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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 August 2008
Ambition

This programme written and presented by Mark Tully.

The readers are Gareth Armstrong, Nigel Coombs and Simon Tcherniak.

READING 1: G. F. Macleod, from "From Darkness to Light" ed. Victor Gollancz, pub. Gollancz.

READING 2: Dadu, from "The Oxford Book of Prayer", pub. OUP.

READING 3: Francis Bacon, "Essay 36: Of ambition" from "Essays", pub. Dent.

READING 4: Aung San Suu Kyi, "Freedom from Fear", pub. Penguin, 1995.

INTERVIEW: Anthony Howard

READING 5: Father Gilbert Shaw, from "Inner Journey Outer Journey", by James Roose Evans, pub. Darton Longman Todd.

READING 6: Thomas Gray, "Elegy in a country churchyard" found in "The Spirit of Man" ed. Robert Bridges, pub. Longmans.

MUSIC 1: Eton Boating Song, sung by pupils at Eton college, CDGRAM tr.10.

MUSIC 2: "O for a closer walk with thee", CV Stanford, sung by the Cambridge Singers, dir John Rutter, from cd "If I lift mine eyes: sacred music of Stanford and Howells", Collegium COLCD 118 (1) tr. 5.

MUSIC 3: "Gonna build a mountain" - Sammy Davis Junior. Reprise R20048.

MUSIC 4: Noel Coward,"Don’t put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington", from cd "Legends of the 20th century: Noel Coward", EMI 4999232, tr. 16.

MUSIC 5: Mahler: Symphony Number 8 (Symphony of a thousand), Prague Philharmonic choir, Netherlands Radio Choir, Jane Eaglen, Anne Schwanewilms, sopranos, Ben Heppner, tenor, Royal Concertgebow Orchestra, cond Riccardo Chailly, CD DECCA 4673142, CD 1. tr.1.


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