakespeare's Henry V, the king goes around the camp on the eve of Agincourt, quelling the fears of his army, while Aeneas brings hope to his despairing followers in Virgil's Aeneid. Emmeline Pankhurst incites a suffragist meeting to rebellion and Elizabeth I gives a similarly rousing speech to her troops, while Grace Nichols recalls the dedicated leadership of her father in his role as headmaster. There are disappointed leaders too - Napoleon and Toussaint L'Ouverture - and a tyrannical pig in Orwell's Animal Farm. Music includes Dominic Argento's setting of the final diary entry of the leader of a disastrous polar expedition, dedicated activist Paul Robeson singing the spiritual Go Down Moses and John Adams's operatic evocation of President Nixon's historic trip to meet Chairman Mao.
18antimuzak
Sunday 17th March 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Curse of Narcissus.
A sequence inspired by the idea of vanity and self-examination, with readings from literature that mirror the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell hopelessly in love with his own reflection. There's Snow White's wicked step-mother and her magic mirror, Dorian Gray's painting in the attic, and excerpts from The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Persuasion and White Oleander, alongside poems by Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Freneau, Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath. Featured music is provided by composers including Mozart, Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Mel Bonis, James Oswald, Eleanor Alberga, Ethelbert Nevin and Carly Simon.
Time: 17:30 to 18:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
The Curse of Narcissus.
A sequence inspired by the idea of vanity and self-examination, with readings from literature that mirror the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell hopelessly in love with his own reflection. There's Snow White's wicked step-mother and her magic mirror, Dorian Gray's painting in the attic, and excerpts from The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Persuasion and White Oleander, alongside poems by Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Freneau, Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath. Featured music is provided by composers including Mozart, Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Mel Bonis, James Oswald, Eleanor Alberga, Ethelbert Nevin and Carly Simon.
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