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Samira Ahmed explores the power of unexpected eruptions - emotional, spiritual or geological.

Samira Ahmed explores the power of eruptions - emotional, spiritual or geological.

We often think of eruptions of emotion, anger for example, as troubling and out of our control, but can they be useful or powerful ways of effecting change? Giles Fraser discusses with Samira the significance of Jesus over-turning the tables of the money changers in the temple.

Eye-witness accounts of volcanic eruptions and poems by Neil Rollinson and James Kirkup are read by Emily Taaffe and Peter Marinker, with music by Sibelius, Ennio Morricone, CPE Bach and Alan Hovhahness.

Producer: Natalie Steed
A Whistledown production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

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Sun 17 Jan 2016 23:30
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  • Samira Ahmed blogs on the power of eruptions.

Music Played

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Β“Freye FantasieΒ” in f sharp minor

    Performer: Carole Cerasi.
    • Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit.
    • Metronome.
    • METCD 1091.
    • 01.

  • Traditional - Composer

    Lagu "Ngisep Dublag"

    Performer: Angklung of Sidan.
    • The Roots of Gamelan.
    • Arbiter.
    • WORLD ARBITR-2001.
    • 18.

  • Biggi Hilmarsson

    Landforms

    Performer: Biggi Hilmars.
    • R.O.F.
    • Biggi Hilmars / Biggi Music / Bandcamp.
    • 04.

  • Ennio Morricone

    La Music Prima del Massacro

    Performer: Ennio Morricone; Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
    • The H8tful Eight.
    • DECCA.
    • B0024434-02.
    • 17.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No. 50; Mount St Helens iii: Volcano

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond Gerard Schwarz.
    • Mysterious Mountains.
    • TELARC.
    • CD80604.
    • 09.

  • R. Sudharsanam

    Thappiththu Vanthaanammaa (From "Poompuhar")

    Performer: K B Sundarambal.
    • K.B. Sundarambal Special Songs (Tamil).
    • Saregama.
    • 10.

  • Arnold Bax

    Spring Fire, Symphony; i: In the Forest Before Dawn

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; cond Vernon Handley.
    • Arnold Bax: Spring Fire.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN8464.
    • 01.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oak Tree (Ariel) plays the flute

    Performer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska.
    • The Tempest.
    • BIS.
    • BIS CD-581.
    • 09.

Readings

Title: Ode to a Magnolia Tree

Author: Neil Rollinson

Publisher: Cape Poetry

ISBN: 0224097296


Title: Extracts from eye-witness accounts of the 1980 Mount St Helen’s eruption recorded by Richard Waitt

³§²β²Τ΄Η±θ²υΎ±²υ:Μύ

Author: Β Richard Waitt

Publisher: Washington State University Press

ISBN: Β 0874223237


Title: For the 90th Birthday of Sibelius

Author: Β James Kirkup

Publisher: Poetry Salzburg

ISBN: 370520288X

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Jan 2016 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 17 Jan 2016 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4