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

• Robert Herrick

  A Canticle to Apollo, read by Peter Capaldi and Emily Bruni

• 00:00

  Olivier Messiaen

  Des Canyons Aux Etoiles [le d茅sert]

  Performers: French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

  • DG 471 617-2.

• Shakespeare

  The Merchant of Venice 鈥� from Act V Scene 1, read by Emily Bruni

• 00:03

  Henry Purcell

  Fantasia a 4 'Three Parts on a Ground'

  Performers: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)

  • Philips 4267142.

• Censorinus

  from Harmony and Embryology [from De die Natali XI-XII] read by Peter Capaldi

• 00:10

  Leos Jan谩膷ek

  Sinfonietta [allegretto]

  Performers: Pro Arte Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • Testament 1325.

• J F H F Von Dalberg

  A Composer鈥檚 Glimpses of the Music of Spirits, read by Peter Capaldi

• 00:14

  Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

  Salve Regina in F minor [opening salve regina]

  Performers: Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor)

  • Decca 466 134-2.
• 00:18

  Trad

  Devil's Dream

  Performers: Blanche Coldiron (banjo)

  • Kentucky Old-Time Banjo.
  • Rounder CD 0394.

• Walt Whitman

  Italian Music in Dakota, read by Emily Bruni

• 00:20

  Vincenzo Bellini

  Norma [Casta Diva 鈥� Act 1 Scene 1]

  Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin (conductor)

  • EMI 7630002.

• Nick Hornby

  High Fidelity, read by Peter Capaldi

• 00:28

  Neil Young

  Only Love Can Break Your Heart

  • Reprise 7599-27243-2.
• 00:29

  J Weatherly

  Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

  Performers: Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Singles Collection

  • Polygram 842 003-2.
• 00:32

  Conlon Nancarrow

  Study for Player Piano No 49c

  • Wergo 60165-50.

• Anne Sexton

  Music Swims Back To Me, read by Emily Bruni

• 00:34

  Gy枚rgy Ligeti

  Mysteries of the Macabre

  Arranger: Elgar Howarth Performers: Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Roland Pontinen (piano)

  • Philips 426 144-2.
• 00:37

  Robert Schumann

  String Quartet No 3 in A Major opus 41,3 [adagio molto]

  Performers: Zehetmair Quartet

  • ECM 472 169-2.

• Clara Schumann

  The Advent of Insanity, read by Emily Bruni

• 00:44

  Philip Glass

  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra [second movement]

  Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

  • DG 4370912.

• Pablo Neruda

  Ode to a Violin in California, read by Peter Capaldi

• 00:50

  Charles Mingus

  Better Git It In Your Soul

  • Columbia/Legacy 01-065145-10/1.
• 00:50

  Jack Kerouac

  San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)

  • Rhino R2 70281.
• 00:55

  Trad

  Pack Up Your Troubles

  Performers: Band of H M Coldstream Guards

  • Saydisc CD SDL 358.

• Siegfried Sassoon

  Everyone Sang, read by Emily Bruni

• 00:56

  Eric Whitacre

  A Boy and a Girl

  Performers: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

  • Hyperion CDA67543.

• Alastair Reid

  A Lesson in Music, read by Emily Bruni

• 01:01

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman' K265

  Performers: Livia Rev (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 66185.

• Louis de Bernieres

  Captain Corelli鈥檚 Mandolin, read by Emily Bruni

• 01:07

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Three Part Invention

  Arranger: Mayor Performers: Simon Mayor (mandolin)

  • Acoustics CDACS 014.

• Cecil Day Lewis

  Cornet Solo, read by Peter Capaldi

• 01:10

  Trad

  Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

  Arranger: Hunsberger Performers: Wynton Marsalis (cornet), Eastman Wind Ensemble

  • CBS Records MK 42137.