from Scotland via Australia to the Somme

Playlist: texts read and music played

1. Simon Armitage: ‘The Bed’ (Armistice Day, 2020)
2. Hymn: ‘Abide with Me’
3. Frederick Delius: ‘In a Summer Garden’ (1912)
4. Leon Gellert: ‘These Men’
5. Frederic Manning: ‘Grotesque’
6. Walter A. Gale: ‘Play the Game’
7. L.E. Hamphray: ‘Australians Awake!’
8. Eric Bogle: ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’
9. Wilfred Owen: ‘Exposure’
10. Leon Gellert: ‘In the Trench’
11. Vance Palmer: ‘The Farmer Remembers the Somme’
12. Alec Waugh: ‘From Albert to Bapaume’
13. Isaac Rosenberg: ‘Returning, We hear the Larks’
14. Ralph Vaughan Williams: ‘The Lark Ascending’
15. Walter J. Turner: ‘Death’s Men’
16. Wilfred Owen: ‘Futility’
17. Padre G.A. Stoddert Kennedy: ‘His Mate’
18. Edward Elgar: ‘Sospiri’
19. Wilfred Owen: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
20. Edith Nesbit: ‘Spring in War Time’
21. Lee Kernaghan: ‘Spirit of the Anzacs’