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| Adventures In Poetry | ...1: On his Blindness, by JOHN MILTON ... |
| Afternoon On 3 | ...Louise Fryer presents music by composers Messiaen admired as well as pieces by his contemporaries. Plus two JOHN MILTON poems read by actor Robert Glenister: At a Vacation Exercise in the College and An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.... |
| Areopagitica | ...Ronald Pickup reads from JOHN MILTON's urgent & dramatic plea for liberty &... |
| Blithe Spirits | ...Joanna Pinnock investigates the importance of monsters in verse and prose, such as Alfred Tennyson's kraken and JOHN MILTON's leviathan. She finds that some of these monsters are more familiar than our ancestors could have imagined.... |
| Choral Evensong | ...... |
| Court Of Elizabeth I | ...JOHN MILTON: Fair Orian in the morn... |
| Early Music Show, The | ...Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) was a masque written by JOHN MILTON in honour of chastity and it was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's elevation to President of Wales with music by Henry Lawes. Milton and Lawes had a close friendship and collaborated on a number of works, but Lawes was not the last composer to write music for this masque. In Milton's 400th anniversary year, Catherine Bott travels to Ludlow Castle to explore the occasion of that first performance and the music which Comus went on to inspire. The programme includes excerpts from Comus and Milton's sonnet to Lawes: To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires read by Robert Glenister.... |
| Eclipse 1999 | ...With Martha Kearney and guests. Reading: `Eclipse 1999' (3/5). / Astronomer Heather Couper introduces five readings of poetry, prose and diary extracts to mark the end of the millennium. 3: Readings focusing on solar eclipses, from sources such as JOHN MILTON, the Bible and Dorothy Sabin. Readers Brigit Forsyth, Denys Hawthorne, Mona Hammond and Derek Griffiths.... |
| Josephine Hart Poetry Programme | ...Extracts from JOHN MILTON's great Christian epic Paradise Lost are read by Jeremy Irons (Satan), Felicity Kendal (narrator), Greg Wise (Adam) and Emilia Fox (Eve).... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Roger Deakin and Peter Randall-Page and poems by JOHN MILTON, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, William Wordsworth, Christopher Marlowe, Walter de la Mare, Alice Oswald and Gerard Manley Hopkins.... |
| Milton's Comus | ...As part of BBC Radio 3's commemoration of the 400th anniversary in 2008 of JOHN MILTON's birth, Catherine Bott travels to Ludlow Castle to explore his masque Comus and the music it has inspired. With music by Henry Lawes, Comus was a work written to celebrate chastity and it was first presented on Michaelmas 1634, before John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle to mark the earl's elevation to Lord President of Wales.... |
| Night Waves | ...As part of BBC Radio 3's season marking the 400th anniversary of JOHN MILTON's birth in 2008, Philip Dodd discussions his classic text Samson Agonistes. There has been much scholarly debate over whether Milton's dramatic poem, condones or criticises Samson's suicidal and genocidal attack on the Philistines. Since 9/11, that debate has taken on a topical urgency. Some scholars have questioned whether the work should be taught in schools, while others have regarded the notion of a terrorist act at the centre of Western Christian and literary history as a positive corrective to prevailing stereotypes.... |
| Paradise Lost | ...New to BBC 7 we present JOHN MILTON's epic poem of the Fall of Man, abridged in 41 episodes. The Fallen Angel, Satan, bitter and exasperated in Hell, tries to gather support among the devils for war against God in Heaven. First, he summons his forces to build the mighty palace of pandemonium. But should a war with God be carried out openly or in secret? With a great cast including Denis Quilley, Ian McDiarmid, Matthew Morgan, John Church, Steve Hodson and Jonathan Adams, this powerful production was directed by John Theocharis and first broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1992.
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| Proms Plus | ...The classical tale of Orpheus has influenced musicians and writers from Igor Stravinsky to JOHN MILTON to Nick Cave. Orpheus, whose lyre and songs could charm even Hades, king of the underworld, journeys into the kingdom of the dead to plead for the release of his wife Eurydice. Succeeding where all others have failed, he is offered a deal. He can take his wife with him, but only if he makes his return journey without turning to look at her as she walks behind him back into the land of the living. Where his heroism and charm have succeeded, his human flaw of curiosity proves his undoing.... |
| Samson Agonistes | ...By JOHN MILTON and adapted for radio and directed by John Tydeman.... |
| Twenty Minutes - Book Of The Month | ...The Life Of JOHN MILTON... |
| Visions Of Paradise | ...JOHN MILTON became blind in his 40s, after which he composed his greatest works such as the epic Paradise Lost. Peter White investigates what difference blindness made to the poet's work and whether, as Milton claimed, it opened his eyes to a different world.... |
| Words And Music | ...On a theme of the eternal struggle between conflict and concord, Joanna David and Paul McGann read poems by Emily Dickinson, George Herbert, JOHN MILTON, Wilfred Owen, Edith Sitwell and Walt Whitman. Including music by Bartok, Dowland, William Lawes, Monteverdi and Purcell.... |