Words and Music

Poetry and prose on the theme of fingers and thumbs, from Sylvia Plath contemplating her bleeding thumb stump, while Ted Hughes remembers her fingers leaping and somersaulting across the keyboard. There are magic fingers, hitch-hiking thumbs, spin bowling experts and light-fingered thieves, with readings from Roald Dahl, Sarah Waters, Ian McEwan and Lorna Goodson - brought to life by Clare Perkins and Sean Barrett. Musically, dextrous fingers predominate as players - from Martha Argerich to Anoushka Shankar - apply them with great skill, with the piano, harp, drums and thumb piano the mbira all on show, with works by Rachmaninov, Sally Beamish and Thomas Ades.