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

• 00:00

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Let Beauty awake (from Songs of Travel) [excerpt]

  Performer: Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)

  • Naxos 8.557643.

• William Wordsworth

  Stepping Westward, readers Olivia Williams and Sean Arnold

• 00:01

  Claude Debussy

  Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (What the West Wind Saw, Preludes, Book 1, no. 7)

  Performer: Krystian Zimerman (piano)

  • DG 435 773-2.

• John Masefield

  The West Wind, reader Sean Arnold

• 00:06

  Ivor Gurney

  Far in a Western Brookland (from Ludlow and Teme)

  Performer: Adrian Thompson (tenor), Delme Quartet, Iain Burnside (piano)

  • Helios CDH 55187.

• Anon (14th c), translated by Bella Millett

  The Land of Cockaygne (excerpt), reader Olivia Williams

• 00:12

  Manuel de Falla

  Atlantida (excerpt)

  Performer: Spanish National Chorus and Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

  • EMI CMS 565997-2.
• 00:14

  Arnold Bax

  The Garden of Fand (opening)

  Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

  • Lyrita SRCD 231.
• 00:14

  Arnold Bax

  The Garden of Fand (central sections)

  Performer: Halle Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

  • PRT PVCD 8380.

• W B Yeats

  The Shadowy Waters (excerpt), readers Olivia Williams and Sean Arnold

• W B Yeats

  The Wanderings of Oisin (excerpt), reader Olivia Williams

• Louis MacNeice

  Christopher Columbus (excerpt), reader Sean Arnold

• 00:26

  William Walton, arr. Carl Davis and Patrick Garland

  Christopher Columbus – A Musical Journey (excerpt)

  Performer: Jamie Glover and Julian Glover (speakers) Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

  • Chandos CHSA 5034.

• Bishop George Berkeley

  Verses on the Prospect of Planting Art and Learning in America, reader Olivia Williams

• 00:32

  Leonard Bernstein

  America (excerpt, from West Side Story)

  Performer: Orchestra and Chorus, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

  • DG 415 253-2.

• Various

  American slogans and epithets, readers Sean Arnold, Olivia Williams and others

• 00:33

  Village People

  Go West (excerpt)

  Performer: Village People

  • Arista 74321178312.

• Arthur Chapman

  Out Where The West Begins, reader Sean Arnold

• 00:35

  Aaron Copland

  The Tender Land – Suite (excerpt)

  Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland (conductor)

  • RCA 09026615052.
• 00:36

  Traditional American

  Home on the Range (excerpt)

  Performer: The Ranch Boys

  • Panachord 26038 [78 rpm].
• 00:37

  Aaron Copland

  Rodeo (excerpt from complete ballet)

  Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)

  • Argo 440 639-2.

• Amy Clampitt

  The Prairie, reader Olivia Williams. (Excerpt from 'Westward', available in 'The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt', permission granted by The Estate of Amy Clampitt)

• 00:40

  Aaron Copland

  Gun Battle, from Billy the Kid (excerpt, from ballet suite)

  Performer: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

  • Sony Classical SMK 63082.
• 00:40

  Traditional American

  Home on the Range (excerpt)

  Performer: Ken Maynard

  • Yazoo 2023.

• Chief Joseph

  excerpt from an interview in Washington (DC), 1879, reader Sean Arnold

• 00:43

  MDFMK

  MDFMK - American Dream

  Performer: Mdfmk

• Jalal Al-e Ahmad, translated from Farsi by John Green and Ahmad Alizadeh

  Gharbzadegi (Westoxification, excerpt), reader Olivia Williams

• 00:46

  Le Trio Joubran

  Asfâr (Journeys, excerpt)

  Performer: Trio Joubran

  • World Village WVF 479055.

• Mozaffar al-Nawwab, translated from Arabic by Carol Bardenstein and Saadi A. Simawe

  Bridge of Old Wonders (excerpt), reader Sean Arnold

• 00:50

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  Dance of the Golden Youths (excerpt, from complete ballet The Golden Age)

  Performer: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

  • Chandos CHAN 9251/2.

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  excerpt from a speech given at Harvard, 8 June 1978, reader Sean Arnold

• 00:53

  Sergey Rachmaninov

  Symphonic Dances (excerpt from no. 3)

  Performer: Philharmonia, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

  • Chandos CHAN 9081.

• A E Housman

  New Year’s Eve, reader Olivia Williams

• 00:58

  Manuel de Falla

  Atlantida (excerpt)

  Performer: Spanish National Chorus and Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

  • EMI CMS 565997-2.

• J R R Tolkien

  The Return of the King (excerpt), reader Olivia Williams

• 01:01

  Arnold Bax

  The Garden of Fand (conclusion)

  Performer: Halle Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

  • PRT PVCD 8380.

• W E Henley

  Margaritae Sorori (To [in memory of] his Sister Margaret), reader Sean Arnold

• 01:06

  Richard Strauss

  Im Abendrot (from Four Last Songs)

  Performer: Felicity Lott (soprano), Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

  • Chandos CHAN 8518.

• Emily Dickinson

  ‘On this wondrous sea...’, reader Olivia Williams