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Learning to Wait

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Last broadcast on Sun, 21 Aug 2011, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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Taking his cue from Richard Church's eponymous poem, Tom Robinson considers what's required of us in 'Learning To Wait'.

The poem's paradoxical observation, 'All that I have grasped at I have lost, All I relinquished won', provokes Tom to explore the work of other writers who have reflected on wanting and waiting, including Milan Kundera, TS Eliot and DH Lawrence. With music by KD Lang, Shostakovich and Brian Eno.

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

READINGS

Title: In Praise of Slow
Author: Carl Honoré
Publisher: Orion, 2005
ISBN: 978-0752864143

Title: Marshmallow Experiment
Author: Walter Mischel
Publisher: Stanford University

Title: Leaf and Tendril: The Writings of John Burroughs Part Fifteen
Author: John Burroughs
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2004
ISBN: 978-1417944354

Title: The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence – The Elephant is Slow To Mate
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1994
ISBN: 978-1853264177

Title: To His Coy Mistress
Book: The Complete Poems
Author: Andrew Marvell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0140424577

Title: Slowness
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1997
ISBN: 978-0571179435

Title: The Conquest of Happiness
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition
ISBN: 978-0415378475

Title: A Coney Island of the Mind
Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 2008
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN: 978-0811217477

Title: Learning To Wait
Author: Richard Church
Book: Valuing and Educating Young People: stern love the Lyward Way by Jeremy Harvey
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 978-1843100560

Music played

  1. Philip Glass Philip Glass — Koyaanisqatsi - Resource

    Performer: Philip Glass Ensemble

    Philip on Film, Nonesuch, 7559 79660-2, CD 1 tr. 4

  2. Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Concerto No. 2, Op.102 – 2nd mvt. Andante

    Performer: Dmitri Alexeev (piano), English Chamber Orchestra cond. Jerzy Maksymiuk

    Shostakovich, EMI, 382 234 2, 13

  3. The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones — I Am Waiting

    Aftermath, Decca, B00006RT4U, 11

  4. k.d. lang k.d. lang — Still Thrives This Love

    Composer: KD Lang/Ben Mink

    Ingénue, Sire/Warner Bros, 7599-26840-2, 6

  5. Herbert of Cherbury — Pavan of the Composition of mee Herbert of Cherbury and Castle Island

    Performer: Paul O’Dette (lute)

    Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Lute, Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907068, 12

  6. Brian Eno Brian Eno — Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960

    On Land/Ambient 4, Virgin, B002DKF550, 8

  7. Brother Ty — Rain

    Upwards, Big Dada, B00020JPDG, 5

  8. Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Concerto No. 2, Op.102 – 2nd mvt. Andante

    Performer: Dmitri Alexeev (piano), English Chamber Orchestra cond. Jerzy Maksymiuk

    Shostakovich, EMI, 382 234 2, 13

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 21 Aug 2011
    06:05
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Sun 21 Aug 2011
    23:30
    BBC Radio 4

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  1. Something Understood

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