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Religion & Ethics

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: A Sense of Belonging

Embracing the Classical

08/04/2018

A Sense of Belonging

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, A Sense of Belonging

Mark Tully considers the natural human urge to belong. To groups, to people and to places.

In a programme that ranges from artists and writers who identify as outsiders, to those buoyed up by their sense of social cohesion, Mark Tully explores how much we need to belong.

Is the desire to belong one of the basic instincts underpinning human society? Mark Tully explores what causes the need to belong, what a sense of belonging offers us and whether it's possible to live without it.

There are readings from the work of novelist William Somerset Maugham, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the young New Zealand poet Lang Leav. Music comes from Louis Armstrong, Francis Poulenc and Suzanne Vega.

The readers are Cyril Nri and Emma Pallant.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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