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Impermanence

Melissa Viney considers how we can be challenged by, as well as take comfort from, the impermanence of things.

Melissa Viney considers how we can be challenged by - as well as take comfort from - the impermanence of things.

With reference to the writings of Raymond Carver, Thich Nhat Hanh and William Blake, music by Emily McGuire and Michael Zev Gordon and audio archive of the playwright Dennis Potter.

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Apr 2014 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Eternity by William Blake

    Blake implies what we already know as we grow older, that joy and beauty cannot be possessed.

  • The Cobweb by Raymond Carver

    A meditation on CarverΒ’s own mortality.

  • The Trees by Philip Larkin

    A poem about nature and its cycle of life, death and renewal.

  • The Practice of Looking Deeply by Thich Nhat Hanh

    By looking deeply we develop insight into impermanence and no self.

  • Bhagavad Gita 2:22, translation by W.J.Johnson

    A personΒ’s soul is reborn through the process of reincarnation.

  • London Sinfonietta & Ryan Wigglesworth

    The Impermanence of Things

    • Hear and Now Studio Concert, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.

  • Robert Palmer

    Johnny and Mary

    • Addictions, Vol.1.
    • Island.

  • Tim Maia

    Nobody Can Live Forever

    • The Soul of Brasil.
    • Universal Music Latino.

  • Vangelis

    Tears in Rain

    • Bladerunner.
    • Eastwest.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Springtime of the Year

    Performer: The Finzi Singers. Performer: Paul Spicer.
    • Holst, Vaughan Williams: Choral Music.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    La Primavera: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269. 2. Largo e pianissimo sempre

    Performer: Joshua Bell with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Performer: Neville Marriner.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
    • Sony Classical Essential Classics.

  • Emily Maguire

    Back Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Keep Walking.
    • Shaktu.

  • Billy Bragg

    A Change Is Gonna Come

    • Billy Bragg, Vol. 1.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Johnny Nash

    I Can See Clearly Now

    • I Can See Clearly Now.
    • BBR.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 20 Apr 2014 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 20 Apr 2014 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4