Rescue at Sea

Available for 22 days

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’s The Perfect Storm, part of Wordsworth's poem about the bravery of Grace Darling, swashbuckling tales from Patrick O’Brian 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’s Kingdom Amy Sackville - Orkney Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Abdulrazak Gurnah - By the Sea Patrick O’Brian - 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’Crohan - 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