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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: Hunger for the New

27/03/2016

Hunger for the New

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Hunger for the New

On an Easter Day in early spring, Mark Tully looks at our appetite for embracing the new.

On an Easter Day coinciding with the first weeks of spring, Mark Tully considers the hunger for the new, from new adventures to new technology and new surroundings.

A Hunger for the New - or "the life value of everlasting change" - is said to be one of the few constants in life. In the week following the vernal equinox and on an Easter Day coinciding with the first weeks of Spring, the human appetite for new adventures, new environments - even new objects or technologies - is piqued.

Mark Tully examines the hunger for new experiences of all kinds with readings from the work of American adventurer John Krakauer, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and novelist and poet Helen Dunmore.

There's music too from Arvo Part, Tracey Chapman and Leos Janacek.

The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper Britton.


Producer: Frank Stirling
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