Rings
"Do you see this ring?" Susan Twist and Chris Jack read from Doris Lessing, Carol Ann Duffy, Shakespeare with music including Holst, John Adams and the end of Wagner's great cycle.
From Wagner and Valentines to ring roads, and the smoke rings made by the pipe of Sherlock Holmes: our readers are Susan Twist and Chris Jack and we鈥檒l hear music from Mozart鈥檚 composition for a glass harmonica and a Beethoven Rondo, Booker T and the MG鈥檚 Glass onion and the sound of a telephone conjured by the Penguin Caf茅 Orchestra. Howard Shore鈥檚 music for the Lord of the Rings films gives us Gollum, who liked describing the powerful one ring as 鈥渕y precious鈥�.
Produced in Salford by Ewa Norman
Readings:
John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Meditation XVII
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Carol Ann Duffy: Valentine
Tolkien: The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Cathy Galvin: Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva
Sam Hickford: Poems Sketched upon the M60 鈥� First Journey: Moston
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Graham Moore: The Last Days of Night
Joseph Silk: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology
Simon Parkin: Elden Ring review 鈥� an unrivalled masterpiece of design and inventiveness
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Ameen Rihani: A Sufi Song
Hermann Hesse: Wandering - Notes and Sketches
J. Walker McSpadden: Stories from Wagner
Robert Frost: Ring Around
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