It was created for the BBC to mark the album's 40th anniversary earlier this year, broadcast in August, and has now received its CD release. Asked if he felt trepidation over removing most of Waters' lyrics, Stoppard tells the New York Times: "I had less trepidation about that than I did in writing over the music.

"I know David Gilmour somewhat better than I know the other members of the band, and I was feeling diffident about the possibility that David would mind if the music was pushed into the background, half-heard, in order for my words to take the foreground.