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 5 October 2008
Tomorrow
Presented by Llewelyn Morgan
Readers: Adjoa Andoh and Jonathan Keeble
Music 1: Vaughan Williams – Symphony Number 6 in E Minor BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis
Reading 1: William Shakespeare – Henry V
Music 2: Vera Lynn – White Cliffs of Dover
Shapiro/Bernstein
From Vera Lynn: The Decca Years
Reading 2: Grahan Swift – Tomorrow Picador
Music 3: Townes Van Zandt – Come Tomorrow From Legend, Charly Records,
Reading 3: Antoine De St-Exupery – Wind, Sand and Stars Penguin
Reading 4: Derek Walcott – Tomorrow, Tomorrow
From The Arkansas Testament, Faber and Faber
Music 4: Richard Strauss – Morgen
From Four Last Songs, Soprano: Jesse Norman, Gewandhaus Orcestra Leipzig, Conductor: Kurt Magers
Reading 5: James Davidson – Courtesans and Fishcakes: consuming passions of
Classical Athens Harper Collins
Music 5: Johann Strauss – Fruhlingsstimmenwalzer From Famous Waltzes, Weiner Philharmoniker, conducted by Willi
Boskovsky
Reading 6: Simonides - Fragment no 521 From Greek Lyric Poetry, by M.L.West, Oxford World Classics
Reading 7: C P Cavafy – The God Abandoning Antony
From The Selected Poems of Cavafy
Penguin
Music 6: Leonard Cohen – Alexandra Leaving
From Ten New Songs, Sharon Robinson and Leonard Cohen
Reading 8: Omar Khayyam – The Rubaiyat
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859
Music 7: Abelard – O Quanta Qualia
From Abelard: hymns and sequences for Heloise
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, Winchester Cathedral Choristers
Directed by Mary Berry
Reading 9: Derek Mahon – Everything is Going to Be Alright
From Derek Mahon, Selected Works
Penguin
Music 8: Elbow – One Day Like This
From The Seldom Seen Kid
Something Understood is a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
