Rhythm
Mark Tully asks why we find rhythm so fascinating and discovers how it governs our lives, from the universal aspects to the microscopic.
Mark Tully asks why we find rhythm so fascinating and discovers how it governs our lives, from the universal to the microscopic. Rhythm, it seems, not only sets our feet tapping, but binds us all in relationship with each other.
The programme features an interview with Russell Foster, the professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University. (Circadian referring to those rhythmic biological cycles that occur in us, within every 24 hours, such as the cycle of wakefulness and sleepiness). Professor Foster believes that, in our 24/7 society, we are trying to overpower that rhythmic cycle within us, with damaging and dangerous consequences to our health and the health of society. So why is rhythm so important, and why does it mean so much to so many people.
As Mark Tully says in the programme:
"We love Rhythm in music, we love it in poetry. Some discover it in prose too. Then we rejoice in the rhythm of the world we live in, the rhythm of each day, the rising and the setting of the sun, the rhythm of the seasons, and the rhythm that I particularly love, the rhythm of the sea - the tide ebbing and flowing. We each have a rhythm of our own too, and if we don't listen to it we will pay a price."
The readers are Samantha Bond, Joseph Kloska and Frank Stirling
Presented by Mark Tully
Produced By Adam Fowler
An Unique production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Fascinating Rhythm
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Standards By George Gershwin, Irving Berlin And Rodgers & Hart, Track 2.
- The Best Of Ella.
- Polygram.
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厂矛濒别补蝉
Laill Leathbag
- Play on Light.
- Green Linnet Records.
- GLCD 3126.
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Inayat Khan
Jaun Balihari Aavo Maaro Nath
The Complete Recordings of 1909
- EMI.
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Ivan Lins
Provei, Viva noel
Tribute a Noel Rosa Vol. 1, Track 5.
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Grateful Dead
Introduction, Dick's Picks
Introduction, Dick鈥檚 Picks Vol. 15, Track 1.
- Grateful Dead Records.
- GDCD4035.
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Grateful Dead
Truckin'
Dick鈥檚 Picks Vol. 1, Track 8.
- GDCD40182.
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Sheila Chandra
Speaking in Tongues III
Moonsung: A Real World Perspective, Track 5.
- Real World.
- LC03098 / CDRW77.
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Louis Armstrong
It Takes Two to Tango
Louis Armstrong; The Complete Collection, Track 17.
- Spectrum Music.
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Broadcasts
- Sun 15 May 2011 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 15 May 2011 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4