Words and Music

A celebration of the 1920s - the Art Deco era with music by Janacek, Tailleferre and Gershwin, and readings from Dorothy Parker, Jean Rhys and PG Wodehouse. The readers are Jessica Raine of The Devil's Hour and Call The Midwife, and the Olivier-award-winning star of Hamilton, Giles Terera. Riviera Dreaming by Maureen Emerson; There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale; The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim; Quartet by Jean Rhys; The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham; Symptom Recital by Dorothy Parker; My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse; Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos; Manhood by Michael Leiris; The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock; Jazzonia by Langston Hughes; Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson; Art Deco's Bad Girl by Walker Mimms; The Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell; An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie; The Tropics in New York by Claude McKay; The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood; The Second Coming by WB Yeats; Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos; Echoes of the Jazz Age by F Scott Fitzgerald.