Walkers, Wanderers and Wayfarers
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of walking, with readings by Clare Higgins and Ian McDiarmid. Works by Thoreau and Wordsworth, plus Elgar, Strauss and Mussorgsky.
Walking is the subject of this week's edition of the award-winning programme mixing music, poetry and prose. Clare Higgins and Ian McDiarmid read poems and prose extracts by Henry David Thoreau, Edward Thomas, WH Davies, William Wordsworth and Alfred Wainwright among others, while the music includes contributions from Mussorgsky, Elgar, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Lou Reed. From the age-old beneficial effects of sauntering to the exhilaration of climbing a mountain, and from a lover's evening stroll to the inconvenience of Manchester street-puddles, this seemingly everyday subject gradually takes us further and further from home...
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