Words and Music

Poetry, prose and music on the theme of lazy days, an evocation of summer afternoons by the river, picnics, passing time and lethargy. From relaxed, lazy days spent messing about in boats with Kenneth Grahame's Ratty and Mole, to the frustrated boredom of waiting for the school day to end as expressed by DH Lawrence. Keats explores the complicated interplay of wanting to get on with a project while also being unable to stop procrastinating, while Laurie Lee evokes sun-kissed summers of childhood that feel as though they'll never end. Music ranges from Haydn's symphony Il Distratto and the fat waddling duck from Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, to John Coltrane's Lazy Bird. The readers are Laura Dos Santos and Ben Crowe.