Living With Poverty
Following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about the problem of hunger in the UK, Mark Tully considers social and personal attitudes towards poverty.
Mark Tully considers social, religious and personal attitudes towards poverty.
The Archbishop of Canterbury recently said, “It’s a tragedy that hunger still exists in the United Kingdom in the 21st century. Yet, we continue to live with scandalous inequality”.
Living in Delhi, Mark Tully is also concerned by the poverty that he sees around him there. In this edition of Something Understood, he contemplates poverty and explores the social obligations to do something about it. He talks to Dr. John Kirkby about the practical solutions to the relief of poverty on an individual level. There are readings from poet Robert Sosa, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and philosopher Loren Eiseley - with music from Bessie Smith, Femi Kuti and J.S. Bach.
The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper Britton
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Music Played
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Femi Kuti
The World Is Changing
- No Place For My Dream.
- Wrasse Records.
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The Divine Comedy
Eye Of The Needle
- Regeneration.
- Parlophone.
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Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out
- Empty Bed Blues.
- ASV.
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Bing Crosby
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
- Out Of Nowhere.
- London.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brich dem Hungarigen dein Brot
Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Bach Cantatas [SDG, 2000].
- SDG.
Readings
Title: The Poor
Author: Roberto Sosa
Published by: Poerty Magazine
Title: Moral Man And Immoral Society
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Published by: Continuum
Title: The Cocklewoman
Author: Menna Elfyn
Published by: Bloodaxe
Title: The Star Thrower
Author: Loren Eiseley
Published by: Mariner Books
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Jan 2016 06:05
- Sun 3 Nov 2019 06:05
