Hunger for the New
On an Easter Day coinciding with the first weeks of spring, Mark Tully considers the hunger for the new, from new adventures to new technology and new surroundings.
A Hunger for the New - or "the life value of everlasting change" - is said to be one of the few constants in life. In the week following the vernal equinox and on an Easter Day coinciding with the first weeks of Spring, the human appetite for new adventures, new environments - even new objects or technologies - is piqued.
Mark Tully examines the hunger for new experiences of all kinds with readings from the work of American adventurer John Krakauer, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and novelist and poet Helen Dunmore.
There's music too from Arvo Part, Tracey Chapman and Leos Janacek.
The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper Britton.
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928)
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Readings
Title: Gap YearAuthor: Joseph O'SheaPublished by JHU Press
Title: Yes聽Author: Brendan KennellyPublished in Being Human by Bloodaxe
Title: Everything New Is Better Than Everything Old聽Author: Bertolt Brecht聽Published by Methuen
Title: The New CitroenAuthor: Roland BarthesPublished in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956 by Macmillan
Title: Glad Of These Times聽Author: Helen Dunmore聽Published in Being Alive by Bloodaxe
Broadcast
- Sun 27 Mar 2016 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4