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

• 00:00

  Neil Innes & Vivian Stanshall

  I聮m Bored

  Performer: The Bonzo Dog Band.

  • EMI 0946 3 87889 2.
  • 14.

• Saul Bellow

  thoughts on boredom from Humboldt聮s Gift, read by Pip Carter

• 00:00

  Philip Glass

  Contrary Motion

  Performer: Philip Glass (organ).

  • Elektra Nonesuch 7559793262.
  • 2.

• John Cage

  a zen view of boredom, read by Skye Hallam

• 00:00

  Buzzcocks

  Boredom

  Performer: Buzzcocks.

  • Mute/The Grey Area scratch1cd.
  • 3.

• William Shakespeare

  Macbeth is bored with life, read by Pip Carter

• 00:01

  Neil Innes & Vivian Stanshall

  I聮m Bored

  Performer: The Bonzo Dog Band.

  • EMI 0946 3 87889 2.
  • 14.

• Wendy Cope

  Mr Strugnell 聳 a poem satirising Philip Larkin聮s verse and life, read by Skye Hallam

• 00:02

  Cole Porter

  I get a kick out of you

  Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.

  • Essential Jazz Classics EJC554454.
  • 6.
• 00:06

  Julius Fucik

  The Grouchy Old Bear (Der alte Brummbar)

  Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vaclav Neumann.

  • Teldec 8.42337.
  • 5.

• H.G. Wells

  Mr Polly is feeling obscurely irritated with his life 聳 or perhaps he is bored聟(from The History of Mr Polly), read by Pip Carter

• 00:10

  Julius Fucik

  The Grouchy Old Bear (Der alte Brummbar)

  Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vaclav Neumann.

  • Teldec 8.42337.
  • 5.

• William Makepeace Thackeray

  Becky Sharp is initially delighted to be moving in fashionable 18th C circles, but then after a while she finds that it聮s all rather tedious 聳 she聮d rather be performing at a fair (from Vanity Fair), read by Skye Hallam

• 00:16

  Igor Stravinsky

  The Shrovetide Fair (from Petrushka)

  Performer: The Philharmonia conducted by Eliahu Inbal.

  • Teldec 229246327-2.

• Charles Dickens

  Lord and Lady Dedlock visit Paris, but despite the many attractions and distractions of the city, Lady Dedlock is bored to death (from Bleak House), read by Pip Carter

• 00:23

  Claude Debussy

  Recueillement

  Performer: Felicity Lott (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano).

  • Harmonia Mundi HM901219.
  • 14.

• Margaret Atwood

  in this poem called Bored, a girl remembers how bored she was, living with her father, read by Skye Hallam

• 00:30

  Scott Joplin

  Real Slow Drag

  Performer: Philip Dyson (piano).

  • ASV CDWHL2120.
  • 12.

• Friedrich Engels

  a description of the stupefying effects of factory work (from the Condition of Working Class in England), read by Pip Carter

• 00:33

  Mosolov

  The Iron Foundry

  Performer: Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink.

  • Decca 4366402.
  • 1.

• Saul Bellow

  the power of totalitarianism explained as boredom combined with terror (from the novel, Humboldt聮s Gift), read by Pip Carter

• 00:39

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  String Quartet no.8, 2nd movement

  Performer: Borodin Quartet.

  • Decca 425541-2.
• 00:43

  Aaron Copland

  Quiet City

  Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

  • DG 4273352.
  • 5.

• Leroi Jones

  Epistrophe for Yoda, read by Pip Carter (a Beat Poet stares out of his window in New York, wishing for something to happen)

• 00:47

  Boyce

  Gavotte from Symphony no.4

  Performer: Brandenburg Consort conducted by Roy Goodman.

  • Hyperion CDA66600.
  • 8.

• Jane Austen

  a picnic at Box Hill and Emma makes fun of Miss Bates for being a bore. From the novel Emma, read by Skye Hallam

• 00:52

  William Walton

  Scapino (Comedy Overture)

  Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves.

  • EMI 7 63369 2.
  • 2.
• 00:55

  Arthur Honegger

  Pastorale d聮Ete

  Performer: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos.

  • Virgin Classics VC 791486-2.
  • 1.

• Gustave Flaubert

  Emma Bovary is desperately bored with her life as the wife of a country doctor (from the novel Madame Bovary), read by Skye Hallam

• 01:01

  Arthur Honegger

  Pastorale d聮Ete

  Performer: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos.

  • Virgin Classics VC 791486-2.
  • 1.

• Fernando Pessoa

  a Portuguese man compares his boss with life 聳 monotonous and banal, but necessary (from The Book Of Disquiet), read by Pip Carter

• 01:10

  Procol Harum

  Boredom

  Performer: Procol Harum.

  • Dojo EARLD6.
  • 4.