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Words and Music: The Art of Friendship

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The Art of Friendship

16/05/2010

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Texts and music about the art of friendship. Readers are Robert Lindsay and Diana Quick.

Poetry, prose and music exploring the art of friendship, with readings by Robert Lindsay and Diana Quick. Including texts from Plutarch, Bacon, Ogden Nash, Auden and TS Eliot.

Readers Robert Lindsay and Diana Quick.

An exploration of the art of friendship as celebrated through the ages in poetry, prose and music. For all the thousands of poems on love, there are distinctly fewer on what could be seen as love's neglected cousin, friendship. And yet friendship is as common to the human experience as love, and probably just as necessary.
How should we make friends, keep friends, lose them...? What happens to friendships as we get older? Do men and women see friendship in the same way? What is the true nature of friendship - and is it all it's sometimes cracked up to be?

Words from Plutarch, Sir Francis Bacon, Ogden Nash, Auden, T.S.Eliot, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edward Thomas and others, with music to complement the readings.

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