The Dance of Life

The actor Felicity Finch reflects on childhood ballet lessons, adult salsa classes and observations of dance-like movements in everyday life through the writings of Isadora Duncan and Rudolph Laban, Gunther Grass' autobiography and Gabrielle Roth's Sweat Your Prayers.

And she talks with Colin MacLean, a retired priest, who considers dance a form of prayer.

With music by Massenet, Alex Jeffes and His Hotheads and Ali Farka Toure

Readers: Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4