19. Words and Music: The Seven Ages of Man
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Experience the journey of a lifetime in an hour and a half. Young Liverpudlian actors Annabelle Dowler and Kevin Harvey join leading British pianist Ashley Wass, folk singer Belinda Sykes, the prize-winning Elias String Quartet and cutting-edge rock and jazz percussionist Bill Bruford, of Earthworks and formerly of bands Yes, Genesis and King Crimson, in an evening of music, poetry and drama inspired by Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man.
From the Mersey Sound to Kipling, folk ballads to Bartok, Marlowe to Pinter and percussion inprovisations to Bach.
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Words and Music - a sequence of mainly classical music, interspersed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.
J Armstrong, Newark
Unable to listen to it on i player so can't comment
John Ferguson Bromborough Wirral
I had the pleasure of attending the recording of this programme last night and I would like to thank your production team on a wonderful evenings entertainment. As someone who never thinks of tuning to radio three I have been converted to searching your network to try to find more gems.
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