Going through the Gate

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From the Secret Garden to the Trojan Horse, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony performed with the enemy at the gates to Franz Liszt's Dante Symphony and the Gates of Hell: today's selection of readings and music takes us through the gate. We'll hear folk songs about The Gallow Gate and the Old Garden Gate, readings about the gates of Manderley from Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca and the tollgates which are broken by the Rebecca riots in Llandeilo in 1843, and descriptions of the Watergate political scandal alongside music from the film All the President's Men. Our readers are Yasmin Mwanza and Sam Swann. Producer: Ruth Watts Readings: The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Lady Chatterley – DH Lawrence Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier The Welsh: The Biography – Terry Breverton The Third Kissing-Gate - Thomas Hardy Early One Morning - Edward Thomas Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy The Siege – Helen Dunmore Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 – Katya Hoyer The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood All the President’s Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward The Aeneid – Virgil Herodotus: The Histories – translated by Tom Holland Don Juan - Lord Byron The History of England from the Accession of James II - Thomas Babbington Macaulay The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Matthew 7:7-14 (NKJV) Divine Comedy: Hell, Canto III – Dante Poems by Number, 303 - Emily Dickinson The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien