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Mark Tully, with help from Lord Stephen Green, trade minister in the recent coalition government, considers how the UK might continue to share a European identity post-Brexit.

Mark Tully with help from Lord Stephen Green, trade minister in the recent coalition government, considers how the UK might continue to share a European identity post-Brexit.

Quoting current British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's hopes that the UK should be more engaged than ever with Europe after its departure from the European Union, they discuss where Britain should find its cultural centre of gravity in a changing world.

Lord Green identifies fundamentally important human values that have arisen from European traditions, despite Europe's violent history - human fulfilment, social compassion and the recognition of the importance of the individual, and the rights and responsibilities that accompany that recognition.

Mark asks what part Christianity played in the formation of a European identity and if there is any future for it as a binding force now the idea of religion dominating European public life has diminished.

And finally, there is a reminder in the music of Mozart that the treasures of Europe are Britain's treasures too.

Producer: Adam Fowler
A 7digital production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

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Music Played

  • Musica Polyphonica

    Marche en rondeau (feat. Louis Devos)

  • Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Anne-Marie Deschamps

    Ton 1 Visionem quam vidistis

    • Monthabor Music.

  • Os Curunchos

    Foliada de Campelo

    • DB World Sessions.

  • Malay Ahmed Lukili.

    Brwala al-Anas

    • Lukili.

  • Wolf Biermann

    Am Brandenburg Tor

    • Liederproduktion.

  • W A Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

    • Orchard.

Readings

°ΥΎ±³Ω±τ±π:ΜύThe Address of His Holiness Pope FrancisΜύ

Β© LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA.

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Title: European Spirituality

Author: Jan KerkhofsΜύ

Published in The Way, 41/2 (April 2001), 93–101

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Title: The Myth of European UnityΜύ

Author: Sonja Puntscher-ReikmannΜύ

From The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, edited by Donald Justice, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1975, 1962 by the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1960 by John A. Kees. Copyright 1954, 1947, 1943 by Weldon Kees.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Jun 2017 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4