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Familiarity Breeds Content

Recent research says that the familiar becomes more important to us in troubled times, Mark Tully asks if familiarity can make us more content.

Familiarity plays an important part in life. Familiar people, familiar places, familiar objects can provide us with security, strength and comfort. Why is it then that the most common phrase that we associate with the word familiarity is that it breeds contempt? Mark Tully asks whether it is actually more likely to be a source of happiness and investigates the paradox that causes this common source of contentment to be so frequently overlooked. With music by Lyle Lovett and Sir Henry Wood and with readings from Katherine Mansfield and U. A. Fanthorpe, he celebrates the pleasures of the familiar.

The readers are Philip Franks and Grainne Keenan.

Produced by Frank Stirling
A Unique Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 7 Nov 2021 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Bohuslav MartinΕ―

    Andante Moderato from Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.1

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch (Cello), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jiri Belohlavek

    • Martinu: Cello Concertos etc.
    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 9015.

  • Guy Clark

    Step Inside This House (Step Inside My House)

    Performer: Lyle Lovett, Viktor Krauss, Russ Kunkel, Matt Rollings, Dean Parks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush

    • Step Inside This House.
    • CURB MCA.
    • MCAD2-11831.

  • Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

    We Gotta Get Out of This Place

    Performer: The Animals

    • Most of the Animals.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 7243 5 38296 2 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Heimweh

    Performer: Peter Schreier (tenor) and Graham Johnson (piano)

    • The Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol. 18.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDJ33018.

  • John Tavener

    The Lord's Prayer

    Performer: The Choir of The Abbey School, Tewkesbury directed by Benjamin Nicholas, Carleton Etherington (organ)

    • Pater Noster: Settings of the Lord’s Prayer.
    • Priory Records courtesy of BFM Digital.
    • 5028612207872.

  • Henry Wood

    Fantasia On British Sea Songs: Tom Bowling

    Performer: English Northern Philharmonia, Leeds Festival Chorus Directed by Paul Daniel

    • Rule Britannia: Last Night Of The Proms.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.553981.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Sep 2012 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 2 Sep 2012 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 7 Nov 2021 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 7 Nov 2021 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4