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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: 11/10/2009

11/10/2009

BBC World Service - Something Understood, 11/10/2009

Writer Sarah Cuddon's experiences of mountains are interwoven with the words of poets.

In this programme, called The Ascent,  writer Sarah Cuddon's experiences in the Himalayas, the Andes and the Scottish Highlands are interwoven with the words of climbers and poets.

This week’s edition of Something Understood is presented by the writer Sarah Cuddon. 

Since childhood visits to her grandfather’s remote house in the Pyrenees, Sarah has been drawn to mountain landscapes - and the people who climb them.  

In this programme, called The Ascent, her own experiences in the Himalayas, the Andes and the Scottish Highlands are interwoven with the words of the climbers Joe Simpson and Robert Macfarlane, the poets Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth, and music by Delius, Grieg and the Cameroon group Baka Beyond.

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