Julia Donaldson joins Classic FM for ‘A Pocketful of Music’ – an exclusive playlist on Global Player

3 March 2022, 08:30 | Updated: 3 March 2022, 20:43

By Classic FM

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Beloved children’s author, Julia Donaldson joins Classic FM for ‘A Pocketful of Music’, an exclusive playlist on Global Player.

Best-selling children’s author Julia Donaldson, writer of The Gruffalo, is hosting an exclusive new playlist for Classic FM, released on World Book Day.

Join Julia on Global Player for ‘A Pocketful of Music’, a coming-together of fun and famous classical pieces for all the family to enjoy, together with passages from Julia’s much-loved books and songs.

In the playlist, she explores some of her favourite classical music, together with extracts from her top-selling stories, and musical extracts from her latest book, A Pocketful of Songs.

‘A Pocketful of Music’ also features music from Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, excerpts from the books The Gruffalo, Superworm and Zog, as well as original songs written and performed by Julia.

Click the image below to listen to ‘A Pocketful of Music’.

Listen to ‘A Pocketful of Music’ exclusively on Global Player.