A celebration of the life of Sir Michael Tippett , who died earlier this year, shortly after his 93rd birthday. A man of this century and a child of our time, Tippett once described his role as a composer as being "to transfigure the everyday by a touch of the everlasting". Natalie Wheen pays tribute, using Tippett's music, his own words and those of his friends. Producer Andrew Lyle