Gold, Silver, Bronze and Brass

Available for 12 days

Metals precious, dangerous and rare as well as the common and everyday inspire this shiny selection; from the chase for Olympic gold and glory to Wendall Berry’s humble life well lived in ‘A Brass Bowl’. We’re bewitched by the light of the silvery moon with Dvorak and Yeats and transported the Bronze age by Rosemary Sutcliffe. We delve into the many meanings of metals, meeting Golden Cockerels, Eagles and Moles; and put our hope into Ian Serraillier’s Silver Sword. There’s golden music from Shostakovich, Lehar's Gold and Silver Waltz, Gliere’s Bronze Horseman and the best in Brass from the Black Dyke Band. Just remember, all that Glisters is not gold… The readers are Lesley Nicol and Robin Morrisey. Producer: Jessica Treen Readings: Robert Frost: Nothing Gold can Say Chris Cleave: Gold Rosemary Sutcliffe: The Chief’s Daughter Walter de la Mere: Silver Anon: Something old, Something New Wendell Berry: A Brass Bowl William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Kassia St Clair: The Golden Thread Zainab Badawi: An African History of Africa George the Poet: Benin Bronze Ian Serraillier: The Silver Sword Katherine Rundell: The Golden Mole Emily Dickinson: If your Nerve, deny you Jackie Kay: Trumpet Alexander Pushkin (Trans Michael Symmons Roberts): The Bronze Horseman Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince George Eliot: Silas Marner Wilfred Owen: As Bronze May Be Much Beautified (unfinished) W.B Yeats: The Song of Wandering Angus