Samantha Morton and Jonathan Coy with poetry, prose and music by women and men who have lost loved ones, exploring the complexities of grief and coming to terms with living without them.
Add "Words and Music, After Life" to FavouritesAdd to Favourites Share Facebook Twitter QR code Music and featured items 45 items Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes Gwyneth Lewis A Hospital Odyssey (excerpt), reader Samantha Morton Play 30 second sample 00:00 Image for Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 10 (Finale – excerpt) Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker. Conductor: Daniel Harding. DG 477 7347, 5 Add "Gustav Mahler || Symphony no. 10 (Finale – excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The Gates Ajar (excerpt), reader Samantha Morton W H Auden Funeral Blues, reader Jonathan Coy Play 30 second sample 00:03 Image for Josef Suk Josef Suk Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Asrael) (Finale – excerpt) Orchestra: Česká filharmonie. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek. CHANDOS CHAN 9042, 5 Add "Josef Suk || Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Asrael) (Finale – excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Lynn Caine Widow (excerpt), reader Samantha Morton Play 30 second sample 00:05 Image for June Tabor June Tabor Trad The Reaper BBC RECORDING Add "June Tabor || Trad" to PlaylisterAdd Michael Rosen Carrying the Elephant (excerpt), reader Jonathan Coy Play 30 second sample 00:07 Image for Giacomo Carissimi Giacomo Carissimi Plorate, filii Israel, from Jephte Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner. ERATO 2292-45466-2, 13 Add "Giacomo Carissimi || Plorate, filii Israel, from Jephte" to PlaylisterAdd Ruth Stone Loss, reader Samantha Morton 00:13 Image for Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 10 (Finale – excerpt) Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. SYMPHONY NO. 10 (FINALE – EXCERPT), 5 Add "Gustav Mahler || Symphony no. 10 (Finale – excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd C S Lewis A Grief Observed (excerpt), reader Jonathan Coy Play 30 second sample 00:14 Image for Antonin Dvorak Antonin Dvorak Stabat Mater (excerpt) Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Česká filharmonie. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek. CHANDOS CHAN 8985/6, CD1 TR1 Add "Antonin Dvorak || Stabat Mater (excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking (excerpt), reader Samantha Morton Play 30 second sample 00:17 Image for Alban Berg Alban Berg Violin Concerto (excerpt) Performer: Josef Suk. Orchestra: Česká filharmonie. Conductor: Karel Ančerl. SUPRAPHON SU 3663-2, 7 Add "Alban Berg || Violin Concerto (excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Michael Rosen Carrying the Elephant (excerpt), reader Jonathan Coy Play 30 second sample 00:19 Image for Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt, from A German Requiem (excerpt) Choir: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Orchestra: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch. ORFEO C 039101 A, 6 Add "Johannes Brahms || Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt, from A German Requiem (excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Lynn Caine Widow (excerpt), reader Samantha Morton Kakinonoto Hitomaro I loved her like the leaves, reader Jonathan Coy Play 30 second sample 00:23 Image for Antonin Dvorak Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto (Finale – excerpt) Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras. CHANDOS CHAN 10715, 3 Add "Antonin Dvorak || Cello Concerto (Finale – excerpt)" to PlaylisterAdd Edna St. Vincent Millay Lament (excerpt), reader