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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: 99 Words - Episode 2

99 Words - Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, 99 Words - Episode 2

Liz Gray asks if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

The second in a pair of programmes that asks,  if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?


When Liz Gray found herself forced into a strange period of enforced retreat by a whiplash injury, the following question came to her mind: if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

She began asking friends, colleagues, artists and political figures she admired, gathering together a collection of 99 responses.

In the second of a pair of programmes, she introduces contributions from, among others,  the artist Keith Critchlow, the human rights campaigner Helen Bamber, the writer Ariel Dorfman and film maker Sally Potter.


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