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Mapping the Territory

A lifelong fascination with maps leads Tom Robinson on an unexpected journey into the space between the map and the territory.

A lifelong fascination with maps leads Tom Robinson on an unexpected journey into the space between the map and the territory.

With readings from Simon Garfield, Dylan Thomas and Jorge Luis Borges and music by, among others, The Divine Comedy, Sally Beamish and Radiohead performed by Christopher O'Riley.

Readers: Adjoa Andoh and Jonathan Keeble
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Sep 202023:30
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • NLP Presupposition: The Map is not the Territory. Author: John David Hoag

    Online article: http://www.nlpls.com/articles/mapTerritory.php

  • The Fatal Shore. Author: Robert Hughes.

    Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 978-0099448549

  • On the Map: Wny The World Looks The Way It Does. Author: Simon Garfield

    Publisher: Profile, ISBN: 978-1846685101

  • Sonnet 68. Author: Shakespeare

    Publisher: OUP, ISBN: 978-0199535798

  • The Myth of the Flat Earth. Author: Jeffrey Burton Russell

    Paper: American Scientific Affiliation Conference.

  • The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Author: Jorge Luis Borges

    The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986, Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978-0141183022

  • A Map of the City. Author: Thom Gunn

    The Collected Poems of Thom Gunn

  • Under Milk Wood. Author: Dylan Thomas

    Publisher: Phoenix, ISBN: 978-0753810491

  • Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. Author: Lewis Carroll & Harry Furniss

    Publisher: Ulan Press, ASIN: B009JVXPB2

  • The Divine Comedy

    : Father Ted Theme

    • Father Ted.

  • Anita Best

    The Wadham's Song

    • private recording.

  • Christopher O’Riley

    Everything in its Right Place

    • True Love Waits.
    • Odyssey, SK 87321.

  • Thomas Dolby

    The Flat Earth

    • The Flat Earth.
    • EMI, PCS 2400341.

  • Haken Hardenberger, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, Martyn Brabbins

    Trumpet Concerto

    • BBC Proms 2003.
    • BBC Recording.

  • MAGVM

    La Reina de Bastos

    • The Map is Not the Territory.

  • The Divine Comedy

    : Songs Of Love (Themes From 'Father Ted')

    • Something For The Weekend,Catalogue No.: GBBSR9600154.
    • Setanta.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 24 Nov 201306:05
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Sun 24 Nov 201323:30
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Sun 13 Sep 202006:05
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 13 Sep 202023:30
    BBC Radio 4