The Circus
Clowns, jugglers, trapeze artists, elephants and monkeys and the sound of brass bands, organs and orchestras come together in our poems, prose and music evoking the circus.
Readers Luke Treadaway and Phoebe Campbell take us through Angela Carter's encounter between a pig Sybil, a strong man and a tiger in Nights at the Circus, via evocations from Dickens, Kafka and the Goncourt Brothers to the "rapture and admiration" of Just William watching them put up the tent: as today's Words and Music celebrates the circus. We'll hear an extract from Seventy Years a Showman by 鈥楲ord鈥� Gorge Sanger and poems celebrating the circus coming to town, with "the monkey and its bear" and "the lion in its lair"; and the "red and white clown."
Producer: Belinda Naylor
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