Brilliant Mistakes, Blessed Failures
Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik explores through poetry and prose how mistakes β far from being failures β have the ability to reveal something new and hidden.
Artist Grayson Perry has said that βcreativity is mistakesβ. Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik agrees, and explores through poetry and prose how mistakes, although a reminder of human imperfection, nevertheless have the ability to reveal something new and hidden.
The programme features the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Costello and Puccini, and readings from theologian Paula Gooder, the Quβran, and the Old and New Testaments.
Presenter: Abdul-Rehman Malik
Producer: Jonathan Mayo
A TBI Media production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Music Played
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Ella Fitzgerald
Mack the Knife (Live in Berlin)
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Franco Corelli
Nessun Dorma
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Elvis Costello
Brilliant Mistake
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Fela Kuti
Mistake (Live)
Readings
Title: The Book of Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad from the Mishkat Al Masabih
Author: Charles Le Gai Eaton
Publisher: Book Foundation
Title: The Qur'an
Translator: M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Title: Don Quixote
Author: by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Title: The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash
Translator: William G. Braude
Publisher: Penguin / Random House
Title: NIV Holy Bible Β
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Jul 2016 06:05ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 12 May 2019 06:05ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4