Loneliness
In conversation with Buddhist writer Sarvananda, Mark Tully investigates the problem of loneliness and the philosophical concept of separation.
Mark Tully asks if we can draw anything positive from that most human problem, loneliness.
In Buddhist thought, the source of loneliness lies in 'dukkha', sometimes defined as 'separation'. Robert Frost called it 'an acquaintance with the night'.
Mark discusses the causes of loneliness and the potential for finding something positive about it with the author and Buddhist writer Sarvananda. In a programme that takes us from remote wilderness to the terraces of Anfield football stadium, he explores both loneliness and solitude through the work of novelist Zoe Heller, psychologist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and the poet Derek Walcott - and also through music by Pelham Humfrey, David Liebman and Polish composer Wittold Lutoslawski.
The readers are Paapa Essiedu and Emma Pallant.
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Pelham Humfrey
Psalm 22
Performer: St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Tom Wilkinson.- Salvator mundi - The Purcell Legacy.
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Gerry and the Pacemakers
You'll Never Walk Alone
- Gerry & The Pacemakers: The Best of the EMI Years.
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David Liebman
The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner Themes: Mind and Body - Solo Tenor Sax
Performer: David Liebman.- In Conversation With Lieb: Interviews With David Liebman.
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Civil Wars
Dust To Dust
- The Civil Wars.
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Witold Lutos艂awski
Symphony No. 4
- Lutoslawski: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Les espaces du sommeil.
Readings
Title: Acquainted With The Night
Author: Robert Frost聽
Published by Henry Holt and Company
Title: Loneliness
Author: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Published by University of Chicago Press
Title: Notes On A Scandal
Author: Zoe Heller
Published by Rogers, Coleridge & White
Title: Love After Love
Author: Derek Walcott聽
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Title: The Art Of Happiness聽
Author: The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler聽
Published by Riverhead Hardcover
Broadcasts
- Sun 30 Oct 2016 06:05成人快手 Radio 4 FM
- Sun 30 Oct 2016 23:30成人快手 Radio 4