New writing (a selection from the Sunday Miscellany archive, with the following pieces all first broadcast in the 1990s):

Disturbing The Peace, by Michael Harding

Serendipity, by Nicky Barry

A Journey to a Tomb, by Kevin O’Connor

Jenny’s Hair, by Patricia O’Reilly

The Vulgar Tongue, by Catherine Cullen

Happy or Sad, by Peter Jankovsky

All Things Considered, a recent poem by the late Gerald Dawe, whose death was announced this week

Music:

Spancil Hill, by The Wolfe Tones

Cuckoo, from Benjamin Britten’s Friday Afternoons, performed by the Choir Of Downside School, Purley

Salt of the Earth, performed by Joan Baez

Hair, performed by the Cowsills

Words, by The Bee Gees

Fauré’s In Paradisum, played by Lang Lang