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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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The Real Me
This edition is presented by teacher, musician and community-worker Lionel McCalman, who lives in the London Borough of Hackney. When he left his Caribbean home of Guyana as a young man, he lost his strong sense of himself. He talks about the search which led him to find 'The Real Me'.
Music 1: Santa Manite, composed by : Traditional, performed by Nostalgia Steelband (Sterling Betancourt and Friends). Available on the Sterling Betancourt label.
Music 2: Maria by Slinger Francisco from the album Hot and Sweet, The Mighty Sparrow. Available from Warner Brothers, 56053
Music 3: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child a traditional spiritual, from the album On The Air, by Ethel Waters. Available from Totem 1041.
Reading 1: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, published 1989 W.H. Allen & Co.
ISBN 0 85031 3368. Reader: Hugh Dickson.
Reading 2: Wordsworth's Sonnet on Toussaint, from the Complete Poetical Works.
Reader: Gareth Armstrong
Music 4: La Bamba arranged and played by Lionel McCalman and Raul Gomez of Nostalgia Steel Band
Music 5: Moonshadow by Cat Stevens from 'Teaser & The Firecat', Island IMCD269/ 546 885-2
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