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Travel: on land, over water, in the air

Nan Shepherd's mountain climbing, Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road, Tagore's Journey Home feature alongside Kraftwerk and the bicycle parade from Jean Coulthard's ballet score.

Katherine Kelly and Clive Hayward read from poetry and prose about travelling by road, sea and air including passages from the diaries of Dorothy Wordsworth, the thoughts of aviator Amelia Earhart, and cyclist Dervla Murphy, poetry from Walt Whitman, Imtiaz Dharker and Michael Donaghy, and descriptions of bike riding from HG Wells and Julian Barnes. The music includes Gustav Holst's Moorside Suite and George Dyson's Four Songs for Sailors, Johnny Cash singing I've been everywhere, Oliver Davis's composition Airborne Dances II, Laurie Anderson's piece To circle the world and her collaboration with the Kronos Quartet Riding Bicycles Through the Muddy Streets. We also hear Sana Masasama reading from her piece Why do I travel? and Stuart Maconie reading from Country Walking Magazine.

Produced in Salford by Rebecca Gaskell

Readings:
Machines by Michael Donaghy
Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
Extract from Country Walking Magazine by Stuart Maconie
Flight Radar by Imtiaz Dharker
For The Traveler by John O'Donohue
Summit of Corrie Etchachan by Nan Sheperd
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Courage by Amelia Earhart
Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by HG Wells
Extract from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal
Brambilla by Julian Barnes
Le Voyage by Charles Baudelaire, translated by F.P. Sturm
Why Do I Travel? by Sana Masasama
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Journey Home by Rabindranath Tagore

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 9 Nov 202518:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Henry Purcell

    Suite No. 6 in D Major, Z. 667: II. Almand

    Performer: Kenneth Gilbert.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • Tr27.

  • Michael Donaghy

    Machines, read by Clive Hayward

  • Michael Donaghy

    Machines, read by Clive Hayward

  • Christina Rossetti

    Up-Hill, read by Katherine Kelly

  • 00:03

    Gustav Holst

    A Mooreside Suite; Scherzo

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.
    • Tr7.

  • Stuart Maconie

    extract from Country Walking Magazine, read by Stuart Maconie

  • 00:08

    Sex Pistols

    Holidays In The Sun

    • Warner.
    • Tr1.
  • 00:08

    Oliver Davis

    Airborne Dances: II

    Performer: Kerenza Peacock. Performer: Dorothea Vogel. Performer: Alex Gale. Performer: Philip Higham. Performer: Ben Russell.
    • Signum Records.
    • Tr14.

  • Imtiaz Dharker

    Flight Radar, read by Katherine Kelly

  • For The Traveler

    John O’Donohue, read by Clive Hayward

  • 00:12

    Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

    Les Voyages de l'Amour; Ouverture

    Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • Glossa.
    • 1.

  • Nan Sheperd

    Summit of Corrie Etchachan, read by Katherine Kelly

  • 00:15

    Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.5 in E flat major; 1st movement

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • RCA.
    • Tr1.

  • Walt Whitman

    Song of the Open Road, read by Clive Hayward

  • 00:21

    Johnny Cash

    I’ve Been Everywhere

    Performer: Johnny Cash.
    • American Recordings Catalog P&D.
    • Tr14.
  • 00:22

    Laurie Anderson

    To Circle The World

    Performer: Laurie Anderson.
    • Nonesuch.
    • Tr1.

  • Amelia Earhart

    Courage, read by Katherine Kelly

  • 00:24

    Laurie Anderson

    Riding Bicycles Through The Muddy Streets

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Landfall.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 25.

  • HG Wells

    Chance: A Bicycling Idyll, read by Clive Hayward

  • 00:27

    Jean Coulthard

    Excursion - suite from the ballet; no.4 Bicycle Parade

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tinter.
    • Naxos.
    • Tr26.
  • 00:29

    George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • Tr1.

  • Dorothy Wordsworth

    Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal, read by Katherine Kelly

  • Julian Barnes

    Brambilla, read by Clive Hayward

  • 00:37

    Kraftwerk

    Tour De France

    • Tour de France (2009 Remaster).
    • Parlaphone.
    • 14.

  • Charles Baudelaire, translated by F.P. Sturm

    Le Voyage, read by Katherine Kelly and Clive Hayward

  • 00:39

    Sir George Dyson

    4 Songs for Sailors; No.4 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

    Choir: London Oriana Choir. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Drummond.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • Tr8.
  • 00:41

    Miles Davis

    Blue In Green

    Performer: Miles Davis.
    • Columbia.
    • Tr3.

  • Sana Masasama, read by Sana Masasama

    Why Do I Travel?

  • Evelyn Waugh

    Brideshead Revisited, read by Clive Hayward

  • 00:49

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D Major, RV 589: I. Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Performer: Le Concert Spirituel.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • Tr1.

  • Dervla Murphy

    Full Tilt, read by Katherine Kelly

  • 00:53

    Unknown

    Babulala

    Ensemble: Dambura and voices.
    • Folk Music of Afghanistan Vol.1.
    • Lyrichord.
    • 4.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Calm Sea

  • 00:55

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • Decca.
    • Tr6.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Prosperous Voyage

  • Rabindranath Tagore

    Journey Home

  • 01:09

    Sir Henry Rowley Bishop

    Home, Sweet Home

    Lyricist: John Howard Payne. Singer: Robert Tear. Performer: André Previn.
    • Warner Classics.
    • Tr127.

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  • Sun 9 Nov 202518:00
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