大象传媒

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

• Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations Chapter XII read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 00:03

  Richard Wagner

  Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! (Siegfried)

  Singer: Ren茅 Kollo. Singer: Peter Schreier. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Marek Janowski.

• Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations Chapter XII read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 00:06

  Pink Floyd

  Welcome To The Machine

• William Wordsworth

  The Solitary Reaper read by Julia Winwood

• 00:10

  Dotty Salters

  In Praise of the Weavers (Peterloo)

• Robert Frost

  Mowing read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• I Cannot go to School Today

  Shel Silverstein

• 00:13

  Manuel de Falla

  Dance of the Miller's Wife; The Grapes (The Three-Cornered Hat)

  Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
• 00:17

  Medi忙val B忙bes

  Ring a Ring o' Roses

• 00:19

  Eric Coates

  Calling All Workers

  Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.

• Walt Whitman

  I Hear America Singing read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• Matt Thorne

  Eight Days Idle read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 00:23

  Workers' Playtime

  Workers' Playtime

• 00:25

  George Gershwin

  Nice Work If You Can Get It

  Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.

• Muriel Spark

  A Far Cry from Kensington read by Julia Winwood

• 00:29

  Dolly Parton

  9 to 5

• Bertrand Russell

  In Praise of Idleness read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 00:33

  Van Morrison

  All Work and No Play

• Elizabeth Gaskell

  North and South Chapter VII read by Julia Winwood

• 00:36

  Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

  Symphony no.9 (From the New World) (2nd mvt: Largo)

  Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.

• Margaret Llewelyn Davies (Editor)

  Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women read by Julia Winwood

• Philip Larkin

  Toads read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 00:44

  Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin

  Twai Tshinaminai (Work Song)

• 00:46

  Heaven 17

  Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

• Marge Piercy

  The Secretary Chant read by Julia Winwood

• 00:49

  Alexander Mosolov

  The Iron Foundry

  Orchestra: Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.

• Toni Morrison

  Tar Baby read by Julia Winwood

• 00:54

  Joseph Haydn

  Achieved is the Glorious Work (The Creation)

  Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.

• Emily Dickinson

  Rest at Night read by Julia Winwood

• 00:55

  Anoushka Shankar

  Daydreaming

• Rajesh Thankappan

  Work and Rest read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• L.L. Barkat

  Self-Employed read by Julia Winwood

• 00:59

  Frank Churchill

  Whistle While You Work

  Singer: Adriana Caselotti. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Frank Churchill.

• Herman Melville

  Bartleby, the Scrivener read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an

• 01:04

  Franz Schubert

  Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin)

  Performer: Justus Zeyen. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff.

• George Eliot

  The Mill on the Floss read by Julia Winwood

• 01:08

  Claude Debussy

  Reverie

  Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.

• Alfred Tennyson

  The Lotos-Eaters: Choric Song I and II read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an