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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: The Gloaming

The Gloaming

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Sarah Cuddon reflects on the 'in-between time' of twilight.

Twilight:  writer Sarah Cuddon considers the special qualities of those 'in-between times' that bookend each day.

The writer and broadcaster Sarah Cuddon considers the inspirational and meditational qualities of the 'in-between moments' of twilight at the start and end of each day. 

Sacred aspects of this time are explored alongside the work of artists and photographers who refer to it as the 'blue hour' and writers who have attempted to capture 'the gloaming'.  With music inspired by twilight from, among others, Radiohead and Richard Strauss.



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