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Words and Music Episodes

  1. I Contain Multitudes

    On the fluidity of gender and sexuality.

  2. Commuters

    The journey to and from work, where we sit and consider our place in the world.

  3. Night Owls

    Bird and human life and creatures of the mind alive between dusk and dawn as we go owling.

  4. The Pre-Raphaelites

    A sonic painting inspired by the late 19th-century artistic revolutionaries.

  5. Fame

    Poetry and music on the theme of fame, read by Imogen Stubbs and Michael Maloney.

  6. Creatures of Habit

    An exploration of habitual behaviour, good or bad, logical or absurd, healthy or otherwise

  7. Rebel, Rebel

    Marking JD Salinger's birth on January 1 1919 - a programme of teenage tearaways.

  8. Feast!

    A smorgasbord of literary and musical feasts from Jonathan Swift to Nora Ephron.

  9. The Gift

    Exploring the excitement, and occasional disappointment, of giving and receiving presents.

  10. Beginnings and Endings

    Poems, prose and music with themes spanning origin myths to the apocalypse.

  11. Women Writing War

    With poetry and prose by the mothers of soldiers and music by Messiaen and PJ Harvey.

  12. Windrush: Some Kind of 成人快手coming

    Lenny Henry and Josette Simon explore the experience of the Windrush generation.

  13. Deception

    Can you trust your ears? Can you trust your eyes? How often do you tell lies?

  14. In Flux

    Owen Teale and Thalissa Teixeira with a programme exploring the idea of change.

  15. The Plastic Tide

    Poetry and music inspired by the environment. With Fiona Shaw and Robert Glenister.

  16. Out of the mouths of babes

    Music and words that explore the mysterious link between wisdom and innocence

  17. Pictures of the Floating World

    A Japanese-inspired episode with readings by Peter Marinker and Alice St Clair.

  18. Sunday

    Enjoy your day of rest with a literary and musical celebration of Sunday.

  19. Under the Microscope

    With Rachael Stirling and Paul Bentall.

  20. Beautiful World, Where Are You?

    A reflection on upheaval inspired by Schiller, Schubert and the Liverpool Biennial.

  21. The News

    Poetry, prose and music about the news media, with readers Miles Jupp and Kathy Clugston.

  22. Hey, Little Hen

    Sophie Thompson and Alex Waldmann enter the curious world of man's old friend the chicken.

  23. Boredom, Restlessness, Killing Time

    An exploration of boredom. A spur to action or an opportunity for contemplation?

  24. The Mighty Oak

    Readings by Sian Phillips and Joseph Mydell. Music by Verdi, Smetana and Britten.

  25. The Chessboard

    Readings from Adjoa Andoh and Henry Goodman. Music from Shostakovich to The Rolling Stones

  26. Heroines

    Readers Tuppence Middleton and Patsy Ferran, plus figures Malala Yousafzai and Rosa Parks.

  27. Seven

    Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to the number seven.

  28. The Wedding

    Anna Maxwell Martin and Jamie Glover read poetry and prose on the theme of 'The Wedding'.

  29. The Uncanny

    Morfydd Clark and Arinze Kene with both the familiar and the eerie in music and readings.

  30. The Long and Winding Road

    Music and writing on roads from Hardy to Nelson Mandela, Christina Rossetti to Catullus.

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