Words and Music

A themed sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating the English coast and the long tradition of walking along it. There will be the words of Northumberland-based monk and historian Bede as well as a contemporary traveller in Sunderland, as well as extracts from WG Sebald's travelogue The Rings of Saturn, and Alice Oswald on the Severn estuary, Jane Austen on Lyme Regis and Jini Reddy on St Ives. There will be music from Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ethel Smyth evoking Britain's seafaring past, beach-loving present and the White Cliffs in between. The readers are Tara Fitzgerald and Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong.