Bucket and Spade
It's summer holiday time so we're heading to the beach for seaside prose and poetry from Marcel Proust to Enid Blyton and music from Mendelssohn to The Beach Boys.
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside in this week's words and music, so we're heading to the beach. The girls of summer drift by in Proust's Balbec and in music from The Beach Boys. We're building sandcastles in poetry from Jean Sprackland and AA Milne. And we're celebrating the very British seaside holiday with a passage from David Kynaston's social history 'Family Britain' and RC Sheriff's portrait of a family on their annual holiday, The Fortnight in September'.
We're visiting the South Pacific with music from the Rogers and Hammerstein musical and Guyana in Grace Nichol's poem 'Like An Heiress', The Hebrides with Mendelssohn's concert overture and Lyme Regis with Jane Austen in Persuasion.
Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen
Readers: Hollie Chapman and Paul Rider
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