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Private Spaces

In an increasingly public world, does the approach to private space need re-evaluating? Mark Tully considers the need for privacy with design historian Penny Sparke.

Has privacy always been an important part of life and have we always had the same need for private havens?

Mark Tully searches for new approaches to private space in an increasingly crowded world and considers the need for privacy - with design historian Penny Sparke, author of As Long As It's Pink and The Modern Interior.

Examining the research of social scientists and historians, as well as the work of poets as diverse as Ruth Fainlight, W.B. Yeats and Noel Coward, Mark asks whether the need for private space goes hand in hand with the drive for modernity.

There's music from Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler and Flanders and Swann.

The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Pip Donaghy.

Producer: Frank Stirling
A Unique production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 Feb 2015 23:30

Music Played

  • Charles Ives

    Op. 19 - Thoreau

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata.
    • Hyperion.
  • Henry Purcell

    O solitude, my sweetest choice

    Performer: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato.
  • Gustav Mahler

    IV: Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Birgit Remmert.
    • Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 3.
    • EMI Music Distribution.
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Home Sweet Home

    Choir: Royal Philharmonic Chorus. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Britannia: The Greatest British Album Of The Century.
    • Cambridge Classics.
  • Sir Henry Rowley Bishop

    Home Sweet Home (vocal)

    Ensemble: The Broadside Band. Performer: John Potter. Performer: Lucie Skeaping.
    • English National Songs.
    • Saydisc.
  • Noël Coward

    World Weary

    Performer: Noël Coward.
    • A Talent to Amuse: The Words and Music of Noël Coward.
    • Must Close Saturday Records.
  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    In The Bath

    Performer: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • The Complete Flanders and Swann.
    • EMI.

Readings

Title: Youth Culture and Private Space
Author: Sian Lincoln
Published by Palgrave Macmillan


Title: Furnishing in the New Towns
Author: Dorothy Meade
Published by the British Design Council in ‘Design’ magazine.


Title: House Guest
Author: Ruth Fainlight
Published by Bloodaxe in New and Collected Poems


Title: The Church Porch
Author: George Herbert
Published by Penguin Classics in George Herbert - The Complete English Poems


Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Author: WB Yeats
Published by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Books in The Nations Favourite Poems

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Feb 2015 06:05
  • Sun 1 Feb 2015 23:30

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