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10/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Forum, Silence

What can silence mean? Bridget Kendall and guests contemplate a lack of noise.

Bridget Kendall and guests contemplate a lack of noise, why keeping quiet in the Arctic is a survival skill, and the silent 'divine wildtrack' that has accompanied Christianity.

Joining Bridget Kendall to be noisy about silence are American conservationist John Francis, who chose to stop talking one day and didn't speak again for seventeen years; Russian ice artist and explorer Galya Morrell, who has found that silence is an essential tool for survival in the North; and award-winning historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, who is interested in the tension between speech and silence that has existed throughout Christian history. Photo : © License All rights reserved by Galya Morrell (ColdArtist)

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