Just Williams

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Actors William Gaminara and Rose Williams bring us an array of characters called Bill or William; and writing from William Boyd’s spy novel Restless, to American poet Billy Collins’ poem The Best Cigarette, Wordsworth and Blake to Will Harris and Richmal Crompton’s “Just William”. Musically, we move from the folk song about Barbara Allen and Sweet William to Nat King Cole’s version of Sweet William, through Roderick Williams’s re-arrangement of William Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus to William Grant Still’s Prayer from his Symphony no 3. and Grace Williams’s Calm Sea in Summer, Harry Gregson-Williams’s music for Chicken Run to American jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams's Walkin’ and Swingin’. Producer: Simon Funnell Editor: Robyn Read Readings: Shakespeare Richard III Billy Collins The Best Cigarette Richmal Crompton Just William CK Williams Peggy William Boyd Restless William Wordsworth By the Sea William Carlos Williams Love Song Barbara Allen William Fiennes The Music Room Will Harris Brother William Blake The Garden of Love William Shakespeare Twelfth Night