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

• 00:00

  Michio Miyagi

  Haru no umi (excerpt)

  Kazue Frances Asawa (flute), Kazue Kudo (koto)

  • Crystal Records CD 316.
  • 10.

• Confucius

  The expectations of life, reader Matthew Macfadyen

• Paulo Coelho

  The Alchemist (excerpt), reader Anna Maxwell Martin

• 00:03

  Mitch Leigh

  To Dream the Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)

  Simon Gilbert (tenor) (for Peter O’Toole), Studio Orchestra, Laurence Rosenthal (conductor)

  • Rykodisc RCD10730.
  • 9.
• 00:05

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Flight of the Bumble Bee (Tsar Sultan)

  London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)

  • RCA VD 60487.
  • 6.

• Isaac Watts

  Against Idleness and Mischief, reader Anna Maxwell Martin

• 00:06

  Joseph Haydn

  Symphony no.96 in D 'Miracle': 2nd movement (excerpt)

  Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

  • Teldec 0630 10018 2.
  • 6.

• Immanuel Kant

  What is Enlightenment? (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:09

  Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger: overture (excerpt)

  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

• Elizabeth Thomas

  On Sir J-----S---- Saying in a Sarcastic Manner, My Books would Make me Mad (excerpt) reader Anna Maxwell Martin

• 00:13

  Robert Schumann

  Piano Quintet: 1st movement

  Maria Joao Pires (piano), Augustin Dumay (violin), Renaud Capucon (violin), Gerard Causse (viola), Jian Wang (cello)

  • Deutsche Grammophon 463179 2.
  • 4.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Polyhymnia (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:22

  John Dowland

  Sir John Smith, his Almain

  Nigel North (lute)

  • Naxos 8 570449.
  • 3.

• Sugawara no Michizane

  I give up trying to play the lute, reader Matthew Macfadyen

• Samuel Butler

  Satire, in two parts, Upon the imperfection and abuse of human learning (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:25

  Aaron Copland

  Quiet City (excerpt)

  The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)

  • Teldec 3984 28169 2.
  • 9.

• F Scott Fitzgerald

  The Great Gatsby (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:31

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Symphony no.3 'Eroica': 1st movement (excerpt)

  London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

  • LSO Live LSO 0080.
  • 1.

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Ulysses (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• Sir Edward Elgar

  Untitled, reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:41

  Edward Elgar

  O hearken thou

  Robert Quinney (organ), Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell (conductor)

  • Hyperion CDA 67593.
  • 11.
• 00:45

  Henry Purcell

  Rondeau from 'Abdelazer' (excerpt)

  Purcell Quartet

  • Chandos CHAN 0571.
  • 25.

• Charles Dickens

  David Copperfield (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 00:47

  Gerald Finzi

  A Young Man's Exhortation

  Mark Padmore (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 67459.
  • 5.
• 00:50

  Paul Dukas

  The Sorcerer's Apprentice (excerpt)

  New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

  • Sony SMK 60695.
  • 1.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  The Rivals (excerpt), readers Matthew Macfadyen and Anna Maxwell Martin

• 00:53

  Muzio Clementi

  Sonata in G, Op.1 no.2: 1st movement

  Howard Shelley (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 67632.
  • 3.

• Charlotte Bronte

  Jane Eyre (excerpt), reader Anna Maxwell Martin

• Muriel Spark

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (excerpt), reader Anna Maxwell Martin

• 00:59

  Richard Rodgers

  I have confidence in me (The Sound of Music)

  Julie Andrews (vocal), Studio orchestra, Irwin Kostal (conductor)

  • RCA BD82005.
  • 5.
• 01:02

  Antonio Vivaldi

  Concerto in B flat RV.362 'La caccia': 1st movement

  Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)

  • Virgin 561980 2.

• Anonymous

  Athletic Employment, reader Matthew Macfadyen

• Alan Bennett

  The History Boys (excerpt), reader Matthew Macfadyen

• 01:06

  Joe ‘Red’ Hayes/Jack Rhodes

  A satisfied mind

  Bob Dylan

  • Columbia CK 36553.
  • 1.
• 01:08

  Jan Garbarek

  In praise of dreams

  Jan Garbarek (saxophone, synthesizers), Kim Kashkashian (viola)

  • ECM 9811068.
  • 2.

• Naomi Shihab Nye

  Because of Libraries we can say these things, reader Anna Maxwell Martin