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

• 00:00

  Richard Wagner - Das Rhinegold (excerpt)

  Performer: Oda Balsborg, Hetty Plumacher, Ira Malaniuk, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti

• Christopher Darlington Morley

  Not Negotiable read by Dan Stevens

• 00:01

  John Gay

  The Beggar's Opera - Overture

  Performer: City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Christian Curnyn, arranged Benjamin Britten

  • CHANDOS CHAN105482.

• Jane Austen

  Pride and Prejudice read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:06

  Ignace Joseph Pleyel

  Sonatina no.1 in C major

  Performer: Martin Souter (fortepiano)

  • ISIS CD024.

• Jason Guriel

  Money is Also a Kind of Music read by Dan Stevens

• 00:08

  Milton Grant, Fred Wray

  Rumble (excerpt)

  Performer: Hal Blaine and Friends

  • HARKIT HRKCD8201.

• Daniel Defoe

  Moll Flanders read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:11

  John Tavener

  The Repentant Thief (2nd Dance)

  Performer: Andrew Marriner (clarinet), London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

  • COLLINS 20052COL.

• John Keats

  Robin Hood – To a Friend read by Dan Stevens

• 00:15

  Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Robin Hood and his Merry Men (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

  Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba

  • CHANDOS CHAN10336.

• Jenny Joseph

  Cutting Off One’s Ear for Someone Else is Wrong read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:19

  Jonathan Richman - Vincent van Gogh (excerpt)

  Performer: Jonathan Richman

• Charles Dickens

  Bleak House read by Dan Stevens

• 00:21

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Rondo a capriccio Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

  Performer: Evgeny Kissin (piano)

  • RCA 09026 689112.

• Martial translated by JA Pott

  Epigrams Book 9 – To Garricus read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:27

  Giacomo Puccini

  Gianni Schicchi (excerpt)

  Performer: Jose van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Felicity Palmer, Roberto Alagna, Luigi Roni, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano

  • EMI CDC 556590.

• Martin Amis

  Money: A Suicide Note read by Dan Stevens

• 00:29

  Barrett Strong

  Money (That's What I Want)

  Composer: Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy

  • TAMLA MOTOWN ZD72514.

• Dorothy Parker

  Biographies read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:34

  Alfred Newman

  How to Marry A Millionaire – Street Scene

  Performer: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Nic Raine

  • SILVA SCREEN FILMXCD352.

• The Bible

  Matthew 6:24 read by Dan Stevens

• 00:40

  Musorgsky - Boris Godunov (excerpt)

  Performer: Vladimir Vaneev, Zlata Bulycheva, Kirov Opera and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

• Leonard Bacon

  A Concert read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• William Shakespeare

  The Merchant of Venice read by Dan Stevens

• 00:42

  Franz Liszt

  Mephisto Waltz no.1 (excerpt)

  Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

  • EMI CZS 5747892.

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Crime and Punishment read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:47

  Henry Purcell

  Blessed is he that considereth the poor (excerpt)

  Performer: King’s Concert, conductor Robert King

  • HYPERION CDS44150.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  The Great Gatsby read by Dan Stevens

• 00:52

  Kurt Weill

  The Threepenny Opera - Overture

  Performer: Ensemble Modern, conductor HK Gruber

  • RCA 74321661332.

• Hilaire Belloc

  Lord Finchley read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 00:54

  ABBA

  Money money money

  Performer: Abba

  • POLAR 9819297.

• Thomas Hardy

  The Mayor of Casterbridge read by Dan Stevens

• 00:59

  Igor Stravinsky

  The Rake's Progress (excerpt)

  Performer: Peter Bronder, The Monteverdi Choir conducted John Eliot Gardiner

  • DG 4596482.

• Jean Ayer

  Everyday Things read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 01:02

  Aaron Copland

  Appalachian Spring (excerpt)

  Performer: The New York Virtuosi, conductor Kenneth Klein

  • COLLINS 10972.

• E. Nesbit

  The Story of the Treasure Seekers read by Dan Stevens

• 01:07

  [traditional]

  Pop Goes the Weasel (excerpt)

  Performer: Sophie Aldred, Richard Mitchley and children

  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audiobooks 978 1405677301.

• Anonymous

  Life’s a Game read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

• 01:09

  Sergey Prokofiev

  The Gambler Suite - Denouement

  Performer: Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

  • CHANDOS CHAN 8803.