Something Understood

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Religion & Ethics

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: Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Vanishing Point

Jude Rogers explores our desire to disappear.

The writer and broadcaster Jude Rogers explores our desire to disappear.

Writer and broadcaster Jude Rogers explores the desire to run away and disappear. From tumbling down the rabbit hole to riding a train to nowhere, why do we sometimes feel the urge to vanish? 

Jude reflects on how removing yourself from the world of other people can offer a certain type of freedom.

Featuring music by Grouper, Radiohead and Tindersticks, alongside the words of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and John Updike.

Producer: Eleanor McDowell

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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