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The Strange Familiar

Sarah Cuddon reflects on the conjunction of the familiar and strange in our lives. Can we control how unusual and everyday things affect us, or is it a matter of perspective?

Sarah Cuddon reflects on the conjunction of the familiar and the strange in our lives.

Our lives are full of everyday habits and routines that provide a familiarity of experience. But they're also rich with strangeness, with oddity, with the unreal and the uncanny. Can we control how the strange and the familiar permeate our lives or is it all a question of perspective?

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Jan 2014 23:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • My Ántonia. Author: Willa Cather

    Ántonia arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.

  • Fall of the House of Usher. Author: Edgar Allen Poe

    A classic gothic horror from Edgar Allen Poe.

  • The Uncanny. Author: Sigmund Freud

    Extract from FreudΒ’s essay about the strange familiar.

  • Embracing the Unfamiliar. Author: AnaΓ―s Nin

    AnaΓ―s Nin writes about the role of the artist as a conduit for the unfamiliar.

  • Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar. Author: Kathleen Jamie

    Article about the 2013 British Museum exhibition Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind.

  • Balenescu Quartet

    Hanging Upside-Down

    • Possessed.
    • Mute/Elektra.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.3 in D minor: Part 2: 3. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Pierre Boulez. Performer: The Vienna Philharmonic Rock Orchestra.
    • Mahler: Symphonie No.3.
    • DG Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Hidden Orchestra

    Strange

    • Night Walks.
    • Tru Thoughts.

  • The Moonglows

    Blue Velvet

    • Their Greatest Hits.
    • MCA/Chess.

  • Annelie Gahl & Klaus Lang

    Thirteen Harmonies IV. Harmony 21

    • J. Cage: Melodies & Harmonies.
    • Col Legno.

  • Alison Krauss and Robert Plant

    Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us

    • Raising Sand.
    • Rounder.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonatina from Actus Tragicus, BWV 106: Gottes Zeit Ist Die Allerbeste Zeit

    Performer: GyΓΆrgy Kurtag. Performer: MΓ‘rta KurtΓ‘g.
    • ΄³Γ‘³ΩΓ©°μ΄Η°μ.
    • ECM.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Jan 2014 06:05
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
  • Sun 19 Jan 2014 23:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4