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 March 2008
Deeper Than Desire
Today’s programme was presented by Mark Tully.
The readers were Emma Fielding and David Holt.
Readings
Reading 1. ‘Befriending Our Desires’ by Philip Sheldrake. Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
Reading 2. Poem by Hadewijch, at end of preface of ‘Befriending Our Desires’ by Philip Sheldrake
Reading 3. ‘Jean Racine’ by Phedre. Translated by Ted Hughes.
Reading 4. ‘Crisis of Faith – danger or opportunity’ by Sr Cecilia Goodman CJ.
Reading 5. ‘Love Songs in Age’ by Phillip Larkin from Collected Poems.
Reading 6. ‘Home-Sickness’ by Charlotte Bronte. From The Bronte Sisters Selected Poems.
Reading 7. John Ruysbroeck quote from ‘An Anthology of Mysticism’, Burns and Oats
Music
Music 1. 'Hireath’ by Grace Williams. From the CD ‘Sea of Glass Harpsichord Works by Various Composers’.
Music 2: ‘Vadam et Circuibo’ from ‘The Call of the Beloved’ by Tomas Luis de Victoria. From the CD ‘Sacred Choral Works’.
Music 3: ‘Mi Yiteni’ The Burning Bush. From the CD ‘Folksongs of Israel’.
Music 4: ‘Like as The Hart Desireth the waterbrooks’ by Herbert Howells. From the album ‘Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates’Performed by the Malborough College Chapel Choir.
Music 5: Capercaille: ‘A State of Yearning’.
Music 6: ‘Westminster Mass’ by Roxanna Panufnik. From the CD ‘Westminster Mass’ Performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.
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