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SOMETHING UNDERSTOOD
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SOMETHING UNDERSTOOD
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 3 February 2008
Reflections

Today’s programme was presented by Katy Radford.

The readers were Jonathan Keeble and Emma Fielding

Readings

Reading 1:.
Naomi Alderman:Disobedience . 0’33. Pub. Penguin

Reading2:. Paul Burns: . . 0’39.  The History of the Discovery of Cinematography.

Reading 3:. Snow White: Mirror, Mirror on the wall. 0’25

Reading 4:. Abigail (BEAT): Twisted Reflection. 0’24.

Reading 5:.
Sylvia Plath: Mirror (Faber & Faber). 1’26


Reading 6:. Helen Gardner: Art Through the Ages. 1’09. Pub. Thomson/Wadsworth.

Reading7:. Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shallott . 1’07(Oxford Book of Verse)

Reading 8: . Abraham Lincoln: autobiography. 1’28

Reading 9:. JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 1’36. Pub. Bloomsbury

Music

Music. 1:
. Shuvi nafshi, sung by the Jewish Male Voice Choir. 1’41

Music. 2:. Ravel: Miroirs – Noctuelles, played by Pascal Roge. 1’01. Decca 425 002 2 tr. 13. Pub. Max Eschig

Music 3:. Denis Baptiste: Hall of Mirrors. 1’32 . Pub. Max Eschig. Decca 425 002 2 tr. 14

Music. 4:. Ravel: Miroirs – Oiseaux tristes, played by Pascal Roge. 1’26Pub. Dune Music PublishingCD: Be Where You Are. Dune DUNECD03 tr. 6

Music. 5:. Lou Reed: I’ll be Your Mirror. 1’20. Velvet Underground & Nico. CD: The Velvet Underground. Polydor 531 250 tr. 9. Pub. Oakfield Avenue Publishing

Music . 6:. Ravel: Mirroirs - Une barque sur l’ocean. 3’13. Lyon National Opera Orchestra cond. Kent Nagano. Erato 0630143312 tr. 13. Pub. Max Eschig

Music. 7:. Trad: El Rey de Francia. . 1’09. Los DesterradosCrude CRU 001 CD tr. 4

Music. 8:. Ravel: Miroirs – La Vallee des cloches. 1’54. Pascal Roge (piano). Decca 425 002 2 tr. 14. Pub. Max Eschig

Something Understood is a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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