The Long Hot Summer of 1914 – the lead-up to the First World War

Poems read and Music played
1. ‘Fantasia on Greensleeves’ (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
2. ‘Adlestrop’ (Edward Thomas)
3. ‘The Lark Ascending’ (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
4. ‘Fom my Diary, July 1914’ (Wilfred Owen)
5. ‘Summer Night on the River’ (Frederick Delius)
6. ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ (George Butterworth)
7. ‘Message from the King’ (George V)
8. ‘Recruiting’ (E.A. Mackintosh)
9. ‘Joining the Colours’ (Katharine Tynan)
10. ‘Sospiri’ (Edward Elgar)
11. ‘MCMXIV’ (Philip Larkin)
14. ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’, from ‘The Planets Suite’ (Gustav Holst)