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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: Fruits of Labour

Fruits of Labour

03/06/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Fruits of Labour

Melissa Viney reflects on how becoming a mother can affect creativity.

Writer and broadcaster Melissa Viney reflects on how becoming a mother can affect creativity.

After giving birth recently for the first time, the writer and broadcaster Melissa Viney reflects on how motherhood can affect a woman's creative life.

Does it open up new ways of viewing the world or can it occasionally push them 'to the side of their own lives' as Philip Larkin suggested? Including readings from the work of Esther Morgan, Ellen Bell and Chana Bloch, music from Nina Simone and Clara Schumann and new interviews with the artists Charlotte Verity and Jo Dennis. 


Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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