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Last broadcast on Sun, 8 Nov 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish family, looks at how ancient wisdom is passed down through families - what we choose to remember, what we carry with us from the previous generation and what we create for the next.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
Music
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Antonin Dvorak sung by Kirsten Flagstad
Nimbus Records.
Oyf’n Pripetshok
from the soundtrack of the film Schindler’s List
MCA.
The Bucks of Oranmore
played by Irish musician Seamus Ennis on the Uillean Pipes.
Proverb by Steve Reich
(composed around a text of Wittgenstein’s: How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life)
Onesuch Records, Warner.
My Curly Headed Baby sung
by Paul Robeson from his CD songs of Free Men
Heritage
Music
The Only Constant is Change
Readings
"Proverbial Ballade" by Wendy Cope from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Faber and Faber.
An extract from "Blackberry Winter" by Margaret Mead, published by Angus & Robertson.
"Some Ancestor of Mine", a poem by Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein taken from Collected Poems and Translations by Elaine Feinstein publisher Carcanet.
"Mirror" a poem by Elaine Feinstein, published by Carcanet.
"Not Yet My Mother" a poem by Owen Sheers from The Blue Book, published by Seren.
Broadcasts
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Sun 8 Nov 200906:05
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Sun 8 Nov 200923:30
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