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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 30 March 2008
Today's programme was written and presented by Mark Tully.

PRIVACY

Reading 1: Theophile Gautier, My Fantoms, ed. Richard Holmes, publisher Quartet.

Reading 2: Rose Macaulay, Evening Parties, from The Oxford Book of Essays, ed John Gross, publisher OUP.

Reading 3: Ruth Pitter, If you came, from “Collected Poems”, publisher Enitharnon Press.

Reading 4 : Sir Walter Scott, Journal March 1826, from The New Oxford Book of English Prose, ed. John Gross, publisher OUP.

Reading 5: Teilhard de Chardin, quoted in James Roose Evans , Inner Journey Outer Journey. publisher Darton Longman Todd.

Reading 6: Anthony Thwaite, poem Together Apart, from Collected Poems, publisher Enitharnon Press.


Music  1: Noel Coward, World Weary, from London Pride.

Music 2: Helen Merrill, Solitude, from Helen Merrill.

Music 3: On Christmas Night by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a masque for ballet adapted from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, sung by the Joyful Company of Singers, with the City of London Sinfonia, cond Richard Hickox, from Christmas Music: Vaughan Williams

Music 4: Brahms, Waldesnacht (Night in the Forest), Robert Shaw Festival Singers, cond. Robert Shaw.

Music 5: Gregorian chant, Mass for Peace, Coro Gregoriana de Lisboa, dir Marie Helena Piures de Matos.

Music 6: Music for Flesh and the Devil, staring Greta Garbo, from The Silents, music by Carl Davis for silent films, played by London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis.
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