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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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100 Years a Forest
Today's programme is presented by the storyteller Vayu Naidu, a writer and storyteller born in India and now living in England. She talks about the unfolding of our potential as a perpetual possibility be we children or grandmothers, prisoners or fledgling nations.
Music 1: That Thou Art (Tat twam asi) from The Illumined Self: A Choral Cantata, composed by John Schlenck and performed by the Vedantic Arts Ensemble, from Vedantic Arts Recordings
Music 2
Composer: An African traditional melody composed by Jan Garbarek and Mari Boine
Album Name: Visible World
Artist:Jan Garbarek, Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur & Manu Katche
Label: ECM
Album Number:ECM 1585 529 086-2
Track Number: 11 Pygmy Lullaby
Reading 1:
Poems from HMP Lincoln
'Playing Matches',
'Away Again'
From: Writing from the Wall
Paperback 131 pages (1998)
Publisher: Bishop Grosseteste College 1998
ISBN: 1871346126
Reading 2: from Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets,
Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571 06894 4
Music 3: Mast Qalandar sung by Abida Parween, from Songs of the Mystics.
Artist: Abida Parween, label: Navras Records Ltd. Album Number: NRCD 5505/6
Reading 3: Guess Who's Coming to Christmas from a BBC Radio 4 Drama, broadcast 19 Dec 2003, Director: Vanessa Whitburn, Actor: Jim Norton,
Writer: Vayu Naidu
Music 4: Thai Mannai Vanakkam from Vande Mataram, composed by ar rahman.
Sony 488709 2
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