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01. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
02. Lamplight - May Wedderburn Cannan
03. Concert Party - Busseboom
04. A Girls Song - Katherine Tynan
05. I Have A Rendezvous with Death - alan Seeger
06. The lads In Their Hundreds - AE Houseman
07. To Victory - Siegfried Sasson
08. Whos for The Game
09. The Silent One - Ivor Gurney
10. Requiem For The Dead of Europe - Yvan Goll
11. The General - Siegfried Sasson
12. Break of Day In The Trenches - Isacc Rosenberg
13. The Call - Jessie Pope
14. Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
15. Trench Poets - Edgelli Rickword
16. To An Athlete Dying Young - AE Houseman
17. August 1914 - Isacc Rosenberg
18. The soldier Adressess His Body - Edgell Rickword
19. An Irish Airman foresees His Death - WB Yeats
20. Slumber song - Siegfried Sasson
21. The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
22. For The Fallen - Laurence Binyon
23. The Gamekeeper - Show of Hands
24. Goodbye / If You Were The Omnly Girl in the World - Show of Hands
25. The Lads In Their Hundreds - Show of Hands
26. The Padre - Show of Hands
27. Coming Home - Show of Hands
28. Its a Long Way to Tipperary - Show of Hands
29. The sunshine of your Smile - Show of Hands
30. Silent Night - Show of Hands
31. Love Will Make The World Go Round - Show of Hands
32. Goodbye Til Next Time - Show of Hands
33. The Blue Cockade- Show of Hands
34. Reguiem - Show of Hands

Released on 30 June 2014 available to pre-order now.

Two of our most popular and distinguished actors, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton, have teamed up with the celebrated West Country acoustic band Show of Hands (Steve Knightley, Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes) to mark the centenary of the First World War. The conflict lasted for four years, led to the deaths of over sixteen million soldiers and civilians, and transformed Britain and much of the world. But the brutal carnage and the horrors of life in the trenches inspired the War Poetry, an extraordinary artistic movement written by those who fought, and in some cases died, in the fighting.

Unique and powerful, Centenary Words & Music Of The Great War matches the remarkable poetry of those war years against the music of the era, along with new compositions inspired by the war. This double CD release includes one disc of twenty two poems read by Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton in new musical settings and a second disc on which Show of Hands perform distinctive versions of period favourites plus new songs from Knightley, including The Gamekeeper, and his setting for Housman’s The Lads In Their Hundreds.

Show of Hands are joined by distinguished friends from the folk scene including Jackie Oates, Jim Causley, Philip Henry and Geoffrey Lakeman.

June 2014

Show of Hands - Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War (2 CD)

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