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Rescue at Sea

Music evoking sea adventure and rescue from Debussy, Ravel, Anna Clyne and Mumford & Sons alongside writing by Eva Ibbotson, E Annie Proulx, Lord Tennyson and William Wordsworth.

Carla Henry, Josh Bryant Jones and Blue Lights actor Martin McCann bring us readings evoking the sea set alongside music ahead of next Saturday's special day when Radio 3 travels to lighthouses around the UK.

We will hear the imagined words of children planning sea adventure in Michael Morpurgo and Eva Ibbotson, the terrifying descriptions of cliff-like waves in Sebastian Junger鈥檚 The Perfect Storm, part of Wordsworth's poem about the bravery of Grace Darling, swashbuckling tales from Patrick O鈥橞rian and tales of trade in the Horn of Africa from Abdulrazak Gurnah, and the Irish RNLI lifeboat helm and poet Eleanor Hooker's poem Float to Live.

Our sea and rescue-inspired music includes orchestral pieces written by Edward Elgar, Edvard Grieg and Peter Maxwell Davies, songs performed by Charles Trenet, Mumford & Sons and Fontella Bass, and sea shanties and traditional sea hymns giving thanks for rescue.
We will journey out hopeful, encounter a sudden storm, face disaster, rescue and return to port as seasoned sea dogs.

Producer in Salford: Olive Clancy

Readings:
Katherine Mansfield - A Little Boys Dream
Zora Neale Thurston - Their Eyes Were Watching Gods
Michael Morpurgo - Kensuke鈥檚 Kingdom
Amy Sackville - Orkney
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Abdulrazak Gurnah - By the Sea
Patrick O鈥橞rian - The Nutmeg of Consolation
Horace - Stormy Seas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (extract)
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea
Thomas O鈥機rohan - A currach in the midst of a storm
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
William Shakespeare - The Tempest
E Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm
Ben Fogle/James Cracknell - The Crossing
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Kraken
Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
Eleanor Hooker - Float to Live
William Wordsworth - Grace Darling (extract)
Oliver Jeffers - Lost and Found
Derek Mahon - Everything is Going to Be Alright

1 hour, 14 minutes

On radio

Sunday 19:45

Music Played

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

  • Philip Glass

    The Hours - music for the film

    Performer: Martin Jacoby. Performer: Philip Glass.
    • Silent Star Music.
    • Unknown.
  • A Little Boys Dream by Katherine Mansfield, read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • 00:03

    Charles Trenet

    La Mer

    • EMI.
    • CDP7-944642.
  • Their Eyes Were Watching Gods by Zora Neale Thurston read by Carla Henry

  • 00:07

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: David Le Page. Performer: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Sigum Classics/Naxos of America.
    • Unknown.
  • Kensuke鈥檚 Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • Orkney by Amy Sackville, read by Carla Henry

  • 00:15

    Trad.

    Kellam's Reel/Rusty Gully

    Performer: The Hands Free.
    • New Amsterdam.
    • Unknown.
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson read by Martin McCann

  • 00:19

    Maya Youssef

    The Sea

    Performer: Maya Youssef.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMM902349.
  • By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah read by Carla Henry

  • 00:24

    David Gray

    Sail Away With Me

    • IHT Records.
    • IHTLP1602.
  • 00:26

    Elisabeth Lutyens

    En Voyage 1 Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.
    • Unknown.
  • The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O鈥橞rian read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • Stormy Seas by Horace read by Carla Henry

  • 00:31

    Gioachino Rossini

    Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4156952.
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (extract) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • 00:35

    Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op.37, IV. Where Corals Lie

    Singer: Janet Baker. Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
    • 7243-575069-22.
  • Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson read by Carla Henry

  • 00:40

    Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate

    Tracing Mississippi: IV. Hashi Hiloha (Sun Thunder)

    Performer: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Azica Records.
    • ACD-71242.
  • A currach in the midst of a storm by Thomas O鈥機rohan read by Martin McCann

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • 00:49

    Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt

    Performer: Oslo Philharmonic.
    • Sony.
    • unknown.
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare read by Carla Henry

  • 00:52

    Rued Langgaard

    Symphony No.15

    Performer: Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Danacord.
    • DACOCD 409.
  • The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx read by Carla Henry

  • 01:00

    James Horner

    The Perfect Storm

    Performer: The Band of HM Royal Marines, Plymouth.
    • CLOVELLY RECORDINGS.
    • CLCD-15307.
  • The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger read by Martin McCann

  • The Crossing by Ben Fogle and James Cracknell read by Josh Bryant Jones

  • 01:06

    Nitin Sawhney

    Water - Transition 1

    Performer: Nitin Sawhney.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4795268.
  • The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson read by Carla Henry

  • 01:09

    John Bacchus Dykes

    Eternal Father Strong To Save

    Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society.
    • EMI.
    • CD-MFP-6095.
  • In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin read by Josh Bryant-Jones

  • 01:13

    Fontella Bass

    Rescue Me

    • Jewel Records.
    • JCD 5060.
  • Float to Live by Eleanor Hooker read by Eleanor Hooker

  • 01:18

    Penguin Cafe

    Rescue

    • Erased Tapes.
    • ERATP097CD.
  • Grace Darling (extract) by William Wordsworth read by Carla henry

  • 01:23

    Anna Clyne

    In The Gale

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • The Birdsong Project.
    • unknown.
  • Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers read by Carla Henry

  • 01:29

    Mumford & Sons

    After The Storm

    • Island.
    • 271-6932.
  • Everything is Going to Be Alright by Derek Mahon literary copyright payment 12257351

  • 01:32

    Ernest Chausson

    Poeme de L'amour Et de la Mer. Op 19: II Interlude

    Performer: Orchestre national de Lille.
    • Alpha.
    • LC 00516.

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