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Embarrassment

It makes us laugh, helps us learn and sometimes endangers lives. Mark Tully considers the many repercussions of embarrassment, from comic accidents and shyness to health and shame.

Mark Tully examines the extraordinary contradictions of embarrassment.

It's an emotion that is an invaluable teaching aid, a source of the purest and funniest entertainment, an experience capable of creating powerful bonds and of causing deep estrangement. It's also a psychological state that frequently kills us – β€˜dying of embarrassment’ is all too common.

In a programme devoted to embarrassment in all its many guises, Mark investigates the emotion that makes us blush with readings from Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot and Wendell Berry and music by Puccini, Ella Fitzgerald and the French revue star Mistinguett.

The readers are Samantha Bond, Francis Cadder and Matt Addis.

Presenter: Mark Tully

Producer: Frank Stirling
A Unique Broadcasting Company production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Feb 2020 06:05
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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Floria Tosca

    • Puccini: Tosca.
    • EMI.

  • Mistinguett

    Il m’a Vu Nue

    • La Vedette du Music Hall.
    • Back Round Records.

  • The Platters

    Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

    • Crying In The Rain.
    • Not Now.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, IV. Tarantella

    • Music For Two Pianos.
    • Decca.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Te Deum, I Symphonie

    • Te Deum; Dies irae.
    • Erato Disques.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Mack The Knife

    • Live in Berlin.
    • Verve.

Readings

Title: All Things Wise and Wonderful

Author: James Herriot

Published by Macmillan

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Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austin

Published by Wordsworth Classics

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Title: The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock

Author: T.S. Eliot

Published by Bloodaxe

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Title: Sharing Eve’s Apple

Author: John Keats

Published by Wordsworth Editions Limited

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Title: Dying of Embarrassment

Author: Grace Williams

Published by medicineunboxed.orgΜύ

Understanding medicine through the arts and humanities


Title: An Embarrassment

Author: Wendell Berry

Published by Counterpoint

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Nov 2015 06:05
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
  • Sun 1 Nov 2015 23:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 2 Feb 2020 06:05
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4