Each week the programme examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry.
Programme details: Sunday 29th March 2009
Feast and Famine
Today’s programme was presented by Irma Kurtz.
The readers were Liza Sadovy, David Harewood and Frank Stirling.
Readings and Music
Music 1: ‘Maximum Consumption’ performed by the Kinks.
Available on Everybody’s in Showbiz.
Reading 1: The Compleat Angler written by Izaak Walton.
Edited by Jonquil Beavan and published by Clarendon Press, Oxford (1983). ISBN 0-19-812313-2.
Music 2: ‘Pesah a la Mano’ performed by Hankus Netsky & Theodore Bikel from the album A Taste of Passover.
Music 3: ‘Sing for your Supper’ performed by Rebecca Luker, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Debbie Gravitte and The Coffee Club Orchestra.
Available on The Boys from Syracuse, released by DRG.
Reading 2: ‘Swann’s Way’ written by Marcel Proust, from In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1.
Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin and published by Vintage (2002). ISBN 0 09 03622 1 X.
Music 4: ‘Rêverie’ composed by Claude Debussy and performed by Francoise-Joel Thiollier.
Available on Debussy: Piano Works Vol 1.
Reading 3: ‘Inviting a Friend to Supper’ written by Ben Jonson.
Available in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, published by Clarendon Press (1934).
Music 5: ‘Ei! Wie Schmeckt Der Coffee Susse’ from Coffee Cantata composed by J S Bach.
Available on J.S. Bach: Coffee and Peasant Cantatas, sung by Emma Kirkby. Released by Oiseau Lyre.
Reading 4: ‘The Recipe for Marmalade’ written by Emily Wills.
Available in the book Developing the Negative published by The Rialto.
Reading 5: Toast written by Nigel Slater.
Published by Harper Perennial (2004). ISBN 1-84115-471-7.
Music 6: ‘Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy’ sung by June Christy.
Available on Divas of Jazz.
Reading 6: The Great Hunger written by Cecil Woodham-Smith.
Published by Hamish Hamilton (1962).
Music 7: ‘White Potatoes’ composed by Paddy Maloney for the soundtrack of the film The Long Journey Home.
Released by Unisphere Records.
Reading 7: Lark Rise to Candleford written by Flora Thompson.
Published by OUP.
Music 8: ‘Folk Feast (National Holiday) III’ from The Gadfly Suite, composed by Dmitry Shostakovich.
Available on Shostakovich: The Gadfly Suite, released by EMI.
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