Giants
We're thinking big as we contemplate giants, looking at the vastness of the sea, sky and cosmos and meeting a host of fictional giants - and the odd elephant
In this edition of Words and Music we’re thinking Big. We’re contemplating the vastness of the sea with John Keats and looking up to the huge expanse of sky above with Virginia Woolf – but we’re not stopping there as we try to comprehend the stars with Holst’s Jupiter and poetry from Sarah Howe and Robert Frost. We’re also joined by an earth-shaking selection of fictional giants and trolls including Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan and Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant. The readers are John Leader and Saskia Reeves.
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