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Something Understood: Gold

Gold

27/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Gold

Writer Lucy Mangan reflects on the value and the meanings we invest in gold.

Starting from her own conviction that nothing but gold would do for the necklace she bought herself to mark the birth of her son, the writer Lucy Mangan weaves a meditation on the value and the meanings that we invest in this precious element.

She draws on the poetry of Ted Hughes and Thomas Hood, writings by Hesiod and a 'gold rush' prospector, Sheldon Shufelt, and music by Richard Wagner and Stevie Wonder.

Produced by Alan Hall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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