大象传媒

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

• T. S. Eliot

  Macavity: the Mystery Cat (excerpt), reader T. S. Eliot

• 00:00

  Henry Mancini

  The Pink Panther Theme

  Performer: Henry Mancini and His Orchestra

• 00:03

  John Tavener

  Innocence

  Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir, Martin Baker (organ), Martin Neary (conductor)

  • Sony SK 66613 Tr2.

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

  Crime and Punishment (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Stealing, reader Josette Simon

• Mother Goose

  The Tarts, reader Andrew Buchan

• 00:07

  Lionel Bart

  Pick a pocket or two (from the film version of Oliver!)

  Performer: Ron Moody and Boys, John Green (arranger and conductor)

  • Sony BMG 88697310452 Tr5.
• 00:10

  John Williams

  March of the villains (excerpt)

  (Superman: suite 鈥� music from the film) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Roy Budd (conductor)

  • D sharp DSH CD7004 Tr3.

• Roger McGough

  Vandal, reader Andrew Buchan

• Brian Patten

  Little Johnny鈥檚 Confession, reader Josette Simon

• 00:12

  Sergey Prokofiev

  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev - The Fight from 'Romeo and Juliet'

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

• 00:14

  Kurt Weill

  Kurt Weill - Mack the Knife from 'The Threepenny Opera'

  Performer: Louis Armstrong and His All-stars

• 00:18

  Charles Williams

  The Devil's gallop

  Performer: 大象传媒 Concerto Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

  • White line CD WLS 501 CD4 Tr1.

• Alfred Noyes

  The Highwayman (excerpt), reader Josette Simon

• Untitled

  Plaque erected in York near where Dick Turpin was hanged, reader Andrew Buchan

• 00:20

  Cole Porter

  Miss Otis regrets

  Performer: Ethel Waters, The Dorsey Brother Orchestra

  • ASV CD AJA 5290 Tr19.
• 00:24

  Bernard Herrmann

  Psycho Suite (excerpt)

  Performer: Tippett Quartet

  • Signum SIGCD234 Tr5.

• P. D. James

  Death in Holy Orders (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan

• 00:26

  John Sheppard

  Media Vita in morte sumus [In the midst of life we are in death] (excerpt)

  Performer: The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)

  • Gimell CDGIM 016 Tr1.
• 00:32

  Nat King Cole

  Call the police

  Performer: Nat King Cole

  • Emporio EMTBX 335/3, Vol 3 Tr 8.

• John Drinkwater

  Bobby Blue, reader Josette Simon

• 00:36

  Leonard Bernstein

  Leonard Bernstein - Gee, Officer Krupke (from the film of West Side Story)

• 00:40

  Christopher Gunning

  Christopher Gunning - Poirot Variations (excerpt)

  Performer: Martin Robertson (saxophone), 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

• Arthur Conan Doyle

  A Study in Scarlet (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan

• Franklin Waldheim

  Help Wanted, reader Josette Simon

• 00:43

  Leos Jan谩膷ek

  Allegretto from Sinfonietta

  Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • EMI CDM 7 63779 2 Tr4.

• Solon

  Quotation, reader Josette Simon

• John Kendrick Bangs

  As to the law, reader Andrew Buchan

• 00:47

  Arthur Sullivan

  When I, good friends, was called to the bar from 'Trial by Jury'

  Performer: John Reed (the learned judge), The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company, Orchestra of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Isidore Godfrey (conductor)

  • London 417 358-2 CD2 Tr12.
• 00:50

  Benjamin Britten

  Prologue from 'Peter Grimes' (excerpt)

  Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Peter Grimes), Stafford Dean (Swallow), David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

  • EMI 7 54832 2 CD1 Tr1.

• Harper Lee

  To kill a mocking bird (excerpt), reader Josette Simon

• 00:53

  Lovas and Oi Va Voi

  Refugee

  Performer: KT Tunstall (voice), Tigran Aleksanyan (duduk), Oi Va Voi

  • Outcaste CasteCD29 Tr1.

• Untitled

  Old Bailey proceedings 1693, reader Andrew Buchan

• Untitled

  Bible (King James Version): 1 Kings 3 vv 23-28, reader Josette Simon

• 00:58

  Josquin des Prez

  Kyrie from Missa L'homme arm茅 sexti toni

  Performer: The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)

  • Gimell CDGIM 019 Tr7.

• Seamus Heaney

  Punishment, reader Andrew Buchan

• William Shakespeare

  Portia鈥檚 speech from The Merchant of Venice (excerpt), reader Josette Simon

• Untitled

  Old Bailey proceedings 1674, reader Andrew Buchan

• 01:03

  Hector Berlioz

  March to the Scaffold from 'Symphonie fantastique'

  Performer: Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel (conductor)

  • Zig Zag Territoires ZTT 100101 Tr4.

• Oscar Wilde

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan

• 01:11

  Maurice Ravel

  Le gibet from 'Gaspard de la nuit' (excerpt)

  Performer: Louis Lortie (piano)

  • Chandos CHAN X10142(2) CD2 Tr2.