Work and Play
From Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness to Philip Larkin's evocation of work as a toad, via the testimony of Victorian girls collected together by Margaret Llewellyn Davies.
Eight minutes Idle is writer Matt Thorne's evocation of office life. Herman Melville's Bartleby preferred not to do what his office boss asked for, whilst in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie Tulliver enjoys sliding down heaps of grain in the mill and playing with spiders' webs. Other readings in this episode exploring work and play convey the toil of blacksmiths, mowing and reaping in works by Dickens, Wordsworth and Robert Frost, and the experience of being self-employed is wittily described in a poem by LL Barkat. Our readers are Tommy Sim'aan and Julia Winwood and we hear music by Dvo艡谩k, Eric Coates, Alexander Mosolov, Van Morrison and Dolly Parton.
Producer in Salford: Nick Holmes
READINGS:
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper
Robert Frost Mowing
Shel Silverstein I Cannot go to School Today
Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing
Matt Thorne Eight Days Idle
Muriel Spark A Far Cry From Kensington
Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
Margaret Llewellyn Davies editor of Life as We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women
Philip Larkin Toads
Marge Piercy The Secretary Chant
Toni Morrison Tar Baby
Emily Dickinson Rest at Night
Rajesh Thankappan Work and Rest
LL Barkat Self-Employed
Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
Alfred Tennyson The Lotos-eaters
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Chapter XII read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an
00:03Richard 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
00:06Pink Floyd
Welcome To The Machine
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper read by Julia Winwood
00:10Dotty 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
00:13Manuel de Falla
Dance of the Miller's Wife; The Grapes (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.00:17Medi忙val B忙bes
Ring a Ring o' Roses
00:19Eric 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
00:23Workers' Playtime
Workers' Playtime
00:25George Gershwin
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.Muriel Spark
A Far Cry from Kensington read by Julia Winwood
00:29Dolly Parton
9 to 5
Bertrand Russell
In Praise of Idleness read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an
00:33Van Morrison
All Work and No Play
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South Chapter VII read by Julia Winwood
00:36Anton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
00:44Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin
Twai Tshinaminai (Work Song)
00:46Heaven 17
Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
Marge Piercy
The Secretary Chant read by Julia Winwood
00:49Alexander Mosolov
The Iron Foundry
Orchestra: Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.Toni Morrison
Tar Baby read by Julia Winwood
00:54Joseph Haydn
Achieved is the Glorious Work (The Creation)
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.Emily Dickinson
Rest at Night read by Julia Winwood
00:55Anoushka Shankar
Daydreaming
Rajesh Thankappan
Work and Rest read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an
L.L. Barkat
Self-Employed read by Julia Winwood
00:59Frank 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
01:04Franz Schubert
Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin)
Performer: Justus Zeyen. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff.George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss read by Julia Winwood
01:08Claude Debussy
Reverie
Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos-Eaters: Choric Song I and II read by Tommy Sim鈥檃an
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- Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:30成人快手 Radio 3