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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 27 April 2008
	THE VIEW FROM ABOVE Presented by Felicity Finch. With Stephen Venables. The readers are Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble. Music: Makis Ablianitis - Balloon Traveller, From Bahar (Libra Music) Reading: Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra Reading: Tove Jansson - Flying Music: Grieg – Evening in the Mountains, Op. 68 no. 4, Balazs Szokolay (piano) (Naxos) Reading: Beryl Markham – West With the Night Music: Zipoli – Elevazione, Consort of London (Collins) Reading: John Gillespie Magee Jr - High Flight Music: Mussorgsky - Night on a Bare Mountain Reading: Maura Dooley - Up on the Roof Music: Miles Davis - Blue in Green, From Kind of Blue (Columbia) Reading: Sam Keen – Learning To Fly Music: Ane Brun - The Fall Poem: Yehuda Amichai - A Pity: We Were Such a Good Invention Music: Tibetan Monks and Nuns and Philip Glass. From The Roof of the World (Nonesuch) Music: Strauss - Four Last Songs – Im Abendrot Jessye Norman with Leipzig Gewandhaus cond. Kurt Masur, (Philips)