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Words and Music

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Innocence and Experience
This sequence takes William Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience as a starting point for a selection of words and music. Imogen Stubbs and Bill Paterson read poetry and prose, and Sylvia Plath reads her poem Ariel and Brian Patten 's poem about the loss of innocence, A
Blade of Grass. Music includes Blake settings by Vaughan Williams , Bernstein's The Age of Anxiety and Tallis's Spem in Alium.
Producer Jessica Isaacs See also Monday at 11pm EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

Contributors

Unknown:
William Blake
Music:
Imogen Stubbs
Music:
Bill Paterson
Music:
Sylvia Plath
Music:
Brian Patten
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs
Source: Radio Times

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