Independently Dependent
The actress Felicity Finch explores the independence one develops as a single person and how this is affected when starting a relationship in later life.
Living alone, as a mature person, can result in creating an almost invisible protective guard and an apparent lack of any need to trust or be dependent on others. Then the promise of starting a new relationship throws into question all sorts of assumptions and expectations about oneself and about the other.
The actress Felicity Finch reflects on the idea of how to be independently dependent, with reference to the relationship of John Bayley and Iris Murdoch and the composer Johannes Brahms' life-long devotion to Clara Schumann, his musical mentor's concert-pianist wife.
Produced by Alan Hall.
A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4
Today's programme was presented by Felicity Finch
The readers were Tara Hugo and Steven Crossley
The interviewee was Marianne Ihlen
Readings:
Title: A Marriage
Author: Michael Blumenthal
Synopsis: Poem exmploring how a couple can find their way of living together
Title: A Personal Touch
Author: Simon Armitage
Synopsis: A couple's search for 'space'
Title: Listen
Author: Alice Walker
Synopsis: An exploration of interdependence
Title: Stag's Leap
Author: Sharon Olds
Synopsis: Exploring a complex admiration for the escapes of others
Title: Fair Play
Author: Tove Jansson
Synopsis: Two partners who work and live side by side explore independent dependence
Title: Iris
Author: John Bayley
Synopsis: Exploring how "the closeness of apartness" became the "closeness of closeness"
Music
Title: Romance
Composer: Amy Beach
Performer: David Halen
Label: AAM Records
Album: Salut d'Amour: Romantic Works for Violin and Piano
Title: Living Through It All
Performer: Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott
Label: Blue Note
Album: Common Touch
Title: No Fear of Falling
Performer: I am Kloot
Label: Virgin
Album: Natural History
Title: The Kiss
Performer: Judee Sill
Label: Water Music Records
Album: Heart Food
Title: So Long Marianne
Performer: Leonard Cohen
Label: Sundazed
Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen
Title: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Performer: Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
Label: Magnetic
Album: Ram Caf茅 Lounge and Chillout, Vol. 2
Title: Opus 119, No. 1
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Radu Lupu
Label: Decca
Album: Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79/Klavierstucke, Opp. 117 - 119.
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A Marriage by Michael Blumenthal
Poem exmploring how a couple can find their way of living together
A Personal Touch by Simon Armitage
A couple聮s search for 聭space聮
Listen by Alice Walker
An exploration of interdependence
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
Exploring a complex admiration for the escapes of others
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
Two partners who work and live side by side explore independent dependence
Iris by John Bayley
Exploring how 聯the closeness of apartness聰 became the 聯closeness of closeness聰
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Amy Beach
Romance
Performer: David Halen.- Salut d'Amour: Romantic Works for Violin and Piano.
- AAM Records.
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Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott
Living Through It All
- Common Touch.
- Blue Note.
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I Am Kloot
No Fear of Falling
- Natural History.
- Virgin.
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Judee Sill
The Kiss
- Heart Food.
- Water Music Records.
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Leonard Cohen
So Long Marianne
- Songs of Leonard Cohen.
- Sundazed.
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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Ram Caf茅 Lounge and Chillout, Vol. 2.
- Magnetic.
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Johannes Brahms
Opus 119, No. 1
Performer: Radu Lupu.- Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79/Klavierstucke, Opp. 117 - 119.
- Decca.
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Jul 2014 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 20 Jul 2014 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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