Radio Riel

Today’s theme is ‘Water’ and the selec­tions are extra­or­di­nar­i­ly diverse, from tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern songs of the sea, of ships, and of those who sail in them; to pieces writ­ten to evoke rivers and lakes; to items where the water is only imag­i­nary, such as a series of com­po­si­tions about a voy­age to the Moon in a sail­ing ship, and Karl Jenk­in­s’s Imag­ined Oceans. The styles are equal­ly eclec­tic, rang­ing from folk to light to clas­si­cal and New Age music, and there’s even a bit of con­tem­po­rary pop­u­lar mate­r­i­al.

We hope you will find the pro­gramme enjoy­able and that it will keep you guess­ing, not only about what is com­ing up next, but on occa­sion what the con­nec­tion with the cen­tral theme actu­al­ly is: it’s in there some­where, even if it’s not obvi­ous from title and artist. Spot the tracks from Mal­colm Iron­ton and oth­ers from Rick Stein – a Musi­cal Odyssey for exam­ple, or Are We To Part Like This from Mary Jane New­man. What is their con­nec­tion with water? (Answers below*.)