
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Words and music on the theme of dance including poetry and prose by Shelley Patrick Kavanagh, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot and Jane Austen with music by Schubert, John Tavener, Poulenc, Fred Astaire and Shostakovich.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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William Shakespeare
from The Winter’s Tale read by Imogen Stubbs
Laurence Binyon
The Little Dancers read by Imogen Stubbs
Don Paterson
Dancer read by Joseph Kloska
Sacheverell Sitwell
from La Bayadere read by Imogen Stubbs
Alfred Corn
Choreography read by Joseph Kloska
James Laughlin
Martha Graham read by Imogen Stubbs
Adrian Mitchell
For David Mercer read by Joseph Kloska
Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell
Spanish Dancer read by Imogen Stubbs
Jane Austen
from Emma read by Imogen Stubbs
William Carlos Williams
Overture to a Dance of Locomotives read by Joseph Kloska
Euripides translated by William Arrowsmith
from the Bacchae read by Joseph Kloska
Shelley
from Prometheus Unbound read by Imogen Stubbs
Gabriela Mistral translated by Ursula Le Guin
Give me your hand read by Imogen Stubbs
Evelyn Waugh
from Vile Bodies read by Joseph Kloska
T.S. Eliot
from the Four Quartets read by Joseph Kloska
Broadcasts
- Sun 29 May 2011 22:15
- Fri 30 Dec 2011 17:00