Sand and Deserts
Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan with readings on all things sandy from Robyn Davidson to Alex Garland. Music includes Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel.
Robyn Davidson, Frank Herbert, Alex Garland and Robert Louis Stevenson provide some of today's prose and poetry, whilst music includes pieces by Philip Glass, Naseer Shamma and Handel. We'll be playing at the beach, trekking through the Outback with camels, moving physical borders between countries and looking to the stars through glass made from sand in the Whitsundays. The readers are Seroca Davis and Tommy Sim'aan.
Producer: Barnaby Gordon
Readings:
Katherine Gallagher South Beach
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream within a Dream
Folk tale, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons 1001 Nights
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life
Alex Garland The Beach
Meghan Hicks How to Run the Marathon des Sables
Frank Herbert Dune
Robyn Davidson Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Tim Marshall Prisoners of Geography
Lucy Eddy Singing Sands
Paul Duffield At One with the Universe in Queensland
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:01
Henry Glover
I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
Performer: Mrs. Mills.- Parlophone UK 5099926659756.
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00:01
Gloria Coates
Symphony No.7 - Glass of Time
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olaf Henzold.- Naxos 8559289.
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Katherine Gallagher
South Beach, read by Seroca Davis
00:02Brian Hyland
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
- Warner Music TV 190295892876.
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00:02Jo Blankenburg
Quest for Treasure Island
Performer: Jo Blankenburg.- Position Music download.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:04Ali Farka Tour茅
Sabu Yerkoy
Performer: Toumani Diabat茅. Performer: Ali Farka Tour茅. Performer: Souleye Kane. Performer: Ali Magassa.- Nonesuch 075597979633.
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00:11Clive Richardson
Beachcomber
Performer: David Munrow. Performer: John Turner. Performer: David Pugsley. Performer: Alan Lumsden.Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter, read by Seroca Davis
Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream within a Dream, read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:10Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: (II. The Story of the Kalender Prince)
Performer: Steven Staryk. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI CDC 7477172.
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Folk tale, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons
1001 Nights (Vol. 1, Night 12), read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:17Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Carnival of the Animals (Kangaroos)
Performer: Lucas Jussen.- Deutsche Grammophon 4815072.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life, read by Seroca Davis
00:19All Saints
Pure Shores
Performer: All Saints.- Rhino 190295909758.
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Alex Garland
The Beach, read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:20Ralph Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony (2nd mvt. "On the Beach at Night Alone")
Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hall茅. Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- Hall聜 CDHLL7542.
Meghan Hicks
How to Run the Marathon des Sables, Part 3: Training and Logistics, read by Seroca Davis
00:26Amina Alaoui
Maluf
Performer: Amina Alaoui (daf), Sofiane Negra (oud), Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin). Performer: Sofiane Negra (oud). Performer: Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin).- Saphrane 888002665041.
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00:30Shara Nova
An unknown distance yet to run
Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.Frank Herbert
Dune, read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:38Philip Glass
Akhnaten (Act III sc.2: Attack and Fall)
Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.00:43Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Wiyathul
Performer: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.- Dramatico Entertainment Ltd. 00602567756811.
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Robyn Davidson
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback, read by Seroca Davis
00:48Naseer Shamma
Travelling Souls
Performer: Shahbaz Hussain. Performer: Ashraf Sharif Khan.- Pneuma PN1250.
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00:49Duke Ellington
Caravan
Composer: Juan Tizol. Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.- Parlophone 5099996629956.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias, read by Tommy Sim'aan
00:54Sadie Harrison
Gallery for solo violin (Room 2 'Scheherazade')
Performer: Peter Sheppard Sk忙rved.- Toccata Classics TOCC0304.
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00:55George Frideric Handel
Israel in Egypt, (Egypt was glad when they departed)
Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Preston.- Decca 00028944347029.
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Tim Marshall
Prisoners of Geography, read by Tommy Sim'aan
01:03Steve Reich
The Desert Music (1st mvt: Fast)
Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians. Ensemble: Colorado Quartet. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.01:03Bassekou Kouyat茅
Bambugu Blues
Ensemble: Ngoni ba.- World Music 605633123838.
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Lucy Eddy
Singing Sands, read by Seroca Davis
Paul Duffield
At One with the Universe in Queensland, read by Seroca Davis
01:09E虅riks Es虒envalds
Stars
Performer: VOCES8.- Decca 478 8053.
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Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Feb 2022 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3
- Sun 16 Jul 2023 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3