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SOMETHING UNDERSTOOD
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Sundays 6.05-6.35am
repeated 11.30-midnight
Each week the programme examines some of the larger questions of life by taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through Music, prose and poetry.

It brings together the thoughts, ideas and works of the great thinkers, theologians, poets and composers. Something Understood has a multi-faith approach, often bringing in examples from Eastern philosophy as well as the Western Christian world.

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Mark Tully
Fergal Keane
Joan Bakewell
Mike Wooldridge
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13 March 2005
Glimpses in the garden

Today's programme is presented by Joyce Laing - an art therapist - and she talks about what we can learn from art on the margins. Plus interview with 'Lone Pigeon'..

Music 1: Polonaise in F Minor Op 71 from 'Polonaises vol. 2' by Chopin, performed by Idil Biret available on NAXOS 8.554535

Reading 1: from Foreword to 'Art Brut' by Michel Theroz, Reader Alain Fontaine, Bookking International ISBN: 2605003078

Music 2: Vincent by Don Mclean, from 'American Pie' EMI CDP 7 46555 2

Music 3: 'The shepherd' by Vaughan Williams, from The Very Best of English Song sung by Ian Partridge. EMI 5 75926 2

Music 4: actuality of Lone Pigeon playing organ and piano in his house - not available

Music 5: Concubine Rice by Lone Pigeon from Sketch / fence Records, Sketch 001

Music 6: the Presto from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata op 27 played by Alfred Brendel. Philips 411 470-2

Reading 2: Rashin -Coatie, from Scottish Fairy Tales, published by Senate, reader Sheena Anthoney. This is out of print.

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