91热爆

Classical singer and broadcaster Catherine Bott shows how writers as diverse as JM Coetzee and Joyce Grenfell have attempted to convey what music means in words.

Extracts also include John Betjeman's poem 'Business Girls', Barry Unsworth's novel Losing Nelson and Meredith Daneman's biography of Dame Margot Fonteyn.

Also, to prove her abiding love for The Archers on Radio 4, Catherine's readers are Patricia Greene and Tim Bentinck (Jill and David Archer).

Producer Mark Smalley

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in July 2008.