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Readings by Jane Horrocks and Art Malik take us from Charlotte Bronte to Hilaire Belloc and William Blake, whilst musical choices evoke water mills, wind mills and cotton mills.

From The Watermill by composer Ronald Binge to Windy Miller, Don Quixote tilting at windmills and the windmills of your mind. Readers Jane Horrocks and Art Malik take us from George Eliot's rural setting of The Mill on the Floss to the factory strikes in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South via Helen Mort's poem describing gentrification at Litton Mill. Alfred Lord Tennyson's love poem describes The Miller's Daughter 'grown so dear', Stephen Sondheim's maid Petra dreams of marrying The Miller's Son and Judith Kerr and John Faulkner wrote the Miller's Song which appeared in the TV programme Bagpuss.

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
  • 00:06

    Ernest John Moeran

    Windmills (3 Fancies)

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
  • 00:09

    Michel Legrand

    The Windmills of your Mind

    Performer: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
  • 00:14

    George Fenton

    Everybody Loves The Windmill (Mrs Henderson Presents)

    Ensemble: Cast.
  • 00:16

    Hubert Parry

    Jerusalem

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
  • 00:19

    Gustav Holst

    March (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.
  • 00:25

    Brian Cant & Freddie Phillips

    Windy Miller (Camberwick Green)

  • 00:25

    Sandra Kerr

    The Miller's Song

  • 00:28

    Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op.34 no.14

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
  • 00:34

    Franz Schubert

    Morgengruss (Die schone Mullerin)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • 00:38

    Anon.

    Estampie real No 8

    Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
  • 00:40

    Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • 00:47

    Edward Elgar

    The Wagon Passes (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
  • 00:49

    Frederic Rzewski

    Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

    Performer: Marc鈥怉ndr茅 Hamelin.
  • 00:50

    John Ireland

    Elegy (A Downland Suite)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Peter Parkes.
  • 00:56

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (3rd mvt: Adagio)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
  • 00:57

    Ina Boyle

    The Mill-water (Looking Back)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ben McAteer.
  • 01:00

    脫lafur Arnalds

    Only the Winds

  • 01:07

    Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.

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