When an Angel Passes
A glimpse of the angelic in the everyday can surprise, delight and unsettle us at any moment. Alan Hall reflects on those moments 'when an angel passes'.
William Blake's childhood vision of a tree on Peckham Rye filled with angels, 'bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars', offers a starting point for Alan Hall's reflections on the angelic in the everyday.
He makes reference to a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a 'very old man with enormous wings', poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and John Agard, and an extract from the moving conclusion of James Agee's novel about the death of his father.
The programme also includes music by Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch and Johannes Brahms and a clip from the Powell and Pressburger film 'A Matter of Life and Death'.
Produced by Eleanor McDowall.
A Falling Tree production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.
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Gillian Welch
Tennessee
Performer: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
- The Harrow & The Harvest.
- Acony.
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Allan Gray
A Matter of Life and Death
- British Film Music from the 1940s and 50s.
- EMI.
- CDGO2059.
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Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115 鈥� Mvt 2 Adagio
Performers: Karl Leister (clarinet)/Leipzig String Quartet
- Brahms.
- MDG Gold.
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Pererik Moraeus
Koppangen (Holy Night)
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- Sun 23 Dec 2012 06:05麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sun 23 Dec 2012 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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