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Irma Kurtz considers how, for footloose travellers, the journey has to be more challenging and enlightening than its destination.

Irma Kurtz considers how curiosity and imagination inspire true footloose travellers to explore.

She reflects that, for her, the important part of travel is encountering others on the road: learning how different we are, and how alike. Irma believes that by extending your view of the world, you extend your view of yourself so that, by the end of your journey, you will have changed.

To illustrate her footloose theme we hear readings from the work of John Keats, Walt Whitman and Mary Morris as well as an extract from her own travel book 'The Great American Bus Ride'. Music is provided by composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Claude Debussy.

The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell.

Producer: Ronni Davis
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28 minutes

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Sun 9 Oct 2022 23:30
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Music Played

  • Vincent d’Indy

    En Marche

    Performer: Orchestre Philharmonique de Pays de Loire

    • Jour D’ete A La Montagne, Etc.
    • EMI Classics.
    • CDM7643642.

  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Performer: Kathryn Stott

    • Debussy: L’ISLE JOSEUSE.
    • Conifer.
    • CDCF148.

  • Randall Thompson

    The Road Not Taken

    Performer: New York Choral Society and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    • The Testament of Freedom.
    • Koch.
    • 3-7283-2H1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Vagabond

    Performer: Benjamin Luxon and David Willison

    • Songs of Travel.
    • Chandos.
    • CHAN8475.

  • ZoltΓ΅n KodΓ΅ly

    The Gypsy

    Performer: Kodaly Girls Choir on EMI Classics

    • Kodaly: ODE FOR MUSIC.
    • HUNGAROTON.
    • HCD31524.

  • Cole Porter

    Don't Fence Me In

    Performer: Bing Crosbie

    • Bing Crosbie: The best of......
    • MCA Records.
    • DMCL1607.

  • Cahn/van Heusen

    It's very nice to go trav'ling

    Performer: Frank Sinatra

    • Come fly with me.
    • Capitol Records.
    • MW0000194130.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Jul 2012 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 29 Jul 2012 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 9 Oct 2022 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 9 Oct 2022 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4