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Something Understood: Learning to Wait

Learning to Wait

21/08/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Learning to Wait

Tom Robinson reflects on wanting and waiting.

Tom Robinson reflects on wanting and waiting, taking his cue from Richard Church's poem Learning to Wait. With Milan Kundera, TS Eliot and DH Lawrence, plus kd lang and Brin Eno.

Taking his cue from Richard Church's eponymous poem, Tom Robinson considers what's required of us in 'Learning To Wait'.

The poem's paradoxical observation, 'All that I have grasped at I have lost, All I relinquished won', provokes Tom to explore the work of other writers who have reflected on wanting and waiting, including Milan Kundera, TS Eliot and DH Lawrence. With music by KD Lang, Shostakovich and Brian Eno.


Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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