Words and Music

A sequence on the theme of wind, with Adrian Scarborough and Amaka Okafor reading extracts from poetry and prose by Joseph Conrad, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Voltaire and Shakespeare. Music includes Britten's Peter Grimes and Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antartica, as well as pices by Miriam Makeba, Toru Takemitsu, Nirmali Fenn and Debussy. Readings: Shakespeare - King Lear; Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd; Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden; Emily Dickinson - The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man; Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode to the West Wind; Derek Walcott - Osmeros; Lyall Watson - Heaven's Breath; William Wordsworth - The Prelude; Seamus Heaney - Cow in Calf; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Pam Ayres - They Should Have Asked My Husband; Joan Didion - Santa Anas; Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God; Seamus Heaney - Storm on the island; Joseph Conrad - Typhoon.