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Incarceration

Sian Clifford and Michael Maloney read poetry and prose on the theme of incarceration.

On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Piranesi, whose ‘Carceri d'Invenzione’ etchings depict foreboding imaginary subterranean prisons, today's Words and Music reflects on all sorts of Incarceration. We'll hear from a hostage in Beirut, a schoolgirl in a young offenders institute, a bored employee, and a housewife trapped by her husband's good intentions. Plus a long-planned prison escape penned by Stephen King and made famous by Steven Spielberg. With music from Anna Meredith, Arvo Part, John Adams, Sam Cooke and Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev, a Russian guitarist who spent a decade in a Soviet Gulag. The readers are Sian Clifford (Fleabag/Two Weeks to Live) and Michael Maloney (Truly Madly Deeply/The Young Victoria).

Readings:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Darran Anderson
The Panopticon - Jenni Fagan
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room - William Wordsworth
Grey is the Colour of Hope - Irina Ratushinskaya
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
How soft this Prison is - Emily Dickinson
An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King

Producer: Ruth Thomson

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 4 Oct 2020 17:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

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

  • Darran Anderson

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi, read by Michael Maloney

  • 00:01

    Anna Meredith

    Nautilus

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Moshi Moshi Records MOSHICD67.
    • Tr 1.

  • Jenni Hagan

    The Panopticon, read by Sian Clifford

  • 00:09

    Trad.

    Annunciation bells

    Performer: The Benedictine Nuns of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation.
    • Decca 2748264.
    • Tr 4.

  • William Wordsworth

    Nuns Fret Not At Their ConventÂ’s Narrow Room, read by Michael Maloney

  • 00:10

    Trad.

    Adoro te devote

    Performer: The Benedictine Nuns of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation.
    • Decca 2748264.
    • Tr 11.

  • Irina Ratushinskaya

    Grey is the Colour of Hope, read by Sian Clifford

  • 00:16

    Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev

    Perpetuum Mobile

    Performer: Oleg Timofeyev (guitar).
    • Hanssler Classic 8458.
    • Tr 1.

  • Richard Yates

    Revolutionary Road, read by Michael Maloney

  • 00:20

    Sam Cooke

    Chain Gang

    Performer: Sam Cooke.
    • RCA.
    • Tr 1.
  • 00:23

    John Adams

    Shaker Loops (Part 1 Shaking and Trembling)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Philips 412214-2.
    • Tr 1.

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    The Yellow Wallpaper, read by Sian Clifford

  • 00:32

    Arvo Pärt

    De Profundis

    Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • ECM 8319592.
    • Tr 4.

  • Oscar Wilde

    De Profundis, read by Michael Maloney

  • 00:00

    Amy Beach

    4 Sketches Op.15: no.3; Dreaming

    Performer: Judith Herbert. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Chandos CHAN10162.
    • 7.

  • Emily Dickinson

    How Soft This Prison Is, read by Sian Clifford

  • Brian Keenan

    An Evil Cradling, read by Michael Maloney

  • 00:49

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    PrisonerÂ’s Chorus from Leonore

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv 453461-2.
    • 1.

  • Richard Lovelace

    To Althea, from Prison, read by Sian Clifford

  • 00:58

    John Lennon

    Free as a Bird

    Performer: The Beatles.
    • Apple CDP 7243 8 34445 2.
    • 1.
  • 00:01

    Thomas Newman

    Shawshank Redemption – End Title

    Performer: Studio Orchestra.
    • Sony.
    • 21.

  • Stephen King

    Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, read by Michael Maloney

  • 01:09

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'SullÂ’aria che soave zeffiretto' from the Marriage of Figaro

    Singer: Edith Mathis. Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera. Conductor: Karl Böhm.
    • DG 415 5202.
    • 12.

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  • Sun 2 Jun 2019 17:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
  • Sun 4 Oct 2020 17:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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