Bucket and Spade

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.

Readings:
Robert Louis Stevenson - At the Seaside
Jean Sprackland – Split
David Kynaston - Family Britain
RC Sheriff - The Fortnight in September
Lewis Carroll – The Hunting of the Snark
Enid Blyton - Five on a Treasure Island
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
AA Milne - Sand Between the Toes
Jane Austen – Persuasion
Grace Nicols – Like an Heiress
George Mackay Brown – Beachcomber
Verna Allette Wilikins - A Memory Evoked
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
Marcel Proust - Within a Budding Grove
Rabindranth Tagore - On the Seashore
Helen Dunmore - Terra Incognita
Helen Cresswell - A Gift from Winklesea

Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen
Readers: Hollie Chapman and Paul Rider