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.
Programme details: 12 June 2005
Why humans sing: presented this week by retired surgeon Prof. Arnold Maran.
Music 1 - composer: Flotow
Album Name: Beniamino Gigli -Victor Recordings
Artist: Beniamino Gigli
Label: Romophone
Album Number: 820032
Track: Martha M'appari
Reading 1 - William Wordsworth To the skylark read by Andrew Watson
Music 2 - composer: Rodgers/Hammerstein
Album Name: Atlantic Jazz Legends vol. 1
Artist: Various
Label: Atlantic
Album Number: R2 71257
Track: My Favourite Things performed byJohn Coltrane
Music 3 - Composer: Paul Anka
Album Name: Sex Pistols: The great rock n roll swindle
Artist: The Sex Pistols
Label: Virgin
Album Number: CDVD 2510
Track: My Way
Music 4 - Composer: Paul Anka
Album Name: Frank Sinatra 'My Way'
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Label: Reprise
Album Number: 9362467102
Track: My Way
Extract - Life of Bliss from the BBC Radio Archive. This recording is not available
Music 5 - Album Name: An introduction to Early Music
Artist: Nova Schola Gregoriana
Label: Naxos
Album Number: 8.551203
Track: Gregorian Chant for Good Friday
Reading 2 - Saint Augustine
"So often as I call to mind the tears I shed at the hearing of the church songs whenas I am moved not with the singing but the thing sung. And yet so often it befalls me to be moved with the voice rather than the ditty, I confess myself to have grievously offended, at which time I wish rather not to have heard the music."
Read by Andrew Watson
Extract - Marshall McLuhan interviewed by Eric Mottram 1966. From the BBC Radio Archive - this recording is not available
Music 6 - Composer: Beatles
Album Name: Revolver
Artist: Beatles
Label: EmI
Album Number: CDP 7 46441 2
Track: Tomorrow Never Knows
Music 7 - Composer: Handel
Album Name: Farinelli
Artist: Original Soundtrack - Rousset
Label: Travelling
Album Number: K1005
Track: Air de Almirena
Music 8 - Composer: Verdi
Album Name: L'Art de Maria Callas
Artist: Maria Callas
Label: EMI
Album Number: CDM 7 63245 2
Track: La Traviata
