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

• Actuality of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  Neil Armstrong

• John Gillespie Magee Jr

  High Flight, reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 00:01

  Jules Massenet

  M茅ditation from Tha茂s (transcribed by Yo-Yo Ma)

  Performer: Yo- Yo Ma (cello) Performer: Kathryn Stott (piano)

  • Sony Classical S2K092857.

• Amy Witting

  Peace, reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:07

  Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chlo茅

  Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink (conductor)

• 00:11

  Aaron Copland

  Billy the Kid

  Performer: St Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

  • ANGEL CDC-7 47382 2.

• Arthur Ransome

  Swallows and Amazons, reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 00:13

  Anon.

  The Spanish Pavan

  Performer: The York Waits (shawms & curtal)

  • AMON RA CD-SAR 62.
• 00:14

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Prelude No 1 in C Major, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

  Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 67301/2.

• John Milton

  From Paradise Lost, book IV, reader Katherine Parkinson

• Don Paterson

  Waking with Russell, reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 00:18

  Edvard Grieg

  Solveig's Cradle Song

  Performer: Lucia Popp (soprano) Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in 鈥搕he-Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

  • EMI CDC7470032.

• Charles Darwin

  Introduction to On the Origin of Species (excerpt), reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 00:24

  George Gershwin/ Ira Gershwin

  They All Laughed

  Performer: Fred Astaire Performer: Johnny Green and his Orchestra

  • PAST CD 7013.

• Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Crooked Man (excerpt), reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 00:28

  Norman Whitfield/ Barrett Strong

  I Heard it Through the Grapevine

  Performer: Marvin Gaye

  • Tamla Motown WD72534 (2).

• Theodor Fontane

  Effie Briest (extract), reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:33

  Franz Schubert

  Impromptu Opus 90 D.899 No. 3 in G flat major

  Performer: Alexandre Tharaud

  • Virgin Classics 50999 4041562 8.

• Jane Austen

  Emma (excerpt), reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:41

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Dans un bois solitaire [Einsam ging ich jungst] - ariette for voice and piano (K.308)

  Performer: Barbara Hendricks (soprano) Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires (piano)

  • EMI Classics 387 930 2.

• May Theilgaard Watts

  Vision, reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:44

  Leonard Bernstein

  Tonight

  Performer: Carol Lawrence Performer: Larry Kert

  • Columbia CK 32603.

• Simon Gray

  Coda (excerpt), reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• Sophocles

  Oedipus, King of Thebes (excerpt), reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:51

  Anton Bruckner

  Symphony No 9

  Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

  • BMG Classics 82876 54332 2.

• Thomas Hardy

  A Wife in London, reader Katherine Parkinson

• 00:55

  Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

  Nocturne in C Sharp minor op. posth.

  Performer: Lang Lang

  • Sony Classical 88725449602.

• Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations (excerpt), reader Stephen Campbell Moore

• 01:02

  Joseph Haydn

  Symphony in D, Hob. I:104

  Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

  • PHILIPS 442 611-2.

• Anne Frank

  The Diary of Anne Frank (excerpt), reader Katherine Parkinson

• 01:10

  Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

  4 Romantic Pieces, Op. 75, B. 150

  Performer: Shizuka Ishikawa (violin) Performer: Kvita Bilyniska (piano)

  • EXTON OVCL 00089.