Bradford

As the city of Bradford hosts the New Music Biennial, which is being recorded for broadcast by Radio 3, this week's Words and Music brings us a mix of old and new writing and music evoking the city and its surrounds - from the drama of the moors to the quiet beauty of surrounding farmland; from the legacy of the Industrial Revolution to the multi-cultural magic of today. You will hear the music of Delius, of Jasdeep Singh Degun and Hans Zimmer - who imagines a woman from Bradford as the critical listener to all his film scores. There’ll be the emotional power of the Brontes, the wisdom of JB Priestley and the contemporary zip of AA Dhand's Virdee. We’ll hear how some of Bradford’s brilliant sons and daughters experienced the city, from the biography of the artist David Hockney to the memoir of the broadcaster Anita Rani to the working class playwright Andrea Dunbar who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

Our readers are Vinette Robinson who starred in Boiling Point and Enzo Cilenti of Game of Thrones and The Serpent Queen.

Readings:
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day by Anne Brontë
Low Moor Iron Works 1829 by John Nicolson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Music of Frederick Delius by Jeremy Dibble
Home to Waggonhouses by Marjorie Olive Whitaker
Windy Ridge by William Riley
Bright Day by JB Priestley
Hockney, the biography by Christopher Sykes
Rita, Sue and Bob too by Andrea Dunbar
Bradford by Susanna Clark
The audiobook of The Right Kind of Girl by Anita Rani
The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain
BFD by Kirsty Taylor
Hive Mother’s Prayer by Rachel Bower
The Blasphemers' Banquet by Tony Harrison
Streets of Darkness by AA Dhand
Bradford by Joolz Denby

Produced in Salford by Olive Clancy