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The Power of Memories

In a journey that takes him from Mozart's prodigious memory to memories and the perception of time, Mark Tully tells stories by Dostoevsky, George Eliot, John Barry and The Kinks.

An exploration of great feats of recall, of the creative and imaginative pleasures of reminiscence and of the way memories help us tell our stories to ourselves.

In a journey that takes him from Mozart's prodigious memory to memories and the perception of time, Mark Tully tells stories by Dostoevsky, George Eliot, John Barry and The Kinks.

Mark also draws on contemporary poet Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and children's author Kenneth Grahame, the modernist composer Charles Ives and the choral work of Ralph Vaughan Williams to discuss interpretations of memory, time and immortality.

The readers are Jasper Britton and Grainne Keenan.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

A 7digital production for ±«Óătv Radio 4.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 26 Nov 2023 06:05
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Music Played

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere

    Performer: Tallis Scholars.
    • THE TALLIS SCHOLARS.

  • John Barry

    A Childhood Memory

    Performer: John Barry, English Chamber Orchestra.
    • The Beyondness of Things.

  • Charles Ives

    Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England (The Housatonic at Stockbridge)

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Ives: Symphony No. 1; Three Places In New England; Robert Browning Overture.
    • Sony.

  • LLOYD WEBBER/NUNN T/ELIOT TS

    MEMORY

    Performer: Barbra Streisand.
    • The Ultimate Collection.
    • Columbia Legacy.

  • Ray Davies

    Days

    Performer: The Kinks.
    • Scattered.
    • Sanctuary Records Group.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    Performer: Cardiff Festival Choir, Owain Arwell Hughes.
    • 23 Hymns of Vaughan Williams.
    • Griffin Records.

Readings

Title: The Bend In The Road, found in The Girl Who Married The Raindeer Author: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Published by Gallery Press
Title: The Wind In The Willows Author: Kenneth Grahame Published by Penguin Classics
Title: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking from Leaves of GrassAuthor: Walt Whitman Published by Merrill Publishing Company
Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Petrov Dostoyevsky Published by Project Gutenberg
Title: The Progress of Poetry, from A Dialogue of Self and Soul Author: W. B. Yeats Published by Vintage
Title: O May I Join the Choir Invisible Author: George Eliot Published by Dodo Press

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Feb 2018 06:05
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  • Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:30
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  • Sun 26 Nov 2023 06:05
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