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

• 00:00

  Carl Orff

  O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

  Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

  • EMI CDM 7 69060 2.
• 00:02

  Iannis Xenakis

  Jonchaies

  Performers: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Arturo Tamayo

  • Timpani 1C1062.

• King James Bible

  Revelation 6:12-16 read by Sheila Hancock and read by Tom Hollander

• 00:04

  Black Sabbath

  The Illusion of Power

  Performers: Black Sabbath

  • IRS 7243 8 30620 2 7.
• 00:04

  Maurice Duruflé

  Tantum ergo from Quatre Motets sur des themes grégoriens

  Performers: Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse

  • Signum SIGCD 163.

• Shelley

  Fragment read by Sheila Hancock

• 00:08

  George Frideric Handel

  Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

  Performers: Robin Blaze (countertenor), The Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

  • EMI 7243 5 57140 2 2.
• 00:11

  Trad.

  MacDougall's Gathering

  Arranger: Bonnie Rideout Performers: Bonnie Rideout (viola), Simon O’Dwyer (Bronze Age Horns)

  • TM 504.
• 00:15

  Spiro

  The Darkling Plains

  Performers: Spiro

  • Realworld Records CDR 50 37005 00048 8.

• Maura Stanton

  The Conjurer read by Sheila Hancock

• 00:19

  Alexander Mosolov

  Zavod – Iron Foundry

  Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccaro Chailly

  • Decca 436 640-2.
• 00:22

  Pink Floyd

  Welcome to the Machine

  Performers: Pink Floyd

  • CBS 35DP4.

• Kit Wright

  Ode to Didcot Power Station read by Tom Hollander

• 00:25

  Jean Sibelius

  Symphony No 5 [final movement]

  Performers: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska

  • BIS CD 863.

• Joseph Seamon, Jr. Cotter

  from Out of the Shadows: An Unfinished Sonnet-Sequence read by Tom Hollander

• 00:34

  Percy Grainger

  The Power of Love

  Performers: Susan Gritton (soprano), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

  • Chandos CHAN 9653.
• 00:38

  György Ligeti

  Atmospheres

  Performers: Sudwesfunk Orchestra, Ernest Bour (conductor)

  • EMI 7243 8 55322 2 1.

• Margaret Atwood

  From: Circe / Mud Poems read by Sheila Hancock

• 00:39

  Luigi Nono

  Prometeo, Tragedia dell'ascolto

  • Col legno WWE 25ACD 20605.

• Toads read by Tom Hollander

  Philip Larkin

• 00:41

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  String Quartet No 8 – 1st mvt

  Performers: The Shostakovich Quartet

  • Regis 2029.

• Amir Gilboa [adapted from Hebrew by Dannie Abse]

  Blood not paint ... read by Sheila Hancock

• 00:46

  Benjamin Britten

  War Requiem

  Performers: The Bach Choir and London Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (conductor)

  • Decca 414 383-2.

• Wilfred Owen

  Anthem for Doomed Youth read by Tom Hollander

• Freud

  from Civilization and its Discontents read by Sheila Hancock

• Landscape with distant relatives: Sirens

  Heiner Goebbels

• 00:58

  John Adams

  The Laboratory from Doctor Atomic Symphony

  Performers: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson [conductor]

  • Nonesuch 7559 79932 8.

• Peter Porter

  Your Attention Please read by Tom Hollander

• 01:01

  Krzysztof Penderecki

  Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima

  Performers: National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw

  • Polskie Nagrania.
• 01:03

  Sergey Prokofiev

  Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet

  Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)

  • EMI 2 67967 2 CD 5.

• Ted Hughes

  Eagle read by Sheila Hancock

• William Blake

  The Tyger read by Tom Hollander

• 01:07

  Victoria

  Agnus Dei from Requiem

  Performers: The Tallis Scholars

  • Gimmell CDGIM 207.

• Rudyard Kipling

  If read by Sheila Hancock

• 01:12

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  Symphony No 15 [finale]

  Performers: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

  • Decca 028942506923.