11 November 2007
Sunday 11 November 2007 20:00-0:15 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet presents an evening of programmes from BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas in Liverpool.
Matthew and guests discuss some of the issues which have arisen during the weekend of debates, interviews, drama and lectures.
He introduces reaction and commentary from the audience at the festival, recordings from some of the main events and the response from his studio panel to the new ideas and intellectual exchanges that have been aired.
8.30pm Drama on 3
9.40pm Sunday Feature
10.30pm Words and Music
Read about and contribute to the Free Thinking festival of ideas
Duration:
4 hours 15 minutes
Playlist
Yesterday an Incident Occurred
By Mark Ravenhill.
Specially commissioned for Free Thinking and recorded in front of a live audience in the atmospheric Victorian civil court of St Georges Hall. The play looks at our relationship with the War on Terror and takes the moral temperature of a nation unsure of itself. What do the mostly totally normal citizens have to do to protect themselves?
9.40pm Sunday Feature
Backwash
Writer Gavin Scott Whitfield returns to his native Liverpool to decode the city's cultural DNA and find the source of its vitality. From once great second city of empire to post-industrial decline, Liverpool has always been famed for its creative energy. But what exactly has gone into the make-up of this most un-English of English cities?
10.30pm Words and Music
A special event from St George's small concert room in Liverpool where Dickens gave his legendary Penny Readings. Liverpudlian actors Cathy Tyson and Mark McGann read a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of freedom. With music from Ensemble 10/10 with Clark Rundell, saxophonist Tim Whitehead, pianist Gwilym Simcock and singer Jennifer John. Presented by Ian MacMillan and produced by Jessica Isaacs.
Part 1: Youth and Freedom
00:00.00
Introduction by Ian McMillan
00:00.38
Emily Dickinson: No rack can torture me
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:01.22
Janacek: Mladi (1st movement)
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
00:05.11
Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book 1 (extract)
Read by Mark McGann
00:08.18
Terry Riley: in C
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
John Clare: I am
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:10.49
John Agard: By Liverpool Docks I sat down
Read by Mark McGann
00:11.39
John Lennon arr. Whitehead: Improvisation
on "Free as a Bird"
Performed by Gwilym Simcock, Tim Whitehead
and Cathy Tyson
00:16.15
Seamus Heaney: A Kite for Michael and Christopher
Read by Mark McGann
00:17.17
Whitehead: Lime Street Blues
Performed by Tim Whitehead
00:17.48
Patience Agbabi: North (west)ern
Read by Cathy Tyson
Whitehead: Lime Street Blues (continued)
Performed by Tim Whitehead
00:19.20
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:21.14
Spiritual: Oh Freedom
Performed by Jennifer John
00:24.30
James Berry: Early days thinking is
only so much
Read by Mark McGann
00:25.46
Harrison Birtwistle: Bach Measure
Mvt. 6 "In dir ist Freude" BWV 315
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
Part 2: Oppression
00:27.58
Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit
Performed by Jennifer John
00:29.46
Claude McKay: If We Must Die
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:31.14
Ellington: Come Sunday
Performed by Gwilym Simcock
and Tim Whitehead
00:36.19
Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Read by Mark McGann
00:37.12
Mary Birkett Card: A poem on the
African Slave Trade verse 4
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:38.57
Spiritual: Sometimes I feel like
a motherless child
Performed by Jennifer John
00:41.18
Roger McGough: The Square Dance
Read by Mark McGann
00:42.45
Stravinsky: Dance of the devil
from A Soldier's Tale
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
00:44.15
Auden: Refugee Blues
Read by Mark McGann
00:46.57
Stravinsky: Grande Chorale
from A Soldier's Tale
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
and Cathy Tyson
00:50.09
Spiritual: No more auction block
Performed by Jennifer John
00:52.14
Piazzolla arr. Venerucci : Libertango
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
Langston Hughes: Oppression
Read by Mark McGann
00:56.17
Emily Dickinson: From all the Jails
Read by Cathy Tyson
00:56.46
Harrison Birtwistle: Bach Measure
Mvt. 4 "Christe, du Lamm Gotted" BWV 619
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
Part 3: Expression
00:57.53
Spiritual: Deep River
Performed by Jennifer John
01:00.05
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Read by Cathy Tyson
01:03.30
Improvisation on "Ode to Joy"
Performed by Gwilym Simcock
01:07.30
Langston Hughes: Democracy
Read by Mark McGann
01:08.28
Tim Whitehead: Let Her Rave
With readings from Declaration
of Human Rights and quotes from Nelson
Mandela, J Krishnamurti, John Keats.
Performed by Gwilym Simcock,
Tim Whitehead, Jennifer John,
Cathy Tyson and Mark McGann
01:14.50
Ghazi Hussein, translated Alison Davis: Prison Cell
Read by Mark McGann
01:15.43
Countee Cullen: From the Dark Tower
Read by Cathy Tyson
01:16.57
Daljit Nagra: Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Read by Mark McGann
01:18.34
Stevie Wonder arr. Whitehead: Free
Performed by Jennifer John, Gwilym Simcock
and Tim Whitehead
01:22.30
Brendan Kennelly: Begin
Read by Mark McGann
01:23.47
Niyi Osundare: I sing of change
Read by Cathy Tyson
01:24.42
Harrison Birtwistle: Bach Measure
Mvt. 8 "Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz
verderbt" BWV 637
Performed by Ensemble 10/10
Mark McGann (reader)
Cathy Tyson (reader)
Gwilym Simcock (piano) 
Tim Whitehead (saxophone)
Jennifer John (singer) 
Ensemble 10/10 & Clark Rundell