The Return
Writer Kirsty Gunn reflects on the idea of returning home.
Inevitably, we all have to leave a place and, more likely than not, will experience a yearning to return - to a home, a sense of familiarity and safety.
The writer Kirsty Gunn explores her own relationship with the Scottish Highlands and the impulse to 'make homes in words'.
With reference to writings from Katherine Mansfield, Jayne Anne Philips and CS Lewis, and music by the Dixie Chicks, Dick Gaughan and Glen Campbell.
Produced by Rachel Hooper
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
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Rickie Lee Jones
Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
Performer: Rickie Lee Jones.- Pirates.
- Warner Brothers.
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Brian Wilson
Caroline No
Performer: The Beach Boys.- Pet Sounds.
- Capital Records.
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Dick Gaughan
The Granemore Hare
- Kist o Gold.
- Highway Records.
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Jimmy Webb
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Performer: Glen Campbell.- EMI.
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Maguire/Maines/Robison/Wilson
Silent House
Performer: The Chicks.- Columbia Records.
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Tom Waits
Lost in the Harbour
Performer: Tom Waits.- ANTI/Epitaph records.
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Lament for Himself
Private recording
- Anon.
Readings
Title: At the Bay
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Wordsworth editions
Title:Fast Lanes
Author: Jayne Anne Philips
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Title: A Step Away From Them
Author: Frank O’Hara
Publisher: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Title: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: CS Lewis
Publisher: Penguin
Title: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Oxford World’s Classics
Title: Odysseus
Author: Tom Leonard
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Title: Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Publisher: Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Oct 201506:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 18 Oct 201523:30BBC Radio 4
