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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 23rd November 2008
Money Worries

Today’s programme was presented by Mark Tully.

The readers were William Gaminara, Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling.

Readings and Music

Music 1: ‘Money’ from A Collection of Great Dance Songs by Pink Floyd. EMI CDP7907322

Reading 1: ‘Money Rant’ from, the audio book, Reggae Head read by Benjamin Zephaniah. ISBN 1-899021-05-1

Music 2:‘The Woman with the Alabaster Box’ from Triodion / Ode VII / I am the True Vine performed by Elora Festival Singers and written by Arvo Pärt

Reading 2: ‘The Idler’ from Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson. Penguin Classics (2003)

Music 3: ‘Brother can you Spare a Dime?’ from Amazing Grace by Judy Collins. ELEKTRA 9548316162

Reading 3: ‘Contre Jour’ from Strange Territory by Elizabeth Bartlett. Peterloo Poets (1983)

Music 4: ‘Give me back my Lord’ from St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach. ASV CDQSS324

Reading 4: Silas Marner by George Eliot. Wordsworth Classics (1994)

Music 5: ‘Fell Down Fast’ from Little Black Numbers by Kathryn Williams. CAW CAW003

Reading 5: ‘Money Madness’ from Pansies by D.H. Lawrence. Fredonia Books (2002)

Reading 6: ‘Economic Possibilities for our Granchildren’ from the Oxford Book of Money by J.M. Keynes. Oxford Paperbacks (1996)

Music 6: ‘Money, Money, Money’ from ‘Arrival’ by Abba. POLAR 5499532

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