大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Frederick Delius

  A Song of summer

  Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.

  • Warner Classics聽ZDMB 5 65119 2.
  • CD2 Tr11.

• Janet Frame

  Scented Gardens for the Blind read by Nadia Albina

• Jim Ferris

  Patience read by Jonathan Keeble

• John Milton

  Sonnet 19: When I Consider how my Light is Spent (聭On his Blindness聮) read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:06

  Stevie Wonder

  Visions

  Performer: Stevie Wonder.

  • Tamla Motown STMA-8011.
  • Tr2.

• Nuala Watt

  On Her Partial Blindness read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:11

  Amadou Bagayoko

  Je Pense a Toi

  Performer: Amadou & Mariam.

  • Wrasse Records wrass-244.
  • Tr1.

• Alice Walker

  A Child of One聮s Own read by Nadia Albina

• 00:13

  Richard Wagner

  Tristan und Isolde; Overture

  Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.

  • DG 4779347.
  • C1 Tr1.

• Virginia Woolf

  The Voyage Out read by Nadia Albina

• 00:15

  Richard Wagner

  Tannhauser; O du, mein holder Abendstern

  Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestrator: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.

  • DG 471 693-2.
  • Tr9.

• Lord Byron

  She Walks in Beauty read by Nadia Albina

• Sue Townsend

  The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:21

  George Gershwin

  Strike up the band; Overture

  Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.

  • Chandos CHAN9325.
  • Tr9.

• Emily Dickinson

  Much Madness is Divinest Sense read by Nadia Albina

• F.Scott Fitzgerald

  The Beautiful and Damned read by Nadia Albina

• 00:25

  Scott Joplin

  Maple leaf rag arr. for percussion

  Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Performer: Ray Russell. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • RCA RD60242.
  • Tr9.

• Oliver Sacks

  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat read by Jonathan Keeble

• Kaite O'Reilly

  And then Suddenly I Disappear read by Nadia Albina

• 00:30

  Robert Wyatt

  Sea Song

  Performer: Robert Wyatt.

  • Virgin V-2017.
  • CD2 Tr1.

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  How Do I Love Thee? read by Nadia Albina

• 00:35

  Bedrich Smetana

  String Quartet no. 1 in E minor 聭From my life聮; 4th movt.

  Performer: Quartetto Energie Nove.

  • Dynamic CDS7817.
  • Tr4.

• Ludwig van Beethoven

  The Heiligenstadt Testament read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:42

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Sonata no. 23 in F minor Op.57 聭Appassionata聮; 1st movt.

  Performer: Olga Pashchenko.

  • Hyperion CDA67662.
  • Tr4.

• Jillian Weise

  Future Biometrics read by Nadia Albina

• Raymond Antrobus

  Echo read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:53

  Jean Langlais

  Messe solonnelle; Benedictus

  Choir: Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Mark Lee. Conductor: David Briggs.

  • Priory PRCD597.
  • Tr13.

• Maya Angelou

  Gather Together in My Name read by Nadia Albina

• 00:57

  Modest Mussorgsky

  Songs and dances of death, arr. Shostakovich; Serenade

  Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.

  • Warner Classics聽2564620502.
  • Tr2.

• Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crime and Punishment read by Jonathan Keeble

• 00:00

  Hildegard von Bingen

  Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vita

  Ensemble: Armonico Consort. Singer: Anna Sandstr枚m. Conductor: Christopher Monks.

  • Signum Classics SIGCD235.
  • Tr6.

• Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly read by Jonathan Keeble

• 01:07

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  The Nutcracker; Dance of the Sugar-plum Fairy

  Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • EMI Classics 6463852.
  • Tr12.
• 01:09

  Ian Dury/Chas Jankel/mixed by Leftside Wobble聽

  Spasticus Autisticus (Leftside Wobble Edit)

  Performer: Ian Dury.

  • Soundcloud.
  • Tr1.

• Joanne Limburg

  The Alice Case (from The Autistic Alice) read by Nadia Albina

• 01:11

  Ian Dury/Chas Jankel

  Spasticus Autisticus

  Performer: Ian Dury.

  • Polydor: POSP-285.
  • CD2 Tr15.