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Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

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

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Something Understood: Choosing to Care

Choosing to Care

28/08/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Choosing to Care

Mark Tully discusses the choices facing voluntary carers and those for whom they care.

Mark Tully presents an edition of Something Understood discussing the choices surrounding voluntary care, both from the point of view of carers and of those they care for.

The choice to care or be cared for is one that faces over half of us and some stage in our lives. 

Mark Tully presents an edition of Something Understood to explore that choice and to discuss the emotional, practical and spiritual costs and rewards of caring and being cared for. He examines the benefits and the responsibilities felt within such relationships in the company of Jean and Geoffrey Almond, a couple living with the consequences of Multiple Sclerosis, and with poetry by a variety of carers as well as music from Shostakovich, Elmer Bernstein and folk-singer Kate Rusby.

The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Isla Blair


The producer is Frank Stirling
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