New writing (from Miscellany50: The Archives, a special series celebrating the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of 'work'):

On Work by John Ryan (from circa 1971)

Hard Labour by Angela O'Rourke (from 1996)

An Ill Wind by Lar Redmond (from 1981)

Market Day by Benedict Kiely (from 1971)

Samuel Beckett, The Work & The Man by James Plunkett (from 1991)

Walking the Marathon by Sharon Hogan (from 2006)

Music:

Intermezzo from Il Campiello by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, performed by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Perpetuum Mobile, performed by the Penguin Café Orchestra

Soaring by Schumann, performed on piano by Arthur Rubinstein

the Minuet from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, performed by the Czech Chamber Orchestra

Meditations, by Preizner