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Locomotion

Texts and music about getting from A to B, with readings by Claire Rushbrook and Andrew Wincott. Including Marvell, Lear and E Nesbit, plus Wagner, Ellington, Mayfield and Eno.

An edition of Words and Music dedicated to Locomotion. A selection of music and poetry provides the short dash through the A-Z of getting from A-B - and steams its way through the implacable human passion for all forms of locomotion .

Readers Claire Rushbrook and Andrew Wincott guide us through a scenic route -- so music from Wagner, Ellington, Mayfield, Eno and Schubert are among the stops on one branch of the journey while words from Marvell, Lear, Patrick Leigh Fermor and E Nesbit are scheduled destinations on the other.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Oct 2010 22:15
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote

    Performer: Berlin Philharmoniker cond von Karajan

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 4390272.
    • 8.

  • E.Nesbit

    Extract from The Phoenix and the Carpet read by Andrew Wincott

  • 00:04

    John Adams

    A short ride in a fast machine

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Simon Rattle

    • EMI.
    • CDC5550512.
    • 6.

  • H.G.Wells

    Extract from The Time Machine read by Andrew Wincott

  • 00:10

    Brian Eno

    Weightless from Apollo (Atmospheres and Soundtracks)

    Performer: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno

    • EG EGCD52.
    • 10.

  • Alison Brackenbury

    In Orbit read by Claire Rushbrook

  • 00:17

    Neal Hefti

    Fantail

    Performer: Count Basie and his orchestra

    • ROULETTE.
    • CDP7932732.
    • 10.

  • Edward Lear

    The Owl and the Pussycat read by Claire Rushbrook

  • Richard Wagner - Overtures and Preludes – extract from Der Fliegende Hollander

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra cond Sir Adrian Boult

  • Charles Sprawson from Haunts of the Black Masseur

    Extract from Haunts of the Black Masseur read by Claire Rushbrook

  • 00:23

    Charlie Parker's Reboppers

    Miles Runs the Voodoo Down single edit

    Performer: Miles Davis

    • COLUMBIA.
    • 88697751502.
    • 5 CD 2.

  • Joyce Carol Oates – article on running from The New York Times

    Extract from article on running from The New York Times read by Claire Rushbrook

  • 00:28

    Giacomo Puccini

    Giacomo Puccini - Final scene in Tosca

    Performer: Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, cond. Georges Pretre

  • Jenny Diski

    Extract from On trying to Keep Still read by Claire Rushbrook

  • 00:34

    Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    Performer: Curtis Mayfield

    • MUSIC COLLECTION.
    • MUSCD007.
    • 1.

  • John Updike

    Extract from Rabbit Run read by Andrew Wincott

  • 00:40

    John Betjeman and Jim Parker

    Indoor Games in Newbury

    Performer: John Betjeman and Jim Parker

    • VIRGIN.
    • VCCCD19.
    • 1.

  • Andrew Marvell

    To his Coy Mistress read by Andrew Wincott

  • 00:47

    Franz Schubert

    Erlkonig

    Performers: Jessye Norman, Philip Moll

    • PHILIPS.
    • 4126232.
    • 5.

  • Michael Donaghy

    Machines read by Andrew Wincott

  • 00:52

    Aaron Copland

    Corral Nocturne from Rodeo

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK60133.
    • 4.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Extract from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes read by Claire Rushbrook

  • 00:58

    FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 Marche funebre

    Performer: Martha Argerich

  • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Extract from A Time of Gifts read by Andrew Wincott

  • 01:10

    Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

    • CLASSICS.
    • CLASSICS837.
    • 8.

  • Edward Thomas

    Adlestrop read by Andrew Wincott

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  • Sun 3 Oct 2010 22:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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