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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 26th October 2008
Because of the Fire

Today’s programme was presented by Jane Ray and includes interviews with Siaye Niakamal and Shirley Golding.

Readings and Music

Music: Debussy - Claire de lune (from Suite bergamasque)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 434 626-2 tr. 3
(CD: The Final Sessions, vol. 2)

Reading: Ezra Pound – In a Station on the Metro
(Fortnightly Review, 1914)

Archive: BBC R4 News Bulletin 2.1.2008

Music: Buck/Mills/Stipe The Outsiders
REM featuring Q Tip
Warner 9362-48911-2 tr. 3
(CD: Around the Sun)
pub. Temporary Music

Interview: Siaye Niakamal & Shirley Golding

Music: Debussy - Claire de lune (from Suite bergamasque)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 434 626-2 tr. 3
(CD: The Final Sessions, vol. 2)

Reading: Carol Ann Duffy - Prayer
pub. Bloomsbury

Music: Rubin Gonzalez - Pueblo Nuevo
(CD: Buena Vista Social Club) Tr. 4
Pub. World Circuit

Reading: Ezra Pound - In A Station on The Metro.
(Fortnightly Review, 1914)

Reading: Newspaper clippings 0’58/0’40

Reading: Thomas Hardy – Faintheart in a Railway Train
(Poetry 1900-1975, pub. Longman)

Music: Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto no. 2
Lang Lang (piano)
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra cond. Valery Gergiev
DG

Music: Tandie Klaasen - Sophia Town
(CD: Together as One)
unlabelled CD tr. 5

Reading: Fate by Shi Tie Sheng.

Music: Trad. Persian
Amir Aram (singer)
Taranch Enterprises CD90 tr. 1

Reading: Richard Carter quoting Father Peter Hosking
(source – unknown)

Reading: Czeslaw Milosz – Encounter
(Collected Poems, pub. Ecco)

Music: Debussy - Claire de lune (from Suite bergamasque)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 434 626-2 tr. 3
(CD: The Final Sessions, vol. 2)

Reading: Charles Causley – I am the Song
Pub. Papermac

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