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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: In My End Is My Beginning

In My End Is My Beginning

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, In My End Is My Beginning

Mark Tully contemplates time, change and resurrection on Easter Day.

Mark Tully takes the famous line from T S Eliot's poem East Coker as a starting point for an Easter programme about resurrection, time, change and moving on.

Mark Tully strikes a valedictory note as he introduces the last original edition of Something Understood. He takes as his theme T S Eliot’s line from Four Quartets - "In my end is my beginning".

This Easter programme weaves together ideas of death and resurrection, cycles of change and cyclical time and the pain and the joy of moving on into the unknown.

There are readings from Eliot, Vera Brittain, Simone Weil and Brendan Kennelly, with music including a Resurrexit by Berlioz, a salsa from Willie Colon and a medieval rondo by Marchaut.

Readers: Paterson Joseph, Emma Fielding and Frank Stirling
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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