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Hotels, Hostelries and Town Halls

Readings and music take us from Switzerland to India, New York to a Midlands country manor hotel, from bars to ballrooms, spooky corridors to smiling lift attendants.

From the Mermaid tavern favoured by Elizabethan writers to the patterned carpets of the hotel in Colorado's Rocky Mountains which features in Kubrick's film The Shining, from ballrooms and bars to the civic spaces which hold dances and musical premieres - today's Words and Music is inspired by hotels, hostelries and town halls. The readers are Joanna David and Daniel Millar.

Producer in Salford: Jessica Treen

Readings:
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
Deborah Moggach - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Constantijn Huygens - Dedication to the New Amsterdam Town Hall
Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
Zaffar Kunial - Ings
George Orwell - The Moon Under Water
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
Kay Thompson - Eloise At The Plaza
Sherill Tippins - Inside the Dream Palace
Ian McMillan - Let's Hear it for Skipton Town hall
Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
Brendan Behan - Thanks To james Joyce
Anon - Dursley Inn
Daisy Johnson - Hotel
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Vicki Baum - Grand Hotel
John Keats - Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

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Music Played

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

  • 00:01

    Sir George Dyson

    The Canterbury Pilgrims

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Canterbury Pilgrims.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Trans Nevill Coghill)

    The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

  • 00:01

    Henry Purcell

    Come, let us drink, Z 245

    Performer: The Merry Companions.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • Tr 33.
  • 00:03

    Robert Schumann

    Traumerei

    Performer: Jean Pougnet. Orchestra: Palm Court Orchestra.
    • Grand Hotel 成人快手 Archive Recording from 1955.
    • 成人快手 Archive.
    • 1.
  • Deborah Moggach

    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

  • 00:02

    Adalgiso Ferraris

    Two Guitars

    Orchestra: The Palm Court Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Pougnet.
    • 成人快手 Archive.
    • Tr 1.
  • Constantijn Huygens

    Dedication to the New Amsterdam Town Hall

  • 00:12

    Alexandre Desplat

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • Airlines.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • 00:14

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Quartet no. 6 in F minor Op.80 for strings

    Performer: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • Tr 3.
  • Anita Brookner

    Hotel du Lac

  • 00:23

    Harry Brooks

    Aint Misbehavin

    Composer: Andy Razaf. Composer: Fats Waller. Ensemble: The Bernard Peiffer Trio.
    • Piano Et Rythmes.
    • Universal Music Division.
    • 1.
  • Evelyn Waugh

    A Handful of Dust

  • 00:26

    Lorenz Hart

    There's a Small Hotel

    Composer: Richard Rodgers. Ensemble: The Supremes.
    • The Supremes Sing Rodgers and Hart.
    • Motown.
    • 19.
  • Zaffar Kunial

    Ings

  • George Orwell

    The Moon Under Water

  • 00:31

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London symphony (Symphony no.2): 3rd mvt; Scherzo - nocturne

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • ONYX.
    • Tr 3.
  • Charles Dickens

    Our Mutual Friend

  • 00:34

    Arthur Sullivan

    Eat, drink and be gay

    Composer: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey.
    • Eat, drink and be Gay.
    • Avid Entertainment.
    • 24.
  • 00:36

    Thomas Ad猫s

    Hotel Suite from Powder her Face

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Ades Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.
  • Kay Thompson

    Eloise At The Plaza

  • 00:38

    Sonny Rollins

    Oleo

    Ensemble: Miles Davis Sextet.
    • Jazz at the Plaza.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 6.
  • Sherill Tippins

    Inside the Dream Palace

  • 00:43

    Kurt Weill

    Alabama Song

    Performer: Tim Pierce. Singer: David Johansen. Singer: Ellen Shipley. Singer: Bob Dorough. Performer: Ralph Schuckett.
    • September Song.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Ian McMillan

    Let鈥檚 Hear it for Skipton Town Hall

  • 00:48

    Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Tierkreis: Leo

    Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw. Ensemble: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Tierkreis.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • 00:51

    Ina Boyle

    I. Boyle: Phantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Geiss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • Tr 5.
  • Edna O鈥橞rien

    The Country Girls

  • Brendan Behan

    Thanks To James Joyce

  • 00:54

    Denny Laine

    Caf茅 on the Left Bank

    Composer: Paul McCartney. Ensemble: Wings.
    • London Town.
    • Parlaphone.
    • 1.
  • 00:56

    Turlough O'Carolan

    Carolan's Cup

    Composer: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • Rubicon.
    • 11.
  • 00:59

    Wendy Carlos

    The Shining

    Composer: Rachel Elkind. Performer: Wendy Carlos. Performer: Rachel Elkind.
    • The Shining聽.
    • WaterTower Music.
    • 1.
  • 01:02

    Irving Berlin

    Puttin on the Ritz

    Performer: Judy Garland.
    • Puttin' on the Ritz (Live), Vol. 2.
    • Top Tracks.
    • 5.
  • 01:06

    Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Heroic'

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Martha Argerich - The Legendary 1965 Recording.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

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