BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Something Understood, Knights in Shining Armour

Listen :

Sorry, this programme is not available to listen again . (why?)

Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Aug 2010, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Sometimes the figure offering salvation from physical or spiritual peril isn't who we'd expect, as Tom Robinson reflects.

Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Music 1 – ‘When a Knight Won His Spurs’
Wells Cathedral Choir, Rupert Gough and Kieran White
CD: The English Hymn, Vol. 4
Hyperion CDP12104 tr. 4

Music 2 – ‘Save Me’
Aretha Franklin
CD: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Atlantic 7567814392 tr. 10

Music 3 – ‘Amazing Grace’
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
CD: No Boundaries
Heads Up HUCD3092 tr. 4

Music 4 – Ravel: ‘Chanson Romanesque – Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Gerard Souzay (Baritone)
CD: Melodies by Ravel and Debussy
EMI CDM 7631122 tr. 13

Music 5 – Leiber: ‘Along came Jones’
Ray Stevens
CD: Only the Best of Ray Stevens
Collectables Records COL-CD-1202

Music 6 – Purcell: ‘King Arthur’
Bath Festival Orchestra
CD: Baroque Classics: Works by Vivaldi, Bach
EMI CDU5650382 tr. 6

Music 7 – ‘Cold Water’
Damien Rice
CD: O
Vector Recordings 48507 tr. 8

Music 8 – Robinson: ‘The One’
Tom Robinson
CD: Having it Both Ways
Cooking Vinyl Records 97 tr. 2

Music 9 – Burgon: ‘Nunc Dimittis’
The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Matthew Owens (Cond.)
CD: Geoffrey Burgon: Choral Music
Hyperion CDA67567 tr. 18

Reading 1 – Roger Lancelyn Green: King Arthur and His Knights
of the Round Table
Pub. Everyman’s Library

Reading 2 – Mary C. Lamia and Marilyn J. Krieger: The White
Knight Syndrome
Pub. New Harbinger

Reading 3 – Carl Jung: Man and his Symbols
Pub. Laurel Press

Reading 4 – Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
Pub. Random House

Reading 5 – Alden Nowlan: ‘The Rites of Manhood’
Pub. Nineties Press

Reading 6 – Robert A. Johnson: The Psychology of Romantic Love
Pub. HarperOne

Reading 7 – Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Pub. Penguin Classics

Reading 8 – Mary C. Lamia and Marilyn J. Krieger: The White
Knight Syndrome
Pub. New Harbinger