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In an age obsessed with the extraordinary lives of celebrities, how can we learn to appreciate the riches to be found in the ordinary?

Mark Tully celebrates what award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson has called ‘the dear ordinary', and what GK Chesterton described as ‘the ecstasy of being ordinary'. In an age obsessed with the extraordinary lives of celebrities, how can we learn to appreciate the riches to be found in the ordinary?

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Sun 7 Jun 200921:32GMT
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    BBC World Service Online