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Running with the Crowd

Mark Tully examines crowds and considers the positive and negative behaviour that being part of such large groups brings out in people.

Mark Tully considers the idea of 'Running with the Crowd' from the Gordon Riots in the eighteenth century to Woodstock in the 60s or the Arab Spring a few months ago. He asks why it is that being part of a crowd moves individuals in different ways than the same event experienced alone, and examines the positive and negative aspects of being part of a crowd.

With the help of the work of Peter Ackroyd, Dannie Abse, V.S. Naipaul and Shakespeare and with music by J. S. Bach, Malcolm Arnold, Joni Mitchell and Aaron Copeland, Mark Tully picks his way through different crowds and asks whether they are destructive or empowering.

The readers are Hattie Morahan and Dan Stevens.

Producer: Frank Stirling
A Unique production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Nov 2011 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Sie schrieen aber noch mehr", St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

    Performer: John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, The London Oratory Junior Choir, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Olaf Bär, Patrick Russill

    • J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion.
    • Decca.
    • B001LR2MB6.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Peterloo

    Performer: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic Orchestra (Conducted by Rumon Gamba)

    • Malcolm Arnold Overtures.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • CHAN 10293.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Woodstock

    Performer: Joni Mitchell

    • Hits.
    • Warner.
    • B000002N9Z.

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Performer: Aaron Copland

    • Aaron Copland: El Salon Mexico, Appalachian Spring.
    • Sony.
    • B00009PAIA.

  • Tuatha

    Kumbh Mela

    Performer: Tuatha

    • Invocation.
    • CDBY.
    • B001494WPU.

  • Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II - You'll Never Walk Alone

    Performer: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus, Susan. Bullock and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms audience

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Nov 2011 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 6 Nov 2011 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4