Colours of Autumn
The readers Anton Lesser and Josette Simon with poems and prose such as Keats and Emily Brontë, alongside music evoking autumn including Vivaldi, Butterworth and Elena Kats-Chernin
To mark the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness", Radio 3's weekly selection of readings set alongside music links up with the mid morning programme Essential Classics. The readers Anton Lesser and Josette Simon have been appearing on Essential Classics in a midday sequence bringing us poems about apple picking, falling leaves, mushrooms and bird migration. In this compilation, we'll hear compositions by Butterworth, Elena Kats-Chernin and Vivaldi and writing by Keats, Laurie Lee, Emily Brontë alongside some listener suggestions for music.
Produced by Helen Garrison and Robyn Read
You can find Friday's special episode of Essential Classics broadcast from Calke Abbey in Derbyshire available on BBC Sounds.
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