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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:00

  Uuno Klami

  Foggy Morning

  Performers: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam - conductor

  • FINLANDIA 8573856042.

• William Wordsworth

  Upon Westminster Bridge read by Amanda Root

• 00:01

  Edvard Grieg

  Morning - from Peer Gynt

  Performers: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi - conductor

  • VIRGIN CLASSICS 5457222.

• John Donne

  The Sunne Rising read by Rory Kinnear

• 00:07

  Aulis Sallinen

  Sunrise Serenade, op 63

  Performer: Jouko Harjanne – trumpet, Aki Valimaki – trumpet, Avanti Chamber Orchestra

  • FINLANDIA 8573819722.

• Mark Doty

  Long Point Light read by Amanda Root

• 00:15

  James Rhodes

  Nuages - Nocturnes

  Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy - conductor

  • ELOQUENCE 467 428-2.

• Louis Macneice

  Sunday Morning read by Rory Kinnear

• 00:22

  George Butterworth

  Bredon Hill

  Performers: Bryn Terfel – baritone, Malcolm Martineau - piano

  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4459462.
• 00:27

  Cole Porter

  Miss Otis Regrets

  Performer: Ella Fitzgerald

  • VERVE 821 989-2.

• John Clare

  Schoolboys in Winter read by Rory Kinnear

• 00:31

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Home - Seven Songs Home

  Performers: The Choir of St Mary's Music School, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - conductor/pianist

  • A Celebration of Scotland.
  • UNICORN DKPCD9070.

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Warming Her Pearls read by Amanda Root

• 00:34

  James Rhodes

  Nuit d'Etoiles

  Performers: Veronique Gens – soprano, Roger Vignoles - piano

  • VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5453602.
• 00:37

  Manuel de Falla

  En el Generalife - Nights in the Gardens of Spain

  Performer: Alicia de Larrocha – piano, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos

  • DECCA 410 289-2.

• Charles Tomlinson

  The Journey read by Rory Kinnear

• Philip Larkin

  Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel read by Amanda Root

• 00:48

  Samuel Barber

  Solitary Hotel

  Performer: Thomas Allen – Baritone, Endellion String Quartet, Roger Vignoles - piano

  • VIRGIN CLASSICS 7243 5 45033 2 0.

• T.S. Eliot

  Preludes read by T.S. Eliot

• 00:51

  Frank Loesser

  My Time of Day

  Performers: The Original National Theatre Cast, Ian Charleson

  • Guys and Dolls.
  • EMI MFP 0946 3213888.

• Thom Gunn

  Night Taxi read by Rory Kinnear

• 00:53

  Maurice Ravel

  Prelude a la nuit

  Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy - conductor

  • ELOQUENCE 467 428-2.

• Walt Whitman

  A Clear Midnight read by Amanda Root

• 00:57

  Philip Glass

  Evening Song from Satyagraba

  • The Essential Philip Glass.
  • SONY SBK64133.

• Fleur Adcock

  Things read by Amanda Root

• Lord Byron

  We'll go no more a'roving read by Rory Kinnear

• 01:02

  Charles-Valentin Alkan

  Nocturne in B

  Performer: Jack Gibbons - piano

  • 12 Studies in the Minor Keys.
  • ASV CDDCS227.
• 01:09

  Elvis Costello

  The Lovers Arise

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas - conductor

  • Il Sogno.
  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00289 471 5772.

• William Shakespeare

  Romeo and Juliet read by Amanda Root and Rory Kinnear

• 01:12

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Verklarte Nacht

  Performers: Berliner Philharmoniker