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	Sundays 06:05-06:35 Rpt: Sunday 23:30-24:00
	Each week the programme examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry.

	Programme details: Sunday 9 December 2007
	The Path of the Convert Today’s programme was presented by Madeleine Bunting. In this week’s Something Understood, Madeleine interviewed Yahya Birt The readers were William Gaminara and Emily Raymond. Readings: Reading 1: Pensees’ by Pascal. Translation and introduction by A.J Krailsheimer. Published by Penguin. Reading 2: An extract from ‘The Call to Conversion’ by Jim Wallis. Published by Mnarch. Reading 3: ‘We Have Said Yes’ by Alan Horner. Taken from the collection ‘A Picture With the Paint Still Wet’ Reading 4: ‘The Goose’ by Selima Hill. Taken from ‘Saying Hello at the Station’ published by Chatto and Windus. Reading 5: ‘The Conversion of St Augustine’ by Sarah Ruden. Music: Music 1:’Paulus – Overture’ by Mendelssohn. Taken from the album ‘Paulus’ EMI CMS7640052. Music 2: ‘Serenade: Vivace’ by Sir Lennox Berkeley. From the album ‘Berkeley Lennox and Michael’. CHANDOS CHAN9981 Music 3: ‘Sunday’ by Art Blakey Quintet. From the album ‘A Jazz message’ MCA MCAD5648. Music 4: ‘Bhaja Govindam’ by Alice Coltrane. Music 5: ‘By the Rivers Dark’ by Leonard Cohen. Taken from the album ‘Ten new Songs’ COLUMBIA 5012022. Music 6: ‘Symphonie No. 5’ by Gustav Mahler. DEUTSHCE GRAMMOPHON 4377892 Something Understood is a Unique production for BBC Radio 4.










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