Words and Music

Poetry, prose and music on theme of going through gates, from Peter Rabbit to the Trojan Horse, as well as Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, which was first played with the Nazis at the gates of the Soviet city, and Liszt's Dante Symphony featuring the Gates of Hell. There are folk songs about the Gallow Gate and the Old Garden Gate, readings about the gates of Manderley from Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca, the gates broken by the Rebecca riots in Llandeilo in 1843, and descriptions of the Watergate political scandal alongside music from the film All the President's Men. The readers are Yasmin Mwanza and Sam Swann.