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Something Understood

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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 Disguise

The Disguise

05/03/2011

BBC World Service - Something Understood, The Disguise

Sarah Cuddon explores how taking on an assumed name becomes an experiment in identity

Sarah Cuddon examines the way a pseudonym helps us to embellish, conceal and reveal who we are.

With reference to artists, writers, poets and the voices of different generations, including George Orwell, Marilyn Monroe, Fernando Pessoa and Homer Simpson, Sarah Cuddon examines the way a pseudonym helps us to embellish, conceal and reveal who we are.

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