Bread of Life
John McCarthy considers the importance of bread in people's physical and spiritual lives.
John McCarthy considers the importance of bread in our physical and spiritual lives.
John is baking with members of the bread group at an organisation called Freedom from Torture. It looks after survivors of torture from all over the world, people who have been abused in their homelands and are now trying to build new lives as exiles in the UK. Alongside regular counselling, social and legal help, the clients can also take advantage of group therapies such as the bread group. As they measure, mix, knead, bake and eat, they talk about the importance of bread in fulfilling both our physical and spiritual needs.
The programme includes readings from works by Primo Levi, David Scott and Zimbabwean poet Amanda Hammar, as well as two poems by Jean Atkin and Elizabeth Charis specially commissioned for this programme by Writing West Midlands.
Music comes from William Byrd and from Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel.
The readers are Rachel Atkins, Kate Taylor and Jonathan Keeble.
Produced by Rosie Boulton
A Whistledown production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.
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Brian Just Band
We Don鈥檛 Break Bread
- If You Like To Be Alone Or If You Need To Be With Someone.
- Brian Just Band.
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Giovanni Tebaldini
Ego sum panis vivus (I am the Bread of Life)
Performer: Costanzo Porta Choir.- Tebaldini: Complete Organ Works - Sacred Choral Music.
- Naxos.
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Philip Glass
I鈥檓 Going to Make a Cake
- The Hours.
- Nonesuch.
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William Byrd
Ego sum panis vivus
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Engelbert Humperdinck
The Evening Hymn from Hansel and Gretel
Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden / C Davis / A Murray/ E Gruberova.- Decca.
Readings
础耻迟丑辞谤:听Jean Atkin
Publisher: Specially commissioned poem by Writing West Midlands
罢颈迟濒别:听A Man is dying for a piece of Bread聽for Adonis Musati, Zimbabwean asylum seeker
Author:聽Amanda Hammar
Title:聽Knead Time Being: a meditation
Author:聽Elizabeth Charis
笔耻产濒颈蝉丑别谤:听Specially commissioned by Writing West Midlands
罢颈迟濒别:听A Long way from Bread
础耻迟丑辞谤:听David Scott
笔耻产濒颈蝉丑别谤:听Bloodaxe 1998
罢颈迟濒别:听Hansel and Gretel
础耻迟丑辞谤:听Brothers Grimm
罢颈迟濒别:听If This is a Man
础耻迟丑辞谤:听Primo Levi
笔耻产濒颈蝉丑别谤:听Random House
Broadcasts
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4