Radio 3

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside in this week's words and music, so we're heading to the beach. The girls of summer drift by in Proust's Balbec and in music from The Beach Boys. We're building sandcastles in poetry from Jean Sprackland and AA Milne. And we're celebrating the very British seaside holiday with a passage from David Kynaston's social history Family Britain and RC Sheriff's portrait of a family on their annual holiday, The Fortnight in September. We're visiting the South Pacific with music from the Rogers and Hammerstein musical and Guyana in Grace Nichol's poem Like an Heiress, The Hebrides with Mendelssohn's concert overture and Lyme Regis with Jane Austen in Persuasion. Readings: Robert Louis Stevenson - At the Seaside Jean Sprackland – Split David Kynaston - Family Britain RC Sheriff - The Fortnight in September Lewis Carroll – The Hunting of the Snark Enid Blyton - Five on a Treasure Island Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island AA Milne - Sand Between the Toes Jane Austen – Persuasion Grace Nicols – Like an Heiress George Mackay Brown – Beachcomber Verna Allette Wilikins - A Memory Evoked Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach Marcel Proust - Within a Budding Grove Rabindranth Tagore - On the Seashore Helen Dunmore - Terra Incognita Helen Cresswell - A Gift from Winklesea Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen Readers: Hollie Chapman and Paul Rider