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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: Tales from the Forest

Embracing the Classical

29/01/2017

Tales from the Forest

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Tales from the Forest

Mark Tully tells tales of forests, inspired variously by love, terror, divinity and magic.

Forests play a role in legends and spirituality all over the world. Mark Tully explores their importance and tells woodland tales inspired variously by awe, affection and divinity.

Why do forests inspire such strong emotions? To many, they are dark, dangerous and wild, to some they are places of refuge and to others they are a source of life. Mark Tully considers these conflicting responses to the forest in a range of musical and literary tales from all over the world.

From the forests of Scandinavia to the jungles of India, and from British woodlands to South American rain forests, Mark collects tales of trees that talk to each other, forest gods and places of ultimate meditation in an investigation of our ancient relationship with the woods.

The readers are Claire Vousden, Francis Cadder and Vincent Ebrahim.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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