Words and Music

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• The hidden history of plant-based diets

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• Words & Music: Warmth TX 15.01.2023

  Poetry and music exploring feelings and ideas about the nature of 'warmth'.

  Duration: 1:14:09

• 1950s cricket tips for Caribbean migrants

  Lenny Henry reads advice for West Indian migrants from a 1959 BBC pamphlet.

  Duration: 2:39

• Tom Hiddleston reads Proust

  An evocative description of tea and cake from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

  Duration: 3:34

• Agathon’s Speech (audio)

  An extract of Agathon’s speech, from Plato's symposium.

  Duration: 1:42
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• Words and Music: Feast

• Words and Music: Windrush Some kind of homecoming

• Words and Music: Out of the Mouths of Babes

• Words and Music: Hey, Little Hen
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