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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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Whether Morphine or Idealism
This programme is presented by writer and broadcaster Mark Tully.
Music 1: Kristuksen kaste composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. From the CD 'Einojuhani Rautavaara: Works for Piano'. Performed by Laura Mikkola. Released on Naxos. Catalogue number: 8.554292.
Reading 1: The Collage of God by Mark Oakley. Published by Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd. ISBN: 0232523592.
Music 2: Reach composed by Gloria Estefan and Diane Warren. From the CD 'Gloria Estefan, Reach.' Performed by Gloria estefan. Published by Sony Music. Released on Epic. Catalogue number: 663264 2.
Reading 2: Middlemarch by George Eliot. Published by Penguin. ISBN: 0141439548
Music 3: Don Juan written by Richard Strauss. From the CD 'Don Quixote, Don Juan'. Richard Strauss. Released on Elatus. Catalogue number: 0927 - 49614-2.
Reading 3: The Idealist by Robert Service
Music 4: Aram Khacaturjan, Gayaneh, Suite III, No.5 : Sabre Dance From The CD 'White Nights: Romantic Russian Showpieces', Performed by Valery Gergiev and Kirov Orchestra. Released on Philips Digital Classics. Catalogue Number 442 011 - 2.
Reading 4: Extract from Guevara by Andrew Sinclair. Published by Fontana. ISBN: 0006322565.
Music 5: March of the Pilgrims Singing the Evening Prayer composed by Hector Berlioz. From the CD 'Harold En Italie'. Performed by Gerard Causse, Orchestra of Toulouse, Michael Plasson. Released on EMI France. Catalogue number:CDC754237 2.
Reading 5: Excerpt from: Selected Letters of DH Lawrence. Published by Penguin. ISBN: 0140189505.
Reading 6: An Artist by Seamus Heaney. From Opened Ground in 'Seamus Heaney : Poems 1966-1996' Published by Faber. ISBN: 0-571-19493-1.
Music 6: ABoneCroneDrone from 'ABoneCroneDrone' composed by Sheila Chandra. Performed by Sheila Chandra, Steve Coe, Paul James, Jim Mills, Stuart Bruce. Released on Real World Records. Catalogue number: 7243 8 415 16 2 1.
Reading 7: Extract from After The Ecstasy, The Laundry by Jack Kornfield. Published by Bantam Books. ISBN: 0553378295.
Music 7: Ring Out Ye Crystal Spheres composed by Robert Armstrong. From the CD 'Once As I Remember…' Performed by Monteverdi Choir- John Eliot Gardiner. Released on Digital Classics. Catalogue number: 462 050 - 2.
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