The Twilight Zone
Journalist Malcolm Doney explores, with poetry and prose, how humans respond to the twilight zone - that shift from daytime to night, both in our surroundings and within ourselves.
The film The Revenant was filmed only at twilight, to capture the natural light ‘when God speaks’, in the words of its star Leonardo DiCaprio. This is just the latest example of a fascination with that shift from daytime to night that has absorbed poets, writers, artists and those with faith and of none.
Journalist Malcolm Doney explores - with poetry, prose and music - how we respond to this twilight zone, both in our surroundings and within ourselves.
Presenter: Malcolm Doney
Producer: Jonathan Mayo
A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4
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The Northwest Sinfonia, Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Revenant Main Theme
- The Revenant: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
- Milan Records.
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Bob Dylan
Knockin On Heaven's Door
- Biograph.
- Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
The Twilight Zone Theme
- 100 Greatest TV Themes.
- Silva Screen Records Limited.
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Clare College Chapel Choir
Compline Service
- Compline Service.
- Guild.
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The Sixteen Choir
Harry Gregorio Allegri Miserere
- Renaissance: Music For Inner Peace.
- Decca.
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Nicholas Dodd and Sissel
She Walks In Beauty
- Vanity Fair OST.
- Decca (UMO).
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Hothouse Flowers
Itll Be Easier In The Morning
- People.
- London Records 90 Limited.
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Serendipity
Serendipity - O Nata Lux
- Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
- SAIN.
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Noah and the Whale
Waiting For My Chance To Come
- Last Night On Earth.
- Mercury Records Limited.
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Sam Cooke
A Change Is Gonna Come
- Aint That Good News.
- ABKCO Records Limited.
Readings
Title: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: R. and J. Dodsley, W. Johnston
Title: Blue Nights
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Title: Lifesaving Poems forward by Anthony Wilson
Author: Anthony Wilson
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Title: Let evening come
Author: Jane Kenyon
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Title: Real presences
Author: George Steiner
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Title: To Know the Dark
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: counterpoint
Title: She Walks In Beauty
Author: Byron
Publisher: John Murray
Title: Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic Psalter
Author: John Philip Newell
Publisher: New Beginnings / Material Media
Title: Variation on a Theme by Rilke
Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions
Title: Everything Is Going To Be Alright (New Collected Poems)
Author: Derek Mahon
Publisher: Gallery Press
Broadcasts
- Sun 1 May 201606:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 5 May 201906:05BBC Radio 4
