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

• 00:00

  Edvard Grieg

  Bell ringing 聳 Lyric pieces book 5 (excerpt)

  Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano).

  • REGIS RRC1350.
  • Tr1.

• Louis MacNeice

  Sunday Morning, read by Frances Barber

• Samuel Pepys

  Samuel Pepys聮 Diary, read by Greg Wise

• 00:04

  Francesco Corbetta

  Allemande (excerpt)

  Performer: Robin Jeffery (guitar).

  • SAYDISC CDSDL385.
  • Tr9.

• King James Bible

  Genesis 2:2, read by Frances Barber

• 00:06

  Joseph Haydn

  Haydn The Creation: The great work is completed (excerpt)

  Performer: RIAS Chamber Choir, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

  • PROFIL PH07074.
  • CD1 tr28.
• 00:09

  William Grant Still

  The Sunday Symphony; Prayer (excerpt)

  Performer: The North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Carlton Woods (conductor).

  • CAMBRIA CD 1060.
  • Tr2.

• Edward Hirsch

  Early Sunday Morning, read by Greg Wise

• George Crabbe

  The Borough, read by Frances Barber

• 00:12

  Benjamin Britten

  Sunday morning (Peter Grimes)

  Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor).

  • EMI CDEMX2231.
  • Tr11.

• Kingsley Amis

  Lucky Jim, read by Greg Wise

• 00:17

  Johnny Cash

  Sunday Morning Coming Down (excerpt)

  Performer: Johnny Cash (singer).

  • COLUMBIA 5174612.
  • CD1 tr19.

• John Clare

  Sunday Dip, read by Frances Barber

• 00:20

  Maurice Ravel

  Jeux d聮eau (excerpt)

  Performer: Louis Lortie (piano).

  • CHANDOS CHAN70045.
  • CD1 tr9.

• Essays From Addison, Spectator, ed JH Fowler

  Sir Roger at Church, read by Greg Wise

• 00:25

  George Butterworth

  Bredon Hill (A Shropshire Lad) (excerpt)

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

  • NAXOS 8.572426.
  • Tr12.

• Graham Swift

  Mothering Sunday, read by Frances Barber

• 00:28

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite)

  Performer: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy Reynish (conductor).

  • CHANDOS CHAN9697.
  • Tr13.

• James Smith

  The Newspaper, read by Greg Wise

• 00:33

  Johann Strauss II

  Morning Papers 聳 waltz (excerpt)

  Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor).

  • DG 4748302.
  • Tr5.
• 00:37

  Aaron Copland

  Sunday Afternoon Music

  Performer: Nina Tichman (piano).

  • WERGO WER 6212-2.
  • Tr5.

• Charlotte Bronte

  Jane Eyre, read by Frances Barber

• Thomas De Quincey

  Confessions of an English Opium Eater, read by Greg Wise

• 00:39

  Hector Berlioz

  Symphonie Fantastique 聳 1st movt (excerpt)

  Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor).

  • DG 474165-2.
  • Tr2.

• Jane Grigson

  English Food, read by Frances Barber

• 00:44

  Richard Leveridge

  The Roast Beef of Old England (excerpt)

  Performer: Ernie Mayne (singer).

  • WINDYRIDGE WINDTCDR25.
  • Tr18.

• Simon Armitage

  The Catch, read by Greg Wise

• 00:46

  Henry Cowell

  Dance of Sport (excerpt)

  Performer: The Califonia Parallele Ensemble, Nicole Paiement (conductor).

  • MODE MODE101.
  • Tr8.

• Jane Austen

  Mansfield Park, read by Frances Barber

• 00:48

  Francis Purcell Warren

  A Sunday Evening in Autumn

  Performer: Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano).

  • BIS CD1562.
  • Tr7.

• John Betjeman

  Pershore Station, read by Greg Wise

• 00:51

  Edward Elgar

  Adieu

  Performer: Bournemouth Sinfonietta, George Hurst (conductor).

  • CHANDOS CHAN6544.
  • Tr18.

• Margaret Atwood

  Bored, read by Frances Barber

• 00:56

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sunday in the park with George (excerpt)

  Performer: Jenna Russell and Daniel Evans (singers), Orchestra.

  • PS CLASSICS PS640.
  • Tr2.

• Seamus Heaney

  When all the others were away at Mass, read by Greg Wise

• 00:59

  Frank Bridge

  3 Idylls 聳 Allegretto poco lento (excerpt)

  Performer: Coull Quartet.

  • HYPERION CDA55218.
  • Tr5.

• Richmal Crompton

  William the Conqueror, read by Frances Barber

• 01:01

  Percy Grainger

  Children聮s March (excerpt)

  Performer: Martin Jones and Richard McMahon (pianos).

  • NIMBUS NI 5286.
  • Tr2.

• Alan Sillitoe

  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning read by Greg Wise

• 01:05

  Duke Ellington

  Come Sunday Interlude (excerpt)

  Performer: Ray Nance (violin), Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.

  • COLUMBIA CK64272.
  • Tr5.

• Caroline Anne Bowles

  Sunday Evening, read by Frances Barber

• 01:09

  Henry Purcell

  Evening hymn

  Performer: Eamonn O聮Dwyer (treble), Jane Coe (bass violin), David Miller (theorbo), Robert King (organ).

  • HYPERION KING2.
  • Tr18.