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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 15 June 2008
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This programme is written and presented by Mark Tully

The readers are Gareth Armstrong, Nigel Coombs Hannah Gordon and Madeleine Brolly


READING 1:
Anthony Trollope, "The Warden",
Zodiac Press, 1967

READING 2: Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, from forward to "The Wisdom of the Desert fathers",
translated by Sister Benedicta Ward, pub SLG Press

READING 3: Pope Gregory, from "The spirit of Man",
edited by Robert Bridges, pub Longmans

READING 4: "The Tao te ching", Chapter 80, by Lao Tzu,
Element Books

INTERVIEW: Rajmohan Gandhi

READING 5: Anna Akhmatova, "I taught myself to live simply",
from “The Virago book of Spirituality”, pub Virago

READING 6: "The morals of Pruning" by Ruth Pitter, from Complete Poems,
pub by Enitharnon Press

MUSIC 1: Bach, solo suite for viola da gamba,
Hille Perl, cd Per La Viola da Gamba, Deutsche Harmondia Mundi 05472775152,
tr. 6, Gigue, from Suite BMV 1011/995

MUSIC 2: Vaughan Wiliams, "Job: a masque for dancing",
ACE OF CLUBS ACL 313, side 2, band 3, London Philharmonic orchestra, cond Adrian Boult

MUSIC 3: Ron and Bob Copper. Spencer the Rover, from the cd "Come Write me Down",
TOPIC TSCD 534. tr. 1

MUSIC 4: "When the day is ended", cd "AMISH MUSIC VARIETY; HYMNS TO HARMONICA",
HW971,tr 21

MUSIC 5: "Julian of Norwich" by Sydney Carter, sung by Shusha,
from cd "Lovely in the dances: songs of Sydney Carter", OSMOSYS OSMOCD 008, Tr. 2

MUSIC 6: Mendelssohn, "Behold the Lord passed by" from ":Elijah",
Wandsworth School Boys choir, New Philharmonia chorus, cond Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos,
cd EMI 568601, cd. 1, tr. 14
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