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Words and Music The Seven Deadly Sins Words and Music: The Seven Deadly Sins

Adjoa Andoh and Rory Kinnear explore the sins of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth with poetry and prose by Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Stevie Smith , Emily Dickinson and Christopher Marlowe and music by Kurt Weill, Mahler and Sondheim. Producer: Fiona McLean. Image: Sloth, detail from the Seven Deadly Sins, 1485, by Hieronymus Bosch (ca 1450-1516), oil on canvas, 120x150 cm. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images); Madrid, Museo Del Prado.