Sound of Cinema : BBC Radio 3
Saturday 10th May 16:00 Gary Yershon joins Matthew Sweet to celebrate Georges Auric’s work for cinema. programme webpage Matthew Sweet explores the…
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Soundtracking
Gary Yershon is Edith Bowman’s guest on Soundtracking, discussing Hard Truths, his relationship with the director Mike Leigh, his process and his experience within…
Composers in a Jukebox
From freeing oneself from traditional harmonic principals, intelligently misleading instrumental combinations, to the parallel between melody writing and the art of brewing…
Soho Bites: All Night Long (1962)
At Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho, Dominic Delargy talks to Gary Yershon and Tom Smith about Basil Dearden’s All Night Long (1962) Soho…
Soundvision
In conversation with Soho Radio’s Sukie Smith listen to the show In conversation with Soho Radio’s Sukie Smith: “Oscar nominated composer Gary…
Soho Bites podcast: A Touch of Class (1973) & Bradley’s Spanish Bar
This is the Spanish episode. Dominic Delargy finds out about the history of Bradley’s Spanish Bar from its manager, Jan de Vries…
Mural Morsels: George Melly
A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho…
Join the Dots
Join the Dots, Series 1 Monday 18th – Friday 22nd September 2017 13:45 BBC Radio 4 Then there was a pause… Janet…
The Verb in the Great War
July 2014 Radio 3 Synopsis: Gary has composed a piece for the Verb considering George Orwell’s essay ‘Rudyard Kipling’. Performing with Gary is…
Troilus and Criseyde
BBC Radio 4 production – 2009 Synopsis: Lavinia Greenlaw’s new version for radio brings Chaucer’s language up-to-date for a modern audience while…
Three Men in A Boat
Sparklab Prods for BBC Radio 4, 2013 Synopsis: The Now Show’s Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt with Julian Rhind-Tutt from Green Wing…
Chicken Soup With Barley
Transfer to radio of The Royal Court Theatre’s 2011 production of Arnold Wesker’s landmark play from 1958 that captures the collapse of…
Gawain and the Green Knight
a new verse translation by Simon Armitage, narrated by Ian McKellen. with music composed by Gary Yershon http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007721h
The Theban Plays
translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker music composed by Gary Yershon directed by Nadia Molinari for BBC Radio 3 www.bbc.co.uk pressrelease
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman A woman is taken to the country by her husband in order to cure her of an unnamed…
The Eve of St Agnes
this setting of La Belle Dame Sans Merci was part of the adaptation… singer Daniel Evans lutenist Jacob Heringman La Belle Dame Sans Merci…
If Not Now, When?
To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a radio adaptation by Jeremy Howe of Primo Levi…
The House in the Trees
a play by Nell Leyshon, directed by Susan Roberts Words by Nell Leyshon Music by Gary Yershon Sung by Carly…
The River Girl
Written in verse, in the traditional fairy-tale style, Wendy Cope’s play looks at love and loss through Isis, a magical river girl…
The Odyssey
Homer’s epic poem, dramatised by Simon Armitage with music composed by Gary Yershon. directed by Janet Whitaker. BBC Radio 4
The Home Field
A drama documentary by Nell Leyshon BBC Radio 3 The Home Field by Nell Leyshon A drama documentary using poetry and prose…
Yeats and Margot
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon play A portrait of the three-year relationship between WB Yeats and Margot Ruddock, told through their letters and…
Plasticine
The Royal Court Theatre’s production of Vassily Sigarev ‘s play in which Maksim is a tormented young man trying to survive in…
Autumn Journal
by Louis MacNeice read by Samuel West music composed by Gary Yershon directed by Susan Roberts for Radio 4 Silver Sony Radio…
Remembering Mum
Using a mixture of drama and interviews with children who have lost a parent, poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw ‘s play is…
The Emigrants
Adapted and directed by Edward Kemp; from the award-winning book by W.G.Sebald. The life of a lost relative leads to a journey…
The Wasting Game
Philip Gross gives a father’s perspective on his daughter’s near-fatal struggle with anorexia in a frank and moving sequence of poems. Five…
Ruslan and Lyudmila
a dramatisation of Pushkin’s poem starring Pam Ferris, Kate Fleetwood, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones, Chris Langham, Kevin McKidd, David Ryall and Donald Sinden. BBC Radio…
Alexander Pushkin – The Place of the Poet
Pushkin is the father of Russian literature and, arguably, the creator of modern literary Russian language. His poetry is still recited in…
In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields
By Bernard-Marie Koltes, translated by Jeffrey Wainwright. Two men, the Dealer and the Client, meet at night in an empty industrial space…
People Come Here to Cry
A humorous monologue by Char March about the counselling industry. Fortysomething Deborah Smith comes to an emotional watershed. During the vacuuming, a…
Room of Leaves
Using poetry and prose, Amanda Dalton ‘s poignant story tells of how a jilted woman, aged 70, is found dead in a…
Dark Matter
‘First of four collaborations between storytellers and musicians. New tellings of old narratives combine with music from the forefront of the avant-garde…
Stanza on Stage
Simon Armitage introduces a poem for radio by a poet new to the medium. The Red Field by Graham Mort. Isolated by…
The Red Field
A poem for radio by Graham Mort; Isolated by a troubled childhood, twins Hannah and Leonard reach out to each other across…
Who Shall Bind The Infinite?
William Blake , poet and visionary, conversed with angels as readily as with his wife and friends. Simon Rae ‘s compilation explores…
A Memory Lost
The Peasant Poet of Northampton, John Clare shot to poetic fame and met the literary giants of his day, including Coleridge and…
Tiger! Tiger!
Gulliver Foyle survives abandonment in space to create vengeful havoc. Even the War Lords of the 24th century fail to stop him ……
Looking for a Bluebird
by Joseph Wechsberg : abridged in seven parts by Gary Yershon : read by Peter Jones : produced by Susan Roberts
Nicola Johnson
Capital Radio – Composed by Gary Yershon. Capital Radio was launched in 1973, a local commercial station for London. To add to…
Mrs Worthington,You Were Warned
BBC Radio 4 Four years after its first appearance at the Chester Gateway, and three years after its London debut at the…
The Last Christmas
A seasonal comedy by Christopher Russell for BBC Radio 4 Sinning is winning, evil’s increasing, so Grum the Prince of Evil. should be…
Just Before Midnight : Aladdin in 15 Minutes.
A radio pantomime by John Morley with Alfred Marks, Polly James, Hugh Paddick, John Bott, Jenny Twigge, Michael McStay, and Fenella Fielding…
