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Last broadcast on Sun, 27 Sep 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much more than the mere absence of noise.
The readers are Ian Masters and Liza Sadovy.
A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
Music
Music 1: ‘Silent Devotion (Prelude) and Response’ composed by Ernest Bloch
Music 2: ‘Gradual Flores Apparuerunt’ performed by the Choir of the Carmelite Priory. Available on the album The World of Gregorian Chant, released by Decca.
Music 3: ‘Dont Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)’ performed by Anne Sofie Von Otter. Available on the album Anne Sofie Von Otter Meets Elvis Costello, released by Deutsche Grammophon.
Music 4: ‘Hymns to the Silence’ performed by Van Morrison. Available on the album Best Of, Vol. 2, released by Polydor.
Music 5: ‘Larghetto from Piano Concerto No. 27 in B Flat Major’ composed by Mozart and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Available on the album Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 and 27, released by Grammofono 2000.
Music 6: ‘Prelude to a Meditation’ composed by John Cage. Available on the album In a Landscape, released by Catalyst.
Readings
Reading 1: The Silent Life by Thomas Merton. Published by Continuum Books
Reading 2: The Creed of Buddha written by Edmund Holmes. Published by J. Lane, New York.
Reading 3: ‘The Island’ written by Lord Byron
Reading 4: ‘Exchange’ by R.S. Thomas
Reading 5: ‘The Amazing Fact of Quaker Worship’. Swarthmore lecture given in 1973 by George H. Gorman.
Reading 6: ‘Experimental Music’ in Silence written by John Cage. Published by Wesleyan University Press.
Reading 7: ‘Tintern Abbey’ by William Wordsworth
Reading 8: Krapp’s Last Tape written by Samuel Beckett. Published by Faber and Faber.
Production Credits
Something Understood is a Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
Broadcasts
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Sun 27 Sep 200906:05
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Sun 27 Sep 200923:30
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