Cats
Divinities and devils, worshipped and persecuted, fond companions and savage individualists. Mark Tully investigates mankind's symbiotic relationship with the cat.
Our relationship with the cat is a fascinating and contradictory one. Ancient cultures revered and sometimes worshipped them. Cats have at times been companions to holy men in many of the great faiths and exterminated at others. They are loyal friends and implacable enemies.
Mark Tully asks what it is that makes our relationship with one of our oldest pets so contradictory. He talks to art historian and journalist Caroline Bugler about the intriguing ways cats have been depicted in sacred art and draws on music by Rossini, Scarlatti and Peggy Lee and the writings of Doris Lessing, P.G. Wodehouse and Diodorus of Sicily.
Producer: Frank Stirling
A Unique production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.
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Robert Smith
Robert Smith - The Lovecats
Performer: The Cure
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Peggy Lee & Sonny Burke
The Siamese Cat Song
Performer: Peggy Lee
- Peggy Lee: Greatest Hits.
- Not Now Music.
- B0030DLLVQ.
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Benjamin Britten
For I will consider my cat Jeffrey
Performer: Carys Lane (soprano solo)
- Britten: Choral Edition.
- Chandos Records Ltd..
- Chan 9511.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue
Performer: Gustav Leonhardt
- Great Organ Works: Gustav Leonhardt 鈥� J. S Bach.
- SEON - Sony Classical.
- SB2K 63185.
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Gioachino Rossini
Comic duet for two cats 鈥� Duetto buffo di due gatti
Performer: Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
- On Wings of Song.
- EMI Records Ltd - EMI Classics.
- CDC 7 54411 2.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection": V. Finale: Im Tempo des Scherzos
Performer: Magdalena Hajossyova, Berlin State Opera Chorus, Berlin Staatskapelle, Otmar Suitner, Uta Priew
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection".
- Berlin Classics.
- B00514XQVK.
Broadcasts
- Sun 7 Oct 2012 06:05麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 7 Oct 2012 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4