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Special edition for Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival. Tony Neilson and Zita Frith read celebratory poetry and prose, including some with a North East flavour.

Celebration! Kathryn Tickell heads a distinguished musical line-up in this special edition recorded at The Sage Gateshead, as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. All kinds of celebratory poetry and prose are read by Donald McBride and Zita Frith, including a strong North East flavour evoking the area's landscapes, heroes and heroines.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 7 Nov 2010 22:15

Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Bedrich Smetana

    Allegro vivo appassionata (from String Quartet No. 1)

    Performer: Elias String Quartet

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne

    Northumberland

  • RS Thomas

    The Bright Field

  • 00:08

    Kathryn Tickell

    Lordenshaws

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes), Elias String Quartet

  • Barry McSweeney

    Pearl in the Silver Morning

  • Sid Chaplin

    The Watchers and the Watched

  • 00:12

    Traditional - Celebrated Working Man

    Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • 00:14

    Traditional - The Lads of Alnwick

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes)

  • William Shakespeare

    Henry IV Part One, Act 1, Sc. 3

  • 00:18

    Traditional - Chevy Chase

    Performer: Mike Tickell (voice)

  • 00:19

    Bede

    Hymnum canamus Domino

    Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins

    The Windhover

  • 00:22

    Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • The Bible

    Song of Solomon

  • William Shakespeare

    Sonnet 18

  • 00:25

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante from String Quartet in D major Op. 44, No. 1

    Performer: Elias String Quartet

  • William Wordsworth

    Grace Darling

  • 00:34

    Edvard Grieg

    Ave maris stella

    Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • 00:37

    Per N酶rg氓rd

    Pastoral from Babette's Feast

    Performer: Sara Bittloch (violin), Martin Saving (viola), Marie Bittloch (cello)

  • Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

    Babette鈥檚 Feast

  • Jane Grigson

    Cherry from Jane Grigson鈥檚 Fruit Book

  • 00:44

    Traditional - The Cherry-Tree carol

    Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • John Cunningham

    Newcastle Beer

  • 00:48

    Traditional - Cushie Butterfield

    Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Kathryn Tickell (fiddle), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • 00:50

    Henry Purcell

    Fantasia

    Performer: Elias String Quartet

  • London Evening Post, 29 April 1749

    Royal Fireworks in Green Park

  • Newcastle Courant, 1st October 1825

    Opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway

  • 00:57

    Traditional - The Stephenson Monument

    Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • James Kirkup

    Charity Carnival from Sorrows, Passions and Alarms

  • 01:00

    Traditional - A U hinny burd

    Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • Siegfried Sassoon

    Everyone Sang

  • 01:03

    Bob Chilcott

    Everyone Sang, from Singing by Numbers

    Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner

  • 01:05

    Brendan Murphy

    Improvisation

    Performer: Brendan Murphy (percussion)

  • Christopher Smart

    My Cat Jeoffry

  • Thomas Bewick

    A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself

  • 01:11

    Traditional - Wild Hills of Wannies and Cuckold come out of the Amrey

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes)

  • 01:12

    Kathryn Tickell, Brendan Murphy

    Improvisation

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes), Brendan Murphy (percussion)

  • Basil Bunting

    Briggflatts

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