The Unfamiliar
Mark Tully explores the attraction of the unfamiliar – the draw of unfamiliar places, the delight of fresh experiences and the positive pleasures of discovering new things.
The attractions of unfamiliarity are many - a cure for ennui, antidote to monotony, stimulation for jaded appetites. What is it about the strange, the new or the exotic that exerts such an appeal?
Mark Tully explores the attraction of the unfamiliar and the important role our hunger for new places, new people, new fashions and new experiences plays in understanding the world.
There is music from Gavin Bryars, Claude Debussy and Johnny Cash and readings from John Masefield, Rita Dove and philosopher Dale Andrews.
The readers are Paapa Essiedu and Emma Pallant.
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Eartha Kitt
Monotonous
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Claude Debussy
Syrinx (feat. Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano), Truls Mork (cello))
- EMI.
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Gavin Bryars
Il Hitt Blinda Liôiô (The Company of the Blind)
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Gustav Holst
Hymn To The Dawn (feat. The Purcell Singers & Osian Ellis)
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Johnny Cash
I've Been Everywhere
- Universal.
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Franz Liszt
Les Cloches de Geneve (feat. Lazar Berman)
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Readings
Author: Hafiz
Published in The Gift, by Penguin
Title: Othello
Author: William Shakespeare
Published by Simon & Schuster
Title: Things I Say to Myself
Author: Dale Andrews
Published by Xlibris
Title: Dawn Revisited
Author: Rita Dove
Published in Alternative Anthem: Selected poems with Live DVD (Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Nov 201606:05BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sun 17 Nov 201906:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 18 Jun 202306:05BBC Radio 4
