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Celebrating Virginia Woolf as we mark the centenary of the publication 'Mrs Dalloway'
Vinette Robinson and Enzo Cilenti with readings and music evoking the 2025 City of Culture
Ariyon Bakare and Philippa Dunne with readings alongside music about coffee and tea.
Peter Wight and Ellie Piercy bring us readings evoking Swish hotels, lakes and mountains
Jessica Raine and Giles Terera with readings alongside music from the roaring twenties.
Toby Jones and Indra Ové with readings alongside music taking us into the wilderness.
Welcome in spring with music and readings inspired by rabbits, hares, kits and cottontails
A celebration of 1920s Ireland in music and readings by Olwen Fouéré and Ardal O'Hanlon
From Tinkerbell saving Peter Pan, to soldiers on the battlefields, and Jesus on the cross
From Hotel du Lac to the Chelsea Hotel, Mermaid Tavern to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Start your engines with Beethoven, Bizet and Ben-Hur down at the races.
Kings, Queens, Jokers, Aces: with music and readers Sophie Thompson and James Cartwright
Music on the theme of returning with readings by Clare Perkins and Jonathan Keeble
Musical and poetic conversations, read by Gemma Whelan and Clarke Peters.
Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Parth Thakarer and music evoking mountains to city mopeds
Marriage, motorways and magic: writers on rings, read by Susan Twist and Chris Jack.
Robert Lindsay and Shiloh Coke with a range of animals from sheep to turkeys and reindeer.
David Jonsson and Lyndsey Marshal read from George Eliot, Chester Himes and Milton.
Olivia Williams and Owen Teale with Advent and Christmas traditions from around the UK
From Hunting for Honey Eaters to Presidents, Pooh and Petrushka - all things bear
Extracts from poems and prose set to music to mark the death of John Milton on 8 Nov 1674.
Readings from Annie Proulx, Basho, HP Lovecraft with music by Bjork, Dvorak, Miriam Makeba
Luke Treadaway & Phoebe Campbell conjure clowns, jugglers, elephants and trapeze artists.
Carla Henry, Josh Bryant Jones & Martin McCann with readings and music evoking sea rescue.
Mozart and Salieri, literary spats between Romantic poets, family feuds, unhappy lovers.
Emily Pithon and Nuhazet Diaz Cano with readings and music from the German Romantic era
Adrian Lester reads from the novels and essays of James Baldwin, set alongside music.
With Olympic medal ceremonies ahead, we explore precious metals in poetry, prose, music.
From the Great Gatsby, Mrs Beeton to Jeeves takes Charge, Romeo and Juliet to Harlem Samba
As the Aldeburgh Festival marks 75 years, a playlist of readings and music from Suffolk.