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Sand and Deserts

Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan with readings on all things sandy from Robyn Davidson to Alex Garland. Music includes Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel.

Robyn Davidson, Frank Herbert, Alex Garland and Robert Louis Stevenson provide some of today's prose and poetry, whilst music includes pieces by Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel. We'll be playing at the beach, trekking through the Outback with camels, moving physical borders between countries and looking to the stars through glass made from sand in the Whitsundays. The readers are Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan.

Producer: Barnaby Gordon

Readings:
Katherine Gallagher South Beach
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream within a Dream
Folk tale, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons 1001 Nights
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life
Alex Garland The Beach
Meghan Hicks How to Run the Marathon des Sables
Frank Herbert Dune
Robyn Davidson Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Tim Marshall Prisoners of Geography
Lucy Eddy Singing Sands
Paul Duffield At One with the Universe in Queensland

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Jul 2023 17:30

Music Played

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

  • 00:01

    Henry Glover

    I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

    Performer: Mrs. Mills.
    • Parlophone UK 5099926659756.
    • 17.
  • 00:01

    Gloria Coates

    Symphony No.7 - Glass of Time

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olaf Henzold.
    • Naxos 8559289.
    • 6.
  • Katherine Gallagher

    South Beach, read by Seroca Davis

  • 00:02

    Brian Hyland

    Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

    • Warner Music TV 190295892876.
    • 4.
  • 00:02

    Jo Blankenburg

    Quest for Treasure Island

    Performer: Jo Blankenburg.
    • Position Music download.
    • 4.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Treasure Island, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:04

    Ali Farka Touré

    Sabu Yerkoy

    Performer: Toumani Diabaté. Performer: Ali Farka Touré. Performer: Souleye Kane. Performer: Ali Magassa.
    • Nonesuch 075597979633.
    • 1.
  • 00:11

    Clive Richardson

    Beachcomber

    Performer: David Munrow. Performer: John Turner. Performer: David Pugsley. Performer: Alan Lumsden.
  • Lewis Carroll

    The Walrus and the Carpenter, read by Seroca Davis

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    A Dream within a Dream, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:10

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade: (II. The Story of the Kalender Prince)

    Performer: Steven Staryk. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI CDC 7477172.
    • 2.
  • Folk tale, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons

    1001 Nights (Vol. 1, Night 12), read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:17

    Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals (Kangaroos)

    Performer: Lucas Jussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 4815072.
    • 6.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    A Psalm of Life, read by Seroca Davis

  • 00:19

    All Saints

    Pure Shores

    Performer: All Saints.
    • Rhino 190295909758.
    • 10.
  • Alex Garland

    The Beach, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:20

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony (2nd mvt. "On the Beach at Night Alone")

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hallé. Choir: Hallé Choir. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Hall‚ CDHLL7542.
  • Meghan Hicks

    How to Run the Marathon des Sables, Part 3: Training and Logistics, read by Seroca Davis

  • 00:26

    Amina Alaoui

    Maluf

    Performer: Amina Alaoui (daf), Sofiane Negra (oud), Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin). Performer: Sofiane Negra (oud). Performer: Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin).
    • Saphrane 888002665041.
    • 6.
  • 00:30

    Shara Nova

    An unknown distance yet to run

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
  • Frank Herbert

    Dune, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:38

    Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Act III sc.2: Attack and Fall)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
  • 00:43

    Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

    Wiyathul

    Performer: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
    • Dramatico Entertainment Ltd. 00602567756811.
    • 1.
  • Robyn Davidson

    Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback, read by Seroca Davis

  • 00:48

    Naseer Shamma

    Travelling Souls

    Performer: Shahbaz Hussain. Performer: Ashraf Sharif Khan.
    • Pneuma PN1250.
    • 1.
  • 00:49

    Duke Ellington

    Caravan

    Composer: Juan Tizol. Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Parlophone 5099996629956.
    • CD2 Tr 8.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Ozymandias, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 00:54

    Sadie Harrison

    Gallery for solo violin (Room 2 'Scheherazade')

    Performer: Peter Sheppard Skærved.
    • Toccata Classics TOCC0304.
    • 13.
  • 00:55

    George Frideric Handel

    Israel in Egypt, (Egypt was glad when they departed)

    Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Decca 00028944347029.
    • 19.
  • Tim Marshall

    Prisoners of Geography, read by Tommy Sim'aan

  • 01:03

    Steve Reich

    The Desert Music (1st mvt: Fast)

    Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians. Ensemble: Colorado Quartet. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
  • 01:03

    Bassekou Kouyaté

    Bambugu Blues

    Ensemble: Ngoni ba.
    • World Music 605633123838.
    • 2.
  • Lucy Eddy

    Singing Sands, read by Seroca Davis

  • Paul Duffield

    At One with the Universe in Queensland, read by Seroca Davis

  • 01:09

    EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Stars

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • Decca 478 8053.
    • 7.

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