Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)

Subject: Lyr Req: Who Pays The Piper
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 02:04 AM

Can anybody help me with the words for this terrific poem by Richard Stilgoe. Having heard it on a fairly poor recording a number of times I'd dearly love to have the full text, but can't trace it. For those who don't know it, it's about 45 minutes long and is an entire (just about) history of music from Pan to the present (and future) and the recording I have has background music by just about everybody... Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Chopin... the lot.

Help!!!!!

Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 02:19 AM

Apparently, it's the script for a 45-minute BBC radio program. Can anybody link us to a recording?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: GUEST,JDTHJNS
Date: 05 Aug 22 - 08:33 AM

https://richardstilgoe.com/poems/Who%20Pays%20the%20Piper.pdf
I have a recording.
I don't know how to share it.
see @JrehnJ on twitter

Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 22 - 09:36 AM

Copying that link and dropping into a browser opens the PDF, it doesn't offer to download before seeing it - that's good.

Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 01:41 AM

The main Website is https://richardstilgoe.com/index.html. For a donation, you can download an MP3 recording of Who Pays the Piper? Is see that Stilgoe is the author of the brilliant Joyce the Librarian. SRS, I'll be interested to know what you think about Joyce. I sing it rarely, in fear my librarian friends might be offended.