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 11th January 2009
The Singing Manifesto
Presented by The Kitchen Sisters – Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, Featuring Brian Eno. With extracts from their radio productions, first broadcast on NPR
Readings and Music
MUSIC: Saint-Saens – Carnival of Animals (version for steel pans)
Private recording
ARCHIVE: Dorothy Silva’s penny arcade recording
ARCHIVE: Robert King Wilkerson’s Hidden Kitchen
MUSIC: Sardines and Pork ‘n’ Beans
Jennie Johnson and Her Group, Library of Congress LP, 1978
ARCHIVE: French Manicure (Lost and Found Sound)
MUSIC: Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman
ARCHIVE: Tennessee Williams (Lost and Found Sound)
MUSIC: Hush, Baby, Hush
Private recording
INTERVIEW: Brian Eno’s Singing Manifesto
MUSIC: Georgia Sea Island Singers: O Day
From Songs of Christmas (Alan Lomax Collection), Rounder, 1998
Something Understood is a Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
