Something Understood

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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: The Lump in the Throat

The Lump in the Throat

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Laura Barton reflects on how feeling finds its way into words.

Laura Barton reflects on how we articulate emotion and how feeling finds its way into words.

The writer Laura Barton reflects on how we articulate emotion and how feeling finds its way into words.
 
Starting from Robert Frost's assertion that "a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness" and becomes something in which "the emotion finds the thought, and the thought finds the words", Laura draws on some of her favourite writers, including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carol Ann Duffy and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as music from Van Morrison, Volcano Choir and cellist Oliver Coates.
 
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four.

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