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Spiritual themes explored through music, prose and poetry.

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Something Understood: The Tree of Life - 14/06/2009

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The Tree of Life - 14/06/2009

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Mike Wooldridge talks about The Tree of Life with Professor Steve Jones.

Mike Wooldridge considers The Tree of Life with the geneticist Professor Steve Jones.

In Something Understood this week Mike Wooldridge considers “The Tree of Life” - one of the most enduring and universal symbols of life and connectedness, from Genesis to Darwin to DNA, in conversation with the geneticist Professor Steve Jones.

Music 1: DNA, performed by Ludovico Einaudi & Marco Decimo. Available on the album, Una Mattina.

Reading 1: When I Am Among Trees, from the book Thirst by Mary Oliver, published by Bloodaxe.

Music 2: Summerisle (The Maypole Song), performed by Mediaeval Baebes. Available on the album, Undrentide, released by RCA.

Reading 2: A Legend of Kiwi, written by Ron Bacon and published by Waiatarua Publishing Co Ltd.

Music 3: MM52: Wolf Cycle performed by Mungo Martin (Hanagalasu). Available on the album, Kwakiutl: Indian Music of the Pacific Northwest.

Reading 3: Yggdrasill: The World Tree from the book The Viking Gods, translated by Jean I Young. Published by Gudrun Publishing Ltd.

Music 4: Arbol de la Vida, performed by Lila Downs. Available on the album, Tree of Life, released by Narada.

Reading 4: The Great Work written by Thomas Berry and published by Bell Tower.

Music 5: The Secrets of the Life Tree, performed by Kroke. Available on the album, Live at the Pit.

Reading 5: The Giver of Life, written by Kenneth Steven and available in the book Iona. Published by Saint Andrew Press.

Music 6: The Song of the Tree of Life, composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams and performed by Andrew Lumsden, Robert Sharpe & The Choristers of Lichfield Cathedral. Available on the album, Begone Dull Care.

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