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As Formula One marks its 75th anniversary season, Words and Music brings you every kind of competition imagined on the racetrack. From Ian Fleming and Jules Verne’s magical motorcars, to record-breaking racehorses and a clash with Ben-Hur in a Roman hippodrome.
We’ll hear Franz Berwald’s musical take on a footrace, John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine and one of Beethoven's 12 Minuets using a Ready, Set, Go motif. And there's Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which was chosen as the main title for Gran Turismo 6, and a composition by Formula One’s very own race car driver Charles Leclerc.

Readers: Alistair Petrie and Cecilia Appiah
Producer: Sam Nixon
Production Co-ordinator: Julie Downing

READINGS:
Victor Appleton – Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout
Ian Fleming – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Eleanor M. Ingram – From The Car Behind
Georg Ebers – Serapis
Donald Walker - Walker’s Manly Exercises
Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
Fred D’Aguiar – Saloon One and Two
Banjo Paterson – Lay of the Motorcar
Percy MacKaye – The Automobile
Kozma Prutkov – The Heron and the Racing Rig
Richard Williams – A Race With Love and Death
Kevin Crossley-Holland – Odin and Hrungnir, from The Penguin Book of Norse Myths
Lew Wallace – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Kassia St. Claire – A Race to the Future
Howard R. Garis – Dick Hamilton’s Touring Car
Jules Verne – Master of the World
John Masefield – The Racer
Laura Hillenbrand – Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse
A.E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad 19: The time you won your town the race