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Texts and music on the theme of concealment and the invisible, with readings by Alex Jennings and Maxine Peake. With Lewis Carroll and John Clare, plus Elgar, Bach and Janacek.

A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of concealment and the invisible.
Alex Jennings and Maxine Peake read poems and prose by Lewis Carroll, Edward Thomas and John Clare about secrets, lost things and encrypted meaning. There's music by Elgar, Bartok, Britten and Poulenc.

Producer: Natalie Steed.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 10 Feb 2013 18:30

Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    John Barry

    Main Title (from The Ipcress File)

    Performer:

    • Silva Screen Records.
  • Ben Jonson

    On Spies, reader Maxine Peake

  • Hannah Weiner

    Code Poem, readers Alex Jennings, Maxine Peake

  • 00:04

    John Tavener

    The Hidden Treasure

    Performer: Chilingirian Quartet

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 6932332.
  • Emily Dickinson

    Split the Lark, reader Maxine Peake

  • Thomas Wyatt

    Stand, whoso list, upon the slipper wheel of fame, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:08

    Gabriel Faur茅

    Le Secret

    Performer: Janet Baker, Geoffrey Parsons

    • HYPERION CDA66320.
  • 00:09

    Edward Elgar

    Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma"), X Intermezzo: Dorabella

    Performer: Hall茅 Orchestra, Music Director, Mark Elder

    • HALLE CDHLL 7501.
  • Lewis Carroll

    from Alice in Wonderland, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:14

    Robert Schumann

    Carnaval, Reconnaissance

    Performer: Claudio Arrau

    • PHILIPS 4208712.
  • 00:16

    Tom Lehrer

    Oedipus Rex

    Performer: Tom Lehrer

    • Rhino UK B00000340N.
  • Anon, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Riddle 47, The Exeter Book of Riddles, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:18

    Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Cygne, from Carnival of the Animals

    Performer: Paul Tortellier

    • EMI CDM7693862.
  • Anon, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland,

    Riddle 7, The Exeter Book of Riddles, reader Maxine Peake

  • Don Paterson

    Breath, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:21

    Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    Performer: The Eric Whitacre Singers

    • GBUM71026533.
  • Kathleen Jamie

    Ultrasound, reader Maxine Peake

  • Edward Thomas

    Thaw, reader Maxine Peake

  • 00:26

    Arnold Bax

    Spring Fire, Symphony, In the Forest Before Dawn

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

    • CHANDOS CHAN8464.
  • Simon Armitage

    Diana and Actaeon, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:31

    Francis Poulenc

    Aubade

    Performer: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, James Conlon

    • ERATO ECD88140.
  • Wendy Cope

    Actaeon's Lover, reader Maxine Peake

  • 00:37

    Akira Ifukube

    Godzilla - Suite

    Performer: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    • Silva Screen.
    • 5.
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Kraken, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:39

    Claude Debussy

    Pr茅ludes, Book 1, Profond茅ment calme (La cath茅drale engloutie)

    Performer: Yukie Nagai

    • BIS CD371.
  • U. A. Fanthorpe

    7 Types of Shadow, reader Maxine Peake

  • John Burnside

    Archeology, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:49

    Richard Strauss

    Eine Alpensinfonie, Nebel steigen auf, Die Sonne verd眉stert sich allm盲hlich, Elegie

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4000392.
  • Seamus Heaney

    The Bog Queen, reader Maxine Peake

  • John Clare

    I hid my love, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:54

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Strichquartett Nr. 3, 3. Coda: Allegro molto

    Performer: Emerson String Quartet

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4236572.
  • Ruth Pitter

    If you came, reader Maxine Peake

  • John Dryden

    The Hidden Flame, reader Alex Jennings

  • 00:59

    Benjamin Britten

    Night covers up the rigid land

    Performer: Neil Mackie, Roger Vignoles

    • EMI CDC7492572.
  • 01:02

    Antony

    For Today I Am a Boy

    Performer: The Unthanks

    • RabbleRouser Music RRM009.
  • Carol Anne Duffy

    Pope Joan, reader Maxine Peake

  • 01:06

    William Byrd

    Salve sancta parens

    Performer: The Cardinall's Musick

    • HYPERION CDA67675.
  • W. H. Auden

    Twelve Songs [Song VIII, April 1936] reader Alex Jennings

  • 01:09

    Leiber and Stoller

    Is That All There Is?

    Performer: Peggy Lee

    • CAPITOL.
    • 15.

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