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From the grinning Cheshire cat in Alice and Hauschka's score to cat masks on Zoom, The Cure's Love Cats to Ravel's pets, Blake's Tygers to Steve Smith's cats galloping.

Alice's grinning Cheshire cat and Hauschka's music, cat masks on Zoom, the Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Cure's Love Cats and Ravel's many pets, Blake's Tyger and Stevie Smith's cats galloping all feature in today's feline episode. Our actors are Anjana Vasan and Paul Copley.

Producer: Ewa Norman

You can find Free Thinking discussions asking Should we Keep Pets? and one all about another household pet - Dogs - in the Free Thinking archives.

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 15 May 2022 17:30
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Music Played

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

  • 00:01

    FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in F major Op.34 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 4437382.
    • 4.

  • JA Hazeley and JP Morris

    How it works: The Cat, read by Anjana Vasan

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

    The Canterbury Tales: The Manciple's Tale, read by Paul Copley

  • Christopher Smart

    For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry, read by Anjana Vasan

  • 00:03

    Benjamin Britten

    Rejoice In The Lamb, Op.30, No. 2 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey

    Performer: Graham Ross. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Dmitri Ensemble.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 00:05

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Katze lΓ€sst das Mausen nicht (Kaffee-Kantate BWV. 211)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Singer: David Thomas. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre 417621-2.
    • Tr 5.
  • 00:09

    Elton Hayes

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    Performer: Elton Hayes.
    • RETROSPECTIVE RTS4320.
    • CD2 Tr 1.
  • 00:12

    Ahmed Mukhtar and Sattar al-Saadi

    Raqsat al shara

    • Music From Iraq: Rhythms Of Baghdad.
    • ARC.
    • 4.

  • SF Said

    Varjak Paw, read by Anjana Vasan

  • Spacemen 3

    May the circle be unbroken

    • Fire Records.
    • BLAZE 29T.
    • 2.

  • Stevie Smith

    The Galloping Cat, read by Stevie Smith

  • 00:19

    Edvard Grieg

    Holberg suite (Op.40)'Rigaudon'

    Orchestra: Oslo Camerata. Conductor: Stephan Barratt-Due.
    • NAXOS 8557890.
    • Tr 5.

  • Anon, translated by Seamus Heaney

    Pangur BΓ‘n, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:25

    Samuel Barber

    Hermit Songs for Voice and Piano, Op.29, no.8; The Monk and his cat

    Performer: John Browning. Singer: Cheryl Studer.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : dg-474 685-2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 16.
  • 00:27

    Hauschka

    Curious

    Performer: Hauschka.
    • Sony Classical 19075842421.
    • Tr 6.

  • Lewis Carroll

    Alice in Wonderland, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:30

    The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • Fiction Records FIXCD32.
    • Tr 4.

  • Charles Baudelaire, translated by William Aggeler

    The Cat, read by Anjana Vasan

  • Mikhail Bulgakov

    The Master and the Marguerita, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:36

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Moscow Cheryomushki - suite: A Spin through Moscow

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA 452 5972.
    • Tr 1.

  • William Blake

    The Tyger, read by Anjana Vasan

  • 00:40

    Colleen

    This Place In Time

    • LES ONDES SILENCIEUSES.
    • LEAF.
    • 1.

  • TS Eliot

    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Macavity the Mystery Cat, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:42

    Lee β€œScratch” Perry

    Scratch Walking

    • Scratch Walking.
    • Starburst.
    • 3.

  • Helen M. Winslow

    Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:46

    BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Quartet for strings no. 4 (Sz. 91): Allegretto pizzicato

    Performer: Emerson String Quartet.
    • DG 4778168.
    • Tr 6.
  • 00:49

    Maurice Ravel

    L' Enfant et les sortileges: Garden Scene

    Orchestrator: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • World Music 605633123838.
    • Tr 6.

  • Allysia Van Betuw

    Ravel and his Siamese Cat Family, read by Anjana Vasan

  • 00:51

    Maurice Ravel

    L' Enfant et les sortileges: Chat

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • World Music 605633123838.
    • Tr 5.

  • Imogen West-Knights

    The joy of 'Lawyer Cat' is that it teaches us nothing Β– it's just very funny, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:54

    Cat Power

    The Greatest

    Performer: Cat Power.
    • Matador OLE 626-2.
    • Tr 1.

  • W.B. Yeats

    The Cat and the Moon, read by Paul Copley

  • 00:59

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in C sharp minor Op.27 No.2 "Moonlight": Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG 4839320.
    • Tr 5.

  • Margaret Attwood

    Cat's Eye, read by Anjana Vasan

  • 01:06

    Al Rinker

    Everybody wants to be a Cat

    Singer: Liz English. Singer: Phil Harris. Singer: Scatman Crothers. Singer: Thurl Ravenscroft.
    • Walt Disney Records 0946 3 58620 2 7.
    • Tr 4.
  • 01:08

    Ravi Shankar

    Swara-Kakali for Violin, Sitar And Tabla, Arr. from Rag Tilang

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Gilda Sebastian.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    To a Cat, read by Paul Copley

  • 01:10

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 107: Pas de Chat

    Performer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor).
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD214.
    • Tr 2.

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