2017

Talking About a Generation

Talking About a Generation: The importance of speech, language and communication from early years to employment The missing children: issues of identification and access to provision Social disadvantage and speech, language and communication: impact on social mobility Ready for school, good progress at school: Early language is THE most important factor in influencing literacy levels …

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Europe

[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Musica Polyphonica Marche en rondeau (feat. Louis Devos) Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Anne-Marie Deschamps Ton 1 Visionem quam vidistis Monthabor Music. Os Curunchos Foliada de Campelo DB World Sessions. Malay Ahmed Lukili. Brwala al-Anas Lukili. Wolf Biermann Am Brandenburg Tor Liederproduktion. W A …

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Canada 150: From Sea to Sea to Sea

[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Talivaldis Kenins Partita for Strings on Lutheran Chorales (1983) Performer: I Musici De Montréal, Yuli Turovsky (Conductor). CBC SMCD5131. Tr1.   Margaret Atwood Death of a Young Son …

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Such Sweet Sadness

[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Robert Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär (Op. 43 Nr.1) Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano); Barbara Bonney (soprano); Malcolm Martineau (piano). Sony Classical SK93133. Tr13.   Shakespeare Romeo …

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Boyhood

[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Purcell, arr. Berio The modification and instrumentation of a famous hornpipe as a merry and altogether sincere homage to Uncle Alfred Performer: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe …

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Through a Glass Darkly

[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Björk All Is Full Of Love   Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror     St Chad’s Cathedral Choir Teach Me My God And King     Frances Lipton Mirror Song   Readings Title:                The Fall of Utopia      Author:            Michael Symmons Roberts …

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Clouds

[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Eric Whitacre Cloudburst Performer: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (director). HYPERION CDA67543. 8.   PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Cloud, read by Adjoa Andoh EDWARD THOMAS The clouds that are so …

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O Albion

[rtoc] 00:00 Thomas Adès O Albion from Arcadiana, Op.12 (1994) Performer: Endellion Quartet. EMI CDZ 5722712. Tr14. A. E. Housman Blue Remembered Hills, read by Philip Franks 00:03 William Byrd Mass For Five Voices I. Kyrie Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble. EMI CDS7492058. CD2 Tr1. George Orwell From England your England, read by Philip Franks 00:07 …

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Maths in the Early Islamic World

[rtoc] 01:00 CRD Babylonians. From 3000-200BC. Before Islam. Corn yields. Digging canals. Astronomy. Algorithmic. Base 60: hence 60 seconds, 360 degrees. 04:20 CRD Indians. 800BC-1200AD. Astronomy and religion. Interest in v big numbers. Often handed down in poetical / oral phrases. 05:30 JAK Omayyads early: not v scholarly. Abbasids C8: Persian, Indian, Greek texts started …

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Beethoven: The Eroica Symphony

[rtoc] 04:00 On Schiller’s and Beethoven’s versions of ‘An die Freude’ 06:00 On Napoleon, inc comparisons with Hitler, Mussolini et al [/rtoc]